Attention Target Shoppers: Get off your damn cell phone and trim your nails, please. A weekend trip to Target proved to be eventful. Let’s start with the Highlights Sisters— 3 girls, all dark haired with the top of their heads looking like they had been dipped in a bowl of vanilla ice cream. I was enjoying a leisurely session of browsing the latest books when the aisle was overtaken by the Highlights Sisters, all 3 yacking and texting away on their cell phones. This trend simply has to be end. I don’t mind people having the occasional conversation on their phone. But the ...

My partner Rodney and I want to announce the launch of Men’s Underwear Club. We’ve been interested in starting an online store that specializes in sexy men’s underwear for awhile now, and finally decided to take on this goal full force. We began building the store last month, and have since added 130 products from 20 major brand names, including Andrew Christian, C-IN2, 2xist, and N2N. New underwear and swimwear is being added each week, so the store will continue to grow with exciting styles, colors, and brands. This is a project that’s very special to ...

Oh, how I wanted to like Speed Racer. I remembered those years in the mid-seventies when the theme song announced the beginning of a show filled with racing, chases, fights, comedy, and a little bit of love. To give the Wachowski brothers a little bit of credit, their script and directing captured beautifully the style and action of the classic anime. It’s too bad they didn’t add a decent story. With the Summer Blockbuster season of 2008 in full swing, Speed Racer spins the wheels of the typical action film in every bad way possible. I actually lost count at ...

It bums me out that the majority of gay blogs I read have turned on Hillary Clinton in recent months. Polls that were done at the beginning of the year showed an overwhelming majority supported Hillary for President. I even conducted 2 polls of my own on this blog, one of them asking if people had to vote that day, who they would choose, and they chose Hillary. I guess she lost people when she started being so fiercely competitive. I’ll admit, there was even a time when I was thinking about switching over to Barack myself. But the thing that really ...

The idea of having children is something that’s often on my mind, and as the years go by, I feel a heightened sense of urgency to get started. I’ve reached a point where many of our straight friends have babies, and they all ask the same question— “Do you and Rodney plan on having kids?” We tell them yes, and the goal remains by the time I’m 30 (I’m 26 now). Rodney will be 41, so we really feel something has to happen by then. But I do have to admit that I’m crippled with fears and worries about the whole ...

This double rainbow disappeared almost as quickly as it appeared, so I had to hurry to get this shot. Will you join me as I channel my inner Judy Garland and break into song? ...

A site has been launched called “d-e-f-i-n-i-t-e-l-y.com” in an effort to educate the world that there is no “a” in definitely. THANK YOU, dear site owner. I’ve been trying to tell people this for years. (See my original post about it from 2006.) Now if we can all just learn the difference between “lose” and “loose“, as well as proper usage of “your” and “you’re“, I think we might just be able to save civilization. (Thanks Joe.My.God.) ...

We’re back home after a long trip of helping my parents move into their new house. It was a bit stressful, very tiring, but all in all, not too bad. I find it’s much easier to help other people move because I’m not trying to micro-manage where everything goes. They lived in their other house for 30 years and it’s the home my brothers and I grew up in. Parting with that was a bit overwhelming, especially when it was empty. But the house is for sale now, so I don’t think it will really bother me until somebody else buys ...

Well, I don't talk shop very often in my blog, but after some recent successes, I think it's due. Obviously blogging isn't my 'day job,' and probably never will be. And that's quite all right, I think.In case you didn't know, my trade—my livelihood—is a graphic designer and illustrator. I work for the largest (and arguably the best) school products corporation in the world in their printing division. On top of that, I also freelance extensively. I've been blessed to have this kind of opportunity for a career, and even more blessed to actually be good at what I do.So ...

Can you handle the amount of cuteness in this picture? These two little kitties were born on the back porch of my parents’ house in Illinois last March. We’re here this weekend helping my parents move to their new house, and we’re taking these babies back with us to Tennessee next week. Too bad we can’t keep them. A client of mine was interested in adopting kittens so we found a good home for them. The only problem is I’m getting so attached to them. (It doesn’t take much for me to fall in love with an animal.) So this is ...

Iron Man is a film that had everything going against it. It languished for years in development hell, went through no less than three potential directors, at least two other title stars (including Tom Cruise - yikes!), and eventually became the first film financed by a new film studio division of Marvel Comics. Once director Jon Favreau signed on as director, the sparks of doom didn’t stop flying even then. Robert Downey, Jr. was announced to fill the title role, and immediately tongues wagged. “Downey? he’s one messed up guy!” Then I realized that so was Downey's character, Tony Stark. ...

Gov. Mike Easley of North Carolina is under fire for using the word “pansy”, which has caused a public outcry by gay rights groups. What??? He used the word upon announcing his support for Hillary Clinton, stating that he felt Clinton made Rocky Bolboa “look like a pansy.” The character of Rocky is an American icon of strength and endurance, with an undefeated spirit. All the Governor was saying is that Hillary is even stronger than Rocky. I truly don’t believe it was a homophobic remark in any shape or form. But gay rights groups argue that “pansy” is a word for gay people, ...

I need the input on my readers, and you’ve always been there to answer questions, so hopefully you can provide some feedback to help me with this. Rodney and I are soon going to be launching our own online store, called Men’s Underwear Club. It carries brands from today’s top designers in all the popular styles, colors, and cuts. It will also feature swimwear and clothing. But the primary focus will be on underwear… very sexy underwear. The site is more than half way done. There are still some inconsistencies, links that don’t work, fonts that aren’t right, things like ...

Two of my favorite celebrities are together… Awww. I’m a fool for a love story… Even a Hollywood one. Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer. Jennifer Aniston is someone who I will eternally associate with the character of Rachel on Friends. Although I know most actors consider that to be a curse because nobody wants to be typecast as the same role their whole career, I personally think of her with fondness because I love that show. Oh, and let’s not forget Office Space. Such a great movie. Also, The Object of My Affection. Part of the “gay 90’s”, specifically the fag hag ...

This is a story that really angers me right down to the core. An 11-year-old girl in Wisconsin (pictured to the right) was suffering from a treatable form of diabetes. But her uber-religious parents refused to take her to a doctor because they believed they could pray her illness away. They also believed that illness is God’s punishment for sin. She was freakin’ 11 years old! How sinful could she possibly be? Did she not share her crayons in school? Ironically enough, she died on Easter Sunday. How weird is that? Low insulin. I feel so bad for her. I know diabetics, ...

Today was the fifth anniversary of Apple’s iTunes Store. I was browsing their year-by-year summary of the most popular songs sold from 2003-2008, when I unexpectedly got flooded with emotions from the past. For most people, music is the soundtrack of our lives. It evokes feelings, moods, memories. Whether good or bad, we use songs to remind us of an old friend, a lost love, a parent or sibling. Something as simple as a melody can take us back years, even decades, to a different place in our lives. The page about 2003 reminded me of the internship I started at ...