
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Overheard In Bookstore

Future Ex-Husbands: Matt Prokop



I Promised Myself I Wouldn't Do This

I really thought that I could get through life without ever putting a picture of Zac Efron on my blog. I mean, he's the personification of the manufactured Disney star-bot, isn't he? All hype, cosmetic surgery and image management, right? But, damn, he looks so cute on the cover of the new issue of Entertainment Weekly. What the hell do I care how he got that way? Besides, I kind of adored him in Hairspray. So sue me.
Icons: Judy Garland
When this picture was taken in 1963, Judy Garland was riding high. She had gone from career purgatory in the late 1950s to an amazing resurgence which lead to her being widely considered the world's greatest living entertainer. She played sold-out concerts all over the globe, her Judy at Carnegie Hall album topped the record charts and won the Grammy for record of the year, she was nominated for an Oscar for her role in Judgement at Nuremberg and she had just signed a contract with CBS to host The Judy Garland Show. After that everything seemed to go wrong. Six years later she was gone.
Friday, October 10, 2008
Kitschy.





I have never watched Friday Night Lights, the NBC (and now DirectTV) show about a Texas high school football team. I've heard it's good. But I've never watched it. And so here's what I've been missing. Taylor Kitsch. If he's a high school student, I'm the Queen Dowager of Transylvania.
Thanks for the photos go to Cinmiester at Famous Male Forums.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Perfect Moments at the Movies

Book of the Day



Another Japanese Guy To Drool Over





Japan certainly produces some honeys, doesn't it? This is Eiji Wentz who celebrates his 23rd birthday today. He is an actor and a singer and another example of multi-culturalism gone right (his father is an American of German descent). The term "rice queen" is so offensive isn't it? I am not a rice queen. I just think Asian guys are hot.
Monday, October 6, 2008
Styles That Might Not Catch On

Cole Mohr is one of the world's highest paid models. I hope they paid him plenty to model this hairdo. He doesn't look too happy about it.
Saturday, October 4, 2008
A Trip to the Mall
Even though I'm not a big fan of mall culture, I do sometimes enjoy the advertising posters adorning the windows of some of the clothing establishments. Like most people, I have a love/hate relationship with consumerism. There were a couple of things I enjoyed looking at and one I just want to comment on.
1) The Gap. I think of The Gap as the quintessential 1990s clothing store. The last time I stepped foot in one was while Christmas shopping about four years ago. I didn't buy anything. One of the faces in The Gap's current campaign is actor Hugh Dancy, star of Ella Enchanted, The Jane Austen Book Club, and several of my most erotic dreams. He was also the face of Burberry for several years. I cannot convey how pleasing it is to walk by a shop with this poster, life-sized, in its window
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2) The Hollister Company has been one of the biggest successes in retail of the last few years. It has recently surpassed Abercrombie & Fitch as the prefered brand of the teen set. ( I, personally, wouldn't be caught dead.) Don't feel too sorry for Abercrombie though. Hollister is Abercrombie. Just as The Gap has the budget-minded Old Navy, Abercromie has Hollister. Call me a fuddy-duddy, but I hate their clothes, most of which have the company name silkscreened in huge letters across the front, effectively turning the wearer into a walking billboard. No thanks. However, I do like the new guy who has replaced Christopher Gloc as the poster boy at the entrance to the Hollister stores and website. If any of you know this cutie's name, please share.


Now, let's talk about 3) Abercrombie & Fitch, shall we? I have only bought one item of clothing at an Abercrombie store in my life, a shirt with a sixty per cent markdown. Ask me how many times I've shelled out good money for their catalogues. " A lot", will be my answer. That's because (and I'm not proud of this) I can't resist the Abercrombie aesthetic. I've read a lot of stuff about how Abercrombie is bad for the gays, or at least exploits them. I somewhat agree with that, at least on an intellectual level. But I can't help it. I love those half nekkid jock boys, those perfect young demigods. Yes, I know; they do look like "joy through health" poster boys from Nazi Germany. I get it. But damn, they're hot. Does this make be a bad person? Probably.
So, I don't really shop at the loud, throbbing, overly-perfumed A&F stores, but I just can't walk by them without stopping to gaze upon the larger than life posters of the most gorgeous semi-naked men imaginable. Therefore, it is with some sadness that I strolled past the A&F store yesterday only to see this:

It seems as if A&F has taken the objectification of of young men to a whole new level. No face, not even a head, no hair...anywhere. I'm sure that if those jeans slipped down any further there would be no genitalia. Speaking of those jeans, what product are they selling here? Certainly not the jeans that we can barely see. What is the point of this? It is a nice torso, or at least it seems to be, but how would a person even know? He's so airbrushed that he could look like just about anything. Are they, perhaps, making a conscious decision to make him look like a piece of classical sculpture? Whatever they are thinking, I wish they'd think again.
One Glorious Face

Once it a great while a person happens upon something so beautiful that he has to stop everything just to contemplate it and be thankful that such splendid perfection can exist in this world. I don't know a single thing about this boy except that his face is one of those things.
Friday, October 3, 2008
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Dancing Darlings




Saturday, September 27, 2008
R.I.P. Paul Newman (1925-2008)


Only Gay in the Village?



Random Shirtless (and Pantsless) Guy of the Day
Go! Go! Faerie - I'd love to know what that's all about.Apologies to my readers in the UK who may have expected something (ahem) else. As you may or may not know, "pants" in the USA is synonymous with "trousers", whereas "pants" in the UK are underwear.
Friday, September 26, 2008
Buck Does Clay
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Perfect Moments at the Movies #3






