Month: February 2002

One of Barbelith’s best threads for ages is getting more and more involving – How are you gay?

That dark and evil day is approaching when nauseating couples drench the world in golden syrup and sashay around showing off their love for one another as if they had licence not to get punched. Which they don’t. Thankfully, we have beautiful geeks like Robyn and Dr Love to present ethical and tasteful alternatives: geekout e-greetings.

You can’t listen to Davo, he comes from a dimension that’s big on musical theatre.

Untouched, from the Guardian: “Some months after they were married in 1933, Clare Smith’s husband Jack came home from work and told her that he now knew how ‘it’ was done. They had been talking about it at work, but it was such a dirty, disgusting thing that he wouldn’t tell her. ‘We’ll wait until there is a nicer, cleaner way to do it,’ he said.”

The Anti-Bloggies have been announced and I didn’t win anything. Last year I won, “Best Use of a Blog for Personal Benefit”. And in related weblogging news, read the Blogger’s manifesto.

It’s time for a purge of the links-bin:

• Helping Buffy to slay her Financial Demons
  “Buffy Summers has made a lot of mistakes in her short life — she lost her virginity to a vampire, for Pete’s sake! — and her latest error could have long-lasting effects: She didn’t consult a financial planner.”

• Computers that improve themselves
  “Evolution had left five logic cells unconnected to the rest of the circuit, in a position where they should not have been able to influence its workings. Yet if Thompson disconnected them, the circuit failed. Evidently the chip had evolved a way to use the electromagnetic properties of a signal in a nearby cell. But the fact is that Thompson doesn’t know how it works.”

• Popular Questions from “Understanding Male Sexuality”
  “A share of the group are what I term the “true” bisexuals – actively engaging in sex with both male and female partners. Many of these guys, however, are very unhappy emotionally.”

• The Captain’s Unofficial Justice League Homepage
  “It all began in the winter of 1940 with the third issue of All-Star Comics. That issue contained a simple story by today’s standards – a group of heroes meeting together to discuss and swap stories.”

• Tom looks like Pop Idol Will
  It’s not true, I tells ya…

The uncomfortably gorgeous Paul Baker finally confesses his crushes: “Mr Clooney, Mr L. Perry, Mr Fraser, Mr Beltran, and (even worse than Steve Guttenberg) Mr Clinton. I also have a bit of a thing for Gina Gershon. Don’t ask me why.” Paul also appears to have become one of Mr Massow’s online whores and gone to see The Fluffer. It’s like finding that my long-lost gay twin (who got all the good genes) has been languishing in Northern England all my life.

My teenage dreams have finally come true – how long I have waited for Steve Guttenberg to have a site on the web – and more importantly to have a whole gallery of pictures of him in various stages of dress and undress. Now if we can find a comparable Michael J Fox site, several youthful ambitions will have been fulfilled at once.

There are two posts over at overstated.net which should be fascinating to anyone interested in the social dynamics and interactions of weblogs and webloggers. First there’s a list of the web’s most effective weblog meme spreaders, and then a list of the most accessible weblogs. Both are based around Blogdex, which coincidentally doesn’t seem to be working very well today.

So Will Young has won Pop Idol. I have to confess that I’m surprised. Delighted but surprised. He’s certainly the most likely to be the long-term prospect, he’s clearly talented and he’s obviously intelligent. But did anyone really expect the British public to go with the most serious contender rather than a young piece of fluff? One final point… I’m not saying anything, but could I just point out that I haven’t read a single interview with Will Young that didn’t describe his previous lust-objects as ‘someone’, ‘them’, ‘an ex’ and so forth. If someone could find me some more interviews with the young winner of Pop Idol, then I’d very much appreciate it….