Saturday, April 30, 2005

New Artwork: Muscle Makeovers and Maxxed Out Muscle (Registered users only).

Stories I'm reading: Sleepy Saturday

Lexington school calls cops on dad irate over gay book [c/o TBogg]

GOP memo reveals tactics to discredit Democrats in Ethics debacle--Geez, who writes this stuff? Oh, I know! [c/o BuzzFlash]

15-year-old boy joins synchronized swimming team--"He likes the girls, too," coach Chris Carver said. [c/o Fark.com]

Fan Tattoos--Showing the love. [c/o Boing Boing]

Post a Secret--Shhh.. ;)

Friday, April 29, 2005

Stories I'm reading:

Cardinal compares gay marriage to Nazism [c/o AMERICABlog]

An Illegal Government [c/o Bush Out]

Bush's Sinking Popularity Salon

Republicans, the Douchebags of Democracy--Amending amendments no way to make amends. [c/o Atrios]

Spider-Man and Capt. America team up with... Donald Rumsfeld?--It's for the troops, but still... OMG.

From Fark.com

LA Times: Pedophilia Linked with Star Trek?

Tuesday, April 26, 2005

New Morph: It ain't a morph movie, but you may still be interested in seeing Brandon Routh fitting in his Superman costume just a little bit better. ;) (Registered users only)

Stories I'm reading:

Top Army Officials in Prison Torture Scandal Cleared... by Army--Haven't we seen this before?

The Education of Paul Wolfowitz--Here in the West, poverty means a bad life. But poverty in the Third World means death.

Public Hedonism and Private Restraint--Sully comments NYT

Office Space Reunited--Damn preview. I would have loved reading the rest of this article. Oh well..

Skeletons in your hard drive--Your data doesn't really all go away. If you're giving your computer away, make sure your hard drives are wiped clean.

Sunday, April 24, 2005

New Artwork: More Muscle Makoevers (Registered users only).

Stories I'm reading:

'No Moral Sense'--A Jesuit bioethicist believes the religious right is exploiting Terri Schiavo and that there is no moral or legal obligation to keep her alive.

Microsoft's Ballmer speaks--And John opines. Let the games begin.

Spin-a-win--Republicans are trying to rename the "nuclear option"" as the "constitutional option" and seemingly forgetting who came up with it in the first place.

Jesus-Speaks-To-Me dolls--I can't wait for the "Tickle Me Jesus", "Walking on Waterskis Jesus" and the "Jesus Chainsaw Massacre" limited edition action figures.

"My God can kick your god's butt" [c/o Fark.com]

That Thing Jew Do--Benjamin Grimm discovers his Hassidic roots [c/o Boing Boing]

First Look: Superman Returns--What's with the funky belt?

Friday, April 22, 2005

Stories I'm reading:

Big gay rights bill loses in Washington State by one vote - Where was Microsoft?--They're now "under fire" for "bowing to pressure from a prominent evangelical church in Redmond, Washington." NYT

John "Ann Coulter's Fluff Boy" Cloud--Read more about him

From Fark.com

Diehard sports fans can take team spirit to the grave

Mailboxes that fight back [c/o Boing Boing]

Thursday, April 21, 2005

Stories I'm reading: The Men in the Family

Has Microsoft caved in to the religious right?--Gay rights bill may be in jeopardy.

FucksNews's John Gibson asks "Was Iraq Behind the Oklahoma City Bombing?"--Jeebus. 8|

Bolton Blogging--Why John Bolton is a bad choice for the U.N.

The Daily Show on Town Hall Meetings

From towleroad

An uncloggable toilet? No shit! [c/o Fark]

Realistic punchlines for old jokes [c/o Boing Boing]

Wednesday, April 20, 2005

New Artwork: In this edition of "Queer Eye for the Muscle Guy", watch me do some makeovers of MuscleGrowth members (Registered users only).

New Morphs: Two new morphs, one real and the other I wish it were real :)

Stories I'm reading:

Pope Benedict XVI--After reading about his track record, I'm not sure how I can give Cardinal "Nazinger" the benefit of the doubt on what his plans are for the Catholic Church. Salon

Debriefing Scalia--An NYU law student asks a Supreme Court Justice, "Do you sodomize your wife?"

USDA's new pyramid schemes--I hope this helps combat the obesity epidemic.

Il Divo--When I was channelsurfing a couple of weeks back, I caught the tail-end of a commercial with a terribly familiar song sung in Italian by four men, but I wasn't quick enough to get any pertinent info. I tracked these guys down by Googling for "four tenors" and found out about their self-titled CD, which I bought as soon as it came out last weekend, and man, now I'm in loooove. Not only do they have great pipes, they're all cute to boot, and "Unbreak My Heart" (which was the song I heard) never sounded better as "Regresa A Mi".

The Future of Advertising [c/o Boing Boing]

Saturday, April 16, 2005

New Artwork: Royal Muscle

Stories I'm reading:

Oregon court voids same-sex marriage licenses

Growing Up Too Fat Salon

Roy Ronquillo--The Hawaiian Sting-Rey

RetroMuscle--Celebrating 100 Years of Physical Culture

End "Beg the Question" Abuse Now!--Linguaphiles unite!

Friday, April 15, 2005

New Artwork: Hanna Barbera Muscle

Stories I'm reading:

Energy Crisis? What Energy Crisis? [c/o Political Animal]

What's a little revisionist history between friends?--Are people's memories really so short?

Indeceny Wars Salon

Andreas Frey--Whatta gott!

Bodybuilderstellensichvor--A gallery for up-and-coming bodybuilders

Unfit by Mike Belkin--"Set in a gym and starring a personal trainer, Unfit pokes a flabby finger at our obsession with body image and the lengths people will go to avoid getting in shape."

"Tough Guys Wear Pink" [c/o Fark.com]

Thursday, April 14, 2005

New Artwork: Even more Cartoon Muscle

Stories I'm reading:

"If someone tells you that at least the Republicans have a plan [to save Social Security] and the Democrats don't, laugh in their faces."--Starving the beast, by feeding the extremely wealthy. Those campaign contributors are sure cashing in.

Wimbledon--Paul Bettany and Kirsten Dunst serve up a sweet and saucy love match that spice up the age-old game of tennis. Watch for Jon Favreau's excellent turn as the endearingly Machiavellian PR agent. After a couple of rewatchings, this movie is quickly becoming my quintessential "tennis" movie the way Tin Cup is for golf and Major League is for baseball. Salon

Raffaele Morandini--Bello Bodybuilderio. ;)

'My evil twin did it!' [c/o Fark.com]

Unintentionally sexual comic book covers [c/o Boing Boing]

Wednesday, April 13, 2005

New Artwork: Video Game Muscle

Stories I'm reading:

Bill Clinton: Gay GOPer 'self-loathing'--Arthur J. Finkelstein has been called a 'hypocrite', and rightly so. [c/o AMERICABlog]

DeLay Urges GOP to Blame Dems Over Ethics--When things get really hot, he'll blame Canada next. ;)

All Your IDs are Belong To Us--Then again, maybe not LAT.

The Man Date--"Simply defined a man date is two heterosexual men socializing without the crutch of business or sports. It is two guys meeting for the kind of outing a straight man might reasonably arrange with a woman." NYT

Size Matters--What happens when you spend all your time jelqing off. Salon

John Hansen--Natural olympian.

Cell Phone Users Interrupt Sex for Phone Calls--I can just imagine one such conversation: "Ma, stop... uh... calling me-aaaaah!" [c/o Boing Boing]

Tuesday, April 12, 2005

New Artwork: More Cartoon Muscle requests

Stories I'm reading:

Gay U.S. Army Sergeant Fights to Save Career [c/o BuzzFlash]

A Foray Into Gay and Lesbian Networks--Mainstreaming homosexuality on the airwaves NYT

Evan Farmer--From TLC's While You Were Out

British Bodybuilding--Nothing like a helping of eggs and soldiers to wake up to in the morning ;)

Russian surgeons 'grow' penis on man's forearm [c/o Boing Boing]

Monday, April 11, 2005

New Artwork:

Stories I'm reading:

White cops win $2.2 million on reverse discrimination case--Claim they were passed over for promotions by "less-qualified women and members of ethnic minorities."

Republicans like Lieberman more than Dems--They can have 'im along with Zell Miller.

John Xuere--A beautiful body in motion

Meet the Turminator--Schwarzenegger on a slump.

Indiana Man Wins 'Village Idiot' Award [c/o Fark.com]

Sunday, April 10, 2005

Stories I'm reading:

A Culture of Death, Not Life NYT

The Daily Show on Political Opportunism--Let's not talk about the Pope's view on the death penalty and the Iraq war when we're promoting the Culture of Life, shall we? A little respect, please. ;)

The many flavors of Christ--What's next? A carb-free communion? [c/o Fark.com]

"Remove your bills the Christian way"--Thanks to the Christian Bill Removers, my debts have been forgiven. Amen. (Damn spam. >:()

From the Best of Craig's List

Saturday, April 09, 2005

Stories I'm reading:

"Citizen journalists"? Try partisan hacks--Even when they're wrong, they're right. 8| Salon

Meet Mel "Memo Maestro" Martinez--The beleaguered senator insists on passing the buck yet again.

Dear Mainstream Media...

Judging the judges--"There does seem to be this misunderstanding out there that our system was created with a completely independent judiciary." Whoo-boy, the Executive and Legislative branches have control of the board, the balance is in check.

From Fark.com

From Boing Boing

Spammer gets NINE years in prison

Thursday, April 07, 2005

Stories I'm reading:

Court upholds teen's right to rant--School learns the hard way that students have First Amendment rights too.

From Atrios

Seven-point-eight treee-llion dollars in debt--After spending close to $2 billion the past four years, is it finally time to raise taxes?

Phil A. Buster--What kind of stupid bullcrap is this?! File this under "ineffectual instruments of influence" like this hokey one-million signature petition drive to protect the judiciary. Ugh, no wonder the Bushies are still around. [c/o AMERICABlog]

Taiwanese man commits suicide when girlfiriend dumps him for his online alter ego :O [c/o Fark.com]

Wednesday, April 06, 2005

Stories I'm reading:

  • Easing His Grief: 1 | 2
  • If You Choose Not to Decide: 1 | 2
  • Online Awakening: 1 | 2

The End for DeLay?

Sensenbrenner Wants to Criminalize TV Indecency--Holy fuckshit, Batman!

45% approval for "popular" president--There's that liberal bias in the media again. ;)

How To Do Things With Extremists--What's the deal with John Cornyn?

Parents object to use of red ink on grading test papers--"Red writing, they said, was 'stressful.'" Quick, somebody call the waaahmbulance! 8| [c/o Fark.com]

Spectrum Wars--Or "How HDTV killed firefighters, birthed the Broadcast Flag, and screwed America" [c/o Boing Boing]

Sunday, April 03, 2005

Pope John Paul II: 1920-2005--I'm really wondering who the next Pope is going to be. For those who want a fictionalized glimpse of the selection process, watch The Shoes of the Fisherman starring Anthony Quinn and Sir Laurence Olivier.

Saturday, April 02, 2005

Stories I'm reading:

  • Becoming a Cock Slave: 1 | 2 | 3
  • Fun with Belts: 1 | 2 | 3
  • The Wingman: 1 | 2

A Tale Told By An Idiot--"Wildly overplaying the Schiavo protesters, ignoring facts and giving Bush a free ride, the press was full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." Salon

"The coverage of the Schiavo tragedy is just the latest example of how conservatives have established a permanent media infrastructure that lets them push a button to start a public furor over virtually any issue of their choosing." [c/o BuzzFlash]

Florida Election official quits amid criticism--Oh, now somebody is held accountable for a recent botched-up election. Why didn't this happen four years ago?

Plan for gay festival roils Israelis--"We can't permit anybody to come and make the Holy City dirty. This is very ugly and very nasty to have these people come to Jerusalem." Ugh... look who's "dirty", "ugly", and "nasty". >:(

Are you horny? [c/o Boing Boing]

From the Best of Craig's List

Video-Iron Crotch-99 Power Practice--I've heard of "buns of steel", but this is ridiculous. [c/o Fark.com]