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30 Sunday Nov 2014
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30 Sunday Nov 2014
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29 Saturday Nov 2014
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Pangina Heals, the fiercest drag queen in Thailand, takes a gay look at the Wat Wang Saen Suk Hell Garden on a very special episode of the web series Queer As Fuck.
In news I somehow managed to miss: 1990s gay-porn star Ryan Idol was sentenced to 12 years in prison after beating his ex-girlfriend with a toilet tank lid. But wait! There’s more! When he entered the woman’s apartment he said, “I came over here to kill you.” And here I always thought his movie lines were the fault of the script writers. Ah well, I’m sure he’s putting his acting skills to work on his cell block.
I’m a late-comer to the fandom of internet sensation Texas bodybuilder Michael Hoffman, meaning I waited until he posted a jack off video. His clips are easy to find, but these animated GIFs alone should make you a fan too.
Just in time for the holidays, someone finally came up with a better use for drones. I hope the owner of Dream Boy caught this story.
Toys, Boys, And Asian Boy Toys is this week’s NSFW Tumblr link ‘cuz Santa needs help making his list. You’ll want to check it out twice. At least.
Fun Facts About Male Prostitution Through The Ages, because then you can claim you’re a history buff and not just another sex addict.
Since last week I linked to a bevy of bouncing ball animated GIFs, this week we’ll get right to the meat of the matter.
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28 Friday Nov 2014
Posted It's A Gay World
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My annual visual pun salute to Black Friday has become a tradition around here, one that may very well out-live the actual event. Back in the mid-1970s, a few major retailers decided to capitalize on the day after Thanksgiving being the busiest shopping day of the year in America, and began offering too good to be true deals to entice those hordes into their establishments. Before you knew it, the battle for the 99 cent waffle iron swept the country. Because there’s no better way to kick off the Christmas holiday season than by inciting greed amongst the masses.
Black Friday became a huge event. Shopaholics anxiously lined up at stores in the early morning hours for a chance at scooping up low-priced, limited quantity sale items. And then, because Americans have a knack at taking a good thing and making it better, the annual bagging limit on Walmart shoppers was lifted and became part of the holiday tradition. From an opening door celebration stampede that left bloody bodies in its wake, to using a 99 cent waffle iron as a weapon to fend off other greedy shoppers, to realizing a taser gun beats out a 99 cent waffle iron every time, the race was on while the saner folk among us began enjoying the tradition of anxiously awaiting the first newscast of the day to report the death and mayhem in America’s shopping malls.
In 2011 Walmart broke the mold, decided injuries actually on Thanksgiving Day would be even better publicity, and began opening their stores’ doors on the holiday. This year more big box retailers than not are holding special Thanksgiving shopping hours. And those that are not have been busy plugging their Black Friday deals that last the entire week. In the world of retail, Christmas now starts in late August, and Black Friday begins on Monday. And minimum wage employees are not amused.
Because the one thing everyone seems to agree on is that Walmart is the Evil Empire, the media quickly spread the story of poor Walmart employees being forced to give up their Thanksgiving to instead participate in their employer’s version of the running of the bulls. Guess that’s what not finishing high school does for you. But that story was a bit suspect, even if it was not just FOX News reporting it. Because everyone knows Walmart employees can’t afford a turkey. Besides, there’s lots of folk who have to work on Thanksgiving. Back when I ran a large company that needed part of the staff to work the holiday the problem wasn’t in finding those willing to get paid time and a half and still get a substitute day off that week, but in deciding which of the huge number of volunteers were awarded that honor. ‘Cuz getting overtime while avoiding a day spent with your dysfunctional family is really something to celebrate.
Not that the plight of retail workers tugs at the heart strings of American shoppers. If anything their having to work on Thanksgiving seems appropriate as that’s the day of the year we’ve decreed death to turkeys anyway. And no one has ever shed a tear for those poor folk who have to blow up the balloons for Macy’s annual Thanksgiving Day parade. Nor for the college kids who have to play football for the nation’s amusement on Thanksgiving. And they get paid even less than Walmart employees. It’s not the end of the world. Besides, this year those in Denver can put things right by stopping on their way to work at The Grass Station, a shop specializing in weed where they are honoring Black Friday with $1 joints and ounces for $50, an 80% discount. Huh. Walmart could mitigate the number of injured shoppers in their stores on Black Friday by passing a few joints around a half hour before opening their doors.
The citizens of Colorado, Oregon, and Washington may be too stoned to have noticed, but Black Friday is quickly becoming a thing of the past. Thanks to Walmart it’s now the other white meat served on Thanksgiving. These days it starts a week before it used to, spans a two-week long run, and gets lost in the muddle of Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday. And that’s no way to celebrate American greed. My fellow Americans need to band together and call a halt to the bulging waistline of Black Friday, to put a stop to its spreading mass, to call a time-out on un-notching its belt to allow for capitalistic growth. Because that’s how we celebrate Thanksgiving, damnit. And being the trend setters that we are, if we don’t curtail our Black Friday celebration, those damn Brits will soon be celebrating Boxing Day all the way into January.
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28 Friday Nov 2014
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27 Thursday Nov 2014
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From the sound of millions of belts being unnotched, today is either Gay Pride or Thanksgiving in the U.S. It’s the one day out of the year that guys into fisting can demonstrate their skills to family and friends without anyone batting an eye, that rice queens can proudly proclaim how much they love dark meat and no one notices, that butterball is not a derogatory word, and this year that Congress can sue President Obama for using executive power for granting amnesty to the White House’s turkey.
Thanksgiving is a uniquely American holiday and you have to be an American to understand it. Because only in America do we give thanks for all of the bountiful blessings we enjoy by eating enough to feed a small, third-world country. In fact, it’s estimated Americans will eat 46 million turkeys today. And ya don’t even want to know what we do to Jello in honor of our Thanksgiving traditions. In honor of those traditions, I thought I’d give you some interesting Thanksgiving facts to digest:
Thanks to our country’s practice of super-sizing everything, the average turkey has gone from 13lbs 80 years ago to 30lbs today. That sounds like a humongous amount of growth, but to put it in perspective, Chis Christie tripled his weight in half that amount of time.
Like sexpats in Pattaya, male turkeys today tip the scales far grander than do the other two genders, weighing in at an average of 50lbs. And like many of those sexpats, that extra weight makes them unable to actually mate. Most turkey breeding today is done by artificial insemination.
Speaking of which, thanks to the popularity of surrogates I can’t see a turkey baster these days without thinking about vagina. Just sayin’.
If the idea of current breeding practices makes you feel sorry for male turkeys, you can buy a ‘heritage’ turkey instead – they’re the product of good old-fashioned turkey sex. The drawback is that they cost about $200. And you can enliven your own sex life for that amount of money.
Not that it really matters anyway, because turkeys don’t have a penis.
But the good news is that pumpkin pie counts as a vegetable.
Thanks to retail stores wanting a longer holiday shopping season, back in 1939 President Franklin D. Roosevelt used an executive order to move Thanksgiving back by a week, pissing off the public who had to then change their holiday plans, or celebrate two Thanksgivings that year, and causing many to refer to the day as Franksgiving.
The turkey was actually named after the country of Turkey. At least in America. In Portugal they call it a Peru. And in Greece they call turkeys French birds.
Wild turkeys can run up to 25 mph – faster than Usain Bolt over a full 100 meters – and fly up to 55 mph.
According to the National Turkey Foundation, approximately 690 million pounds of turkey were consumed in the United States during Thanksgiving 2007, equal to the poundage of 4.48 million people of average weight, which also equaled the weight of the entire population of Singapore that year. Um. I think we’re up to the weight of the entire population of China by now.
That popular Christmas Carole, Jingle Bells, was originally a song written for children to celebrate Thanksgiving. Fortunately it quickly became associated with Xmas instead, saving us about a week of having to hear that dreadful ditty.
Thomas Jefferson thought a Federal holiday for Thanksgiving was “the most ridiculous idea” ever conceived, a statement Benjamin Franklin responded to by beginning the tradition of calling male turkeys Tom.
In 1947 when Chuck Yeager was responsible for being the first man to break the sound barrier, he was also responsible for the world learning turkeys can have heart attacks; the sonic boom caused by his flight caused the turkeys in fields by Edwards Air Force Base to drop dead from the shock of the passing jet.
Like the octopus, turkeys change color depending on its emotions; their heads can go from red to white to pink to blue to gray. Which minus a color or two may sound vaguely familiar to you.
When a man slaps another man’s face repeatedly with his penis, it’s called a turkey slap. It’s also called a Thanksgiving tradition at my house. Hope you enjoy yours as much as I will mine.
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27 Thursday Nov 2014
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27 Thursday Nov 2014
Posted Take It Off Thursday
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26 Wednesday Nov 2014
Posted Photo Of The Week
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