Q-Seattle Events: Tacky Tourist Clubs

Friday, October 19, 2007

Seattle Black Pride does Halloween Carnivale

9:50 PM

Seattle Black Pride 2006 Halloween party
Seattle Black Pride 2006 Halloween party
sbp-halloween-couple

Still not sure where to show off that fabulous costume you're preparing on the long weekend/week of Halloween. Well, be sure to add another destination -- or even your main destination down in Belltown at Jai Thai [get directions], 2132 First Ave. at Blanchard.


That's where Seattle Black Pride will present this year's Halloween Carnivale from 9:30 pm until 2 am on Saturday, October 27.


Seattle Black Pride 2006 Halloween party

SBP urges you to "Be Creative, Be Sexy, Be Scary. Just Be There." And, of course, there will be prizes for the most creative costumes with cash prizes of $150, $100, and $50 for the top three contestants.


But to really get an idea of what the party is likely to be like, check out SBP's great gallery of party pics from last year's Carnivale. We can't link to the gallery directly, but you can find it on the SBP home page at the bottom of the "Events" menu.


To further confuse yourself with the wealth of Halloween options, be sure to check out Bill W's typically comprehensive Halloween listing in the left column at GaySeattle.blogspot.com.

Note: This post is mirrored from seaQwa.com.

Labels: , , , , , ,

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Hey look! Cruise pictures (finally)

8:57 PM

Queen City Cruise 2007: Pier PressureQueen City Cruise on Goodtime II, 2007
We (your editorially plural but otherwise singular WebWrangler) were so embarrassed by the delay in getting pictures up from this year's Queen City Cruise, that we almost let this weekend's mass drop of photos go by without comment.

Mark Finley: Queen City Cruise, 2007
After all, Fall has come way early this year and it's difficult by now to even imagine the spirit of such an event. But there they are. Remember that? Ahh! Summertime. To make up for our insufferable delay and to account for the recent explosion of cameras, we've made this year's collection bigger than ever.

Cheerleaders: Queen City Cruise, 2007

It's a great collection. We thank everyone who sent us images, and especially Antonio Gonzales (definitely not the xAG AG) who gave us a wonderful group to choose from this year. You'll also find images from Dan Lane, Jim Cash, Marcy Kraft, Tom Poppie, Scott Cammack, Emo, Jeff Thompson. "Neil" NLM sent us some great ones (which, to be fair, have been displayed since early September) including that great shot of Moms Finley. And -- yeah -- Robin Evans contributed, too.

And, yes, we probably missed a few of the great shots in the collections. We'll probably go through again and maybe add a fourth index, but we're not promising anything.

Labels: , , , ,

Monday, August 20, 2007

Link bites: 'Well duh?' stories -- gay blog beefcake, gay Merv, Rove's gay papa

11:57 AM

BREAKING NEWS: Some gay blogs post pics of shirtless hunks in shallow appeal for clicks
Browns QB Brady Quinn
Brady Quinn
David Beckham
David Beckham
Jeremy Bloom
Jeremy Bloom
Chris Evans
Chris Evans
Each day, we peruse various sources of news bits about queer folk to find interesting stories. We post headlines and summaries (for now) over on a service that depends on the flaky interaction between two flaky services, Squidoo (which allows users to build a pre-formatted page on any topic that strikes the fancy) and Blinklist. (That's one of many "social bookmark" sites. Most do what they do better than that one, but we use it -- despite its frequent bugs -- because it provides the best tools we've found for the unique way we use it).

[This blog will move along with those news digests to a new news site in about, oh... late September. There's nothing there just yet.]

As we scan the headlines, we occasionally come across a "Well, Duh!" story that's presented as something else entirely. One of those cropped up today from the LA Daily News sports section. News staff writer Greg Hernandez ledes [but we'll add the links]:
When David Beckham finally started in a game for the Galaxy on Wednesday night, the event didn't just make the front pages of mainstream newspapers and sports Web sites. It also warranted the posting of a shirtless photo of the soccer star on Kenneth Walsh's gay-themed blog.
Mr. Hernandez then recounts a good-natured investigation why this might happen. Money quote from Outsports.com CEO Jim Buzinski:
"When it comes to visuals in sports, gay men and straight men are very similar except for the genders that we look at," Buzinski said. "Men are more visual. So we are just doing what mainstream sites do but we are catering to our audiences."
And, of course -- since sports writers must often write "Well, duh!" stories and become masters of the art, Hernandez recognizes the "well, duh!" moment for what it is by summarizing: "Men are men".

Another of those stories cropped up over the weekend when we came across a Reuter's headline, "Merv Griffin died a closeted homosexual". The news service had picked up the story from Hollywood Reporter writer Ray Richmond, who once worked for Griffin. When we first ran across it, we muttered, "Well, duh!", but decided not to post it in our digest.

The story would probably have made a few ripples in the blogosphere as it did when -- along a few others -- local blogger "Rad Ass Homo" scolded the industry mag, "I say shame shame to the Hollywood Reporter -- they should know better or at least have some respect...This could of ran a week later or something..."

Richmond's story had been scooped by a meatier posting about Griffin's closet on the blog of outing-meister Michelangelo Signorile, who offers reasons why Griffin's choice to remain in the closet was not just a personal matter. Among the examples:
Griffin's closet had him firing gay men who'd actually made it up through the ranks of his own company, simply because they were openly gay. There is a story in Queer in America about a man identified as "The Mogul" who did just that. I can now reveal that The Mogul is Merv Griffin. Open homosexuality is a threat to the closeted, and powerful people in the closet like Merv Griffin will often do whatever it takes to squash those who are open and who might advocate that all among the powerful should come out.
But Richmond's story turned from "Well, duh!" to "Taa Daa!" later in the day when Reuters dropped it from its entertainment feed. Even the original source, Hollywood Reporter, briefly dropped the story from its site on Saturday. And all of that saying-and-not-saying in the age of the web, along with reactions to it, was enough for Signorile blogger Kevin Allman (who's been all over the background story) to give the affair a name: "MervGate." *

We had another "Well, duh?" moment this morning when we saw something in BoingBoing about the gay papa of departing "Bush brain" Karl Rove. Since the 2006 book, The Architect had identified Rove's step-father as gay, this is a "more to the story" take on the "Well, duh?" theme. According to a BMEzine [NSFW] editor quoted by BoingBoing essayist Xeni Jardin, "Karl Rove's father was not only gay, but a part of the early body piercing scene and a regular at 70s piercing parties... There are pictures of him on BME."

Adding new details is always a good reason to resurrect an old story. [Just like quoting a story about gay blogs posting beefcake of straight athletes is an adequate reason to, well... post beefcake of straight athletes.]

* [Update:] Allman link to "MervGate" added after he added a helpful comment. Thanks.

Labels: , , ,

Sunday, August 05, 2007

Link bites: 'Gay blogs' blamed for hosing big -- very big -- FDNY fundraiser

12:10 PM

FDNY Calendar, feat. Michael Biserta
The very hot Micheal Biserta was chosen as cover boy for the 2008 FDNY calendar. An earlier video clip shows him to also be extraordinarily well endowed.
Two other calendar guys via Towleroad:
FDNY Calendar
FDNY Calendar
The New York Fire Department (which, of course, is known as "FDNY" rather than the other initials which could be pronounced as a not-encouraging word) has cancelled a fundraising effort that last year raised over $150,000 for the department.

It's all the fault of "a series of gay blogs" according to news reports. Those blogs were atwitter last week when a non-profit foundation released its annual calendar featuring FDNY firefighters posing shirtless, but innocently for the cameras.

The calendar itself wasn't the problem. Instead, what "embarrassed" department officials was an unrelated video that made the rounds on the blogs showing the chosen cover boy for this year's calendar in a more far more revealing, but still quite innocent interaction with the all-female crew making the first "Guys Gone Wild" DVD.

The New York Post has fun with its description of the clip:
The embarrassing video of 22-year-old firefighter Michael Biserta of Brooklyn's Ladder Co. 131 and his enormous member is featured in the 2004 Joe Francis-produced DVD "Guys Gone Wild."

The video clip began to circulate when Biserta appeared on the 2008 calendar that went on sale Tuesday.

In the clip, the female camera operators goad Biserta to show them his fire pole.

When they ask him to dance for them or get up on the bed, he refuses, but does agree to get in the hotel room's shower in the nude.
Biserta also, we should point out, reluctantly agrees to show that his "fire pole" will fit all the way around his wrist as a kind of bracelet after a good-natured, feeble protest that "you girls are a bad influence on me."

"This -- this," says an only slightly embarrassed Biserta in the clip, "is the craziest thing I've ever done."

We think it's even a stretch to call the video "salacious" as the New York Daily News does in its story.
The FDNY was caught off-guard by the DVD, which came to light after the latest firefighter calendar was printed and the shirtless firemen appeared on NBC's "Today" show.

Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta responded to the salacious developments by prohibiting city firefighters from ever posing for the charity calendar, which is published by the FDNY Fire Foundation.
But please, judge for yourself. The site and the page aren't anywhere close to safe-for-work, but it's only fair to direct you to PornForPatric's post about the calendar that includes (if you wait long enough for the inevitable server delay) the video clip in question. Fleshbot also linked, but apparently lost access their version of the video clip. They do, however, offer several stills. Andy Towle linked to those posts an others on his widely read news blog, Towleroad.

That was all, apparently, a bit too much for FDNY officials, but we don't understand how exactly any of this should be embarrassing to the department.

In fact, at least one of his fellow firefighters seems to be similarly non-offended, according to the Daily News
One of Biserta's fellow Bravest at the Lorraine Ave. firehouse was amused by his colleague's lewd past.

"Nice," the firefighter said, flashing a thumbs-up.

Labels: , ,

Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Queer Eyes 3: June photography exhibit

2:45 PM

Fluor Copyright Andrew Adam Caldwell, Used with permission
Fluor Photo copyright Andrew Adam Caldwell. Used with permission.


We've mentioned a couple of other art exhibits that open this month, but one that looks to us like it belongs at the top of any intinerary is Queer Eyes 3, a photography exhibit that opens June 10 at Art/Not Terminal gallery at 2045 Westlake Ave [get directions].

A group of 12 notable local photographers will be showing their work at the in the "Subterranean Room" of the gallery. The exhibit runs through July 3 and features a special "Pride Reception" on Saturday, June 23 from 7 to 10 pm.

Queer Eyes 3 gallery show


The third annual exhibition of photographs by members of Image Collective, a group of amateur and professional gay male photographers from the Seattle area. More than just a way to spotlight the work of the individual artists, the show is a celebration of people, places and perspectives as seen, collectively, "through queer eyes".

The works of the twelve participating artists, which range from the blatantly erotic to the esoteric, will be shown together for one month only in a unique blending of personal styles and subject matter.
We offer here just a hint of what you'll see with two stunning images by Andrew Caldwell. (Who, by the way, shot the still popular publicity stills for last year's Queen City Cruise.)

Several more examples from the other photographers can be seen on the bio page of the exhibit website which includes links to the websites of several of the photographers.

Update: Because the model, unfortunately, had second thoughts about displaying the wonderful images, we had to remove a couple of the example shots from this post. Don't worry though -- there's still plenty of wonderful images to see in the show.

Labels: , , , ,

Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Link bites: Jesensky does Dolly

11:34 AM

So, then... we offer the embarrassed video of a lip sync attempt below. Not because it's a particularly good attempt. Not because it's a better dance attempt than what Sanjaya might come up with. Not because we're all that fond of Dolly Parton's 9 to 5.

We offer partly because it's kinda cute to see how embarrased the guy is about doing it at all. But then... he posts it despite his embarrassment.

But, mostly -- let's be honest here -- we post it because the lip sync is done by our all-time favorite in the collection of hunks over in the Rumor Machine, Jonathan Jesensky who we've mentioned (and pictured) before. He is, by all reports, a nice guy, a carpenter, a bar-tender, a model. He was a Marine. He is, above all, an uber-hunk. Find more pictures here and here and here [work warning: The latter two links play audio].

If the name isn't familiar, you might not recognize him in the video with his shirt on and with the glasses. So we offer this reminder:Carpenter, model, uber-hunk Jonathan Jesensky

And so here's the other, innocent view from a post on Jonathan's MySpace blog (at http://www.myspace.com/jesensky since it's virtually impossible to link directly into that place) :

Labels: , , , ,

Sunday, April 15, 2007

New eye candy in the "machine"

4:53 PM

Jonathan Jesensky
Model Jonathan Jesensky
If you were to land here by, oh -- say, clicking on a picture in a search engine -- and also looked around for just a second, you might see that link up above for Rumor Machine. The rumor part of that page long ago became lame, but the other part of it might still hold some interest. There you will find hundreds of pictures of male eye candy. You can make the images show up randomly, or click "Auto Hunk" and go through the whole collection.

And -- as we occasionally do -- we've added a couple of dozen new treats to the machine for your viewing pleasure.
Marco Dapper on DNS magazine
Marco Dapper on DNS

The ever-appealing actor/model Marco Dapper now gets the top spot in image count with nine. With the addition of some shots from his recent DNA shoot, he just beats out the former favorite, model/carpenter/bartender/Iraq-vet Jonathan Jesensky who has eight images in the machine (for now). Want to know more? Check out Jonathan's music-filled site. And here's an interview with Jonathan, who is judged to be "Extremely intelligent, dangerously handsome, and a very nice person.".
Marco Dapper on DNS magazine
J.P. Calderon

He's currently appearing (with the recognizable tattoos) in online ads for Rufskin jeans.

Most of them are, of course, straight boys in the collection, and so it was embarrasing for us to note that we hadn't yet included any pics of the out model and reality-show star J.P. Calderon, who was recently the cover boy of Instinct magazine. We've fixed that oversight with several images.

Calderon's post-Survivor story is an interesting one.
Having just recently learned to accept his sexuality at the relatively late age of 31, J.P. is still plagued by self-doubt. "I don't want to send a bad image to anyone, but sometimes I'm still conflicted. I'm hoping I won't always be, but I don't know." He goes on to share an example about his volleyball teammates and fellow models that has replayed in his mind time and again. "I see them naked all the time. They're my bros. They're my team mates," he explains. "I don't look at them in that way. I never check them out like that. But, I always think, God, if I came out are they gonna start thinking , 'Oh, J.P. is checking me out' or who knows what. That bothers me because they're my friends, my buddies."
There's almost always more just behing the image in the Rumor Machine. Click on the image or the name underneath to browse off to the web source for that image. You'll usually find larger versions there and several other

Labels: , ,

Saturday, March 31, 2007

Link bites: A premier with lots of underwear + Ethan and Benjamin

5:45 PM

Ya gotta give it to the folks at Ginch Gonch underwear: They know how to promote their product to gay guys. And, hey, with pics and vids like these from the Boy Culture premier party, we'll gladly fall for it.

Benjamin Bradley and Ethan Reynolds with Boy Culture director, Allan Brocka
Boy Culture director Allan Brocka poses with fellow ex-Seattleite Benjamin Bradley and Ethan Reynolds. He says of the experience: "There's nothing more crippling to one's self-esteem than being photographed between these two. Oy, it seemed like a good idea at the time, now it's a Sesame Street 'one of these things doesn't belong' skit"

Ethan Reynolds, Benjamin Bradley and more Gonch Boys were out in force at the premier of Boy Culture [prior post]. The underwear company was a co-sponsor of the party along with The Advocate and TLA Releasing. A "Mr. Nightlife Hollywood" says of the party that was packed not only with packed underwear, but many of the gay-, playing-gay, or just gay-friendly faces in Hollywood:
Hollywood film premieres can be lots of fun to attend, but every-so-often you go to one that leaves you saying "boy, oh boy that was lots of fun" days later. Such was the case with the premiere of the critically acclaimed indie film Boy Culture.
You might ask, "What happens when Ginch Boys come out (out of their brief briefs, that is)?" Fortunately, for those willing to follow a not-safe-for-work link, PartyWithBrandon.com has the explicit but unnamed details.

Wearing limited edition Boy Culture-logo briefs, Ethan and Benjamin also headed out elsewhere on the town, also visiting the birthday party for celebrity gossipist Perez Hilton.


YouTube link

And, of course, there was a photo shoot with the not-available-to-you logo briefs:


YouTube link

But, really. Given our obvious fondness for sailor pictures, we couldn't resist this one from the current front page of the Ginch Gonch site:

Ginch Boys as sailors: Benjamin Bradley and Ethan Reynolds

Labels: , , ,

News bites: Marines pile extra charges on Fox/porn celeb Matt Sanchez

10:34 AM

Matt Sanchez as Rod Majors
Matt Sanchez as Rod Majors
Matt Sanchez as campus activist
Matt Sanchez as campus activist. More photos, less edited, at Tom Bacchus
SLOG was (as usual) on top of this (as it were) when the news broke in a military publication: The Marines have added a few unexpected charges after opening an investigation of Cpl. Matt Sanchez who appeared in gay porn features before signing up as a Marine.

The investigation was done by Reserve Col. Charles Jones, a staff judge advocate, who infomed Sanchez of the charges last week.
Jones wrote that Sanchez's participation in porn films was part of the investigation, but that two of the three allegations against him involved lying "to various people, including but not limited to, representatives of the New York City United War Veterans Council and U-Haul Corporation" about deploying to Iraq at the commandant's request.

"Specifically, you wrongfully solicited funds to support your purported deployment to Iraq" by coordinating a $300 payment from the UWVC and $12,000 from U-Haul, Jones wrote.
Sanchez vigorously denied the new charges, calling them "demonstrably false" in an interview with Marine Corps Times. He had earlier argued that what he describes as a "summer job" doing porn shouldn't be of concern to the Marines.
In a March letter addressed to MobCom commander Brig. Gen. Darrell Moore, who will ultimately decide what to do with Jones' investigation, Sanchez said he's never done anything to bring dishonor on the Corps since enlisting and that "my past is behind me."

"The Marine Corps is a conversion experience, what men were before they joined is not as important as what they become," Sanchez wrote.
An earlier story about Sanchez in a sister publication, gave this background.
A Reserve corporal whose star has been rising in conservative circles over the past few months -- including appearing on Fox News and being photographed with right-wing firebrand Ann Coulter -- has acknowledged appearing in gay porn films.
Matt Sanchez on Hannity and Colmes

Cpl. Matthew Sanchez, 36, now a member of the Individual Ready Reserve, has made national headlines since, as a student at Columbia University, he stood up to war protesters who publicly vilified him for his military service while administrators there refused to intervene, citing freedom of speech.

Sanchez has appeared on cable television programs such as Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor" and "Hannity & Colmes," and penned an editorial for the New York Post. He also wrote a Back Talk column for the Jan. 1 edition of Marine Corps Times titled, "Missing the big picture: Ivy League protesters feel superior to service members."
Prior to the investigation, military officials said that they were not sure how past participation in gay porn might affect a service-member's career:
[O]fficials at Marine Forces Reserve in New Orleans were unable to confirm whether Sanchez had enlisted prior to the end of his film career or if Reserve Marines were prohibited from doing porn when not in a drilling status. ...
Matt Sanchez as Rod Majors
Matt Sanchez (center) as Rod Majors. Tom Bacchus has the unedited versions.

...Officials at Marine Corps Recruiting Command were unable to say whether past participation in gay porn disqualifies a potential enlistee because it was unclear how the current "don?t ask, don't tell" policy might apply.
The chain of military papers opened that question to its readers with a discussion forum that poses the question "Should past participation in gay porn disqualify a potential enlistee?" Sanchez often participates in the forum. Several of the posters are less than kind to him. Example:
Mr. Sanchez seems to be suffering from the "have your cake and eat it too" syndrome.

In the big scheme of things, gay porn is much more of a detriment to morale than being gay, which Mr. Sanchez disingenuously (and self-servingly) claims he isn't.

Perhaps Mr. Sanchez isn't gay in the strictest sense of the word. He's not the first man who can justify having anal intercourse with another man and claim that he isn't gay. Hundreds of thousands of men do. Perhaps our language lacks a sufficient construct to describe whatever Mr. Sanchez and thousands like him insists they are: men's men, straight-acting, guys-next-door, who just happen to like to get it on anally with their buds. ...

I don't fault Mr. Sanchez for acting in porn. I fault him for trying to capitalize on his Marine reservist status to advance his own agenda. I fault him for joining the Marines knowing that he did not possess the qualities that a true Marine exemplifies. I fault him for continuing to dissemble in the face of the truth. I fault him for being arrogant enough to think that his case deserves special consideration.

Go to Iraq, Mr. Sanchez. Fight like a Marine. Then I'll fight for your right to remain one. Otherwise, you're just acting -- which is what you seem to do best.
But beyond the usual message-board attacks and counter-attacts, the discussion offers several intriguing posts on the military's "don't ask, don't tell" (DADT) policy. Example:
If the military were serious about discharging service members for what it calls "sexual misconduct," there would hardly be a military left. If you've ever had sex in anything other than the missionary position, you're violating Article 125 of the UCMJ. I can't count the number of senior officers I knew who cheated on their wives in Subic Bay, Korea, etc. Yet, Marines only seem bothered by the sexual misconduct they find personally distasteful.

Having sexual relations with a consenting adult, whether it's the same gender, on film or for money is a has no bearing on a Marine's performance of duties in combat. In fact, the same qualities we admire in combat - boldness, ferocity, fierceness etc., are the same traits that cause Marines like Cpl. Sanchez to behave the way he does in his private life. I'd much rather fight with a guy who's daring enough to put himself out there the way Sanchez has than Marines who are too timid to step outside the line once in awhile.

Many of the Corps' most revered "saints" were the ones who broke the rules. The reason they're legends is that Marines happen to like the rules they broke.

Many of you may not be aware of the good Sanchez is doing. Thanks to his efforts, a liberal college like Columbia, in the most liberal corner of the universe (Manhattan's upper west side) has agreed to recognize war vets and build a memorial. He's intervening to help a wounded Marine combat vet gain admission and you can bet he won't stop there.

It's pretty petty and shallow to criticize someone's person or status as a Marine just because you don't like their bedroom habits or personal life.
DADT isn't an issue that Sanchez addressed in his time on the airwaves of conservative broadcasters, but he's now getting an unexpected lesson on the issue. Maybe he'll turn his fundrasing skills to the issue, eh?

Labels: , , , ,

Monday, March 12, 2007

More bingo pics from SeattlePaparazzi

9:02 AM

Matt and Brian at SeattlePaparazzi.com have added new galleries of pics from the March Gay Bingo party. It was Groovy '70s night, complete with big hair, polyester, and plenty of the usual fun.
Glamazonia with shirtless hawtie at Gay BingoDauber queens at Gay Bingo
SeattlePaparazzi.com photos by Brian Westbrook and Matthew Browning

Celebrating at Gay Bingo
Yeah! Gay Bingo! SeattlePaparazzi.com photo by Matthew Browning

Groovey Gay Bingo
Shirtless hawtie at Gay Bingo
Fun group at Gay Bingo
SeattlePaparazzi.com photos by Brian Westbrook

And, hey! We heard that, but you're wrong. Those cylindrical things most folks are holding are daubers. That's daubers, used to mark the bingo cards.

If you don't already have your tickets to one of the remaining regular Gay Bingo nights, you're out of luck until June. They haven't yet put up the "sold out" sign for the June 9 Rocky Horror Gay Bingo night. Hurry to make your reservations or drop by the Lifelong Thrift Store [see map]. Other nights are sold out for the year, so you'll just have to find a friend who was wise enough to get tickets early. Or you could get yourself on a waiting list and hope for the best.
logo: Black Tie Bingo
But there's another way to get in on the fun at the major fundraising close-out of the games. Tickets are still available for the Black Tie Bingo fundraiser to be held this year at the W Hotel downtown [get directions].

A host committee table that seats ten goes for $2000. "First class" tickets are $200 each. You could get in on the still-elegant "coach class" for $175 each.

The evening includes a cocktail hour+ starting at 6pm. Dinner and entertainment starts at 7:30 pm. You'll be playing bingo in style at the trendy W. Prizes include travel packages to great W Hotel destinations around the country. There will be celebrity callers, unexpected surprises, and, of course, Gay Bingo star GLAMAZONIA.

This major fundrasing event for Lifelong AIDS Alliance is sponsored by W Hotels and Alaska Airlines.

Labels: , , , , , ,

Thursday, February 15, 2007

Link bites: Chesney not gay

2:04 PM

shirtless hunk Kenny Chesney
Kenny Chesney
Celebrity rumor isn't our area. (For that we go to some of the sites listed on our Queer Pop page.) But, hey, we have that picture among the hundreds on our Rumor/Hunk Machine page, and we just hate to miss an occasional excuse to bring some of that beefcake eye-candy over here. So here goes...

Country singer Kenny Chesney insists that he is not gay. Really. That's not what his ex-wife meant when she listed "fraud" as the reason for requesting an annulment."
It's not true. Period. Maybe I should have come out and said, 'No, I'm not (gay),' but I didn't want to draw any more attention to it," the 38-year-old country singer says.
We believe him even if he does look like any number of guys at The Cuff's country dance night. Even the tight levis have never set off our (admittedly flawed and underused) gaydar.

The rumor apparently got some traction when celebrity sniffers, taking a brief break from their ANS obsession, discovered that Chesney's ex, Renee Zellweger cited "fraud" as reason for requesting an anullment of their brief four-month marriage.

He was interviewed for 60 Minutes by Anderson Cooper. (wink, wink, nudge...).

Labels: , , ,

Monday, February 12, 2007

Hot pics from Revival

10:49 AM

Benjamin Bradley in underwear at Revival
Benjamin Bradley performs at Revival
Gemini, one of the co-producers of the event, has a hot collection of photos by Malcolm Smith now online from last week's Revivial party at Element.

On this BratBoySchool Bulletin, Ethan Reynolds had this to say about their time in town
Once again the Emerald City made us feel welcomed and like VIPs. Our event for Revival Sunday seemed to go quite well. The crowd was packed, the music was great, and the place seemed filled with excitement....

As many of you already know, Seattle is home for Ben. So there is a special feeling when we step off the airplane. His mood is brighter and his laugh is even more infectious. This visit allowed us to dance as Project BE, be a part of a photo shoot, and spend time around his home. I absolutely love his family and enjoy seeing them.

He also noticed I-957 while he was here and likes the approach.

[By the way, those coming from there are looking for the post just below this one.]

Labels: , , , ,

Sunday, February 04, 2007

Revival #2 is tonight at Element

10:33 AM

It's Revival day once again. Seattle's new Sunday party will make its second apperance this evening starting at 6 pm at Element, [get directions], across the street from EMP at Seattle Center. Party until midnight with a cover of only $5.
Benjamin Bradley shirtless
Seattle native Benjamin Bradley
Tonight's featured guests are go-go boys Benjamin Bradley and his boyfriend Ethan Reynolds. It's a bit of a public homecoming for Bradley who grew up in the Seattle area and graduated last year from Western Washington University in Bellingham.

Bradley got his start in porn when after he met fellow Seattlite Roman Heart. In an interview with Reynolds, his current beau and go-go partner at tonight's Revival, Bradley explained how he first met Heart who was already a noted porn star.
Go-go boys Benjamin Bradley and Ethan Reynolds perform
Go-go boys Ethan Reynolds and Benjamin Bradley perform

We met through mutual friends. We both grew up in the Seattle region, and I knew of him from the gay community gossip. I knew he did porn, and I had always wanted to meet him to see if he was as beautiful in person as he was in his photos. And he was. We met around Halloween of 2004. Long story short, we both felt instant attraction not only physically but emotionally. Its really hard to describe, but I fell so hard and so fast for him. We always had so much fun together, and felt so at ease in each other's presence. Although we are not currently together, we still have an amazing bond. He is honestly my first TRUE love.
Heart asked Bradley to do a scene with him for the video, Driver. Bradley was hired to do a second appearnce for Falcon Video in Cross Country, Part 1. He then did Sized Up, Little Big League 2: 2nd Inning, and Boot Boy for Channel 1 Releasing. He's currently under contract with Rascal Video which features him in No Cover, The Wrong Side of the Tracks, and Delinquents.
Benjamin Bradley and Ethan Reynolds take a break
Ethan Reynolds and Benjamin Bradley take a break



Their Seattle stop at Revival is just one of several stops they're making in a busy schedule of February appearances for Reynolds and Bradley. Bradley said on his official blog that he and Ethan "always have a good time when we do our appearances. That is very important to us. However, we do it with class and style. We know we are hired to do a job and we get'er'done."

He offered this on the blog last week:
This will probably make everybody throw up... but I just want to say that my boyfriend is so beautiful and amazing. I'm really lucky. Just thought I would share.
Who's gonna disagree with that, eh?

Bradley even gets his own entry in the user-generated encycolpedia, Wikipedia. He also has a typically slow-loading (and noisy) MySpace page, but no longer updates it.

Reynolds is founder and editor of the popular website Brat Boy School where he keeps track of models, porn stars, and other hawties.

Labels: , , , , ,

Friday, January 12, 2007

Revival on Sunday

11:46 AM

Carlson Twins shirtless hunksThe Carlson Twins will be special guests at Revival this Sunday at Element

Are you feeling the need for Revival during this uncommon winter deep freeze? Egan Orion of Overload Productions has teamed up with other local party promoters to revive your spirits this weekend with the first of what could become frequent Sunday parties.

The hunky Carlson Twins of A&F fame will be special guests and should lift your... umm -- spirits as Overload, Gemini Events, and JB Productions team up to present Revival, a major Sunday dance party at a new (to them) venue: Element at 332 Fifth Ave. N. across the street from EMP at Seattle Center [get directions].

Party from 6pm until midnight with a cover of only $5.

Element has two dance floors. DJ Brian Gorr says he'll be "spinning old circuit and of course other surprises as we once again celebrate Sunday nights in Seattle." DJ Violate will pump out the music for the second dance floor, spinning "top-40 mashups, old skool, and new skool."

Revival Sunday logo
Get revived this Sunday at Element
Although Element imposes a fairly strict dress code for its usual crowd, Orion said that he trusts the queer crowd for Revival to dress right without any kind of formal code. "There's no dress code for the event besides what every other bar/club would expect," he told us.

Orion's Overload has produced parties at Sugar, Neumo's, Chapel (including Red Light on New Year's night), and other venues but he said he's looking forward to the new possibilities at Element.

"Element is the largest venue I've used as a venue for an Overload event," he said. For this one, he's working with JB Productions and Gemini Events. "Gemini has recently started doing events in Seattle. SweetSpot at Sugar was their first set of events, and Revival is their second venture," Orion explained.

You can look forward to more Sunday Revivals in the future, Orion said. "We intend to do Revival as a monthly party in time," he explained. "This first party is a proof of concept and a way to introduce people to the space. As we get into Spring, Revival will be held every month with all sorts of exciting special guests!"

Keep up with all Overload events and other interesting parties (including gay ski week at Whistler) by subsribing to Overload's new email list, A Queer Night Out. (Sign up for the list at the bottom of the page.)

Labels: , , , ,

Monday, December 25, 2006

Hunk-twink gay twins kicked out by Jehovah's Witnesses

7:54 PM

Shirtless Joshua and Jeremy of Nemesis head to gym
Joshua and Jacob head to gym on Logo show Nemesis Rising
Joshua and Jacob Miller, the hunky gay twins from Kalispell, Montana, who starred in a Logo reality series this fall were kicked out of the Jehovah's Witnesses last week. They hadn't been practicing Witnesses, but their family members were.

According to a press release sent out last week by the twins, the action taken last week by their church means that
Our immediate family is to have limited or no contact with us. And all other practicing Jehovah's Witnesses around the world are not to speak with us ever again.


That particularly nasty practice is called "disfellowship" by the Witnesses. But, at least they make official something that is all-too-common in other churches.

Shirtless Joshua and Jeremy of Nemesis
Jacob and Joshua pose for their brief flirt with semi-stardom

If you're wondering what all the fuss is about (or just want to catch more eye-candy), you could -- if you dare -- watch a marathon of all seven Nemesis Rising on Logo next Saturday morning (Dec. 30) starting at 7am (that's Eastern time, but we who don't get that channel assume they might have a west coast feed that shows it here at the same time).

A USA Today pop blogger even rated the show as a guilty pleasure, while warning, "J&J make some of the most watered-down, eardrum-shattering pop music since, oh, O-Town."

And that's being nice. Unfortunately there's already way too much saccharine "nice" in the pop pablum performed by the twins. Their album includes a cover of Nic Gilder's creepy 1979 one-hit wonder Hot Child in the City. And they (or their producers more likely) make the song about a very young prostitute sound nice.

The song from the album that qualifies as their hit, Number One In Heaven [YouTube], shares the same edgeless niceness even though it's a celebration of a one-night stand.

There are clearly some great possibilities in their song selection. But just as they waste the name "Nemesis" they also waste the chance to do something -- anything -- slightly interesting with their performances.

So, we're not sure it's worth even TiVoing the marathon, but you can catch a few video clips on Logo's site. It looks to us that the clip called, Nemesis: Special Episode Part 2 pretty well summarizes all the issues of the show. That clip also includes a live video of their dreadful rendition of Hot Child.

Labels: , , , , ,

Monday, December 18, 2006

Boston Speedo Santas, 2007

1:51 PM

Boston Santa Speedo racer, 2007
Boston Santa Speedo racer, 2007
Photos by Patrick Lentz
As we mentioned when we posted Toronto speedo pics, we were waiting for this one.

As he does each year, Towleroad now has a rich and varied collection of pictures of the original Santa Speedo Race that was held this weekend in Boston.

The sixth annual race, held Saturday, is a creative benefit for Ellie Fund to fight breast cancer.
Boston Santa Speedo racer, 2007

A full collection of photos of the race by Patrick Lentz is available on Flickr.

You'll also find more pics on the benefit's own site.

Labels: , , , ,

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Link bites: Speedo Santas in Toronto

6:19 PM

Shirtless speedo Santas in Toronto
Shirtless speedo Santas in Toronto


We love it when folks from cold places get creative with Christmas-time fundraising, like, oh... Santa Speedo races. The Parisian Boys blog found pictures (including the ones seen here) from the Toronto Santa Speedos who took to the streets of the Yorkville neighborhood last Saturday December 9th 2006. The run was a benefit for a children's health charity.

The original Santa Speedo run in Boston is scheduled for next weekend.

Labels: , ,

Monday, December 11, 2006

Opening party for gay comedy Eating Out 2

4:45 PM

Shirtless hunk Brent Chuckerman
Brent Chuckerman plays Marc in Eating Out 2, opening Friday.

R-Place [see map] will host a party Wednesday night from 10pm to Midnight for the movie Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds.

And no, unfortunately, you won't get to see super-hunk Marco Dapper or any of the other hot-stud stars in person, but you will get to watch trailers for the film. And they'll be giving away posters and other schwag including DVDs of Eating Out 1.

To whet your apetite, check out these behind-the-scenes shots of some of the men of Eating out.
Shirtless hunk Marco Dapper
Marco Dapper (as Troy) with co-stars in Eating Out 2, opening Friday.


We mentioned the movie yesterday because of the Dapper hunk pics, but in case you missed it amidst the eye-candy, the movie opens Friday at the at the Varsity [get directions].

The Boy Culture blog has a great interview with the Marco Dapper and many pictures. (And yes, guys, he's straight. Sigh.)

And here's another trailer, just in case you really need to know what the movie's about:

Labels: , , , , ,

Sunday, December 10, 2006

We're back with more shirtless hunks

4:18 PM

Shirtless hunk Marco Dapper
Amazing hunk Marco Dapper stars in Eating Out 2, opening Friday. More in our Rumor Machine.
Sorry. Your webwrangler has neglected his wrangling duties, but what finally got him to pay attention to this site again was finding a few new pictures for the Rumor Machine. We even added a button to let you automatically cycle through all of the nearly 200 hot studs featured there. (Hint: To start from a random spot, click the "Show Hunk" button before clicking the "Auto Hunks" button.)

The guy who gets the second-most pics in the new set is Marco Dapper, star of the new movie "Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds." It opens Friday, Dec. 15, at the Varsity [get directions]. Check out the trailer:



Shirtless hunk Jonathan Jesensky Ultra-hot model Jonathan Jesensky. Much more in our Rumor Machine.
But as hard (ahem...) as it was to pick only four pics of Marco, we found ourselves unable to resist even more shots of a model, Jonathan Jesensky [office warning: His hot site plays audio], whose innocent+nasty images first caught our (umm...) eye on a Flickr photostream by Pete90291. There are six shots of Jonathan in the Rumor Machine with links to see hundreds more.

Shirtless hunk Alejo Saurus
Spanish actor Alejo Saurus with OMFG smoldering eyes turns up on HunkyMaleCelebs.com
If you click on most of the pics on the Rumor Machine page, you'll be transported to the source site with (usually) larger versions of the pictures. (Unfortunately, Genre has taken down the amateur pics that are included in our collection, but it didn't seem worthwhile to deprive you of them here.)
Shirtless hunk Taylor Kitsch

Actor Taylor Kitsch from NBC's Friday Night Lights: The second coming of Jered Leto? (And yes, there's plenty of him, too, in the Rumor Machine.)

As has been the case for a while, several of the pics come from MostBeautifulMen, but there's also several from a new site with the same mission: HunkyMaleCelebs.com.

And, of course, we do this purely for its educational value. We discovered, for instance, that Taylor Kitsch, who plays the hunky mumbling troubled-teen character Tim Riggins on NBC's Friday Night Lights is from BC and lives in Vancouver. So close.

So click, or sit back and let the hunkitude stream through. Enjoy.

Technorati tags:

Labels: , ,

Saturday, October 14, 2006

Link bites

12:40 PM

photo: Foley, Bush, and Brownie
Better days:Foley and Bush compare "notes," while Brownie looks on, stunned
Quote o' day: From King County exec Ron Sims: "You don't want people being stunned by the size of your package. None of us like that."

Sorry, Ron, but we actually do like to be stunned by the size of a package. OK, sure, we've been reading too much about Foleygate, but still... (And, by the way, he's talking about transportation tax packages.)
---
Secretary of State Condi officially swore in the new (and openly gay) head of US international AIDS efforts. She introduced his partner and "mother-in-law." Andrew Sullivan:


There you have it. Among decent elite Republicans, there is often great acceptance of gay people as individuals, and of their families and spouses. "Mother-in-law" is itself an affirmation of marriage for gay couples; and the secretary of state just used those words. And yet her party officially regards gay unions as, in James Dobson's words, a prelude to the "destruction of the earth."
---
Seattlest featured a cameo appearance by a wonderfully bitchy fashion maven who, of course, finds most of us around here woefully lacking in fashion sense. He railed against our collective lack of umbrellas and other fashion sins last week.

He is, of course, from elsewhere, and apparently hasn't yet discovered that significant and umbrella-launching winds usually accompany those rare days when our drizzle turns into full-out rain. Nonetheless, we hope to read more bitching about the local fashion scene before a shoulder is de-socketed as he tries to hang onto his fashionable bumbershoot.
---
"YouTube" can be a verb. Go ahead, Google it.

We first noticed it from Andrew Sullivan: "I'll be YouTubing short segments of my presentation at the Cato Institute last week..."

Beyond the grammar lesson, however, the segments YouTubed by Sullivan are a fascinating glimpse into his new book, The Conservative Soul. Find the YouTube segments here, here, here, and here.
---
Buff Marine calendar beefcake
Look beyond the firemen. You can now get a calendar of buff shirtless Marines. (And, yes, we've added at least one of them to our rumor machine.)
---
Re-Bar [see map] is for sale.
---
Last week, Slog republished drunken photos of a UW sophomore being sophomoric. Metroblogging called the stunt "mean-spirited," which prompted this explanation by Slogger-in-chief and Stranger editor Dan Savage:
While some might argue that young Hugh Foskett engages in behaviors typical to college sophomores everywhere -- group groping, same-sex soaking, projectile vomiting?it needs to be said that Foskett isn't any ol' college sophomore. He's a College Republican. And not just any ol' College Republican--, no. Young Hugh Foskett is the GOP's anointed candidate in the 43rd District. And Foskett's party--all together now--is the party of values, moral majorities, and personal responsibility, to say nothing of the party of abstinence pledges and opposition to same--sex marriage, groping, soaking, etc.
Tags:

Labels: ,

Wednesday, June 28, 2006

(Virtually) meet Jeoff, the HomoAquatic model

7:00 AM

We're guessing that some of you have noticed the hot model that started showing up on this site's pages a few weeks ago. The model is Jeoff Burger.

Jeoff owns the GNC Nutrition Store at Jefferson Square in West Seattle (4722 42nd Ave SW [get directions]).

Drop by or call 206-937-7208 for your fitness-nutrition needs. Mention this post or bring in a HomoAquatic flier to receive 10% off any item.

Hot picture of HomoAquatic model, Jeoff Burger
Jeoff is a nationally certified personal trainer who currently sees clients at the West Seattle Allstar Fitness [get directions]. He also teaches an indoor cycling class there. "I invite any one to come ride with me."

Even when he's not working, Jeoff tells us that he enjoys "working out, my friends, hanging out on Alki, roller-blading with my two daughters, and most of all spending time with my boyfriend, Rick."

We should mention that Jeoff hates the picture that we chose to use for the flier (and which you can print out for yourself if you have a fast connection for the very big [3mb] file and a color printer). Hates it. " In my opinion it was the worst one... Not to mention my body doesn't look that good."

We're sorry. We'll admit that the green we added for the background didn't work out so well, but still, we thought and still think it's a really fun picture and we don't think it's even possible for Jeoff's body to look bad.

The talented photographer who took the photos of Jeoff is Andrew Adam Caldwell. He's still working on that website, but there's an email link at the bottom of the page. Hire him. He's the most helpful photographer we've used in a long time.

Technorati tags:

Labels:

Saturday, April 15, 2006

"Swallow Harder" at the Frye

4:10 PM

Peacock Blue Sea... by Chris Doyle at Frye Art Museum
Chris Doyle, Peacock-Blue Sea, Asana Tabanobu, Away with Words, 2000, R-print, 31 x 47 1/2 in., Collection of Ben and Aileen Krohn
We suspect that it isn't a regular part of the itinerary for most of our readers to visit the Frye Art Museum, a small free gallery at 704 Terry Ave on First Hill [get directions]. But we urge you to make an exception this month. Go over there to soak in the art in the museum's front gallery. You'll see a small snapshot of the large collection of local art patrons Ben and Aileen Krohn.

The official description says this:

Although the "R word" has little currency in the art world of our day, some of the most inventive and provocative contemporary artwork is indeed representational. Recognizable subject matter permeates the art of young artists working in video, photography, painting, performance, and sculpture, as well as those creating innovative art in spaces between these traditional mediums.

Some bold collectors are following their lead. Swallow Harder is a snapshot of the contemporary art collection of Ben and Aileen Krohn. Since its beginning in the late 1990s, this Seattle-based collection has grown to several hundred pieces, including series by important artists in photography and works by emerging artists in video..

What it doesn't mention is the inspiration for the title given to the selection being shown at the Frye. The title comes partly from a work by Mark Mumford that hangs just inside the front door. We at first mistook the elegant sans-serif lettering that twice repeats the "Swallow Harder" phrase as museum graphics. But it's actually one of the works in the Krohn collection.

But there's more to the name.

Start your tour backwards to gain an -- umm -- deeper understanding of the title. Instead of starting in the room next to the entrance, move north (to your left as you enter) toward the Frye Cafe. Stop for a minute to enjoy the dancey trancey video projected onto a too-bright wall accompanied by a too-quiet mix of music. The work is called "Pills and Cigs" by Eli Sudbrack and the collective that calls itself "assume vivid astro focus."

If you've been lucky, you might have seen this same video projected with very loud music on the light wall of a club somewhere. Soak it in for a moment. And yeah, you'll quietly dance just a bit as you watch and listen.

From the video, turn to your left again to check out the large work in reds and brown hung on the adjoining wall. We suspect that many of the ladies who lunch each day in the cafe have determined to see it as an incongruous abstract landscape in this temple of representational art. But check out the name. This work is called (and we suspect that many of you would have already seen why) "76 Blow Jobs."

The artist, Jason Salavon, digitally averaged 76 pictures of blow jobs that he found on the internet and then digitally merged them into this one picture, which is, very clearly once your eyes have adjusted to the sampling, one blow job. (And, hey guys, admit it... Who among us hasn't experienced that moment when 76 blow jobs seem to merge into just one, eh?)

Almost hidden in the upper corner of each gallery wall, just beneath the ceiling, is a small picture of a hot shirtless guy making gestures with his hands. The photos have titles including, "Erection", "Climax", "Premature ejaculation", and "Well hung". According the gallery note under the first of the photos, this is supposed to be some kind of forgotten form of communication from the days then gay folk were more hidden. But that isn't what this is. The hot guy in the photos is signing. He's speaking a sub-dialect of American Sign Language or ASL. They're not hand signals from some old closet, but rather common and widely understood signs that are still used by deaf gay men.

Study the signs. The next time you see a group of guys signing in a bar with loud, thumping music, you might see one or a few of them used in a live conversation. (And, maybe too, it would help you understand the occasional peal of laughter from the group.)

But still, the guy who is signing is hot. The signs are hot.

Reyshard, Milky series by Steven Miller at Frye Art Museum
Steven Miller, Reyshard, Milky Series, 2004, 36 x 48 in., Collection of Ben and Aileen Krohn


Also displayed are huge black-and-white prints of three of the sixty subjects in Steven Miller's remarkable 2004 series "Milky". He poured cold milk -- "sometimes forcefully" -- onto the heads of each of his shirtless subjects and recorded the reaction at the moment the fluid covered their face and chest. The subjects of these three prints are Robert, Dan, and the beautiful Reyshard.

(On Miller's flash website, choose "Menu" and then click on "Milky" under "Gallery work" to see a web show of the images.)

They're hot and suggestive photos in and of themselves, but, of course, this is high art and so there's also a high-art explanation: "Miller suggests both the pleasure and risks associated with sexual exchange in a society where HIV is persistent in the minds of young people."

In his artist statement about the series, Miller writes, "The action of pouring another animal's fluid over the naked human body conveys the fundamental ways people react to the unknown". [Read a review of a different show featuring this series.]

The painting "Boys" by out artist Marcellino Goncalves might actually seem slightly disturbing because this image of several boys at a pool could have been an innocent Norman Rockwell type scene. But it isn't. Goncalves somehow gives the work an erotic edge.

In a review of a different show of Gocalves' work, the critic wrote, "Goncalves is marking some dissolve in the sexual valence of representations of masculinity, which is why blur, fogginess, or sudden veering away from the photorealistic subtly disturb almost every painting."

OK. We guess one can see that even in this one painting.
Genderf..k Courtney by Alice Wheeler at Frye Art Museum
Alice Wheeler, Genderfuck Courtney, Collection of Ben and Aileen Krohn
And then there's the large color photos by Alice Wheeler of "Genderfuck Kurt" [Cobain] and "Genderfuck Courtney". Recognize someone?

There's far more even to this small selection from the Krohn collection. We can only hope that this first museum show from their collection isn't the last and that we might even someday see this collection of early 21st Century works given the same sort of reverence that the Frye's own early 20th Century collection receives.

And while you're at the museum, check out the new "salon style" display of the Frye's founding collection. The paintings collected by Charles and Emma Frye have in the past been displayed in their gaudy frames as isolated works on the museum's large walls. Displayed in that way, they seemed to our non-critic's eye to be "couch paintings". They seemed to call out for a gaudy faux-French furniture setting under each work.

The museum's current curator, Robin Held, discovered in photos of the Fryes' home that they had displayed these works in a far different way. The walls of their home were crammed with these paintings that the Fryes had come to love. Held has attempted to duplicate the Fryes' original salon style by hanging the founding collection in a wild profusion of color, texture, and gaudy frame from near floor to ceiling on the walls of the main galleries.

Somehow, each painting seems to gain more dignity in this crowded display as the eye focuses in on the fascinating. And -- a huge advantage -- we no longer expect to see a Louis XV couch under each painting.

The Krohn collection seems at first glance shockingly out-of-place in the previously-staid Frye Museum. But the Krohns' lust for art mirrors through the lens of a different time and far different tastes the same kind of lust for art that prompted the Fryes to build their collection a century before the Krohns.
"Swallow Harder" shows through May 14 at the Frye Art Museum, 704 Terry Ave, Seattle. Admission is free. Hours are 10am to 5pm Tuesday through Saturday. Noon to 5pm Sunday. Open late until 8pm on Thursdays.

See reviews of this show by real art critics here [PI], here [artnet], here [The Stranger], and here [Seattle Times].

Technorati tags:

Labels:

Saturday, March 25, 2006

Blog visits: Checking in on some cyber-neighbors

12:01 PM

Rico Suave and Brent: shirtless hotties in underwear and ties
Rico Suave (left) and boyfriend Brent at a "semi-formal" underwear party

Let's take a stroll through the blog neighborhood and check in again with some neighbors, shall we?

Since we've noticed that a few folks still trasit quickly though here looking for his popular blog, we'll start with hottie Rico Suave. His popular blog now sports an attractive and highly readable new format.

We'll admit that the picture like the one we posted when we last mentioned Rico and like the one we're posting this time are relatively rare. But, hey... Can you blame us for a bit of cherry picking ?

Rico still calls his blog "the sexy, sassy, scandalous life of a city boy." But it is generally a simpler thing than that. Blogs like Rico's (and his is among the better examples) do what TV reality shows can only pretend to do. They present glimses in brief installments of a sometimes mundane and occasionally fascinating simple life in the real world.

Rico's elegant little posts are mostly about studies, jobs, or the rare visit to the parents. They're about apartments, and shopping, with the occasional party to spice things up. It's the spare simplicity of presenting those moments that makes it worth an occasional visit.

Another local blog that also features occasional diary-like moments about things like dating and turning 30. (We suspect that will get a bit more play in weeks to come. It's one of those scary decade birthdays, after all.) Mostly, however, In a Vault Underground features posts about music, theater, literature, TV and all the works of imagination that lend a life or a moment some extra meaning.

Example from a post about a visit to SAM:
After seeing quite a few works, I turned the corner to be confronted with a huge Hockney. It had to have been 10 feet tall. It was a painting of a man on a couch facing the viewer and another man in profile. The coffee table in front of the man on the couch had a huge paint blotch. When I saw this painting, I burst into tears. There was no reason whatsoever for it. It was strange and powerful experience.

Microsoft Red-West campus by Gary Skinner
"Nerd River" at Microsoft's RedWest campus
by Gary Skinner
We don't have an elegant seque from that to this mention of a local artist, since we do not mean to suggest that you'll have the same kind of reaction to these simple and quick drawings that we first mentioned back in November.

Gary Skinner is still drawing Capitol Hill, but you'll also now find several drawings of Microsoft's elegant little Red West campus -- which, we're guessing, says something without words about where Gary is working these days.

It remains one of the more unique uses of blogging software that we've seen. It is, after all a diary much like the other two mentioned here. But it's a diary that tells its story mostly without words.

It might also be worth mentioning those Squidoo links over in the far right column. The WebWrangler of this blog has used that unique service to collect some notable links about gay Seattle, some worthy general-interest Seattle news feeds, and some notable gay news feeds.
Other "blog find" posts:


Technorati tags:

Labels: ,

Sunday, March 19, 2006

Spring parties, plus mix CDs to get to up for them

1:12 PM

Rites of Spring gay party poster with hot shirtless hunk
Overload Productions will present another of their big dance parties on Saturday, April 1, at Neumos [see map] with blacklight custom tattoos, lasers, and "happy music."

The Rites of Spring features DJ Brian Gorr [link plays music] from midnight to 4 am with DJ Kyler opening from 10 pm to midnight. Tickets for the 21+ event are $10 at the door.

Overload has also announced two dance parties for Pride weekend. The One party on Saturday night, June 24, is at Neumos with DJ Brian Gorr and DJ Kyler. A new afterhours called Red Light will follow at Chapel [see map] with DJ Rob Hall. Pre-sale tickets for both parties will be sold at the Overload site starting April 15.

To get ready for spring parties, you might want to pick up a copy of Brian Gorr's mix CD from January's Remix party. He offers a single sampler CD with the best slice of the night's music as well as a five-disk set of the complete night with the best dance music of 2005. The sampler CD is just $10 and the complete mix is only $25. A portion of the purchase price will be donated to Strenth Over Speed (a Project Neon weekly peer-led support group for ex-crystal users).

Place your order for the CDs through Brian's website.

Technorati tags:

Labels: ,

Friday, January 13, 2006

Hot shirtless hunks added to Rumor Machine

12:13 PM

logo: Rumors with hot shirtless hunksAlmost from the start of this site over ten years ago, we've had an odd little feature called the Rumor Machine. With each click, it tells an improbable and slightly different story. You've always been able to customize it a bit with names of your friends and other items. And it's always thrown in a celeb name on some of the stories.


Hot shirtless hunk Jason Momoa from StargateHot shirtless Steve Sandvoss from Latter DaysHot shirtless Lauri Kalima

From top: Jason Momoa of 'Stargate Atlantis' (ready to take a different gate?), Steve Sandvoss of 'Latter Days' on a different kind of mission, and Finnish runner Lauri Kalima who you might not have heard about, but wouldn't you like to?

We have occasionally changed the collection of (mostly) hawt-hunk names, but there's always been a problem with some of those names that would be unfamiliar and therefore not all that intriging when added to a rumor. So, we figured, 'Why not add a picture along with the name of the hot shirtless hunk?' Indeed. Why not?

We now offer what might be called the Rumor About Hot Shirtless Hunks Machine except that that name would be a bit unwieldy even if it does use the words "shirtless" and "hunk" yet again. We've now added even more unfamiliar names in the list which includes over 100 pictures of shirtless hunks. Along with the (mostly) hot pics, we've also added links to sites like MostBeautifulMen.com and A Socialite's Life where you can find more genuine information about the eye-candy beefcake on display along with a lot more pictures.

Most of the guys shown in the Rumor Machine's shirtless poses are straight and a few are even obnoxiously so, but it's all in fun and all about the eye-candy, eh? We take it all in something of the spirit of NightCharm [which is not office-safe] who offers a list of The Top 10 Worst Guys (That We'd Fuck Anyway):
We don't know if these guys are gay, straight or willing to fuck a barn door. Frankly, we don't care. This is what we want, not what they want! Below then, the Top Ten Jerk-offs We'd Most Like to Jerk Around With.

And so, click away. Each of the pictures you'll see in the Rumor Machine is selected randomly so they will repeat in an unpredictable pattern. That means you'll have to click way more than 100 times to see all of the (here we go again) hot shirtless hunks.

And although we've noticed that the readers of this blog don't much like to add comments, we encourage you to do so if you have a link or a name you think we should add. You can even remain anonymous.

Technorati tags:

Labels:

Monday, December 19, 2005

Recent blog finds: Santa speedo races, Boston

6:07 PM

photo: shirtless hotties in speedos. great pecs
These guys were among dozens of participants in Boston's recent Santa Speedo Races. (As you can see if you click on that link, Towleroad has plenty more pics of the ho-ho-ho holiday tradition back east. They also have an extensive list of links to Brokeback Mountain commentaries and reviews.)

[This comes to us via the sometimes-funny, often-bizarre WOW Report]

And... so why don't we have something like this in warmer Seattle? Surely, the Fremont Parade's naked cyclists must need exercize even during the rainy season. Or maybe a speedo pirates or speedo sailors race would be a good contribution to Seafair. Hmm...

[Update:] And here are yet more Santa Speedo pics. And the sponsor of the event has a full gallery of pics.
Technorati tags:

Labels:

Monday, March 14, 2005

New (old) sailor picture

4:40 PM

Promotional image of sailor and Cruise LoveMuscle logo

Publicity graphic for 2004 Queen City Cruise: LoveMuscle

[ Model: Christopher Photographer: Jimmy Malecki

Despite continual requests for it from Google image searchers who spot Christoper's wonderful image in their rarely-updated image indexes, I've decided to go with something else until an actual theme is chosen for the 2005 cruise. (Although a similar way-hot picture of Christoper is still used on the main Queen City Cruise page.)

These images of Christopher were originally taken for the 2000 Cruise: Poly Tickle Party.

I have, however, dusted off a different old publicity photo. The one being used now in the promo box comes from the poster for the very first cruise. That makes this picture older than many of those who will be buying tickets to this year's event. Sigh. But hey, it still works, especially when the much-changed skyline is removed as it is here.

Maybe there will even be reason to give that first Inqueerier story a reprise: "Tacky Tourists Expose Rear Admiral's Flap".

Labels:

Saturday, February 12, 2005

About that sailor

1:19 PM

The sailor over there to the right (as I write this) is turning out to be a popular image. That's Christopher in a photo taken by Jimmy Malecki for the 2000 Cruise: PolyTickle Party. (You can see more of him, but no -- not all of Christopher -- if you follow that link.) We started using the image again for last year's LoveMuscle Tour and it was picked up from there by Google's image search spider.

Since then, we've noticed dozens of guys from all over the world dropping by to see Chrisopher and taking a look at other gallery images while they're at it.

Labels:

To top of page
Queen City Cruise: Project Gangplank
Queen City Cruise: Project Gangplank
Queen City Cruise: About
  Send photos     |   History
 Cruise photos   |  Cruise video
[Home]   |   [Event]   [Tickets]   [Events blog]  |   [Gallery]   [Store]   |   [Who?]   [(e)Mail]   [History]   |   [Rumors]   [Links]   |   [Site map]  
«« »»
Hey there! I'm Bruce. Welcome to our rest stop.
Feature: Queer party pictures
Feature: Seattle gay bars map
Feature: Queer party pictures
Feature: Rumor machine with shirtless hunks
Subscribe to feed (click icon)
Subscribe to feed



Powered by FeedBlitz

Powered by Blogger
Click a pic for more.
photo: Jeoff Berger -- sexy shirtless man
photo: Sailor hunk with LoveMuscle logo
illustration: Hot sexy gay werewolf book cover
Gay news
Gay Seattle
Gay commentary
Queer pop
Seattle news
Web ttca.org Google

QueerFilter.com RSS feeds Subscribe with Bloglines
Blog Directory & Search engine
GeoURL
Blogwise - blog directory
High Class Blogs
Gay and Lesbian, songs, humor & cool fun stuff

Seattle blogs (Blogmob.org)
More Seattle blogs.
More gay blogs.
Technorati Blog Finder