MARK TWAIN HAD SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT THIS...
Heh. From the Gay City News web site:

Obituaries
A Life Lived Long and Well

Poor Bertram Schaffner. That's sad.

But not as sad as the fact that the article says only that Schaffner is turning 94 years old. While that is quite old, it's still not quite dead.

Gay City News regrets the error, and promises to try to rein in the ageism in the future.

YEAH, BUT MEASURED FROM WHERE TO WHERE?
From Gay City News:

In writer/director Ramón Salazar's eye-popping comedy-musical-romance, the title "20 Centimeters," refers to the length of Marieta's penis. Marieta (Mónica Cervera), born Aldolfo, is a narcoleptic, pre-op transsexual prostitute who is saving her money to get her 8.78+ inches turned into a vagina, but various friends and lovers complicate her life, delaying her from realizing her dream.

Maybe it's just me, but I think 8.78 inches is specific enough without adding the "plus". You're really not going to notice the extra 0.002 inches of manhood, are you?

You don't see me walking around discussing my 3.699999, do you? No, you don't. Because I don't make things that difficult. I simplify things by rounding up.

To 7.

READING IS HOT!
Okay, I know that yesterday I wrote that gay literature is being over-exposed by the gay media. Still, I was honored to learn this morning that my books are to be featured in a new collaborative campaign in which print and electronic gay outlets work to increase literacy among The Gays: "Reading is Hot!"

Granted, I am less enthusiastic about the campaign tagline -- 'Washington pages aren't the only pages we turn over! -- but I've got to work with what they've given me.

So let me give a shout out to all of those who made this possible: The Advocate, Out, Genre, 365Gay.com, PlanetOut, Towleroad, Gay City News, HX, Next, the New York Blade, Window Media, Queerty, Instinct, After Elton, After Ellen, and the new Gay Gawker.

Look for the following promos in upcoming weeks! And remember: Buy the Damn Books!






NOTES: (1) "Reading is HOT!" artwork may not actually resemble the graphics above, which were designed by an anonymous person. (2) "Reading is HOT!" cooperative campaign may, in fact, be made up out of spite, and not an actual cooperative campaign. (3) Nothing in this entry shall be interpreted to indicate that any of the above-listed print and electronic media outlets and/or blogs have any interest whatsoever in reading or the promotion of gay writers or the advancement of the homosexual agenda. Execpt Gawker.