AND NOW, A NOTE ABOUT ONE OF OUR RECURRING CHARACTERS
As you know, like any soap opera or sitcom, this blog has a few recurring characters. Like The Gay American, and Cumming.

It looks like one such character -- "Bernie Kerik's Former Mistress" -- will either soon disappear altogether, or provide blog fodder for years to come.

This is why we love The Blogging.

TAKE THAT, GAY AMERICAN
From the Lambda Rising Boostore's Buzzin' Dozen Bestsellers for Men for October 2006

1. The Zookeeper(Alyson Trade Paperback) by Alex MacLennan

2. Grief (Hyperion Hardcover) by Andrew Holleran

3. When the Stars Come Out (Kensington Hardcover) by Rob Byrnes

4. From Top to Bottom (Michael-Christopher Books Trade Paperback) by Michael-Christopher

5. My Undoing: Love in the Thick of Sex, Drugs, Pornography, and Prostitution (Carroll & Graf Trade Paperback) by Aiden Shaw

6. Commitment and Healing: Gay Men and the Need for Romantic Love (John Wiley & Sons Hardcover) by Richard A. Isay

7. Exiles in America(William Morrow & Co. Hardcover) by Christopher Bram

8. Daddy's Boyz: Tales of Intergenerational Adult Gay Sex (Starbooks Trade Paperback) by Bob Condron

9. Truckers: True Gay Erotica (Cleis Trade Paperback) by Johnny Hansen

10. [loser position] The Confession (ReganBooks Hardcover) by The Gay American


Let's see Oprah save your ass now, McGreevey. I own that bookstore!

OVER-REVIEWED
You know what really bothers gay writers? Every time we turn around, another gay media outlet is reviewing our work! I wish they would stop doing that. It's... oppressive.

Yes, I know that the gay media feels a responsibility to bring gay titles to the attention of gay readers. Otherwise, they would focus almost exclusively on music and gossip, rather than being obsessed with gay literature. But -- and here I absolutely speak for every gay writer, with the possible exceptions of Augusten Burroughs, David Sedaris, and The Gay American -- gay writers are getting sick and tired of all this attention.

It's just too much! The Advocate is starting to resemble a gay version of The New York Review of Books. Genre increasingly reads like a homosexual version of Publishers Weekly. They might as well just change the name of Out to The Big Gay Magazine About Big Gay Books. It's embarrassing.

Thank God 365Gay.com has the courage to break the mold. In a day when gay readers are being over-exposed to gay writers and gay literature, 365Gay.com has taken the bold step of reviewing a book by a New York Times best-selling writer which seems to have no discernible gay content. And let me be the first to say that it's about time!

Hopefully, the rest of the gay media will join 365Gay.com and start to leave gay writers alone. Hey, Advocate! Hey, Genre! Hey, Out! Would you PLEASE review a CD or a concert or a television show?!!

On behalf of all gay writers who are not Burroughs, Sedaris, or The Gay American, I thank you.

PLEASE MAKE IT STOP!

'I am hooked on being central in the world, to being accepted and adored in the way that celebrities are.'
--The Gay American

Someone please find a way to stop this man from ruining every bit of joy in life! I beg you!

SAY IT AIN'T SO, JOAN
I am speechless.

Joan Rivers rejected the brilliant Faustus, but loves The Gay American?

Oh, Joan... oh, Bravo... words alone cannot express my disappointment.