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| Compiled By Jack Nichols
The Success of Will & Grace
I get e-mails from guys saying 'Thanks for being a role model,' and 'Thanks for putting our issues out there.' And I think, Oh right, I forgot I was doing that. I thought I was just being pretty funny. I think that is the real answer to why this show is working.
Eric McCormick— "Gay Acting: Eric McCormick does it with grace" by Eric Shaw Quinn, Genre, September The Dangers of Getting into Men's Pants The survey into home accidents found that putting on trousers poses a serious risk of injury because people lose their balance and topple over hurting themselves. The critical and most dangerous part is pulling up the second leg when the first is still at half mast. The yearly home accident report by the DTI [Dept. of Trade & Industry] estimates there were 4400 trouser victims last year. Another 400 injured themselves putting on their underwear. And last night, kiltmaker Gordon Nicholson of McCalls in Edinburgh seized on the report as evidence of what he has been preaching for years. He said: "If people would only wear traditional costume, all this pain and injury would be prevented. Daily Record & Sunday Mail newspaper-- Scotland, September 17 Gore Vidal on Bad Guys Who Use Eyeliner
From our Augustus, FDR, who never worried about his place in history because he knew he was supremely history, to the present day one notes the increasing second-rateness of our Oval Ones. I suggest this has nothing to do so much with the caliber of the individuals as it does with an overextended military industrial political complex that wrings tax money from Congress to fight drugs, terrorism and bad guys who use eye liner, like Qaddafi. Money for "defense" (sic) should be spent repairing our rotted home base. But it won't be. Meanwhile, the Ovoids do their best to please the corporations that house them so nicely.
Gore Vidal— "Candid in Camera"—The Nation, September 27 McCarthyism Revised I am not and never have been homosexual. Bryan Purvis—married and father of three, the head of one of Britain's top independent schools admitting to hoarding a collection of gay porn--The Daily Mirror, London, September 18 Confessions of the Supreme Deity
My experience let me see that, nowadays, people blindly believe in gods and spirits…People do not really
know what gods are, but if you flaunt a divine banner, people believe in you and are willing to dedicate
everything they have to you.
Liu Jiaguo—who proclaimed himself the Supreme Deity and attracted 10,000 Chinese followers— "Strategy for a Charlatan in China: Claim Deity, Then Steal and Seduce"—by Seth Faison, New York Times, Sept. 18 Population Explosion We have 24 embryos left in the freezer and we are hoping to use three more. We both come from large families so it would be nice to have lots. Barrie Drewitt— Expectant British millionaire gay Dad who, with his lover, contributed both seed and 200,000 pounds to a surrogate Mom who now expects their twins—The Daily Mirror, London, September 16 
Men's Magazine Sales?
Pure entertainment and pure sex…It's almost a risk to put anything else on the cover, a commercial risk. David Granger—Esquire editor— "Why the Media Kept Their Eyes Wide Shut"—by Katherine Rosman, Brill's Content, October Soulmates in the Ether More people around the globe are writing to each other now—whether via E-mail or chat dens—than have since the advent of the telephone. Epistolary wooing is all the rage again. It's impossibly romantic. Souls are meeting as they were meant to, in the ether, denuded of their worldly signifiers and the prejudices to which those unavoidably give rise in person. Norah Vincent— "Thelovething.com"—The Advocate, September 28 Growing Up Bland
Divine Justice in Australia? A teenager who stabbed to death a Sydney City Mission worker for allegedly raping him has escaped a jail sentence – and instead has been placed under the supervision of a priest. The Sydney Morning Herald-- "No jail for teen who killed mission worker"--September 16 |
Michael Portillo 
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