Dead Pool
I heard this idea someplace and I was talking about it with friends over the last few days. I think we're going to do it. It's a "Dead Pool". It's like a hockey pool, only about dead people. You see what we're going to do is each pick ten famous people, any category (film, TV, Politics etc.) that we think will die in the coming year. Then we all put in money and at the end of the year, the one with the most dead people wins. You can't pick people who are only famous for actually being about to die (Terry Schiavo for example would have been disqualified last year) and you can't pick relatives of yours or anyone else over whom you may actually have the power to accelerate their death. (picking your granny and then killing her would be in terrible taste, and probably illegal). Also there's no point in picking people who you WANT to die. So for all you lapsed Catholics out there picking the pope would be probably useless, unless you think he WILL die.
I haven't finalised my list yet but here's a first bash at who I could pick:
Dick Clark
Prince Phillip
Brian Mulroney
Charles Nelson Reilly
Lloyd Robertson
Ariel Sharon
Bill Clinton
ぼくのはじめてのにほんごぶろぐ
きょうぼくはにほんごぶろぐをかきました。すみません、ぼくのかいてたものはまったくいみがつうじませんでした。ともだちににほんごでかくことをやくそくしました。にほんごでかくことはむずかしい。ちかいしょうらい、もっとうまくかけるでしょう。
um we got it.
Count up 11 floors, right there on the pointy bit. There, that's our new place. We got the news last night that our deal went through.
right then
Yes so we are (trying) to buy a place. It's the condo on the Esplanade. big fancy and oh-so-gay. we've offered, and of COURSE, someone else did too. figures we end up in a multiple offer situation, that is our luck. I won't bore you with details. Just stay tuned we'll know by tomorrow at the latest.
Well Fuck
Today, John Spencer, who plays Leo McGarry on The West Wing died of a heart attack in Los Angeles. As a fan of the show, and of his, i'm sad. that sucks.
Risky Business
No, not that movie. I'm talking (as we all are) about Brokeback Mountain. And although my HTML skills are good enough to make a link to the movie site, I won't. Because you see, I'm one of those fags who's not going to see this film.
Here's why - and I'll try to lay out my problems logically:
I'm utterly bothered by how both Heath & Jake in every single interview that I've seen, or at least that I saw/read prior to giving up in disgust, about the film has included some reference by them or the interviewer to their unassailable heterosexuality. I'm bothered by the fact that when playing a murderer or an elf, or a pedophile there are no such caveats. Nobody thinks that an Charlise Theron went home after a nice day on the set of Monster and murdered johns in south Florida. Most people assumed, in fact, that it was a great leap to play that role, and that she was a great actor for making us beleive something that was patently untrue.
I googled the words "Heath Ledger" and "Risky" and found 32,600 hits, all (or at least the first few pages and I'd wager the whole list) referring to this movie. Here's a quote from a infotainment website that captures both he "oh no he's straight" and the "risky performance" problem
"Heath Ledger has a baby, Oscar buzz for his risky Brokeback Mountain role, and
a home far from Hollywood..."
I won't go see a movie that is created by a bunch of people that view playing me (were I a cowboy) as risky.
Now I know that some would argue that well it
is risky. That we live in a world, and they work in a profession, that is so terrified of 'gay' that it actually is a risk to play gay. Well fuck that. Seriously. fuck that shit for what it is: bullshit, 'we'll take what they give us and be glad of it'
Uncle Tom-ism. When we let them get away with calling us risky, and even commend them for taking such risks, we acknowledge that it is risky. And in that we cede all our power.
Frankly if we wanted any power, we'd take it. And we don't. Rosa Parks said "fuck that" and so should we.
Bert blogged recently about the fact that fats and fags are the only things we can still joke about and that's wrong. It's also wrong of us to accept movies like this, which are meant to be all forward thinking and liberal, but which merely reinforce 'gay' as something to be afraid of (playing and being).
And the fact that Hollywood is populated by more fags than an Elton John concert makes it even more sickening. I for one will wait to see the inevitable porn movie that will come out, probably by Colt, called (i'm sure) Bareback Mountain. At least when that's released we won't have to listen to the stars going on about how they disucessed the love scenes with their
WIVES before taking the role.
Finally it's happened to me
So while most of you know that the house sold last week. The deal was actually not final until today. They had conditions on it, and it took a week for those to clear. So it did today. We signed the waivers and the deal is now final. So there yah go. this has gone from being a boring blog about selling a house to a boring blog about buying one.
but i promise i won't bore you too much.
From Bacon to Ham
So last night I did standup comedy at Betty's on King Street in Toronto. It was an open mic night. I agreed last year with my friend Diana that I would do it this year. So it took a while, but there I was. So other than the the fact that the American in the audience dind't like the American jokes I was doing, it went well.
