Should I go fishing or get a friend to hang around? Celebrated GAY Summer 2012

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ohdgnvK3bM

Maybe this got posted on some ILM thread somewhere already, but:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOfRtSW4dYE

If you haven't seen she, Goldie Hawn and Diane Keaton plunging dozens of stories to their near-death in a window-washers' scaffolding, it's your loss.

― frank o'sin (Eric H.), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:36 (52 minutes ago) Permalink

as stevie knows, The First Wives Club is my favorite movie of all time

thx for that tip stevo!

Yes and thanks to you it's now one of mine. I've for real gotten into the habit of tapping my cheek and saying "affection" as a greeting.

ahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

lol didn't u watch soapdish recently

Yes! I got it from work a year ago. It's the best.

phillip and i signed the lease to our new apartment today :D

i was 14 when the episode aired. 8th grade.

that's rad about the apartment!

and omg, theo is on his way home right now. soon enough.

also, i am hungover. dawson's creek, whiskey, and steel reserve are not a good combo.

wtg cloudy!

Thought you were closer to 10 years younger than me, tabes. I'm sure I knew when I was 14, and had no real reason to wait much beyond that, but oh well.

alas, eric, i turn 28 in october.

wait really? i thought you were like a few years younger than me?

u r all chillun.

i graduated lolcollege a little late, and...yeah, i dunno. definitely born in 1984.

ah, that was a year. I went to see the Violent Femmes at Danceteria.

lol.

People coming out at such young ages amazes me. It took me until I was about 20 to admit to myself that I wasn't completely straight, let alone to anyone else, which still took a couple years after that.

i think my parents knew when i would wear a red tshirt on my head and pretend i was the little mermaid when i was 7

omg

LOL I used to wear t-shirt wigs as a boy too! I should start up again and call it an homage to Little Edie.

People coming out at such young ages amazes me. It took me until I was about 20 to admit to myself that I wasn't completely straight, let alone to anyone else, which still took a couple years after that.

― chain the color of am0n (The Reverend), Tuesday, July 10, 2012 5:05 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Realized on some level: 17/18
Admitted to myself: Tentatively at 18 and then again at 21
Came out: 21, in the span of two weeks.

So. I'm with you, Rev. Mind you, by the time I came out two my 14 year old sister she had at least two (male) classmates who were already out, so...

I am of "the new dire homonormativity," but I love Bruce's viewpoint anyway.

http://www.vice.com/read/wondering-gays-misguided

I mean, since sex isn't part of the equation, I can only presume I've cultivated a gay identity in an effort to cultivate something, anything interesting within my white bread self, right?

When I was born John Lennon's "Whatever Gets You Through the Night," in neat portent, was #1.

*in a neat portent

I can only hope the Guide was being ironic in the latter instance, or when it declared, "The majority of gays have incredibly bad taste." ... in general, I think it’s probably more to the point that everyone has bad taste these days, with a few notable exceptions.

sure everyone has bad taste but in my neck of the woods at least, the majority of gays definitely have worse taste. it's like bad taste being funnelled/focused through the smaller population's feedback loop of trending

Probably Bruce's best "Wondering" so far, yeah xp

The New Dire Heteronormativity: GAY Winter 2012

Almost all of it is very OTM, but then ...

It’s a typically ageist, sophomoric attitude that suggests gays are only interested in sex with a simulacrum of themselves, that their gay elders couldn’t possibly have anything to offer in the way of experience, wisdom, or perspective, and that intergenerational sex is something akin to certain styles of torture. Hopefully my upcoming film Gerontophilia will help to dispel this tiresome partisanship.

Hopefully it does, BLaB, because pretty much every movie of yours I've seen up until this point (and regardless of level of quality otherwise) has pretty much reinforced the hotness as "not old, not fat, not particularly femme" archetype.

well, he's getting older.

(I hesitate to call it a movement anymore, considering how deeply entrenched it now seems to be in its assimilationist agenda)

Yeah, but it's been this way for 40 years, national politics and the passing of generations has just given it a political sheen, and the assimilation is now with the Boring Str8s rather than the Big Gay Ken Dolls. Or as Harvey Milk's friend said to him of mid '70s SF leathermen, "If they want to be liberate themselves, why do they all look alike?"

(Addressed in an earlier column: http://www.vice.com/read/wondering-gays-are-like-snowflakes)

I don't know what this Gerontophilia will be like, but it sounds like BLaB has a change of pace coming. Just in time for my dotage.

gold, btw:

“I’ve often thought about having sex with a dude, but then I meet someone like you”

Yeah, I LOL'd at that one.

I really don't think I'm a Kinsey 6. I wish it wasn't too late to start muching carpet, wimmins like me so much more than mens.

muNching, but u knew that.

no, I figured you meant mulching

Oh god there's an expiry date?

Sooner or later, everyone switches to hard wood.

I would only mulch if she asked for it.

This had BETTER be better than Harold and Maude:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bruce-labruces-gerontophilia-shoot-summer-canada-327671

Oh jeez, Eric, I forgot to nominate No Skin Off My Ass for best of the '90s.

Wow, he's only 48. Actually figured he was a little older.

Carpet munching overrated (by men)

no, that's me

xp

they’re boring, unadventurous, and parochial queens who think vaginas smell like fish.

wait, they DON'T? That's theoretically my favorite thing about them.

His columns (Blab for Exclaim!, Feelings for Eye) were always fantastic, too

I like sushi as much as the next guy, but ...

Now I'm thinking about seasoning a vagina

Oh, sorry to presumptively upgrade from 'lurker' to 'active' on this thread. I am computer-bound this month in a place that is not home

you're reminding us of the time you looked through the wrong end of a camera finder

New meaning to the word artichoke.

idgi @ alfred