BALST FROM THE PAST - 70s music videos

SEPTEMBER - Earth, Wind and Fire



DON'T LEAVE ME THIS WAY - Thelm Huston



HURTING EACH OTHER - The Carpenters



TOO MUCH TOO LITTLE TOO LATE - Johnny Matthis and Denise Williams





BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY - Queen

Queen |MTV Music

RANDOM THOUGHTS........

I wish Google Maps had an "Avoid Ghetto" routing option.

I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger.

There is a great need for sarcasm font.

I think everyone has a movie that they love so much, it actually becomes stressful to watch it with other people. I'll end up wasting 90 minutes shiftily glancing around to confirm that everyone's laughing at the right parts, then making sure I laugh just a little bit harder (and a millisecond earlier) to prove that I'm still the only one who really, really gets it.

I think part of a best friend's job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die.

The only time I look forward to a red light is when I’m trying to finish a text message.

I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.

How many times is it appropriate to say "What?" before you just nod and smile because you still didn't hear what they said?

I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars teams up to prevent a dick from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers!

MapQuest really needs to start their directions on #5. Pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.

Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.

I can't remember the last time I wasn't at least kind of tired.

Bad decisions make good stories

You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you've made up your mind that you just aren't doing anything productive for the rest of the day.

Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after DVDs? I don't want to have to restart my collection.

There's no worse feeling than that millisecond you're sure you are going to die after leaning your chair back a little too far.

"Do not machine wash or tumble dry" means I will never wash this ever.

I hate being the one with the remote in a room full of people watching TV. There's so much pressure. 'I love this show, but will they judge me if I keep it on? I bet everyone is wishing we weren't watching this. It's only a matter of time before they all get up and leave the room. Will we still be friends after this?'

I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello? Dammit!), but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and goes to voicemail. What'd you do after I didn't answer? Drop the phone and run away?

I hate leaving my house confident and looking good and then not seeing anyone of importance the entire day. What a waste.

I like all of the music in my iTunes, except when it's on shuffle, then I like about one in every fifteen songs in my iTunes.

Why is a school zone 20 mph? That seems like the optimal cruising speed for pedophiles...

Sometimes I'll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still not know what time it is.

I keep some people's phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.

Even under ideal conditions people have trouble locating their car keys in a pocket, hitting the G-spot, and Pinning the Tail on the Donkey - but I’d bet my ass everyone can find and push the Snooze button from 3 feet away, in about 1.7 seconds, eyes closed, first time every time...

I wonder if cops ever get pissed off at the fact that everyone they drive behind obeys the speed limit.

I think the freezer deserves a light as well.

ONE OF THE GAYEST MUSIC VIDEOS - EVER.

Hands down winner. A group of friends vacationing at the famous eastern seaboard gay hot spot - Fire Island - got together to pay tribute to the Miley Cyrus song 'Party in the USA'.

I thought I saw it all - until this...........*sigh*........setting the GLBT movement....oh, maybe, 100 YEARS......

POLITICAL CARTOONS

DOES SEX SELL?

Well, in an effort in to increase traffic to my blog site, I've decided to invest in a little trickery: one of the things you hear in marketing circles over and over again is the fact that "sex sells". So, if I write a short article on the importance of sex in marketing and use key words, maybe I'll get a few more hits?

So, does SEX SELL? I think - no, I know that it does, and so do most 'mad men' out there in the corporate world.

Take for example, everyday item used by women worldwide - the brazzaire and pantie. Stick it on a hanger or plain box, and it is referred to as "unmentionables". Stick it on a group of tall, busty, Amazon models parading down a runway under the blushing name of Victoria Secret and it becomes a totally different product that women crave to own.

Another example are everyday items such as shampoo or even a hamburger. Plain, in a bottle, on a shelf and necessary for proper hygiene, or greasy, soggy and wrapped in paper and very bad for your cholesterol. How can you distinguish yourself from hundreds of other competitors?

BUT...get a woman to seductively eat that burger as if she was....well...you know...eating MEAT, and it suddenly whets your appetite for a Hardees burger. OR, get another woman to have an orgasmic hair washing experience and you suddenly know the name of an obscure shampoo product (Herbal Essence).

Women are not the only ones being used to "get the juices going" - Diet Coke used a man for a famous 1994 ad campaign that got tongues...wagging. And sales of the product soared!

All in all - sex DOES sell, and maybe if I use and bold these words - SEX, BREASTS, ORGASM, ORAL, BUSTY, BUTT, PENIS, VAGINA, EJACULATE, BLOW JOB, CUM...wait, I'm wandering into another, even far more profitable area of marketing than the world has ever seen: PORN.

But that's a story for another day.....

(Thanx to The Daily Beast for the videos.)

I'M JUST SAYING......

"When Fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross” - Sinclair Lewis, 1930 Nobel laureate.

WHY NOT TO TEXT WHILE DRIVING....

Absolutely riveting for the wrong reasons.........

A shocking video has been made for pupils in the western part of the U.K. in an attempt to stop car crashes caused by the driver texting while driving.

The short film, starring young actors from south Wales, shows a teenage girl killing four people after she uses her mobile phone to send a text.

Gwent Police said it hoped the graphic video would be shown in schools around Wales and hopefully the rest of the UK.

Research has shown texting while driving slows reaction time by 35%.

Watch the film below but be forewarned - the images are very graphic.

SUNDAY NAUGHTIES

HERO OF THE DAY: Democrat Congressman Barney Frank - (MA)

This entire bru-ha-ha over healthcare reform has drawn the kooks out of the darkest reaches of the caves of ignorance they dwell to appear - and state - unintelligent rhetoric at town hall meetings being held at various locations all over the nation.

And although the references to Hitler and Nazi policies by right wing fanatics, brainwashed Republican masses and wing-nut members of the extreme left wing LaRouchePAC is not a laughing matter, openly gay and Jewish Rep Barney Frank of the great state of Massachusetts decided enough was enough and retaliated by rebuking a brain-dead young woman when she asked him why he supported Nazi policies.

I must admit that I didn't really like his initial, "what planet do you most of your time on..." remark in the beginning of his comments, it was the ending statement that had me HOWLING in approval!!!

"Trying to have a conversation with you is like trying to argue with a dining table; I have NO interest in doing it...!"

Barney Frank - you're my hero for the day!!!!

PRODUCT ENDORSEMENT: The Windshield Wonder

Okay, normally I don't believe most of the things I see hawked in infomercials but this one appealed to me because of the amount of driving I do weekly.

I am always frustrated at how many times my windshield got foggy due to humidity, trapped moisture from food, etc. and kept an old towel in the car to awkwardly clean a foggy front windscreen during rainstorms...that also got cloudy on hot, sticky days.

So seeing an advert on TV that basically showed a microfiber cloth on a stick as the solution to these issues had me as skeptical as I was hopeful. However, the low, low introductory price of $10 was tempting so I went online to Google the product to check the cost to ship the item - and stumbled across the fact that it was also available at my local Walgreens store!

I hurried to the store to get 'The Windshield Wonder' along with a few other items, and hurried back home to eagerly try it out. To my delight - the thing ACTUALLY WORKED AS EASILY AS ADVERTISED!!! Giggling with glee I cleaned the inside of my front windshield, then the driver's window, the passenger window and the rear passenger window - ALL WHILE SITTING IN THE DRIVER SEAT!!

The only flaw I found is that the 'Wonder' didn't do the corners of the door windows very well - but that was a minor flaw in an otherwise handy item.

Check your local Walgreen store to get this handy item, or visit their website at https://www.buywindshieldwonder.com.

POLITICAL CARTOONS

NO, NO, NO - DON'T DO ANYTHING. STOP. SIT. WAIT. YOU HAVE NO SAY IN THIS, DO YOU?

I mean, this entire town-hall debacle on healthcare is only for right-wing Republican “birther” buffoons, gray-haired senior citizens with time on their hands, and gun-toting NRA members, right?

Why should any of us get involved or take action?!

After all – we all know that Washington is full of politicians that are either out for themselves, or so crooked and corrupt that nothing we do or say will get their attention.

Right?

WRONG.

Do NOT be fooled into thinking that this issue is just a circus show for you to watch on TV and political talk shows while awaiting the outcome. Healthcare reform is a serious topic that affects all Americans, and has mushroomed into a battle-royal between ordinary, hard-working American citizens and the gluttonous denizens in the corporate world.

Now don’t get me wrong: I – like many Americans – cherish the basics of capitalism that drive our economy: competition between businesses and organizations to provide quality products to the consumer at a fair price.

But in this global market over-crowded with insatiable up-and-coming “every-man-for-yourself” greedy pigs armed with singular, ladder-climbing corporate interests only see a few selective words - competition between businesses and organizations at a price – and ignored the remaining tenant of this honest principle. These soulless creatures view the consumer as an unlimited resource for wealth, and seek obscene profits regardless of the cost – human lives or otherwise.

(For example, can anyone say “the Iraqi War”, Halliburton and Richard ‘Dick’ Cheney? But I digress…….)

Health insurance companies - initially set up by privatization to oversee and control the escalating costs of the healthcare industry through fair market competition – have taken the term GREEDY CAPITALIST PIGS to a new level. Since 2001 to 2007 the profits of the health insurance industry has increased by 400% with executives and CEOs making salaries that are 200 times greater than most in the working class...while the income of the middle class society has remained stagnant and/or contracted over the past 20 years.

Now, in a knee jerk reaction stemming from fear of losing control of their lucrative cash-cow system, the health insurance companies are funding the organizing of these so-called “protest groups” whose sole purpose is to disrupt any rational discussion on healthcare reform that may actually benefit the consumer instead of the corporation They are stoking the fear and insecurities of the weak and ignorant-all for the purpose of keeping them in the wealth and lifestyle to which they’ve become accustomed.

And they are using the illegitimate whore of capitalism as their mouthpiece: the Republican Party. After all, all that’s left of the Republican Party are….well…..”birthers”, deathers” and racists – and for ANY price they are the most easily manipulated minds – an important element in a propaganda campaign.

YOU CAN DO SOMETHING – AND YOU SHOULD.

Healthcare reform affects you: you who are insured and you who are not insured. You who are insured may think you have a great plan while you’re healthy – but God forbid you have a serious illness such as cancer, a serious organ condition, any major life-threatening injury – and you will see exactly how great your insurance really is. Medical crisis is now the leading factor in bankruptcy cases over the past 15 years.

So, sit there. Do nothing. This will “take care of itself”, or “has nothing to do with me” ……..

…until you’re faced with a life-threatening crisis. And while you’re sitting in the emergency room waiting the average 8 hours or more to see a doctor you may think to yourself, “maybe I should have done something….”

Like contacting your congressperson and letting them know how you feel about the issue: go to this link https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml , select you state and zip code to locate who your elected representative is. Then shoot them a quick and concise note telling them exactly how you feel about the issue of health care reform.

Or visit the local office of your congressional representative to speak with someone about your concerns. Go to http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW.shtml to locate your district representative’s local office and make a visit – you may be surprised at the sense of accomplishment you feel after!

Or you could just do nothing.

NO, NO, NO - DON'T DO ANYTHING. STOP. SIT. WAIT. YOU HAVE NO SAY IN THIS, DO YOU?

OMG!! OMG!!! OMG!!! The new season of 'GREEK" starts this month!!!!

Could it be?! Did I hear right?!

Nah, it's too soon........

Could it be?!

YES!!!! An all new season my favorite teen angst drama GREEK premieres on Monday August 31st at 9 pm EDTon ABC Family - A New Kind of Family!

URGENT FIVE-QUEEN ALARM NOTICE!!!!!

Clutch the pearls and start the count-down: the most important television event for gay viewers (and, okay, maybe some women) comes to a new home: Season 6 of the Emmy nominated show PROJECT RUNWAY premieres on Lifetime TV - Television for Women (and gay men!).

Season 6 of Project Runway airs on Lifetime after a delay during which producers The Weinstein Company fought in the courts for the freedom to switch from airing their show on the NBC offshoot Bravo TV, to the more lucrative Lifetime TV.

Will the success of the show survive the channel switch? Will loyal viewers - who crave to hear mentor Tim Gunn tell the constestants, "Make it work!", and long to hear host Heidi Klum tell the unsuccessful, 'you are OUT!"?

Only time will tell.

Tune in Thursday August 20th to Lifetime for the premiere of Season 6 of the much awaited "Project Runway"!

WHY NOT GIVE THOSE AGAINST PUBLIC HEALTHCARE OPTIONS OR REFORM WHAT THEY WANT?

They don't want public health-care or any health-care reform? Then get rid of Medicare and Medicaid.

While we're at it - let's just get rid of any public assistance whatsoever - I mean government is inept at overseeing anything - right?

So, let's stop Social Security payments - I mean it's bankrupting the budget.......

And to cut more costs and fully follow the capitalist way - let's stop organizing and funding with taxpayer's money the army, the navy and the air force.

Let's get rid of maintaining and installing any infrastructure such as roads, road lighting system, emergency services, the National Guard, etc.

Heck, why not dissolve the freakin' United States of America?! I mean, the union seems to be overrun by buffons, dim-witted presidents and supreme court judges who took advantage of affirmative action laws to get where they are, and tree-hugging liberals who believe in silly things such as science and global warming.

LET'S JUST DO ALL OF THE ABOVE and plunge this country into a dark, backward, ignorant society who only cling to the flag while saying a prayer to keep good white folks in power.

There.

Now those who oppose public health-care or any health-care will feel at home.

Right at home in the backwoods of society as the rest of the world advance past us.

I mean - this whole super-power title is just that: a title.

And we lost THAT competition on January 20, 2001.

LATE THURSDAY NIGHT HOT MEN

My future Russian husband - Antov Antipov.......