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Letterman Does Yankees
A few Dave Letterman jokes about you-know-who, taken from the MLB site: “Long season, brutal season, 162 games, 40 or 50 playoff games, and then the best of 30 in the World Series. Finally, now, they get a well-deserved rest, and then on Monda...
Poets in the White House
You wanna see some fantastic poetry/spoken word/rap, head on over to Poets.org for a White House event from last May. From the PR email: President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama hosted students from American, Gallaudet, Georgetown, and Howard U...
Sugar Daddy / Sugar Baby
In our ailing economy, even Hugh Hefner is plagued by financial troubles, on top of which he’s also juggling romantic problems, perhaps for the first time in his 80-something years. The combination of the two put Hef into the news spotlight recen...
Roman Polanski
ROMAN POLANSKI: Wanted and Desired A documentary film by Marina Zenovich 2008 I wonder if the people who’ve been calling for Roman Polanski’s head—and his body, back here in the USA—know all the confusing details of the case? I suspect not; ...
Go, Dave!
He didn’t try to redefine the English language. He didn’t clear his throat and look down at his shoes, ashamed. He didn’t force his wife to walk out onto the stage and hold his hand while he confessed his sins. And he didn’t p...
Will You Take Me As I Am: Book Review
Will You Take Me As I Am: Joni Mitchell’s Blue Period, by Michelle Mercer After enjoying Girls Like Us so much, I began looking around for other books about the most interesting of its three subjects, Joni Mitchell. Lucky for me, bios of Joni seem...
Like a Rolling Stone
Complete Unknowns? In unrelated but similar incidents, a trio of cultural luminaries were recently prevailed upon by authorities to prove their identities and explain their activities. The circumstances of the first event, involving Harvard profes...
A Haunted Baby Sister
I don’t know much more about Eunice Kennedy Shriver than what the general public knows, but the fact that she worked tirelessly on behalf of people with mental disabilities, and had a sister who was believed to be mentally challenged, tells me a gr...
Maria Shriver’s Conference
Do you know that Maria Shriver, the First Lady of California, holds a women’s conference every year? For two days in October a gang of high-profile, accomplished women come together in a pristine section of the California coast to meet, greet, ...
Liz Stayed Home…
…and who can blame her? She tweeted that she didn’t want to be part of “the whoopla” of Michael Jackson’s memorial, that her grief was a private thing between her and Michael, not to be shared with strangers. I’ve ...
Cagney & the Dykes
I feel like the Dean of Students at freshman orientation. Every couple of years when I venture into SF Lesbian Nation, I’m older but the girls aren’t. The older ones have moved across the bridge and are busily raising babies, so I seldom run ...
He Thrilled The World
It makes no sense to blog about anything today other than Michael Jackson—or even to talk or try to think about anything else, except perhaps an obligatory prayer for Farah Fawcett. If I blogged about anything else today, nobody would bother readin...
Ed McMahon: Being No. 2
The death of Ed McMahon got me thinking about people who play sidekick, or give behind-the-scenes support, or are in one way or another a prop for The Big Cheese. McMahon was probably the most well-known Number Two in show biz, having hooked up with ...
Jon and Kate Plus 8
If I’d asked a random sampling of people as recently as a month ago if they’d ever watched Jon & Kate Plus 8, they’d stare at me blankly – but that was BT, Before Tabloids. BT, Jon & Kate Plus 8 was a half-hour weekly reality show on ...
Girls Like Us
Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon, and the Journey of a Generation By Sheila Weller “When woven together, the strands of their three separate lives, identities and songs tell the rich composite story of a whole generation of wo...
