whats it all about? i dont give a crap!

Thursday, July 31, 2008

How excited am I getting about this year's V Festival?? Just 2 weeks to go now and the line up just keeps getting better and better, I am hoping to see - Alanis Morrisette, Alphabeat, Amy Winehouse (well it's a novelty!) The Charlatans, Delays, Duffy, Estelle, The Feeling, Girls Aloud, The Hoosiers, Hot Chip, Kaiser Chiefs, Kings of Leon, The Kooks, Maximo Park, Muse, Lenny Kravitz, Newton Faulkner, The Pigeon Detectives, Robyn, Sam Sparro, Scouting for Girls, Shed Seven, Stereophonics, Sugababes, Travis, The Verve, The View, The Guillemots, Sia, Will Young, Little Man Tate and Tom Baxter! Phew I am going to be one busy, drunk boy. Also if the Sugababes are performing it may well mean that Dave Berry will be there - let the stalking and dribbling commence.

Last night I went out to celebrate my lovely friend Clare's birthday, a whole bunch of us went to a nice pizza place between Finsbury Park and Crouch End, had a really nice evening catching up, Oliver and I had bought her the 3rd series of Grey's Anatomy which I am hoping is viewed quickly as I am dying to get my grubby paws on it. On the subject of Grey's here is a lovely pic of the gay boy from the shoe T.R Knight with his best female mate from the show Katherine Heigl - quick question though - what is going on with her breast's??



This week is decidedly dull in the world of celebrity I'm afraid, however, last night Oliver lent me a copy of the book Madonna's brother has written about her and I am sure it will not take me long to read it so there should be some serious gossip coming from that very soon!

xx

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

For the first time in a long time, I have been managing to sleep well lately, the sun blasting through my windows does not even stir me. This week in particular I have been waking up feeling all refreshed, partly due to the promise of beautiful weather but also due to the man who has been waking me up each morning and putting a big smile on my face....sadly he is on the radio and not in my bed or making me breakfast. This week on X fm, regular breakfast DJ Alex Zane is on holiday so his mate Dave Berry (MTV host and boyfriend of the blonde one out of the sugababes) has taken over, he is a proper sarf london geezer and his voice just sets me up for the day ahead. I also think he is quite pleasing to the eye.




Well this weekend is Brighton Pride and fingers crossed for marvellous weather but the forecast is for light showers - boo!! I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with Brighton - I do usually have a great time at Pride but my memory of how I feel afterwards is the one that sticks - I am hoping to be a good boy this year and make my way back to London towards the end of the day but time, lager and the popstarz tent will tell.

It's too hot to type!!

xx

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Well here's to you Iris Robinson, Jesus loves you more than us homo's - oh oh oh

For those of you not regularly checking the gay news, Iris Robinson is a Northern Ireland Unionist Politician, she is married to first minister Peter Robinson and has been in the news over the last few months for opening her mouth (that frankly could fit a kebab in sideways) and blurting out verbal crap on god and the gays!!



It all started last month following a homophobic attack on a gay man in the area, Mrs Robinson was a guest on BBC Radio Ulster, while condemning the attack she said "I have a very lovely psychiatrist who works with me in my offices and his Christian background is that he tries to help homosexuals - trying to turn away from what they are engaged in" she went onto say "I'm happy to put any homosexual in touch with this gentleman and I have met people who have turned around and become heterosexuals." Mrs Robinson claimed that homosexuality was an "abomination" and it made her feel "sick" and "nauseous". In a subsequent interview following criticism of her comments, Mrs Robinson defended her views and denied prejudice against homosexuals, saying that "just as a murderer can be redeemed by the blood of Christ, so can a homosexual.... If anyone takes issue, they're taking issue with the word of God."

Just when you thought that was enough... On 17th June speaking in a Northern Ireland Grand Committee session on "Risk Assessment and Management of Sex Offenders", Mrs Robinson asserted that “There can be no viler act, apart from homosexuality and sodomy, than sexually abusing innocent children”

I know I should not let such out of touch madness get to me but the fact is this "woman" is an elected member of parliament and is spouting this rubbish in an area of the world where religion plays a major part. She goes on record and condemns a homophobic attack when her words of hate could have been used as the reason for the attack in the first place.

Thankfully she is now under investigation for hate crime by the police following these statements.

Onto winehouse watch - she is now out of hospital after apparently accidentally mixing up her medication. Here she is (oh no wait a minute you can barely see her but media whore Max Clifford oops sorry Mitch Winehouse is in shot along with WPC oompa loompa who is either communicating with the enterprise or preparing to give Amy's dad a blowie jo!!




In happy jumpy up and down news - I bought the new Cyndi Lauper album and the new Black Kids album recently and they are both perfect summer records, Cyndi's is the gayest album ever and Black Kids is perfect for the build up to summer festivals





xx

Monday, July 28, 2008

We wanna play in the sunshine
We wanna be free
Without the help of a Margarita or Exstacy
We wanna kick like we used 2
Sign up on the dotted line
We gonna dance every dance
Like it's gonna be the last time

What a lush weekend!! The weather has been a-m-azing and I have been making the most of it. Friday night I went for beers with lovely work people and got well and truly hammered, Can't remember getting home but I woke up with the lights still on which is never a good sign. Saturday morning I managed to wake up damn early and popped into town to buy a few new clothes before heading home, getting changed and dashing to the South Bank to meet the lovely Paul and his equally lovely boyfriend Steve for lunch and a gossip and then headed over to South Ealing to meet Oliver as it was the gay bar "West 5's" 10th Birthday and they had a bit of a street party thang going on, More drinking and dancing followed, the night is all a bit of a blur - the only thing I can clearly remember is having my drink stolen but thankfully I had my wits about me and simply stole it back.

I woke up yesterday feeling rough as arsehole's so made my way home and just crawled up into a ball on my bed and prayed for a happy time but it was so frikkin hot!! I got up showered and met Pete in Angel for a few beers and more importantly food!!! After a good catch up and a regrettable trip to a hideous gay bar in Angel (kinda reminded us of that bar in Star Wars! full to bursting with freaks) I went home and did a big bowl of noodles with loads of vegetables and watched a few really old episodes of Friends before crashing out.

Well it was the last G-A-Y night at the Astoria on saturday and although I didn't go I had my spies out for me doing my evil work. The whole evening was riddled with rumours that Kylie Minogue was going to pop along after her o2 arena show to ssing a few tunes but alas she never showed. They had quite a few acts on but apparently those ungrateful queens were booing quite a bit. What a bunch of bitches, they only paid £12 to get in and there were loads of acts playing including McFly, The Feeling, Texas and Dannii Minogue - ok I know those acts are not to everyone's tastes but its not a bad deal.

I am slightly concerned about Madonna , recent pictures show her looking really gaunt and almost lifeless - I know she is going through gruelling tour rehearsals, endless divorce rumours and is probably not too happy about the release of her brother's book, Just slow it down a bit girl, your 50th birthday is just a few weeks away!



is that the last orders bell i hear????



xx

Friday, July 25, 2008

Well it's friday, the sun is kinda sorta out and all is lovely.

Anyone who even slightly knows me will know that I am a magazine freak, everyone who comes to my house cannot seem to resist the pile of Q, Empire, Gay Times, Heat, OK! and Attitude. I have always had a love affair witrh Attitude magazine and the latest issue (which i cant find anywhere) has already got me dribbling, mainly for this reason




Steve Jones, he may be annoying but look at that lovely lovely hairy chest, If i was not gay before...

Facebook is so harsh sometimes, I thankfully am not one of those people that just randomly adds friends because they request it however, I do have some friends on facebook that I have not seen for a long time, My heart does a little boo when i see that someone has gone from "being in a relationship" to "single" especially since Facebook puts a little broken heart next to this. Is that really necessary? Is going from one to the other a sign that your heart has been broken, maybe the guy/girl was a total twat and it's actually a really great thing that the person is free from such binding. There does seem to be a lot of new found pressure in getting into a relationship and changing your facebook listing. Is this what it has come down to? No love, no romance just a click of a mouse to tell people that you have not seen for 10 years that you have succeeded, that you are someone, that you, yes you are in a RELATIONSHIP.

It's all quite exhausting and even though I have said many times on this blog that being in a relationship is something I would quiet like, I think I would prefer to do it the old fashioned way. An ex of mine pulled a guy in a nightclub, took him home, slept with him and in the morning changed his relationship status, I could almost hear his profile pulling faces and blowing raspberries at me. Pathetic much?? I don't even know what a relationship is, I dont think any of us do because until you are in one you just don't know how it will go and surely the healthiest relationship is one you define with your partner, its about trust, compromise, honesty, communication and affection. Meeting that "special someone" is a great thing, someone that you click with, someone that makes you smile, someone that looks at you with enthusiastic eyes and makes your stomach turn with a spectrum of feelings. I am very lucky to have felt this way before and I hope to feel that way again but for now I am just going to focus on me - Pippy is now listed as single ....and that's fine.

Have a really great weekend

xx

Thursday, July 24, 2008

There is a documentary tonight on BBC1 featuring John Barrowman called "The Making of Me" - where he asks many specialists and medical types the quesion "why am i gay?" - you could shorten that down really I always find myself looking at John Barrowman and simply asking "why?"

why are you a twat?

why do you have the same exaggerated laugh as Tom Cruise?

why are you obsessed with carry on style humour?

why do you never shut up about the size of your penis?

why do you repeat words 3 times?

why? why? why?

hey hey you blog reading fuckers

I am back!!! After a little week time off for my random blatherings I am back and feeling quite feisty. I was away for a few days in Sheffield having a mixture of reunions and family time. Primarily I was there for my dad's 6oth birthday which was a rather sedate affair but lovely to catch up with the folks and my bro!!

I also managed to squeeze in 2 facebook reunions - one with my mate sam, fellow squat dweller who I have not seen for 10 years, she now has a 10 year old son - coincidence?? no, the boy is not mine, we never did the jiggy jiggy, unles that is a dance move, in which case we probably did. She was all smiles and sushine. The next was my old school friend Kirtstie who has shrunk but still has the same zest for life and a laugh that sounds like a wet wank.

No trip to Sheffield would be complete without seeing my bitches and they came up trumps, treating me to a grand friday night out at the Sheffield Uni gay night, I don't remember much of it apart from running around in a tutu and writing really offensive comments on people's arms in day glo pen. Thanks to Dan, Danny and Adam and big love to Matt who has had major face operations going on, bless him, normal service shall be resumed shortly - can't keep a willy out of that mouth for long!!

Back in the real world and by that I mean the celebrity world - more on Madonna's brother and THAT book - I have yet to read it but The Guardian came up with an interesting piece -

"I had hoped this book might go some way to answering that eternal question no one has ever asked, "What is it really like to be Madonna's brother?" But as I've got no sense of self and even less insight, that's totally beyond me. So I've settled for bitching about that mediocre diva whom I adore really.
The Lanesborough Hotel, 1993: The Girlie Show, for which I choreographed the Hokey Cokey, opens tonight and we need to meditate. We. The royal we. Madonna and me. She, the world's biggest superstar. And me, her much more talented brother. I wake her. "Flush the toilet for me," Madonna snaps as I spoon-feed her some macrobiotic seaweed. "Shall I lick it clean as well?" I ask, sensing her need and relishing my importance to her.

We leave for Wembley in two cars. Our egos can't fit into one. She takes a stretch limo, while I follow in a Reliant Robin. She comes off stage to the screams of 25 million adoring fans and I wring the sweat out of her thong. "Where would I be without you?" she yells, as she leaves by helicopter. "See you in Paris. Get yourself an off-peak Eurostar ticket."

We are just two of eight Ciccone kids, who grew up in Michigan. But who wants to hear about those other six losers? You want to know all about Madge and little old me. Well, just Madge really, but it's my book, so tough. Madonna begs me to join her in New York. "I really need you," she pleads. "You can stay in a homeless shelter." She has no idea I have given up a well-paid job on the checkout at Wal-Mart to be one of her backing dancers, but she's my sister and I know how difficult she finds it to exist without me, so I bite my tongue.

I am not oblivious to my sister's many shortcomings at this time. I know she uses people and then drops them, I know she is self-centred, but I forgive her for all this. I don't have a lot of choice. The moment I confront her, the gravy train stops.

"You're fired," Madonna says to me one morning in 1994. "But you can't do that," I squeal. "I'm devoted to you." "Well, I guess I'm just a capricious control freak who enjoys abusing her staff," she says. "OK," I reply. "I'll take a 95% pay cut and work for $10 a week."

Over the next few years, our fame becomes awesome. Everywhere we go, people shout, "Madonna" and "Who the fuck are you?" We are inseparable, though I choose not to tell her that I think all of her movies are utter crap and that her music is derivative dross, because I know she finds it hard to take criticism and it would be needlessly destructive of me to do so. And, besides, it would also require me to be honest.

The deaths of Princess Diana and Gianni Versace bring us close together in 1997. When we hear the news, we both have the same two thoughts. How come these nobodies are getting all the attention and how come we're not important enough to be assassinated? By now I have an international reputation as an interior designer - after Madonna asks me to buy a sofa from DFS for one of her 97 houses - and I count many celebrities as my close friends.

"We adore you, Christopher," say Sting, Trudie, Demi, Warren and Donatella. "We think you're absolutely brilliant and we'd definitely be your best friends even if you weren't Madonna's brother."

My relationship with Madonna takes a turn for the worse when she marries the fat phoney, because Guy can't deal with the fact that he really fancies me. Tough titties, Guy! I've got my boyfriend Danny.

She fires me 19 times more and each time I apologise and promise to go to Kabbalah, but when she refuses to reimburse me for the Athena print I bought for her London home, I've finally had enough. So now, I sit alone in my bedsit, bitter, yet content, praying for the moment Madonna's career hits the skids and her kids end up in therapy. Just like me"

Also in celeb world Kerry Katona is still fat and farting, Michelle Heaton (Ex Liberty X) is a whore and Matt Willis (Ex Busted) has had a shock wedding, in the fact he has married a woman!! His best man was David Gest, so last weeks OK! magazine looked like a really shit gay pride.

Now news that made me cry into my cheesecake - the legend that is Estelle Getty (aka Sophia Petrillo of The Golden Girls) passed away on tuesday at the age of 84. I love love love the Golden Girls and she was just amazing in it and she wasn't even the eldest!! She had been battling with illness for a long time - R.I.P Honey.




Right, I am off, That cabana boy from Pensacola won't sponge wash himself will he?

xx

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Warning!! For the next few months this blog is going to go slightly Madonna crazy, like even more than it is now - not only has her "je suis fatty gay" brother blabbed all about her in a trashy book but she is roaming the streets of New York with her family in tow to put out the message that all is well in the Ritchie household.....erm I beg to differ though - who the fuck put her son in a pair of crocs?? I would rather do a shit on my feet than wear those things! Oh and there is the small matter of her new single "Give it to me" out this week and her world tour starting next month.




Amy Winehouse's media whore dad has said that if anyone gives her drugs or even a single cigarette she could do serious damage to her health so if you see Amy down Camden just remember one thing - hugs not drugs!! Here she is yesterday at her lawyer's office obviously taking her dad's advice.



Here is a picture of Jason Statham, he has not done anything of interest lately but would you just look at him! hot damn!




I wish the media would stop putting the words paedophille and gay together! 2 policemen who happen to be in a gay relationship have gone on trial accused of keeping child porn under their bed. Let's get this reporting right shall we, these guys, if convicted are paedophilles, the fact that they are gay has no impact whatsoever. Paedophillia is not a sexuality and the majority of child porn cases and child abuse cases involve heterosexual men with families. I often deliver training on raising awareness of gay issues and the "link" between gay sexuality and child abuse comes up regularly - It is not something I want to talk about but thanks to the media's unnecessary focus I find myself explaining the difference all the time.

I am off to the University of Sheffield's gay night on friday but beforehand the gay bar "The Lion's Lair" is hosting a Blackout party, basically all the lights will be turned off and people will have glow sticks and glow body paint to find their way around - all seems rather strange and slightly unsettling - firstly half the guys in Sheffield wear so much fake "orange" tan that you would have no trouble finding them in a nuclear wipe out and secondly you could actually get off with one of the orange mullet wielding freak shows without even knowing it!! eeeewwwwww!!! Imagine the pippy horror when the lights come back on and this is staring back at you saying "alright love, dya wanna come back to me maisonette ont manor estate or what?



TAXI!!!!

xx

Monday, July 14, 2008

Oh Brother!

As I mentioned last week Madonna's gay boy brother has written a book all about his sister, I will probably by this when I get paid this month just to see what it's like but I guess you have to take this stuff with a pinch of salt. Madonna's brother Christopher has started his promo tour today with an appearance on "Good Morning America" and I have to ask - has he written a book about Madonna or eaten a book about Madonna? I remember Christopher from the documentary "In bed with Madonna" and he was quite fit but now he has all kinds of gravity going on!




Anyway the book promises to have revelations about Madonna and her relationships with Sean Penn, JFK Jnr, Warren Beatty and Guy Ritchie. It's out tomorrow people!!

xx

Well pop pickers, Pippy is back in London after a weekend in Manchester seeing the rather marvellous Kylie Minogue - She was performing her X tour at the Manchester Evening News Arena and I have to say I was mighty impressed. I went now knowing what to expect but thinking that she would probably rely quite heavily on songs from her latest album, which indeed she did but there were a few classics thrown in. I have to say though the real star of the show is the stage, It is immense, like a massiv TV screen that covers the back and the floor of the stage, the effect was amazing and really blew me away. Girlfriend has still got it and I am quite happy that it was not a total Madonna rip off - very original and just goes to show that Kylie still has a lot of life left in her yet.





Well how much do I love it when facebook turns into a soap opera? I was checking yesterday and a rather distant friend of mine from school who married another guy from school and had a few kids has updated her status to say that she is 31 weeks pregnant and has been cheated on by her husband and her so called friend and has just got out of hospital with pneumonia!!! Now I know it's got to be awful for her but it is strangely entertaining for me. I shall keep you posted on any more news. In other facebook news my friend who uses "LOL" after everything really needs to be told "Jo has an awful hangover LOL!" - when was the last frikkin time you had an awful hangover and laughed out loud about it? What a load of old twaddle!

Sienna Miller stinks of slut doesn't she?? She only just split up with fugly actor Rhys Ifans and now she has been pictured on holiday having a cheeky snog with Balthazar Getty, an actor who is married with 4 kids! She is really not that attractive in my book and I have yet to see her act well so what's the point?




I am only at work for 3 days this week - woo hoo!!! It's my dad's 60th birthday at the weekend so I am heading up to Sheffield to celebrate with him and am making a long weekend of it so I can see my girls and also have a couple of reunions with people I have not seen for a very long time, thanks again to the joys of facebook. These include my friend Sam who I have not seen for over 10 years, we used to live in a squat together in Sheffield (yes my life has been a bit random at times), She is now settled with a partner and kids so it will be lovely to catch up with her and also my friend Kirstie who I have know since I was a very little boy, we kinda lost touch about 8 years ago but have been messaging on facebook and getting on really well so it will be excellent to catch up.

Enjoy the sun whilst it lasts

xx

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Church Vs State

So Islington marriage registrar Lillian Ladele won her employment tribunal against Islington Council. Basically Lillian has refused to perform same sex civil partnerships ever since they were introduced stating that it was against her christian faith. This is a very disturbing ruling and could potentially lead to people with strong religious convictions being able to opt out of provision of services for gays, lesbians and bisexuals. Also I hate to be picky but if this woman has such religious convictions then she really should not be performing Civil Union's between men and women as these are not blessed by the church, only the state. She is working for the state, if she does not like it she could find a more suitable position. Islington Council are appealing the decision. The Bible should not go above and beyond English Law!

Girl you have taken the piss for long enough.

I have tried to stand by Amy Winehouse for quite some time now but I am sad to say that enough is enough. I am so bored of hearing about her staggering round Camden pissed, kicking the shit out of fans and photographers, banging on about her banged up husband and boomeranging her way in and out of rehab. Her live performances recently have left a lot to be desired, If she truly cared about herfans and herself, she would listen to ALL the people telling you to get help. I know she is young and has been propelled into the harsh and unforgiving world of fame at a very speedy rate but her talent is not under question, she is one of the finest singers this country has produced in a long time but as a fan I am losing patience. The latest story of her visiting her husband in jail and whacking her tits out and pressing them against the glass screen had me spewing my ring up earlier - Ican forgive Amy but I can never forget.



Crazy got himself some wheels! Michael Jackson has been spotted shopping in Las Vegas in another of his cunning disguises, I thought the point of a disguise weas to blend into the background and go unnoticed. I am just glad I aint fighting a war with him by my side, that camouflage would get our heads blown off - I bet shopper's didn't even make a fuss, they probably just tutted and said "oh here she is again with her unnecessarily long haired kids"





So Madonna's gay brother Christopher has written a tell all book about his sister, As a committed and loyal fan I would love to say that I will have nothing to do with this scandalous money grabbing publication but screw that - momma needs the gossip!!! Bring on the Ciccone bitch fest!! Apparently Christopher blames Guy Ritchie for the breakdown of his close relationship with his sister. I actually believe there may be truth in that, He has been known to make homophobic comments in the past, He better watch himself it's us gays that will probably have [aid for his lifestyle for the last few years....it's not like his film career has been doing anything.



I feel slightly isolated....Am I the only person that has not seen the Heinz advert that is causing a bit of a storm at the moment? Well I say I haven't seen it, I have watch it at work without volume so actually have no idea what is going on but yet again a kiss between 2 men that lasts all of 1 second has been banned because a grand total of 200 people complained. How many people have signed a petition to get the advert back on the air? 14,000 - sort it out you deluded, frigid arseholes, it's the year 2008.



Well the date has been announced and G-A-Y at the Astoria is having it's final night on Saturday 26th July but all is not lost as a new night is taking over - it's called omo and starts on Friday 1st August. The future of G-A-Y is not clear at the moment but I am sure it will be back because despite ramming my heel into his adam's apple - Jeremy Joseph can't be kept down for long sadly.

xx

Hello!!

Just a quickie today as I am rushed off my feet, my aching feet!!! Yes it was London Gay Pride on Saturday and what a fabulous day it was, I have to admit I usually find Pride to be a rather tedious affair but the sun was blazing on Saturday and the crowds were out in force. It was such a good atmosphere! I somehow managed to not have an alcoholic drink until gone 4pm!! by which point I was spitting feathers, had a few beers with work people and then headed off to find more people, eventually found Pete, Kaz and Tolu in Ku Bar which was playing fab chart tunes and we danced it up a treat but hunger was calling me so we ventured to subway and then headed back to Pete's for more drinks and merry times. I have decided that next year I am going to really go for it outfit wise at Pride - I may even start planning already. I obviously see glitter being involved which is a bit silly really as I am still scraping the stuff out of my snatch as I type.

Sunday I managed to drag my weary legs out of bed for the o2 wireless festival in Hyde Park. Met up with Clare and had a few beers around Marble Arch, the weather was pretty miserable and I don't really do rain and mud but we managed to see a few good acts, the main reason for going was to see the headline act, one of my favourite bands - The Counting Crows. They have just released their first album in 6 years and they were on top form. My heart almost stopped when they played my all time fave track "Colourblind" - absolutely beautiful!!

xx

Friday, July 04, 2008

Almost forgot to inform you all - Mica Paris is a twat!




Yes that late 80's soulstress/what not to wear host (she has a fine nerve presenting that show, she looks like a builder in a dress!!)

She was interviewed for the July issue of "Gay Times" by the out gay rapper Q-Boy and one quote taken from a section of the interview on offensive, hate inciting lyrics from jamaican ragga artists towards gay people

"All cultures and art forms evolve. If gay people would just chill the fuck out and wait then there will be a time when they won't be talking about homophobia"

Well thanks for that insight Mica, She is basically saying that the UK never had a black rights movement and racism barely exists in this country anymore and so eventually neither will homophobia.

The point is Mica darling, that Jamaican artists are not saying that they just want to burn the batty boys in the UK, they are not that specific. Imagine if during Martin Luther King's speech, he was saying "I have a dream" and somequeen at the front said "Oh Dr.King will you just chill the fuck out and wait!"

Yeah Mica everything will be fine, I am going to sit on my hands and wait for things to get better, that's probably the best way to make change. I am also going to sit on my hands til you have another hit....i will die sat on my hands.

All this being said I do have to also say that life could be a lot worse these days, many laws and legislation has been changed to ensure equality for LGBT people and yet the chief executive of Stonewall (the gay lobbying group) did a speech at the Mayor's Pride reception this week that delved into new areas of depression. Making LGBT people sound like we run home crying every night being chased by people with sticks! There campaign that was launched last year should really be turned on themselves - "Stonewall....Some people are gay and now you need to get over it!"


xx

Trans Fabulous!!!!!!

Good news on the Trans front, You may remember me mentioning transgender man Thomas Beatie a few months ago, The world's first pregnant man - well he has given birth to a baby girl at a hospital in Oregon.

Now onto one hell of a crazy and really annoying story - after my holiday in America I am now in the poor house big time so it really makes me slightly vicious when I hear about mad old bags giving all their cash away in the most stupid way possible. In August last year a woman called Leona Helmsley died in New York, she was a billionaire hotel operater and real estate invester, She has left $12 Million to her skanky yappy type dog called Trouble and has left a further $8 Billion to benefit dogs, Now i am ok with dogs but what are they going to spend their cash on? how much are chew toys these days? could that money have been spent better elsewhere like Africa or my bank account? stupid old bitch, I know it's bad to speak ill of the dead but puuurrrllleeaaase!!!



Well it's friday so let's get even hotter with a gratuitous picture of David Beckham in his pants.



Ah that's better!

I cannot stop listening to the new Coldplay album "Viva La Vida" - there is not one bad song on the album and it marks a big change in direction for the band. My darling mother who has quite amazing taste in music sent me a copy of the album and also a dvd copy of their recent show at BBC Television Centre which I have to say is one of the best shows I have seen them do.

Well tomorrow is London Gay Pride and I shall be doing the parade and then drinking quite a substantial amount of alcohol in Soho probably although I can't go crazy due to the fact that on sunday I am off to Hyde Park for the o2 wireless festival headlined by one of my favourite bands - The Counting Crows.

So if you are heading to pride tomorrow, have a fantastic day!!

xx

Wednesday, July 02, 2008

watch out, the bitch is back on the block!!

yes chums I am back from America after having one of the most amazing holidays ever! New York was immense and very overwhelming - we did it all though, central park, statue of liberty, rockerfeller centre, times square....too much to mention. I am just going to cover some of the highlights and humorous goings on.

One really bizarre thing happened when Oliver and I went to the Stonewall Inn in the west village. I got stopped outside by some guy with a microphone who was collecting soundbites for a gay website that he runs, he wanted to know my opinion on the recent study that stated that gay men's brains are similar to straight women's brains, he wanted to know if I had any particularly feminine qualities - how dare he!!! actually I had just spent the whole day shopping so I guess that counts and my love for "Sex and the City" cannot exactly be described as macho. He then asked me if I thought straight men would ever catch up with gay men in terms of style and flair. I said that they already were with the David Beckham factor, I finished by saying that straight men could never have it all as the gays get to have sex with men.

We also managed to get tickets for a Broadway show, We went to see a matinee performance of a play called "November" starring the amazing Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf who is probably best known for playing "jackie" in the sitcom "Roseanne. The play by David Mamet follows the days leading up to the presidential election, Lane plays the shady president Charles Smith and Laurie Metcalf plays his speech writer, Lane is depending on Metcalf to provide him with a career defining speech, She knows how much power she has over him and makes a demand - he can have the speech if he allows her to marry her female partner, this play was so topical and hilariously funny. Lane was pure comic genius and Metcalf had many great moments - Well worth a visit if you are going to New York before the end of July.



One thing that really disturbed me was the visit to Ground Zero, I didn't really want to spend too much time there but as we were walking to it there was a chinese woman sat on a little stoiol on the sidewalk with a little stall selling hologram images - you turn it one way and the twin towers are there, turn it the other and they are gone. I was horrified, How she has not been attacked by people I do not know - I found it disgusting.

The highlight of the holiday for me has to be the "Sex and the City" tour - we managed to get tickets on our last day in New York and I cannot recommnend it enough. It was quite a bargain and you do get to see a huge amount of New York. You also get to see places that are more hidden away such as the beautiful lower west side which is where the majority of filming tales place and where Carrie's house is, even though in the series her address is the upper east side. We had a cupcake outside the bakery where Carrie tells Miranda about her crush on Aidan, We drank Cosmo's at the bar owned by Steve and Aidan and went to the "Pleasure Chest" where Charlotte bought her "Rabbit" vibrator. I am a huge fan of the show and this was the perfect way to spend the day.

Onto Miami which was most welcome as my legs were in such pain with all the walking in New York - our hotel was the gayest thing ever, pink and white throughout. The weather was delicious! and thankfully there were lots of nice shops with very good air conditioning for when it all got too much. Due to the heat we spent quite a bit of time in our gorge hotel room just chilling out, discovering the joys of American reality TV - yes we did the Denise Richards show (hateful bitch who is a little too obsessed with her kids), The Lohan family but my fave has to be the Tori Spelling one - she is actually really funny and her answering the door to her best mate and saying "Hey Bitch" kept me laughing for quite a while.

The cocktails in Miami were way strong and I don't think either of us realised how shitfaced we were getting each night but we had a great time and I bought some fab shirts and t shirts and thankfully got a great tan!! Thanks again to Oliver for sorting the holiday - wherever next?

Speaking of America, there is a very funny piece of gay news - an American Christian news service blanket policy of replacing the word "gay" with "homosexual" has backfired on them in a major way resulting in an american sprinter called Tyson Gay actually appearing on the website as Tyson Homosexual. Headlines featured included "Homosexual eases into 100 final in Olympic trials" and "Close call: Homosexual barely averts major flop in 100″ - only in America.

Anyway life has been carrying on since I got back not quite how I expected but I am not going to go there. So last night i was at the Mayor of London's Pride reception, yes it's that time of year again and since Bojo the clown is now Mayor, he had to do a speech - now in the good old days of Ken Livingstone, he would be the first one there and the last to leave, he would also do a fantastic speech and generally put on a great show. Last night was a different story - Bojo arrived with his entourage and did a really awful speech that was all over the place, made him sound quite out of touch and generally left me feeling quite sad. Who voted him in? I have yet to meet anyone that did.



Due to the massive success of the "Sex and the City" movie it has finally been announced that the cast of "Friends" are getting back together within the next 18 months to hit the big screen. I used to love the show and have all the dvd's - I am sure they will spend time coming up with a great script and any excuse to see Lisa Kudrow again is good enough for me.

Anyways I better actually do some of that work that they pay me for.

xx