whats it all about? i dont give a crap!

2009-10-22T03:28:00.001-07:00

All good things must come to an end

As you (if in fact there are any of you) will have noticed this blog has slipped a bit lately, I just have not had the time to keep updating it, work has become very busy and so has life so for the time being its farewell from Pippyrants. I may occasionally pop up for a rant or an update but it just feels like the right time, also a lot has changed in my life recently and its all for the better so maybe I am mellowing in my older age.

Speaking of age it is my 33rd birthday in a couple of weeks, another year has passed by - its been a good year - after far too long searching I have met someone who has whipped my life around and made me appreciate things in a different way, he makes me smile so much and I can at last say that I am in love. I have also stopped smoking, cut down on my drinking and next week I am joining a gym, fit pippy!! Work is going really well at the moment, after a long time of feeling a tad fed up, I feel like my ideas are being taken on board and I am being listened to and appreciated. My friends as always are truly wonderful - god knows where I would be without them.

Anyway that's it (for now)

Thanks for reading, Take Good care

Pippy xx

2009-09-29T07:15:00.001-07:00

Selling crisps for 10p? That' Asda price. Selling toys for 99p? That's Fisher Price. Selling rape stories to newspapers? That's Katie Price.

how are ya doin? I have had a great couple of weeks,it all started last weekend really, On friday night I was treated like a V.I.P literally! my beautiful friend Camilla managed to blag me a VIP ticket for Girls Aloud, Jay Z and Coldplay at Wembley Stadium, what an amazing night! we spent most of our time on the V.I.P viewing platform just to the left of the stage which had its own toilets and bar, we got there just in time for Girls Aloud, we were sat behind Sarah Harding's Boyf, Girls Aloud's Manager and Cheryl Cole's mum - how do I know this? why I am a homosexual dear of course! after they finished a great set we headed to the family and friends room which was down the players tunnel (apparently sports are played at the stadium every once in a while) the room was gorgeous with leather sofas and loads of flowers and another free bar! whilst in there we saw Gwyneth Paltrow!!! we didn’t speak but she is stunning and very tall, her height was helped by her drag queen heels - they were all kinds of fierce! got introduced to Camilla's cousin Will (the drummer in coldplay) and saw Chris Martin and Simon Pegg, they were all stood round us as we watched Jay Z from the end of the players tunnel, after Jay Z we made our way back to the viewing platform to watch Coldplay perform one of the best gigs I have seen in my life, they were fantastic! So a big thankyou to Ms Smith!!

The day after I woke up with a stinking hangover, lying across my bed, on top of my duvet still wearing all my clothes including my jacket - putrid!! didn’t have much time to hang about though as I had to get to Stansted Airport for my flight to Brittany to stay with the new man, yes I still have a boyfriend!! and he has a lovely house in Brittany so I stayed with him for 4 days and it was just perfect, lits of good food and wine, his village in in the middle of nowhere and it was the most relaxing break I could have wished for, will be heading back there pretty regularly from now on. It's all going very well and I have not been as happy as this for a long time - long may it continue

In celeb news, what are the sugababes all about? I didn’t see that one coming, I thought amelle would have gotten the boot, but Keisha got kicked out by management, its just wrong, she was the only original member! now they have brought themselves down to whole new levels - I assume they visited findanewbandmember.com, as Keisha has been replaced by Jade Ewen, this years UK Eurovision entry, I am flummoxed by the whole thing and may find myself having to lie down in a darkened room.

This weekend has been spent doing a good even mix of drinking and relaxing - friday night I headed into soho to meet up with pete, kaz, tolu and the rest of the gang, had many drinks before meeting up with John (the boyfriend), great night out but woke up feeling very special the day after, thankfully coffee and grease aided my recovery, saturday afternoon I headed to the south bank for a late lunch with oli, mel, adrian and john, great to catch up and then off to soho before heading to duckie at vauxhall which always hits the right note, I was pretty sensible and left a bit early to head home for an early start the next day.

On sunday the relaxing started with a nice drive with John to his friends lovely cottage in the cotswolds, a lush sunday roast at their local and a few lazy glasses of wine later and I was all curled up on the sofa, totally chilled, yesterday I had the day off and so we headed to Bath Spa for a day of pampering massage, facials and steam rooms - it was amazing and if I could afford it,I would do it every month! but hey its back to work now but at least my face looks refreshed and my neck is no longer stiff.

xx

2009-09-16T06:46:00.001-07:00

eurgh Katie Price just go away!

There she is posing on the front cover of OK! Magazine with her son Junior, last weeks front cover featured her with the headline "I was raped" and this week she claims "I was raped by a celebrity" - believe me Katie if you are on the front cover next week I too will feel I am being raped by a celebrity! whatever next "Freddie starr ate my hamster and Richard Gere rammed his gerbil up my ass" - Just go away Jordan and please tell your new boyfriend that he is the rebound guy beforeyou bounce him out of your life like the last bunch of suckers - I was on your side girl but you need to be told!

In other news it was the MTV Video Music Awards at the weekend kicking off Madonna's tribute speech about Michael Jackson, there are very few stars who have reached the dizzy heights of fame that he managed but Madonna is pretty close and although the crowd were whooping and hollering from the start, the room soon became dealdy silent as Madonna gave a very heartfelt, teary eyed and touching speech, it was possibly the most moving speech I have heard since his death. However, this moment of the awards seems to have been overshadowed by the twatty behaviour of one Mr Kanye Wrst (is it just me or is his head and face really bizarrely shaped, he always looks like he has been given some nasty food and is storing it in his cheeks til everyone leaves the room) anyway Taylor Swift won the award for best female music vid, also nominated in this category was Beyonce. Nopw Taylor Swift is a country music singer, she is 19 yeears old and last year sold 3.7 million albums in the USA alone, this was her 1st ever MTV award, as she was about to make her speech, kanye west jumped on stage grabbed the mic and shouted out that Beyonce should have won the award, it was kinda like watching a cute little puppy being run over. In the space of a minute he ruined her night, thankfully he got booed and when Beyonce won video of the year later that night she invited Taylor back on stage to finish her speech. Now that is called grace and dignity from an exceptionally talented artist, what kanye west did was pathetic, childish and rude, he is obviously very apologetic (radio stations have stopped playing his music!) but he has been outspoken in the past but it helps if you choose your battles carefully, then again I imagine taylor swift is shifting shitloads of records now so maybe it aint all bad.

Very sad news that one of my heart throbs sadly died this week , Patrick Swayze. I remember watcing Dirty Dancing when I was younger and just falling in love with him, he had the beautiful face, the sexy ass and the moves, never really believed that he would ever fancy the big nose girl but hey it takes all sorts to make a world. I was still in love with him when "Ghost" came out and then he ended up in full drag on the film "too wong foo" he just ticked all my boxes really, RIP

Also this week I had a slight diva overload, Oprah "Queen of all media" Winfrey interviewing Whtney " The Voice" Houston, the first half of this interview was leaked on to a website that I got linked into via facebook, it’s a very moving interview where whitney is just real! so candid talking about her drug use and the violence in her relationship with Bobby Brown, she came across really well and thankfully all that cocaine has not affected her voice too much as the girl can still sing, I CANNOT wait for the album!!!

xx

2009-09-09T04:17:00.001-07:00

It's that time of year again.

From september to November every year there seems to be a flash flood of new music hitting the airwaves, at the moment it's all about the women - with new singles from Madonna, Whitney Houston, Cheryl Cole, Alexandra Burke and Leona Lewis all being released in the next month. It's been a while sine Madge got a mention on here but I have to say she has done it again, her new single "Celebration" is a proper dancefloor filler and the video if not too inspired is still class and she looks amazing and I would not be surprised if she scores her 14th No.1 single in the Uk with it. Leona and Whitney have both gone down the ballad route with Leona coming out the winner with her single "Happy" which is a massive, sweeping tune. Alexandra Burke's single totally appeals to the gays and the dancefloor, sadly Cheryl Cole has released a bit of a nothing song which sounds like a reject album track - tis a shame as I do love her but who knows what the downloading public will think.

I am very excited about this upcoming weekend, I am hoping to get to see the new film "The September Issue" - it’s a documentary that follows Vogue Magazine Editor Anna Wintour as she develops the september issue of Vogue, as you probably know, Meryl Streep's character in "The Devil Wears Prada" was based on Ms Wintour so this should be a fascinating insight into an icon. I loves me a good, shallow documentary and I have a feeling this will tick every box!

Last night I watched a documentary on the tragic events of 9/11, the doc was called 102 minutes and captured minute by minute what happened on that morning in New York, footage taken from peoples video cameras and phones was used and I watched it open mouthed, having been to New York twice I can only imagine how horrific and terrifying tit all must have been, to hear firefighters saying they were making there way up to the 77th floor seconds before the second tower collapsed was heartbreaking, as the anniversary of this tragic day looms it was a poignant reminder of how precious life is.

After that rather upsetting programme, I needed something shallow and frivolous to take my mind to a different place so I say hallelujah for the first episode of "RuPaul's Drag Race" on E4, 9 drag queens competing for the title of supermodel drag queen of America guided by the oh so fabulous RuPaul, it has the same feel as America's Next Top Model but instead of bitching behind each others backs, these queens do it face to face and the classic line of the show has to come from RuPaul with a totally serious look on her face saying - "now its time to lip synch for your life….and don’t fuck it up!"

My love for Ellen Degeneres increases by the day, I still cant work out how to put youtube clips on this damn thing so go to youtube and type in "Ellen Degeneres so you think you can dance" and be amazed, the new series of her chat show started yesterday in America and she rocked it for the opening - check it

xx

2009-09-07T13:12:00.000-07:00

Oh yet again another age has passed between blogs!

Lots to report, firstly I went to Turku in Finland a couple of weeks ago to see the lovely Anna and Tony, had such a great time, the weather was stunning and Finland (or at least the bits I saw) is simply stunning, trees and lakes galore. We did loads whilst I was there, well mainly loads of drinking but barbecues and a great afternoon at the beach, swimming in the sea, discovering the joys of drinking on riverboats all day and a very well fed cruise to stockholm and back - all in all a great time was had, also the flight back was amazing due to a clear cloudless flight along the thames with the most beautiful views of the fair city of London.

A few days after returning I was working at V festival in Chelmsford, there were not as many workers this year so we had to work pretty hard so I missed quite a few of the acts that I wanted to see but managed to catch Lily Allen who was fantastic and had great songs for the stunning sunny weather, the highlights of the festival for me were pendulum who whipped the crowd into a bouncy frenzy, Keane who are always great live but the ultimate had to be lady gaga, it was pretty much impossible to actually see her due to the huge crowd but she sounded amazing!! Oasis lived up to their twatty form by cancelling their chelmsford headlining slot at the last minute which led to their wanker fans getting angry, violent and far too drunk, but hey I came back with a tan so I can forgive.

In other groundbreaking news - I kinda sorta have a boyfriend! yes after far too long spent single I have met a very lovely man called John who makes me smile a lot and is charming, kind, handsome and a gentleman, we have been seeing each other for a month and a half, I wanted to give it a bit of time to see if the inevitable dumping was going to happen but it seems we are equally as keen on each other, so at long last pippy will not be ranting about the lack of men in his life.

On to other men now and it looks like the new series of "Strictly Come Dancing" is going to be pretty hot with Rav Wilding from Crimewatch, Ricky Whittle from Hollyoaks, Joe Calzaghe all compreting, thank god for BBCiplayer! also Zoe Lucker aka tanya turner from "Footballers Wives"! It’s a shame that ITViplayer is so crap as I wont be able to watch much X factor this year but usually the best clips work their way onto youtube so will see there.

So Kerry Katona has been cautioned for drug posession, and judging by revent pictures of her nose it looks like she is going the same way as Daniella Westbrook in terms of her nose literally dissolving with excessive use of coke, whats happening to her children whilst all this is going on? it’s a sad state of affairs and it seems she is refusing toask for any kind of help, we all saw it coming, where is her ex brian mcfadden? all I ever see is pics of him and delta goodrem looking loved up, seems like the kids would look better in that picture for the time being.

Also have been catching up with "What Katie Did Next" on ITV2, this is the documentary that follows Katie Price after her split with Peter Andre, I have to say she is not coming across very well and although its to be expected that she appears all fiesty and non-plussed by the split, it would be nice if she managed to show some emotion, a similar show focused on Peter Andre and he came across so much better, it also seems that most of Katie's staff like her manager etc seem to have disappeared into the world of Team Andre.

I am obviously getting old, this morning I woke up and popped Radio 2 on to listen to a bit of Terry Wogan, a genuinely funny and charming breakfast dj, who plays records and keeps the conversation pleasant he is also not fat so therefore preferable to lardy ass moyles but then my heart sank when he announced that he would be stepping down at the end of the year to be replaced by Chris Evans - I don’t mind Evans he has got his act together since moving over to Radio 2 but you cant beat Terry.

This last weekend I was in Blackpool for my friend Danny's 30th birthday, had a great time and don’t think I have laughed that much in ages but Blackpool is such a shithole, its like stepping back time, the stuff on sale in some of the shops is truly shocking, I cant bring myself to talk about some of it as its that offensive. I also thought it would be cheap and cheerful but some of the pints were more expensive than London!! I can only presume we were partly paying for the drag queen's electrolysis, boy did he need it, you could have pulled a comb through his back!!

I am slowly becoming addicted to twitter, I don’t put anything on there myself, I just legally stalk celebrity's, some of the people on there are hilarious and also totally innapropriate, Sarah Silverman is a twitter genius - here are just a few of her posts

misogynistic humor offends me because some of my best friends are cunts.

I look forward to a day when Hollywood finally writes good roles for babies.

I like to think of diarrhoea as "fun shit

Watched a 7 year old boy torture a pigeon today in MacArthur park. It was the performance art version of my week

Is gang rape one word or two? must know asap

I really wanna say "let's just agree to disagree" but there hasn't been a reason to. Now I know what the holocaust must've been like.

When I say "I feel like an asshole" what I mean is, "I am in the mood for an asshole."

I changed a baby's diaper today and she had a totally shaved vagina. What a country!

What a fun day! Today was the best anniversary of my family's murder EVER!

Jesus had a beard. Her name was Mary

Thanks for a great weekend. I'll never forget the sweet magic of our passionate love making, you guys.

Hey, is it considered molestation if the child makes the first move? I'm gonna need a quick answer on this

a 60 yr old man talked to me all flirty and sexy and asked me if I "do coffee." My asshole clenched so hard I think I pulled it.

The dogs in the apartment next door have been going fucking apeshit for an hour. There better be a dead person in there.

Sorry, Poop -- my asshole is "entrance only."

Syntax question: Is the word, "guzzle" exclusive to jizz?

I am hoping to keep this blog up to date now but then again I have said that before, lets just see what happens

xx

2009-08-11T13:51:00.000-07:00

fit actor comes out (kinda)

oh I love it when a celebrity comes out, I know it's totally shallow and maybe should be none of our business but I still think its important to have role models out there. The amazingly sexy sottish actor Gerard Butler who can currently be seen starring with Katherine Heigl in "the ugly truth" often plays quite loveable rogues in his films but last week in an interview with an america magazine he stated

"I have been in relationships with women and men, that doesn’t make me gay, that doesn’t make me straight. Butler told the magazine "I talk about my sexuality, but its always glossed over. People seem to shy away from the issue"

Well that’s quite refreshing, a non stereotypical actor discussing his sexuality openly and honestly. In other gay related entertainment news, the ever increasingly charming Daniel Radcliffe has not only openly spoken out against homophobia in the new issue of Attitude magazine but he has now made a major donation to a gay youth anti suicide helpline in America, Radcliffe said of his support -

"It's extremely distressing to consider that in 2009 suicide is a top three killer of young people, and it's truly devastating to learn that LGBTQ youth are up to four times more likely to attempt suicide than their heterosexual peers.

"I deeply hope my support can raise the organisation's visibility so even more despondent youth become aware of the Trevor helpline's highly trained counsellors and Trevor's many other resources.

"It's vitally important that young people understand they are not alone and, perhaps even more important, that their young lives have real value."

Bless you! I am getting all emotional with this kindness, also after watching countless episodes of the Channel 4 reality show "Secret Millionaire" last night I can barely type with my eyes in such pain from crying so hard, I tell you that show restores your faith in human kindness!

Getting married soon, looking for a singer for your wedding, look no further than Katie Price, yes the woman who has somehow managed to destroy her public image completely in the last few weeks was a guest at her make up artists civil partnership at the weekend and got up to sing Whitney Houstons "I have nothing" but instead of singing drunknely called the guests a bunch of c*nts and then started slagging off her estranged husband Peter Andre with more expletives - classy!

Meanwhile Peter Andre's profile with the media and the public is on the increase, he is looking good and being quite charming but I have to say his comeback single is just dreary but it is still predicted to get to number one, I doubt the same could be said for Whitney's comeback single which is so dull I almost fell asleep the first time I heard it, plus her one silky smooth voice now has more of a silk cut twang to it - c'mon whitters!! we wanted a fiesty disco number not some pocahontas disney sounding durge! fix up girl!

THE IMAGINARY MEN OF PIPPY'S BOUDOIR!

Now i know that this guy was on the blog recently but i was rushed and couldn't find any great pics of him, they say time is a healer and ooh baby i am fine now, boomeranging his way back into the boudoir is the star of "True Blood" - Ryan Kwanten

Well I am off for a short break tomorrow to Turku in Finland to see Anna and Tony, really looking forward to seeing them and seeing somewhere different. Probably wont be blogging when I go out there so a full report will be here on monday

have fun and enjoy the apparent sun (not that I even bother listening to the met office - centuries ago you would have been taken out and flogged in the street if you got your predictions so wrong) when did sunny translate as torrential rain?? and vice versa, I go out in a jacket and am sweating my ass off, I go out in a tshirt and get so drenched it turns into a one man wet t shirt contest - sort it out!

xx

2009-08-06T07:34:00.000-07:00

well I never did!

I have to listen to music when I wake up in the morning, it helps me get out of bed, shake my shimmy and start the day with a bop. Usually I slap the laptop on and put one of my spotify playlists on shuffle but this morning I put the radio on instead, I am always tempted to stick to Xfm but accidentally went for Radio 1, this would ordinarily provoke an angry reponse due to the presence of that fat knacker Chris Moyles, but thankfully Scott Mills is covering for him this week and guess what he had the nerve to do, he was playing music - one song after another in regular succession like an actual DJ!! Now if only they would not let Moyles come back we could all live happily ever after..well apart from the stabbings and car jackings.

Now Peter Andre/Katie Price, I have so been on Andre's side but now it has all been confirmed due to his attitude towards his children, his political endeavours and the fact that he looks all kinds of flava's of hot in pants, is that Harvey in your pants or are you just pleased to see me? - woooh child!

So Robbie Williams is back on the scene releasing a new single and album later this year, his last effort "Rudebox" was just wrong, but hopefully his time away has been well spent, apparently he has been working with some great songwriters and it seems he is looking hot so bring it, if rumours are to be believed he will be playing the 02 early next year to fill some of Michael Jackson's dates. I might just be tempted to go, he was my teenage/20's crush

I am getting back into Ugly Betty on 4OD, its stepping up its game and Wilhelmina is getting bitchier which is what we love, apparently for the next series they are going to make Betty less ugly, lets face it 3 seasons with a brace on is enough for anyone, but will it work?, america ferreira who plays betty is an attractive young woman, will we still care if she becomes booty betty?

I don’t mind hot weather as long as there is the glimpse of sun but the last few days in london village have been grey and humid and its totally messing with my aura, why when they were building the bendy buses did no one ask -" the engine and amount of people on here is going to make things really hot and uncomfortable! should we get air conditioning? thankfully my co worker the sweatmonger has not been round much this week so I haven't had to face the ever present danger of collapsing at my desk, but due to hot desking I now have the woman with 3 mobiles - all with different ring tones and text alerts and they go off constantly, I think she is actually a call centre disguised as a bint!

back tomorrow with the boudoir boy!!

xx

2009-08-03T03:29:00.001-07:00

As one door opens….

I started to write a blog on friday that was quite positive and optimistic but never finished it due to having too much work on, I was going to write about the Quakers decision to agree to holding gay marriages in their religion, at their annual meeting in York on friday they passed the decision, this is the first mainstream religious group in Britain to decide on this, now if only other group would follow suit. It’s a great start though.

This news on friday left me feeling great, I have a very problematic realtionship with religion and it was nice to feel like I had a way in but then on saturday night in Tel Aviv a lone gunman entered a room where a gay youth support group was meeting and sprayed the room with bullets, killing 2 teens and injuring a further 12. This was clearly a homophobic attack, police are still hunting for the gunman and it is feared that more attacks will happen, police have taken the step of closing all gay bars in the city. I heard this news first thing on sunday morning and it really upset me, I have been a member of and run support groups for young gay people and know how essential these servies are, the thought that someone could enter such a safe, supportive space and turn into a slaughterhouse is sickening, just when you think the world is moving on….

In other news it seems experts have reached a conclusion on how Michael Jackson died, Jackson's personal cardiologist administered a powerful dose of Propofol before Jackson went to bed, as the doctor slept Jackson woke and asked an aide for further medication and was given a dose of the painkiller Demerol, it was the combination of these 2 doses that led to the fatal heart attack, so avoidable and so sad.

The new Madonna single "Celebration" was leaked on the internet last week, I have been listening to it on repeat pretty much since then and have to say that on first hearing I was not that impressed but as with most Madonna singles, it’s a grower, I obviously need to hear it in a club as it’s a fast paced dance song and I expect gay clubs across the land will be wearing this track out from this week.

As for me, well I just had a lovely weekend, Tony was staying with me to get the results of his pHD and its all good as he passed so there was some celebrating going on, few bars on friday night and then a bit of a leo sayer (all dayer) on saturday, I think we peaked too early on saturday as we were both fast aleep before midnight! Had a very lazy day yesterday and then met a guy that I am dating for a couple of drinks followed by a barbecue at his mates house which went well, they all seem nice. things are going well - woo hoo!!

xx

2009-07-29T03:29:00.001-07:00

where has the summer gone?

I sit typing this on such a dreary day, it feels wrong wearing a jacket in july! ah well, after my last ranty post I sdhall get back to what I do best - bitching about celebrities, so apparently Kerry katona's husband - Mark Croft has filed for divorce, wonder what he put in the "reasons for divorce" box on the form, I imagine simply putting "Kerry Katona" would suffice, she really is vile but I have to say she has some tough competition now - Yes Katie Price/Jordan really has surpassed herself recently, it's all very sad, I had a lot of respect for that girl but she has gone way over the line this time, how many interviews is she going to do slagging off the father of her children, what kind of life are those kids going to have reading some of the hideous things she has been saying? I am loving Peter Andres dignity of pretty much staying silent through the whole thing.

Onto gay news, The Archbishop of Canterbury has spoken out about the effect the gays are having on the anglican church - in his statement about the ordination of gay priests he says This has been called a 'two-tier' model, or, more disparagingly, a first- and second-class structure. But perhaps we are faced rather with the possibility of the two-track model, two ways of witnessing to the Anglican heritage.It helps to be clear about these possible futures, however much we think them less than ideal, and to speak about them not in apocalyptic terms of schism and excommunication but plainly as what they are – two styles of being Anglican."
Although he argued that prejudice and violence against LGBT people was "sinful and disgraceful", he added: "The question is not a simple one of human rights or human dignity. It is that a certain choice of lifestyle has certain consequences.If society changes its attitudes, that change does not of itself count as a reason for the Church to change its discipline.
Oh dear mr, you do need to know that being gay is not a lifestyle and its not a choice, would I choose to be straight now if I could - hell no!
Anyways back to me, I had a rather lovely weekend with dinner in Oval with Boo on friday night and then my brother and his lovely new girlfriend came to stay on saturday, we headed to a gorge thai restaurant in Stoke Newington on saturday night called "Yum Yum", my brother is a clever boy and actually designed the restaurant so it was great to see his work and its amazing! then sunday we had a lovely sunday lunch at the Talbot bar near me before I headed off to Soho to meet with Oliver, Kelly and Rach - a lush weekend.
Tony is back to stay with me for the next few days and I also have a 2nd date with a great guy tomorrow night so things are looking up, I am not heading to Brighton Pride this weekend but must try and get there next year, no prides for pippy this year!

xx

2009-07-23T15:32:00.000-07:00

Dear Facebook retards,

Hope you are well, Facebook was set up as a social networking site where people could get in touch with people that were not important enough to have a place in their mobile phone.

I now am beginning to realise this more and more day by day, first a message to a few of you who have recently set up an application that involves you opening a zoo, now daily i get updates on what animals you have in said zoo, YOU DONT OWN A ZOO!! THIS IS A POINTLESS EXERCISE, YOU HAVE NOT SAVED AN ANIMAL FROM EXTINCTION! YOU HAVE CLICKED YOUR MOUSE! I DO NOT WANT TO COME AND SEE YOUR RARE ALBINO LEOPARD because lets face it you work in a shit job in sheffield and could not afford one of those shit zoo animal toys that they sell at a knock off toy shop.

Secondly, to my dear friend from school who has 213736 different kids by 483738787 different fathers, i do not need to know that you are a fan of sleeping naked, being kissed on the neck or oral sex. what i do need to know is that you have had your tubes tied and no longer intend on breeding - mainly because next time i go to visit my parents i dont want one of your "delightful" offspring jacking me for my bling.

So please people get a grip, its just a website, you are not an leopard saving zookepper or a seductive temptress, you are a loon and an ex school bike

love and kisses

pip xx

2009-07-17T07:30:00.000-07:00

I put on my shoes and I'm ready for the weekend!!

For those of you that don’t know, that is the catchy lyric to Calvin Harris' new single and it’s a great choon!!! am loving that plus the new sugababes single which sees them back on form and also the new Dizzee Rascal track, I am not abandoning my indie roots but once in a while, I need to shake this fabulous ass that god bestowed upon me.

what a tragic time it is lately, 2 guys helping to construct the stage for a Madonna concert in France, part of the roof of the stage fell in, knocking over a crane, one guy died at the scene and another died later in hospital. Madonna paid tribute to the guys last night at her concert - sad.

Also tragic - Fern Britton has left This Morning!! it was her last day today and I totally missed it, she always made days off sick that little bit interesting with her sexual innuendo and constant innappropriate giggling, she will be missed, especially as she is being replaced by Holly "I shout for no reason" Willoughby, these young whippersnappers!! Jo Whiley has also lost her morning show on Radio 1 to Fearne "basically I am a cunt" Cotton. That’s just wrong! the menthol cool stylings of Jo Whiley always soothe me and now I have to listen to the blisteringly annoying rants of Cotton, also Chris Moyles has just had his contract extended for yet another year - so that’s my relationship with Radio 1 over.

The lovely Tony has been staying with me this week and its been great having him round, even though I have a housemate, we don’t speak that often so its been nice having someone there to shoot the breeze with, he is back again in a couple of weeks and then 10 days later I am heading out to see him and Anna in Turku! cant wait.

This weekend is looking good, tonight I have a date! yes you heard it right, the bitch is back on the block!! tonight's date is an internet hook up but we have been messaging each other and all seems good so fingers crossed. Tomorrow night its my friend Mareks 40th birthday party in Soho, it looks like being a good one, with friends dj'ing it seems the music will be marv.

Thanks to Dan for sending me this pic of my main man - Christopher Meloni, this man just gets hotter with age, look at those arms!!

Also had some fab news the other day, the other main love of my life, Danny Dyer, is heading to the west end in September to star in the play "Kurt and Sid", the play sounds a bit random and could quite possibly be awful but I don’t care as long as I can be in the same room as Danny I don't care. The play is set on the night that Kurt Cobain killed himself, he is just preparing to blow his brains out and sees a vision of Sid Vicious (played by Dyer), god knows how it will be received but bring on the Dyer!

THE IMAGINARY MEN OF PIPPY'S BOUDOIR!

Well some may have noticed that the 3rd series of Ugly Betty has started on Channel 4, it aint as good as it used to be (more marc and amanda please) anyways there is one very good reason to watch it, that is the presence of Eddie Cibrian - I remember him from that genius Channel 5 soap "Sunset Beach" and the fab film "But I'm a cheerleader" - anyway his body is amazing! enjoy

Have a grand weekend

xx

2009-07-15T04:19:00.001-07:00

hey people,

Yet again another gap in blogging, apol's for that. I have not even blogged about Michael Jackson's memorial! I managed to catch it on iplayer the night after and have to say I wept like a baby, generally I thought it was a beautiful service if a tad voyeuristic, Brooke Shields started me on the tears and then Motown Records founder - Berry Gordy did an amazing speech and how Jermaine Jackson managed to sing such a beautiful version of Michael's fave song "Smile" is beyond me and yes I have to admit shedding another tear when his daughter said her short but sweet piece, qall I can say is watch out Lourdes, Paris is after ya!

Last night I watched the documentary on channel 4 - "What really happened? the last days of Michael Jackson" it was very interesting, and painted Michael as a man who was completely addicted to prescription painkillers, that totally ruled his life, spending $100,000 in the space of a year on his habit, they interviewed people close to Mj who all said there was no way he would have been able to do 50 shows without massive amounts of uppers and downers, one doctor also stated that his death may have been due to him actually making an effort to stop taking drugs to get back on form for his shows but once off them for a while, one dosage could have been too much for his body to take and to me that sounds like the most realistic explanation, if that is the case it truly will be tragic waste of a great talent.

Now I am not sure what has happened to me lately, usually on this blog I bang on about being lonely in love but something has changed, I don’t know what it is but lately I have been getting a fair bit of interest from that species known as man! I have been having a major time of it, nothing like a bit of attraction to boost the confidence, I am walking with a swagger! stay tuned for further developments!

This week is all lovely as I have my friend Tony staying with me, although I have a housemate who I get on ok with, it is nice to have someone to chat to, am now really looking forward to my upcoming trip to Finland which will include a booze filled cruise over to stockholm! yay!!!

have also been watching Eastenders lately as they have been featuring their new gay storyline, where Christian (the only gay in the square) is seducing the lovely Muslim character Syed, it seems an ok storyline but yet again the main gay character is being portrayed as predatory, playing mind games with Syed and threatening to out him. This happened with Karl and Todd in Coronation Street years ago, can we maybe have a gay man who doesn’t literally chase men across the square please?

So Duncan James of recently reformed boyband Blue has come out as Bisexual, no major surprise there really but the reaction from the gay press has been so hideous! most saying they wonder when he is actually going to come out as gay, as if bisexuality is some make believe town on the way to gaysville. I welcome the fact that a guy from a boyband has the guts to speak out, although I wish the press would not refer to it as "admitting" he is bisexual, you admit to a crime not a sexuality!

I am going to try and be better with this blog from now on, enough of this work malarky getting in the way

xx

2009-07-03T05:25:00.001-07:00

ooh its been a while on the old blogging front!

I have been a very busy boy though and had to, for once, get my priorities right. What a truly tragic time it has been in the showbiz world. I was in Sheffield for a long weekend last weekend and was in that joyful bar called "Dempseys" when I received a text from a friend that read "O.M.G! Michael Jackson!" I text back with a rather abrupt "what?" to get a text that didn’t exactly break it to me gently as all it said was "Dead!" - I didn’t believe it so went on the internet on my phone and there was the headline "Michael Jackson dies of heart attack aged 50". I have written about Michael Jackson a lot on this blog over the last few years and the majority of things I have said have been rather negative and if we are all honest, he had not done a decent song for nearly 20 years but I cant deny that I used to be a MASSIVE MJ fan, I bought the Bad album the day it came out and also went to see him live on the Dangerous Tour in 1992 and am so glad I got the opportunity to do that, the man was amazing live, defying gravity with an angelic voice and making the fans go wild, I have seen Madonna many times but no one got a crowd going crazy like MJ. He was a truly exceptional performer. Obviously I cant ignore the man's private life, the abuse he suffered as a child at the hands of his frikkin evil father (who since his son's death has done the most deplorable self publicity I have ever seen, this may seem a bit strong but that man has blood on his hands) I just wonder if MJ would not have been so fucked up if his father had shown him any affection at all?

I am pleased that the majority of coverage of him since his death has focused on the most important thing, his music, his dancing and the effect he had on his fans. There is a public memorial in L.A on tuesday and it is expected that millions of people will attend to show their respect and great sadness of the loss of a legend, I have been listening to him all week, mainly his early stuff but cant seem to stop playing "Man in the Mirror" - it is such a beautiful and powerful tune! RIP MJ

Also in the last week we have lost the BEST Charlie's Angel, Farrah Fawcett who passed away after battling cancer and also the comedy legend that was Mollie Sugden, who has shifted off to heaven to sroke her pussy in peace.

I had a great time in Sheffield last weekend, managed to see almost everyone I wanted to see, Saw my lovely friend Emma's new baby girl for the first time and I have to say Kirsty is beautiful!! Lil Stanley is also a lil charmer with a cheeky grin, we took them to the park and I realised there and then that I am too scared a human being to become a father, ervytime stanley climbed on anything, I was scared so maybe I should just be an eternal uncle. I also saw Kerry and her 2 sons Eli and Dylan who are growing fast and totally adorable, this might sound bad but I seem to hear kids all the time around London using the most foul language and it was refreshing to see 2 boys who were 100% polite.

I stayed with the wonderful, marvellous Dan who kept me amused with his rather special version of "Man in the Mirror" which he sang using a TV remote control as a microphone, whilst spinning, slapping his ass and shouting "jambon, jambon" - I don’t think that’s what MJ used to shout on stage, what with it being french for ham. We spent saturday afternoon plonked in a beer garden surrounded by special people and then the night was spent drinking our own bodyweight, I kinda worked it out this week and I think on saturday alone I consumed over 2weeks worth of the recommended alcohol intake - binge drink britain!

On Monday night I went with Oliver and Boo to the Mayor's Pride Reception at City Hall, mainly for the free wine but also to see what kind of car crash speech Boris Johnson would make, oh and he really excelled himself! in talking about the lives of LGBT people in modern London his speech featured mentions of the island of Lesbos, the lesbian poet Sappho, whose poetry he recited in greek! thanks for that Boris - I feel like we really bonded! I feel safe in your hands - you upper class retarded cyclist obsessed ugly moron.

This weekend is London Gay Pride and I am not going!! woo hoo!! I have been to pride every year since I was about 18 and have worked there every year for about the last 7 years so am due time off, and what a pleasurable time it will be as the lovely James and Jim are getting hitched!! Its my first civil partnership and I cant think of a better couple to break me in (ooer), so many congrats in advance guys.

Ok its friday, the weekend is here and after a little gap its time for another of

THE IMAGINARY MEN OF PIPPY'S BOUDOIR

Today it’s the turn of australian actor Ryan Kwanten, he used to be in Home and Away and is not in the successful american drama "True Blood, blah blah blah, check it out!

have fun xx

2009-06-18T03:51:00.001-07:00

Well stardom has at last plopped itself on my doorstep, yesterday I was interviewed on BBC Radio 1Xtra giving advice to lesbian and gay young people about coming out and homophobia etc, there is now a campaign for me to take over from that fat bastard Chris Moyles on the Radio 1 Breakfast Show, I could follow in the footsteps of Sara Cox, we could even have the same nickname of "Coxy" for an entirely different reason obviously.

I am addicted to the song "Red" by Daniel Merriweather at the moment and cannot stop listening to it! such a beautiful song.

I am not being very proud this year at all, this weekend its sheffield pride and I aint heading there, not going to London or Brighton Pride either, but hey in the world of pippy everyday is pride day, especially now that I am an international radio star helping gays on a worldwide level, holler!

It’s a good job we came back from Ibiza when we did, did ya hear about the plane crash? yes Jordan (aka Katie Price) is there this week and has taken car crash to plane crash levels, of course I shall be tuning into her next reality show because I am a fickle celeb obsessed saddo.

Had a quiet night in last night and caught up on some iplayer, watched "Crimewatch Roadshow" - I do love those real crime stories, well they were following a rural police team in Northumbria doing a farmwatch shift where they deploy police vehicles all over the countryside to spot criminals nicking equipment from farmland. It was H-I-larious, this ballsy female chief inspector spent ages briefing her team, the cameras followed them round all night and the only thing that happened was someone stopping a police car to ask for directions to the nearest chinese takeaway and then the presenters had to interview the chief inspector for 5 minutes about the experience, I was crying with laughter. Thankfully the show is co-presented by that sex copper Rav Wilding who is all kinds of fine!!

xx

2009-06-16T08:53:00.000-07:00

oh and the sweat bomb that sits next to me at work has now regularly started cracking his knuckles - thanks a lot god!!

2009-06-16T02:58:00.001-07:00

Chatty Man!

Well last night I caught up on some of the TV I missed whilst away, first port of call was 4od catch up as Alan Carr has now got his own chat show called "Chatty Man" and it was pretty good apart from the audience clapping like monkeys everytime Alan Carr said something remotely funny. He did have some cracking jokes though, the one about Britney's voice sounding like someone ordering a cheeseburger through the intercom at a McDonalds drive thru was particularly good, his guests were a bit dull though - Bruce Forsythe, although Alan was talking to him about the world of modern celebrity and paparazzi saying "bet they didn’t have paparazzi in your day eh brucey, did they just make sketches?"

The token dull American guest who didn’t have a clue what was going - Heather Graham, the last guest was Ross Kemp, now I know he has been in my boudoir before but I think he is getting better with age, I am loving the sight of him in army gear in Afghanistan and also the fact that he is such a luvvie, and a big chunk of hunk - ooh baby baby.

So it looks like Kerry katona got fat, maybe I should believe in god after all, in other celeb news Lindsay Lohan has been questioned by the police after £250,000 worth of Dior jewellery went missing from a recent photoshoot she did in London, well its not like she is getting money anywhere else, I do wonder where she gets her money from, she has not made a film in ages, the only thing she does is charges nightclubs for her presence there. trash

I guess it should come as no surprise that both Katie Price and Peter Andre have signed up to do separate reality shows charting the progress of their divorce, well that will be nice for the kids when they grow up "lookjunior this is where I call your father a stinking cunt in the courtroom! and now look at daddys sad face, ahh diddums" classy.

To end on a rather sad note, I found out yesterday that I guy I have known for a number of years through work died suddenly a few weeks ago at the tender age of 29, he was one of the brightest, most enthusiastic, passionate, funny guys I have met and he will be truly missed, R.I.P Phil xxx

2009-06-15T04:09:00.001-07:00

So the holiday is over, I am back from Ibiza and work SUCKS!! I did however have an absolutely marvellous time, the weather was sensational and I managed to get a tan which is pretty good for a sensituve skinned lil white boy like me! We stayed in Calla de Grassios which is about a 15 - 20 walk to San Antonio so we were away from the noise and the "Binge drink brits abroad" crowd, we had a nice little beach near by too, most days were spent lounging by the pool giving all the other people around the pool nicknames, some too horrible for me to even write on here.

Nightlife wise, we hit a few clubs but mainly stuck to the bars due to rather excessive prices, managed to get over to Ibiza town one night for some much needed gayness, I am sure there must be a homo bar in San Antonio but could we find it? could we buffalo! big thanks to Oliver for sorting it all out and respect to the girls for making us laugh and coping with overt homosexuality. Bring on Finland in August!!

Well whilst I have been away not a huge amount has happened, apart from the frikkin BNP winning 2 seats in the European Elections, this just sickens me, I just cant comprehend how anyone could read their manifesto and still cross that box, guess there are more stupid people around than I originally thought, its even more sad that one of the seats was won in the yorkshire and humber regional constituency, as a yorkshire man this totally blows me away but kinda makes me realise why there are so many northern gay boys down south. Thankfully the majority of the country seem to be against this hate party so lets fight the good fight people.

In the more shallow world of showbiz, Madonna has been granted the adoption of another Malawi orphan, a little girl called Mercy, the adoption seems to be have been welcomed by Malawi but the usual haters are out in force, lets face it, its Madonna, the woman gets what she wants, do I agree with this? I am not sure, I have very dear friends who are going through massive adoption processes at the moment, it all just seems to happen so quickly if you have shitloads of money or are married to Brad Pitt.

I wrote a blog entry on holiday that was pretty ranty, I don’t know why, its not like I was in a bad mood but when it hits me it hits me! so here we go

Its probably quite easy for me to say that most journalists in the gay press could not write their name on a dusty sideboard, but after YEARS of buying the gay magazine "Attitude" , I have to say that the magazine has got better overall but every single issue there is an interview with a hot young male actor and the questions are always the same

- would you ever do a gay sex scene?

- would you ever do full frontal nudity?

- have you ever had a gay experience?

I do have to admit that generally I am intrigued by the answers to these questions but at the same time it is a bit tragic, the magazine is veering to becoming an all male FHM, is this what our gay brothers and sisters fought for in the 60's and 70's? when that first punch was thrown at the Stonewall Inn 40 years ago were they thinking - "we are fighting for equality, for human rights but most of all we are fighting to find out if an Hollyoaks actor has sucked a blokes cock.

The summer is haphazardly heading our way, gay pride season is upon us, I still believe that gay pride is relevant, some people are very dismissive about gay pride for a number of reasons, after all Katy Perry got to number one with "I Kissed a Girl" so surely everything is ok right? well Ms Perry is not gay, that record was written and sung to make money not raise any kind of social conscience, I doubt Ms Perry has been punched in the face and called a lezza and I doubt Ms Perry has ever been blocked from expecting basic human rights. Ms Perry is lining her pockets by singing about an intimate expression of love that she has no idea about. perhaps if she was actually gay she would not be signing so loudly, run back to your safe, deluded, gated world and let the fags continue the fight. Where were you at the Proposition 8 rally? meeting with your bank manager perhaps? Your hair, make up, clothes, dance routines and every aspect of your image was probably thought up by gay people (we are quite creative like that it seems) and yet you sing about us like we are circus freaks, will you stand side by side with us as we battle for equality or just buy some popcorn and sit ignorantly watching the lesser fall. At the end of the day we will eventually have equality, we will be out on the streets celebrating, you wont Ms Perry cos without us you will be looking like shit that day - sorry Katy, we have better things to do.

xx

2009-06-05T07:42:00.000-07:00

hey, yay for friday and yay for the last day at work for a week! am off to ibiza on sunday - bring it! just as the sunshine has disappeared too!!

I managed to avoid Big Brother's launch night last night but having seen pics of the housemates it does appear that they have gone for the usual mix of freaks and annoying people, I hope that I manage to avoid it completely but it does tend to take over a lot of conversations around this time of year - boo! I end up being a social outcast, as if not watching The Apprentice is bad enough!

So its been revealed that Angelina Jolie is the most powerful celebrity in the world according to Forbes Magazine, the annual list is based on income and media representation, although Angelina only made $27 Million last year whereas no 2 on the list Oprah Winfrey made a staggering $275 Million, Angelina had more press coverage so she hits the top, Madonna did well too at No.3 with earnings of $110 Million, Credit Crunch anyone?

There really is not much to report today it has to be said so I shall move straight onto …

THE IMAGINARY MEN OF PIPPY'S BOUDOIR

Thanks must go to my babygirl - Dan Jackson for his suggestion of today's boudoir guest, It is the gush moistening Danny Cipriani, he is a rugby player and also goes out with brunette bimbette Kelly Brook, he is all different shades of fine!!

I am on holiday for the next week but shall be doing a bumper blog of fun when I get back, have a grand week, laters

xx

2009-06-04T07:06:00.001-07:00

Well how y'all doing?

I am fine and dandy, went to see Brtitney Spears with Oliver, Amy and the gals last night on the opening night of her run of shows at the o2 Arena. Everyone is already well aware that she mimes throughout the show apart from the ballad "Everytime" and yes she does do a lot of dancing and might be too out of breath to sing, but Madonna who is 23 years older than Britney does loads more singing and dancing during her shows and pretty much sings live. The stage set, dancers and circus performers were very impressive but there are too main complaints - firstly the O2 arena fits 20,000 ish people and if you are quite far from the stage a video screen would have been useful, Britney just looked like a girl in hotpants and a bra with blonde hair and due to her lack of live vocals, it really could have been anyone, also what with the breaks for circus acts and the dancers doing their thing I am not sure exactly how long Ms Spears was actually on stage but it was not enough. It was a good evening but it could have been so much better with just a few thoughtful tweaks.

It's all go in theatreland at the moment, Last night was the press night for Hamlet starring Jude Law, also featuring my ex who is still a very dear friend, the reviews overall have been great and I cant wait to see it, alsdo announced yesterday was the broadway production of "Cat on a hot tin roof" starting at the novello theatre in december starring the amazing James Earl Jones and Phylicia Rashad aka Clair Huxtable from the "Cosby Show" - the play opened to massive rave reviews on Broadway last year and I am hoping to get a ticket for this run!

Well I hope you have all voted today in the European Parliament Elections, with all the distrust of the major political parties due to the expenses claims scandal it is feared that people may do some rather radical voting - this could mean the BNP getting more votes than usual, so please use your vote wisely, keep the racist scum away.

Well yesterday it was my favourite silver fox's birthday, yes CNN news reporter Anderson Cooper turned 42, I don’t know what it is about this guy but I wouldn’t mind being the crawl at the bottom of his screen!

Only a few days to go now til I jet off to Ibiza and I cant wait, just to be sat by the pool with the sun blazing down and a cocktail by my side listening to some major tunes will simply be heaven! before that I have the lovely joy of seeing Ms Dan Jackson who is heading down to London village tomorrow and staying at mine for the week whilst I am away, it will be lush to see him and have a good ole catch up and a lovely lovely pint of the lager!

Right I must dash

toodles

xx

2009-06-01T03:00:00.001-07:00

Well I never thought I would say this but poor Danielle Lloyd, you may remember she was in celeb big brither with Jade Goody and was one of the three who took part in the rascist bullying of Shilpa Shetty, I am in no way condoning her behaviour, it was disgusting but since then she has come out as a survivor of Domestic Violence and made an extremely moving documentary around the issue for Comic Relief. She is probably best known for being a bit of a WAG and also for going out clubbing a lot, last week she was out clubbing in London when a couple of girls started slagging her off, this ended with them assaulting her and pushing her over, through a glass top table. Pictures in the papers saw her lying on the pavement outside the club covered in blood, she is recovering now but news broke this morning that burglars have broken into her flat andtaken over £20,000 worth of stuff - jeez! really no one deserves that kind of shit.

Britain's got talent is over and SuBo didn’t win, the best people did win, I watched the dance group Diversity's performance on youtube and it was fantastic and whatever happens we all know SUBo is going to have a career of some sort, she has now been admitted to the priory, and all the press statements are saying that she is emotionally exahusted and drained, but I think something more shady is going on, I think she might have gone a tad loopy, well I say gone.

well I had a gorge weekend of basking in the sun and doing very little, and it looks like the weather is going to be like this all week with it getting a bit murky next weekend not that I give a shit cos I is off to Ibiza innit! I cannot wait! work has been really tough recently, spending each day writing report, after report, after report. Just to relax by the pool with good music and a refreshing vodka and lemonade - mmmm.

Is it wrong to fancy Prince Harry?

xx

2009-05-29T03:55:00.001-07:00

Well it’s the end of what should have been a short week but due to workloads has been quite buggin, but all was saved last night with boo taking me to see the amazing Manic Street Preachers (for free!!) they were fantastic, it was the 1st night of a 3 night run at the Camden Roundhouse. They have just released their new album "Journal for Plague Lovers", the lyrics for the tracks of this album have been compiled from notes left by band member Richey Edwards who mysteriously disappeared on 1st february 1995, the gig started with the band playing the new album from start to finish followed by a short interval and then a greatest hits set which featured all my faves including my all time fave song "Motorcycle Emptiness" - such a great live band!! Cheers Boo!

I am so sick of hearing about Susan Boyle (rosemary west) , yes she has a great voice but people we have heard her sing TWICE! that’s all, and what can the future hold for her, yes we can listen to her sing all the time, but have you seen her in interviews and heard her talk, I believe she may have slight mental health problems, maybe she can just be one of those singers who releases albums, does the occassional tour and then disappears again? Also in reality TV news, Big Brother is back next week and I am obviously very excited at the prospect of a bunch of total losers being thrust into the world of celebrity, infecting magazine covers wherever they go, bunch of money grabbing bastards in a house - it will be confusing whether we are watching Big Borther or Parliament TV.

God bless Kerry Katona, on GMTV this morning discussing her appearance on "This Morning" where phil and fern asked her if she was drunk - get over it girl, yeah maybe it could have been your medication, but you sounded like a drunk chav in doncaster on a saturday night, am surprised you didn’t pull your kecks down and do a jobbie on the coffee table, Katona's excuse is the medication for her bi-polar disorder, Stephen Fry also has bi-polar disorder - I don’t think I need to add anything.

Well I may have to start watching Eastenders, they have just announced a gay storyline with a "controversial" twist, basically a new character is going to have a gay affair with the albert square gay bike Christian Clarke (think he is Jane Beale's brother) anyways the new character is MUSLIM "shock, horror!" - the storyline will kick off soon, and I am just waiting for the line when someone walks in on them and says "no this cant be happening, you are christian and you are muslim" yay to the gays!

Well I have major work to do so I guess all that’s left is…..

THE IMAGINARY MEN OF PIPPY'S BOUDOIR!

Well I almost couldn’t think of one today, think I am losing my touch with all these imaginary men! but then I remembered watching Guy Ritchie's film RocknRolla and although the majority of my attention was given to Gerard Butler, there was a gay aspect to this film that cant be ignored, handsome bob was the gay characters name and he was played by the lovely Tom Hardy, check it! he also has the sexiest speaking voice I have heard in a long time

Enjoy the sun motherfuckers

xx

2009-05-27T06:38:00.001-07:00

Well what a lovely/random weekend (I know it's wednesday but I been busy)

Friday night I went over to the lovely Tom and Mal's for a gorge dinner and muchos wine, great to catch up. Saturday a mad dash into town as my gorgeous and fabulous friend Miss Dan Jackson kindly sent me 3 free pairs of Monkee Jeans and I needed a new top or 2 to go with them, then a mad dash back home before meeting Maria, Gabe and Jason for wholesome food and even more wholesome rose wine in Gordon Square. Closely followed by a night out in Camden with James and Jim, I stayed at their flat in Kentish Town as getting home was not immediately possible. Woke up to a beautiful, scorching hot day so we headed back into Camden (a bit like returning to the scene of the crime) and had a summer mixture of drinks outside the Edinboro Castle pub, far too many good looking men in one space.

Sunday night was spent with fabulous Oliver at a rather random but fun Drag King event near St Pauls and then monday met up with Clare and Glenn for a nice walk in the sun followed by pints of cloudy cider, yum!! I must attempt to give my withering liver a rest this week! As friday was also pay day I paid Oliver for our trip to Ibiza, also booked my flights to see Tony and Anna in Finland in August and booked tickets to see one of my favourite bands who have just rather quietly reformed - Skunk Anansie! woo!!

Now it's back to work and the sun has disappeared but only for today allegedly, there really is not that much to report on the celeb gossip front sadly, but as always there are rumblings in the gay world, well more like an explosion of anger in California - Proposition 8 (the ban on gay marriage in California) was upheld yesterday, angry protests took place across the state last night. This is a major setback for gay equality and basic human rights, shame on you! Although the 18,000 gay couples that got married before the ban will remain married in the eyes of the law, speaking about this, Out lesbian singer Melissa Etheridge said "So, will anyone be sleeping better tonight? Those full of hate and fear will surely be disappointed that 18,000 same sex couples will be living in wedded bliss [...]. That’s really going to drive them crazy.”
Etheridge went on to tackle the matter of the differences in rights for married and unmarried same-sex couples, adding: “Then there are those of us who still dangle in 'domestic partnership'. We can adopt our own children, but we can't bring our partners, who might be citizens from out of the country, here. We can't file joint tax returns. I could go on.
“How do I explain this to my children? Well, you know Ellen? She is married but Mommy and I are not.”
Looking towards the future, she concluded: “I am hopeful as I see more and more states turn to the inevitable future of equality, California will get there. Change takes time.”
xx

2009-05-22T04:03:00.001-07:00

i could not agree with Jarvis Cocker more - talking about camera phones about concerts

Cocker said: "People feel the need to film events on their phones so they can relive it later. It drives me insane at concerts. It's just happening, innit? Why not just look at it?

"It seems stupid to have something happening in front of you and look at it on a screen that's smaller than the size of a cigarette packet."

He added: "If anything, it undermines the experience because it seemed like a really good moment and now I can see it were crap. It's like wedding videos.

"A wedding should be a magical day because of the personal emotions of the people involved. When you see it with that taken away, just the bare facts of it, it's just some people standing around in a room getting p**sed."

here here!

2009-05-22T03:14:00.001-07:00

Pay day friday, bank holiday weekend - does it get better than this? I think not!

So Michael Jackson has postponed his first few london concerts as there is not enough preparation time to get the show ready, didn’t anybody think about that first? I must say the media coverage has been ridiculous - headline in one london paper "jackson axes five shows", well that’s just blatantly untrue, he has postponed them not cancelled them, who pays these people to just make shit up? I would not mind actually seeing the show, just to say I had been but apparently jackson has a clause in his ctontract about the minimum amount of time he has to be on stage….13 minutes, I fear the fans will be subjected to many video clips with orchestral music that all end with "king of pop" or "god" or "the nelson mandela of music" - shame.

This week BBC1 has been screening a series of plays for the daytime, the series is called "Moving On" and I caught up with a couple on i-player and I have to say they have been really impressive, mainly due to wednesdays having the rather beautiful Richard Armitage in it.

Yesterdays was about a teenage boy who has to deal with his parents finding out he is a cross dresser, it was excellent! and dare I say the rather young man was quite cute, he is far too young though (not even 20 yet!)

Well the weekend promises to be a bit all over the place, going round to tom and mal's for dinner tonight which should be lovely, meeting the lovely maria for a boozy lunch tomorrow and then sunday I am off with Oliver to a drag king event, please god don’t let me chat up a lesbian! the weather is supposed to be amazing so yay and clapping!

Just booked tickets for a gig I have been waiting years for, one of my favourite bands Skunk Anansie are getting back together for the release of their greatest hits and are playing a gig at Brixton Academy at the end of November. I have seen them live before and they are AMAZING!!! Cannot wait!

Sorry for the brief blog today but I have loads on! so without further ado lets get to the good stuff -

THE IMAGINARY MEN OF PIPPY'S BOUDOIR

Actually cant remember if this guy has been in my boudoir before, there is an occupational hazard!! anyways he was the male lead in "Lipstick Jungle" where he simply could not keep his shirt on, and here are a few exhibits as to why that might have been

he could throw me on the floor and have me begging for more, seriously I could spend the whole bank holiday just exploring his right pec!

have a wonderful, marvellous weekend

xx

2009-05-19T04:39:00.000-07:00

Go Cynthia!!

At the weekend Cynthia Nixon (who plays Miranda in Sex and the City) announced her engagement to her female partner at a rally for same sex marriage rights in New York, There has been a lot of anger in America about this issue but in her speech she stated the facts purely and simply with passion, its the best argyment for equal rights i have heard in a long time -

Now the main argument I hear against legalizing same-sex marriage is that in some way this will forever alter and mar traditional marriage, and what I want to know is: How? How will my girlfriend and I getting married have any affect on you and your wife, or you and your husband sitting at home? I also hear that the right to legal same-sex marriage is seen as an attack on traditional marriage, and I want to say that you are not the ones being attacked, we are.

And please believe I'm not being flippant when I say this: The right to marry is about us, it is not about you, any more than the fight for integration was about white people, or a women's right to vote was about men. It is only about you to the extent that you have to live with yourself knowing that you are depriving a significant portion of the population their basic civil rights.

you go girl!

xx

2009-05-18T16:11:00.000-07:00

well the other day i said that i ahd found my own poetry book and i have to admit the majority just too depressing/embarassing for consumption but here are a few that might be semi ok

Simple Daydreams

When do you know
Do you truly know
The feeling of love
A warm grasp of insanity
Covering my sight
The whispers of tenderness
Deafen all my senses
As i look on
Blind to all this gloom
The painful and the beautiful
Tremors in my heart
Or a kiss as I
Lay asleep at night
These are the thoughts
Of love that I wish
That i wish to have
A long way away
From the simple daydreams

Missing You

I may never touch you again
But I will always feel you
I may never see you again
But I will always sense you
I may never hear from you again
But I will always want you
You are in me
And I am in you
We are apart now
Yet always joined
Soul-tied lovers
Who met at the wrong time

Those Mornings

Those mornings when you said yiu'd wake me and didn't
Those mornings when i hadn't bought bread for toast
Those mornings when i hadn't yet washed the shirt that I hadn't ironed either
Those mornings when we didn't make up from our fight the night before
Those mornings of silence of fuming tea drunk from a jug because I'd left all the cups in the sink
Those mornings are the ones I remember fondly
And miss the most now you're gone

Holiday Romance?

You don't want me to love you
You don't want to get involved
You are reluctant to touch me
You don't want me to kiss you

I can't help it, the way I feel
Your attention has captured my senses
Sent me into a whirl of emotion
When I see you, I lose it all

What am I going to do with this?
I can't help but notice you
You've realised I need your love
Now trapped with no way out

I carry your picture in my heart
I hang onto every word you say
I grasp you when you're near
I hold on when you leave

You are messing with my state
I'm screwing up your mind
What else can we do?
Just carrying on with this game

We don't understand the rules
I can't remember whose turn it is
Let's take a break and have a drink
Before we continue this wonderful madness

Please remember that these are very old and allow me the rantings of a teenage homo

xx

2009-05-18T06:49:00.001-07:00

I sit here writing this on my lunch break with a slight feeling that I might be sick on my keyboard and for once this is not due to excessive drinking, this is due to the stench winding its way up my nose from my colleagues outrageously pungent body odour, he has been working here for a few months and his B.O is getting worse by the day. Just to say that he has now left the room and the stench is as bad as when he was sat next to me. Having coped with this for a while I decided today was the day to take action, at first I thought I would be a whimp and just pretend that I was very paranoid about swine flu and walk about with a mask on - but have you tried eating lunch with a swine flu mask on? it is not easy!

So I walked into my managers office and said "right, I am not a bitch or anything but there is an issue in the office" "what might that be?" here goes " well its ******, he frikkin stinks! and its making me gag" - no point beating round the bush. I am not sure what is going to happen now, I would have said something but its not the easiest thing to do, occassionally he will come in smelling slightly better but after a while you realise the sweat smell is still there and has just been drowned in cheap dad type aftershave, cut to me sat typing with my handbag over my nose like a grazing horse.

I shall keep you posted on this, thank god I have this blog as an outlet to my frustrations. Well another weekend has passed by and it was actually quite quiet, I hardly left the house at all, but I made up for that on saturday night, it was Boo's birthday so we hit Unskinny Bop in Bethnal Green and had a drink and a boogie. We also managed to catch most of that Eurovision thing, I have to admit that the UK entry did very well, she sang well and we got a good score …..but I still hate it.

This week is going to be fairly quiet due to the lack of cash, so lots of nights in which is needed really due to the amount of work I have on at the moment! I have sooo many reports to write and am way behind schedule. joy!

right best get on, now where did I put that gas mask??

2009-05-15T03:06:00.000-07:00

well it appears that I spoke to soon about summer being here as this week has been decidedly dreary and the weekend is looking pretty eurgh as well, ah well not long to go til holiday time so I shall grin and bear it!

well the world is in mourning with the split between Katie Price and Peter Andre, she has hit the maldives with 2 of her kids and he has disappeared, I am just hoping that in a few weks we don’t get drowned in OK! magazine covers - her side of the story, his side of the story and then a few weeks later their reconcilliation, I really would not put it past them, years of buying into this stupid celebrity culture has taught me a thing or two about the lengths people will go to.

this weekend it's the Eurovision song contest, I myself am a bit of a bad gay in the fact that I HATE Eurovision, spending a saturday night watching a bunch of total no hopers singing songs that generally speaking will never be heard again is not my idea of fun, and I know people argue that its camp and kitsch but so are many, many better things. ah well to all the gays that love it, enjoy your night and I shall see you next week back in the real world of good music.

Since dealing with real life men doesn’t not seem to be my most accomplished skill, I shall throw myself into the
…
THE IMAGINARY MEN OF PIPPY'S BOUDOIR
am still coping with life with out TV channels mainly due to the joys of bbciplayer and channel4 catch up, but also I cant escape the success of "Britains Got Talent" and last week there was a rather appealing young man singing "aint no sunshine" - he sang it really well and even managed to get a wink from Simon Cowell, I think Simon does this to get the £ sign out of his eye, having seen someone he could possibly shape into a star/money spinner - anyway we will definitely be seeing more of Shaun Smith!!

have a lush weekend
xxx

2009-05-11T06:48:00.001-07:00

So I am really hoping that summer is here, this weekend has been beautiful and as I sit writing this during my lunch hour, the sun is busting a gut outside, everything looks better in the sun apart from dog shit. The men seem to get more attractive in my eyes, although there are builders outside the office today and they are adjacent to repulsive, all fat backsides and reddy alcoholic faces. Anyways I am happy today and have absoilutely nothing to complain about.

Another great summer tune has just hit the airwaves and it's a corker, "When Love Takes Over" by David Guetta featuring Kelly Rowland is going to be all over the dancefloors over the next few months and therefore so am i. There are also a massive amount of funky indie tunes around as well, far too many to list them all, but am particularly loving Marmaduke Duke - Rubber Lover and Carolina Liar - Show me what I'm looking for.

This week is a mixed bag of tricks (and when I say tricks I don’t mean blowing an old guy in a back alley for cash) having a much needed night in tonight, out tomorrow and possibly wednesday night too and then it's boo's birthday at the weekend so am looking forward to a dance! workwise its another busy week, but I seem to be cooking on gas at the moment and my manager seems to be liking a lot of the ideas I am having, now if I could just get someone to write up reports for me I could retire a happy man.

No news on the man front, I am thinking of sitting on street corners and begging for a man much like a homeless person might beg for money, I am on certain website that are meant to act as an introduction to dating etc but most of them are rubbish and why I am always matched with guys that look like convicted paedophilles? Now the sun is out hopefully the nice boys will be out and I might get some action, possibly, maybe.

I found my old poetry book the other night, I started writing poetry in my early teens and that craze lasted a good few years, some of them are totally self indulgent, I am gay woe is me crap, but I am going to have a look tonight to see if any of them (there are over 100) are worthy of putting on here…..

xxx

2009-05-07T04:04:00.001-07:00

I am a morally unacceptable satanist, pleased to meet you.

yes according to a poll that is part of the coexist index 2009, not one of the 1001 british muslims surveyed found homosexuality morally acceptable, on top of that gay activists in Russia have appealed to the president to allow the first ever gay pride march next week, this does not look likely to happen since the Moscow mayor has described homosexuals as "satanic", nice!

Well it’s not all dreary, once famous celebs whose careers have hit the skids are coming out - Kelly McGillis (the female eye candy from Top Gun) has come out and former M*A*S*H actor David Ogden Stiers who played Major Charles Winchester has also leapt out of the closet - woo hoo (kind of)

Oh Lily Allen, I do love you dearly now and cant stop listening to your album and following you on twitter but sometimes less is more on the bitching front, today you have described Cheryl Cole as a bitch. saying "She represents everything I hate. She is stupid, superficial and as ugly outside as inside." and you go on to tap the Beckhams with - "The Beckhams are sickening. Everyone knows Victoria is a monster. I'd rather shoot myself between the eyes than be a WAG" - but Lily if you could express yourself, what would you say?

Now Madonna, I know we have had our problems of late but I do still love you but sometimes you make it really hard, turning up to one of THE fashion events of the year - The Metropolitan Museum of Arts Costume Institute Gala in New York, with a hat that did not make you look dissimilar to the evil rabbit from Donnie Darko, I nearly dropped my gin when I saw this outfit

A new lead in the Madeleine McCann case - witnesses have come forward stating they saw a "very ugly man" watching the holiday apartment where the family were staying, so everyone we are looking for a very ugly man, I suggest possibly starting the search in Barnsley.

xx

2009-05-01T05:34:00.001-07:00

oink oink sneeze!

well the world is seemingly in rather a state of panic due to swine flu, when I first heard about it I thought "ah poor kerry katona has a cold!", it is pretty scary I have to say, last night I saw my first person wearing a face mask on the tube, I presume it was flu related and not just because they were butt ugly. the only problem now is that it's hayfever time of year and so I am probably going to be sneezing a fair amount, I don’t want people to shove me off a bus for a lil sneeze. I am glad that the guidance has been released urging people to ocver their nose and mouth when sneezing, people that were raised right are already doing this, let's hope this etiquette is catching, now if only a disease would crop up that would encourage people to say "please" and "thankyou".

In other not so great news, one of my comedy idol's passed away last weekend, the great Bea Arthur aka Dorothy from "The Golden Girls" - she was always my favourite, her ability to have an audience in stitches just by giving a look was remarkable and her timing was impeccable. I have been watching quite a lot of episodes recently and they are like wine with their age improvement. RIP Bea!

Also how could I forget to mention that my beautiful friend Emma gave birth last weekend to baby Kirsty Alice, a whopping 10lb 10oz! I always knew Emma was gifted!! Am hoping to get back to Sheffield in the next month or so!!

Ah the Bank holiday weekend is but a few hours away and I am tres excited, mainly because the weather forecast is grand and that means ……beer garden!!!! meeting up with lots of different people this weekend and also hopefully havin some time to myself to relax for a while.

THE IMAGINARY MEN OF PIPPY'S BOUDOIR!

Now, I cant claim to be a science fiction geek although I do love Star Wars, but there is a rather massive buzz surrounding the new Star Trek film, and let me tell you, my no no hole is buzzing like crazy due to the fact that Captain Kirk is played by a hottie! yes Chris Pine, nature has been a bit heavy handed on the eyebrow front but he actually makes me clap, my hands are clapping, my legs are clapping and my back bum flaps are clapping, I would even let him give me the clap, yum! clap clap clap!!

have a great bank holiday

xxx

2009-04-29T07:30:00.001-07:00

Frail pippy!

this last week has pretty much sucked big time, I was running a training session in Slough on friday (as if that was not bad enough) I attempted to shift a table in the training room that was a lot heavier than it looked and managed to bugger both my wrists up so typing, lifting, pushing and pulling have been a slight ordeal and then to top things off I must have slept funny on monday night as my neck has been cricked or in spasm for 2 days, slowly but surely getting better but do get the occassional surprise feeling that someone in high heels is standing on my shoulder, so painful that I can't help yelping in pain! boo!

the weekend was fun though, my parents came to stay and we went out for lots of delicious food and visited many markets! what is it with parents and markets? they just love them, they also had cheap tickets for Madam Tussauds so we went there on saturday afternoon, it was absolutely packed! I don’t mind crowds really as long as there is some movement but people were just crowding round the waxworks and I contsantly felt quite trapped, managed to get a few comedy photos and dirty looks from american tourists for simply standing and laughing whilst posing between hitler and hussain!

The line up for this year's V festival is growing by the day, a few more fave's have been added such as Athlete, Red Light Company, Noisettes, Calvin Harris and Jet, please god let the weather be as good as last year and since I am going to the Chelsmford site I may bump into Danny Dyer as he was there last year but has recently disclosed in an interview that he had to leave last year's festival early as he followed through! and yet somehow I still fancy him - dirty pippy!

Well holiday plans are afoot! Thanks to Oliver yet again for sorting out a mega cheap few days in Ibiza in June, then I am off to Finland in August for a few days to see the lovely Tony and Anna and then America later in September. What credit crunch?? Also on the horizon is a civil partnership, not mine sadly but the fabulous James and Jim are getting hitched the same day as London Pride, I am very grateful to them picking this date, I always have to work at London pride andit's not exactly my favourite day, much prefer Brighton Pride where I can just relax and get twatted.

My obsession with the American show "Law and Order - Special Victims Unit" continues with the recentdelivery of season 8, I have managed a few episodes but I am not impressed mainly because the main female lead played by Mariska Hargitay is not featured heavily due to the actress being pregnant so they have temporarily replaced her and the new actress is just hateful, I think this is on purpose but me no likey! although on a positive note they did manage to get my swoonthrob Chris Meloni down to his underwear in episode 4 so all is kinda forgiven

Well we have a bank holiday weekend just round the corner, big snaps to Oliver who is cycling coast to coast for charity, I shall be toasting whilst he is coasting! the plans for the weekend are a bit sketchy but I do intend to drink a little and hopefully bask in the sun!

xx

2009-04-23T04:34:00.001-07:00

Well it had to happen sooner or later, it has been announced that there is going to be a "Jade Goody : The Muscial" - auditions for the role of Ms Goody are to be held shortly, I do think this idea has potential - from her early years in Bermondsey, I am picturing an Oliver Twist with a twist affair - the drugs, the crime - songs like "daddy don’t shoot up in the KFC toilets anymore" and surely an award should be given for the songwriter who gets "one armed lesbian" into a into a dance number. Moving onto Jade's success in Big brother - " Listen to me singin, Am I mingin?", and the classic "I can't spell tarantula, where on earth is east angular". Following that there is the run of reality shows and OK Magazine covers and then back into the big brother house - I feel this should incorporate a bollywood theme possibly with dancing poppadom's? Just a few ideas but I think it will be a corker and cant wait to see it!

xx

2009-04-22T07:14:00.000-07:00

My lovely parents are coming to stay with me this weekend and hopefully it shall be good weather and we can have a good explore of London, they love walking on the south bank and borough market and all the little antique shops near me in Angel but also they are dragging me to Madam Tussaud's (they have blagged cheap tickets) I don’t mean to appear ungrateful but I cant see the appeal at all, it's half tempting to take an aerosol and a lighter and jazz a few of the waxworks up a bit. Look out for me on the news!

Sadly before that happens I have to spend friday in Slough, now I have never been to Slough but it does not sound like the most tempting of places, Jimmy Carr stated "I grew up in Slough in the 1970's, if you want to know what Slough was like in the 1970's…go there now" Thankfully I shall be going straight there and back before they realise that I am not one of them.

xx

2009-04-21T05:02:00.001-07:00

Let the sunshine, gays to blame for gun crime!

yes just when you thought it was safe to go back in the gay bar, it turns out that us sausage botherers are pretty much solely to blame for gun crime and the decrease in society's morality. After being blamed for the destruction of the rainforests, 9/11 and hurricane katrina this is all I need. A guy called Robert Peters who is the president of some bullshit organisation called "Morality in Media" has stated that

It most certainly is not my intention to blame the epidemic of mass murders on the gay rights movement", he then linked the success of the gay marriage sexual revolution to a fall in morality, saying this is what causes gun crime.
Mr Peters argued: "It is my intention to point out that the success of the sexual revolution is inversely proportional to the decline in morality; and it is the decline of morality (and the faith that so often under girds it) that is the underlying cause of our modern day epidemic of mass murders."
Spread the love Mr Peters, spread the love!

He also claimed the the recent decision of the Iowa Supreme Court to legalise gay marriage in the state was part of the "damage" inflicted on society which was leading to paedophilia and STDs, among others.
Oh Mr Peters get off your high horse, suck on a solero and shut the fuck up.

Speaking of hgh horses (not Amy Winehouse) our dear dear leader Madonna took a bit of a tumble this weekend whilst riding a horse in the Hamptons. She's fine though and was spotted the next day with a smile on her face, she has blamed her fall on over eager paparazzi leaping out of bushes but they say that they are not to blame - who to trust I cannot figure.

Now this weekend on "Britain's got talent" (watched via the joyous youtube) there was a pretender to Susan Boyle's throne, 12 year old Shaheen Jafargholi came on stage looking all sweet and innocent and started singing "Valerie" only to be stopped almost immediately by Simon Cowell asking if he sang anything else , the audience looked confused (as if someone had just said 1 + 1?) but luckily Shaheen had also bought and got lined up "Who's Loving You", well thank god for that, obviously this was not staged at all, the fact that the kid had a frikkin smile on his face when Simon stopped him and the other 2 judges were looking shocked (quite an acting stretch for Amanda Holden), anyways the kid nailed it but he did sing the exact version that Michael Jackson sang as a child note for note etc, so hopefully we will get a taste of what else he can do later.

Well the sun is shining and I cant sit indoors anymore

laters!

xx

2009-04-17T03:28:00.000-07:00

I do usually love the famous gays, the role models for the youth but occasionally a totally wrong opinionated twat comes along to poop all over the party cue Rupert Everett. Recently, Rupert gave an interview where he said …..and I believe this is verbatim

"I think this surrogacy thing is crap. It is utterly hideous. I think it's egocentric and vain.
"And these endless IVF treatments people go through. I mean, if you are meant to have babies then great. But this whole idea of two gay guys filling a cocktail shaker with their sperm and impregnating some grim lesbian and then it gets cut out is just really weird.
"If I did have the impulse to be a parent, I would adopt - or foster. But this whole thing of forcing the idea of parenthood on us gay men is so bogus. Marriage? Babies? Please. I want to be illegal. I want to live outside the mainstream."
He added: "Or am I slightly ahead of the curve? It has to change. These awful middle-class queens - which is what the gay movement has become - are so tiresome. It's all Abercrombie & Fitch and strollers. Everybody has the right to do what they want to do, but still…"
Oh shut up Rupert! You know what I hate? gay men who will go to ridiculous lengths to make themselves look younger by tying a bungee rope to the back of their head and getting a fat person to jump off their skull - exhibit a -

I mean really it looks like latex, I would not be surprised if he ripped it off and croaked that he would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for those pesky kids

Well this weekend is going to be a mixed bag of tricks but all fun I am sure, I know its been a while but what the hell, its been one of those weeks and since its friday why not have a

IMAGINARY MEN OF PIPPY'S BOUDOIR!
Yes it's back, maybe for one week, maybe more but now the blogging is back on track I thought why not, so this week it's a bit of a random one but he is oh so fine, you may recognise him from the Birdcage, Sex and the city, Will and Grace or A Mighty Heart with Angelina Jolie, He is the oh so handome and ever so slightly hairy (ya know I loves me some hairy) Dan Futterman. Enjoy

xx

2009-04-17T00:55:00.000-07:00

The Pink Paper strikes again

Can anyone tell me why this story is in the gay press specifically?

a nurse who accessed pornographic websites at work and “caused distress and humiliation to patients” has been found guilty of misconduct.

Julian Faulkner’s alleged history of misdemeanours covers a period of two years, from May 2004 to June 2006. Incidents include asking a female colleague to molest a patient, showing another an image of a penis on staff computers and repeatedly watching the Iraqi execution of Briton Ken Bigley at work.

The 34-year-old nurse also threw grapes at one patient and, after ignoring an incontinent patient’s requests to visit the toilet, sprayed him with cold water as he was lifted out of the bath.

He also used inappropriate language at work and discussed his sex life with staff on the ward, the hearing was told.

Links on his computer were found to videos showing pitbull dogs killing a man in Paraguay and another man being run over in Brazil.

The nurse was found guilty of six charges alleging inappropriate behaviour. He now faces being kicked out of the profession.

NMC chairman Judith Worthington said: “These patients were entitled to receive safe and competent care and had the right to expect they were in a safe environment, This Is Derbyshire reported.

“As a registered nurse, Mr Faulkner owed each of these patients a duty of care. The nurse caused distress and humiliation to patients in his care by reason of the matters found proved. The nurse’s inappropriate behaviour was persistent. It was repeated despite the distaste expressed by female work colleagues.

“His actions indicated serious failings and amounted to conduct unworthy of a nurse. The panel is satisfied that they amounted individually and accumulatively to misconduct.”

Rosemary Paul, for the NMC, said Faulkner worked as a D-grade staff nurse at the time of the allegations, which related to two patients three times.

“The charges also relate to the way Mr Faulkner interacted with staff on the ward,” she added. “He was inappropriate in using sexual language in relation to his own sex life and in relation to patients and work colleagues.

“His use of the work IT system was inappropriate conduct in that he accessed inappropriate websites and showed colleagues explicit images

I am sorry but where is the gay slant of this story, was the nurse gay? is that it? I must be missing something but am not sure what.

You may not realise this but sports presenter Claire Balding, ya know big shoulders, face slightly like a bo selecta mask, big chin? well she is an out and proud lesbian and the other week she got into s bit of trouble - she was covering the Grand National for the BBC and was interviewing the jockey of the winning horse who let's just say had teeth like the before shot in a dental advert, Claire casually mentioned that with his winnings he could afford to "get his teeth done" and the BBC received 1477 complaints - ha ha, I think the woman was pure comedy! more I say more lesbian comedy on the Beeb!

Well finally the last episode of "Horne and Corden" has aired on BBC3, I have to admit the series has been a tad shit but they tried! and dare I say I found the kiss between Horne as Superman and Corden as Spiderman ever so slightly arousing? well I have said it now and cant take it back, yes I have the hots for a decidely average actor and his obese comedy partner.

It's been a while since I have been on that internet site of intellect - the Sheffield Forum, where the people of my fair home city log on to wax lyrical about the hot topics of the day, although often the questions asked can be a tad fuckin stupid or people just go on there to comment on new aspects of the city - here is a corker, talking about a new Tesco store that has recently opened

- Has anyone been? I think it is fantastic it sells everything even sells sweets! And It even has a bakery!

For ten years I have had to put up with poor service from local shops (unprofessional to say the least). The staff at this tesco are great.
No local shop can even compete with their management structure

the majority of the questions asked are by such stupid people, they actually go on line log into the site, post a question and then wait for a response, the only problem being that they are usually asking for phone numbers or email addresses, dare I say google? muppets!

I would normally actually have part of this blog full to the brim with showbiz gossip but the cold, hard fact is that it's a bit thin on the ground at the moment, is it just me or is nobody of interest doing anything at the moment? I would report on the amount of times Britney has said something stupid in concert lately but that's getting to be too regular an occurrence, Amy Winehouse is back in St Lucia so the streets of Camden are tumbleweeded at the moment and Kerry Katona is not daring to set foot outside her front door at the moment, possibly too twatted to find it.

Here's hoping for a revelation soon!
xx

2009-04-14T03:38:00.001-07:00

I am sat here rather confused today, over the last few months the national lesbian and gay newpaper "Pink Paper" has repeatedly featured stories on various child abuse stories, the majority of these have been carried out by men who identify as heterosexual. Why, I ask myself should these stories be specifically featured in a gay publication, is the pink paper guilty of associating paedophillia with gay sexuality? I already get sick of the shocking headlines in the Daily Mail, so why am I reading the same scare mongering stories in the gay press?

I occasionally use the Amazon website to order dvd's and cd's but this weekend the site made a hugely offensive mistake, anyone going on their site looking for lesbian or gay books, dvd's etc were finding their searches turning up nothing, Amazon had removed all gay related material deeming it as adult material, they have since apologised but still that aint nice, they had even removed John Barrowman's autobiography and no one can ever say that is adult, a child could have written it.

As you know I don’t really watch TV but it was brought to my attention this weekend that I must go on youtube to catch an audition on "Britain's Got Talent", a woman called Susan Boyle came on stage, lets just say she fits into the Heather Trott off Eastenders style woman, lives on her own with her cat, never been married, never been kissed - the judges and the audience were openly laughing in her face when she said she wanted to be the next Elaine Paige, that was until she started singing - just check her out on youtube, it is quite amazing!

xx

2009-04-08T03:06:00.000-07:00

I am feeling like it's going to be one of those days

This morning I discovered I had a special and yet unwanted power - I apparently have an invisible message scrawled across my forehead, it's quite a lengthy message but people still seem to pick it up - it goes like this

* need directions? don’t ask all the people around me who don’t have earphones in, ask me!,( I really wanted that song interrupted so I could direct you to the street that you were standing on in the first place)

* do you have a weight problem, bad body odour, weeping sores on your face and a can of special brew in your hand? come sit next to me on a hot bus it will make the journey simply fly by

*can you see me coming? please walk sideways across the pavement, walk into me and then tut!

Yes this message is very clear and tends to happen most days, also sometimes it applies to people are, let's just say ever so slightly similar in mental stature to that of Heather Trott from Eastenders - shouting random stuff at me like "that'll be my teatime!" or "I don’t like peas!" - maybe you should have got on that Variety Club bus?

Now for all his faults Tony Blair has always been good to the gays and in the latest edition of Attitude Magazine he has given us a shout out again! He has not slagged off that Pope geezer for his "entrenched" views on homosexuality -

"There is a huge generational difference here. There's probably that same fear amongst religious leaders that if you concede ground on [homosexuality], because attitudes and thinking evolve over time, where does that end? You'd start having to rethink many, many things."
He added: "If you went and asked the [ordinary Catholic] congregation, I think you'd find that their faith is not to be found in those types of entrenched attitudes.
"Actually, we need an attitude of mind where rethinking and the concept of evolving attitudes becomes part of the discipline with which you approach your religious faith."
Go Tony!

I really hope that this is a phase I am going through but I cannot stop listening to the new Calvin Harris single, it's trance for god's sake!! but I slapped it on this morning as I woke up and within seconds I was throwing some serious shapes around the room, I looked like an extra from "Human Traffic" - what next neon face paint and glow sticks? I feel like getting a blackboard and writing 100 times - I am an indie boy, trance is awful - one thing this TUNE does mean is that summer is round the corner, there is always one massive track in these few months and I think this might be it. Oh I hope this summer is fierce, I want festivals and beer gardens and sunshine and sex with men (I know this last one is not just a summer escapade, well for me its more like an annual escapade)

Talking of Festivals - I am off to V Festival again this year!!! I will be working but last year that still left me plenty of time to see bands and the line up so far is looking good - The Killers, Oasis (who I have slagged off 1000 times but I reckon they would be pretty good live) Keane, Razorlight, Lily Allen, Snow Patrol, Elbow, James, Wombats, The Enemy, Paulo Nutini, Lady Gaggin! - should be amazing, if the weather is as good as last year.

anyways that enough from me

have fun

xx

2009-04-07T06:16:00.000-07:00

Another delayed blog from me, ah well it turns out that you can't have it all!

Right let's kick off with Madonna, bless her, she is not having a good time of it at the moment, after declaring that she wanted to adopt a second child from Malawi, a little girl called Mercy, the judge in the case has refused and Madonna had to leave the country empty handed and very upset. I imagine not half as upset as Mercy James will be in a few years time when she is told that the woman who wanted to take her away and give her a new life was one of the most famous and wealthy women in the world - poor old mercy gets a visit from Davina McCall once every 2 years for a Comic Relief film whereas Baby David gets his own country.

All is not well in the world of lesbian love - allegedly Lohan and Ronson are no more, ruours have appeared today saying that Ronson's family have taken a restraining order out on Ms Lohan, she does tend to be a lil crazy but what harm can she do, I am not sure of her exact weight but you could twat her with a tissue and she would fly! not that scary really.

Now as you may know I don’t watch TV, but I have recently discovered that joys of bbc iplayer and channel 4OD, which means I was able to watch the much talked about episode of Eastenders the other night, It didn’t take me long to catch up on what was going on but it was a corking episode, lets face it when they get it right they really get it right, oh it had everything, a wedding, anger, tears, pat, death. I just love it that they wait for everyone to get in the Queen Vic before making a big reveal/announcement/drama, you can imagine Peggy Mitchell at the door saying "nah I cant slap ya til them from no.43 come in", I may have to start watching this show again especially since they may be adding the love of my life to the cast - Danny Dyer! get in!

I have also discovered (and it's only taken me a few years) The IT Crowd, I have seen the odd episode before but watched loads over the weekend and I have to say it is hilarious and full of those moments that define my life - those of sheer stupidity and total embrassment. I seriously cannot recommend this show enough.

Well easter is just round the corner and all I can say is it can't get here soon enough, the joy of a long weekend!! just hope the weather stays sweet!

have fun

xx

2009-03-25T06:08:00.000-07:00

Well it was going to happen, we all knew it was going to happen but inevitability does not make Jade Goody's death any less shocking. It does seem strange that so much attention should be paid to someone who a few years ago was unknown but her impact on people has really shone through, I was sat up last night and actually gave it my first bit of thought since her death on sunday. It's hard to believe that she has gone. As an almost addicted buyer of celeb magazines, Jade has always been a regular feature be it for her troubled past coming back to haunt her or her ongoing drama's with men and now at the young, young age of 27 she has passed away. It is hard to get my feelings down but I guess the only way to say it is that it is oh so sad, at least her pain is over now.

Right onto ranting, now this might make me sound insensitive but twice in the last 2 weeks I have been on crammed london buses and been forced to move out of the way for a woman with a baby buggy the size of a frikkin range rover, don’t get me wrong I have nothing against mothers or babies but the fact that twice now I have had to move for a buggy without a frikkin baby in it!!!! is this just being used as an alternative shopping trolley or a larger than life zimmer frame? Either way it pisses me off and next time it happens I am going to sit in the fuckin thing.

My next rant is about a certain type of singing that is infecting the charts right now and is literally raping my ears on breakfast radio every morning, the guilty parties are Kelly Clarkson, Taylor Swift, Avril Lavigne and dare I say it even Pink. It’s the "I cant be arsed to sing so I am just going to shout angrily whilst a guitar plays in the background" style, Kelly Clarkson's "My life would suck without you" is the worst of the lot. Now Kelly, I used to love "Since you've been gone" it resonated with me and also reminded me of my first night in Australia - good times, I know you have a beautiful voice and when it comes to ballads you sound lovely, so stop frikkin shouting, there frankly is no need and the world is an angry enough place already, seriously Kelly - give peace a chance.

Having been ill recently I have spent far too much time trawling the bermuda triangle of the internet aka youtube. I was sick of being sickand wanted to laugh so I thought what did I use to laugh at and one particular memory came back to me, The Big Breakfast with Johnny Vaughan and Denise Van Outen, it was quality brekkie viewing, riddled with sexual innuendo. So I started searching for clips and there are quite a few out there including the classic game show "Gaggin for it" which basically featured Johnny as a cheesy game show host and Denise as his extreme essex glam assistant, Denise was fab always really rude and dashing off at the end either to pick the kids up, do littlewoods catalogues knicker section modelling or simply off to the toilet. check it out on youtube, it kept me amused.

I logged onto Heat Magazine's website the other day and they had this picture of Jodie Marsh on there, all they kept going on about was her nasty wig, erm hello, can someone please notice her lips?? she looks like an extra from the 80's film "Dark Crystal", stop working on yourself Jodie! you can't polish a turd

xx

2009-03-21T00:36:00.000-07:00

Well the sun is shining and this week we have had some of the hottest days of the year so far, I thought to myself - how can I celebrate the turn of the weather, shall i rundown the street lauging and slapping people on the back in fits of joy? shall i go out and buy 101 summer hits - the album and blast it from my living room? No! I shall get a cold and end up in bed for 2 days sneezing and coughing shouting at passing school children to go and f*ck themselves. Yes that's exactly what I will do!

So my 2 days of hell have given me plenty of time to catch up on the celeb/gay world (what else is there?) - Very sad news about the sudden death of the actress Natasha Richardson. A reminder to us all to live each day to the full!

I have to say I have been keeping myself busy but not exactly in the most productive way, thanks to the joys of bbc iplayer I managed to catch up on all the episodes of "Mistresses" that I had missed, god that is a good series, it really is a homo's dream come true - 4 strong, fierce female leads with plenty of hotties to even up the balance. Next week is the last episode and I am drenched with anticipation.

It turns out after a few doubts over the last few months that my gaydar is on the rocks it turns out that the gaydar is very much intact. A few years ago I was sat watching MTV cribs with my friend Emma and they were going round wide mouthed country singer Leanne Rhimes house. She was showing viewers round her non descript pile of stone with her new husand Dean and I am slightly ashamed to admit this but I was just looking at her husband and screaming from my seat "Woah she gay honey!!, SHE GAY!!", and what has happened in the news this week? well Ms Rhimes (thats Leanne by the way, not a playful name for her husband) has allegedly been having an affair with hot actor Eddie Cibrian, one of her husband's family members called in a radio show and instead of denying the existence of the affair - the relative outed the husband as a lover of the penis!!! and now people are crawling out of the woodwork saying they have been getting on down on his woodwork! love it, SHE GAY!!!!

Talking of the gays, how adorable are Ellen Degeneres and Portia De Rossi, Ellen had Portia as a guest on her chat show this week, they are just too cute together!! I don't know what it is about celebrity lesbians but I always prefer them to celebrity gays, maybe it's jealousy or maybe it's just that the majority of celebrity gay men are just hideous.

Well I have now watched 2 episodes of the new BBC3 sketch show "Horne and Corden" and to be honest it is pretty shit, I have to say that the one bit that I totally love is probably the bit that has the gay community up in arms with rants of homophobia. It's Matt Horne as the camp gay news reporter! It really is an oscar worthy performance, if you have ever met a camp, northern gay out on the scene you will know exactly what I mean. I do like Horne and Corden but they are in serious danger of being over exposed, TV show, hosting the brits, awful new film - just go away for a whle and write the last series of "Gavin and Stacey".

Here's hoping I am better soon, Laters!!

xx

2009-03-16T06:08:00.000-07:00

Now I don't quite know what to do? Laugh or cry - On Saturday morning I was at home flicking through my usual list of websites and happened upon heat magazines website, the top story was that Kerry "I bet she eats with her mouth open" Katona was getting divorced from her dodgy as fuck husband Mark Croft, part oif me was sat at the laptop laughing whilst doing the "I told you so dance" but then I clicked on the video clip from her latest reality show where she is seen chatting on the phone about the impending divorce and breaks down in tears. She does cut a very sad figure and my heart did actually go out to her…..so the news today that they are apparently back together has just infuriated me, That girl needs some serious help but I guess as the saying goes "You can't help someone who won't help themself"

It has also been reported this morning that Jade Goody may only have hours to live, It reallyis one of those stories that has hit me hard, I just can't believe it is happening. I take back all the bad things I have said about her in the past, I think she has handled this so well, she has raised awareness of cervical cancer and been as dignified as possible whilst obviously raising as much money as she can for her 2 sons, I am just not looking forward to the news when it breaks.

Well this weekend was a bit weird really, I have had my friend Dan staying which has been lovely but also a weekend tinged with a bit of sadness as my friend Tony has left London to move to Finland, We went out on saturday night to bid a fond farewell with much lager and tequila, I stayed at Tony's on saturday to help him get to the airport yesterday, which was a slight challenge but we made it in plenty of time, tis sad to see him go but now I have a marvellous excuse to visit Finland at some point this summer.

It was Comic Relief on friday night and as I am still not watching TV I caught up with most of the action on saturday with iplayer, I have to admit that I wasn't that impressed. The hosting was fine and as usual I cried buckets at the heart wrenching reports from the UK and Africa but the actual comedy sketches were really dull, The Royle Family was the best of a bad bunch really. Little Britain just need to call it a day really, they are trying to be shocking but I have moved on and they should too.

The reports from Africa were very moving, It has to be said that even though she has that annoying gob wide open silent laugh, Davina McCall knows how to get you crying, The report she did that looked into deaths of mothers during childbirth in Africa was particularly upsetting, the rate of deaths of mothers due to complications during childbirth in the UK is 1 in 8200, in some parts of Africa the figure is 1 in 8! You can still donate money to comic relief here

www.bbc.co.uk/rednoseday

xx

2009-03-12T09:34:00.001-07:00

Oh lord the blog really has been out on a backburner for a while now, basically I have been extremely busy at work and doing quite a bit of travelling around the country. So from now on I guess the blog will just be done when I can, I can't keep up with the daily nonsense that once was.

So anyway whats been occuring in the showbiz world, Jade Goody's story is still upsetting me but I am glad that she has managed to squeeze a fortune out of the joke that is OK! Magazine, I was in Tesco today and there are 3 different copies of the magazine out at once!

Also in the news Michael Jackson has announced a massive 45 concerts at the o2 Arena from July this year through to February next year. I remember seeing Michael Jackson on his Dangerous Tour years ago andf he was fantastic but I do have the feeling that he just doesn't have it in him anymore to deliver a fabulous performance and it's proibably going to be endless videos and smoke and mirrors, Think I will wait for the dvd.

Mother of 2 and role model Britney Spears made a boo boo on stage the other night, thinking her microphone was off she said to her dancers "My pussy is hanging out" - beautifully put Ms Spears, Let's hope for another slip like that when she hits the UK.

As for big gay news well it's all a bit miserable really, the government is planning to carry out a massive consultation on domestic violence but it will not cover abuse in same sex relationships, that's really helpful and forward thinking, thanks for that. That puts across a very clear message that gay relationships don't matter and that domestic violence does not happen in gay relationships. This whole fear of asking sexuality based questions in national research bugs the hell out of me, how can we provide good, appropriate services to lesbians and gay men if we don’t know who they are or where they are.

I love the animated sitcom "Family Guy" mainly because it totally pisses off right wing America with its explicit content, a parents group is up in arms at a recent episode which featured 11 men in a gay orgy, a baby eating horse semen instead of milk on his cereal and beastiality, after the episode the Parents Television Council said

Fox treated viewers to everything from an 11-way gay orgy to baby Stewie eating a bowl of cereal with horse sperm instead of milk.
"If that isn’t enough, the show’s leading character is also shown fanaticizing about his wife and moaning while a horse licks his bare behind. Clearly, the explicit content was not isolated to one instance in one segment of the show; it permeated the entire programme."
Speaking about a previous complaint from the group, Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane told theadvocate.com: "That’s like getting hate mail from Hitler. They’re literally terrible human beings. I’ve read their newsletter, I’ve visited their website, and they’re just rotten to the core.
"For an organisation that prides itself on Christian values - I mean, I’m an atheist, so what do I know? - they spend their entire day hating people."
He also went onto say that the Parent Television Council could go and suck his dick - love it!!

That's all for today! Back whenever

x

2009-02-23T05:39:00.001-08:00

Just as there is one gay victory on one side of the pond, over here things are quite different. You may remember in August last year I mentioned the brutal and homophobic murder of 18 year old young gay man, Michael Causer in Liverpool. The trial has been happening over the last few weeks and has focused on the 3 young men accused of playing a part in Michael's murder. James O'Connor has admitted to murdering Causer and will be sentenced later this month. However, on friday, Gavin Alker (18) was found not guilty of murder or manslaughter. Witnesses stated that they saw Alker punching and kicking Causer in the head, Causer was then attacked further and left for dead in the street. He died several days later after failed attempts to reduce swelling on his brain.

I am not a legal expert but how a jury can manage to find someone not guilty after testimonies were heard saying that the accused was seen kicking Causer in the head is beyond me.

Alker is now walking the streets of Liverpool a free man, Causer's family and friends organised a protest yesterday against the ridiculous verdict and continue to fight for justice

xx

2009-02-23T03:06:00.000-08:00

It's one of my favourite days of the year! yes it's time for all the post Oscar Awards fun! As per usualy I totally missed the actual awards due to nazi style broadcasting, I miss the good old days where the show would be on BBC1 til the early hours and you didn't have to pay to specifically watch it. The great thing though is watching all the best bits on the internet without having to endure the "Best Short Animated Film" etc.

Before I start talking about all that silly acting/film business, I shall get my priorities right and talk about the real issues, the dresses!!!!!!! Ok so who was hot and who was not last night - There were some stunning frocks on show and some hideous mistakes, so let's begin with the classic, never puts a foot wrong, She finally won the Oscar for Best Actress for her performance in "The Reader" - the sublime Kate Winslet!

A surprise actress who nailed it in my opinion, mainly because I loves me a good train! Marisa Tomei looked stunning

Meryl Streep is always a bit hit and miss at these things, she either looks flawless or like she was getting dressed whilst making the kids lunch, making sure they had all done their homework and ending up leaving the house with her blouse on backwards and toast in her hair but thankfully the fashion gods gobbed a huge spit of style on her and she looked amazing, here with her co-stars from doubt, although her co star Viola Davis' dress does remind me of something Whoopi Goldbergs character would have worn in Sister Act and I aint talking about a bad habit!

Speaking of Whoopi - jesus suffering fuck! that is all I can say, it is like Scary Spice actually ate a leopard and vomitted all over her, maybe not just the one leopard, had to steal this image from Perez Hilton, no one else seems brave enough to show it

Other stunners on the night included the always fabulous Sarah Jessica Parker, just perfection

Penelope Cruz always delivers and nailed it with this, but she is so stunning she could probably even make crocs work

Now Beyonce what have I told you, stop stop stop getting that colorblind mother of yours to make your oufits, you look like a pair of curtains at Neverland girl!

The award for wasting potential with a safeblack dress goes to "faceache, I don't want to be here" Angelina Jolie, honey you are truly sensationally good looking but you can't just rely on Brad Pitt to make your outfit pop and at least smile with your eyes!

That's enough of the fashion, the awards were hosted by one of the hottest men around, the great Hugh Jackman who has that rare quality of being drop dead gorgeous, totally charming and immensely talented. Apparently he did a great job but I can't say I have seen enough of the show yet to judge, but boy he looks good in a suit!

The speeches were all good, Winslet didn't shame herself but actually said what I think anyone would say in that situation. Sean Penn used his win for Best Actor in the Harvey Milk biopic "Milk" to highlight some very important issues

"Thank you. Thank you. You commie, homo-loving sons-of-guns. I did not expect this, but I, and I want it to be very clear, that I do know how hard I make it to appreciate me often. But I am touched by the appreciation and I hoped for it enough that I did want to scribble down, so I had the names in case you were commie, homo-loving sons-of-guns, and so I want to thank my best friend, Sata Matsuzawa. My circle of long-time support, Mara, Brian, Barry and Bob. The great Cleve Jones. Our wonderful writer, Lance Black. Producers Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks.
And particularly, as all, as actors know, our director either has the patience, talent and restraint to grant us a voice or they don't, and it goes from the beginning of the meeting, through the cutting room. And there is no finer hands to be in than Gus Van Sant. And finally, for those, two last finallies, for those who saw the signs of hatred as our cars drove in tonight, I think that it is a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit and reflect and anticipate their great shame and the shame in their grandchildren's eyes if they continue that way of support.

We've got to have equal rights for everyone. And there are, and there are, these last two things. I'm very, very proud to live in a country that is willing to elect an elegant man president and a country who, for all its toughness, creates courageous artists. And this is in great due respect to all the nominees, but courageous artists, who despite a sensitivity that sometimes has brought enormous challenge, Mickey Rourke rises again and he is my brother. Thank you all very much"
No Thankyou Sean for playing Harvey Milk with such respect and dignity and for speaking out when it isn't always cool to do so.

Another great speech on the night which brought a tear to my eye was the heartfelt speech of Dustin Lance Black who won the screenplay award for "Milk" saying
"I heard the story of Harvey Milk and it gave me hope. It gave me the hope to live my life openly as who I am, and that one day I could even fall in love and get married.

"I want to thank my mom, who has always loved me for who I am even when there was pressure not to.

"But most of all, if Harvey had not been taken from us 30 years ago, I think he would want me to say to all of the gay and lesbian kids out there tonight who have been told that they are less than by their churches or by the government or by their families, that you are beautiful, wonderful creatures of value, and that no matter what anyone tells you God does love you and that very soon I promise you, you will have equal rights federally across this great nation of ours.
"Thank you and thank you God for giving us Harvey Milk

I have yet to see Slumdog Millionaire but may try and catch it next weekend, I shall reserve judgement til then.

xx

2009-02-20T18:43:00.000-08:00

It really is the pick of the pops!

A coalition of lesbian, gay and bisexual rights groups in Italy plan to protest at a major music event in Italy tomorrow after the inclusion of a song about a gay man "turning" straight.

Controversial performer Povia has penned the song Luca Was Gay and is competing for the accolade of best song at the Sanremo music festival.

36 year old singer Povia from Milan has angered gay rights groups because his song implies that gays can turn straight, the lyrics -

"Luca once was gay but he's with her today. When Luca talks, he holds his heart in his hand. Luca says: Today I am a different man.

"Today I'm a different man, but back then I needed answers. I was so ashamed, so I did my looking in secret. There were people who told me, "It's natural," but I studied Freud and I knew he didn't see it that way.

"I got through high school, still not knowing what happiness was. An older man made my heart race and that's when I realised I was homosexual.

"With him, I didn't hold back. He gave me lots of attention, and I thought it was love. Sure, I could be myself, but then the sex became a competition.

"I felt like I was the guilty one. I figured they'd catch him sooner or later, but I could make the truth disappear so he wouldn't get in trouble.

"I was looking for my father in all those men. I went with them so as not to betray my mother."

Everybody dance now!! whoop whoop, catchy lyrics, nothing like a good tune to set my toes a tappin!

oh who cares if he did turn straight, who cares if the writer or singer of the song turned straight, honey!! with talent like that - the gays don't want you anyway! now where did i put that closet door key?

x

2009-02-19T03:34:00.000-08:00

Brit Awards? Shit Awards more like!

I didn't manage to catch the awards live but watched them online straight after and it really was pretty bad! Let's start at the beginning - I love U2 and have done for a very long time but there new single is a bit too easy for me, it does not sound like a lot of effort went into it and they have been away for years so let's hope that the album proves me wrong.

Other performances included Girls Aloud (the only bit of glam for the evening) - although pisshead Sarah Harding let the side down with her drunken rant after the group won Best British Single, the other girls looked tres embarassed. There was of course the collaboration between the Ting Tings and Estelle, Am I the only one who thought someone backstage had pressed play on the Ting Tings song and then pressed play on Estelle's song in the hope that they would sound good together? Estelle also looked like a bad drag queen after 4 hours on stage at the 2 Brewers!

There were certain points in the evening where I got a bit gayly excited - The Kings Of Leon are simply stunning and blatantly did the best performance of the night, also despite apparently miming Take That looked as good as ever. Coldplay need to change those outfits and get them washed - Do think they were robbed for Best Album and Group though!

Now Pet Shop Boys - I had so much hope for you but it was pretty dull, Lady Gagging appearing for half a second and Brandon Flowers from the Killers?? (he also looked pretty beautiful though) where was the glamour? the near naked men? the homoerotic overload??

Iron Maiden - Best Live Act?? I did not know they were even alive let alone live!

James Corden, Matt Horne and Kylie were slightly painful it has to be said but they had their moments, Katy Perry winning Best International Female was a bit of a joke right? they were not serious. She is if you pardon my french - a talentless overly made up minge teasing fuckhead.

Anyway that's it for another year and I for one am slightly relieved, Also last night I watched the first episode in the new series of "Mistresses" - I totally missed the last series but found it quite easy to catch up and I can just tell that I am going to be totally addicted - too many good looking men and fiesty women in one show! Love Sarah Parish!!

Good news - Rev.Fred Phelps and Shirley Phelps from the Westboro Baptist Chruch have been excluded from entering the UK by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith.
"Both these individuals have engaged in unacceptable behaviour by inciting hatred against a number of communities," a UK Border Agency spokesman told The Sun.
"The government has made it clear it opposes extremism in all its forms.
"The exclusions policy is targeted at all those who seek to stir up tension and provoke others to violence regardless of their origins and beliefs."
The "Church" responded in its usual throwaway and light hearted fashion -
"You British Bastards will not have Jesus Christ to rule over you, and think you can issue bans and pass laws to remove God’s word from the landscape.
"You do greatly err, not knowing the power of God; and, you do that against your own interests. It is a great kindness to have God’s prophets in your land.
"But, you ungrateful brutes despise knowledge. It is too late for the UK. God Hates You! God’s wrath and destruction is all that’s left for you, thanks to Secretary Smith."
They also referred to Queen Elizabeth II as a "whore" - now I am not sure where they are getting there information from but I think she has been married for over 60 years and is 82 years old, not exactly pole dancing is she.
In other gay related goings on - Hip Hop star Kanye "mad as a box of hair" West has been speaking out about the gays, saying that he is trying to turn the word "gay" round from a negative to a positive, saying that in the future when he refers to anything as gay, it is a compliment, as gays are all stylish and at the core of groundbreaking art and design - I am thinking Kanye has not experienced some of the more rural gay bars in England, although his recent foray into a Mullet hairstyle stinks of the Sheffield scene queens. Kanye is also quoted as saying
"But in the past two, three years, all the gay people I've encountered have been, like, really, really, extremely dope."
Well indeed Kanye you are right, I am particularly dope! sometimes I go to the extreme of dope that I can barely get back from dope, people yell at me in the street "girl you is well dope" I just snap my fingers and flash my woohoo at such catcalls - so yes dope I am, dope is me.
That's all for today, don't forget to be dope, it's all we have left
xx

2009-02-18T05:33:00.001-08:00

Morning,

Remember your childhood?? Days of innocence and playing in the streets, going over to your mate's house for hours and hours without achieving anything useful. Happy times some might say but after the reports this morning that the average age for children being given their first mobile phone being 8 years old, I do start to worry about parents and their priorities. Why does a kid need a mobile phone at such a young age? Many parents would probably suggest it's for their child's safety but really it actually puts them in a more vulnerable position of being robbed or mugged simply for their phone. Really a child as young as 8 should be under adult supervision and if not why not?

I know it's easy for me to say - the gay guy with no kids but I have friends with kids and thankfully they are all excellent parents but I do worry about parents that simply think they can send their kid out on their own with a mobile and they will be safe. Are we not just forcing kids to bow down into peer pressure? I cannot think of a single reason why I would ever have needed a phone when I was 8 and I know the world is changing but sometimes those changes are unnecessary and worrying.

Well they are definitely doing another Sex and the City movie, The pippyrants jury is out on this one, I did love the last film but it all ended very nicely and I fail to see how they can develop the story further. Also the first film was pretty dark and although there were some funny moments it did feel a bit of a rollercoaster ride. However, Sarah Jessica Parker has said today that " The last one, we got to tell a really mature, sophisticated story that had real heartbreak in it, and this time, I think we want a romp. We want our audience to have a massive romp." - Yay, clap Yay!! that's is exactly what I want a romp, I want Samantha Jones to fuck anything that moves, Charlotte to cry and look perfect a lot, Miranda to be totally sarcastic and Carrie to just be fabulous - shallow? moi? yep - I could drown in a puddle!

Well tonight is the 2009 Brit Awards and it is being hosted by James Corden, Mathew Horne and Kylie Minogue, this is all a bit too random for me, I have a feeling that Horne and Corden might be quite funny but after seeing Kylie live on a number of occasions I can say that she isn't that great at actually talking, don’t get me wrong, I loves me some Kylie but if you go and see on of her live shows her chatty bits to the audience all seem a bit forced and she usually just gives up, shouts "woooo" and gets everyone to do a mexican wave. Well tonight that simply wont cut it, it is also being broadcast live so has the potential to be a big mess (and that's just Adele in a dress! - thanks to peter for that line). My predictions are

Best British Male - Paul Weller

Best British Female - Duffy

Best Breakthrough Act - The Ting Tings

Best British Group - Coldplay

Best British Live Act - Coldplay

Best British Single - Leona Lewis - Better in Time

Best British Album - Coldplay - Viva la Vida

Best International Album - Kings of Leon - Only by the Night

Best International Male Artist - Kanye West

Best International Female Artist - Beyonce

Best International Group - Kings of Leon

Lets see tomorrow whether I have a high ratio of winners!

xx

2009-02-17T05:51:00.001-08:00

Well Valentines day is over for another year so I can come out from under the duvet now. No seriously! I spent valentines day in bed (by myself) due to an excessive night of drinking on friday, I am getting too old for all this, it really knocked me for six and I could barely walk! Stupid tequila!! I did however manage to kiss a boy and I did like it but I don't think much is going to come from that really but it was good all the same.

Sunday I met up with Oliver, his cousin Sam and her girlfriend for way too much alcohol again - this meant that work yesterday was a disaster and I was running training all day, I thought it was the worst I had ever delivered but the evaluations were all good - as Madonna says in "In bed with Madonna" - "even when I feel like shit, they still love me" - Oh Madge I know how ya feel girl.

I bought my usual tabloid and broadsheet on sunday and have to admit to having a few tears in my eyes reading the interview with Jade Goody, I have often slagged her off in this blog but now she has been told she has only a couple of months to live - it really is devastating, bless her her heart has always been in the right place and her poor sons!! she is only 27 years old - it really is tragically heartbreaking.

Now why can't I get the same annual leave deal as Amy Winehouse? Ya know how just before Xmas she fled the media and went on holiday to St Lucia…she is still there!!! She was admitted to hospital last week due to complications with her drug replacement treatment and now her media whore of a father has flown out to (get a free holiday) check she is ok.

That twatty bunch of extremist freaks aka The Westboro Baptist Chruch may be bringing their foul stench of views to the UK this week to protest outside a theatre in Basingstoke. A performance of the play "The Laramie Project" about the homophobic murder gay teen Matthew Shepherd. It is not clear what their presence will be at the performance but thankfully we are slightly more forward thinking in this country and a counter protest has already been arranged and there will be a large police presence at the theatre.

Now this is a bit sad but I stumbled across this clip on youtube and it just made me laugh quite a huge amount, its from that rather shit daytime TV shopw "Loose Women" and is basically a clip where the women discuss whether all men are messy but the conversation becomes laden with innuendo, never has the word "tissues" made me laugh so much, dont judge me and immerse yourselves in sillyness!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs98RDRmiu4

have a good day

2009-02-12T07:29:00.001-08:00

The world is crazy and I am the sane one!

Well I am back again after another hectic work week, all was good in the countryside and I have comeback feeling rather refreshed and pleased with myself. On my long train journey back last night I got a bit bored of my book and slipped into the delightful world of the Metro Newspaper, I found myself shaking my head in disbelief at one story. It involves a rather well established travel company and another example of just how thick people can be. A woman called Samantha Lazzaris fancied a holiday in Costa Rica in Central America but due to a mishap at the travel agents she was accidentally booked onto a flight to the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico. Now obviously this was a mistake and the travel company have taken full responsibility for it all. However, I really don't think they should have because Ms Lazzaris somehow managed to book her travel insurance, pack her bags, go to the airport, check in, keep track of the departure gate and time of flight, board the plane, hear the announcements on the plane, land in Puerto Rico, go through passport control, collect her baggage, go through the airport and get into a taxi and it was only when the taxi driver laughed at her and I quote

"I looked aroud the airport, saw posters of Puerto Rico everywhere and thought - what am I going to do?"

what are you going to do Ms Lazzaris? I suggest getting a fuckin clue would be a start you frikkin muppet, How oh How could you have gone through all those systems and not noticed that everything was telling you that you were going to Puerto Rico? What I think the travel agents should have done is written to her afterwards and suggest that maybe next time she should travel with a companion/carer and provided said companion or carer with an "I'm with stupid" T shirt! whats really annoying is that someone that stupid can afford such a holiday in the first place - who is paying apart from animal research?

Good lord, London life is all good but I really am getting sick of the never ending army of stupid, thick people that appear to have been put in this city to block me from getting from A to B. Why does everyone assume there are no seats upstairs on a bus and totally squeeze into the downstairs? Why do people walk all the way along a tube carriage for no apparent reason, stop it you make me nervous and I don't like it and I know I have said it before but why are there so many human crabs on London's pavements?? human beings walk forwards not sideways, stop slamming me into shop windows and the road!

rant over.

Now what is all this about R'n'B singer Chris Brown's fight with his girlfriend, singer Rihanna? It appears that the couple had a fight on their way back from a pre grammy awards party the other night and the rumours are that Brown battered Rihanna pretty severely, she has been in hospital and the rumours are she may need plastic surgery, this news has already led to Brown being dropped from several major sponsorship deals and Rihanna cancelling concerts this week. As some of you may know if you have been reading my blog for a while I have been involved in a violent relationship in the past and I am relieved that this story is being taken so seriously by the world's media. There is NO excuse for violence in any relationship, As Oprah would say "Love does not slap you upside yo head" and it's true, Love has many ways of showing itself and I for one am ready to see some of those ways, but when I was in that particular relationship I truly believed that my boyfriend loved me but in actual fact all he loved was the power and control he had over me and it really is as simple as that. It's taken me a hell of a long time to look at it that way, blaming myself always seemed such an easier option but that’s the way it is. Just get out of it while you can honey because that shit won't change it's stink.

Finally Happy Birthday to my girl Kaz!! have a lesbolicious time!!

xx

2009-02-05T08:07:00.000-08:00

Rediscovering the indie pippy

Truth be told I have always been an indie boy at heart and although I do like Madonna and the occasional bit of diva action, it's the floppy haired lead singers and big armed drummers that get me going. I guess it all started with a more mainstream band by the name of U2, it was November 1991 and I was the tender age of 15 when I heard the first single from U2's new album "Achtung baby" the song was called "The Fly" and the wall of guitar sound seduced me into a whole new world. That particular album remains one of my all time favourites.

The rest is history and last night I delved into that history by finding a bag of old tapes! who the hell has tapes these days eh? amongst them were many of the usual ones you would expect from any self respecting indie type - Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Blur, Oasis, Suede, The Smiths, Stone Roses, Manic's etc but there were also a few more random ones, if you remember any of these we would probably get on famously - Sugar, The House of Love, Kingmaker, The Frank and Walters and at last I managed to find a cd I had lost for 2 years!! by the band Gene, the album is called Olympian and it was the soundtrack to 1995 for me, the lead singer was a bit gay, the lyrics were great and it was all a bit depressing - what more could you want. If you have not heard this album I suggest getting on amazon and purchasing immediately, it stands the test of time!

2009-02-03T11:32:00.000-08:00

The BBC are such a joke!!

Carol Thatcher has been banned from the BBc for making a racist comment off air on one of their shows, Don't get me wrong I agree that racist language is totally unacceptable but in the last couple of years high profile BBC presenters such as Chris Moyles, Jeremy Clarkson and Patrick Kielty have all used homophobic language on primetime shows and all have gone without any kind of disciplinary action.

Can someone tell me why they see one form of discrimination more important than another?

what a joke!

x

2009-02-03T06:48:00.000-08:00

40 go mad in the countryside!

Yeah this weekend was my mate Clive's birthday in the countryside just outside Stoke on Trent and I have to say it was great fun!! We arrived on friday night and got settled…with food and a few bottles of booze but didn't have too much of a late night as we all knew how mash up saturday was going to be, So after waking and having breakfast and a lazy time a few of us headed to the pub which was a nice break from the madness. We got back to see the party house being decorated and people preparing their outfits. I was going as Amy Winehouse so the change took quite a while but it paid off big time as I looked suitably ridiculous/fabulous. Everyone had made a great effort and the night was so much fun, with performances that included Michael Jackson, Whitney House, Alexandra Burke and Beyonce, people were entertained and totally shitfaced.

Waking up on sunday was one of the biggest challenges my poor body has ever had to face, I have not been that hungover in many years. The journey back to London was a mission but we managed it, although walking out of Euston station the cold air hit me and I almost froze to death, Struggled home and immediately hid under the duvet and drifted in and out of conciousness for the rest of the day.

I kept waking up and at one point staggered to my front window to see a blanket of snow covering everything. It got worse as the night went on and by morning was really deep, I was supposed to be working in Kensington all day but there was no chance so I dragged myself to the shop to stock up on food and went back into hiding. Thank god for biscuits and dvds!

In other news - they gays are under fire yet again, firstly the case I wrote about last week, with the 2 children being placed with gay adoptive parents? well the roman catholic chruch is now facilitating the funding of the legal challenge and the Mail on Sunday has carried on with it's hate inciting journalism - Peter Hitchen's writes

"If I never again had to read or write a word about homosexuals, I would be very happy. I really don’t want to know what other people do in their bedrooms.
"But these days they really, really want us all to know. And, more important, they insist that we approve.
"No longer are we allowed to keep our thoughts to ourselves, while being polite and kind.We are forced to say that we think homosexuality is a good thing, that homosexual couples are equal in all ways to heterosexual married couples.
"Most emphatically, we are compelled to agree that homosexual couples are just as good at bringing up children as the children’s own grandparents. Better, in fact."
I really don't know how they get away with this kind of reporting, it is so offensive and biased, I know I should not be shocked as it is The Mail, I guess I am shocked that a newspaper has been allowed to get away with this for so long.
The pope has continued his fight to be named "gay rights champion of the year" by promoting a priest who blamed Hurricane Katrina on New Orlean's acceptance of gay people, he has been promoted to bishop. Along with the popes declaration in December last year that gay people are as much a threat to humanity as the destruction of the rainforest and lets face it equality must be just around the corner. I don't know where they find the time to make such statements what with all the paedophillia they are allegedly covering up.
So as we are all aware it snowed yesterday and London came to a complete standstill, can't wait to see how we cope with that little olympics competition thing. I have mentioned this before but I do think its ridiculous that the snow falls and people can't get into work but the following day when it melts to slippy, hard, black ice we are all expected to risk our bones and asses to get to work, it took ages this morning - I am not happy!
xx

2009-01-29T06:37:00.000-08:00

It time to put the rant's back in pippyrants!

The Catholics are at it again! When will they ever learn that they are wrong and I am in most cases right! The Roman Catholic Church in Scotland has launched a rather preposterous attack on the gays.

"There is an overwhelming body of evidence showing that same-sex relationships are inherently unstable and reduce the life expectancy of those involved," claimed church spokesman Peter Kearney.
Oh great! so not only am I going to hell but I am going to get there sooner than I thought. Ah well suppose it'll save me cash. I imagine vodka, lager and drugs are quite freely available.

Why have this statement been released? well the Daily Mail (basically mein kampf with better pictures) has picked up on the story of a mother whose kids have been adopted by a gay male couple after courts decided she was unfit to look after her kids herself. She has now kicked off saying that she was never told they would be placed with a gay couple and she could do a much better job herself, oh I forgot to mention she is a heroin addict. The paper has taken her side, yeah the Daily Mail strikes again, put the kids back with their junkie mother rather than 2 people that can provide a loving and secure environment, take the kids out of the birdcage and into trainspotting.

the author of this truly hateful article Amanda Platell goes on to say

"It appears that social services, despite all the evidence to the contrary, still believe that all relationships are equal when it comes to raising children," she wrote.
"Indeed, in this case they seem to have decided that a gay relationship is preferable to a couple of opposite sex.
"This is simply not true.
"They are not equal when it comes to the things children need most – commitment and stability.
"Yet is is regarded as heretical even to state the facts: which are that marriages last longer than cohabiting heterosexual relationships and they both last longer than gay relationships.
"Those are the cold, bare truths.
"It is too soon to know the statistics on same-sex marriages as there has not been enough time to assess the trends and many same sex couples enjoy enduring and truly fulfilling relationships.
"But if commitment and stability matter most to children’s happiness and success, the least suitable place for them to be raised is by a gay couple.
"That’s not homophobia, that’s not bigotry, that’s a fact – unpalatable as it might be to the Left consensus."
seriously! this woman is just vile! how dare she? I have not experienced such homophobia in the media for a long time, this goes beyond honest reporting, this is another attempt to make the stupid daily mail buying public that bit more stupid, I wonder how many tweed wearing, 4 wheel drive wagon driving lemmings have read her article and nodded whilst saying "here, here" - fuckin eeejits!!

2009-01-29T03:28:00.000-08:00

Goodness me, How long has it been?? too long, that's how long.

So much has been happening I just have not had time to sit down and write about it all. Seriously work has turned into all kinds of crazy and has been stressing me out quite a bit and I aint the kind of guy who gets stressed out so it's all been a rather weird state of affairs. I have managed to have some fun along the way so if you are sitting comfortably I shall begin.

This last weekend I headed to the small market town of Tavistock for a mate's 30th birthday, it usually takes quite a lot to get me out of the London at the weekend but the promise of 5 rugby type boy's 30th birthdays was the reason I had been looking for to get country bound. It really is a beautiful part of the world and did me the world of good to get some fresh air in my riddled lungs. There were many funny aspects to the weekend - the first thing to understand about Tavistock is that it is tiny and up until very recently the local community relied quite heavily on one shop in particular to get all their worldy goods, that shop of course being Woolworths but alas the credit has munched and cruned it's way through that piece of consumer history and now the local's are wondering round with paper bags devoid of pick'n'mix! The impact has been so huge that several locals got together to express their feelings about the closure of Woolie's - this has accumulated 3!!! volumes of poetry published locally, yes you read that right 3 volumes of poetry about Woolworths closing down - sadly I can't remember any of these but needless to say I laughed a lot at this discovery.

The party was held on saturday night at Tavistock Rugby Club, it was fancy dress and thanks to one of the charity shops in Tavistock I managed to get the Officer and a gentleman style jacket and hat….for £4!!! bring on the fake moustache and I was sorted. The party was a good laugh with a performance from The Great Shakes and a couple of other bands. I was hoping that rubgy players would live up to their drunken reputation which mainly consists of stripping off and being far too friendly with each other. I was not disappointed but then who would be with a naked rugby player conga!

In other news we had that lil thing - the presidential inauguation, I managed to miss it due to being on a train from Oxford to London but thanks to BBC iplayer I saw Obama's amazing speech and was very moved, not as moved as I was when I saw the size of Aretha Franklin, it's hard to say which was more groundbreaking! Seriously though what a tremendous day and time for us all to be a part of. I went to a teachers conference last week and speaking to a few of them it was clear that Barack becoming president is going to make their teaching of history in general a lot more interesting.

Well Madonna has announced that she will be starting up her Sticky and Sweet tour again in the summer, visiting loads of places that she didn't make it to last year. She is rumoured to be playing the o2 arena for a few nights, I have to say I am doubting whether to bother - if the tickets are as expensive as they were last time which I imagine they will be what witrh her being a single parent now, I just am not sure I can justify paying again to see a show that I didn't enjoy that much in the first place. The jury is out. If the dates are right then it is also highly likely that she will do Glastonbury which I am probably going to miss again this year due to lack of organisation on my part - boo!

Last night I went to a concert that surpassed Madonna's last effort and managed to do so without any of the stage tricks, dancers or special effects, I went to see the icon, the legend, the incomparable Miss Grace Jones at the Camden Roundhouse. I have loved her since seeing her in the James Bond film "View to a Kill" - she played a fiesty, sexy, crazy villain and I was in a trance looking at this strange creature before me. The next time I saw her on TV was when she performed her hit single (and one of my all time faves) "Slave to the Rhythm" on Wogan, she was wrapped from head to foot in a black chiffon body stocking with scarves blowing in every direction as she slowly vogued on the stage. Last night I finally saw her in the flesh and boy was it worth the wait! She is 60 years old, she changed outfit and hat between every song whilst still talking to the crowd, she pole danced and for slave to the rhythm she spun a neon hula hoop around her waist without stopping for 5 minutes and even managed to introduce her entire band as well. I have rarely been in awe so much. Shge is truly one of a kind and the world is a brighter and better place with her in it! Amazing Grace!

Well that's it for now, Good to be back and let's not leave it so long next time

xx

2009-01-13T04:43:00.001-08:00

Well it feels like a brutally long time since my last blog so this is going to be a hefty one!

Things took a rather unexpected turn last week, I ended up flying to New York for a few days with Oliver! Yes I was barely back at work long enough to say "pass the lube" before I was whisked off to NYC. I have to say it was an amazing trip!! Possibly even better than the last time, mainly due to the fact that we had done all the sightseeing last year so this time we could spend our time more leisurely. I was very keen to head to the vintage clothing shops on the lower east side and we hit the hard and fast. I managed to find 2 items of clothing that have seemingly been impossible to find for years - the perfect black leather jacket and a retro denim fitted jacket. I also hit the holy grail of books by finding "Oprah's Big Book of Happiness" which I believe will change my life, much in the same way the jackets will.

We also managed to squeeze in a fair amount of drinking at the Stonewall Inn, Duplex, Dtox, G Lounge and the go go boy heavcen that is Splash bar, although one night I was a little bit intoxicated and staggered slightly on my way in and they refused me entry, bitches! god forbid that anyone should be drunk on a friday night.

We didn't drink every night, one night we were pretty exhausted from all the walking so we headed to the cinema in Union Square to see the rather fabulous film "Twilight" starring the delicious Rob Pattinson. It is such a good film and I could easily watch it again, the leading couple brim with sexual chemistry and the story is gripping and beautiful.

On our last day it was forecast to snow and boy did it! New York took on a whole new light so we headed up to Central Park and got a horse drawn carriage in the snow, really stunning and quite regal really, our last night was spent at the Broadhurst Theatre watching Daniel Radcliffe and Richard Griffiths in "Equus" we were very lucky to catch it as it closes next month, the play is amazingly intense and fascinating and even though there was a big part of us that had just gone to see Harry Potters wand, the actual scene where Radcliffe strips is pretty traumatic so our focus was pulled elsewhere, you can't letch over a young man's penis when he is blinding 6 horses.

So a massive thankyou to Oliver for an amazing trip, I am back at work now and have hit the ground running with quite a lot of travelling and training over the next few weeks but there is always time for the blog!

Onto the world of showbiz, well it has been a long time coming but finally Amy Winehouse and Blake Fielder-Civil are getting divorced due to her recent adultery in St Lucia with a very hot guy who has far better prospects than the prison dweller! check out the new guy!

This is probably one of my favourite times of year as awards season officially began this week with the Golden Globe awards which saw one of my fave actresses Kate Winslet winning 2!!! awards! for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress.

Sadly Sean Penn lost out on the Best Actor award to Mickey Rourke but maybe his luck will turn come Oscar time.

The Brit Award Nominations are announced next week, I expect Keane and Kings of Leon to feature heavily and with U2 performing and Pet Shop Boys getting the outstanding contribution award it should be a great night. The Oscar nominations are announced on the 22nd January andI am just hoping that "Milk" features heavily.

xx

2009-01-03T04:57:00.000-08:00

A belated happy new year to you! this is my 400th blog post!!!!

My xmas was rather lovely, a very family based affair with far too much good food and drink. Got some lovely presents and still managed to find time to watch loads of crap tv (have now worked out why i dont watch tv) and see the majority of friends.

New Years Eve was much fun, everyone seemed to be doing their own thing so I got together with dan, michael and pete and we headed to the joyful White Swan pub in East London and danced the night away. Twas great fun but they seemed to be playing the tracks on a loop and if i hear Girls Aloud's Promises ever again it will be way too soon.

So 2009 is upon us and I usually get quite refective at this time of year. Last year was good generally, it started off in a really sucky way but that all soon resolved itself and led to better times, meeting a lovely guy and even though it didn't work out, a good friendship has developed which is always important. My 1st trip to America was amazing and the last few months have seen my career going really well.

I start the year with the hope of more promising career opportunities, more fun times, a possible house move and, as always the hope of meeting someone special this year. If i know one thing for sure it's that I deserve some happiness and love this year.

xx

2008-12-22T15:37:00.000-08:00

just to clarify i was not insinuating with the last post that ALL religious people are crazy, window licking, butt munching kid fuckers, many many religious people are perfectly lovely and I wiah them the best in all their endeavours but it's the religous few that use their religion and the fact that they are religious to spit sheer hate at others in the name of their chosen worship. Personally I believe we were all put on this planet to love, and that is all that I and my gay brothers and sisters are trying to do, it's just a shame that some of the so called "religious" folk seem desperate to put barriers up to love - the one thing that every human has and can give and receive.

it's xmas

for fucks sake

xx

2008-12-22T03:38:00.000-08:00

Well somehow I managed to survive the work xmas do, it was a fun affair with a great meal at a local bar in Kings Cross followed by the inevitable trip to Soho, I think most people are assuming that Trash Palace in Soho has already closed as it was very quiet but they gave us 2 free bottles of "champagne" so it was not all bad. A few of us then headed to Profile Bar and that's when it started to get messy, I was quite far gone by this point and kinda took a back seat, observing and trying to sort my head out. Luckily I got my second windand headed to popstarz which was fantastic (from what I remember) Oliver and Louise turned up and we had lots of fun. Not sure what time we left but I had the surreal experience of getting on aa night bus by Centrepoint and it being TOTALLY empty - very strange.

After 5 hours sleep I woke up stupidly early and got myact togther to go to Oxford Street to do all my xmas shopping, I got there pretty early and managed to have it all done (and bought myself 2 new tops) by 12pm! I then even managed a bit of a rest before heading up to Highgate Village for drinks with Clare, Glenn, Oliver, Zoe, Ruth etc etc. Lots of fun and drink but we left a lil early to meet Tom and Mal at Unskinny Bop in Betnal Green which again was great fun.

Yesterday was half messy, half relaxing but all good. Now for some stupid reason I am in work really wishing I had just booked today off, I also seem to have the beginnings of a sore throat so have stocked up on strepsils, lemon and ginger tea and some honey. I refuse to have another ill xmas!

Now as it's xmas I got to thinking about religion, well more specifically hell. According to a lot of (crazy, window licking, buttmunching, kid fucking) right wing religious people I am destined to go to hell and I was thinking last night what hell would be like. I mean are there different levels? I assume that people like Hitler are in hell as well as lots of murderers, rapists and child abusers, I Imagine hell works on different levels, imagine if you will - The Brit Awards, they always put the nominees on the front tables and as it goes further back you get record company people and then the unwashed british public. If hell works in the same way then Hitler and his million + murdering lot will be licking the stage whereas the gays will be right at the back which would suit me as surely that’s where the bar would be. If that is the case and all the gays are together, well it's just going to be like a big pride day. I would imagine arriving and just being like "HI! oh my god! HI!!! How have you been? When did you die?" etc.

I know it's a bit morbid but these things need clarifying for me, I guess since I am not religious all this doesn't matter anyway but when I get a thought in my head, there is no knowing where it's gonna go. I am generally a good person, I do voluntary work and work full time for a charity so that does essentially make me a good person but at the same time I have a mouth like a sewer and have been known to say the word "retarded" more than is necessary, sometimes even bringing the term "fucktard" into the equation, you might be thinking that is a new one on me so I shall use it in a sentence - "Paris Hilton is a fucktard", it just saves time from saying "fucking retard", try using it in a sentence today with either your manager or your mother. I also laugh at people falling over and derive a certain amount of pleasure if it looks like they have slightly hurt themselves.

Ok well I think I have probably been offensive enough now so I shall move on to discuss "Strictly Come Dancing", Ok so I didn't watch a single show this series but having seen a few clips on youtube and seeing all the newspapers yesterday I have to say I LOVE Tom Chambers, this years winner, He is so adorable! He seems very sweet and quite the opposite of my other perfect man Danny Dyer. Check him out!

Well I just have today to get through and then tomorrow I am heading back to Sheffield til the 29th! I am really looking forward to the break and to catching up with people that I have not seen for a while and of course to get some good mum's home cooking down my neck.

Back tomorrow for my last blog before xmas!

xx

2008-12-19T06:03:00.001-08:00

Justice!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7791660.stm

2008-12-19T03:04:00.001-08:00

Classy Bird!!

Grace Jones has been quoted as saying that her 1986 hit "Pull up to the Bumper" is not necessarily about sex, let's examine some of the lyrics shall we?

Pull up to my bumper baby,
In your long black limosine,
Pull up to my bumper baby,
And drive it in between.

Pull up to it, don't drive through it,
Back it, up twice, now that fits nice,
Grease it, spray it, let me luricate it,
Pull up to my bumper baby

Ms Jones has said - "I don't think it's necessarily about [sex]. I think it means whatever you want it to. I kind of like the doggy position myself, but that doesn't mean it's going up my a**e." - that's nice

Now I like the next mo, loves his manmeat but there really is a time and a place and Burger King have just taken things a step too far. The Burger chain are marketing a man's fragrance called "Flame" apparently it is the "Scent of seduction with a hint of flame broiled meat". How on earth could that be seductive?, you might as well go out, get twatted and buy one of those dodgy hot dogs from the trolleys on tottenham court road and throw it round your bed a bit - nasty!

xx

2008-12-18T03:02:00.000-08:00

Right before I go all celebrity gossip on your ass I need to get political for a minute. In the next week the United Nations General Assembly will meet and France, on behalf of the EU, will make a declaration from the podium in support of the human rights of all people regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. You may be reading this and saying "and what?" like me you may be expecting that those human rights already exist - sadly they do not, It will be the first time in history that the UN general assembly has considered the issue of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights. 86 countries (nearly half the nations on earth) still have a total ban on male homosexuality and a smaller number also have a ban on sex between women. The penalties in these countries range from a few years in jail to life imprisonment. In at least 7 countries or regions of countries, the sentence is death. It just amazes me that in the year 2008 the world leaders that we are supposedly looking to for direction are so out of touch with life and love.

For some this may be an issue that just doesn't enter the thought process, but I can't ignore the fact that if I had happened to have been born in a different country but was still the same person with the same sexuality - I could be executed. In America Proposition 8 is a clear example of how far people will go to take away the rights of lesbians and gay men. Millions of dollars were spent on both sides of the argument whether or not to ban gay marriage. We are living in a world where the economy is quite frankly fucked and yet people claim more interest in who fucks who. Newsflash if we carry on like this we will all be fucked.

Now that’s off my chest let's move into the impending joy/doom of the work xmas do. I love a good do and I do indeed do the do but our meal/drinks is going to be a very messy affair indeed, I am sure it will all start quite innocently with a proper xmas lunch and a spinkling of wine but then we are heading into Soho and that's where I fear all will go downhill. Last year we ended up in Soho and by the end of the night pretty much everyone had either lost something or had it stolen - I managed to misplace my housekeys. This year I am taking a minimal amount of things, not even a bag, and ya know I love to accessorise with a man bag but it is too big a risk. Check back next week for the full report.

God that Elton John just can't keep his trap shut can he? The other night he was performing at the o2 Arena and started banging on about the X Factor. Now I don't know about you but when I go and see an artist in concert I want to hear them sing songs not use offensive language completely unnecessarily. Elton is quoted as saying to the audience that he would "rather have his cock bitten off by an alsation than watch the X factor, his balls too" - all I can say to that dear is it would be a miracle that even a dog would go near your nasty old member! eeewww. Oh and by the way Elton you really shouldn't have said that - Alexandra Burke (this year's X factor winner) is supporting you at the o2 arena on New Years Eve, dumbass!

xxx

2008-12-16T07:15:00.001-08:00

The partying seems to have started

yes it was my girl Oliver's birthday this weekend and we partied it up grand style, Oliver has just joined "The Pink Singers" - a london based lesbian and gay community choir and it was their xmas concert at the Royal Academy of Music on saturday night, it was fantastic! there is something rather beautiful about hearing a choir sing and they came up trumps! afterwards we headed into soho for the after party at the Green Carnation bar in Soho which is a lovely bar but when it is busy it is hateful so we hotfooted it out of there and headed to the new G-A-Y location at Heaven which was great fun and there was enough space to dance and see a couple pretty much having sex by the dancefloor.

Sunday was spent recovering for about half an hour and then I started making cocktails ready for the X factor final, we had managed to avoid the results, it was such a good show! Alexandra deservedly won and her performance with Beyonce was one of the most amazing things I have ever seen "sing it girl!" indeed!

That night we headed back into Soho to the Revue Bar to see Oliver's friends band performing who were really good but I think we might have overdone it on the cocktails as I was all kinds of hammered!

Things are winding down at work now ready for xmas, well actually I have loads of work to do but believe me I am so winding down, my motivation is nowhere to be seen, I have been working like a beeeyatch lately though.

So Madonna has agreed to a divorce settlement worth around £50 Million!, not too shabby for Guy Ritchie then, suppose it's nice to see that the credit crunch has not hit Madonna towers. Poor love was performing in a stadium the other night, it was raining, the stage was wet and she fell, girl went down like a bag of shit but somehow managed to incorporate it into her dance routine much like me tripping in the street and pretending I wanted to run anyway.

I see that Kathy Staff aka Nora Batty from "Last of the Summer Wine" died at the weekend, her co star Peter Sallis was on BBC news paying tribute to her but it was the most lacklustre tribute ever, he basically said she would be terribly missed but he never really got to know her (the show just completed its 29th series and has been going for 25 years), how do you not get to know someone in that time? then again if I had been subjected to acting in the same storyline for 25 years I would not be feeling exactly sociable.

How many public phone vote scams do we have to endure before the crying bastards that are the british public realise that it's all a load of old shit and they would be better off spending their money on new clothes. The latest bunch of victims called into vote on "Strictly Come Dancing" and found that their votes didn't matter as all three couples were put through to the final - hang on a minute whist I find that "I care about this" button. Nope, ah well.

found a fantastic video on youtube recently with 2 of my fave women, Lisa Kudrow and the Ellen Degeneres show

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=fNE80eaLT0c

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=GHMV3UAA_yc

Lisa's comedy timing is just genius!

xx

2008-12-10T07:30:00.000-08:00

Every so often I see a film that just gets me! It moves me and makes me think - I suppose that is what films are supposed to do. I can remember the first film that got me - I must have been 8 or 9 years old when I first saw "The Colour Purple" - I can remember it very clearly, I was off school sick and the night before my parents had rented the film on video. I was bored and feeling sorry for myself on the sofa and decided to watch it. It made me cry more than any film had before and it made me think. I was crying because of the struggles that the character's were going through and also because having grown up in a very white town I had not realised that people were racist. It had totally passed me by and I can remember going to school the following week and writing about the film. My teacher was very impressed, I think I may have even got a gold star.

There have not been many films since then that have stopped me in my tracks but last night I saw a film that blew me away. It made me smile, made me cry and made me very angry. The film was "Milk" directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Sean Penn. The film is the story of Harvey Milk, a truly inspirational man. Milk was an american politician and the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California. He was a true fighter, a passionate individual who could not stand injustice, bigotry or discrimination. I think the reason the film hit me so hard last night is due to the parallel's from the era of the film to the current situation in America where gay people are yet again having to fight for their human rights. In 1978 a conservative state legislator in California sponsored the proposition 6 initiative - if this proposition had been passed by voters it would have meant that gay men, lesbians and anyone supporting gay rights would have been banned from working in public schools in California. One of the key supporters of Proposition 6 was the singer Anita Bryant who is well known In America for her views on "the homosexual agenda". Many of her hate speeches are shown during the film and it was striking just how similar they were to the speeches of US State Legislator - Sally Kern.

Bryant was saying this 30 years ago -

"As a mother, I know that homosexuals cannot biologically reproduce children; therefore, they must recruit our children" and "If gays are granted rights, next we'll have to give rights to prostitutes and to people who sleep with St.Bernards and to nail biters"

As we all know there is no bigger threat to society than nail biters. People seriously took notice of this woman and not even in a circus freak kind of way!

Anyway that was 30 years ago, surely things have changed and people are not still spouting such rubbish?

Sally Kern, Oklahoma State Legislator, 2008

"Studies show that no society that has totally embraced homosexuality has lasted more than, you know, a few decades. So it's the death knell of this country. I honestly think it's the biggest threat our nation has, even more so than terrorism or Islam — which I think is a big threat, okay? Cause what's happening now is they are going after, in schools, two-year olds...And this stuff is deadly, and it's spreading, and it will destroy our young people, it will destroy this nation."

Oh dear! "Milk" has inspired me to do more, to stand up and be counted, I may not live in America and gay men and lesbians tend to be more accepted in this country but there is still a long way to go, I am not going to just sit through life thinking "well I am ok and that’s the main thing" - what about the gay men that are murdered in this country every year, where are their stories? did you know that 2 openly gay men had been murdered in this country this year with another being paralysed after being attacked for being gay? No probably not because the mainstream media does not think that is important for you to know. There is nothing wrong with being an angry gay, the gay "community" needs anger rather than complacency, just because we are used to being treated badly that does not mean it has to continue. What can you do to make a difference?

* volunteer? there will be projects in your local area, maybe a helpline or a youth group that could use your support

* Find out who your local MP is and write to them asking them what they are doing to support gay rights

* Find out who your local LGBT police liaison officer is and ask them what the situation is locally around homophobic crime and if there is anything you can do

* The majority of local areas have LGBT forums, maybe organised by the police or local activists, check it out

It does not have to involve cash just a bit of passion and commitment, who has not got that to spare.

Harvey Milk always talked about the need to have hope, in his most famous speech he brought this message home

"I can’t forget the looks on faces of people who’ve lost hope. Be they gay, be they seniors, be they black looking for an almost-impossible job, be they Latins trying to explain their problems and aspirations in a tongue that’s foreign to them. I personally will never forget that people are more important than buildings. I use the word “I” because I’m proud. I stand here tonight in front of my gay sisters, brothers and friends because I’m proud of you. I think it’s time that we have many legislators who are gay and proud of that fact and do not have to remain in the closet. I think that a gay person, up-front, will not walk away from a responsibility and be afraid of being tossed out of office. After Dade County, I walked among the angry and the frustrated night after night and I looked at their faces. And in San Francisco, three days before Gay Pride Day, a person was killed just because he was gay. And that night, I walked among the sad and the frustrated at City Hall in San Francisco and later that night as they lit candles on Castro Street and stood in silence, reaching out for some symbolic thing that would give them hope. These were strong people, people whose faces I knew from the shop, the streets, meetings and people who I never saw before but I knew. They were strong, but even they needed hope.

And the young gay people in the Altoona, Pennsylvanias and the Richmond, Minnesotas who are coming out and hear Anita Bryant on television and her story. The only thing they have to look forward to is hope. And you have to give them hope. Hope for a better world, hope for a better tomorrow, hope for a better place to come to if the pressures at home are too great. Hope that all will be all right. Without hope, not only gays, but the blacks, the seniors, the handicapped, the us’es, the us’es will give up. And if you help elect to the central committee and more offices, more gay people, that gives a green light to all who feel disenfranchised, a green light to move forward. It means hope to a nation that has given up, because if a gay person makes it, the doors are open to everyone.

So if there is a message I have to give, it is that if I’ve found one overriding thing about my personal election, it’s the fact that if a gay person can be elected, it’s a green light. And you and you and you, you have to give people hope. Thank you very much".

Harvey Milk was assasinated on November 27th 1978, in a recording made months before his death Milk stated

"If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door"

This film is vitally important and you have to see it, it will change the way you think and feel and hopefully it will make you do something.

That is all Harvey Milk hoped for

xx

2008-12-09T04:07:00.000-08:00

What a lovely weekend!!

Thanks to my Sheffield Girls for the great weekend, I arrived on saturday afternoon and was whisked into a bar for a gorge cocktail closely followed byt beer and a kebab (yeah we were starting as we meant to go on) - We hit the scene hard and fast, taking in the new gay bar "Sanctuary" which if there had been more people in would've been great, it's a lovely bar and has a lot of potential but where were all the gays…..where else they were in Dempseys of course. I have to say I had a marvellous time, the music was fab and I saw loads of people that I had not seen in ages. I also have to admit that the mullet craze that swept sheffield seems to have blown on by!

No scary goings on can be reported apart from the world's tallest, largest man on the dancefloor, it a bit like "It's a Knockout",

I had to keep runing away from him for fear of being crushed - but apart from that a grand night was had by all, I do have to apologise to Dan for slapping him, he was a bit swirlyu at one point and started to lose it bless him and asked me to slap or snap him out of it, I gave him a gentle slap but he wanted it harder so I did, it was not until he said he was seeing stars and felt dizzy that I began to realise I may have overdone it. Apol's for that one sweetie.

The rest of the weekend was a lazy haze of TV and far too much KFC, did we really need a family feast for 2 of us? well it turns out we did as we managed to clear most of it!

Now it is back to the grindstone and it's another really busy week of training and travelling. Howevee, this is the last really crazy week and then the wind down for xmas begins. I am so looking forward to having a break and heading home to be well fed and pampered by ma and pa pippy!!

Have we entered a world of politically correct madness, I thought that comedy was supposed to be edgy and indeed sometimes offensive but since the Brand/Ross debacle it does seem that comics can't say anything near the knockle for fear of getting attacked by daft daily mail reading twats. The latest casualty is Alan Carr who made a joke about Karen Matthews at the British Comedy Awards this weekend. Alan Carr is offensive and un PC and that is why he is loved, please don't relegate him to telling tame jokes about everyday life we have Pam Ayres for that sort of thing.

I caught the X factor at the weekend and have to say thank god that howdy doody looking cranberries lead singer rip off girl has left the competition, whose Idea was it to get her to sing a Dido song, bleurgh!!! I am praying that the marvellous Alexandra wins but I have an awful feeling that big haired Eggnog will get all those irish votes and do that ugly cry again. Well it's all nearly over and then we can look forward to the xmas number one being an X factor song yet again. It does get a bit boring and predictable. I remember when there was a real battle as to who would be the xmas number one but now it is just an inevitability really, shame.

xx

2008-12-04T07:34:00.000-08:00

Is it wrong to fancy Michael Buble? or Michael Buttplay as I endearingly refer to him. I am not sure what it is about him (male + breathing?) but he is rather tasty, saying that, I think my 50 year old aunt thinks exactly the same thing. Oh when did I get old? I will probably start pissing myself next, oh wait, eeewww too late! steamin!

The so called mother of Shannon Matthews has been found guilty of kidnapping her daughter in a plot to claim the £50,000 reward. I'm sorry but surely if the mother turned up to the police saying I've found her give me the cash, wouldn't they just say "alright love, well done, get off home then". After reading the coverage of the trial on the BBC website I am not sure she has quite finished with crime just yet, when given the guilty verdict the mother was referred to -

"Matthews stood staring straight forward in the stone-coloured jacket she has worn throughout the proceedings and with her red hair hanging untied over her shoulders".

She has worn the same jacket for the whole time, how long has this trial been going on?, she must have stunk!, no wonder they found her guilty and yes they are correct red hair is indeed hanging! Let's face it, she does look like one of those women who confronts you at a regional bus station asking whilst crying for enough change to get home - smell ya later girl!

I am off to Sheffield this weekend to celebrate my girl Dan's birthday, It should be a good one, not only do I get to see my girl but we are also going for a lush meal and then my favourite pastime - the sheffield gay scene, yes pippy is hitting it again. Quite a few new venues have opened since I last hit the town but then again knowing Sheffield and its high turnover of gay venues, I will probably walk into one bar and by the time I get to the bar it will have changed ownership and it's name … twice. The main joy of the sheffield scene is the sea of orange faces and the tropical field of mullets (I would say blowing in the breeze but I would need an industrial strength fan to get one of those hair"styles" to move).

I am very excited! Having not been to the cinema for ages, next week I am off to a preview of the new Gus Van Sant film "Milk" starring my fave actor Sean Penn as the first out gay politician in the USA (Harvey Milk), the film is getting major oscar buzz and rave reviews. Full report next week.

I am so bugged that I am not going to see the marvellous Tina Turner on her comeback tour next year, here are pics of her performing at New York Madison Square Garden earlier this week, not bad considering she is 69 years old and was in hospital the day before with a fever!

Go Girl

xx

2008-12-01T06:30:00.001-08:00

Is it the credit crunch? the divorce? the lack of publicity? who knows but Madonna's new single went into the singles chart yesterday at no.39!!!! It's Madonna's first single to not get into the top 20 since Borderline in 1984! On the bright side her Sticky and Sweet Tour has been named the most successful solo tour ever, grossing $282 million - so it's not all bad!

Well Britney hit the X factor on saturday night in a so so performance, I managed to catch it on youtube. The real controversy happened after the show - the majority of the tabloid press had been spreading the rumour that Britney would be performing at G-A-Y, the rumour hit the gay scene and according to their message board the place was packed but the security staff did not seem to realise that the place was full so kept letting people in. This led to people being crushed, people passing out. Britney was in the building but apprently was not scheduled to perform. When club promoter Jeremy Joseph took to the stage to clarify that Britney would not be performing all hell broke loose, booing, fighting, pushing and shoving, Seems like the organisers need to come to terms that they are now in a smaller venue.

I am getting older and indeed sadder by the day, the things that excite me have taken a turn and no more is it the prospect of a new club opening in Soho or the possibility of clubbing til 5 in the morning. I now find myself craving nights in I think this is mainly due to the fact that it is freezing outside and work is crazy busy. All I can think of at the end of the day is dashing home, making some gorge soup and curling up in front of a good dvd. My excitement reached a new high over the weekend when I discovered that the BBC are going to be showing repeats each afternoon of the Miss Marple episodes fro the 80's with Joan Hickson. I can remember watching these on sunday nights and being totally enthralled, they were really well made and Joan Hickson was the perfect Marple. This I feel though is essentially a sad disclosure so whilst other gays are getting shitfaced all day everyday during the xmas period I shall be curled up knowing who did it but not caring and watching til the end anyway.

Today is World AIDS Day, hopefully you are aware of this and somehow managed to find a red ribbon and donate some much needed cash. In recent years World AIDS Day seems to have disappeared off the radar of public awareness. HIV is still very much a problem in the UK, many people turn a blind eye or decide that the virus is not their problem as they are neither gay nor african. HIV can affect anyone and after working on raising awareness of the virus for the last 16 years I am sad to say that the battle is ongoing. More gay men are being diagnosed with HIV in the UK than ever before. Last year 3160 gay men were diagnosed with HIV showing that levels of HIV are are their highest since the mid 1980's.
Nearly 500 men were diagnosed after the point at which treatment should have begun, meaning they missed out on the benefits associated with early diagnosis including prolonged life expectancy. Early diagnosis continues to be the most important factor in mortality and morbidity linked to HIV. Analysis of figures over the past five years has shown that a late diagnosis of HIV meant that gay men were 13 times more likely to die within one year of diagnosis compared to those diagnosed early.
Take some time today to log on to www.tht.org.uk where you can donate cash, become of member of the charity, become an e campaigner or simply learn more about HIV and how to protect yourself and others.
xx

2008-11-25T08:13:00.001-08:00

Oh it's so annoying when people are just really crap at their jobs! I always aim to be pretty efficient, repying to calls and emails within the hour and ensuring that everything is in place well in advance if I am training or attending an event. I have to admit I have very little patience when an event has been planned in what I can only assume was a rainy afternoon when nothing else was happening.

I have been invited to speak at an event tomorrow and in the last couple of days have also found out that I am required to run 2 workshops!! Normally this would be fine and I would just pull something out of the bag and get flipcharting away but it just takes the piss to be told at the last minute. Do these non planners deserve their wage for placing their sloppy practices onto those around them? rant over

I am so ready for xmas! let me clarify that, I am ready for the time off at xmas, I am ready to meet up with people I have not seen for a while but the whole process of xmas - the shopping, the seeing certain family members that you wish you didn’t have to, can really go and fuck itself. I am no scrooge but it's all a tad fake, bring on the lie ins and the relaxing.

It's been a while since I have been on the Sheffield Forum website, mainly because the chatty people on there have not said anything stupid for ages but today they have come up trumps, in a discussion about the self checkout system at tesco's, someone has said

"i cant work those machines,they look like space ships. i use a till where there is a human being to sort your shopping"

How difficult are they really?? It's in tesco for gods sake!

Next question - "Where can I buy a double mattress?"

It's a tricky one, It's on the tip of my tongue, ah yes a bed shop, I may be jumping to a conclusion but here is how I got there, a mattress goes on a bed and a bed shop sells beds! Ooh it's like the da vinci code!

Bless

Slightly scared by the new pics of Madonna, does look like her cheeks have been raised and they have chopped off the slack, sorry our gracious leader. I do love you really

xx

2008-11-20T07:13:00.001-08:00

ok so I am not the most political person on the planet but I do know that politicians should generally be thinking about the big issues - health, education, the economy etc so why exactly are they even opening their gobs about something as trivial as "Strictly Come Dancing" - John Sergeant walked out of the show yesterday much to my extreme indifference - David cameron has been quoted as saying tha t he was “just devastated. Strictly will not be the same” and Peter Mandelson goes on to describe Sergeant as " the people’s John Travolta" - I for one feel safe that these men could one day be making the big decisions for our country. Lets just hope that Britain is not invaded on a saturday night primetime.

I am slightly annoyed that I am missing the gay pride parade that is "I'm a celeb" - Really want to see Martina Navratilova doing a bushtucker trial, its hardly a stretch for her though really considering the amount of bushes she has tucked into! Sorry but I could not resist that one.

xx

2008-11-19T05:55:00.001-08:00

Hey hey hey

Well it has only taken me about 5 days to recover fro my birthday celebrations on friday, I can't remember much about the night apart from having a really good time. I can remember aspects of being in the edge bar in soho but popstarz is a blur, I remember dancing to Madonna and Cyndi Lauper so it must have been a good one. Thanks to everyone who made it out to celebrate with me

The rest of the weekend was not exactly sedate, spent most of saturday watching series 2 of ugly betty before heading out to the joiners arms in Hackney with Dan and Sam for another night of trashed stupidity. Again it's all a bit of a blur.

Sunday was a very lazy day, After the lovely dan headed back to Sheffield I dragged myself into town and spent my Zavvi voucher on a Keane Live DVD which is fantastic and series 2 of Gavin and Stacey which is just great, got home and watched the whole series from start to finish.

This week and every week recently have been crazy busy and I seem to not have much time to write this blog, hence the big gaps in entries but I shall try my best.

In gay news - the hilarious american comedienne Wanda Sykes has come out of the closet, I have seen Wanda several times on Ellen Degeneres Chat show and also guest starring in Will and Grace. She has always spoken passionately about gay rights and at the weekend she came out of the closet to say she got married to her female partner earlier this year! Go Wanda.

I'm a celebrity, get me out of here has started and although I don’t watch it I did hear that one of the blonde bimbo types was worried that she might be pregnant after eating a kangaroo testicle or something, this kind of stupid overpaid person should really be barred from society, no? I was also shocked to hear that Dani "I have not been on TV for years and when I was a presenter I had all the charisma of a day old airline salad" Behr is getting paid more than anyone, I don't understand what she has done to justify such a wage, she aint never won wimbledon that's for sure!

My evil plan to rid the world of Kerry Katona is slowly but surely coming together, she has been dropped from OK! Magazine and now MTV have shelved plans for her next reality show, all I need to do now is shove her in one of the freezers in Iceland and my evil/socially generous plan will be complete.

The Metropolitan Police are allowing a concert to go ahead this weekend by Ragga star Bounty Killer, despite his lyrics suggesting that people should "kill queers". Gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell is leading the campaign to get the show cancelled stating

“A white racist singer who advocated killing black people would not be allowed to perform in London, even if he agreed to not incite the killing of black people at his concert.

“The police would argue that any stage performance by a white racist singer would risk public disorder and damage community cohesion. They would ban him, full stop. They have adopted this zero tolerance policy towards white racist bands like Skrewdriver.

“Yet when it comes to straight homophobic singers who urge the murder of gay people, the police take a softer stance. They have agreed to let the concert go ahead, despite their professed commitment to oppose homophobic hate crimes. It’s bare-faced hypocrisy.”

It's pretty rare that I wholeheartedly agree with Tatchell but this time he has my vote. I have emailed the Met police commissioner and the home secretary with my concerns about allowing this to go head and I urge you to do the same. commissioner@metpolice.uk and public.enquiries@homeoffice'gsi.gov.uk

As the rather marvellous Margaret Mead once said

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world, Indeed it is the only thing that ever has"

xx

2008-11-12T07:53:00.000-08:00

The jungle is gaying it forward!

Well today the "celebrities" that will be appearing in the new series of "I'm a celebrity, get me out of here" were announced and the gays are well and truly taking over. Brian Paddick, former Metropolitan police deputy assistant commissioner, was Liberal Democrat candidate for Mayor of London in May's election is going in as well as George Takei - aka Star Treks Mr Sulu who came out a few years ago and recently got married to his partner in California. I am most excited about the 3rd gay to be getting their hands dirty in the jungle - The iconic Martina Navratilova! I have always been a massive fan of hers, She came out when I was just a wee child and I always remember the remarkable amount of homophobia she faced from the media and sports but all she would do is go "whatever, game, set, match - give me another $1,000,000!" - She is truly an inspiration and I think she may well stand a good chance of winning, she is amazingly fit and very funny. The only drawback is that she has stated that she has never seen the show before and it might all be a bit too much.

Last night I had a much needed lazy night in, thanks go to Peter for getting me the complete collection of "Peep Show" on dvd, I had always watched the odd episode but never really sat down to watch a whole series, not sure how many I managed to get through last night but the show is genius!! David Mitchell is adorably clueless - Favourite line so far - his character gets stoned for the 1st time and starts getting worried about what effect it will have on him, asking his best mate "Oh god I am not going to do a poo am I?" love it

I have gone Keane crazy, I bought their new album at the weekend and cannot stop listening to it, lead singer Tom Chaplin's voice is amazing!! He used to be quite a porker but getting addcited to coke and going through rehab has turned him into a hottie going from this

to this

I am very impressed with Boyzone, I never thought I would type that but in their new video, they are all seen pairing off with a lover and Steven Gately is filmed with another guy, rightly so due to the fact that he is gay but it's a great step for a boyband to put themselves out there unapologetically.

Go gays!!

xx

2008-11-11T05:49:00.001-08:00

32? A good dating age?

Well I am now 32 and have got to thinking - when I was in my mid to late 20's I always thought that I would like to go out with a 32 year old, I don't know why it just seemed like a good age, will I have lots of 20 somethings after me now? I am certainly willing to test this theory out and will let you know the results.

So much has been occuring since I last did a proper blog - Barack Obama is like totally president!! and that silly John McCain is nowhere to be seen thank god, otherwise ...

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=pKdxq2jAs4Y

Sadly Proposition 8 went through and now marriage in California is defined as a union between a man and a woman, in other words same sex marriage has been banned, this does now mean that the 18,000 same sex marriages that have happened already will be annulled and legal experts do not think any action will be taken against same sex couples. It just amkes me very angry that this even happened - the religious right seem to be untouchable in their extreme views and challenging this status quo is almost unheard of. I am not going to get into the gays vs religion debate, I just think the world needs to realise that it is changing and we have to change with it for our children's sake, what future are we providing for them when some of us are blocking other's rights.

Onto happier news - My birthday yesterday was lovely and I went out for a lovely meal with some of my lovely friends who made the effort to come out on such a hideous soggy night. Now all eyes are on the big party on friday - I can't wait, loads of people have said they are coming and I think it's going to be a lush night.

The beautiful Steve Jones and the annoying Fearne Cotton have split up!!! He is back on the market - and if all goes according to plan by tomorrow morning he shall be mine, i tell you - MINE! mwa ha ha

Work has been crazy busy lately and I am proving to be quite in demand but that does mean that I am just feeling shattered all the time, tonight I am going to head home and have an early night as my body needs to prepare itself for friday and the battering it is surely going to get!

laters

xx

2008-11-10T08:23:00.001-08:00

Happy Birthday to me

Apologies yet again for lack of blog action but work has been crazy busy!! I will blog properly tomorrow

Well it's my birthday today and I am the grand old age of 32 - bit of a dreary monday to have a birthday but thankfully my overwhelming sense of glamour and sheer fabulousness has drowned out the rain.

xx

2008-11-01T05:17:00.000-07:00

Oh Kerry Katona! You really are a bit of a cunt - in this week's OK! Magazine there is a short interview with the iceland peddling whore where she defends her infamous appearance on "This Morning" and states that she was not drunk and rarely drinks, but wait, what is that clamped to her gob in the photo - it's a glass of champagne!! You munter! Get off the television, out of all the newspapers and lock yourself away in your mock tudor mansion and never darken my eyes again!!

My hatred this week has mainly been focused on the media and there completely ignorant, biased and frankly stupid coverage of the Russell Brand/ Jonathan Ross extravaganza. Typical stupid, thick middle england big footed hobbit wankers phoning, writing and emailing about something that you never heard in the first place! it goes something like this

" I'm really annoyed?"

"what about?"

"That call that Ross and Brand made to that lovely ye olde one hit wonder comedian, it was downright outrageous"

"what exactly did they say during the call?"

"I don't have a clue but I read in the Daily Mail that it was very rude, I don't pay my license fee to (not)listen to that kind of (alleged) filth"

Yeah ok - it was a serious lack of thinking and it should never have been aired but for fuck's sake just take a breath and get over it!! I do agree that Jonathan Ross can sometimes be annoying but he is genuinely a very funny guy and very watchable in my personal opinion and I do love Russell Brand but to banish them from the airwaves for this?? C'mon!

I have spent the last few days in Glasgow at a conference and have to say that if I ever leave the London, Scotland is where I will be heading, not for the scenic lochs and mountains and all that fresh air, No simply for the fact that Scottish men sound so hot! I know it's shallow but that's just the level I work at - lower than a worms tit.

I so wish I watched TV, must get that sorted soon!! Mainly due to this pic of Richard Armitage in this weeks episode of "Spooks"

xx

2008-10-27T09:57:00.001-07:00

It takes a lot to shock me, I have been out and proud for half my life and in that time have had the privilege to have met many bizarre and wonderful people from extremely diverse and fascinating backgrounds. I am lucky to have friends and family that have totally supported me in whatever I do and my sexuality has never really been a major issue. I move in circles that are very open minded and accepting, every once in a while though I find something out that just leaves me at a loss for words. Yesterday I went to the shop to get my usual sunday reading matter - a trashy tabloid and the Observer, made myself a huge cup of coffee and curled up on the sofa to catch up on the weeks events.

Yesterday The Observer released the findings of their sex survey. The survey was carried out by an independent research agency who recruited 1044 people aged 16 or over and asked them questions on all different aspects of sex. The answers were split into different sections such as manhood and manogamy, safe sex, ethnicity and education and homosexuality. I managed to stop myself from going straight to the gay bit but eventually I got that far and could not believe what I was reading - 56% of people did not believe that gays should be allowed to adopt children, 40% believed that the age of consent for gay people should be higher than for heterosexuals and this is the clincher 24% thought that gay sex should be made illegal - that's one in 4 people! and that figure has increased by 1% since the last survey in 2002. Just to think that there are people in this country who would like to see me locked up is just unbelievable and very sad. I don't know how they got these people for the survey and I just pray that this is not representative of the general populations views.

On a lighter note - unless you have been hiding under a rock or a cock for the last few days you can't have missed the fuss over the Kerry Katona/This Morning interview where due to her "bi polar medication/sleeping tablets", Kerry slurred her way through the interview and was asked by Phillip Schofield if she was ok several times. It really was car crash TV - since then Kerry has of course taken the higher ground and branded Schofield as "ignorant and arrogant" for failing to understand her illness - sweetie I think even dogs would have been watching that asking the questions he put to you. She goes on repetitively to say ""He was out of order. Saying I was drunk is ignorant and arrogant." - Yeah hon, He never said you were drunk, maybe you were too pissed to remember? I do have to admit that it is sad to see someone in such a state and that husband of hers should never have even taken her to the studio in that state but I guess having £ signs for eyes blurs his judgement slightly.

On saturday I met up with Oliver and picked out my 1st ever pair of glasses. It's such a good job Oliver was there as god knows what I would have ended up with but I pick them up next week and they are a very nice pair of Dolce and Gabbana's. I am not sure if I will just wear them for work and reading but I guess they will take some time to get used to - I can guarantee that even more people will be saying "ooh you look like Simon Pegg!"

Yet again I have a ever so slight moist feeling in the genital area and I am not talking about discharge! I regularly check what's coming up in the West End Theatreland and 2 of my favourite actors/sexy men are starring together - James McAvoy and Nigel Harman are due to appear in Richard Greenberg's play "3 days of rain" at the Apollo Theatre from February. Bring it!

This week is exceptionally busy! I am off to Glasgow for the 1st time which should be fun, I am mainly going for work but also am meeting up with a few people whilst I am there to discover all the joys that Glasgow has to offer. I shall report all when I get back.

Sorry for the rather sporadic blogging lately but my workload has gone through the roof and I am actually getting stuff done!!

xx

2008-10-21T08:46:00.000-07:00

So Sarah Palin has stated that she supports the federal ban on same sex marriage - shocking! God I hate thatwoman!! In her latest interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network she has said -

"I have voted along with the vast majority of Alaskans who had the opportunity to vote to amend our Constitution defining marriage as between one man and one woman," she said.
"I wish on a federal level that's where we would go. I don't support gay marriage."

Well I guess it's not exactly surprising coming from a woman who hasn't really seen the world, Maybe Michael Palin would be more suitable for Vice President, he has actually been to other countries for a start.

So on the front cover of this weeks OK! Magazine is my favourite celebrity turd impersonator - Kerry Katona - the headline reads "I have had pints of fat sucked out" - Too much information Kerry! Why could there not have been a liposuction machine malfunction? So that by the end of the procedure all that would be left was a few Iceland vouchers and your implants! Vile, Vile, Vile woman - oh and now she has done a naked photoshoot for Zoo magazine - quite appropriate I thought but it turns out it's the men's magazine not just a zoo magazine with lots of other animals in it.

On the front of Heat Magazine we have Peaches "honest to god, will someone please sit me down and tell me why I am famous besides having a face that looks like I am constantly blowing a raspberry" Geldof stating that she doesn't expect her marriage to last forever - shocking again! and may I say a really great message to put out to the youth of today, oh just get married for the hell of it, you can always get divorced and married again and then divorced etc etc - what a wonderfully fragmented life that will lead to - not that I am judging at all, god forbid!

xx

2008-10-20T07:04:00.000-07:00

Spoilt Pippy!

Hi Bitches,

Well what a great weekend I just had! Usually the weekend before pay day is spent crying on the sofa, jumping for joy when I discover small change in an old pocket. However, on saturday Oliver came over with bags and bags of goodies!! It was an early birthday/xmas surprise that included beautifully wrapped multivitamins to ensure that I have another birthday after this one! A fab red/black checked shirt that fits like a glove and a bottle of champers!! but wait - there were 2 gifts still to open, the first was a French and Saunders DVD with......2 tickets to see the comedy duo that very night!!! yay!!! the next envelope intrigued me as I really thought that was more than enough but I opened it to find 2 tickets to see Sarah Silverman last night! Big thankyou to Oliver for making this weekend so so so much fun - I am well and truly comedied out!

French and Saunders were great, a even mix of old clips on a big screen mixed with classic and new sketches including the original sketch that inspired Absolutely Fabulous and loads of bitching between the 2 about Ab Fab versus Vicar of Dibley. Ending the show with the disgusting sleazy fat men with cocks!!! I am so glad that I finally got to see them before they say farewell forever!

Yesterday was a lazy day of watching dvd's and drinking. Late afternoon we headed over to Hammersmith for Ms Silverman, The show was sold out and Hammersmith Apollo was rammed, due to technical problems the start was delayed and they were not letting people into the theatre so it was a bit stressful being crushed against so many disgruntled comedy fans. Finally we were let in and on she came, Her timing and delivery was amazing and her jokes were disgusting, politically incorrect and totally offensive - I loved every minute!

Lines including

"I have had an Abortion, well abortions and it's one of the top 50 most difficult decisions a woman has to make"

"Scientology is so gay...and i don't mean that in a bad way, when i say gay, i mean retarded"

Talking about Barack Obama, she said she was concerned that America would not elect a half black president "Oh i shouldn't be so pessimistic - he's half white"

The only problem was that she was on for less than an hour and there was some jeering from the crowd but I loved every minute of it and repeatedly raised my hands to my mouth in shock at some of the things she was saying.

Well it's going to be a busy week at work but at least it's pay day on friday! I am finally going to buy my glasses on saturday - I guess this is a really rather dull birthday present to myself - the gift of sight, I am like a gay jesus or something

xx

2008-10-17T03:56:00.001-07:00

Greetings

Very interesting article by writer Paul Burston in this weeks Boyz Magazine (yes we gays have such groundbreaking titles for our weekly publications), Burston has written an article about the recent gay hate crime attacks that have gone widely unreported in the mainstream media. I have written about several of these attacks recently including the murder of Michael Causer in Liverpool and the stabbing of a gay guy in Hackney which left him paralysed. Burston also reports that one of his facebook friends was beaten up on Old Compton Street (the gayest street in the London) a few weeks ago - the police told him that was the 5th homophobic attack that week. God forbid that we should ever read about these things - knife crime is a major problem unless of course the victim happens to be gay.

For once I read an interesting article in "The London Paper" this week, basically every weekday a reader sends in a short blog style article and readers vote on whether they think the writer should write for the paper. This particular article was very emotive and had a massive response with 98% of readers saying they wanted more. The article was written by a 29 yr old straight guy who had recently visited a prostitute due to his lack of success with women stating that -

"I'm a geat guy, I'm in my 20's, healthy and fit, well educated, intelligent , caring, thoughtful and a good person, but I'm no Brad Pitt, and that's the deal breaker.

Yes I'm sure that many of you are thinking of the "P" word, but the reality is that personality counts for nothing. In today's world of celebrity, even the plainest of women want a Frank Lampard or a George Clooney. The worst thing is they are prepared to put up with anything to get them and keep them. I've lost count of the conversations I've heard between women complaining of inconsiderate, rude. thoughtless, cheating and lying boyfriends. I stand there thinking "I wouldn't have carried on watching Match of the Day when you had something to say. I wouldn't have chatted up that girl at the bar" But it's all worthless because five minutes later the boyfriend arrives, and afer one look, all her anger just melts away because he's her Frank Lampard.

I'm only human and I can only take so much. Each smile that goes unreturned, every "hello" that goes unanswered and every funny comment that goes unnoticed takes a little piece of you with it. After a while you find yourself sitting on someone's sofa handing over £200 because you just want someone to want you. You know it is'nt real but you have no choice. So don't hate me, don't even judge me. I'm just trying to buy back the pieces of my soul. The problem is that even I know there is'nt enough money in the world to do that"

Now I know thats a bit dramatic - and that is certainly not the way I feel about life, being single and dating but it did resonate with me and made me think about past relationships I have had and I have to say in many ways, this guy is right, it is remarkable what people are willing to put up with, it's a sad state of affairs when our relationships are being dictated by unrealistic expectations. I don't know what the person I am going to end up with is going to look like, I am guessing probably not like any of the guys I have put on this blog but I do know what the guy will be like because I know what qualities I find attractive in a guy, I just hope the wrapping does not distract me again because when you open it up it usually doesn't match up to any of the things on the list.

Well this weekend is one of intrigue and mystery - My birthday is coming up on the 10th November and Oliver has planned an early birthday surprise tomorrow night and I have absolutely no frikkin idea what it's going to be, I am sure it will be fabulous and marvellous and wonderful, I shall of course tell all on Monday!!

Just to raise the mood here is a gratuitous picture of a lovely looking fella ella ella - It's Henry Cavill, star of "The Tudors"

Have a delicious weekend

xx

2008-10-15T03:21:00.000-07:00

Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone Ritchie is now listed as single

Well it's been on the cards for a while but an announcement is imminent that after 8 years of marriage Madonna and Guy Ritchie are getting divorced. Oh it's all very sad especially with kids involved, am quite surprised that Madonna has not waited for her tour to finish before announcing this but what would I know about the closed doors of the Ritchie household.

In other Madonna related news, She has had some good news today - In an interview with the digital spy website Tricia Penrose from the ITV "drama" Heartbeat has said that she would love it if Madonna would guest star on the show stating

"My ideal guest star on Heartbeat would have to be Madonna. She's a legend," Tricia explained. "It'd be great if she could play a relative of Gina's - perhaps one of her aunts. Come on, Madonna, pick up the phone..."

Girlfriend are you high, the only way you would get Madonna on that show is by drugging and kidnapping her, she aint going to yorkshire!! Apparently the show has already had "high profile stars" including Lulu, Charlotte Church and Gary Barlow - yeah real high profile.

Not having blogged for a while I missed the whole gay tattoo religious scandal - for those unaware of the story Reverand Peter Mullen wrote on his blog -

"Let us make it obligatory for homosexuals to have their backsides tattooed with the slogan SODOMY CAN SERIOUSLY DAMAGE YOUR HEALTH and their chins with FELLATIO KILLS."

Charming! I spoke to god and she aint happy about this! It's also totally inaccurate - sodomy only damages your health if ya don't know what ya doing, ease yourself into it and it's really quite marvellous and as for fellatio killing? well that's just silly! It's bloody fantastic and methinks Rev Mullen should deal with whats real and ease into a few things himself - like a blender perhaps.

Well rumours are starting already about whats going to happen at next year's Brit Awards - firstly that George Michael has been dropped from the show which is hardly surprising since he can barely go into a loo or get behind a wheel without getting totally twatted like a 15 year old at a school disco. The biggest issue I have with one particular rumour is the suggestion of who should be awarded the outstanding contribution to british music award - apparently Simon Cowell has been approached, call me a cynical old queen but this is the man that has provided our ears with such shit as Sonia, Five, Westlife, Robson and Jerome and Ultimate Kaos as well as novelty records by the World Wrestling Federation, Teletubbies, Zig and Zag and the Might Morphin Power Rangers and not forgetting the wall of orange chessiness aka they make me ill divo. I mean sure he has given us Leona Lewis and several other X factor/American Idol winners but surely there are artists out there that have actually written songs or even better sung songs that are far more deserving of the award.

I was flicking through the usual celebrity riddled magazines on my lunch break yesterday and got to OK! Magazine - they really do take the piss - this week that moral ridden queen of all that is good and true is on the front cover - Obviously I am talking about Jordan - she is posing on the front in a wedding dress holding up her left hand - but wait a minute she has not got a wedding ring on! The headline reads "Why I walked out on Pete" - oh no is their marriage over too?? Of course it fucking is'nt - since when does OK! Magazine ever tell the truth on their cover - reading the 735825785 page article what actually happened was she walked out on him.....for 2 days! She also states that she does not want to talk about the surgery she had for her prolapsed womb but then goes on for 2 paragraphs about her bowel movements - nice.

Also saw in Heat Magazine yesterday that Jodie Marsh is now a lesbian and is going out with a hairdresser called Nina with some very posed paparazzi pics showing them locking lips, next week Jodie reveals finally that she is in fact a pig in a wig.

xx

2008-10-14T03:54:00.000-07:00

Some of you may be aware that Saturday was National Coming Out Day!!

It all seems a bit random - I only read about this in gay publications so one would think that if you are reading a gay magazine you are more than likely out to someone about your sexuality. I came out when I was 16 which means that basically I have been out for roughly half my life (how frikkin scary is that?) - I always find it interesting to hear people's "coming out" stories because no two stories are ever the same, for many young gay people, coming out can be the biggest and scariest moment of their lives - I know it was for me.

I can remember the day I came out to my parents so clearly, as if it were yesterday, I had told a few of my friends already and they had all been fantastic, even the straight guys, well after I assured them that I wasn't going to bum them into next week. I had sat up in my room standing in front of the mirror practising my speech over and over again but everytime I got to the all important "Mum and Dad, I am gay" part I would just burst into tears over all the fears and thoughts that i assumed would run through their mind. The biggest fear for me is that they would think I had let them down or that they had done something wrong. There is no worse feeling than thinking that you have let your parents down.

After lots of thought and soul searching I decided there was no way I could get through telling them so I sat down and started writing, putting all my thoughts and feelings of the last few years in one hell of an angst ridden letter. I banged on for 3 or 4 pages about how depressed I had been feeling and not knowing what to do with myself before finally admitting on the last page that I was gay. I then said at the end of the letter that I would be at my friend clare's house if they wanted to talk. I left the letter in an obvious place and walked up to clare's in floods of tears.

After a short while of pacing up and down and worrying, the phone rang and my dad said I should head home. I always thought that my dad would be angry as he is a yorkshire man born and bred and probably didn't want a poof as a son. My mum would be fine and give me a big hug and tell me everything would be alright, well it just goes to show that you can never presume what a reaction will be. I got home to find my mum at the bottom of the stairs, crying like I had never seen anyone cry before, whilst my dad just gave me a hug and told me everything was ok. We went into the living room and my mum calmed down enough to start asking questions - was it just a phase? what about AIDS? are you seeing anyone? you are too young to know? etc.

It took a long, long time for my parents to really accept my sexuality and that year was probably one of the most painful of my life, looking at my parents knowing that they were thinking "where did we go wrong?" - it's a gut wrenching feeling. I am very happy to say that now my parents are amazing and totally accept me for who I am. I am very lucky. Recently I was chatting to my mother and asked her about that infamous letter - why did she get so upset about it?

She put me straight on the matter (no pun intended) - in the year leading up to the letter I had worn nothing but black clothes, listened to nothing but Morrissey and The Smiths and generally had been walking round like a zombie, My mother found the note and thought I had killed myself. I never ever thought that would happen and now know that maybe I should have opened with the whole I'm gay thing - well thankfully you live and learn.

Anyways that's my lil coming out story. I have many other stories involving friends that vary from hilarious to truly tragic but that's not for here. I have to say that no matter how painful some of it was, coming out has enhanced my life and broadened my horizons, true enough it does not always work out as well as that but thankfully there is lots of support out there for young people these days, I just hope they know where to find it.

Please tell me I am not the only one who is bored to tears with hearing the news and it being banks, banks, banks - I really need someone to sit down with me and tell me in no more than 5 minutes what the fuck is going on because the second I start reading one of the bank news stories or anything financial for that matter I start drifting off into day dream world - this is always preferable as it usually involves Danny Dyer banging me against a cash machine as £50 notes fly out of it - think I need to stop eating so much cheese - it's havinga rather bizarre impact on my subconcious.

Can we just take a moment to appreciate Huge Jackman - he was on the beach in Sydney yesterday celebrating his 40th birthday - the guy looks amazing, he is super gay friendly, can dance and loves musical theatre - tick, tick, tick, tick all of my boxes Hugh!

Well that's quite enough for today

xx

2008-10-13T07:02:00.000-07:00

Heartfelt apologies for the lack of blogging, normal service is now resumed!

I have to admit that my finger has slipped off the pulse of the celebrity world this week - although Madonna has inevitably caught my attention for her rather fabulous comments about Sarah Palin, Madonna has been performing in New York at Madison Square Garden and has been screeching her guitar every night andf comparing the noise to "Sarah Palin thinking". Also after singing her hit "Express Yourself" she said "I'd like to express myself to Sarah Palin right now!" but the best was yet to come as Madonna threw condoms into the crowd with a picture of Palin on the wrapper saying that this was the best way to promote safe sex - go on girl!

140 stupid people have complained to the BBC about last week's gay kiss on Eastenders, Thankfully the BBC have slapped the complaints stating

"EastEnders aims to reflect real life, and this means including and telling stories about characters from many different backgrounds, faiths, religions and sexualities.
"We approach our portrayal of homosexual relationships in the same way as we do heterosexual relationships.

"In this instance, Christian is enjoying the first flush of romance and we've shown him being affectionate with his new boyfriend in the same way any couple would.

"We also aim to ensure that depictions of affection or sexuality between couples are suitable for pre-watershed viewing.

"We believe that the general tone and content of EastEnders is now widely recognised, meaning that parents can make an informed decision as to whether they want their children to watch."

I love that they think people who complain about a gay kiss could ever actually make an informed decision!

One of my favourite london gay bars is closing!! The Trash Palace which opened a few years ago on my birthday is moving on but it's not all bad news, whats actually happening is that it's moving to a new venue in Old Street with the club Ghetto! This is quite a lethal move as I live very near to Old Street and the temptation may all get a bit too much! This does mean that East London now has a great set of venues including The Joiners Arms and The George and Dragon, this could all lead to my demise!

Anyways hopefully by tomorrow I shall be fully informed of all things celebrity and have lots of interesting things to tell you

Until then

xx

2008-10-03T03:19:00.000-07:00

On September 8th this year I wrote in my blog about a homophobic attack near one of my local pubs in Hackney. A gay man was attacked by a gang of youths and stabbed 8 times. At the time of the post he was in a stable but critical condition, yesterday it was revealed that he was stabbed in the spinal cord and is now permanently paralysed - he is 21 years old. This is the kind of horrific outcome that I would expect to read about in the national press, surely this would justify at least a paragraph. I read about this attack in 2 places, a website for gay related news and one newspaper "The East London Advertiser" - can someone tell me how homophobic hate crime is going to be taken seriously if nobody is aware of it? I have spent time thinking about this but have reached the conclusion that it really does not make any sense.

I really do love my mum, she is quite a marvellous woman! I am still unable to watch TV but am very keen to see the new Jonathan Harvey sitcom "Beautiful People" that started last night on BBC2 - Thankfully my mother has come to the rescue, she is recording them all onto dvd for me - what a star!! She is also recording "The Secret Policemen's Ball" on CH4 on sunday night featuring the genius of Alan Carr!!

Well the weekend is upon us, tomorrow I am off to Catford!!! (lord help me now) for a 40th birthday party and then sunday I am heading down to South London to support my lovely lovely friend Camilla who is taking part in the "Run to the Beat" half marathon. The girl has been training like an olympic athlete, lets just hope she doesn't have a piss in the street like that Paula Radcliffe.

Hold the front page - Kerry Katona is going to get her breasts out on her new reality show as part of her breast reduction, Cut to thousands of people listening to the shipping forecast.

Am so sexually confused at the moment, I have never really found Chris Martin of Coldplay fame very attractive but he looks pretty fine in this picture, is that wrong?

His bandmate Guy Berryman is absolute perfection though!

Have a lovely weekend

xx

2008-10-02T03:30:00.001-07:00

A thousand times sorry for the lack of blogging

I had a very hectic weekend and then took ill on tuesday and have only just managed to drag my ass back to a computer. The weekend was lots of fun, a crazy night was had at popstarz on friday night, it has improved massively since the last time, the organisers have now taken over the whole of the club and there is lots more room for me to make a twat of myself - can't actually remember many details of friday's carnage but i do remember dancing badly to Madonna and making friends with a lovely lesbian couple - did any men come near me? did they bogroll!! I was wearing my man repellent yet again.

Saturday I had a very lazy morning and then headed into town to meet Oliver, Mel and Adrian for lunch before heading to see Avenue Q - if you have not had chance to see it - please go, it is so offensive and politically incorrect! I just loved it and it seemed so did everyone else, we went to the matinee and usually audiences are a bit crap at that time of day but everyone seemed well up for some crude songs and jokes. This was followed by a few beers in the always wonderful Retro Bar and an early - ish night.

Sunday I woke up and my gut was aching with hunger so I treated myself to coffee, croissants and the morning papers, It really is the best way to spend a sunday morning, I then headed up to Angel and did something unheard of - I went for something to eat by myself, a very liberating experience. I popped into The Green on Upper Street and ordered food and read my book and all was content and lovely with the world.....until some gobby gay boys and lezza's sat next to me and ranted about their "crazy" weekend - I then turned decidedly homophobic, it's a wonder I managed to finish my food! Pete turned up shortly after and we had a great catch up and a few beers to round off the weekend.

Since then I have not been very well, my throat has felt like I have been swallowing razor blades so I locked myself in the house and pulled my duvet onto the sofa and managed to make my way through far too many episodes of Law and Order and a couple of Prime Suspects - I am now crimed out!!

I do have loads on so shall return with a proper end of week blog tomorrow

xx

2008-09-25T08:51:00.000-07:00

Oh (certain parts of) America, you really are quite stupid!

It's sadly to be expected that when a singer whose best friend has just given birth to his baby comes out as gay there are going to be some bad reactions, As I mentioned yesterday Clay Aiken has come out as gay and due to his christian faith, the bible interpreters (ya see cos that's what they actually are, they interpret the bible to suit their own twisted judgements and leave out all the bits they don't like or the stupid bits of the bible that are to say the least outdated) have come out in force against him saying that they are turning their back on this gay man (not a particularly wise decision considering we are all arse bandits).

Seriously, here are some of the comments from Clay's fans that are whipping the internet into a decidedly dull froth

“This is a gut wrenching day for The ClayNation. Somebody wake me up, I hope it's a dream."

"Please tell me I'm not the only one who is shocked beyond belief! I feel numb I'm so upset. This can't be real!! How can you guys say this won't change anything? This changes EVERYTHING. I don't even know what to think right now"

"I still love to hear him sing but I also feel he has now become like a Michael Jackson and it's a bit too weird! He isn't just the plain ordinary person with the values he first stood for.”

"I just feel rather silly now having spent the last 5 years drooling over and being fan girly for a singer I thought was straight and now finding out he is gay. It does change my perception of who he is and how I see him. We always called him our boyfriend and that won't be happening anymore."

"One really sad thing for me that sums this up. This morning at the breakfast table my 9 and 10 year olds were there and the radio was on and they came on with the headline "Former American Idol..." and I knew what was coming and I ran to turn it off. I didn't want my young children to hear that and ask questions about it. To me this is the saddest thing and the reason I won't be able to hold him as my idol. I remember the day when I ran to turn it on and called all the family to watch with pride. It just seems so in your face now and I don't want exposing my kids to this.”

I mean really? some of these people are registered to vote, some of them drive and some of them raise their children to hate people like me and they say i am the sick one, pick a mirror you window licking freakshows!

In other "i think the world is full of the wrong kind of people" news, A guy in Australia has been cautioned for the offensive bumpor sticker on his car, it has the rather catchy line

"Gay Rights? Under God's law the only rights gays have is the right to die."

What does his other sticker say?

"My parents are brother and sister!"

What a twat! Coming from Australia too, I would expect a more cultural reference - "Scott and Charlene forever" or "You can ride my moustache for free!"

Genius idea time - They have finally unveiled plans for air conditioned tube trains, these will be introduced in 2010 and what lines are they putting them on, the packed northern line, the sweltering victoria, the tourist riddled piccadilly - of course not they are putting them on the district and hammersmith and city lines - what the fuck?? I am sure people use these lines all the time but it aint on any of my routes honey! There is obviously logic locked in there somewhere - some twat on a tube probably suggested it =

Go Bojo the clown!!

In happier news my tan is still going strong, I have a launch to go to tonight with free wine and tomorrow is friday and there is a big work night out planned - bring it!

xx

2008-09-24T05:46:00.000-07:00

Oh what a marvellously gay day it is!!

I think my blog must have rippled across to America yesterday...Lindsay Lohan has finally come out!!!!! Her girlfriend Samantha Ronson called into a radio show yesterday as she is good mates with DJ AM and Travis Barker who were both critically injured in a plane crash at the weekend and at one point Lindsay took the phone and the DJ asked how long her and Samantha had been going out together and she said "like 2 years etc" yay!!!! lesbian love rules.

Let's not forget the boys - Clay Aiken, who was runner up in the 2003 American Idol has ended a load of speculation and come out on the front cover of "People" magazine.

Also Director Steven Spielberg has followed in the admirable footsteps of Brad Pitt and donated $100,000 to the campaign for gay marriage in America. yay again!!! Am I the only one that feels like skipping a little?

Now I am still not watching TV but I kinda wish I was as this morning i saw a picture of one of this year's X factor contestants that made mmy mouth literally drop open in sheer shock and slight arousal. I have seen this guy before - he was on some E4 show about a boyband becoming a girlband and trying to convince the public that they were girls - was not a very good show but would you just take a look at him!!!

Last night I went home and watched the 1st Prime Suspect, I forgot how good it was, Now usually during anything that lasts 3 and a half hours I would go pause it a few times to go to the loo, get a drink or some food but I could not stop watching, it was so good!!! Really gritty, well thought out and I totally forgot that a very young Ralph Fiennes was in it - marvellous.

Have also just ordered Law and Order - Special Victims Unit series 6, so anyone hoping to see me this month is going to have to miss out cos I am going to be drooling over the adventures of Chris Meloni! Although once the hibernation of October is over there is something exceedingly exciting on the agenda - It's my birthday!! yes I shall be hitting the big 32 and am trying to sort out what I want to do - I think I have decided that since my birthday falls on a monday I dont realkly want to have a big couple of nights out and then feel like shite for my actual birthday so I think partying the weekend after makes more sense and will give me something to look forward to.

The planning starts now!!

xx

2008-09-23T06:56:00.000-07:00

Got shitfaced, talked to a trannie, went in a darkroom, ate a kebab and fell down a flight of stairs.

No reader (s) I am not describing the holiday, I am describing the 1st night of the holiday - yes we really excelled ourselves/peaked too early on this one. The first night we got there we drank like someone was going to take our drinks off us. One minute I was talking to Oliver, the next minute he was at the bottom of a flight of stairs - thankfully he was ok, it could have been very serious but he was quite badly bruised.

The rest of the holiday all kinda blurred into sitting by the pool, drinking our daily 4 beers at Diamonds Bar and then getting changed eating pasta, drinking vodka on the balcony whilst discussing the problems with the labour government and the presidential race aka Kerry Katona's boob job and how much we love Cheryl Cole and then hitting the Yumbo centre for more and more booze.

It really was a great holiday and the weather was mostly fab, we have both come back brown and lovely, thanks to Oliver again for sorting out everything, although my time planning was shit - I literally had enough time to drop my bag off at home before racing into work after not sleeping for over 24 hours. Thankfully my manager is the nicest guy ever and let me leave at 3pm.

On my way home though I did end up slightly tripping into HMV to get the Sex and the City - The Movie on DVD, I also bagged a total bargain with all ten "Prime Suspects" on DVD reduced from £100 to £25!! that's me sorted for the month.

Now I realise that I have not blogged about the Madonna show - all in all it was great fun and I danced a lot and thankfully the weather stayed pleasant for the whole affair but since I am quite short it was difficult to see over everyones massive heads so I spent most of the show watching the video screens but that was ok, I did enjoy the show and her versions of "Vogue" and "Like A Prayer" were fantastic but overall I left feeling slightly empty, one major aspect was the crowd around us - what a bunch of miserable fuckers! Madonna is a pop/dance artist so don't stand there with your arms folded, you paid over £75 for a ticket so dance you twats!! grrr!! Anyways I do still love her and will support her but something needs to change.

On the Friday Me and the lovely Dan headed into Soho for some light refreshments (at this point I need to apologise to Dan for my last blog post - As far as I am aware Dan's bum has never literally gushed, I have never stood outside a room and thought to myself "what's that sound? oh it must be Dan's bum gushing, Dan does not have any digestive system problems and I am sure he is regular as clockwork so thats that cleared up, probably not the best choice of words) we had a few drinks and then we headed down to the new players theatre to see the play "The Pretender Agenda" starring Lee Ryan of the boyband Blue and Sue Delaney (she played Johnny Briggs sister in the kids tv show "Johnny Briggs") and Lucy Benjamin who played Phil Mitchell's wife Lisa in "Eastenders. Anyway the play was set at an office party at the boss's house, with the drinks flowing more love and hatred was revealed, it was actually a really good play and even Lee Ryan managed to get a few laughs. One of the actor's is described as a rising star and I could not agree more - Scott Hinds played "Rob" and was rather hot. The play was really good and flowed brilliantly. Sadly the play has now ended its run but keep your eyes peeled for Mr Hinds!!

As if we needed to have another reason to love Brad Pitt - he has just donated $100,000 dollars to back the campaign for gay marriage in America, He loves kids, the gays and Angelina - bless him!!

Speaking of good deeds - Does anyone have a pair of scissors, David "would anyone care if I actually died during one of these stunts" Blaine is hanging upside down about Central Park for the next few days, I am hoping people throw things.

In news that made me go "tut" in a very bored manner - George Michael in drugs and public toilet shock and it was on Hampstead Heath - big deal, who cares blah oh and before i forget blah.

More gay news - after months of speculation on the London gay scene it has finally been confirmed that G-A-Y club has bought the gay club "Heaven" - It's been on the cards for a while but problem is I have never been a big fan of Heaven - its one of those clubs that you can literally get lost in for hours - am not sure how well G-A-Y will do there but am sure the lycra topped gay boys will make it their own with a simple yet effective "can ya play some steps cos i luv em"

Anyone around my age will remember the Blue Presenter Mark Curry, Well he announced this weekend that he got married...to a man!! A gay childrens TV presenter of all things! what next a gay theatre director?? Anyway he got married to his partner of 10 years Jeremy Sandle. I know he is not much of a celebrity anymore but lets keep these people in the public eye out and proud and then maybe some of the "normal" folk will too.

laters

xx

2008-09-10T06:15:00.001-07:00

Ah today is a good day, no a great day!!

Work lately has been crazy busy and I have been trying to get 2 resources designed, printed and launched hopefully before the end of October - one part of my work that I dread is talking to designers, they just seem to make it all so difficult with their rather extreme ideas for what essentially are 2 very straight forward tasks. One of the resources is possibly the biggest piece of work I have ever taken on and it kinda feels like my baby so hopefully the labour wont be too painful and I shall be popping it out soon.

To deal with the stress I am doing what any stressed homo would do, I am doing a runner!! Yes thanks to last minute bookings Oliver and I are flying out to Gran Canaria on sunday night for a week to grasp the last bit of the sun before the weather gets even more dreary. Today is my last day at work for over a week as I have obviously taken 2 days off to prepare and recover from the Madonna concert. I am so ready to get away and thanks again to Oliver for sorting it all out - the yumbo center here we come. I love holidays, I love the fact that the most difficult decision of the day is what to drink and wear. If only life could always be that simple.

I am absolutely moist at the fact that not only will I be seeing Madonna tomorrow but I shall also be seeing my friend Dan, who is staying for the weekend, so much fun will be had!! As Dan would say "my bum is gushing with excitement" - which actually is not the nicest phrase or saying, it just leads me to think of a rather chronic bout of diarrhoea but I shall give him and his bum the benefit of the doubt.

So this is my last blog for a while but I shall return with a lengthy review of the Madonna concert and probably some embarassing tales from Gran Canaria.

Until then

TTFN

xx

2008-09-09T04:33:00.001-07:00

Well I have managed quite well so far this year to not mention the race for the white house but recent events concern me greatly and so I am coming out of the political closet. I would hope that anyone reading this would not have to think twice about who should be the next President - obviously it should be Oprah Winfrey but alas she is too busy with her radio show, tv show, magazine, schools and fixing that silly global warming. I instead opt for Barack Obama, he is so the right man for the job and obviously I have had to look at his record on gay rights and he has been very good to us same sex lovers! Every 2 years the human rights campaign, the largest national lesbian and gay organisation issues a scorecard for members of the senate based on their sponsorship and voting on key issues of importance for lesbian and gay people. Barack Obama scored 89 out of 100%. He has backed hate crime legislation that wil protect lesbians and gay men and has also been supportive in employment laws, the military ban, adoption rights and gay civil unions.

That bizarre looking republican candidate John McCain is quite the opposite as you may expect, he has not supported one piece of legislation that will protect the rights of lesbian and gay people, here is a snippet of an interview from earlier this year

In an interview with George Stephanapolous in July 2008, Stephanapolous asked John McCain,"What is your position on gay adoption? You told the New York Times you were against it, even in cases where the children couldn't find another home. But then your staff backtracked a bit. What is your position?"
McCain responded, "My position is, it's not the reason why I'm running for president of the United States. And I think that two parent families are best for America."

Stephanapolous asked, "Well, what do you mean by that, it's not the reason you're running for President of the United States?"

McCain replied, "Because I think -- well, I think that it's -- it is important for us to emphasize family values. But I think it's very important that we understand that we have other challenges, too. I'm running for president of the United States, because I want to help with family values. And I think that family values are important, when we have two parent -- families that are of parents that are the traditional family."

Stephanapolous: "But there are several hundred thousand children in the country who don't have a home. And if a gay couple wants to adopt them, what's wrong with that?"

McCain: "I am for the values that two parent families, the traditional family represents."

Stephanapolous: "So, you're against gay adoption."

McCain: "I am for the values and principles that two parent families represent. And I also do point out that many of these decisions are made by the states, as we all know. And I will do everything I can to encourage adoption, to encourage all of the things that keeps families together, including educational opportunities, including a better economy, job creation. And I'm running for president, because I want to help families in America. And one of my positions is that I believe that family values and family traditions are preserved."

Well that interview tells me everything I need to know about him - you listen to Obama speak and he is clear and up front and says exactly what he means, he is that most refreshing thing - a politician who doesn't answer questions like a politician. However, now we have a whole new heel wearing threat - Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin or as I prefer to call her "howdy doody lois lane looking mother fella" - she is so vile with her fake smile and all american values - the bastard daughter of Charlton Heston me thinks! Here is a quote from a gay rights website in America

"America may not know much about Sarah Palin, but based on what our community has seen of her, we know enough," said Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese. "Sarah Palin not only supported the 1998 Alaska constitutional amendment banning marriage equality but, in her less than two years as Governor, even expressed the extreme position of supporting stripping away domestic partner benefits for state workers. When you can’t even support giving our community the rights to health insurance and pension benefits, it’s a frightening window into where she stands on equality."

She likes guns, hates abortion and would probably prefer it if all us pesky gays went to fire island where we belong. Sadly there is that whole middle bit of America that are literally on their hands and knees ready to worship her, whilst the gays are on their hands and knees too - because if the republicans win we are going to be seriously fucked! without dinner or lube!

Moving onto Amy Winehouse and her allegedly rather shambolic performance at this weekends Bestival - I read a very funny review of her show last night and although I cant remember the whole thing, the reviewer did compare the enjoyment of watching her equalling watching a hamster slowly eat its young!

I am becoming more and more indie as the days go by, probably due to listening to Xfm at my desk everyday - there are some great songs out at the moment that I can't get enough of

Steve McQueen by The Automatic, Mountains by Biffy Clyro, In This City by Iglu and Hartley but the ultimate track of the moment is Sex on Fire by Kings of Leon - simply amazing! I always thought Kings of Leon were big hairy mary types but after a good shave certain members of the band are a whole pile of hotness

on that note I shall bid you farewell til next time!

xx

2008-09-08T08:15:00.000-07:00

Apologies for the lack of blogging but I was away in Bristol at the big gay conference.

Last week was very interesting, I don't kiss and tell on this blog but let's just say I had a rather marvellous evening and have been grinning like a cheshire cat for the last few days.

I have just spent the weekend in hiding in my house watching endless episodes of "Will and Grace" - after going cold turkey for a while it really is classic comedy!! Now i must socialise as I have way too many out downs whirring round my head.

So Britney is back apparently - winning 3 awards at this weekends MTV Video Music Award's, I must admit she did look rather fab!

Russell Brand was hosting the show so you would think that the organisers would have been prepared for his rather innuendo laden and rather controversial humour - it sounds to me like he nailed it but the stupid American's are now up in arms about him slagging off George Bush.

This line in particular made me chortle this morning -

He began his opening monologue by saying: 'Please, America, elect Barack Obama. On behalf of the world. Some people, I think they're called racists, say America is not ready for a black president.

'But I know America to be a forward-thinking country because otherwise why would you have let that retard and cowboy fella be president for eight years?'

He added: 'We thought it was nice of you to let him have a go, because in England he wouldn't be trusted with a pair of scissors"

Genius!

Well it's finally here!! Madonna week! Yes on thursday night I am off to Wembley Stadium to see our gracious leader in all her sticky and sweet glory! She played Rome this weekend and dedicated "Like A Virgin" to the Pope - bless her!

and it looks like the hitman I hired to get rid of the musical durge that is Oasis has started work in grand style, bravo, honey, bravo!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX5JBsKih0c

skip forward 1 minute 30 seconds, It really has made my day!

It's always a wonder that homophobic hate crime never makes the news - on 28th August a 22 year old gay man was attacked by a gang of Asian youths, near one of my local gay bars - The George and Dragon in East London. In a completely unmotivated attack, youths snatched a bottle of wine he was carrying, smashed it and used the broken glass to stab him in the torso, while 2 others attacked him with knives. He was stabbed a total of 8 times. He is in a critical but stable condition.

Why was this not reported more widely? I am sure there are lots of crimes that don't make it into the press but it does seem that homophobic attacks are on the rise and the gay community and the police need to be working together to combat this. The gay community (if there is such a thing) need to be made aware that these attacks are happening, maybe the national media should at least pretend they give a shit?

xx

2008-09-02T03:13:00.001-07:00

Ooh it's a bit of a miserable day but some pesky rain can't bring me down! Last night I went for a "quick" drink after work with Dan, David, Ruth and Tony - all good fun, it ended with just me, dan and ruth and they actually tried to persuade me to join them at Spearmint Rhino, a gentleman's club! and I don't mean my kind of gentlemen! I am sorry but my idea of a good night does not involve having a v-jay-jay rammed in my face - so I hopped on my bus and made my way home, this was obviously a very good decisio judging by the fact that I got a text from Dan at 2am this morning saying that he and Ruth were shitfaced and dancing in the 2 brewers bar in Clapham - how righteous do I feel now?

I missed all the action in town last night though, it was the premiere of Guy Ritchie's new film "Rock'n'Rolla" - his made a massive departure with this flick - it's a gangster cockney movie! I only mention this occasion for one reason and I am sure you can guess the rest - yes Our Gracious Leader Madonna was there and she looked absolutely amazing!! I am seeing her at Wembley Stadium in 9 days!!!

A new channel 4 documentary has filmed a group of female preachers at a high profile London mosque who are urging followers to kill gay people and view all non muslims as "vile". The Dispatches programme shows the group teach their extremist views at the The London Central Mosque and Islamic Cultural Centre, known as the Regent’s Park Mosque.The programme is a follow-up to the controversial Undercover Mosque documentary which provoked a police investigation after those included accused the producers of distorting sermons and inflaming tensions.The women seen in the new doc are preaching a version of the Muslim faith known as Wahhabism, which is followed in Saudi Arabia.

The reporter secretly films sermons given to the women-only congregation in which female preachers recite extremist and intolerant beliefs. In front of hundreds of women and children, a preacher calls for adulterers, homosexuals, women who act like men and Muslim converts to other faiths to be killed, saying: "Kill him, kill him. You have to kill him, you understand. This is Islam."

"We are not going to be like animals...or to be like the homosexuals, God save us from that, you understand? We have to take the judgment, the judgment is to kill them," one of the women is shown as saying.

Nice

On a more happy gay front, My new obsession seems to be Ellen Degeneres and Portia De Rossi! They just make such a good couple, if only there was a gay male equivalent, I mean seriously what do we have? Elton and David? Rubbish! Anyways here are the happy couple taking a stroll on Malibu Beach - bless!

xx

2008-09-01T03:45:00.001-07:00

What is it with me and straight men?

This weekend was mainly taken up with Sally and Darren's wedding in a small village called Grayshott on the Hampshire/Surrey border. The ceremony took place in Darrens mother's house - It was so beautiful! A pretty big house in gorgeous grounds! We arrived just in time for pre ceremony champagne whioch was much needed - it was such a gorgeous day and I was spitting feathers! The ceremony was short and sweet and Sally looked beautiful. After the ceremony there had been quite a lot of time allocated for drinking Pimm's - I had only had a croissant for breakfast so was getting drunk pretty quickly but thankfully at 5pm the meal was served - very tasty fish and chips followed by speeches and toast's.

That's when it really started to go downhill, I was sat next to a very drunk older woman who was slurring already, I like to think I was quite on form and managed to string a few good sentences together, however, then the music started and the rest is a bit of a blur. I seem to see it as some kind of sport at weddings to flirt outrageously with any straight man that dares to cross my path! Cut to me giving one of them salsa lesons on the dancefloor with a little bit too much physical contact. Did I stop there? Oh god no, why stop when the bride's mother was heading to the dancefloor, did we partake in a little waltz? No!! I was bumping and grinding the bride's mother within in an inch of her life. I think it was around this point that Oliver fell out of the marquee - nice.

I don't remember getting back to the hotel but I do remember waking up with a furry tongue and an insatiable desire for a sausage bap! We were supposed to be heading back to the house the next day for a barbecue but having a vague recollection of what we did we felt it best to just get back on the train to London. I spent the rest of the day eating comfort food and watching "Will and Grace"

This week is looking a bit dull to be honest but I am trying to be a good boy and not spend too much money, I am off to Bristol on Wednesday night for a 2 day conference with the gay mafia which should be quite good as I get to hook up with people I have not seen for a while. It cvan be quite exhausting going to these things though - they may be professional gays but that does not stop the judging - I shall literally be floating on a sea of checked shirts so the wardrobe needs to be planned quite religiously and then there is always the big night out between day 1 and day 2 where I shall see my colleagues making complete fools of themselves, only problem is I am usually the worst of the lot. Oh the shame!

xx

2008-08-29T05:51:00.000-07:00

Classy birds in Sheffield

Just seen on facebook, the page for Dempsey's gay bar in Sheffield - one of the members Linzi (that's your actual french spelling that is) has written on the wall

"had a really good night friday 6th june 08 at dempseys sorry to who ever had to clean my sick up......."

have a look!

nice xx

2008-08-29T03:09:00.000-07:00

Ooh nasty homophobes!!

I often write in this blog about homophobia and gay rights, I admit to sometimes living in a big gay bubble, my work in volves tackling gay issues and I work in an office where the majority of staff are gay. I would say most of my friends are gay and I spend more time in gay bars and clubs than straight ones. So it always comes as a shock when homophobia knocks on my big gay door.

Last night I had been drinking with my friend Michael, we had a lovely evening and we parted ways on Old Compton Street, I walked along Charing Cross Road to get my bus but there were so many people waiting I decided to wander along to Tottenham Court Road to hop on a different bus. Just as I was walking up to the bus stop, 2 guys walked towards me and one shouted right in my face "Batty Boy!!!" whilst the other one nudged me hard with his shoulder, thankfully they just carried on walking - anything could have happened and even though it was a busy street, this is the city where things can go ignored. I would like to thank the young woman who asked if I was ok and sat with me for a while until my bus came. It really knocked me for six that someone would take time out of their lives to make me feel bad about who I am. I'm fine now but it just upset me last night.

Moving on! Being a big gay means one thing really - I like men rather a lot and think they are quite marvellous. Most of my fantasy men are quite expected, the beckhams and pitts of this world but occassionally I do go for the more random men, one of these is Alexander Armstrong who is starring in the new BBC drama "Mutual Friends" - I am not sure what it is about him but he makes legs shake!

I am loving the soap opera that is Lindsay Lohans's family!! Basically for those of you that don't check 50 celebrity gossip sites a day. The actress Lindsay Lohan is currently allegedly dating the DJ Samantha Ronson, they are all over the press looking besotted with each other and quite adorable and Ronson seems to be having a good effect in the fact that Lohan has not been arrested lately. Her father however is not very keen on the whole idea of the Lohan/Ronson relationship and has decided that rather than sitting down with his daughter and having a chat, he will communicate through the world's media - accusing Ronson of using Lohan. Lindsay has responded by calling her father a public embarassment and a bully. Now Ronson has got involved saying "I really don't want to say anything because I feel like he wins. He, being the man who is so desperate for attention that he goes to the media whenever possible. I feel no need to publicly defend my role in Lindsay's life. I'm just sorry that she likes me more than him." Ooh get her!

Well this weekend I am off to Surrey to see friends Sally and Darren tie the knot. It should be a good do but I hope I don't feel too fragile on sunday as I intend to get home, unplug the phone, get the papers and get some much needed rest, this week has been hectic and its time to lie down!

xx

2008-08-28T07:11:00.000-07:00

Gay History

On several occasions I have talked on this blog about gay history and how important I think it is to recognise the contribution made by Lesbians, Gay Men and Bisexual people in the past. I was looking on the internet and found a site that has been started up as on online history museum for LGB people, I think it's essential that we find a way to document where we have been and where we are headed, I got in touch with the people behind this site to see if I could support them in anyway - I have been working on gay issues for 13 years now so am meeting one of the guys from the organisation next week.

On June 17th this year I blogged about a lesbian couple, Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, who had been together for over 50 years and had finally had their relationship legally recognised in a ceremony in California, Sadly earlier this week Del Martin passed away, Her memory will live on in the inspiring work she did - including setting up America's 1st lesbian organisation and campaigning tirelessly for equal rights in gay marriage.

This morning saw the release of some truly shocking pictures of Michael Jackson out in Las Vegas celebrating his 50th birthday, his appearance is a sharp contrast from the Jackson of Thriller and Bad. There has been quite a lot of debate surrounding the 50th birthdays of Michael Jackson and Madonna - many saying that although Madonna is amazing, Michael Jackson is a musical genius who will be remembered in many years to come - looking at this picture I wonder what he will be remembered for?

Tonight I am off to the Retro Bar to meet my friend Michael who I have not seen in an age! It is also my first trip to the Retro Bar in months! It is my favourite gay bar in London, plays great music, friendly staff - a good night is on the cards! The weekend is all about a wedding, yes Sally and Darren are tying the knot so I am off to somewhere quiet quaint sounding for celebrations galore, here's hoping the booze will be flowing - also looking forward to a fab sounding wedding meal, they have plumped for Fish and Chips! Hoorah!!

xx

2008-08-26T07:51:00.000-07:00

It's a miracle I can walk at all!

Well I have been drinking like a coal miner with a pay cheque! Yes it all started on friday with the lovely Rachel's leaving drinks at the random bar that is Scooterworks on Lower Marsh, After a few Corona's there I headed up to The Marlborough Arms near Goodge Street for more drinks with Tony, Anna, Clare, Glenn, Jez and Helen - lovely to catch up with everyone, then it was over to the rather special White Swan (gentleman's wine bar) in Limehouse for their amateur strip night which is always a bit car crash but fun was had and that's all I am going to say about friday!

Saturday I felt rather special so had a relaxing morning watching all the dvd's my folks had sent me which included a few Madonna programme's from MTV/VH1 and highlights from the V festival which just reminded how fantastic last weekend was - part of one of the shows had an interview with John McClure who is the lead singer of Sheffield band "Reverend and the Makers" - He has a really strong Sheffield accent and I have to admit to watching this interview quite a few times, I can't put my finger on it but there is something rather appealing about him in a kind of mohawk/taxi driver/travisbickle kinda way - anyway he came across very well in the interview, guess you just had to be there - here he is anyway

After I had finished drooling I headed into town to meet Chris and James for more beers near Chancery Lane before heading into Soho, that was actually quite sedate and I was home by 9 ish! I think in many ways I was preparing my body for the battering it was going to get on sunday.

I woke on sunday and headed to Angel as I was craving a Pret A Manger latte and croissant, I picked up the papers on my way back and read 2 pretty positive reviews of the 1st night of Madonna's "Sticky and Sweet" tour - I am not actually going to write much about the show as I know my friend Dan reads this blog and I don't want to spoil his first ever Madonna live experience.

After ploughing through the Observer I got myself ready and headed to Shoreditch Park where the festival was coming to an end and the big screens were up showing live footage from the Olympic handover celebrations on the Mall - McFly covering ABBA - all different shades of wrong!

It was great to see everyone Pete, John, Kaz, T, Degsy, Clive, Adrian, Tom, Mal, Marek and Max, after far too many Magners and a very hilarious mis-hearing of "Chinese Judges" we though they said "Tranny Judges" - you can imagine! We headed into Hoxton Square and then onto that ever so special place "The Joiners Arms" where it got very messy - the music was great though and I needed that dance. I have no idea how I got home but I woke up yesterday feeling like death mixed with shit covered in piss - I was sweating and shaking and it was all a bit Trainspotting.

I did not even have time to feel sorry for myself I had to get my ass into town to meet the lovely Paul for a spot of lunch in Cafe Emm - I felt so bad that I just couldn't eat my lunch so we went down to the South Bank to check out Mediatheque at the BFI - basically there are a bank of screens in the BFI and you can view the BFI's archive of films, programmes and documentaries totally free of charge - we managed some Victoria Wood, Alan Bennett, an episode the gay current affairs show "Out on Tuesday" from 1989 and part of a Mike Leigh TV play called "Nuts in May" which I had never seen but featured a very young Alison Steadman - it was very dark but very funny I hope to go back soon and watch the end!

I left Paul and went home for food as my appetite made a much needed return before heading up to Hornsey for a music quiz at the 3 compasses pub. We did pretty well but there were a few too many 50's questions in there really.

So that's my weekend and now it's back to work - boo!!

2008-08-22T08:51:00.000-07:00

Majorly quick blog today as the weekend is literally calling me repeatedly

Will miracles never cease? Now Mel C aka Dame Sporty of Spice is pregnant, now there were rumours for many years that Miss C preferred the company of the ladies but she has actually been with her man for 6 years, well congrats to her and also to gwen Stefani who has given birth to a kid that i presume is named after a character from science fiction? yes her 2nd son is called Zuma Nesta Rock, think he might be hating his mother when he is begging not to be stuffed in his locker at school.

Love the fact that one of my fave lesbian comedians, Zoe Lyons has been awarded the accolade of coming up with the funniest joke of the edinburgh festival! here it is

"I can't believe Amy Winehouse self-harms. She's so irritating she must be able to find someone to do it for her."

well done Zoe!!!

well that enough for now, the weekend is promising a whole host of fun with lots of lovely people so I am off to enjoy that - have a marvellous bank holiday and make the most of it, that's it now til....i can't bring myself to type it, that holiday where we are forced to "enjoy" going home to comedy specials and turkey dinner

Find a beer garden people and stay there!

xx

2008-08-21T03:10:00.001-07:00

New? Kids? on the block

Seriously, "boy"bands really need to think to the future when coming up with a name. Take That nailed it, it works its catchy. Backstreet Boys just look wrong these days and now we have the return of the New Kids On The Block - I have to admit at the height of their fame I did tape 2 of their albums off my dear friend Jane and had a very major crush on Jordan Knight, he was rather adorable!

Anyway the boys (They are all in their late 30's) are back with a new single, album and tour. I don't think I will be going somehow but they are ALLEGEDLY about to be grabbing headlines for another reason. Jordan Knight's brother Jon who is also in the group is about to ALLEGEDLY come out as a homosexual. I did always wonder - he had that gay smile going on (I know what I mean) apparently he has a boyfriend as well, his name is Harley and get this, he is a personal trainer at a place called Barry's Bootcamp!! I thought that was a bar in Vauxhall but apparently not. I know it's sad that celebrities coming out still makes the news but to me it's a big deal, young gay's need more role models in the public eye so I say the more the merrier.

Speaking of raging homo's - Ms Ricky Martin has become a father!! I know what you are thinking - did he adopt or did he pop his latin lovestick in an actual woman! In fact a surrogate has given birth to twin boys. Ah gay parenting - it's the real thing! Whatever next - MIssy Elliott and Queen Latifah coming out?? some of us know it's true.....ALLEGEDLY

I have just upgraded my phone and it has fm stereo so I have become addicted to listening to Xfm at my desk and have just heard the new Oasis single and it sounds exactly like every other Oasis song but I am sure it will keep football shirt/fred perry shirt wearing straight boys happy, bouncing up and down on indie dancefloors intimidating the true indie kids whilst downing pints of lager, turning the glasses upside down and placing them on their heads - I don't really get what that means, is it to show that all the lager in their glass has gone because if it is someone needs to tell them that pint glasses are made of glass and you can kinda see when they are empty. Whilst I am on a Oasis fan rant, why do they dance like Liam Gallagher with the shits? God they really bug me, they have taklen all that was good and lovely about indie music and turned it into stinking crap, thankfully I think the tide is changing and indie clubs seem to be filling up with more alternative types - theway they should be, I am long overdue a night of indie dancing!!!

Now for the innapropriate moment - in February last year I put Daniel Radcliffe (aka Harry Potter) in my pippy's boudoir due to some rather fetching promotional pictures of him taken for his west end run in the play "Equus" well now the horny little bugger has done a photoshoot for Vogue with the amazing photographer Annie Leibovitz - is it wrong to get ever so slightly turned on by this picture? Harry Potter and a Horse - I swear I should be running back to my emotional stylist!!

Well it's the day before pay day - the most depressing day of the month if you ask me but I just keep focusing on the cash machine tomorrow and the fact that 3 weeks today I shall be seeing Madonna baby!!!

xxx

2008-08-20T07:16:00.000-07:00

Oh Dido, Dido, Dido why do you haunt my life?

I was feeling rather ill yesterday after the madness of the V Festival, I was all bunged up and had a really sore throat so I left work early and popped to the shop to get lots of orange juice, honey, lemons and painkillers. I got home and mixed up the lemon juice and honey with boiling water whilst downing some orange juice and sank into my sofa to watch a few dvd's before having a much needed early night.

So there I was all snuggled up in my bed, dreaming random dreams when all of a sudden I was woken by a rather harsh bass and then it came into my ears like a wide dagger - the dull as dishwater vacuous vocals of Dido!! Here is the deal - my housemate occassionally gets a bit depressed and drunk and when that happens (usually during the week annoyingly) she pours even more gin into the glass and plays Dido's debut album pretty loud and sings along in a drunken stylee. I cringed at all the lyrics about how she had been scorned by a lover and wondered when my housemate would have had enough, it turns out that 3 full listens to the whole album did the trick - oh did I mention this started at 3am and finished at 4.30am! I would have yelled at her when I woke up this morning but I was actually quite well rested and my cold and sore throat had disappeared so life was good again. When I get hom I am going to drag a bread knife against said Dido cd to ensure I rest easy - if you also own this album I suggest doing the same as it is shit.

People really are quite nasty aren't they? I have to admit that occassionally I find it hard to say nice things about people but I work for a charity for heaven's sake, even god took a day off! However, the reaction to Jade Goody's cancer diagnoses has been atrocious - she may have made some pretty major mistakes in the past and rubbed people up the wrong way but c'mon people she has been diagnosed with cancer! I cannot imagine the crap she has been through but all she deserves now is people's support and to not be accused of this being a publicity stunt.

It's already midweek and so not long to go til 2 great events - pay day on friday!!! and a nice long bank holiday weekend!! The plans are starting to come together nicely. Got a leaving do and drinks to go to on Friday night which should be muchos funos. Saturday I need to do a spot of shopping and do domestic flat stuff, I have NO plans for saturday night as yet but I am sure that will change soon. Sunday is the Shoreditch Festival and there is a picnic happening in Haggerston Park which should be good if the weather is kind to us but if not there are lots of pubs round there to keep us dry and drunk. Monday I am meeting Valerie Cherish for lunch and drinks in Soho - yay!!

Come back tomorrow for some really innapropriate mumblings about Harry Potter

xx

2008-08-19T07:49:00.000-07:00

after much thought and consideration I have come to the conclusion that Kerry Katona spending £15,000 on plastic surgery is the cosmetic equivalent of putting lipstick on a pitbull.