Man oh Man

Wow - when you look at the pictures from then till know, you realize that Austin didn't mature just as an actor, and a sometimes gentleman.



And then you look again and realize this is what makes all the difference. It is great to see!

Global Green USA - 10 Reasons to Build Green Schools

Walk like an Egyptian

Jake popping in Fred Leighton and in Egypt? It sounds like he is practicing his former co-star Hayden's role in Jumpers. Is that script supervisor job available again? Or Does Doug Liman want to make a Jumpers on the Moon and call it "Moon Bounce"? Jake would have to go on a solo mission, cause if you saw a movie around Christmas time, the Bounce Bounce is not someone's favorite. ; )

And in these times of recession and thinking greener and leaner why waste money and make a huge carbon foot print going all the way to Egypt, when you go to Vegas by hybrid and boost the economy and save the environment a little? You can stay in a pyramid at the Luxor. And there are cameras (ok sercurity cameras) everywhere. Wait that might be the too much. Then again - you can do Venice and New York at the same time. Talk about a whirlwind - and it totally time efficient for those check lists.

And being close to home maybe there is time for a like wild (turkey) goose chase... cause you know what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, well unless your publicist calls ahead.

Yeah you can dance but can you walk the walk Jake?


Evolution of Dance ( Egyptian Edition)
A little less locomotion but walking in the right direction.

Less Fosse more Suzanne Hoff - hand higher and use those eyes to sell it big guy.

Clearly more Goose than Tut. But you got the point down.

The head action is more back and forth and not so side to sign. This is just a little too Kattan even for a Night at the Roxbury

Lose the hat and the horse and add right hand from your goose on SNL and you got it.

Brulian Rulin?

The CW Source, an unofficial source for news and gossip about The CW posted this :

"We’re just wondering if we can go through one season of One Tree Hill without having to whip out the defibrillator, scream “Clear,” and bring the show back to life! The latest rumor is that Chad Michael Murray is considering leaving the show at the end of the season. The buzz is that after six seasons the actor is prepared to leave Lucas Scott behind and make himself more available for movie roles.

Wha…wha…what?

The rest of the OTH cast has signed on and from what we’re hearing that it’s actually looking like season seven might happen with or without CMM. But without Lucas, can the show really go on? "

Would they bring Austin/Julian back to be the main storyline of the 7th season of OTH? It seems like the Brulian bandwagon is growing. He and Sophia have the chemistry to have fans waiting week by week to see that what happens?

And it sounds like Austin likes working in the Wilmington area.

What so you think do? Will the CW do the 7th season and figure out a way to bring Julian back? What would be the storyline? Would it be a smart move for Austin to commit to the last season of series, knowing there is only one season left?


The CW Source


And yeah, Round Three - is on - this afternoon - oh yeah, don't ask.

XY....Z

Baby - it's all about good jeans.

Now while a tee and jeans is kind of de rigueur, its all about how you look in them that makes you go from good to God in them as the beat pulses and the lights are low.

What do you think? Good jeans make the best of both?

They both have shown on screen what those back pockets and denim cover, what do you think?

Is Jake's baggy ones saying he is taken man and don't bother looking? Or is he just like 'em to hang and leave a lot to the imagination?

And Austin - looks he's got the fine art of teasing in some of his, but sure that his pairs for partying are little bit tighter. Cause we know that boy likes to show off his ... ahem... assets, well at least in automobiles.

Let's not forget what Ted's NY eyes said:

Denim Addendum: “Both had on blue jeans wrapped around perfect butts,” added our boyish spy, above, for the really important deets. Jake’s dude-pal/whatever “probably had the better butt,” sassed our unsubtle source. “It was slightly rounder, and his jeans fit a bit more snuggly.”

Speaking of jeans - kudos to Levi's

Bold decisions Levi's has made over the years.

In 1897:

Founder Levi Strauss donates funds for 28 scholarships at UC Berkeley with half going to women.

1940s:

Levi's integrates its factories in California and vows not to locate facilities in municipalities where segregation is mandated.

1980s:

Levi's pioneers workplace practices and policies on HIV/AIDS that are later adopted by hundreds of employers around the world. Levi's also becomes a founding member of the Global Business Coalition on AIDS.

In 1992:

Levi's becomes the first Fortune 500 company to extend health benefits to the unmarried partners of its employees.

In 2007:

Levi's is the only California company to file a brief with the state's Supreme Court in support of same-sex marriage.


In 2008:

Levi's joined a campaign to defeat Prop 8, which seeks to eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry. The company pledged $25,000 to Equality for All, the association leading the No on 8 charge. And Robert Haas, Levi's chairman emeritus, along with his wife donated $100,000.



Remember it's not about how much those back pockets cost ya, its who's hand slides in them.

Let go my Lego

Announced at the New York Toy Fair over the weekend was a deal between Disney, Pixar and Lego. And what does that mean? That coming in April 2010 you will be able to build your own Prince of Persia world in Legos. A few Lego kits and you too can make the Kingdom of Dastan, Prince of Persia.

But will it come it with a Prince to put in the castle? Will Jake join the ranks of Harrison Ford be made into a Lego microfigure? But will they give the Prince that everyone wants? Sans shirt or will he be dressed in his white deep v t0 the abs wrap shirt? Would Lego do the abs and pecs in paint, and how much chest hair too much for the under 10 set?

If a Lego microfigure could be on the horizon, could an 11" action figure be far behind? The long hair to style, muscled and cut, but will it come with add on fuzzy for the authentic chest? With action grip? And a big saber? Will that become the hottest action figure in WeHo? Well the you know it would have to be looking more like this and maybe with that leather vest as an accessory.

Of course Jake will get to have all the different toys that they will make, and sounds like he has someone(s) at home who are big toy fans, or will be in the next few years. But will they make a special edition figure or two who look like someone else special?




And who wouldn't when he was just listed on TV's sexiest man list. Hello Mr. Nichols - you make 29 look damn good, and that's way before April.

Congratulations Austin!



Pictures: Flicker, IHJ, Austin Nichol Media

Out Spotlight LXII

Today's Out Spotlight are the artists Gilbert & George.

Gilbert Proesch was born in San Marino, Italy, in a village located in the Dolomite Mountains, in 1943. His father was a shoemaker and he trained as a woodcarver in his father's workshop. Gilbert later went on to study at the Wolkenstein School of Art, the Hallein School of Art in Austria, and the Akademie der Kunst in Munich.

George Passmore also comes from a working class family. Born in Plymouth, Devon in 1942, he was raised in Tiverton. He left school to work in a shop when he was fifteen years old and eventually studied at the Darlington Adult Education Center in Devon and the Darlington Hall College of Art.

George first met Gilbert Proesch on 25th September 1967 while studying sculpture at St Martins School of Art, London. The two claim they came together because George was the only person who could understand Gilbert's rather poorly spoken English. In a 2002 interview with the Daily Telegraph they said of their meeting: 'it was love at first sight'. It is widely assumed that Gilbert & George are lovers, although they always dismiss questions about their sex lives.

They were initially known as performance artists. While still students they made The Singing Sculpture (1970), for which they covered themselves in gold metallic paint, stood on a table, and mimed to a recording of Flanagan and Allen's song Underneath the Arches, sometimes for hours at a time.

A number of works from the early 1970s consisted of the two of them getting drunk, usually on gin. Smashed (1973) was a set of photographs documenting a drunken evening, while Gordon's Makes Us Drunk is a film of the pair drinking Gordon's gin and listening to Elgar and Grieg, occasionally saying Gordon's makes us very drunk' or a slight variant thereof. This work, in common with many others by Gilbert and George, is executed in a completely deadpan way.

The matching business suits which they wore for these performances became a sort of uniform for them, and they rarely appear in public unless wearing them. It is also virtually unheard of for one of the pair to be seen without the other. They refuse to disassociate their performances from their everyday lives, insisting that everything they do is art. The pair regard themselves as 'living sculptures'.The pair are perhaps best known for their large scale photo-montages, such as Cosmological Pictures (1993), frequently tinted in extremely bright colours, backlit, and overlaid with black grids so as to resemble stained glass windows. Gilbert & George themselves often feature in these works, along with flowers and youths, their friends, and echoes of Christian symbolism. The early works in this style were in black and white, with red and yellow touches in later series. Later these works moved to use a range of bold colours. Their 2005 work, Sonofagod, returned to a more sombre and darker palette.

Some series of their pictures have attracted media attention through including potentially shocking imagery, including nudity, depictions of sexual acts, and bodily fluids. In the 1980s, the artists began to create an increasing number of works with gay themes.

The anatomically explicit work entitled Hunger (1982) is illustrative of lust's urgency. This work presents two faces--one red with yellow highlights, the other, yellow with red highlights, painted in the same reversed patterning--engaged in fellatio. The red and yellow colors seem to speak of reciprocal, hot-blooded desire soon to be followed by the electric impulse of sexual climax.


Good (1983) makes a statement about the ambiguity of gay desire. This photographic work is overlaid against a gray-toned brick wall. A Latin cross, the central symbol of the Christian faith, is formed of over-lapping red roses, a Catholic symbol for the Virgin Mary. The rose is also a visual representation of the anus, locus of male-male sexual desire. Rose Hole (1980) uses the same sexual coding. In 1986 Gilbert and George attracted criticism from left-wing commentators for a series of works seemingly glamorizing 'rough types' of London's East End such as skinheads, while a picture of an Asian man bore the derogatory title 'Paki'.

They have been residents of Fournier Street, Spitalfields, East London for many years.

They won the Turner Prize in 1986, and represented the UK at the 2005 Venice Biennale.


Gilbert & George

Six Little Words

The Washington Post asked reader to describe their love story in six words. An amazing and beautiful, and sometimes bittersweet.

So here's the challenge for OMG this Valentine's Day. Can you tell Jake & Austin's or even Toothy's & Goose's in just six?




Here's a little more inspiration.





And if you are so moved, tell your own love story in six.

C.S. Lewis said there are four kinds of love : storge (affection), philia (friendship), eros (carnal love), agape (unconditional love for others) - so on a day about love, celebrate all the ways we love and all the people we love and love us. And not just today but everyday.

And to Wicked and her Mrs. who's home is filled with love, thanks for the six word challenge.

Happy Valentine's Day!

For this was on seynt Volantynys day
Whan euery bryd comyth there to chese his make.
Geoffrey Chaucer