Can't Drive 55 or Scenes from a Ride Home

What the ride home might have been like...


We need to get out of here. Got your seatbelt on?

She told me I look like Britney Spears! Why would she say that if she doesn't like me?

I really don't know. Seatbelt.

She said that the only thing to do was to burn the scores and drink lots of margaritas.

B.O.B.!

I think you missed the Y.

Exercise gives you endorphins. Endorphins make you happy.

Light beer. Less calories.

Seatbelt

Jake, I can't do this.

Like I could tip a cow BY MYSELF!

Seatbelt.

I'm going to ask you a series of questions and I want you to answer honestly. Has yo

ur recent alcohol intake increased?

I'm fine.

So what are you hiding from the law or is it just a bad nose job?

(Look at the ringing cell phone, but not picking up)

(Picking it up)

Well, you must be Jake's hot date.

I'm here to speak for those who can't speak for themselves.

What a charming boy, I like his hair so much!

Ok, just put the phone back.

You know what your problem is? You take yourself way too seriously.

You should lighten up.

You see, you can't interfere with destiny. That's why it's destiny. And if you try to interfere, the same thing's going to happen anyway, and you'll just suffer.

It's like my mom says, "The weak are always trying to sabatoge the strong."

Do you know what you are saying?

You made me doubt my smartness.

and if you want to keep questioning me like this, I won't continue without my attorney present.

Alrighty

And you, I throw myself at you and you still say no? How gay are *you*?

Oh why don't you just go to a gay bar!

Later:

... unbelievably she didn't really talk, just kept doing lines from movies she did.

Legally Blonde? Penelope? Cruel Intentions? Monster vs Aliens? Tell me she did do Just Like Heaven? The Jake line from Sweet Home Alabama? Please say she did American Psycho. What about that line from Friends?

Yes, Yes... Yes, yes, yes, yes yes and yes. And ....Oh yeah.

Happy Bastille Day!

Informative

A little more about The Informers coming out on DVD on August 25th (US). Sony Home pictures will be releasing it on both DVD and Blu-ray.


Extras include director and cast commentary and Human Intersections: Making The Informers featurette. Human Intersection - what is that?

Deep introspection of the human condition and relationships?


Description of Chris Isaak's cheesy pick up lines in Hawaii?

"How about we meet up at IAWANA and LAIU"

That unexplained "we cut it you just have to keep up" scene was that you walk into when the movie starts ?


Or how to describe Martin's intersextion moments - T-boned, Rear Ended and Hit & Runs?



But what about those mystery minutes they cut? And are they going to show what was going on with the cast in Uruguay? Like this?

Out Spotlight LXXXVIII

Today's Out Spotlight is about an out neighborhood, pre-Stonewall. 40 years before Stonewall in fact, and no not in New York, but Chicago, and predominantly an African American community on Chicago's West Side.

Roughly seven million African-Americans migrated out of the Deep South to the North, Midwest and West from 1916 to 1930, to better their lives, with employment, education, and to escape racism. Many headed due north from the Delta up the mighty Mississippi to relocate in Chicago.
On the south side of Chicago neighborhood known as Bronzeville, a small but powerful queer subculture emerged similar to that which was taking place in Harlem in New York.

The Bronzeville neighborhood,’s homosexual population grew rapidly. Like the millions of African-Americans who left behind the poverty and racism for life in the North, Black homosexuals not only came to find better-paying jobs, but to take advantage of the opportunities for homosexual encounters, which they knew were often more abundant in large cites. "In an environment of relative sexual freedom, African-Americans in Bronzeville could establish relationships with members of the same sex, and these relationships were often accepted by the neighborhood authorities and by its residents."

From State Street to Cottage Grove Avenue, along 43rd and 47th Street, the jazz-influenced urban culture offered African American gays and lesbians several venues where homosexuals and heterosexuals interacted across the color line at places such as the Plantation Café, the Pleasure Inn, the Cabin Inn, and Club DeLisa, yearly popular Halloween “Drag Balls” popularized by Black gay hustler Alfred Finnie, semi-safe locations for encounters such as the Wabash YMCA, The First Church of Deliverance, Washington Park, and Jackson Park, and a “vice district” which facilitated prostitution.

"Homosexuality was quietly accommodated. Bronzeville’s most powerful inhabitants (Reverend Clarence Cobb, Reverend Mary G. Evans, and possibly Louise Smith Collier) and its most famous musicians (Tony Jackson, Rudy Richardson, Sippie Wallace, Frankie “Half-Pint” Jaxon, and George Hannah) were homosexuals. Joe Hughes, owner of a popular homo-friendly bar, was elected honorary mayor of Bronzeville in 1940. Journalist Theodore Jones regularly hired drag queen Valda Gray’s troupe of female impersonators for parties given for Bronzeville’s upper class."

Blues singers, such as Gladys Bentley, Alberta Hunter, and ‘Ma’ Rainey, who were all popular at the end of the 1920’s, often performed in Chicago and had recorded numerous sexually explicit songs that included descriptions of homosexual acts. The blues reflected a culture that accepted sexuality, including homosexual behavior and identities, as a natural part of life.

Bronzeville continued to flourish until when acceptance of homosexuality in the African American community began to change. One of the crucial shifts in this mentality came when the Civil Rights movement began. "Oftentimes, Black people, in order to gain acceptance, had to play to white heteronormativity. Ebony published an article in the 1960s where MLK took questions from young people, and one person asked him about being gay. King suggested that he seek the help of a doctor. This is when the discourse begins to shift." When people began to write black history, they tried to use the templates for white history, and that doesn't really work." Some historians have noted that LGBT people, particularly African Americans, began to lose their sexual freedom when they began to work toward equality, because the civil rights movement mostly worked to uplift the race.

A tremendous indepth look at the Bronzeville neighborhood, and the source of much of this information can be found at OutHistory.com

Lost and Found

Sometimes thing go missing. Sometimes things are found.









And sometimes they are diversions.




I don't know about you but I have never seen a guy who walks out of gym after working out without a gym bag and look this put together. Street clothes, street shoes on his feet, hair in place ...dang he break a sweat. Man Reese, I wouldn't work out with him he can make anyone look bad. But then again - maybe he hasn't worked out yet. Seems like Jake loves to hit the bike to get his cardio workout - hmm wait is that where's going with his bike shoes. You know all work and no play... makes ....

So which ones are the real deal, and which one is supposed make you think its real? But really don't sweat it.

Now this is a picture that could make you sweat

Little Staycation

What's a summer without a holiday, so for this Austin Friday we are going on virtualHoliday in the Sun.

Funny can't keep him off the beach.

Is that a bad thing?

Let's Get Ready to Rumble

Who is the

bad Hatter?

The talk has been about Jake and his hats, but he has some honking competition with someone close to him. And both of them have had some baaaaaaaaadddd hats. Can they both "blame it on the goose" (liquor or otherwise)? So it's time to decide "Who is the Bad Hatter?

It's a head to head competition. Seven categories with a Wildcard Tiebreaker. And yes a fitting prize for the winner Who's it gonna be.

all’s good in the Hoodie

Sweater Heads

D-bag Baseball

Big business

granDpa’s Golf Hat

Little Old Man

for Your ProTection

babusHka baby

Wildcard –Tie breaker

The Prize:

The mack daddy player hat and outfit to go with it. And because there are no losers only second winners in this pair, a coordinating outfit with a kicky tie at the waist shirt. They have to fight over the white Adidas platforms to the right.

Wax on, Wax off?

My apologies or the super long delay in getting out this post


This was a press release that came out today and thought it was interesting and imagined what the reaction was in it got ready this morning in HW.

The name of Arezoo Kaviani might not ring a bell with most women, but the results of her work can be seen on stars such as Claudia Schiffer, Gwyneth Paltrow, Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Daniel Craig and Liam Neeson, her being the media-proclaimed biggest beauty and waxing guru in the UK. Since summer is already here and many women are preparing for the beach, one of Arezoo’s product is making a dashing comeback – the Ingrown Hair Cream. - Source

Being a star takes a lot of work.

Brows

Face

Chest

Legs

In an office in Hollywood.

Wait a minute - that's not right! That's is not a part of the deal. The press release is making it tough enough. But the legs!

Funny they are better than hers.

That's the problem!

What are you doing?

Waiting for the call.

From?

The one who comes up short.

Don't you mean tiny?


Seriously - does stuff like this help? It's good to highlight he's into good personal maintenance but making it sounds like a couple that waxes together? Who does that? Does Craig go in tandem? Maybe McBongo? (wait does he have to go anymore isn't it all lasered off) It's kind of like the whole couples yoga thing. ......didn't they learn from that one or does need to show off his skills with that water bottle again?