Spring Fever

It's going to be 80F in New York today... sounds like shorts and flip flops.

Jake break out those shorts and show off those legs.
After all that Soul Cycle those calves must be even better than ever....


Even the short ones, if that's all you got
and if you have to lose the shirt... well...you must you must...

Man'd up

What a difference a season makes, last season you saw Julian like this:

and this season?

There's been

FightingShooting stuff upBusting windowsHanging out with criminal elementswhat's left?

Wild Ride in a "borrowed" cop car
Tonight he gets to do just that


Tonight on the Crazy Tree

Danny Boy
BadDad Dan risks his life while searching for Nathan. Elsewhere, BrookeDavis'(TM) Pops makes an unexpected return; and FeatsofClay and BikiniQuinn get in touch with Logan (not the Airport but Feat's long lost son, who ironically loves planes)

Schwahn has said about tonight episode: "This will be one of our best episodes, not just from this season, from all seasons."

All these dads on tonights episode you have to include a picture of Baker Daddy. [ok maybe two : ) ]

I.D. please...

The plot of Enemy has been described as existential meditation on the self.

In fact aren't many of his movie choices with a existential lean to them?

What was Darko? And Jarhead - Camus anyone?And look at how many of his characters are about finding their identity or the struggle of identity. Source Code his character actually took on the physical identity of another person.

Even Brokeback was about finding identity.

There is a theme that weaves itself through the years of his career. Are his choices a reflection of the personal struggle that seems to be his current duality?

And if choosing to play it on screen would be a way to finally resolve it?
Happy First Day of Spring! Two Wheel Tuesday Style

Hair Raising

With only three shows left this can’t be passed over.
It's staring everyone in the face.

So what the heck is it? Bangs (Fringe for your UK’ers)? A Comb Forward? Pieces, as the weave wearing ladies might say? What?

So before this hairstyle gets shelved into the hair “don’t know what it is” Hall of Fame, OMG is going to give it’s top ten suggestions to spur on a creative naming convention. Something this funky has got to be named.

Top Ten List of Names for that thing on the front of Austin’s head.

10. Bang(er)s & Mashed

9. The Val Lance

8. Moses (ie Parting of the Red Sea)

7. The furry Octopus

6. Matt(ed) Downs

5. Lickety Split

4. Downtown Trump Tracks

3. Hook’em Head Hanging Horns

2. Fringelico

And #1

Julian Baker and the Bi-Fold Bangs.

Give it your best shot.

Out Spotlight

Today's Spotlight is was "one of the most significant figures" in the American gay rights movement. He brought the first civil rights claim based on sexual orientation before the United States Supreme Court. Advocate and Astronomer, today's Out Spotlight is Frank Kameny.

Franklin Edward Kameny was born to Ashkenazi Jewish parents in New York City on May 21, 1925. He attended Richmond Hill High School and graduated in 1941, at age of 16. Kameny went on to Queens College for physics, he was drafted into the United States Army during college. He served in the Army throughout World War II in Europe.

After leaving the Army, he returned to Queens College continue with his education and graduated with a baccalaureate in physics in 1948. Kameny then enrolled at Harvard University for a Master's Degree. While a teaching fellow at Harvard, he refused to sign a loyalty oath without attaching qualifiers, and exhibited a skepticism against accepted orthodoxies. He graduated with both a masters' degree (1949) and doctorate (1956) in astronomy.

While on a cross-country return trip from Tucson, where he had just completed his research for his Ph.D. thesis, he was arrested in San Francisco by plainclothes police officers after a stranger had approached and groped him at the bus terminal. He was promised that his criminal record would be expunged after serving three years' probation, relieving him from worrying about his employment prospects and any attempt at fighting the charges.

Relocating to Washington, D.C., Kameny taught for a year in the Astronomy Department of Georgetown University and was hired in July 1957 by the United States Army Map Service. However, by the fall, he was in trouble with the Civil Service Commission following a late night run-in with police in Lafayette Park, a traditional cruising area along Pennsylvania Avenue across from the White House. He was arrested. Kameny was questioned by his superiors but he refused to give them information regarding his sexual orientation. Kameny was fired by the Commission soon afterward. In January 1958, he was barred from future employment by the federal government.

Rather than accept a common practice of the times, he fought for his rights. He successfully challenged anti-gay policies of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), the US Department of Defense and the US Civil Service Commission.

Kameny sued the Army Map Service and lost his case. On appeal he lost again, and after the Supreme Court denied his petition to direct the case to be reconsidered, he realized his objectives would require a broader movement.

In 1961, Kameny co-founded the Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C with Gay Pioneer Jack Nichols.

Kameny was the first to bring open activism to the gay rights movement. The D.C. Mattachine Society contacted public officials to attempt to change policy. They published a newsletter, The Gazette, and campaigned to overturn security clearance denials, employment restrictions and dismissals of gay men from the Federal workforce.

In 1963, Kameny began a movement to repeal sodomy laws and challenge the APA's classification of homosexuality as a mental disorder.

On April 17, 1965, Kameny led the first public picket for gay rights at the White House. With support from the Daughters of Bilitis, the Mattachine Society extended its protest to the Pentagon and the Civil Service Commission. He helped launch the first organized gay and lesbian demonstrations for equality. These seminal demonstrations by activists from New York, Philadelphia and Washingon D.C. were held annually each July 4th at Independence Hall from 1965 to 1969 and were called annual reminders. Those protest paved the way for the Stonewall Riots in 1969.

Inspired by Stokely Carmichael's "Black is Beautiful," Kameny dubbed the phrase "Gay is Good" as a slogan for the movement. He led the fight for gay rights into the 1970s and ran for Congress in 1971 on an equal rights platform. The APA removed homosexuality from its list of mental disorders in 1973 and the Civil Service Commission lifted its ban on homosexuality in 1975, an action President Bill Clinton formalized many years later.

In 2000, Equality Forum with WHYY/PBS produced the documentary film "Gay Pioneers" about Kameny and other early activists. In 2006, the Library of Congress incorporated over 70,000 letters, documents and memorabilia from Frank Kameny into its permanent collection.

The Washington, D.C. City Council honored Kameny in 2007, hailing him as a "true freedom fighter."

On June 10, 2010, following a unanimous vote by the Dupont Circle Advisory Neighborhood Commission, Washington, D. C. mayor Adrian Fenty unveiled new street signs designating 17th Street between P and R streets, N.W., as "Frank Kameny Way" in Kameny's honor. At a luncheon on December 10, 2010 in the Caucus room of the Cannon House Office Building, Kameny was honored with the 2010 Cornelius R. “Neil” Alexander Humanitarian Award.

Kameny was seated at the front row of the gathering where President Barack Obama signed the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010. Kameny was a member of Triangle Foundation's Board of Advisors.

Frank Kameny passed away October 11, 2011.

Following Kameny's death, the giant rainbow flag on the tall flagpole at the corner of Market Street and Castro Street in the Castro neighborhood of San Francisco was flown at half-staff for 24 hours beginning on the afternoon of October 12, 2011 at the request of the creator of the rainbow flag, Gilbert Baker.

On November 2, 2011, Kameny's house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.



"The momentum is there, and that's not going to be stopped. It's moved from hopes of a grass-roots movement, to the actuality of a grass-roots movement. And it's taken 40 years to do it."

Green seen

Sure that guys have celebrated St. Patrick's Day many times.
Toasting. Driving Snakes. Getting kissed.

And with the way Jake can babble, he's kissed some kind of improvised Blarney Stone a few times.

They've gone Global Green.

Jake's worn enough green pants to outfit an army.They've talked about greens, going green and had those yummy(?) green drinks.

But this year?

How about a little East Coast West Coast

Muppets and
Bagels
vs.
Guacamole
and libationsNamed after bourbon, you can handle the Irish whiskey part big guy

Although it's probably morethese days

Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Daoibh!

May the luck of the Irish be always at hand
And good friends
always near you
May each every coming day
Bring some special
joy to cheer you!