- Towleroad reports that "Page Six is already predicting the end of the Bass/Lehmkuhl coupling, accusing Reichen of using the high-profile relationship as publicity fodder for his upcoming memoir, Here's What We'll Say: A Memoir of Growing Up, Coming Out, and the U.S. Air Force
. Page Six source: "Reichen forced Lance to come out just at the same time he has a book coming out so he could ride the publicity wave. He is a big gay activist and very controlling. He wants Lance to give up his straight friends and do whatever he tells him to." Obviously, the go to comment here is-- "Lance has straight friends?" - Southern California's bizarre weather is discussed at Think and Ask. So, is it global warming? You decide: "Low clouds and fog creeping inland is a mainstay pattern in southern California, but not with temperatures of 10 degrees above average and dew points in the 70s. Such measurements are indicative of weather patterns in Hawaii."
- Amanda Palmer bitches about Jackie Beat, Pat Field disses Meryl Streep in the latest issue of Frontiers, on newsstands now. Available online Friday.
- Aaron Hickland, former Blackbook, now Out editor, copies Genre. I was really jazzed to see what Aaron would come up with. Johnny Knocksville is way lame, though.
- Great thing about having a writing partner #212: You only have to do 1/2 as many first draft pages.
- Microsoft's "iPod killer", Zune begins to roll out this fall. The promo site "www.comingzune.com" (heh. heh.) is so self-conciously "We've got indie cred- look at this hand scrawled rabbit masturbation animation set to Regina Spektor, oh my god we're not MicroSoft at all oneoneone" that you kinda wanna barf. That said, if I can get Sirius on an mp3 player that uses wireless and can tell me what I have to do to get to my next leap -- awesome.
