February 02, 2006

• SHOULDN'T judge people. SHOULDN'T. Oh fuck.
• Case of premature posting, Capt.?
• Kegels work wonders. Or so I've heard. *clench. unclench. clench. unclench*
• Anyone seen that "Seacrest, out!" joke from that show Robot Chicken? Anyone know what I'm talking about?
• I wish I hadn't looked at that link. Now I remember why I don't listen to morons like that on the radio.
• I'm usually all for candor about these things, and until a few years ago I was naive enough to believe that celebrities' sexual orientations didn't matter to the general public. Then I checked out the American Idol message boards. I've got to say, it really is in R.S.'s best interests to stay ambiguous as long as he's hosting that show. There are a large number of fans who are...shall we say...incredibly passionate about the issue of sexual orientation, on both sides of the fence. Let him appeal to young girls and boys alike - there's plenty of time for both of them to hate him for it later.
• WHO CARES?
• Sadly, a lot of people do care. I don't understand why, but then again I didn't understand how the idea of gay marriage could play such an important part in a national election.
• Why wouldn't it matter if a celebrity was gay? being a celebrity is by definition about being popular. Depending on what kind of fans you have, it matters what color hair you have, what clothes you wear etc etc etc etc. Sexuality is a pretty big one.
• WHO CARES? People who want to fuck Ryan Seacrest.
• They also kept replaying one listener’s phoned-in comments, where she called Carton "a hate-mongering Jew." *falls down dead from the heavy, heavy irony*
• Okay, I don't really comment here much, but I have a little something to say about him avoiding talking about his sexuality... During the first season of American Idol, my next door neighbor was one of the constestants. Since I usually had my windows open, I happened to overhear a heated argument between her and Mr. Seacrest. He was trying to convince her that despite the fact that she had a boyfriend (fiance, maybe?), that she should present herself as "available" so the male members of the audience would be more likely to vote for her. Seems he deeply believes in this philosophy. At least he's no hypocrite!
• I'm kinda sad that Anderson Cooper is gay. I'd like to fuck him. I hear he's hot in leather.
• Never heard of him. Is he cute? Should I care?
• ...Anderson Cooper's gay?
• In a related story, Gay Talese is, ironically, not gay. Well, he's Gay, but he's not gay, y'know?
• Anderson Cooper.....ya know, CNN's one and only heartthrob. Uh, yes, he's cute and, therefore, gay. He is also Gloria Vanderbilt's son, and his brother committed suicide some years back. I only recently found out he's gay. Now I apparently know too much about him. I'm sorry.
• /I'd be his hag any day.;>
• i don't believe i'm saying this, but...*sigh* i'm with Chyren on this one
• ditto ... also, who the fuck is Ryan Seacrest? *checks link* oh. WHO CARES?
• Ah, so he's the Scud Stud of the new millenium? I refuse to give up my crush on Richard Chamberlain.
• Well, I've seen Brokeback Mountain and if cowboys are allowed to have hot gay mountaintop sex now then I guess it's OK for Ryan to keep his seacrest about fucking sheep like I do.
• Who cares? Offhand, I don't care if Seacrest is teh ghey or not -- his sexual preference has nothing to do with my life in any way whatsoever. And it really is none of our business. However. I will freely admit to being glad when an American idol (small 'i') comes out of the closet. I see it as a triumph of reality over the religious right's denials. Gheys are out there, and you've already have them in your homes, and you don't even know it. If they love them, and have no idea who they're championing, really, well, that's pretty fantastic. And if they do find out about their sexuality and turn on them, that can only serve to show how nonsensical their value schemes are in the first place. So if somebody like Sulu comes out of the closet, I think that's just fantastic. If someone like Seacrest tries to straddle the fence, it means that he's bought into those stupid value schemes and he's even more of a moron than when he bought himself a star on the Walk of Fame. IMHO, anyway.
• And let me just say 'fantastic' a couple more times. I don't think I've met my quota yet. Fantastic fantastic fantastic. Thanks for your indulgence.
• And still not one word about the sexuality of Brian Dunkleman. No-one really does care about where Dunkleman dunks his dink.
• It was all a joke. Get ready to watch your Ironimeter go way into the red zone.
• Ah, performance art! I've heard of that.
• You mean when they were making us watch Channel One in high school, they were making us watch a gay man on tv? When if they actually knew about it, they would probably have ripped all the tvs off the wall? *gleeful, subversive giggle* On preview, what Capt Renault said. Although I do understand why someone wouldn't be comfortable coming out, famous or not.
• Sure. Now he says it was a joke. There was someone who sounds like him. All a put-up. Ha ha.
• I'd like to either see a situation where more gay people feel comfortable coming out -- and everyone's like "what's the big deal?" or a situation where more straight celebrities refuse to talk about their sexuality and thus opt out of cashing in on all that straight privilege. (Oh, look at the beautiful wedding photos! Look at the new relationship!) If it's nobody's business if a celebrity is gay, it's equally none of our business if they're straight (and I won't have to hear about it 24/7, Brangelina).
• Personally, I couldn't care less whether Seacrest likes to have sex with men, women, both, neither, blow-up dolls, sheep, goats, turtles, dolphins, mongooses (mongeese?), or trout. I'm just mad for two very important reasons: 1. He's been talked about often enough that I know who he is, and that's one brain cell wasted. I'll never get that one back. One less synapse to use for remembering important shit. Thanks for that, Fox, you bastards. and 2. American Idol makes me ill. People who like it (once it gets past the juvenile "make fun of the fools" stage - because who doesn't like to make fun of fools?) annoy me for their apparent lack of taste. I hate this show and all of its "reality TV" brethren. I can't stand the idea that more idiots vote for the Idol winner than bother to show up for Presidential elections (A big "WTF, America?" from me on this one). I really hate that the media take the "winners" from this show and treat them as if they were actually uniquely talented instead of what they really are - yet another manufactured pop tart. (Am I the only one who finds it abso-fucking-lutely hilarious that Pop Tarts sponsors the failed contestants tour?) The mass buy-in of the populace here is amazing. The crass studio execs who put this together must be lauging their asses off here - they don't offer the record contract until after millions of idiots have already vetted their new performer, and they made assloads off of the advertising and tie-ins in the process. -- Hey, guess I'm feeling extra bitter today. Go figure, I'm getting old and cranky. (Now get off my goddamn lawn.)
• Sheesh what a grouch! C'mon guys let's go play over at my house.
• The people who don't care about his sexuality in general aren't the ones watching the show. The main demographic for Idol is passionate teens who care about that sort of thing a lot. The press he's getting over not saying one way or another is nothing compared the the press he'd get if he did.
• Can I mention that this is the first time I've been on television?
• No, there isn't time.