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Now we're talking.

(I also love the Campion/St Vier shirts another online shop seems to have run out of, but that's a wee bit more obscure.)

It may be time for me to actually put my "Republicans for Voldemort" sticker on my car...

OK, I was honestly hoping for a little more from Ellen (which has consistently been a mistake, but whatever, at least she's successful and apparently happy). On the show yesterday, I guess, she attempted to call Sally Kern, whose rather bizarre anti-gay screed you can hear and read, should you want to, here:

Here's Ellen's teeny response, involving nothing substantive — but hey, at least she's funny. My favorite part is watching the people in the audience who think, "Am I supposed to be laughing at this? Wait, it's crazy talk! Ellen's not laughing! Wait, Ellen is gay!" Plus, I'm sure there are a few sistahs in the audience as well. But the camera, she does not linger on the obvious dykes at the show. Ah well. Anyway:

WATCH and LISTEN

Last night, in a furious bout of hanging out with soon-to-be-former-Eugenean friends (this happens at the end of every August, it seems) and a touch of insomnia, I was schooled (via YouTube) in the brilliance of a little R&B soap operetta made in 2005: R. Kelly's Trapped in the Closet, episodes 1-12.

And today Slate published this well-said analysis of the TINC phenomenon (and offers clues to future of R&B music ... speaking of which, whatever happened to popular R&B? Pretty much the same thing that happened to R. Kelly: It got oversexed, and not in the funny kind of way that R. Kelly mocks with TINC.)

I can't wait to watch chapters 13-23 soon. Very soon.

To get you started, here's the hilarious two minute summary clip to give you a taste of what this series is all about. Can someone gimme an "Ooooh shit!" What poetry in these simple lines...
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Continue searching YouTube for the other episodes, but find below the first few episodes to get you started.
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[UPDATE: Who knew parodies of comedic operettas could be so friggin' funny?! For your viewing pleasure, here is MAD TV's take on the saga.]
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From the San Francisco Chronicle comes this utterly brilliant and deeply funny Violet Blue column about Conservative Sexual Fetishes. A tiny, tasty sample:

"Promoting abstinence as a truism over accurate sex information actually acts as a magic golden force field carried by beautiful fairies (the straight kind) to prevent you and everyone who agrees with you from getting HIV/AIDS."

I think I love her. It's a long column, and it's almost this good the whole way through.