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1. "sincerest form of flattery week"
Sincerest Form of Flattery Week is an annual event here at Fool's Gold Coast in which I spend a week making fun of other gay blogs. It's funny you should bring it up because this very morning one of 2007's spoofees left a comment in response to the entry lampooning his site. Because I know you would probably miss it otherwise (and because he makes some good points), the comment follows in its entirety:
LOL...I completely forgot you were doing this and just discovered it last night. Made me giggle.I would, however, like to clarify a few things, if I may:
-It's not that G-A-Y [Good As You] aims to be nice or whatever. It's just that's how I view life. I have no desire to participate in the "culture of mean" that I see permeating so much of today's world. Also, I have no desire to assassinate or attack the character of anyone, just to challenge their beliefs. So yes, there are times when in my head there is a really funny joke at the expense of someone. However, it's just not my goal to personally gun for someone over the Internet.
-That being said, I do think it's a little unfair to imply that we never "Stick it to" the "pro-family" groups. In fact, if there's one point of the site that I think you unfairly left out is that reasoned refutations of their rhetoric and logic is certainly a site strong point. G-A-Y unapologetically calls these groups and characters out on their bullsh*t, just not in a way that directly calls someone a name or makes fun of their size. I personally dialogue with these "pro-family" kids all the time, and one thing I know -- they could not care less what people who call them names have to say. If they see someone doing so, every other word after that name falls on even more deaf ears than usual. They just think that particular gay activist is being mean-spirited, and they use it as another example of gay militancy. As I'm genuinely trying to make them look at things a little differently, I find mudslinging and shouting matches to be a little counterproductive.
-You seem to think that these "crazy religious nut nobody's ever heard of" are not worth refuting. That is incredibly short-sighted. Many of the groups and players G-A-Y challenges have more followers and access than we would care to believe. In many ways, they are what keeps anti-gay sentiment alive.
So those are just a few things I wanted to get off my chest. All in all, I found your assessment very humorous. So please keep up the fun work.
Oh, and also -- please start reading more than the first paragraph!! There's some good info. in those "entirely unnecessary 1400-word refutation"s. :-)
-Jeremy
Jeremy Hooper
Good As You
www.goodasyou.org
2. what is the difference between oprah and musicals
In terms of capacity to irritate a straight man, nothing.
3. sincerest form queerty
I parodied Queerty in both the first Sincerest Form of Flattery Week and the second (and there have only been two). My first attempt was unsatisfactory, but I think I got it on the second try.
4. Ethan Reynolds
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If my Google referrals are a reliable measure for this sort of thing, the Ginch Gonch boys are HUGE in Germany. I can't tell you how many visitors this site gets from someone typing "Brat Boy" into Google Deutsch. I don't know what it is about Brat Boy that appeals to the Germans (any more than I could tell you why they liked Hasselhoff so much), but I can certainly see how Brat Boy School would be a lot more fun to read if English weren't your first language.
5. Bea Arthur in Chicago, IL
I haven't heard anything about Bea Arthur returning to Chicago any time soon, but when she was here in 2001, performing her one-woman show at the Park West, my best friend and I were in the audience, enraptured. "I felt she was performing only for me," my friend said afterwards, her eyes aglow.
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