Rottin' in Denmark

Indonesia: Tanjung Pinang

nobody@vox.com(Rottin' in Denmark) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:48:27 -0800

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Don't mistake politeness for acceptance

nobody@vox.com(Rottin' in Denmark) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:16:21 -0800

I'm reading Edmund White's 'States of Desire: Travels in Gay America', which I found in a bookstore outside of Sydney for $2. It was written in 1980, the final year of un-ballasted gay hedonism. It opens with a passage about L.A.: The almost Ori...

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Singapore

nobody@vox.com(Rottin' in Denmark) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:54:50 -0700

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Reading 'Berlin' in Singapore

nobody@vox.com(Rottin' in Denmark) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:30:32 -0700

I'm in Singapore this week, and I picked up Antony Beevor's 'Berlin: The Downfall 1945' at Heathrow on the way over. Most of the book is a painstakingly detailed account of the Red Army advance through east Germany, complete with heteroese terms ...

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World welcomes first YouTube casualty

nobody@vox.com(Rottin' in Denmark) — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:12:48 -0700

Have you guys seen the clip of the Japanese hidden-camera show where a dude is tricked into thinking that a sniper is picking off everyone else in the room? It's pretty great huh. You can never really say how you would react to extreme, surreal s...

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The gay rallies in Washington last weekend weren't the work of 'fringe' groups

nobody@vox.com(Rottin' in Denmark) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:24:04 -0700

They were the expression of a minority demographic group asking a president to deliver on the promises he made to us. We're not comparing Obama to Hitler. We're not making things up or hopelessly exaggerating reasonable policies. We're not sayin...

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Prostitution and hitchhiking

nobody@vox.com(Rottin' in Denmark) — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 01:49:08 -0700

When you think about it, it's kind of silly that we don't hitchhike more in Western countries, especially the United States. The cars and roads are there. The distances are reasonable. No one is so socially disastrous that you can't make 15 minut...

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I saw a movie in 3-D last night

nobody@vox.com(Rottin' in Denmark) — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:44:37 -0700

for the first time since 'Captain Eo' at Disneyland when I was 12. I found the 3-D-ness kind of distracting, actually, but I bet people found color and sound distracting, too, when they were first introduced. Luckily the movie was 'Up', which is g...

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I saw 'Trouble the Water' last night

nobody@vox.com(Rottin' in Denmark) — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:35:27 -0700

and thought it was utterly amazing, and probably the best 'show don't tell' argument for why I turn off most movies after 20 minutes these days. Officially, it's a documentary about Hurricane Katrina. But it's really a home movie by Kimberly Rive...

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My two favorite music videos

nobody@vox.com(Rottin' in Denmark) — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:03:09 -0700

It's funny how bands choose which songs to release as singles. I'm still obsessed with the entire Dan Deacon album, 6 months after it came out, but I never would have expected 'Paddling Ghost' to be a single. Maybe it's because the lyrics lend the...

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