the awesome/terrifying freedom

arianna huffington is running for governor of california! very cool.

okay, boy meets boy. very interesting show. james, the main guy is so cute that it hurts. i can’t look at him for too long without wanting to stab myself in the face. (i don’t know what that means). the whole thing has become a pretty interesting test of gaydar, and i have been fooled twice so far..

i am suspicious of dan, the blonde hunk. he’s billed as an ‘actor’ on his profile. in this week’s episode he sported an ‘instinct magazine’ t-shirt. is he a straight guy actor who loves to flirt with gay men? who’s also done his gay culture homework? wouldn’t surprise me. it also seems clear that the only reason he is still on the show is because the producers pressured james to keep him (ever notice that disclaimer at the end, that says the producers ‘consulted’ with james on his decision, but ultimately it was his?).

i’m sure the producers saw in dan the perfect foil – a super hot straight guy willing to pull out all the stops (as an acting challenge) to win some bucks. no way they could let him go.

okay, let’s talk about last week’s episode of ‘queer eye.’ i totally cried. and i can say that without feeling shameful or feminized because the ultra hot straight man they made over cried as he said goodbye to the fab 5. it was awesome. a great moment in the history of reality television. a straight man cried!

speaking of ‘queer eye,’ michelangelo signorile had some great things to say about the show in last week's column. my favorite part – he quotes conservative, far-right activist paul weyrich's response to the show:

"It should come as no surprise that I do not feel compelled to take any fashion or lifestyle tips from the homosexual movement," Weyrich wrote last week, regarding Queer Eye and lambasting Bravo and NBC for airing the show. "I say that as someone who was wearing pink shirts back in the 1960s before the color was seized by homosexual activists and politicized. Nowadays, I still wear a pink shirt every now and then as a sign of rebellion against a movement that expects wearers of that color to be sympathetic to their agenda, which I most certainly am not."

signorile's brilliant response is that paul doesn't realize that when he slips on even a pair of bvd's he's being dressed by a homosexual deisgner somewhere. what's even more absurd about the statement is the idea that pink as a color is 'fashionable,' and that a sub-paragraph of the gay agenda includes saturation of our ‘politicized’ pink into wardrobes everywhere. paul, wake up! don’t you realize you have to have your colors done first to find out if pink even works with your skin tones?