The guy below right is little Michael, fourteen years ago, at the Monaco Grand Prix, which he attended upon an invitation of Glenn, his myst...

     ... was the title of a famous poster by the German Bundesbahn in the winter of 1967, pointing out that their trains would wo...

Yes, we finally did it--did it precipitously, since Chang feared that the Lusitanians wouldn't let us back in, what with the excessive F...

"Les temps modernes" --named after Charlie Chaplin's film -- was a magazine founded by Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Paul S...

(Our friend Glenn sent this:) Fragment, fragment...yes, here, cool, from Michael's essay, My Childhood Ruined,  which tells ab...

via GIPHY    Kleine Sünden bestraft der liebe Gott sofort

A: Everybody. He'll be remembered together with Washington and Jefferson.  Comment: just consider this---which Roman emperors ...

Amos Lassen Cool, folks, there's a new review of "The Fountain" out, and it's by LGBT-lit-authority Amos Lassen. He ...

Future archaeologists from Titan and other parts of the galaxy will call our epoch the Bzzfrzzakitamot period ("bizarre blond c...

"The Old New World" (Photo-based animation project) from seccovan on Vimeo .

People are inquiring about this post, stirred by North Korea's supposedly thermo-nuclear test yesterday. The post was written in March 2...

We haven't studied this, of course, not in a serious way, but when you are standing with one leg in the classical-antique period, as we...

The New Yorker sends a link to an article by Lillian Ross about Ernest Hemingway (H.), published in 1950. We’re curious, we don’t kn...

(This is somehow related to our Fountain of Geneva story:)

John and Alex,   our friends from the Green Eyes , are being told the back story of the Fountain of Geneva, the most phallic object on the...

Here's another beautiful piece from the mysterious Mr. E., the force behind the 50 Shady Gays . Enjoy: I’m sure that every queer cultu...

We're on our way to Switzerland, getting gas (diesel, to be precise) at the gas station of the Geant mall in Mandelieu, and there...

We arrive at San Francisco SFO (San Francisco International Airport, why SFO?) and the international press, the paparazzi ("paps")...

Andrew Sullivan found this for us here :  Indeed, we still have available the bar tab from a 1787 farewell party in Philadelphia for Geo...

The Dutch CVB, or whatever the alphabet soup, sends us a new European Insurance Card . Because we had discovered belatedly in the ER of the ...