Titus Andronicus – “No Future Part Three: Escape From No Future” (Official Video)
July 28, 2011
Cuddle mattress: The Design That Lets You Keep a Loved None Close
Who knew? I have yet to try one of these cuddle mattresses, but in theory I love them. For someone who spends half the night with arms half dead and tingly from sleeping on them this could be a solution. One the other hand this mattress might be a flop. If you get the chance grab someone and cuddle and get back to me pronto before I throw down some Benjamins.
It is a problem that has taxed mankind since Adam first lay down next to Eve. How do you cuddle your loved one at night without your arm going numb? Now, centuries later, the Love Mattress has arrived with an ingenious solution to this quandary. Though the central portion of the mattress is a single foam block, each end is made up of ten slats which are each three inches wide. These part easily from one another, leaving room to slide an arm beneath a partner and leave it there.
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July 28, 2011
Interview: Artist Ed Luce Schools Me on his Comic The Wuvable Oaf
Ed Luce the artist and writer of the luvable Wuvable Oaf comics just schooled me in The Wuvable Oaf’s history and was patient to give me a crash course in Wuvable Oaf 101. Now I will be abundantly ready to rub elbows with and chuckle about good ole’ issues #1 & #2 with Wuvable Oaf super fans tomorrow night at the release party for issue #3 in San Francisco’s Mission District. In anticipation I will have the Pointer Sister’s hit “I’m so Excited” on repeat for the next 24 hours.
Ed Luce’s first comic book project, Wuvable Oaf is a “fairy” tale chronicling one big, scary lookin’ dude’s search for cute little “mans” in a city that looks suspiciously like San Francisco.
The Oaf has also made appearances in the UK’s Gay Times Magazine, Italy’s PISSZINE, Instinct Magazine, White Crane Journal, Prism Comics 2008 Guideand on the chests of hunky dudes n’ sassy ladies all over the world, in the form of his very own t-shirts.
While currently pouring his energy into the comics world, Ed also leaves a lengthy trail of art debris behind him, including recent published features in Bearflavouredartists’ catalog and LA gay men’s health magazine Corpus. His paintings have been exhibited in galleries, museums, store windows and bathrooms from San Diego to Buffalo to Paris. http://www.wuvableoaf.com
San Francisco Wuvable Oaf #3 Release Party!
Friday, July 29th from 7-9 PM
Goteblüd, 766 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
Signing and Wuvable Oaf Art Exhibition Reception with Ed
plus the debut of a new “Wuvable Oaf” print!
Accidental Bear’s Mike Enders & The Wuvable Oaf creator Ed Luce bear-rake it down for you (Get it? Break it down? Oh, just read the damn interview):
Accidental Bear: Wuvable Oaf is such a cuddly name. Was that the intention behind naming him that?
Ed Luce: Wow…after three years of comics and shirts, no one has ever asked me that! Well, at first it was just meant as a commentary on the character’s speech pattern, which I imagined to be mildly baby talkish. In a deep bass tone, of course. But as the comic evolved, it also made sense as a unique name, easily searchable on the web.
A B: Where was your energy going to before the creation on the Oaf?
Ed: I was a painter for nearly ten years before the Oaf was ever born. In some ways, he’s an extension of that work, in a different format and genre. My work was already very cartoony, using bits and pieces from Popeye, Sluggo of Nancy, He-man and G.I. Joe in a sort of smorgasbord of hyper-masculinity. The Oaf sprung directly out of that soup, moving from the canvas to the page pretty effortlessly.
A B: The release for Wuvable Oaf is this Friday the 29th. How old is the Oaf since you first put him on paper?
Ed: The first time the character appeared with that name above his head was in a paper doll design I did for a theme show at the Trunk Space Gallery in Phoenix. I believe it was fall of 2006, so he’ll technically be five years old this fall! The shirt appeared one year later, followed by the first comic in the summer of 2008.
A B: Could you give a quick rundown of what someone might expect if they are picking up The Wuvable oaf for the first time?
Ed: I’ve toyed around with many descriptions over the years…none of which ever really work for me. Lately, I’ve been calling it “the gay comic for everyone else”, somewhat jokingly. I feel it’s from an undeniably queer perspective but is written and constructed to be all-inclusive. I don’t shy away from the gay, anyone that has ever seen the book can testify to that. But I try to speak in terms, both visually and textually, that don’t alienate any one group from appreciating the narrative. I feel I achieve that easily enough with an absence of explicit sex scenes. It’s important to me that hetero folks identify with the Oaf and his pals too, and I think boners don’t always work well in that capacity. But otherwise, it’s ostensibly a love story, about someone who thinks he’s impossible to love.
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July 28, 2011
September 12th, Anderson Cooper Kicks off Anderson, His Daytime Talk Show
Anderson, I love-hate you. Lets see if your daytime talk show sways opinion to one side or the other.
(via www.afterelton.com)
If Anderson Cooper isn’t already one of the busiest journalists working in television today, he’s certainly about to be: on September 12, Cooper kicks off Anderson, his daytime talk show.
While sitting in the Beverly Hilton for the summer edition of the Television Critics Association press tour, however, Cooper repeatedly assured the assembled TV critics that he’s up to the task of maintaining a day job while still doing his duties at CNN in the evening and occasionally contributing to CBS’s 60 Minutes.
“You know, I manage my time really well,” said Cooper. “The schedule of this show, we’re taping it and shooting it in the same building where I work at CNN, in New York. I think it’s all very do-able. It’s going to be a lot of work, but I like working hard. I’ve been working hard for a long time now.”
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July 28, 2011
The Late Great Fashion Designer Alexander McQueen Keeps on Giving
(via news.pinkpaper.com)
Alexander McQueen bequeathes £100,000 to Terrence Higgins Trust
The late fashion designer Alexander McQueen has bestowed £100,000 of his fortune to gay men’s charity Terrence Higgins Trust. The donation is one of four £100,000 gifts he donated in his will, this week. Other organisations who also received the sum are: Battersea Dogs and Cats Home, the London Buddhist Centre and the Blue Cross animal welfare charity in Oxfordshire. Out of his estimated £16 million fortune, he also left £50,000 for each of his dogs, gave £50,000 to both of his two housekeepers and bequeathed £250,000 to each of his siblings.
The iconic fashion designer, who suffered long-term anxiety and depression, was found dead at his London home on 11 February 2010. Westminter’s Coroner’s Court ruled today that he had taken sleeping pills, tranquilizers and cocaine before strangling himself.
Sir Nick Partridge, Chief Executive of Terrence Higgins Trust, said: “Alexander McQueen was a friend of THT. He supported us for over 12 years, working alongside the charity to raise awareness of HIV as well as vital funds. We’re touched that he chose to leave this generous legacy, which will be used to support those living with and affected by HIV in the UK.”
Related articles
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July 28, 2011
What Your Beard Says About You
Sometimes my beard says, homeless hottie or I just ate a glazed doughnut. AB
Beards: Rugged? Trendy? Or Unreliable?
FOUR years ago, I grew the first full beard of my adult life on a whim. I was 41, and it was neither a fashion statement nor a midlife crisis, but it came at a fortuitous time: the style world just happened to be entering the Postmillennial He-Man Beard Epoch.
It was the dawn of an era, when dewy actors like Ryan Gosling and Jake Gyllenhaal started showing up on red carpets sporting cheek-fringe that seemed to boast, “My cover-boy looks can shine even through this tangle”; when it became obligatory to show up at Brooklyn warehouse parties with the shaggy jowls of an 1890s beaver trapper; when the Unabomber chin mane became unexpectedly chic on fashion runways.
Accidental Bear 