Entertainment: April 2007
Don Imus is off the air; why is this guy still on?
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 30, 2007 11:34 PM |Rush Limbaugh apparently likes making fun of Black people. A lot. We already knew that. But here's a real question: why is he still on the airwaves? If you want to see his latest round of racism, watch this video....Read More
What a gay truck
Filed by Bil Browning | April 30, 2007 10:36 PM |My brother, Dave, lives in Texas and is the only sibling I'm particularly close to. He just got a new truck and sent me these photos to show it off. You can see the truck with his motorcycle in the...Read More
Some camp to start the week
Filed by Bil Browning | April 30, 2007 6:24 AM |Nothing says gay like vintage Carol Channing. Here she is doing Cecilia Sisson: "The Inside Story." Go ahead and send us other LGBT clips that we should feature on the site - whether because it's a gay icon or a...Read More
Some camp to start the week
Filed by Bil Browning | April 30, 2007 6:24 AM |Nothing says gay like vintage Carol Channing. Here she is doing Cecilia Sisson: "The Inside Story." Go ahead and send us other LGBT clips that we should feature on the site - whether because it's a gay icon or a...Read More
Qomics for Queers watches the fine line between "soap opera" and "fisting porn"
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 29, 2007 12:56 PM |I don't know about you all, but I can't get through the day without a shot of Beetle's crotch. Right there, center stage. Yep. Here's my weekly post on the queerness in the daily comics, where I do a little...Read More
I'm going bananas
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 28, 2007 12:55 PM |Know why evolution didn't happen? Because people can eat bananas. From GodTube via Pam: Since the human penis can be so easily gripped and is obviously designed for easy entry into another man's mouth, does that mean that God created...Read More
Trust them
Filed by Bil Browning | April 28, 2007 6:12 AM |Copyright 2007 Tribune Media Services, Inc. (Click to enlarge)...Read More
Queer music Friday - Dusty Springfield
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 27, 2007 5:00 PM |Dusty Springfield's "Son of a Peacher Man": And in her own words for The Evening Standard:A lot of people say I'm bent, and I've heard it so many times that I've almost learned to accept it. I couldn't stand to...Read More
Drumroll, please...
Filed by Bil Browning | April 27, 2007 8:29 AM |A couple of announcements before everyone takes off for the weekend about some changes you'll see here at bilerico.com next week. 1) We're going to stop posting a daily political cartoon from the major syndicates. There have been a few...Read More
Church & state
Filed by Bil Browning | April 27, 2007 6:08 AM |Copyright 2007 The Philadelphia Inquirer (Click to enlarge)...Read More
News from the sports world
Filed by Jen Jorczak | April 26, 2007 11:32 AM |On the heels of the recently published autobiography of John Amaechi, a former Penn State and NBA player who came out in the book, today, Los Angeles Times sports reporter of 23 years Mike Penner announced to his readers that...Read More
News from the sports world
Filed by Jen Jorczak | April 26, 2007 11:32 AM |On the heels of the recently published autobiography of John Amaechi, a former Penn State and NBA player who came out in the book, today, Los Angeles Times sports reporter of 23 years Mike Penner announced to his readers that...Read More
You hear something?
Filed by Bil Browning | April 26, 2007 6:53 AM |Copyright 2007 New York Times Syndicate (Click to enlarge)...Read More
I'll play pro to Don's con!
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 25, 2007 10:38 AM |Don posted earlier today that he doesn't care much for the word "queer". I completely respect his position, but you can't really have a con without a pro. That's like having a defense without a prosecution. Or the other way...Read More
Protecting life
Filed by Bil Browning | April 25, 2007 6:58 AM |Copyright 2007 The Washington Post Writer's Group (Click to enlarge)...Read More
A big target
Filed by Bil Browning | April 25, 2007 6:01 AM |Copyright 2007 Creator's Syndicate (Click to enlarge)...Read More
The Big Gay Sketch Show starts tonight
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 24, 2007 4:16 PM |It seems like everybody's getting into the comedy business now. Logo's premiering its new Big Gay Sketch Show tonight at 10 PM. They say it's like SNL for gays, but from the clips on their site, it seems more like...Read More
Next on my reading list
Filed by Jen Jorczak | April 24, 2007 3:10 PM |Jessica Valenti, Executive Editor of the blog feministing, published a book today called Full Frontal Feminism. She's 28 and is aiming the book at high school and college-age women, but I plan to read it anyway. There are interviews with...Read More
You know it's bad when...
Filed by Bil Browning | April 24, 2007 6:47 AM |Copyright 2007 Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Click to enlarge)...Read More
Dithering, apologizing, and excusing...It's spreading! Beware!
Filed by Jerame Davis | April 23, 2007 6:00 AM |Copyright 2007 David Honig - http://hypnocrites.blogspot.com/ All apologies to Chris and Dave, but this cartoon makes me giggle every time I see it...And it wouldn't be funny if there weren't some truth in it!...Read More
Dithering, apologizing, and excusing...It's spreading! Beware!
Filed by Jerame Davis | April 23, 2007 6:00 AM |Copyright 2007 David Honig - http://hypnocrites.blogspot.com/ All apologies to Chris and Dave, but this cartoon makes me giggle every time I see it...And it wouldn't be funny if there weren't some truth in it!...Read More
Qomics for Queers is still holding out hope for Ted Forth
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 22, 2007 1:58 PM |That's going to be how I introduce myself in every room I enter from now on. "NO, I THINK I HAVE THE RIGHT ROOM-HI, MOM... ....PROFESSOR WILKINS!" Or maybe: "NO, I THINK I HAVE THE RIGHT ROOM-HI, TOILET... ......Read More
Sunday Funny
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 22, 2007 12:29 PM |Some classic Ellen observational comedy:...Read More
The convert
Filed by Bil Browning | April 21, 2007 6:37 AM |Copyright 2007 Tribune Media Services, Inc....Read More
Queer music Friday - RuPaul
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 20, 2007 5:00 PM |RuPaul's "Supermodel": In her own words in NY Tix:Well, we're born naked and the rest is drag. Drag is whatever you wear - however you choose to represent yourself through clothing. So there's different types of drag. There's men who...Read More
Give him a cracker
Filed by Bil Browning | April 20, 2007 6:13 AM |Copyright 2007 Tribune Media Services, Inc....Read More
What in the hell?
Filed by Bil Browning | April 19, 2007 1:26 PM |What in bloody hell is this MTV marijuana public service announcement trying to say? Let's start with the tagline: "If you're high, just make sure you don't drive." So are they saying it's okay to smoke weed as long as...Read More
What in the hell?
Filed by Bil Browning | April 19, 2007 1:26 PM |What in bloody hell is this MTV marijuana public service announcement trying to say? Let's start with the tagline: "If you're high, just make sure you don't drive." So are they saying it's okay to smoke weed as long as...Read More
McCain's withdrawl
Filed by Bil Browning | April 19, 2007 6:48 AM |Copyright 2007 Tribune Media Services, Inc....Read More
Meanwhile in another part of the galaxy
Filed by Bil Browning | April 18, 2007 6:39 AM |Copyright 2007 Ted Rall...Read More
Going Back to Basics...
Filed by Tony Kariotis | April 17, 2007 9:18 PM |Notice I put this under the category of "Icons," for I can imagine the LGBT community will be going to Ms. Christina's 3-year-round-of-farewell concerts well into her 60's. I had the pleasure of seeing Christina in concert for the...Read More
Going Back to Basics...
Filed by Tony Kariotis | April 17, 2007 9:18 PM |Notice I put this under the category of "Icons," for I can imagine the LGBT community will be going to Ms. Christina's 3-year-round-of-farewell concerts well into her 60's. I had the pleasure of seeing Christina in concert for the...Read More
The stove is hot. Ouch. The stove is hot. Ouch. The stove...
Filed by Bil Browning | April 17, 2007 3:13 PM |I know I've brought this up before, but this story is irritating me too. While everyone is busy making fun of American Idol contestant Sanjaya Malakar for his singing talents (or lack thereof), one of the put-downs that often comes...Read More
The stove is hot. Ouch. The stove is hot. Ouch. The stove...
Filed by Bil Browning | April 17, 2007 3:13 PM |I know I've brought this up before, but this story is irritating me too. While everyone is busy making fun of American Idol contestant Sanjaya Malakar for his singing talents (or lack thereof), one of the put-downs that often comes...Read More
Ratings are dropping
Filed by Bil Browning | April 17, 2007 6:27 AM |Copyright 2007 Tribune Media Services, Inc....Read More
Poor Uncle Steve
Filed by Bil Browning | April 16, 2007 5:50 PM |(Sent in by faithful reader, Jay.)...Read More
Poor Uncle Steve
Filed by Bil Browning | April 16, 2007 5:50 PM |(Sent in by faithful reader, Jay.)...Read More
SJR-7 Fly Story II: The Backlash
Filed by Don Sherfick | April 16, 2007 7:30 AM |A few days ago I attempted a bit of what I thought would be universally taken as innocuous law-related humor in telling a tale about a Statehouse fly whose last living act was to make a small comma-like deposit onto...Read More
Toons take on Imus
Filed by Bil Browning | April 16, 2007 6:43 AM |You knew it was coming... We can't have a big scandal in the United States without bilerico.com doing the retrospective with the best dozen political cartoons from around the nation. The first three are above the fold, but the rest...Read More
Qomics for Queers with dogs in drag!
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 15, 2007 8:07 PM |Man, is Mark angry! So angry he turned into a goose to fly out to his friend's house and accuse him of using their friendship to commit insurance fraud! I mean, I've never been that mad. Follow me after the...Read More
Farley Granger comes out
Filed by Bil Browning | April 14, 2007 8:58 PM |Former screen idol Farley Granger comes out as bisexual in his upcoming autobiography, "Include Me Out." The 81 year old star talks candidly about his affairs - both gay and straight. Granger is probably most often romantically linked to Shelley...Read More
Farley Granger comes out
Filed by Bil Browning | April 14, 2007 8:58 PM |Former screen idol Farley Granger comes out as bisexual in his upcoming autobiography, "Include Me Out." The 81 year old star talks candidly about his affairs - both gay and straight. Granger is probably most often romantically linked to Shelley...Read More
Pandas!
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 14, 2007 6:30 AM |Copyright 2007 Creator's Syndicate...Read More
Queer music Friday - Owen Pallett
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 13, 2007 5:00 PM |Final Fantasy's cover of Bloc Party's "This Modern Love": And singer/violinist Owen Pallett in his own words on being a gay artist for NOW Magazine: As far as whether the music I make is gay or queer, yeah, it comes...Read More
Damn heterosexuals
Filed by Bil Browning | April 13, 2007 6:16 AM |Copyright 2007 CartoonArts International/CWS (Click to enlarge)...Read More
Death of an American treasure
Filed by Bil Browning | April 12, 2007 3:05 PM |"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center." Kurt Vonnegut 1922-2007...Read More
Gay cars?
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 12, 2007 1:37 PM |Ok. this article has been up for a few days now on the NY Times website about which cars are more gay or lesbianic than others. It's all pretty asinine, but it does get to the point of the discussion...Read More
McCain's base
Filed by Bil Browning | April 12, 2007 6:34 AM |Copyright 2007 CartoonArts International/CWS (Click to enlarge)...Read More
I like the bunnies
Filed by Bil Browning | April 11, 2007 6:21 AM |Copyright 2007 The Washington Post Writer's Group (Click to enlarge)...Read More
Fire Imus
Filed by Marla R. Stevens | April 10, 2007 7:03 PM |I wanted to let the rage die back so I could write rationally. It hasn't. Call me Herodias if you like but I want the man's head on a platter -- at least figuratively. A two-week suspension after his career...Read More
SJR-7: A Fly's Story
Filed by Don Sherfick | April 10, 2007 1:50 PM |Now that SJR-7 is dead in this year's session of the Indiana Legislature, one matter that won't have to be decided, at least not for now, is whether or not the first sentence of the amendment could have legitimately gone...Read More
Mistakes were made
Filed by Bil Browning | April 10, 2007 6:12 AM |Copyright 2007 CartoonArts International/CWS (Click to enlarge)...Read More
Cuz he's crazy!
Filed by Bil Browning | April 09, 2007 6:06 AM |Copyright 2007 Akron Beacon Journal (Click to enlarge)...Read More
Easter is such a drag
Filed by Bil Browning | April 08, 2007 10:48 AM |Happy Easter everyone! If you're easily offended, you might want to skip this video. If not, enjoy The Passion of the Camp. If the Easter Bunny looked this good when visiting our house, we'd probably celebrate more! *grins*...Read More
Qomics for Queers, established well before the Industrial Revolution and its bourgeois construction of gender
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 08, 2007 9:30 AM |What a week's it's been! I'm beginning to feel a lot like Luann Powers, more and more work, less and less time, and the ghost of a tonalist artist floating around me forcing me to paint. Well, all except for...Read More
Thank YOU Easter Bunny!
Filed by Bil Browning | April 08, 2007 5:28 AM |Copyright 2007 Milwaukee Sentinel (Click to enlarge)...Read More
Happy Easter - or else!
Filed by Bil Browning | April 07, 2007 6:24 AM |Copyright 2007 Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Click to enlarge)...Read More
Queer music Friday - Elton John
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 06, 2007 5:00 PM |Well, it was his birthday this past week. Here's Elton's performance of Rocket Man from his 60th birthday party:...Read More
Just change a letter
Filed by Bil Browning | April 06, 2007 6:18 AM |Copyright 2007 The Washington Post (Click to enlarge)...Read More
An endangered species
Filed by Bil Browning | April 05, 2007 6:10 AM |Copyright 2007 Tribune Media Services, Inc. (Click to enlarge)...Read More
Lincolncast
Filed by Bil Browning | April 04, 2007 6:32 AM |Copyright 2007 Tribune Media Services, Inc. (Click to enlarge)...Read More
Junk in her trunk
Filed by Bil Browning | April 03, 2007 6:44 AM |Okay, you have to admit that this has to be one of the best remakes ever. Alanis Morissette takes on the Black Eyed Peas "classic," My Humps. I just can't stop laughing... (Hat tip to Queersighted)...Read More
Real family values
Filed by Bil Browning | April 03, 2007 5:58 AM |Copyright 2007 CartoonArts International/CWS (Click to enlarge)...Read More
BS express
Filed by Bil Browning | April 02, 2007 6:15 AM |Copyright 2007 Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Click to enlarge)...Read More
Qomics for Queers will never let go of the dream
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 01, 2007 10:57 PM |Hey everyone! I've set up another blog to be the archives for Qomics for Queers and to be a site to keep me from procrastinating writing this post until the end of the week. I'll update it throughout the week...Read More
