Two exclusive shots of Mika in Italy, just after completing judging duties on X Factor in Genoa. Wish he were a judge on an American show; I'm sure he has a lot of insight and would charm audiences.
Courtesy of Giulio Mazzoleni
Elio, Morgan, Simona Ventura & Mika
Mika, already famous in Italy, is now poised for superstardom after learning to speak Italian in advance of a coveted gig as an X Factor judge.
From not-so-bad to worse
Above: Barack Obama and Mitt Romey are NOT. THE. SAME.
Nate Silver not voting, but if he did, it would be between...Johnson and Romney???
Another poll shows Obama ahead in...Florida???
Ricky Martin drops his pants for charity.
New Sicilian governor is gay! (But an asshole.)
For Sharon Needles, "Everyday (sic) is Halloween."
Johnny Depp's drag routine for David Furnish.
Breezy Point among hardest hit by Sandy thanks to fire.
Climate-change deniers are "pigs." (Can pigs swim?)
Maryland marriage is on the brink.
Gay Republican faked hate crime, is fired. GOProud still supports.
Mitt Romney's Ohio relief event was a total fraud.
Canned empathy
A Boy Culture reader sends me these scorching shots from his Italian holiday. The beaches were bulging with talent:
More after the jump...
Madonna is pinned down for some great interviews while in Italy, where my spies tell me the crowds have been the most enthusiastic. In the first, she speaks about the concept behind her MDNA Tour and why she isn't on Twitter.
Madonna, a little cross
And here, check out a 42:36 (!) streaming Deejay: Popcake special devoted to Madonna with fantastic footage from the tour (especially of the atmosphere for fans)
Madonna's Roman ass-flash is even more playful and even more contextually impossible to chalk up to "desperately trying to seem sexy" than the nip-flip was.
Prove it!
As of midnight last night, it was exactly six years since my first post. It's been a tough thing to keep up with a dayjob and outside activities, and just when I think I might walk away, a valuable connection or interesting opportunity or a kind word comes my way. Thank you all for reading me.
Of whom are you more jealous?
Here are my favorite 100+ posts out of nearly 11,000. Please take some time to read (or re-read!) a couple and tweet or Facebook any you like.
xoxo Matt
The pocket pool championships were intense this year
BOY CULTURE
FROM BOY TO MAN: BC B.C. (2007): The entire history of my novell and novel Boy Culture as well as the movie version; might be my ultimate post.
Jonathon Trent & Derek Magyar make an Allan Brocka sandwich
BOY ON FILM (2006): An account of the NYC launch party for Boy Culture as it played the TriBeCa Film Fest.
I was left "Reeling" by the experience
FRIENDS AND "FAMILY" (2006): The movie version of Boy Culture hits Chicago.
No one would've mistaken me for Taylor Lautner
RAPT PUPIL (2006): The final night of Outfest with Boy Culture; I was fat but on the other hand got to meet Bryan Singer.
MY ART
Construction worker (shot this week) vs. James Dean
GUYDAR (since at least January 17, 2008) & ENDS OF THE WORLD (since at least January 13, 2008): Attractive men of the world—I got your backs. Your fronts, too.
Unaltered iPhone image that still blows me away
"Your pictures suck" (2008): An art critic attacks me, but not without sustaining some hits in return.
DRAWN TOGETHER (2008): How my desire to draw related to my secret desire. One of my absolute favorite posts.
The shirtless one
LOST ANGELES (2009): My favorite photographic travelogue of L.A.
Even then, New Yorkers feared 9/11 was the beginning of the end
ART IMITATES LIFE (2006): My 9/11 and my distaste for grief tourism.
ME
Death of the party—Jeff in high school, already halfway through his life
BURNING MAN (2007): Tribute to my late high school friend and first romance.
Signed, sealed (eventually) delivered
LOST BOY FOUND (2011): There is a book in here somewhere.
Be Italian
CIAO HOUNDS: OUR TRIP TO ITALY (2011): Finally got José to Europe.
ILLINOIS DEATH TRIP (2007): Ruminations on death while revisiting a past home, and the past.
Life is short...and meaningful
PASSING BY (2008): Mourning the loss of a person I only met once.
Lots more...
Madonna's being called a Communist and worse for stating the obvious—that Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is unfit.
If Madonna's a Commie, she sucks at it!
Okay, Madonna haters (many of whom are liberals who nonetheless see the adamant leftist as some kind of a Fascist), go ahead and pile onto her for this latest scandal—I'd like to find ANYONE outside of his most right-wing supporters in the Italian government, who could argue that Berlusconi is not deserving of far worse condemnation.
Meanwhile, it's offensive to Italy to offend Berlusconi...yet didn't he just call his own homeland a "shit country?"
Madonna's hauteur dissolves to giggles. What a great mood she was in pre-reviews!
With yet another article claiming people at Venice were "rolling in the aisles" at Madonna'a W.E. (which isn't a comedy...), I thought I'd post this first-hand account from Stefano, a fan who was there. Sounds like my reaction: Not a great film but nowhere near worthy of all the bile...
More after the jump...
