We've got his back, he's got ours

While Obama deals with Sandy, Romney capitalizes.

Romney offers single campaign bus for Sandy aid. 47%? On their own.

Jersey Shore takes a pounding. (Not Snooki.)

Atlantic City knows when to fold 'em.

Joe Simpson cancels on a cutie.

Lady Gaga snaps at Calvin Harris, (he dissed her) repurposes stage in Mexico.

"Strict" mom Madonna buys her 16-year-old an apartment.

Madonna attends Skrillex concert in NOLA.

Kylie offers an Abbey Road Sessions Bundle.

Obama: "War" within GOP if he wins.

Romney lies his ass off in Ohio Jeep ad.

Levi Johnston marries (another) baby mama.

Amy Winehouse: The play!

Crazy teabagger Bachmann might hold her seat.

Crazy teabagger West might lose his seat.

Crazy teabagger Walsh is gonna lose his seat.

The Tea Party's (almost) overrrr...

Bristol Palin is the last authority on parenting I would ever trust, considering the lousy parents she's got and the lousy parent she's been.

She's got brass balls inserting herself (maybe she'll pull out at the last minute, like her favored method of birth control?) into the marriage-equality debate, though.

Not that she wrote one word of that screed herself. She can barely string two words together.

Shut your Levi Johnston hole, Bristol.

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

Boy-crazy

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.

i-i-i (phone)

Not totally built

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.

Let's call it a draw

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.

Death becomes here

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...

Globe (August 29, 2011) claims that Sarah Palin snorted coke in an Alaskan dive called the Mug-Shot Saloon. The accusation comes in a story that accompanies Levi Johnston's sister Mercede's "no-holds-barred nude photo shoot" in an upcoming Playboy.

Mercede herself talks about Palin's son Track and his drug addiction.

I guess Globe hasn't caught up and figured out Michele Bachmann is the new Sarah Palin.

Kenneth in the (212) finally cracks that decades-old rape case involving mall security guard Monroe Ficus (JM J Bullock) from Too Close for Comfort that he's been working on. It sounds like actual rape, and not just a case of having his virginity "stolen."

My question, though—where is Tank in all of this Levi mess???

What will Kathy Griffin say? Levi Johnston is not only back with Bristol Palin, he's asked her to marry him. And they've already posed for this Us cover (July 26, 2010). Apparently, they didn't even tell Sarah Palin about their engagement, though the Palins have issued a supportive statement that nevertheless reads as if it were scratched into steel by grizzly claws.

Levi, who was always good for some lampooning of the Palins, seems to have retired from common sense, noting:

"That part of my life is over. I'm never going to say anything bad about her or her family. And I will never leave her."

But perhaps it's more a matter of luring Bristol away from the dark side with a velvet glove. It doesn't sound too hard, considering Sarah Palin is finding out about this engagement from Us! Bristol says, of using the magazine to announce everything to her mom:

"It is intimidating and scary just to think about what her reaction is going to be. Hopefully she will jump on board."

Or overboard.

That sound you just heard was the sound of Kathy Griffin's heart BREAKING. 

Larry Flynt's Hustler Club is sponsoring Dirty Show 11 in Detroit, Michigan (who says Motor City is melting down?), with events starting February 12 and ending February 20. Boy Culture reader Mark DeBauch (debauchery...) has two paintings on display, including "Barack's Boner":

Oddly, he reminds me of Mark Dalton here.

Yes, I've edited it, but let's just say that if our prez actually had balls as big as this gouache on paper work, we'd all be basking in universal healthcare and marrying anyone we damn well pleased.

 I'd rather attend a teabagging convention with Levi than with Sarah.

Speaking of erotic art, haters gonna hate, but I think Levi Johnston looks hot (if overly made up) on his Playgirl cover. I had to crop this, too, but I think what I cropped out only helped him and the cover. (Via VGL.)

UPDATE: Emanuel has apologized, but cleverly, he's only apologized to the people who are demeaned by "retarded," not the idiot Democrats he was berating. I still think he barks and barks but his time with Obama so far really bites, but I did like this outcome.

Sarah Palin is so offended by Rahm Emanuel's well-known penchant for swearing and for his allegedly having used the word "retarded" (which she considers the same as the N-word) that she's calling for him to be fired. Emanuel could call for her to resign except she already did.

If "retarded" is as bad as the N-word, shouldn't we be calling it the R-word?

Even more interestingly, she seems to be inviting a revisitation of Levi Johnston's accusation that she once jokingly referred to her own child—who is the unspoken prop  in her Emanuel war—as "my little retarded baby."

Then there was that rumor that Palin once said of Barack Obama clenching the Democratic nomination, "So Sambo beat the bitch?"

Oh, Sarah. Emanuel should be forced out of his position, but not for having a potty mouth.