Friday, February 26, 2010
Thursday, February 25, 2010
It's fun, nice and very soft when two things you like become one. It touches me right in the groin area. How about you? Do you like this bitch singing? Or are you over it? Speaking of mashups, what's with this mashpotatoe slush weather we've had since yesterday? It's hard to walk around the city, have dinner at Aux Vivres and look sexy and be pretentious when you're sliding around in the mashpotatoes.
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Amerika | pretties
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
As many who have been following the blog know, Kox & Kuntz has paid particular attention to the Quartier des spectacles dossier and how it ultimately impacts the cultural institution that is Café Cléopatre. The stripper bar and the community burlesque stage upstairs were at risk of being ousted from plans to give the red-light district a facelift, but now, it seems as though karma is a bitch and that bitch's name is The ECONOMY. Angus Developers have halted contruction on the area, opting for the leftover pilons and contructions dirt look that is so very chic in architecture these days. The Gazette says it is only 15% complete, and that there are already fancy lights! "700 red sidewalk spots creating a red-carpet
effect and echoing the marquee lights of area theatres, facade lighting
for the Musée, Monument National and other buildings, and La Vitrine, an
interactive wall of lights spelling in letters and signs that it's
showtime in the city."
SOUNDS SHOW-OFFY TO ME.
And the lighting director for the Quartier is quoted as saying "The more you create a nighttime atmosphere, the more people will go
out,'' he said. Well, I like to see my nighttime atmosphere light up with sex workers,
seedy joints and whores. Call me carazay!
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café cléo
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Monday, February 22, 2010
Quebec sports commenters at the Olympics are being critized by gay rights group CQQL after wack comments were made about figure skater Johnny Weir on RDS (French subsidiary of CTV Globemedia).
He's got red lipstick. He dresses in a feminine fashion. He tries
to be as feminine as possible on the ice. It brings a bitter image to
the the skating world. It's pretty unfortunate because we might start
thinking every boy who skates will become like him. —Alain Goldberg
The Conseil Quebecois des gais et lesbiennes (www.cqgl.ca) is filing a complaint with the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council for remarks made by sports commentaters Claude Mailhot and Alain Goldberg. This is in light of even after they apologized—the group says it's not good enough. A facebook group was created to denounce what they say are homophobic remarks that may incite violence against queers, which you can view here.
Steve Foster of the CBSC, says: "It's sad, remarks like these. It stops elite athletes
from coming out of the closet because they don't want to be ridiculed on
a public platform." (via the Canadian Press).
Among other quotes:
« On devrait lui faire passer un test de féminité
ou de masculinité.»
— Alain Goldberg
« Il devrait peut-être
être en compétition féminine.»
— Claude Mailhot
« Ce n’est pas
l’image du patinage que j’aime. C’est ce que tout le monde pense. On le
dit à voix basse et, maintenant, on le dit à voix haute.»
— Alain
Goldberg
May 17 is the international Day against Homophobia (Fondation Emergence). This year's theme will be
homophobia in sports.