Housekeeping: There's a new Lurid Digs by yours truly up for your perusal. As always, NSFW, but this was a doozie for yours truly. And seriously, Hardwood Federation, send me that cheque. Girl needs to have a good Pride!

Now for the real juicy jiz:

Vancouver legend Dean Wolverine shared the Jiz and the Mammograms video collection with me this weekend. These are spoofs of Jem and the Holograms cartoons from the '80s.

You can find all the Jiz videos here. They are seriously offensive and to be cherished because of this. 

 

A regular Lurid Digs reader stopped me on Davie Street last weekend and congratulated me for joining the Digs panel. That's how popular that site is, people! SHAZAAM! The gays like it and I'm all for giving you a heads up here when my posts are going up there...jesus that was a weird sentence. Over here! Over there!

My latest posting is "Gandalf's Lair" - enjoy it. And take a close look at those freaky dolls. Shit girl!

In other news, Vancouver's Next Gay Top Model is back for it's next latest and greatest incarnation. The 2010 edition may just turn out to be as popular as a late-night steamie from that new poutine restaurant on Davie St.  Auditions are this Saturday. For more information, check out this release below:

GAY TOP MODEL 2010 IS HERE

CHARLIE DAVID COVERBOY AWARD:

Actor/Writer Charlie David will award one of the Gay Top Model 2010 finalists with the cover of his upcoming novel, Shadowlands (to be released Fall 2010). www.charliedavid.com

BON BON BODYWEAR UNDERWEAR CHALLENGE WINNER

One of the Gay Top Model 2010 lucky finalists will have the chance to win a photoshoot with the bon bon team and become the face/body of the company for an advertising campaign in the 2010 season. www.mybonbonworld.com

LOV MAGAZINE PUBLISHING AWARD

One of the Gay Top Model 2010 finalists will have a chance to be showcased in the pages of April edition of LOV Magazine, photographed by TJ Ngan. www.lovmag.com

GAY TOP MODEL 2010 TITLE HOLDER

Amongst all the challenges, work with our official photographer Nicholas Jang, a wardrobe challenge with Nancy Black Designs where he chooses to keep the outfit of his choice, and of course the overall voting, one lucky individual will be awarded the title of GAY TOP MODEL 2010. Prizes and services worth well over $50,000 include a 2-year model agency contract with I Model Management, a trip to Jackson-Mississippi-USA to represent Canada at Mr. International Competition, a Whistler getaway courtesy gaywhistler.com, the cover of V-Rag Magazine, a showcase in Afoot Magazine, and a complete retreat package from pHresh Spa + Wellness.

All GAY TOP MODEL 2010 finalists receive an experience of a lifetime, or “best time ever” as the original Gay Top Model winner, Aaron Ursacki, puts it! Amongst the workshops and rehearsals and being a part of the most exciting spectacle show (April 1st at Celebrities Nightclub), all finalists receive underwear from bon bon bodywear, a showcase spread in V-Rag Magazine, pHresh Spa + Wellness gift, Steamworks Sauna package, and they get to experience the theatre and socialize at the opening night for BASH’D: A GAY RAP OPERA at The Cultch, Vancouver’s historical theatre.

AUDITIONS: to be a part of “the most fun event in a long time to capture Vancouver's imagination" according to celebrityblogblog, and work with  “a consummate showman of the Barnum-and-Bailey's variety”, according to XtraWest, all in support of the most amazing charity, Friends for Life Society, visit www.gaytopmodel.com The first workshop and auditions day is this Saturday, January 23rd. You must sign up in order to receive all detailed information. Are you Canadian, male, 19+ (as of April 1st, 2010) and identify as gay/bisexual? Send an email with your contact details and a recent photo to info@mirateca.com - that's it! No experience necessary. http://www.gaytopmodel.com

 

The Christmas Train continues here on Up Your Alley and I have another gift for you...this time literally a gift because I made it and want to entertain.

First off, however, I have a gift for me: after some intense back and forth with editor David K and a series of university-esque writing tests, I have managed to pull a fast-one on one of my favourite sites, Luriddigs.com, and convinced them to let me join their critical panel. North America's Cutest Canook Joins Luriddigs? Goddamn! LOVE THOSE GUYS!! I'll post my posting there here on Up Your Alley.

And now my gift: I've mentioned Aleholes on here a few times, but our first webisode is up and running.

Here's the gist:

Need help? My best friend Ciaran and I are here for you. And guess what: you won't have to shout over some crappy Nickleback song to get our attention either.

Over the past six months, we asked Canadians to send us their troubles in a series of captivatingly strange questions. Imagine. All those years giving advice to friends over pints in pubs and bars have finally amounted to something. Who knew.

Got a question? Write us at aleholes@gmail.com. We're here to help you help yourself...or something.

 

Do you remember that time last week when a reader challenged me to go find non-gay village parties to attend for my bi-weekly social column here in Vancouver and I countered by asking readers to invite me to said secret parties so I could see for myself? Yeah...turns out the only responses I got contained no invites and readers using fake names (though if there is someone out there named Truly, I apologize for thinking you don't truly exist because unfortunately the needle on my internet Get-Real-O-Meter got stuck on GET REAL, GOLD DIGGER!).

Which in turn makes me think that these secret parties are actually after hours or literally parties in someone's apartment...and I'm sorry, Vancouver, the last time I attended a secret party off Commercial Drive, it was in an afterhours club that had beds surrounding the dancefloor. If you think you can top that, let me know because everything else since has paled in comparison.

Lurid Digs has been gaining some noteriety these past few months. They're live on Twitter: @luriddigs. One of its writers was also interviewed by fab in Toronto and here's an excerpt:

Revealing Interiors
Gay men are known for their high sex drives and good, or sometimes florid, tastes in home décor. When it comes to internet personal ads the two can collide as Drew Rowsome discovers in these lurid digs...

Sounds juicy, no? I've recently decided to spice up the fall by going on internet dates again and the dazzling array of online photos are truly la maze! Think carefully before you post, boys and girls...a picture is worth a thousand words...and not all of them will be good ones unfortunately...

And here's a review of above photo from one of the site's writers:

Richard: Just for the record, I like blind people. I even used to fantasize about being blind when I was a kid. (I know: fucking Ice Castles.) Anyway, I think blind people are awesome, and they deserve every right to speak as they want and think as they want and, I dunno, eat as they want or whatever, but for the love of the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990, they cannot be decorators. (They cannot drive either, or operate heavy machinery, or compete in mumbletypeg tournaments. That’s not me talking; that’s the gubmint.) I mean, see what poor Billy has done? He’s managed pretty well with the wood — but then, that’s a textural thing. He’s also done a good job on maintaining a consistent pink, which for a while made me question whether he’s Helen Keller-blind or just mom-the-morning-after-Champagne-Night-at-the-Parisian-Room-blind. But then I saw that Burmese many-mouthed water bong sitting right in the middle of the Mission-style coffee table, and I knew that Billy is really, truly blind, not Levar-Burton-with-a-banana-clip-blind, because THAT IS FUCKING MADNESS.

Yes...check it Lurid Digs. It is THAT good.

This is for all those times you walk into someone's place and think, Hmmm.

I just gotta say: black curtains, blond wig, red breifs, piles of laundry.

I just gotta say: I love Lurid Digs.

Goddamn!