I swear, I remember Michael Stipe announcing he was gay years ago.
Same here. And I remember having the same "well, duh" reaction then.
I got stupid. The money was too good.
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
amych - Mar 20, 2008 3:57:49 am PDT #6122 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Shir - Mar 20, 2008 3:58:53 am PDT #6123 of 10001
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Happy Birthday Mal!
And yes Hil, I think you're right.
Hil R. - Mar 20, 2008 3:59:37 am PDT #6124 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Ahah:
In a 2001 Time interview, Stipe described himself as a "queer artist" and revealed that he had been in a relationship with "an amazing man" for three years at that point.
From wikipedia.
Dana - Mar 20, 2008 4:02:20 am PDT #6125 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
So Australia is 7 years behind on the news?
Frankenbuddha - Mar 20, 2008 4:06:05 am PDT #6126 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
So Australia is 7 years behind on the news?
Must be all those time zones.
Does this mean the LotR movies came out down there 7 years before we got to see them?
Tom Scola - Mar 20, 2008 4:08:39 am PDT #6127 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
In early REM shows, Stipe would routinely perform on stage in drag. Yes, I know that tranvestite ≠ gay, but I don't think Stipe was ever trying to hide anything.
Frankenbuddha - Mar 20, 2008 4:13:53 am PDT #6128 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I heard all that about him back in college in the 80s because someone I hung out with was from Athens, GA, and she said it was basically an open non-secret. The guys in Husker Du were a much bigger surprise to me for some reason, although Greg Norton's mustache should have been a giveaway.
brenda m - Mar 20, 2008 4:17:52 am PDT #6129 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
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tommyrot - Mar 20, 2008 4:18:18 am PDT #6130 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
In a 2001 Time interview, Stipe described himself as a "queer artist" and revealed that he had been in a relationship with "an amazing man" for three years at that point.
So maybe a little big gay-ish, then?
I also recall him saying (in the late '80s) that he found all labels regarding sexual orientation to be too limiting. And then like in '89 I heard he was friends with Dorothy Morrissey. A friend of mine back then was really bitter that Michael wasn't out.
although Greg Norton's mustache should have been a giveaway.
Wasn't he the only straight one? I seem to recall that the one with the most gay mustache - wasn't.
hippocampus - Mar 20, 2008 4:20:43 am PDT #6131 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
a person at work is being randomly passive-aggressive... while everyone is on break, no less. he's in escalating cc: mode because of an issue that is completely stupid. To wit: He has a form on a website that someone (not a bot) is using to spoof input by people in our community (their names are correct, but sometimes spelled wrong, the addresses are wrong, etc. - "This is the second time in two weeks that this has happened!")... what chafes is that it is his job to review inputs from this form, and accept or deny them, and has been for two years. Why, person? Why now of all times? Besides which... quit being stupid - of course people will type crap into web forms to see what happens. and no. I will not "Try to trace the input so that we can determine who is doing this."
This is not the same person who needed an explanation about why placing something in a PDF didn't automatically make it "hacker proof". That was a different person.