So I was super excited to post this when I saw it yesterday thinking I had found a diamond in the rough and then I realized that it just went viral today. I should have followed my instincts and just posted.

So maybe this isn’t as exciting and you all have already seen it. It’s still one of my favorite pieces of video art I’ve seen to date. Enter Neil Goldberg’s “She’s a Talker,” a short video which hits on the sublime by examining gay men’s relationships with their cats first created for the MIX festival in 1993 at The Kitchen.

In an interview in 1997 for the excellent local PBS program Reel New York (disclosure: I have worked on the past two seasons and it is probably my favorite program we show on Thirteen), Neil Goldberg  explained that the motivation for creating the piece was personal.

The idea came out of a free-association moment where I found myself combing my roommate’s cat and said out loud, “She’s a talker,” and I thought, “Oh God, gay men across the city are probably all doing the same thing.” It was kind of a poignant moment, you know, you’re single and you have a cat, and you can feel a kind of fraught moment of endearing affection, or something. So, it was based on that little epiphany that I decided to set out on the project and I kind of defended the scope of it.

The full interview is here and definitely worth a read when you have time.

Mostly this got me wondering: Are cat gays a phenomenon as popular within our subculture as cat ladies are in staight culture? We already know that there is actual scientific merit that cat ladies are more likely to be crazy, thanks to the New York Times article. So does this mean that there are a bunch of crazy cat gays running around? I was bored last night and looking up information on various porn stars (I do these things, ok?) and ran across an email interview with muscle man Dillon Press who says, “I love the moviemaking and appearances and photo shoots, but only because I know I can go home and just be me. I’m a quiet kind of guy. A nap with my cat puts everything into perspective.”

Am I totally out of the loop here? Have the cat gays been part of the gay zeitgeist all along and I was just blind to it? Are single gay men turning to cats the same way single women do all this time and I just never noticed? Are men all over the world doing this?

Warning: dork-out session ahead. Fellow bloggers and nyerds and Christopher Walken fans, this is for more for you. For the rest of you… please just consider this a tiny lesson in using social media wisely.

Remember how micro-blogging sites, specifically Twitter which limits messages to 140 characters, are always coming under fire for ruining the ways we communicate? Well, we have found our savior to lead us out of this darkness and his name is Christopher Walken. His Twitter account brings the medium to new heights and into the light. Some of the best are posted below, but you can always go to his account and check it out yourself.

You might be wondering, “Christopher Walken? Isn’t he someone that frat bros are fans of when they want to show they have an edgy side to their personalities? Why is he a genius? Why don’t you follow someone with legit alternative cool cred like David Lynch? I bet his twitters will blow your mind.” (I know. You are not wondering any of these things.) Read More!

Science, guys! Real science! We now know that Christianisty is not a choice.

My favorite part is that the science team is called “Pink Tiger”

This is actually really serious, so I’m going to take a break from humor for a second to alert you all to a serious need in the community. A queer landmark is in danger and needs your help. Learn about the S.S. Gay on the Gowanus Canal in the video below.

These sort of landmarks are essential to bridging an understanding with the greater community in New York of more radical identity politics and queer issues and we need to preserve them. While in my opinion the city should be funding this, spaces for radical queer politics just don’t tend to get much support from the Government, even if they might merit historical landmark status, at least in my opinion. Not to mention that the boat looks pretty rad. They’ve really fixed it up. Let’s not lose this. These men and women need your help. This is the S.S. Gay and it wants to recruit you!

There’s a benefit on March 28th at 78 Lafayette. Please attend. It’s a sliding scale donation of anywhere from 5-20 bucks so I am sure all of you can do this. Learn more on the web site to Save The Gay.

So I just moved. It was stressful. But it’s a new era and now I have a place of my own to furnish. However, I am a little worried. I have a feeling I am being haunted by the ghost of three tabby cats. Most likely I am just adjusting to sleeping in a new place. But I prefer to think the former and that kitty ghosts are being bothersome. I told my good friend Amy the story.

Amy:  are you doing anything tonight or just packy packy
unpacky rather
me:  i think just unpacky
btw, having a window
Amy:  RULES RIGHT?
me:  amazing
yeah
Amy:  totes window
me:  i feel so much better in the morning
it’s already making a huge difference for me
Amy:  like, waking up with sunlight
amazay
me:  yeah
oh, did I tell you?
Amy:  i’m glad you love the place!
me:  I think I am being haunted by the spirits of kitties
like, 3 of them
tabbies
no joke
I had the weirdest nightmares about cats jumping on my bed and woke up and was CONVINCED there were three kitties in my place
Amy:  WHAT
me:  and it took me like, 10 minutes to realize that it was a dream
Amy:  haha even your spirit animals are weird
me: of course like, tabbies that paw at a comforter
is what haunts me
Amy: MREAOWWWW (demon cat)
me:  it’s so funny
like, they weren’t even attacking me in the dream
and I was like “how did these cats get in here”
Amy:  like, the most boring horror movie ever
no…the ghosts arsen’t attacking me
they are just kind of bothersome
oh and they are cats
rather than zombies
ZOMBIE CAT

Quick somebody call Zelda Rubenstein!

“This house is clean.”

I think this speaks for itself. This is what happens when you pick up starngers in LA.

[via Everything is Terrible]

It’s St. Paddy’s Day weekend! This is a big deal, at least for me, because I am Irish.

Last year was a little bit of a bust. I made some corned beef, cabbage, potatoes, and carrots as well as served my mother’s award winning soda bread, and only about 3 people could make it.

I’ve have been trying to re-create my family’s tradition of having a yearly Irish feast, and this year it looks like I’ve done it. I can’t tell you the recipe because it’s an ancient Irish secret, but it involves a mustard glaze and braising the meat for a minumum of 4 hours. The cabbage and potatoes and carrots are then boiled in the same water you pre-boil the corned beef in. Meaty! It’s definately a meal worth celebratring.

I just found out good friend Gabe Liedman will be in attendanceand we had a little chat about how this is the sort of meal that will make all the boys fall in love. Our chitty chat after the jump. Read More!

Neither Colin nor I know much about this lady aside from the fact that her name is Patti Stanger, and she is the star of a reality show called Millionaire Matchmaker, now in its second season on Bravo.  So good for her or whatever.  I guess that means she sets up rich dummies with other rich dummies as determined by her producers, who, under the network’s “brand” (as defined by overlord and awesome bi-atch Lauren Zalaznick), make sure to cast Stanger as Cupid for trashbags with deep pockets.

Fine.  Who cares?  As someone who watches a limited amount of TV (30 Rock, Battlestar Galactica, and Wheel of Fortune are eternally burned into my DVR queue, which should speak volumes about my taste) but gets paid to write about it, I should take an objective look at the show.

But I can’t.  Because Stanger, as Colin and I both effortlessly agree, is a monster cunt.

Ummm, Patti?  Let’s talk… Read More!

My good friend Tim Hull sent the greatest news clip my way today. It seems that our recession is pulling New York City back into the eighties and early nineties, back when the West Village was a place for crime, vogue-ing, drag divas, and the fiercest transsexuals, a la Paris is Burning. Can you feel this realness? [via WPIX local news]

Tranny Teens Terrorizing Downtown Girls

WEST VILLAGE (WPIX) — Police say a roving pack of transvestite teens has been targeting females living in a tony West Village building. According to authorities, the trannys would steal the women’s purses and use their stolen credit cards to buy wigs and new clothes.

Two of the teens, Jubril “Dominic” Faggins, 19, and Jhirad “Shanese” Powell, 18 have both been charged with attacking two women at The Archive on Greenwich Street, former home to designer Michael Kors, actress Jennifer Connelly and infamous White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

The first attack happened on the morning of January 29. According to the New York Post Powell told cops, “It was Destiny (another transvestite) that told me to rob the white bitch.”

Court papers say Faggins and Powell followed the woman into the lobby, held her down, punched her and then stole her purse. The two attackers then went on a two-day shopping spree in Brooklyn’s Fulton Mall, charging more than $3500 worth of women’s clothes, jewelry and accessories on her stolen credit card.

Days later, on February 2, the duo returned to the building and attacked another woman.

I’d like to point out that they went to the Fulton Mall. Not SoHo, not Barney’s, not 5th Ave, not Union Square. They went to the Fulton Mall. I hope they did some business at Danice.That store is fierce — great styles at a great price. Werk! I love their choice of apartment building to target as well. You know a place is fabulous when Monica Lewinsky lives there.

However, I’m not sure how GLAAD is going to feel about the use of “tranny” here. I’m pretty sure that’s blatantly defamatory language. Shame on you, WPIX.

Have a good weekend y’all — I gotta go rob some white bitches. I need a new weave.

Did you all know that back in February a woman gave birth to some cheese? I sure hope it was an all natural water birth.

Babies need to be delivered carefully, even delicious cheese babies. Although I have a comment on one doctor’s opinion:

One attending doctor, speaking on the condition that they remain anonymous, remarked that it is not uncommon for some individuals to fake medical conditions in order to gain attention and financial support. Using cheese to fake a pregnancy, however, seems to be unprecedented, even among the mentally ill.

No, good doctor, this is not entirely unprecedented. Technically the use of cheese may be unprecedented, but one other woman in history has gone to such severe lengths.

The only woman to outshine the this fete is Mary Toft, a woman who sent the medical community trying to gain ground in 1726 back into the middle ages. Her story is amazing and you can read it on wikipedia, but basically the woman was overcome with longing for rabbits and began to give bith to them, and the entire village and medical community believed this was possible at the time.

Let’s just hope this cheese incident doesn’t lead to the following sentance in a major publication, “Every creature in town, both men and women, have been to see and feel her: the perpetual emotions, noises and rumblings in her Belly are something prodigious; all the eminent physicians, surgeons and man-midwives in London are there Day and Night to watch her next production.”