Monday Irritations

Yes, Mondays are designed to annoy but this is ridiculous...

It has nothing to do with you, but I'm going to ask anyway.
Out Magazine's Dustin Fitzharris wonders aloud to Reba if there is a place in country music for an openly gay star. Hmmm... maybe that was a question he should have asked k.d. lang twenty years ago.
On the irritation scale: (4 groans out of 5) A little research goes a long way.

Life on the outside is going to be a hard adjustment.
I have been a big fan for years of Mugshot Mondays on the Famous Like Me blog. But the site is devoid of mugshots today... or anything for that matter. Looks like the site is abandoned and the name is available once again from blogspot.com. Now where will we go for sexy parole violators and studs who drive under the influence?
On the sadness scale: (5 sobs out of 5) I loved that site so much it's criminal!

Douthat thing you do that I love so much.
I don't know Ross Douthat but I would like to buy him one of those $5 snack boxes on my next coach flight to Anywhere USA. In this morning's NY Times opinion section, Ross clearly lays out that the stagnation problem in Washington DC is not Obama but Reid and Pelosi in Congress. I agree!!! You would think the two were operating in the minority or the barest sliver of a majority with the way they talk and act instead of presiding over the largest majorities in both houses in more than a generation. Don't worry, Nance and Harry. If this keeps up, the job you have will be downsized in 2010 to the job you've been acting like you have.
On the outrage scale: (8 out of 5) Replace Reid with a liberal nut, Pelosi with a fembot.

It's chapter 11, only smaller!
It should come as no surprise that things aren't going well in the publishing world. Hey, when even the Famous Like Me blog can't hold on, what change do ancient magazines have? In words short but none too sweet: Reader's Digest has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. I guess when the median age of your subscribers is cadaver, these things are bound to happen. What will Reader's Digest reorganize into? May I suggest some kind of green energy business? Magazine, recycle thy self.
On the surprise scale (0 out of 5) That's Life! And McCall. And Collier's...

I don't want to see me in a bathing suit either, but...
You probably aren't as irritated as I am but in this case it is my own dumb fault. Guess who will be in a bathing suit surrounded by hot people in bathing suits this weekend in Ft. Lauderdale? Me! At the Rentboy.com pool party at the Coconut Cove Guest House. It's all for a good cause (raising money for hot bartender Travis who has a not hot case of the cancers), so join me there in the south Florida sun!
On the humiliation scale: (1 out of 5) In a bathing suit? Bah! It's for charity!