thegayrecluse commented on A Blogger's Introduction to Reporting

"Umm, here's a tip for the next time you cover uptown: you should really start referring to neighborhoods as 'Washington Heights' or 'Harlem' (or Inwood) and not 'the far reaches of the UWS' or 'sketchy nabes' which -- let's be honest -- sounds sheltered at best and racist at worst and perpetuates the worst of the Columbia/NYT fuck-the-poors uptown tradition."

thegayrecluse commented on Does the Implication of Incest Ruin It for You?

"(Symbolic) incest has been around in mythology for thousands of years -- e.g., eddic mythology like you see in Wagner's Ring Cycle (totally incestuous) -- while the real thing was obv strictly verboten in practice."

thegayrecluse commented on We Need More Gay Actors, So We Can Stop Asking about Gross Kissing Scenes

"@BookishLatkeish: Indeed -- bravo!"

thegayrecluse commented on Caitlin Flanagan Says To Hell With The 'New Yorker'

"OMG two years later and she just wrote the worst op-ed ever in the NYT: [www.nytimes.com] Can't she be sent to Mars or something?"

thegayrecluse commented on Tis Nobler To Watch It

"S&E was so great -- I think about the "youthquake" scene at least once a week."

thegayrecluse commented on New York City Wins Today's Prop 8 Protests

"@Triborough: There's also no reason why a federal bill -- most likely replacing marriage with civil union for all -- could not be proposed (and passed) in the near future, which if passed would obviate the need for state-by-state legislation."

thegayrecluse commented on How A Relative Unknown Scored Amazon's Book of the Year

"More proof that in some respects, the UK is light years ahead of the US, where "gay" and "literary" have tended to cancel each other out for the past ____ decades."

thegayrecluse commented on Maureen Dowd Seizes Opportunity to Talk to Black People For the First Time

"I'm going to go out on a limb and predict that four years from now not a single member of the NYT op-ed team will be writing, at least in the current forum (whether this is because The Times brings in new "talent" - Bono!?"

thegayrecluse commented on Williamsburg Hipsters Had It Coming in Clash with Cops

"I hope that guy getting arrested is the asshole who ripped the side mirror off of my car (on the sidewalk side) the other night when I went to see a band in Williamsburg for the first time in like five years."