As part of a recent Fey Friends fact-finding mission to the United Kingdom, *we* discovered that, despite the nation's profound state of mourning over the tragic, untimely loss of its greatest treasure -- JADE GOODY -- many of the Queen's subjects took solace in this tune by the Teenagers. It may be a little old, but it's still totally OFFENSIVE. Read Full Story

I spent the better part of an hour trying to decide between calling the trampy, tattoo-loving tweens in this commercial "nymphets" or "whores." Thanks to Darcy for the tip! Read Full Story

This weekend, Aaron Hicklin, the editor of Out magazine, wrote about the release of its Power 50 list — also known as the outing issue — which will be published this week now online. While Hicklin attempts to feign self-awareness hand-wringing about "stoop[ing]" to outing because it "seemed so 1990s" the justifications he gives for "naming and shaming" are just as weak. One reason he gives for the magazine's policy is that the people on the list are "me... Read Full Story

AKA: STEREOLAB R.I.P.Stereolab--as I've already mentioned my favorite band of all time by like an embarrassingly wide margin--have finally called it quits, at least for the moment. To anyone who's followed their loooong career this is no surprise: their albums have been diminishing in urgency and innovation for years; the music press has gotten bored with and sometimes even overtly hostile about their longevity;* and the once-married songwriting team of Laetitia Sadier and Tim Gane a... Read Full Story

Why is the person with dark features always cast as the sexual predator, and the blond the good guy? Does the bad guy only wear boxers while he's tanning and posing straps when he's robbing? What is the man on the horse being robbed of? Would the robber have waited until someone finally came along? Well? Shall we go? Yes, let's go. [They do not move.] Read Full Story

In the months since I last celebrated Claude Francois--France's onetime cheesebucket cover song king--a ton of amazing CloClo artifacts have been uploaded to YouTube. Sticky dug up this clip of CloClo cancanning and singing about Rio yesterday, but they could as easily have featured his cover of "I'll Be There" or this creepy-kitschy clip of him seducing a four year old girl over the telephone. But the above clip, which is just an alternate version of the clip I already pos... Read Full Story

This is almost perfectly short and sweet, but as Bmad pointed out to me the makers missed a great opportunity for a final bombastic Miss Piggy sound cue at the end, a "Who, moi?!" or a "Kermie?!" or a "Surprise!" It wouldn't even matter what she said. Read Full Story

Wednesday night was the season finale of Important Things with Demetri Martin. The central theme for the episode was "Games." Here's the opening monologue about sports team names: Wizards versus Heat: freaking awesome! Magic versus Jazz: that's a little too gay for me, I'm going to pass on that one. Um... didn't we go over this months ago? When you say, "That’s so gay," do you realize what you say? Knock it off. Also, as someone whose shtick consists of s... Read Full Story

Could this be the new Fey Friends mascot: a pink albino elephant calf that was spotted by Mike Holding, a BBC wildlife cameraman, in the Okavango Delta (northern Botswana)? Here are some reasons why I think it should be considered as the animal to represent not just our low-budget brand, but gays in general: They say an elephant never forgets. As our icon, it'd serve as a very subtle metaphor that would remind us that feyness is more than just a (pink) color. After a string of humilia... Read Full Story

If the following sentence, which appears early in Alan Hollinghurst's novel The Folding Star and describes the protagonist's first encounter at a Flemish gay bar, doesn't give you a shiver of erotic recognition and also a boner, then you are either illiterate or not a gay man:"Sometimes he scratched at his chest with a thumbnail, and the tiny crackle of chest-hairs under the cotton of his polo-shirt filled me with a wondering sense of his whole body, as keen as if he'd be... Read Full Story