I officially love Newsweek. Clay Aiken thinks it’s totally respectable to discuss women throwing their panties at him. But ask him about his fist on Kelly Ripa’s mouth, and suddenly Newsweek’s reputation is at stake. Here’s Newsweek’s fabulous online interview with Gayken. Daniel A. Kusner 
Last year, Bryan Amann bought a new Pentax istDL. And it seems he’s been putting it to good use — photographing Dallas architecture. He’s got a new photo blog, DallasSights, where he’s even posting images that he shot decades ago, like a 1980 snap of P.C. Cobb Stadium, which used to be near I-35 at Oak Lawn Avenue.
There are seven chapters, including one on Dallas’ Tallest Buildings. I like #18, above, a shot of the Mercantile Tower.
— Daniel A. Kusner*
* In the interest of full disclosure, Amann and I live together.
The Datalounge queens are helping a poster decide which city to move to: Windy City or Big D.Here are some of their comments:
I lived in Dallas for many years, and my brother lived in Chicago for many years (so I was there often). Texans are *much* friendlier on just about every level, with the exception of the uppity lip gloss and Prada queens.
Dallas - for the boys. OMFG the boys there.
Heres a vote for Dallas. I go to both places for work and I think the people are friendlier (much) in Dallas. The gay community in Dallas is pretty well integrated now and the service industry is so much better than what you find on the coasts. Warning, though, dont live in the suburbs. It will be hell. Find a cool place to live in Uptown, Lakewood, or North Oak Cliff.
Move to Chicago - I lived in Dallas for six years. It has a little culture. It beats living in Lubbock or Tulsa maybe, but it doesnt come close to Chicago. If you can handle a northern interior winter, then definitely move to Chicago.
ON SHOPPING: Until the 1980s Marshall Fields had a far better reputation than Nieman Marcus, which was famous mostly for its bad taste in gaudy jewelry and other novelties for the ignorant hicks with money in Texas. Marshall Fields had the largest rare stamp, book, and coin departments in the world, and catered to the carriage trade in many ways.
But then it became just another chain, while Needless Markup benefited from the oil boom of the 1980s, when Texans lived like kings off the savings of the people in the northeast. Then when oil went bust, the Texans threw up their hands and made the taxpayers of the midwest and northeast bail out their failed businesses and banks.
But even after all that Nieman Marcus in downtown Dallas has shrunk to a tiny size. I wouldnt even call it a department store, its more a specialty retailer.
Erotic star Stonie has morphed into Brittnay Coxxx. For reals. And shes got the new boobs to prove it.
According to her agent, David Forest, Coxxx lives in Fort Lauderdale and began her transformation about a year ago. Forest hopes to help Coxxx get work in the straight biz.
Some of us will miss Stonie. He sure knew what he was doing when he plowed Ceasar in Ceasars Hard Hat Gang Bang.?
And what his dad will think?
In 2006, a photo of Stonie was used in the movie Borat.? Producers needed an over-endowed male to play Borats son. They discovered Stonie a performer of legal age who could do full-frontal nudity and still pass for 13 or 14. Stonie fit the bill: a small-framed dude with a large organ (reportedly 8 inches).
Coxxx has apparently kept her downstairs plumbing intact.
Earlier this week, Chris “Leave Britney Alone” Crocker unleashed his latest, a cover of Britney Spears’ “Piece of Me.” It’s an instant classic Crocker even overdubs some of the vocals. (Probably NSFW).
