NASCAR has to be the straightest of sports (sports? they drive in a circle for three hours, for Crissakes!). You wonder why it takes so long for basketball an football players to come out? When’s the last time you saw Boy Butter as a sponsor in the Indy 500?

Which is why we got a laugh out of this product tie-in, courtesy of Dale Earnhardt, Jr., one of the princes of NASCAR. Yeah, we realize he means “mo” as in “momentum.” Still, you wonder whether having a gay guy on his pit crew might have given him second thoughts about putting his face next to a long, hard, cream-filled item like this. You go, girl!

I was just at a photo shoot for the Dallas opera’s new production of “Salome,” and who should I bump into but Chris Shull. Chris is a very talented arts writer who used to work in Dallas, but he moved to Wichita some years back. Well, he’s relocated in Dallas again. Chris is straight, but one of the most knowledgeable opera fans there is go figure.

— Arnold Wayne Jones