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Patty and I are both swamped. And next week she goes home to visit her family for about ten days. My kingdom for some uninterrupted us time, because she's awesome. Hey, at least England is coming up soon, and in the face of lots of work, we're actually being pretty good about staying sane and making time for each other. Oh spring.

Since I'm all about death things lately: A funeral is being held for IE6.

Controversy over POM Wonderful's assertion that drinking the stuff will give you more erections.

Hey, you thought the whole mess with New York State politics wasn't epic enough? Here's a random sidenote: Choking isn't even a felony here making it easier to minimize the domestic violence case at the current center of this mess.

DC Nightlife. Look, I lived there in the early 90s and couldn't understand why clubs let everyone in. I came from NYC. It confused me. Didn't you have to be good enough to get chosen?

An argument for taking gender out of the Oscars. For the record, I use the word "actor" for myself not because of gender queerness, but because I don't believe we need the word "actress" -- the article even notes (yay!) how the word is falling out of favor.

A Canadian politician says he didn't order chunks of information on LGBTQ rights deleted from a citizenship study guide, but the fact remains, if he didn't, someone else did.

Surprise, surprise. Anti-gay California politician arrested on DUI charges after leaving a gay bar with another man. Fuck you.

Gay marriage is now legal in DC. And you know what I'm noticing the most about the coverage? Acknowledgment of LGBTQ people of color of which there is waaaaaay too little of in general both from within the LGBTQ community and in the mainstream media.

Republican memo advises playing on "fear" of Obama.

Bigots: weirder than I thought. reannon links us to the AFA's post about how the killer whale that killed should be stoned to death.

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I grew up in Miami where only the REALLY beautiful are allowed into the upper echelon of clubs (think Mansion, Space, etc.) but even that is beginning to be relaxed. In a time where everybody needs to make money and fewer people are willing to spend it, I've definitely found club rules have relaxed. We went to DC a few months ago specifically for a club event, and frankly, I was shocked by the fact that there is a bigger electronic music scene there than in Boston (and that I had to drive like 6+ hours to be able to dance to any big name DJ).