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Casting Call: Eight athletic men needed for DVD promotion. You must be fit, dark, sullen and willing to wear a pleather Roman Centurion outfit (including helmet!) outside Grand Central Terminal (in the rain, during rush hour) while carrying a litter of Rome: The Complete First Season box sets, as hundreds of thousands of commuters mock you. If passing homosexual bloggers …

Lots of attention is being paid to Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh’s claim in The New Yorker that the United States engineered the Israeli attack of Lebanon in order to ensure that Hezbollah forces would not be able to attack Israel once the U.S. bombing of Iran begins. Hersh has a track record of exposing U.S. misdeeds, going back …

I took this picture from the Empire State Building back in the early spring.

George Bush on the Lebanon ceasefire: “We can only imagine how much more dangerous this conflict would be if Iran had the nuclear weapon it seeks.” Hey kids, why fail at two simultaneous wars when you can fail at THREE? Buy two disasters, get one free! Every third body bag is on the house! Hey, got any spare teenage males …

I love Johnny Depp, I really do. Edward Scissorhands? Brilliant. But I’m just having trouble wrapping my head around the phenomenal success that Pirates Of The Caribbean 2: Dead Man’s Chest is having. To date, the film has grossed $855 million worldwide, and the thing is still going strong. Next week it will pass Finding Nemo to become the highest …

My buddy Stephen, the former NY’er also known as blogger Kitchenbeard, was in town this weekend to officiate at his brother’s wedding, as Stephen is a bona-fide internet authorized minister. It appears that San Francisco is treating him well. That’s Stephen on the right of the three men standing in the middle of the picture, on the Christopher Street Pier …

From a poster in the 68th Street subway station under Hunter College: “Last year 1 out of 12 high school students was assaulted by a fellow student.” A short graffiti war follows: Snarky 1: That should be “were assaulted”. Snarky 2: No, “one….was” IS correct! Snarky 3: Y’all is funny! Snarky 4: Y’all ARE funny. Snarky 5: Dumb bitches. It’s …

The Transportation Safety Authority has removed lipstick from the list of items banned from carry-on baggage. And the drag queens of America rest a little bit easier.

“I don’t believe there is any expectation of privacy as it relates to going to a club.” – openly gay New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, commenting on the privacy concerns of gay activists regarding her proposed rules that would require NYC nightclubs to videotape and electronically record the IDs of patrons. Christopher Dunn, of the New York Civil …

Vasco snapped this for me yesterday from the Christopher Street Pier. The NYC Water Taxi makes stops all along the lower half of Manhattan and has special service from the South Street Seaport to Shea Stadium on game days. You can get a “hop-on/hop-off ” pass for $15 on weekends, which allows two days of unlimited use.