She’s on everyone’s short list, trust me

How’d I miss this?  Via yesterday’s NYTimes, apparently MSNBC has been reading the tea leaves, or the lesbo newsfan collective unconscious, or the blogs, or hey, maybe their ratings.   Looks like Rachel Maddow just might get that show that everyone keeps saying she oughta have already…
“At some point, I don’t know when, she should have [...]

08 Pride Post #11: *FBIT

*Funny Because it’s True
This sketch is in high rotation on the  BGSS repeats but it never fails to make me guffaw.

And yeah, we’ll be revisiting Ms. McKinnon and Ms. Goldman later, as they are both FDITW contestants.

08 Pride Post #8: Lots to be GLAAD about tonight

Queer? Tired after a long week at work? Stayin’ home on Friday night? Grab the popcorn and margaritas, there’s an awards show on tonight!
The 19th Annual Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) Media Awards ceremonies will be aired at 7p.m. EST on BRAVO (we so own that channel, honey).
And yes, I [...]

Return of the New Package

As some of you may have deduced from the widget on the right, the New Package blog is gearing back up again. Yeah, The Wire is over, but David Simon’s new HBO miniseries, Generation Kill, begins July 13. The seven-week series is based on embedded reporter Evan Wright’s book about the first 40 days [...]

I always suspected Elizabeth Hasselbeck was a terrorist

Michelle does The View. Fist jabs all ’round. I don’t see a flag pin in the bunch. Why does The View hate America?

David Simon is a mensch

Simon’s commencement tribute to Ashley Morris.

The hunter becomes the game

From The Uptake, via Huffpo:
At the National Conference for Media Reform 2008, a producer for FOX’s The O’Reilly Factor, Porter Barry, ambushes PBS’s Bill Moyers and peppers him with questions regarding his political affiliations and his “refusal” to appear on O’Reilly’s show. Moyers disputes FOX’s “facts” for the record and asks to interview someone at [...]

New buttons!

Sometimes you just need some KITH. This brings back memories, not just of watching the show, but of hanging out with people just like this.

I’m just saying…

RIP, Harvey Korman