Unicorn Booty readers Stephen and Vanessa presented the site with a computer-generated mosaic of Rick Santorum, made entirely out of stills from various gay-porn movies. (Bonus points if you can tell which ones!)
We always said that Slick Rick looked like an ass—we guess it’s actually a lot of asses.
Do you find yourself wondering what the hell “Linsanity” is?
Granted, anyone who opens a newspaper, turns on the TV or surfs the Web has heard about rising NBA star Jeremy Lin. But why should gays care about him?
Don’t worry, we’ll walk you through it.
Herewith, the top five things you need to know about the 23-year-old point guard:
1. Jeremy Lin is the most talked-about player in basketball right now.
He’s consistently made the front page of every New York newspaper—not to mention Sports Illustrated, ESPN.com, and countless sports sections. Not only is he a phenomenal player but he almost wasn’t going to make it off the bench—it wasn’t until a teammate got injured that Lin got his chance at the big time.
This month, Lin was on a seven-game winning streak, only to narrowly lose a matchup with the New Orleans Hornets, 89-85. (The Knicks lost again Monday night, to the New Jersey Nets). Still, Lin’s been scoring between 23 and a career-high 38 points per game.
Although his astounding record speaks for itself, Lin is one of the few Asians in NBA history, and the first Chinese-American player in the league. His devoutly Christian parents emigrated here from Taiwan in the 1970s. Prior to his meteoric rise, Lin crashed on his brother’s couch on the Lower East Side. Now he lives in a fancy apartment at the Trump Tower in White Plains, NY, close to the Knicks’ Westchester training arena.
Most outlets have reported Lin’s ethnicity sensitively but, over the weekend, an ESPN.com reporter was fired after using the headline “Chink in the Armor” to describe Lin’s loss to the Hornets.
The ensuing controversy sent the blogosphere atwitter.
2. He’s an Evangelical Christian but all signs indicate he’s not a homophobe.
Lin graduated from Harvard in May 2010 with a 3.1 GPA and a major in economics. At Harvard, he was a leader in the Asian American Christian Fellowship and has said that he could see himself becoming a pastor later in life—one that heads up charitable nonprofits, though, not some fire-and-brimstone anti-gay preacher. (Successful Ivy League players in the NBA may be rarer than Asian ones: The most recent was Yale’s Chris Dudley in 2003 and the last Harvard player in the NBA was in 1954.)
While Lin has never spoken about homosexuality publicly (and the Knicks have yet to record an “It Gets Better” video), he seems like a generally nice, goofy guy who’s smart enough to not to post some homophobic tweet.
3. He doesn’t really drink or party that much, and definitely doesn’t have a way with women.
It seems like Lin is too focused on his career to canoodle with female folk, although they have been taking a liking to him (see this photo). Sources say the rising star has no serious girlfriend now, but he did have a one in college, with whom things “ended amicably.”
Last week after a victory Lin was spotted at Avenue nightclub, where he nursed one Bud Light all night—even as his teammates enjoyed the six bottles of champagne the club sent over.
He didn’t hit on any babes, either. Earlier in the evening, he celebrated his victory with a quiet dinner with his parents.
4. He’s not gay, but he is cute.
Sadly, Lin is, by all accounts, straight. And we don’t see him becoming a gay icon like David Beckham or Mark Sanchez. Still we’re glad Lin’s reminded gay and straight America alike that Asian men are athletic and sexy, too.
And Gaysian blogger I Am Yellow Peril reports his Adam4Adam account has started blowing up since Linsanity began: “And the result of these monumental shifts in the tectonic plates of global pop culture? I’ll get laid. Progress!”
5. Famous people are obsessed with Jeremy Lin.
Right wingers are jumping onto Lin’s story to shoehorn it into their God-makes-Christians-successful narrative. Tim Tebow praised Lin as a “great role model” and conservative braniac Sarah Palin called him “an American story—uplifting, positive… He unifies our country!”
Linsanity has also struck Mary J. Blige, Paul McCartney, Eva Longoria and Kevin Costner. Kim Kardashian might be spreading rumors the two are dating, Lin swears it’s not true.
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So now you’re an expert on Jeremy Lin. But what do you say if his name comes up in conversation, say at an office party, family reunion or somewhere else you might bump into hetero sports fans?
You could mention how great it is to see an Asian Ivy Leaguer making it big in the NBA.
Full story here: http://www.queerty.com/queertys-gay-guide-to-nba-superstar-jeremy-lin-20120222/#ixzz1n8DAwfxb
February 22, 2012: MediaTakeOut.com has been CONSISTENTLY FIRST when it comes to Rihanna news. We were the FIRST to tell you that she dated Chris Brown. We were the FIRST to tell you when he BEAT HER AZZ. And we were the FIRST to tell you that she was dating baseball player Matt Kemp.
Well now MediaTakeOut.com can CONFIRM (thi is FACT, not rumor) . . . that she’s getting it in with reality star ROBERT KARDASHIAN. MediaTakeOut.com learned that LAST NIGHT, the two were ALL OVER EACH OTHER at the London nightclub, Mahiki.
And that after a HEAVY makeout session . . . the two LEFT THE CLUB TOGETHER . . . alone!!!
Now this could get interesting.
He has enjoyed a trip to the White House, a house in Malibu and jaunts with Hollywood stars.
But now after six years of a life he could only dream of, former California college student Jeremy Lingvall has finally split from his partner, billionaire media mogul David Geffen.
The pair have parted ways because ‘the relationship had simply run its course’, the New York Post reported. I am a big fan of David Geffen who is intelligent, successful, and a great contributor of progressive minded causes. I hope he finds another special man to spend his life with! I don’t think age difference should have anything to do with it, IMHO.
Judge Stephanie Sautner’s zero-tolerance, no-BS attitude saved Lindsay Lohan’s career — at least that’s what the actress is telling friends.
Sources close to Lindsay tell TMZ, LiLo wasn’t a big fan of Sautner in the beginning — but she now realizes that without Sautner laying out a blueprint for success … she never would’ve gotten her act together.
We know … the judge and Lindsay’s lawyer, Shawn Holley, met privately before LiLo was sentenced and decided it was unwise to do what the other judges had ordered — requiring Lindsay to perform hundreds of hours of community service within a year.
The judge and Holley realized Lindsay needed more rigid structure — each month she’d be required to come to court and show she’s completed the latest installment of community service, and if she didn’t she was going directly to jail.
It worked.
What’s more … Lindsay actually gets it and realizes the only reason new opportunities have surfaced — including “Saturday Night Live” and a new Liz Taylor movie — is because producers are watching and think she’s turned it around.
Lindsay is in court today at 10 AM PT. We’re told she performed her latest installment of community service at the morgue and she’ll get another glowing review from Judge Sautner.
Rihanna and Chris Brown have reconciled … at least professionally … because the former couple have collaborated on 2 brand new songs.
It’s only been 3 years since Brown pummeled Rihanna’s face during a late night argument in L.A. … but the singer and her ex-con ex-BF have each released songs featuring the other’s voice. One is a remix of Rihanna’s song, “Birthday Cake” and the other is a new version of Chris Brown’s, “Turn Up the Music.”
Both songs hit the Internet this week … and both Rihanna and Brown have been pushing the songs on Twitter.
The songs seem to prove the rumors … that Rihanna has forgiven Brown and is willing to move on. Earlier this week, Brown tweeted Rihanna “Happy Birthday” … and Rihanna actually responded, “Thanks.”
Rihanna is currently in London (see photo above) … and Chris Brown was most recently seen in Miami.
As we previously reported, Brown is currently in a relationship with a woman named Karrueche Tran … and we’re told the two seem very happy together.
“The reason we’re not rushing to get married is because I don’t feel appropriate taking advantage of a right that’s denied to my best friends. That’s why we’ve been so hesitant. Dax and I have talked about it a lot, and this issue is very important to both of us. We’re just standing up for what we believe in. Period.”
Listen, we’re on your side. I recently tweeted about this embarrassing poster that shows how many states where you can marry your same-sex significant other and how many more states where you can marry your cousin. It’s fucking ridiculous.
It’s not a good day to be Chris Brown. That is, unless he’s happy to see his private messages discussing how R&B songwriter Martyn “fcked the shit outta me” appear across the interwebs. Ouch. Real talk, we’ve never heard of the guy either, but it looks like he’s a pretty legit songwriter.
It looks like one of Martyn’s assistants took screenshots of direct messages between the two fellas, and has shared them for all the world to see. In the messages, Chris Brown admits to fooling around with Martyn, in the same breath that he calls the songwriter a fag. That sort of dichotomy is the exact behavior that we’ve seen from Brown over the past year.
Trey Songz, Omarion, Fergie, Jessie J, and Nicki Minaj all get namechecked along with Good Morning America and FOX over the course of the lovers quarrel on Twitter.
Take a peak at the screenshots and decide for yourself if they are legit. It certainly reminds us of the Chris Brown that we’ve grown accustomed to. Oh, and there’s also the matter of Martyn confirming the affair to be true.
We normally wouldn’t play out-the-celeb, but Brown’s history of homophobic snafus makes this fair game as far as we’re concerned.
What the hell, The CW? Six episodes back after a two month mid-season break and now The Vampire Diaries is taking another month off?
OK, let’s see if we can’t make this last episode count. We pick up the morning after the Mikaelson Family Ball. Elena wakes up and places a call to Stefan, who’s busy writing in his Vampire Diary. He sends her to voice mail so she calls Damon. It’s more of their usual angsty just-bang-already back and forth but at least Damon gives us a nice armpit flash. So that’s something.
Half-naked Damon escorts Rebekah, whose dress is in remarkable shape for having been ripped off her last episode, to the door only to find Elena on the porch. This leads to Elena wondering if Rebekah compelled him into bed. It also leads to round 137 of angsty back and forth, which culminates in Damon’s laughable claim that something he did is for once not about Elena. You keep telling yourself that, Damon.
Elena fills Damon in on the spell Mama cast to link all of her children together. Damon’s all for it but Elena believes Elijah doesn’t deserve to die with the rest of the Originals. Damon disagrees as does Stefan when he enters the room and the conversation. Elena’s all, omigod, you guys are so mean you guys! and flounces out.
Over at the site of the Ball which some fansites are calling “The Original Mansion” and which may or may not be Klaus’s fixer-upper, Elijah notices Mama’s half-burned sage as Rebekah Walk of Shames in. Cole, whose name is apparently spelled Kol, and why not? rags her and hopes she traded up from Matt. Delightful banter ensues and Kol prevails upon Klaus to go out for drinks. Rebekah’s happy to see them leave, since “this house has enough men rolling around in it!” Kol: “Just like you, Bekah!” Damn Kol, you bitch!
After they’re gone, Elijah shows Rebekah the burnt sage, wondering why Mama would be casting privacy spells. Beks suggests he ask Finn but Elijah exposits that he doesn’t trust Finn because he’s always hated being a vampire. Rebekah’s not hearing a word against Mama.
Speaking of privacy spells, Bonnie’s trying to figure out how to cast one in Elena’s room while Elena angst again some more about Damon. Caroline pops her head in to let them know she can hear every word they’re saying about “Damon the Vampire Gigolo”. I smell a spin-off! Someone call Showtime!
Bonnie exposits that Mama came to visit her and Abby that morning. Mama’s leeching the entire Bennett bloodline, living and dead, so she thought it was only polite to say hey. Elena wonders if there’s some way to block Mama’s leeching. Elena’s feeling guilty about letting Elijah die. Caroline pops back in to point out that it’s Mama and not Elena who’ll be offing Elijah and Bonnie notes that the killing ritual will be under tonight’s full moon so there’s no time to do anything anyway.
Damon offers Stefan a drink back at Chez Salvatore; Stefan declines. They jibber jabber about Elena again and nothing really comes of it.
Elijah drops by the Gilbert place and invites Elena to take a walk through the old neighborhood, which is all woods now. After a little nostalgic waxing about Indian villages and plot-convenient underground cavern system, Elijah busts Elena for lying to him about Mama’s intentions. She tries to lie again but his vampionic hearing functions like a lie detector. Elena spills about the linking spell and the killing ritual. Elijah stamps his foot and breaks through the ceiling of the aforementioned underground cavern, snatches up Elena and jumps down.
Damon calls Alaric looking for Elena; surprise of surprises, Alaric is imbibing at the Grill. They spat for a minute then Alaric returns to his date, the awful Meredith Fell. It’s a working liquid lunch as she explains that based on his injuries there’s no way to tell who stabbed him. She suggests that a vampire is the obvious conclusion; I beg to differ. As does Klaus, who pops up at the bar next to them with Kol in tow.
Bonnie and Abby walk through the woods to the burned out witch house (BOWH) and Abby ponders how Grams would react to this situation. Not well, I would imagine, and Bonnie agrees with me. They meet Mama and Finn at the BOWH. Mama exposits that they are descendants of Ayanna, Mama’s witch mentor, and the Bennett bloodline sustains her power. She thanks them for their role in the upcoming killing ritual.
Elena waves her phone around in the cavern but has no bars. She starts to look for an exit and runs smack into Rebekah, acting as her jailer. Rebekah shoots some video of Elena on her phone “to inspire your boyfriends” so I guess vampires get better cell service. Elena tries to reason with Rebekah which works about as well as you’d expect.
As the Salvatores arrive home they find Elijah waiting for them. He advises them of Elena’s latest predicament and that she will be killed if the Bennett bloodline is not severed before the killing ritual. Some time later Stefan contemplates a blood bag; Damon wanders in to see about putting together a plan. Stefan suggests contacting Bonnie to see about cutting Mama off. Damon prefers the simple route of killing one or the other of the Bennetts, but decides to go with Plan B, daggering somebody.
Alaric confirms that Klaus and Kol are still at the Grill and Damon sends in Caroline to peel Klaus away. She lures him outside and Klaus douses her with gallons of charm.
While that’s going on, Mama and the Bennetts are preparing the killing ritual outside the BOWH. Although technically she won’t be killing them with magic; she’ll be turning them back into humans. Once human, Finn will sacrifice himself and through the linkage all the Originals will die.
Back at the Grill Kol hits on Meredith (it’s OK, Kol, it’s 2011, you can stop pretending!) which affords Alaric the opportunity to slip him a long hard one. Dagger, that is. Kol desiccates. As does Rebekah at the cavern, allowing Elena to make a break for it. As does Finn at the BOWH. Interestingly, we do not see Elijah desiccate. Klaus senses something’s wrong and somehow zeroes in on Kol.
Alaric is hauling Kol out the back of the Grill to deliver him to the Salvatores when Klaus attacks, slamming Ric against a wall, and removes the dagger. Klaus and Damon puff their chests at each other for a bit before Klaus moves in for the kill. Elijah appears atop a wall and calls Klaus off since they still need him to handle the witches. He orders that either Damon lead them to the Bennetts or he’ll let Rebekah go to town on Elena early.
Down in the caverns Rebekah revives and tears off after Elena. She snags her but Elena executes a flawless reverse headbutt and makes it into the safety of the Owl Cave, where vampires cannot enter.
Meredith ministers to Alaric back at her place, suspecting he may have a concussion and a broken rib. Good thing you didn’t take him to the hospital then, Doctor.
The Salvatores arrive in the vicinity of the BOWH and flip a coin to see which one will break the Bennett bloodline.
Elena explores the Owl Cave a bit until Rebekah returns with a gas can. She splashes Elena and the Owl Cave floor with gas and starts tossing in matches. Elena, she says, can come out or stay there and burn. Elena tries out some psychology on Rebekah, suggesting that she won’t kill her now because if she does there won’t be any more revenge to be had.
All of the other Originals converge on the BOWH but can’t enter the pentagram laid out for the ritual. Why Bonnie and Abby aren’t inside the pentagram is a complete mystery. Mama tells then that whatever they say, she’s going through with the killing ritual.
Bonnie and Abby are inside the BOWH instead of the protective circle. They get separated and Stefan confronts Bonnie. He explains that the only way to stop Mama is if one of the two living Bennetts is no longer a witch. The scene shifts to Damon, who snaps Abby’s neck. I’m assuming that the witch spirits can inflict mystical migraines because Mama is channeling them, although that would imply that all of the witches who died in the BOWH are Bennett ancestors which doesn’t make a lot of sense.
Outside Mama screams “Sisters! Do not abandon me!” Too late. The torches around the perimeter of the circle flare out of control, then extinguish. Mama and Finn are gone.
In tonight’s denouement:
Rebekah tells Elena she’s free to leave the Owl Cave because Abby’s been turned into a vampire. You can’t be a vampire and a witch at the same time.
Elena wants to see Bonnie but Caroline tells her Bonnie doesn’t want to see her while Abby is transitioning. Caroline also claims that Bonnie is always the one who gets hurt, but I wager there’s been more than enough hurt to go around.
Stefan exposits that he lost the coin toss and should have turned Abby. Damon says he took on the task because he knows Stefan is trying to get back to being the Stefan he used to be. Stefan denies it but Damon cites as Exhibit A the fact that Stefan hasn’t had human blood since the night he threatened to drive Elena off the bridge. And they both still love Elena, as if we didn’t know.
Elena finds a note from Elijah on her bed, telling her he did things he found abhorrent to protect his family. He asks her to carry her compassion with her as he will carry his regret.
Said regret manifesting itself in a conversation with Rebekah back at Klaus’s fixer-upper. Mama made them vampires, he says, but they made themselves monsters.
Elsewhere in the fixer-upper, Klaus is burning his drawings of Caroline. Rebekah enters to his surprise. Kol, Finn and Mama are gone and Elijah’s leaving. Rebekah shows him the video she shot in the Owl Cave. It shows markings indicating a Native American worshipping at a White Oak tree. Some 300 years after the Originals returned to Europe a new White Oak tree grew.
And finally, Alaric, who you’ll remember may be suffering a concussion, awakens at the home of Meredith who despite being a medical doctor allowed the guy who might have a concussion to fall asleep. He grabs some aspirin and does some snooping, finding police reports and a knife. He looks up to see Meredith with a gun. “You weren’t supposed to see that,” she says, and fires.
So, yeah, that’s it for a month. See you guys when The Vampire Diaries returns on March 15.
The Daily Telegraph reports that Anne Lomax, 53, had been playing the late star’s records and lit a candle in tribute, but this then caused her Manchester house to catch fire after she’d gone to sleep.
Mrs Lomax was woken up her smoke alarm at 2.30am and escaped unharmed, but her living room was destroyed after the fire, which started when her curtains were set alight and spread to her electrical household items.
“I had been sitting at the computer playing some music and saying a prayer for Whitney Houston,” she said. “I was a big fan and I was just devastated when she died so I thought I’d light a candle.”
She added: I thought I had blown it out when I went up to bed but the next thing I knew the smoke alarms were going off.
