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The MO Interview - Xavier, the songster

Number thirty-five in a series.

1. What's your secret to staying so beautiful?
   Eugenics. 
2. Is it true what the tabloids are saying about your relationship?
   My lawyer has advised me to not comment at this time.
3. This new project of yours is certainly taking everyone by surprise. Tell us about it.
   Well, I'm working on new tunes towards a proper album with some really talented people. The Valentine's Day tune I put out was just a taste of what's to come. I'm pretty excited about how things are shaping up.
4. Who are you wearing?
   "It Rubs The Lotion On Its Skin".  It's very Comme des Garçons meets Silence of the Lambs.
5. Would you ever do a role that required nudity?
   Where did that question come from? Are you coming on to me? Why did the lights just dim?

Learn more about Xavier and hear his music and buy his album or just stare at his prettiness, all at his website.

Photo by Marc Baptiste.

Vacation

Taking some time
in a land where
broadcasting oneself
is unseemly.

I have a house-sitter
so Sybil will
be cared for
and entertained.

This note
is to quell
rumors of my death.
And cat-burglars.

EXCLUSIVE - The secret of Kenley Collins' boyfriend

By now, you've heard that former Project Runway contestant Kenley Collins was charged with assault after hurling a laptop, two apples and a cat in the direction of boyfriend Zak Penley.  Having been on the "teevee", most folks know much of the edited version of Collins as presented by Heidi Klum and her minions.  Having gone on from Project Runway, Collins has apparently created little press since.

As for Penley, there is a piece of information that is important to the case.  According to an exclusive source with whom I've met and slept, a friend of a former roommate of the boyfriend of the young designer:  "Kenley was cool.  Zak was kind of a pussy."

My new favorite grafitti tag

The MO Interview - Desi, the artist

Number thirty-four in a series.

1. What's your secret to staying so beautiful?
   Covering it up with hair. 
2. Is it true what the tabloids are saying about your relationship?
   Yes.  I make him eat it.
3. This new project of yours is certainly taking everyone by surprise. Tell us about it.
   Escandalo is my haunted house disco project with partner in crime Viva. We just launched our track and music video is up on YouTube.
4. Who are you wearing?
   I'm wearing Desi Monster designed by my mommy monster.
5. Would you ever do a role that required nudity?
   Again?

Check out Escandalo's video and listen to remixes for La Bruja.  You can see Desi in the Monster-y flesh at (admittedly my favorite club night) Vandam, Sundays at Greenhouse.

Photo:  Nicolas Wagner

Radar aborted my gaybies

The piece I had written for Radar back in September about "gaybies"?  It no longer exists!

As such, it's repeated here (post-jump) just to archive its existence.  (Actually, this is as it was originally written.  There was some editing done that sort of changed my 'voice' a bit, though not in a bad way, just more "Radar", less "Rod".)  

A side note:  Less than a month after "Children of Men" posted, Aiken came out of the closet in the way that millions do - on a People magazine cover.

Press red button to activate mouth-based WiFi.

Finally, wifi on the subway.

The magazine rack of my barber shop exceeds the magazine rack at your barber shop.

So, yeah, CNBC is filled with douchetastic blowhards and bravo to Jon Stewart for talking about the lack of journalism at that "financial news" network, but what about Jon Stewart's brother Larry?

Jon Stewart, of whom I whole-heartedly approve, has some family connections to this Fabulous Depression (not to be confused by that middling Great one).  His brother, Larry Leibowitz (not as cute and kept the family name), is a bigwig at the New York Stock Exchange.  Further?  Said brother testified to Congress against SEC regulation in 2004.

FULL DISCLOSURE and Rod Trivia 1:  I temped for two weeks at NYSE in the 1990's in the regulatory affairs department!

FULL DISCLOSURE and Rod Trivia 2:  I'm an only child, so whether you're supposed to disclose your family connections to a story you are "fake news" covering or not is beyond me.

Via:  Jon Stewart’s Wall Street Corner Man for Tonight’s Cramer Battle