• Adam Sullivan for congress
  Adam Sullivan is challenging Rep. Jerrold Nadler in the Democratic primary because Rep. Nadler, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties, refuses to hold hearings on impeachment.
  tags: nyc newyork congress politics impeachment

Yes, the video is two years old, but I still love it. I think that might be Rufus Wainright playing a shoe salesman at one point.

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• Art Signal Magazine
  The latest issue of this bilingual magazine is available as a free PDF download. It includes an article on the Rubell Family collection.
  tags: art magazine pdf english spanish rubell
• cobra museum - just different!
  this exhibition looks great!
  tags: queer art amsterdam
• tom moody » Russert: Iraq War Salesman
  The man was a hack who sucked up to power, not a journalist. One of the reasons I took a Facebook vacation was seeing people I knew marking themselves as "fans" after his death.
  tags: timrussert iraq war
• Water Cooler Games - Parents: Sex is Worse than Severed Heads
  sex or two men kissing is more offensive to parents than a "graphically severed human head"
  tags: videogames violence sex homophobia

1. Listen to David Behrman. [If you're using a feed reader to see this, you may not see the music widget below.]

2. Go see Half of the People Are Stoned and the Other Half Are Waiting for the Next Election in Brooklyn, July 1 at 8pm. The title of the evening comes from the text of Leonard Bernstein's Mass.

Gov. David A. Paterson, who has made advancing gay rights as central to his policymaking, was greeted enthusiastically at the gay pride parade in New York. James Estrin / The New York Times

Today was the first time a serving New York governor marched in the gay pride parade. He has walked in the parade, on and off, since 1976! I would like to think my headline above just made some conservative idiot's head explode.

From the NY Times:

If there was ever any doubt that gay people form one of Gov. David A. Paterson's most loyal and enthusiastic constituencies, that doubt was erased on Sunday by the howl of a drag queen on Fifth Avenue.

The drag queen, standing at the foot of the steps to the New York Public Library dressed in a green Afro wig, a red miniskirt and candy-cane-striped stockings, had the duty of announcing the notables marching down Fifth Avenue in the gay pride march.

She introduced Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn, and the onlookers who had gathered along the parade route politely applauded.

But when she bellowed, "Let's hear it for the governor of New York, David Paterson!" the crowd roared.

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Sunday was not the first time Mr. Paterson marched in a gay pride parade. He said he attended his first parade in 1976 at the urging of a gay friend and had walked in them on and off ever since.

"Back then, we would march in the back," he said. "But then we learned that wasn't cool because you couldn't hear the music in the back. So we moved up." He added that in those early years, he did not generate quite the same amount of attention from the crowd.

Here is an excerpt from a related NY Times story from two weeks ago.

Gov. David A. Paterson's decision to direct state agencies to recognize marriages of same-sex couples elevated his status in the eyes of many gays and lesbians to something of a celebrity.

But Mr. Paterson has unexpectedly discovered that some of the people who are most grateful to him for issuing the order are, in fact, parents with a gay son or a lesbian daughter.

The governor said in an interview last week that he had been approached by several people who expressed their gratitude. "What struck me were the straight people who came up to me," he said. "This has happened four or five times since. They'll say: 'We're so glad you did this. Our daughter is gay or our son is gay.' I found that to be so very touching."

One evening two weeks ago, while he was having dinner with his wife, Michelle Paige Paterson, at a restaurant at 105th Street and Broadway, the governor said, a man and a woman approached him, introduced themselves, and then each hugged him. Their son was gay, they told Mr. Paterson, and they wanted to let the governor know how thankful they were about his policy.

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The one memorable phone call that Mr. Paterson said he received shortly after his order became widely publicized was from the Rev. Al Sharpton, a supporter of civil rights for gay people. Mr. Paterson said Mr. Sharpton called to offer thanks, but also to take a friendly jab at the governor for disclosing that he became comfortable around gay people at a young age because two close Paterson family friends were gay.

"He was calling on behalf of Uncle Stanley and Uncle Ronald, saying I'd be in trouble for outing them," Mr. Paterson said, referring to a gay couple who often took care of him and his brother, Daniel.

Hanna Fushihara Aron, Self Portrait

* For my fellow nerds in the audience, here is the link to my new tech blog I'm using to comment on the technologies I work with.
* Little Cakes is closing for now, and tomorrow (Sunday) is the last day to see them in this location. Brent Burket gives us an excellent tribute on the ArtCal Zine.

Yesterday, I used Dotster to buy a domain name for a new art gallery client. Their name is an Polynesian name shared with a certain beach in the Pacific, and has no hint of a porn connection, as far as I know. This is a screen grab of what Dotster put up as a placeholder page. I recommend pairNIC in the future.

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• Family of faggot fans fly the flag - "A West Midlands family is playing a central role in the quest to raise the profile of a forgotten British dish - faggots. The Doody family from Wolverhampton has been crowned The Faggot Family in a national competition, and to kick off their reign they will launch National Faggot Week." For those not in the know, faggots are a kind of meatball. Via The House Next Door.
• Your moment of Mr. Sparklepants

Bonus photo: one half of Andrew Andrew spotted in the wild:

Found Art (Soho): Unmonumental 58 by Joy Garnett

• New York City has the largest high-tech workforce in the nation.
• Fascinating article by Ben Rosen at Huffington Post about the Metropolitan Opera's financial health and marketing strategies.
• MTV, for the first time in its history, will accept political advertising.

• Art Fag City interviews Nayland Blake. Related: Nayland Blake products at CafePress.com.
• Hrag Vartanian gives us a chart of star architect projects in totalitarian countries.
• And I Am Not Lying brings us photos of a Fight Club in Union Square.