http://www.pen15club.net The ballsiest blog on the web. Are you a member? Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:24:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sex and the City has now been in theaters for almost 48 hours, and gay guys are supposed to be part of the target audience, so I feel this requires some acknowledgement. I have almost no active memories of sitting down and watching the show during its 1998-2004 run, but ... http://www.pen15club.net/2008/05/31/parker-i-dont-even-like-her/ I've spent the last four days referring to myself as the Gay Marriage Fairy. Despite the obvious pun (I'm totally not married. Get it?), the name is accurate because I'm pretty sure that I'm the only person (ever) to have lived in both Massachusetts and California for their respective gay marriageifications. And in ... http://www.pen15club.net/2008/05/19/coming-second/ Television actor Luke MacFarlane spoke openly about his homosexuality for the first time in an interview with the Globe and Mail. I, for one, am shocked. This is Luke's first public admission that he's gay? Is it because he's not famous enough to have been interviewed before? This is an actor whose ... http://www.pen15club.net/2008/04/15/wait-we-werent-supposed-to-know-luke-macfarlane-is-gay/ Yesterday, we learned the shocking news that big bad Harvey Weinstein has wrestled Project Runway from the limp-wristed clutches of Bravo and stowed it between the dimply, cankled hocks of Lifetime: Television for Women. Although the cash-strapped Weinstein may have pocketed a few ducats out of the deal ... http://www.pen15club.net/2008/04/08/television-for-fierce-hot-tranny-messes/ We've always been pretty nice to T.R. Knight. We defended him in the Great Isaiah Washington War, wept for him when Luke McFarlane went bounding into the arms of Wentworth Miller, and didn't make a peep during his pink hair phase. But now it's gone too far. When T.R., who recently ... http://www.pen15club.net/2008/03/31/a-note-on-knight/ Barack Obama severs ties with his nutty ex-pastor by talking for, like, a really long time about his church. Like, a really long time. And this PEN15er takes comfort in the knowledge that when Hillary Clinton shows up at Senate prayer breakfasts, it's for purely cynical, political purposes. [You Tube] John ... http://www.pen15club.net/2008/03/18/pen15-drippings-31808/ We've been retching at the identical twin concepts of Lipstick Jungle and Cashmere Mafia ever since they were announced as upcoming midseason replacements last fall. Months later, both shows appear to be on the brink of cancellation. Yet with the networks' post-strike intention to spend less money developing new shows ... http://www.pen15club.net/2008/03/03/lycra-spandex-county-and-other-direct-to-series-network-projects/ Like every other blog, website, magazine and newspaper on earth right about now, it's time to unleash the PEN15 Club Oscar predictions and preferences, while indulging in the time-honored tradition of whining about who wasn't nominated. "Snub," we cry. "Snub!" Why should you read these? Because I'm not insulting your intelligence ... http://www.pen15club.net/2008/02/21/pen15-predicktions/ I have seen the face of Satan, and her name is Patti Stanger, Bravo's so-called Millionaire Matchmaker. If you don't know what I'm talking about, Patti's show is the one that Bravo's been running ads for exhaustively over the last couple of months. In them, Patti, who has a face like ... http://www.pen15club.net/2008/02/19/blows-and-eros/ I'm Jordan, and I endorse Barack Obama as the Democratic candidate for the United States of America.As a member of the last generation of Americans who realizes that there hasn't yet been a black President, I'm excited by the prospect of Obama being the first. He's even much more handsome ... http://www.pen15club.net/2008/02/04/jordan-rides-the-obama-train/ The cool kids want you to feel guilty about supporting Clinton (I’ll call her Hillary when you start referring to McCain as “John”), but I challenge anyone to sell me on Barack Obama without using the words “hope,” “change,” “unity,” “Kennedy” or “poetry.” Or without dusting off the old “She ... http://www.pen15club.net/2008/02/04/while-rob-still-likes-it-clinton-style/ So normally at this point in the end of January I'd have written, like, six posts about the Oscar nominations, kvetching about everything from the complete and utter shafting of my favorite 2007 movie (Zodiac) to the deafening homoerotic undercurrent of almost all of the Supporting Actor nominees (look closely, ... http://www.pen15club.net/2008/01/27/hes-not-here/ When it comes to hating Matthew McConaughey, we've never been prone to mincing words. So it was with customary horror that we accepted today's news that M Squared is becoming a daddy. And, you know, acknowledging it. And ruining the future of a perfectly nice-looking 24-year-old model in the process. There are ... http://www.pen15club.net/2008/01/16/how-to-destroy-your-modeling-career-in-9-months/ No, the title of this post does not refer to the charges in Michelle Rodriguez's latest arrest. It's my reaction to foolishly watching the first 10 minutes of NBC's misbegotten Golden Globes-but-not-really telecast, in which Access Hollywood-amatons Billy Bush and Nancy Odell announced the winners in each category. If the ... http://www.pen15club.net/2008/01/13/overdosing-on-bush/ I'll be honest. The news that the striking Writers' Guild is officially going to picket the Golden Globes, thereby scaring away all the nominees and presenters, is really bumming me out. Obviously it makes sense within the context of the strike (although WGA members are allowed to work on Letterman and ... http://www.pen15club.net/2008/01/03/global-cooling/ Although our site has a penis pun in its name, in 2007 it became increasingly impossible even for us to deny the vast, all-consuming power of the vagina. The steadily escalating trend of starlet pussy slips in past years seemed to lay the groundwork for an unprecented vag-splosion of gynocentricity ... http://www.pen15club.net/2007/12/30/2007-vagenius-grants/ Every so often, an actor whom you'd written off as a generic pretty boy surprises you with hidden reserves of talent. Usually, this happens through a series of rigorous performances in gritty independent dramas (see Heath Ledger and Joseph Gordon-Levitt). James Marsden has gone about it another way, by turning out ... http://www.pen15club.net/2007/12/05/mvpen15-james-marsden/ The Spice Girls are officially back on tour, thereby implementing Phase 3 of succubus Victoria Beckham's plan for wall-to-wall saturation of all major (sorry, may-juh!) forms of media. And the amount of attention this reunion has received - to say nothing of substantial ticket sales - leads me to revisit ... http://www.pen15club.net/2007/12/03/suckers-and-spice/ The Writers Guild of America has been on strike all of three days, and already I can't remember the last time I spent so much time poring over coverage of a situation in which no progress is being made (well, besides the War on Terror). Here's a quick highlight reel: 1.) ... http://www.pen15club.net/2007/11/07/picket-i-dont-even-like-it/ A British study has reported that more than 1/3 of American football players admitted to having sexual relations with other men. Of course, since the research was British, it's hard to know if they're surprised at how many or how few yank footballers are rogering each other in the ... http://www.pen15club.net/2007/10/30/brits-out-us-footballers/