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Born This Way Blog births a book.

Romney flip-flops on marriage-equality ban TWICE in a DAY.

NYC Mayor Bloomberg "more in sync" with Obama.

Charlie Cook, with insider info, sees it as advantage Obama.

Bill Clinton destroys Romney's budget.

Boxer Orlando Cruz wins first bout since coming out. 

Billy Graham determined to be remembered as an asshole. 

Ohio's #1 paper endorses Obama again; since 1980, every candidate it's endorsed has won Ohio and the presidency.

Abel Korzeniowski accepts World Soundtrack Award for W.

Viennese museum celebrates Naked Men.

Everything old is nude again

Keeping Barack the boss

After the jump, Bruce Springsteen performs in honor of Barack Obama's campaign for re-election, following an intro by Bill Clinton...

Yes, we Cain?

Dean Cain, Jon Cryer among celebs for Romney.

Pornstar Colby Keller, "After Dark".

Rachel Zoe now thinner than a legacy hire's résumé.

Madonna has "pocket-listed" her $28 million-dollar Beverly Hills estate.

Novak Djokovic plants a wet one on his trophy.

Battle of the locker-room show-offs. (Work Unfriendly)

Say it ain't so: Britney Spears has been "emotionally manipulated."

Early voting upheld in Ohio—a must-win state for Romney.

Romney's tax-cut plan makes no sense sez Secretary of Explaining Things:

Turns out that since 1996, whichever candidate's face sold more Halloween masks has been an accurate reflection of which candidate has won the presidency. So far, President Obama is ahead of Mitt Romney with 64%, or 4% better than his ultimate lead over John McCain in this department. That's good news...for John McCain!

Here's Romney's toothsome mask, above. Or if you're trick-or-treating in Latino neighborhoods, try this version:

All the best moments from what might go down as the best speech of Bill Clinton's life last night at the DNC are right here. He was truly stunning—he held America by the hand and walked us through every point in his argument as to why Romney/Ryan are no-good liars and Obama/Biden deserve four more years. And his points were as sharp as the teeth on a wild boar.

Tell me again how the Clintons hate President Obama...

She's dancing on Vince Foster's grave, right?

Remember those cute images of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton dancing and having fun in South Africa? Yeah, Globe (August 27, 2012) thinks it was "dirty dancing. That humiliated Bill Clinton. And that Bill Clinton is dying. And President Obama was married before. This tabloid has really became the go-to rag for right-wingers in recent years.

Newt Gingrich has a lot of balls trying to take the moral high road over the "liberal, elite media" for asking him about the very topical news that his second wife had granted an unflattering interview shedding light on his infidelities and his moral character. If it's in the news, why would it be out of bounds to ask? And how dare he say "How dare you!" on the grounds that the politics of personal destruction are negative and not what voters care about, considering he dragged this country through Bill Clinton's underwear for so long back in the day.

Prove it!

As of midnight last night, it was exactly six years since my first post. It's been a tough thing to keep up with a dayjob and outside activities, and just when I think I might walk away, a valuable connection or interesting opportunity or a kind word comes my way. Thank you all for reading me.

Of whom are you more jealous?

Here are my favorite 100+ posts out of nearly 11,000. Please take some time to read (or re-read!) a couple and tweet or Facebook any you like.

xoxo Matt

The pocket pool championships were intense this year

BOY CULTURE

Boy-crazy

FROM BOY TO MAN: BC B.C. (2007): The entire history of my novell and novel Boy Culture as well as the movie version; might be my ultimate post.

Jonathon Trent & Derek Magyar make an Allan Brocka sandwich

BOY ON FILM (2006): An account of the NYC launch party for Boy Culture as it played the TriBeCa Film Fest.

I was left "Reeling" by the experience

FRIENDS AND "FAMILY" (2006): The movie version of Boy Culture hits Chicago.

No one would've mistaken me for Taylor Lautner

RAPT PUPIL (2006): The final night of Outfest with Boy Culture; I was fat but on the other hand got to meet Bryan Singer.

 

MY ART

 

Construction worker (shot this week) vs. James Dean

GUYDAR (since at least January 17, 2008) & ENDS OF THE WORLD (since at least January 13, 2008): Attractive men of the world—I got your backs. Your fronts, too.

i-i-i (phone)

Not totally built

Unaltered iPhone image that still blows me away

"Your pictures suck" (2008): An art critic attacks me, but not without sustaining some hits in return.

Let's call it a draw

DRAWN TOGETHER (2008): How my desire to draw related to my secret desire. One of my absolute favorite posts.

The shirtless one

LOST ANGELES (2009): My favorite photographic travelogue of L.A.

Even then, New Yorkers feared 9/11 was the beginning of the end

ART IMITATES LIFE (2006): My 9/11 and my distaste for grief tourism.

ME

Death of the party—Jeff in high school, already halfway through his life

BURNING MAN (2007): Tribute to my late high school friend and first romance.

Signed, sealed (eventually) delivered

LOST BOY FOUND (2011): There is a book in here somewhere.

Be Italian

CIAO HOUNDS: OUR TRIP TO ITALY (2011): Finally got José to Europe.

Death becomes here

ILLINOIS DEATH TRIP (2007): Ruminations on death while revisiting a past home, and the past.

Life is short...and meaningful

PASSING BY (2008): Mourning the loss of a person I only met once.

Lots more...

Just in time to combat a rising feeling among Jews that Barack Obama is kinda "meh" on Israel, a clever cover of New York co-opts Bill Clinton's status as the country's first "black" prez, dubbing Obama our first "Jewish" prez.