Madonna and Lola beachin' it. Where've I seen that bikini bod before? Oh, yeah:

I think Us (August 15, 2011) has Lourdes Leon's first-ever fashion showdown...and she wins!

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With thanks to Jesse: What appears to be a really fake post on W.E. meant to lampoon the press's ferosh reporting on the film's "bad" (it was anything but!) first test screening. Funny to read, though!

Yeah, so Star (August 8, 2011) is so superconcerned that Kelly Osbourne is a potentially bad influence on Madonna's Lola...but where were they when Taylor Momsen was the face of Material Girl???

Something about his delivery makes a premise that could be mean rather harmless. I don't find it as hysterical as others seem to, but it's fun enough. Dolly was inspired. Babs was a little meh...

Joe Jonas now makes fun of his teenage angst over his woolies

I fucking love eyebrows. Big ones. I don't like George Whipple feelers, but I like a remarkably strong brow on a man or even on a woman. I think it's sexy and striking. People with hot eyebrows are total cocktweezers.

Lola looks exactly like a 50/50 mix of her parents

I'm glad that someone likes Madonna's 1980s real "mink" eyebrows (forget about phony real-mink eyelashes, gross)—Lourdes has tamed her runaway brows without "getting rid of them forever" as Madonna announced she'd done with hers during the shooting of her Sex book.

Unspeakable

Some of the sexiest people I can think of with killer brows after the jump...

GREAT picture of Madonna with Lola and Material Girl spokesperson Kelly Osbourne in OK! (July 11, 2011). I realize Kelly O. is a Madonna buff and LGBT rights supporter—kudos—but to read Madonna noting her "edgy, cool" and "unique sense of style" is nonetheless a bit of a horse pill for me. I can't get past the reality TV past and lack of any real there there.

One of the best Madonna & Lola shots from the Vanity Fair Oscars party is in People (March 14, 2011). Large size for fanatics.

Madonnarama breaks the news—and I mean it that way, too—that Kelly Osbourne is the new face of Material Girl for 2011, replacing Taylor Momsen.

I don't really get using a 26-year-old...I think of Material Girl as being a more junior fashion line. And I'm not much a fan of Osbourne's (or of the Osbournes), though she seems "nice" in a Kevin Costner/Blond Ambition way.

In the first image released, it's almost like they're trying to make her look like Madonna! (Not Lola.)

Well, I guess Osbourne is popular and this will get the line some continued attention.

As of midnight tonight, it will be exactly five years since my first post. It's hard to imagine it's been that long, and a lot's changed—the tone and subject matter are different, how often I post, my limits (no nudity in a couple of years due to ad constraints). I've devoted a crazy amount of time and money and energy to this blog for a very small financial return (you couldn't guess low enough), but it's always rewarding to have this forum with which to express myself, keep my writing ability fluid, perhaps influence a couple of people here and there, share obsessions with strangers (in both senses of the word) and learn new things.

Take That's Howard...can you believe this happened onstage at a pop concert?

Here are some of the posts that were most important to Boy Culture's history. For the uninitiated, some of the oldest ones refer to Boy Culture, the movie made of my novel; I started the blog at the time Boy Culture was being filmed as a way to keep people informed of the progress...and it all snowballed from there.

Subtle

Some of these posts are milestones when it comes to the hits they provided but most are filled with original writing and/or photography and video and are just the posts of which I'm proudest. I hope you'll take some time to click on them and send their links around to others—and some time is what you'll need...

MY ART

Boy-crazy

FROM BOY TO MAN: BC B.C. (2007): The entire history of my novella, novel and movie Boy Culture; might be my ultimate post.

From '07, one of my faves. Old iPhones were better because they were worse.

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

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)

TriBeCa is for Boy lovers...

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.

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

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.

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.

I had the Fever for Jon-Erik Hexum

AN OBSESSION IS BORN (2009): One of my best posts about my obsession with...obsession.

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.

I was given the red-carpet treatment

HAVEN'T WE MET? (2010): Celebrating my time with someone I've only met once—Madonna.