I feel like Carbon today. = (

Carbon-made, found her at the end of a chain.

"Time to race," she said. "Race the downhill.
"
Behind crystalline irises, loons can dive where the world bleeds white.

Just keep your eyes on her. Keep, don't look away.

Keep your eyes on her horizon.

Bear claw, free fall, a gunner's view. Black and blue. Shred in ribbons of lithium.

Blow by blow, her mind cut in sheets, layers deep, now unraveling.

Just keep your eyes on her. Keep, don't look away.

Keep your eyes on her horizon.

Get me Neil on the line.

No, I can't hold.

Have him read "Snow, Glass, Apples," where nothing is what it seems.

"Little Sis, you must crack this," he says to me, "you must go in again.
"
Carbon-made only wants to be unmade.

Blade to ice.

It's double-diamond time.

Keep your eyes on her. Keep, don't look away.

Keep your eyes on her horizon.

Mariah Carey Is...

Mariah Carey is many things...here are just a few, presented by Rich of the always-entertaining blog FourFour.

Madonna Tour Program Photos!

Save yourself a few thousand dollars and see the tour program pics here...we wonder what they looked like before the retouching!

Behind The Scenes Video: Baskit Swimwear Shoot

Mmm...Ronnie Kroell posted this video by his friend, Photographer Bruno Rand, and we just had to share...enjoy!

Soap And Underwear For Obama

Quick! What do these words have in common:

Soap

Underwear

Christian

Barack Obama




Answer: Underwear designer Andrew Christian is staging a unique fundraising strategy for the Obama campaign:

1. Put Obama's face on underwear.
2. Put sexy soap opera stars in underwear.
3. Put stars in front of big ol' American flag.
4. Take pictures.
5. Sell underwear.
6. Give money to Obama campaign.

Simple, right? The stars talked to interviewer Michael Farris about their decisions to pose:

What made you decide to participate in an “Obama” underwear shoot?

LESLI KAY (Felicia) “B&B”

It has nothing to do with my body, and has everything to do with my political beliefs. I got an email saying it was, “Daytime for Obama” and I am there. My brother works on the Obama campaign in West Virginia, which is kind of an oxymoron. I am from West Virginia. Forever, I have been trying to organize something like that, thinking about those states… Pennsylvania, Ohio…. that we could have some sort of soap event for Obama. There are a lot of soap fans in those states. If they thought for a second it was OK for us to vote for Obama, this could help somebody who is on the fence who wasn’t planning to vote, but now they would. We are on vacation from “B&B” right now…. a three week hiatus. I changed all of my vacation plans around this shoot. This is very important to me that Obama is our next president.

BLAKE BERRIS (Nick) “DAYS”

I wanted to take off my clothes any chance I get. I will do it! (He laughs) No. I am a huge Barack Obama supporter, and I really believe his candidacy and election will be a great departure from the last 8 years with George Bush and Dick Cheney and that administration. I am trying to do whatever I can to help him get elected.

Who can argue with the brilliant logic of soap opera actors, right?

Click here for more interviews.

Click here for more pictures.

And click here to get yourself a pair or two!

The Advocate's Naked Truth

While you were busy not noticing, America's two most important gay magazines--The Advocate and Out--got extreme makeovers.

Formerly owned by gay.com parent company Planet Out, the magazines seemed for years to be searching for their identities (yes, we see the irony) and going all-out commercial. That's one thing for Out, which is putting itself, well, out there (punny, huh?); but The Advocate began as just that: a periodical publication created to support sexual minorities. So why, then, were straight celebrities featured on so many of their covers?

The identities of these magazines is important to LGBT people, even if we don't read them regularly. Or at least my parents thought so when they gave me a huge, four-pound volume of a book called Long Road to Freedom: The Advocate History of the Gay and Lesbian Movement. Never a student of history, I was momentarily puzzled until it hit me like a ton of feather boas: This was their way of saying, We still love you, We still accept you, And you do have a history, And you do have a future.

No, really. It's true: The straight world knows about these magazines; it's one of their associations with gay people (if not necessarily with the spectrum of "others").

I've been cynical for so long--too cynical to really care about anything or believe in anyone. Last night's speech by Barack Obama actually changed that; I finally feel hopeful, and I really feel like things--all things--have the potential to change for the better.

Planet Out no longer has a stranglehold on The Advocate and Out, and we're encouraged by The Advocate's most recent issue--the one that features Barack Obama's beaming smile of hope on its over--and the forthcoming one, which will feature a lot of skin...and a discussion of body image in the LGBT population.

Yes, a lot of the guys (and girls) are typically hot--and many are typically typical.

Guess what the point is?

Gay guys, lesbians, transgender people love parts of their bodies, hate other parts. In other words, they're just like everyone else.

(Uh, except those straight guys who really do not care who they offend with the fertile wildernesses of their bodies. Seriously, WTF?!)

Anyway, The Advocate's new Editor in Chief Jon Barrett has worked for Oprah (O at Home magazine) and Real Simple, and he seems to be steering this vitally important magazine in the right direction. With a new focus on up-to-date online content (and plenty of skin), go to theadvocate.com for the hotness and stick around for a while to see the changes that are occurring--including thoughtful coverage of the historic presidential election year.

The Army: Backstreet Style

Hmm. So you can't say "I'm gay," but you can shave your chest and hop around pretending to be Nick Carter in the company of three other guys? Good policy. Active Duty: here they come!

Hot New Tattooed TeamM8s (In Underwear!)

The Australian men's underwear label TeamM8 has launched a new line called "The Nation," inspired by the 2008 Olympics games. Check out the hot new photoshoot...we have a favorite--do you??

The range includes seven national team motifs: team Australia (AUS) in red; team USA in white; and team Great Britain (GBR) in navy blue; team France (FRA) in light blue; team Italy (ITA) in green; team Germany (GER) in black; and team Spain (ESP) in yellow. So whichever nation you want to get behind (heh heh...), you can be first off the block in the fashion stakes by diving into a pair of teamm8!

The $300 Sweater That Bill Cosby's Cat Threw Up

This one obviously belonged to Dorothy Zbornak during her mid-'80s reign on the Golden Girls.

Dear Neiman Marcus Buyer,

WTF?!

Your (doubting) friend,

GuyStyle

This sweater = the expression on Tonya Harding's face here:

New Meth Musical Starring Kristin Chenoweth!

Yes, that's right, the adorably (and sometimes annoyingly?) perky and freakishly huge-voiced Kristin Chenoweth, Wicked's original Glinda the Good Witch and sometimes-Christian opera-balladeer, has come out with a new musical that uses the power of her voice to combat the plague of methamphetamine in the gay community.

Or something like that. She might actually just be mocking the hell out of A&E's cracked-out hit show Intervention.

If it sounds awful, it is...awfully awesome!

See more Kristin Chenoweth videos at Funny or Die

'Passions' Star Justin Hartley Joins 'Smallville''

When I started my MFA program three years ago, I took mornings off work on the days I had early afternoon classes so I could get my writing and workshopping done before class. And then I discovered it: Passions, the greatest show in TV history. Sadly, Timmy the magic doll-midget had already passed to the great beyond, but there was still a baby blonde witch who could control lightning and, as if that were not enough, a mermaid who at one time lay on a beach hiding her aqua-sequined tail behind a rock for an entire week of episodes, trying (successfully) to hide her secret from her beau. NBC never tried to pass off the laughable not-very-special effects with this show; in fact, those laughable effects were the show.

Or at least they were a big part of it. This guy, Justin Hartley, was another big part. I'm pretty sure he spent an entire month of episodes in his bedroom wearing only boxer shorts, in a trance, and then he fell out of a window. This was not great cinema, people. This wasn't even Days of Our Lives. But! It was a total stud wearing next to nothing! And that's good enough for us!

Now we can see the same total stud and his "Green Arrow" (green?!) on Smallville, the Superboy series that has yet to find its kryptonite.

Blah blah blah. We don't care about Smallville. Smallville is no Passions.

A classic great-acting moment from The. Best. Show. Ever! (PS: No, it's NOT gay porn!)



Plus, he can bust a move!

Tim Gunn Slams John McCain's Wife: "I'm Just Not A Fan"

Hillary vs. Obama? Old news!

Obama vs. McCain? Yawn!

Project Runway Mr. Nice Guy Tim Gunn vs. Cindy McCain? Hot shit!




Tim on Cindy: "I'm just not a fan. I don't know who her advisers are, but it's the whole look — her clothes have to be fixed too." He continued, "I just don't think she's capable of improving the look. "

It's on! Head over to New York for the story.

Justin Timberlake's New Video

Justin Timberlake just released a new video in which he plays a person by the name of William Rast, which is the name of his clothing label. What do you think of the video? So as not to unduly influence you, our thoughts come after the video...




Get ready for a superbly well thought-out and executive critical analysis--our MFA in creative writing really prepared us for this critical challenge:

THIS VIDEO SUCKS BALLS!!

Why?

1. Is a story being told here?
2. Is there some sort of plot?
3. This has nothing to do with clothes; it's just an attempt to get people to swallow the brand name without anything to back it up. We're spitting, not swallowing! If JT wants to sell us his hoodies and whatnot, he needs to get naked to get our attention.

That's just one schizophrenic critic's opinion.

Yours?

Quick Vote: Which Painting To Donate To HRC?

The Human Rights Campaign is holding a silent auction as a fundraiser to supplement its annual dinner, and I'm going to donate one (or more?) paintings. Help me choose!





















E-mail me at myguystyle@gmail.com and let me know what painting(s) you wouldn't laugh at if you saw it included in a silent auction!

Shirtless German Olympic Gymnast Fabian Hambüchen

Shirtless! Male! Gymnasts!!

The best American sights to see are all in China right now. Behold the beauty of our country:



Bonus: They can talk!

James Franco's Gay Orgy In New Orleans (For Real!)

As we all know, James Franco plays a male prostitute in a new movie. In his new GQ interview, he tells about his "research" involving sitting shirtless in a corner of a room while watching an old man and two man whores get it on while snorting coke.

We can't decide--does this make Franco hotter or totally gross??

Here's an excerpt:

"There was a strip club on Bourbon Street. I had only ever been to one strip club before I went to New Orleans to do that movie. But I started going to every strip club. There was one they advertise as 'Live Sex Shows' and I went in there and met a male stripper who said he was straight and that he serviced men and women. I later found out he didn't really tell the truth all the time. But I thought he was a good model for my part. And he was the guy I hung out with the most. He would do lap dances for people, and then in between we hung out in the back. So I was with him one night and this other guy came in. And this guy came in and said to my friend, 'Hey, man, I need you for a job right now—this guy wants two.' And he said, 'I'm hanging out with James doing research for this movie.' And the guy says, 'You're doing research? Okay. You want to do real research. You're going to come down, come to the hotel. This guy's so out of his mind on coke, he won't even know what's going on. You just sit in the corner in the chair, take your shirt off, sit there, you can watch the whole thing.' I said, 'Okay.' "

GQ asks the actor if he wasn't a bit worried about what he was getting himself into?

"Yeah. Heck, yes. But then I thought, 'Well, this is real research. I've got to do this for the role, man, I've got to do this.' But yeah, it was terrifying. Especially when I get there—this guy was a doctor, apparently. He was an older man. And they whip out the cocaine and they start doing cocaine on the desk and I'm like—am I incriminating myself? I mean, I didn't do any of the cocaine. Okay? I just went there to observe. So that was scary. It was in a nice hotel. The guy who took us over had a key to the room. So he just opened up and the doctor is just lying in the bed. And he wasn't completely naked when we got in there, but he certainly got naked."

GQ: And so where in the room did you go?

"I was just standing over near the desk. And they all got in the bed and, I mean, he was out of his head. He was so high on cocaine, I guess, or drunk or whatever, and he was saying, like, 'Oh, my wife and daughters are coming tomorrow, but this is great.' It was the first time I ever saw a cock ring. He put on a cock ring. And then they both kind of like stood over him, and the guy was, like, stroking both of them and he was like, 'Ah, all these cocks, I love these cocks.' " (Later, Franco would tell Cage about all this, and it would become the inspiration for when Cage's character in the movie, a pimp called Acid Yellow, snorts a line and then declares, "I love coke cock.")

GQ: And did you take your shirt off to, so to speak, be in the vibe?

"Yeah, I guess I had my shirt off."

GQ: You must have felt: This is a very weird thing to see.

"It was. It was mixed, because on one hand, it was scary, strange to be there—you know, I've done bad things and I have been arrested but I have never been in that situation. So I was feeling all that, but then on the other hand it is just like a human interaction, so there's none of the movie music going on to heighten the situation. And so it had this strange, you know, casualness to it. Just people having sex, or about to have sex, and there I am standing in the room, you know. And so that was weird."