On the Search for The Gay Recluse: January 28, 2008
In which The Gay Recluse ponders a sampling of recent search terms used to find the very pages you are now reading. Note: All search terms listed are in the exact form provided by WordPress.com, which is the host (at least for a while) of this blog. Hyperlinks to relevant posts included.
Search: disaster + january 21st
Comment: The day the toothpaste died (“and we were singing…”).
Search: gay architecture
Comment: Sometimes people disappear when they’re needed most.
Search: fag hag
Comment: As long as you’re not gay, feel free to contact Daniel Jones at The Times.
Search: Terry Bradshaw gay
Comment: That would be reasonably hilarious.
Search: california cuties clementine
Comment: The debate rages on.
Search: gays scientific research (see also: “science of gaydar is it real” and “tufts gaydar”)
Comment: Why spend research money on AIDS or cancer when you can reinforce gay stereotypes?
Search: architecture spacemen 3
Comment: Spacemen 3 were true masters of the sonic architecture of repetition, dissonance and aesthetic revolution. (Uhh, they also took many drugs.)
Search: huckabee “gay people”
Comment: One thing we can be sure of: he knows a lot of them and doesn’t even realize it.
Search: baudelaire and chinese
Comment: We too have spent many hours contemplating our favorite cats.
Search: gay bear bully fiction
Comment: This was a page-11 Google search result for our review of Gore Vidal’s classic work. On a different note, we also find it is a very apt description of Andrew Sullivan’s political views.
Search: cascadilla suicides
Comment: Sadly, Ann Coulter was not among their ranks.
Search: “tote stadt”
Comment: This describes large swaths of the United States, unfortunately.
Search: ad campaign gay stereotype
Comment: Seriously. Our hatred of ESPN. On behalf of pottery.
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