Archive for the ‘The Gay Recluse’ Category
In which The Gay Recluse goes to the museum. Consider the old panels on the subway platform wall, and observe the finely wrought precision with which each strip of peeling paint has by the hands of time been distressed in the subtlest shades of gold and silver, all displayed in a collage with the glue […]
Filed under: Architecture, Decay, New York City, Subway, The Gay Recluse, Washington Heights | 3 Comments
Tags: Art, Masterpieces, MTA, Museums, Subway
In which The Gay Recluse becomes increasingly obsessed with the George Washington Bridge. Date of Photographs: June 15, afternoon. We’d like to introduce you to George Washington Bridge, our longtime companion. Yes, it’s our husband. It’s our wife and it’s our life. “I, too am obsessed with the George Washington Bridge, and have been ever […]
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Tags: Heroine, The George Washington Bridge, The Velvet Underground
In which The Gay Recluse is blown away by grand, tessellated spaces. On Friday we went apartment hunting with a friend of ours who wants to move uptown. We didn’t have much time — we were with a realtor — but managed to snap a few shots of these foyers. (We’ll try to get some […]
Filed under: Architecture, City Pattern Project, The Gay Recluse, Washington Heights | 4 Comments
Tags: apartment palaces, Foyers, Landmarks, Mosaics
In which The Gay Recluse is like wtf. Ok, The Times has been on board with gay marriage for a couple of years now. Great! What’s not so great, however, is their continuing use of the term “longtime companion” to describe long-term gay relationships, e.g., the following quote in an article about Russell T Davies […]
Filed under: Drivel, Gay, Language, Sickness, Stereotypes, The Gay Recluse, The Times | 4 Comments
Tags: Longtime Companion, Relationship Partner, Russell T Davies, Spouse, The New York Times, Torchwood
In which The Gay Recluse holds a contest. Sort of. Ok, submissions from the American side of the Atlantic have been kind of weak lately, so we thought we’d treat you to a taste of the big leagues in Hot Gay Statuary. Yes, Paris, City of Light! Reader CBNY sends us the following pix and […]
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Tags: Centurions, City of Light, Door Handles, Eiffel Tower, Farrah, Gay Dads, Hot Dads, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Place de la Concorde, Rodin, Three Shades
In which The Gay Recluse updates his informal but rather telling quantitative analysis of Modern Love, the weekly Style Section (of The Times) column in which openly gay writers almost never appear, and even less frequently describe a romantic relationship. This week’s piece: As a Father, I Was Hardly A Perfect Fit by Tim Elhajj […]
Filed under: Conspiracy, Drivel, Gay, Sickness, Stereotypes, The Gay Recluse, The Times | 2 Comments
Tags: Daniel Jones, The New York Times, Tim Elhajj
On Gay Modern Love: My Father’s Nostalgia for the Past Blinds Him to the Reality of the Present
In which The Gay Recluse presents a gay alternative to this week’s Modern Love offering in The Times. Those looking for our quantitative analysis should click here. I grew up without my “real” — by which I mean biological — father, who lived in New York City. One summer I made the mistake of mentioning […]
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Tags: Gay Modern Love, Gay Sons, Modern Love, Oblivious Fathers, The New York Times, Tim Elhajj
On Orchids
In which The Gay Recluse admires orchids. Orchids have a reputation for being “difficult” plants, which is one reason we love them. We always feel a little sad to see them on display in office buildings, knowing that as soon as the blooms begin to show a little fatigue, the entire plant will almost certainly […]
Filed under: Capitalism, Dissonance, Orchids, Pessimism, The Gay Recluse, Writers-French | 4 Comments
Tags: Huysmans, Office Buildings, Orchids
In which The Jane Austen Watch reports on the intersection of two centuries. Today we heard from our newest correspondent, The Jane Austen Watch, who filed the following report: The roses in Astoria are in bloom, and all the local inhabitants are basing the horticulture of their small front gardens on the assumption that they […]
Filed under: Landscape, Language, Literature, Longing, The Gay Recluse, The Jane Austen Watch, Writers-British | Leave a Comment
Tags: Astoria, Blooms, England, Jane Austen, Persuasion, Pink, Roses
In which The Gay Recluse becomes increasingly obsessed with MHCs (“manhole covers”). Location: Broadway and 161st, Washington Heights This pattern would look great anywhere, but mostly in the hospitals and office buildings. Whenever anyone asks me for something to put into a time capsule, I tell them not to bother. The manhole covers will last […]
Filed under: Capitalism, City Pattern Project, Communism, Infrastructure, New York City, The Gay Recluse, Washington Heights | Leave a Comment
Tags: Andy Warhol, Hospitals, Manhole Covers, Office Buildings, Time Capsules
In which The Gay Recluse becomes increasingly obsessed with The George Washington Bridge. Time and Date of Pictures: June 10, 8:30-9:30ish Sometimes you just know it’s going to storm. Our windows were shaking, in part because they’re shitty windows, but also because it was so windy! We wish we could say that the water was […]
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Tags: Le Corbusier, Lightning, Storm Fronts, The George Washington Bridge
In which The Gay Recluse describes a trip to hell the gym. And speaking of music, we’ve already described our general aversion to the inexplicably horrendous 1970s AOR rock our gym sometimes plays, but today marked a special occasion: yes! they played “Stairway To Heaven.” Which might not have been so bad under different circumstances; […]
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Tags: Arena Rock, Babes, Gyms, Hell, Led Zeppelin, Stairway To Heaven, Stereo, Zoso
In which The Gay Recluse relives his past as an indie rocker. Hey everyone, Saturnine is the WMBR “Breakfast of Champions” band of the week, which means you should tune into the legendary MIT station and rock out to some classic Saturnine! For more info: http://wmbr.org/shows/boc/BotW.php
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Tags: MIT, Saturnine, WMBR
In which The Gay Recluse hears a song from another life. Yesterday we turned on the stereo in our basement. We hadn’t played it in years. Miraculously, it worked! The receiver and speakers are from ninth grade. Hey computers! Sometimes bigger analog speakers still sound better! More miraculous was that a CD was already in […]
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Tags: Compilation, Hamish Kilgour, Rent Control, Rocks, Sky, Soho, The Clean, West Broadway
In which The Gay Recluse becomes increasing obsessed with the George Washington Bridge. Date/Time of Photographs: June 9, 2008/7am-ish. Notes: We’re still getting used to our new computer. Which is why some of these pictures look a little warped. We kind of like them like that, though. They’re more reflective of the real world. I, […]
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Tags: Big Sky, Heat Waves, Morning Light, The George Washington Bridge, Warped
On the Arrival of Summer Torpor
In which The Gay Recluse languishes. Yesterday we went for a run, even though it was 156 degrees out. When we were young, we laughed at the heat. Let’s just say we’re not as young as we used to be! Today we’re not going anywhere. Even though we’re kind of in the mood for a […]
Filed under: Animals, Dissonance, Dream, Photography, The Gay Recluse, The Russian Blue, Weather | 5 Comments
Tags: Coffee, Dante, Donuts, Heat Waves, Jogging, Running, Summer, Torpor, Zephyr
On Hot Gay Statues: Miami Nice!
In which The Gay Recluse holds a contest. Sort of. We’ve been wondering what the story is with Miami, which is supposedly a pretty gay city but is notable lacking in the Hot Gay Statue Roundup. But! Our fears were somewhat alleviated when Reader CBNY sent in a submission with the following note: [These statues […]
Filed under: Architecture, Competitions, Gay, Hot Gay Statues, Photography, The Gay Recluse | 1 Comment
Tags: James Deering, John Singer Sargent, Miami, Vizcaya, White Party
In which The Gay Recluse updates his informal but rather telling quantitative analysis of Modern Love, the weekly Style Section (of The Times) column in which openly gay writers almost never appear, and even less frequently describe a romantic relationship. This week’s piece: Let’s Not Get To Know Each Other Better by Joel Walkowski Subject: […]
Filed under: Conspiracy, Drivel, Language, Search, Sickness, Stereotypes, The Gay Recluse, The Times | Leave a Comment
Tags: Conformity, Daniel Jones, Homophobia, Modern Love
In which The Gay Recluse presents a gay alternative to this week’s Modern Love offering in The Times. Those looking for our quantitative analysis should click here. Gay Modern Love Let’s Not Get to Know Each Other Better, Let’s Just Fuck By JOEL WALKOWSKI and THE GAY RECLUSE Published: June 7, 2008 A FEW months […]
Filed under: Conspiracy, Dissonance, Drivel, Gay, Search, Sickness, Stereotypes, Technology, The Gay Recluse, The Times | 8 Comments
Tags: Assholes, Butt Munches, Feelings, Feminine, Gay Modern Love, Homophobia, Joel Walkowski, Losers, Masculine, Modern Love, Straights
In which The Gay Recluse becomes increasingly obsessed with The George Washington Bridge. Time and date of photographs: June 6, 2008, sunset. Supposedly tomorrow’s going to be a thousand degrees. But the bridge doesn’t care: It looks great in any weather! Even though it hasn’t even arrived, we’re kind of dreading summer. We say that […]
Filed under: Architecture, GWB Project, Resignation, The Gay Recluse, Washington Heights, Weather | 1 Comment
Tags: Dread, Heat, June, Spring, Summer, Sunsets, The George Washington Bridge
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