Former MTV executive Terrance Dean better watch his six: he’s bringing out the claws on an industry used to fists and guns next month with his book Hiding in Hip Hop: On the Down Low in the Entertainment Industry - From Music to Hollywood.

“Hiding In Hip-Hop” uncovers a hidden and well-known unspoken secret. Deep within the confines of Hip-Hop is a prominent gay sub-culture. A world that industry insiders are keenly aware of, but choose to ignore.

According to Dean, “This book is filled with intrigue, sexy celebrity bed partners, abundance of drugs, and of course, the down low/gay men and celebrities in the entertainment industry.

This puts a different perspective on the fact that Kanye West, who has long been donged by gay rumors, just a few days ago called off his engagement to longtime girlfriend Alexis Phifer (they were together since 2002). The bitch even asked for the ring back. Maybe girl wants it for himself.

Hrrm…was it a showmance? Is he perhaps ready to come out of the closet before he’s shoved out? Kanye is constantly talking about accepting “our gay brothers and sisters”…

The book pages flutter onto the shelves May 13th.

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P.S. Stink’s recent picture was pretty telling, no?

Sadly, this seems to be a radio interview, so there’s just a static picture. However, Harlan Ellison is such a hyperactive speaker you hardly notice.

Now, first off, Harlan Ellison is the only person in the fucking UNIVERSE who can out-talk Robin Williams to the point that Robin seems sedate and boring by comparison.

But more importantly, it’s absolutely fascinating to hear about the origin of Scientology. It was a goof! A bunch of pulp authors getting together to get wasted and trade stories results in the wackiest of the wacky religions, care of L. Ron Hubbard, money hungry pulp novelist.

http://fantastic.library.cornell.edu/index.php. Part of the online collection of Cornell University’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections. Some of the weirdest images you’ll ever care to look on, in sections with provocative titles like, “Possession and Insanity” and “Freaks, Monsters, and Prodigies.”

The image below, of the demon “Diable,” is from J.A.S. Collin de Plancy’s Dictionnaire Infernal (1863) (Demonographia).

The demon “Belzebuth” after the jump–

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If only this Italian court had been around in the days of Hester, perhaps she would not have had to endure either the public ignominy of standing on the pillory in the Market-Place or the continual scorn and ridicule she endured when judging eyes blazed upon the ornate ‘A’ affixed to her bosom.

Italy’s highest appeal court has ruled that married Italian women who commit adultery are entitled to lie about it to protect their honour.

The court gave its landmark ruling after hearing the case of a 48-year-old woman, convicted of giving false testimony to police by denying she had lent her mobile phone to her lover.

The appeal court did not agree that she had broken the law.

It said bending the truth was justified to conceal extra-marital relationships.

Read rest of the story here (which includes another wacky ruling from the same court in 1999).

I don’t think I ever saw this version of the movie (and it’s royal crrrrrap from what RT tells me–oh, Demi, you have a way of doing that to a film, dontcha?), but I always love a good reason to post a sexa-riffic picture of Gar; he’s good for the eyes and the loins.

Le sigh.

Silly aside after the break if you want to read it… (more…)

Masturbatory literature for deposed Nazis, perverts, and whipped 1960s breadwinners–

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Showing at the Michelson Galleries, in Northhampton, Massachusetts, now through January 15. Click on the image to go to Leonard Nimoy’s “Full Body Project” page.

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And a pretty big one too as he is showing us in the picture. Indeed, author J.K. Rowling shoved the beloved wizard and Hogwart’s headmaster out of the (broom) closet during a question & answer session following a special reading at Carnegie Hall in New York.

[J.K.] was asked if Dumbledore found ‘true love’. ‘Dumbledore is gay,’ she said, adding he was smitten with rival Gellert Grindelwald, who he beat in a battle between good and bad wizards long ago. The audience gasped, then applauded. ‘I would have told you earlier if I knew it would make you so happy,’ she said.

‘Falling in love can blind us to an extent,’ she added, saying Dumbledore was ‘horribly, terribly let down’ and his love for Grindelwald was his ‘great tragedy’. ‘Oh, my god,’ Rowling, 42, concluded with a laugh, ‘the fan fiction’.

While I’ve got no problem with this revelation about Albus’ sexuality (I couldn’t give two shits either way–he’s still in charge of bad assery)…I am left with one question: doesn’t this make him a fairy now, not a wizard?