We’ve just discovered a great new social networking website, iJoke.tv.

iJoke.tv is a new comedy web community, founded by the Improv’s Budd Friedman. They have a growing list of comedian/comedy writer/sketch troupe/performer/booker/prod co./humor zine/etc. members and, while still in its developmental stages looks like this will be a site to watch out for in the future.  However, a search for members who’ve identified themselves as “Gay” turned up zero results.  So all you homo-comedians better get over there and add some material.

You may not have to be a lesbian to laugh at Robin Greenspan, but it sure is nice to be one when Robin’s around. The comedienne was part of the first nationally-televised gay and lesbian sketch comedy shows, Showtime’s In Through the Out Door with Suzanne Westenhoefer and Lea DeLaria.

Since that breakout appearance, she’s also done her own one-woman show, “Kickin’ Hard”, at the HBO workspace in

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Wonderfully crowd-pleasing sex comedy featuring a cast of beauties, both for the boys and the girls. Can ah just say that Guillermo Diaz freaks me out? He’s cute and all, but he plays the same character in everything he’s in. He does that well, but really now.

Ten days before their wedding, Anthony (Lane Janger) a handsome, bedroom-eyed NYC fireman, finally gets his beautiful fiancée Amy (Joelle Carter) to agree to fulfill his fantasy about having a threesome with another woman. What he doesnâ€^TMt expect is that Amy will sleep with another woman only if Anthony

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PORTLAND HOME VALUES

Okay, okay, so last week I whined and moaned and - with respect to August’s 6.7%  downturn in average sales price according to RMLS - hopefully got much of the ‘crap’ out of my system.  Sometimes it’s good to vent .  With the Treasury Secty and the Fed and SEC and Congress et. al. all scrambling to save us from another Great Depression, it does help to put things in perspective.  I am crossing my fingers now every day for all of us.  But as for housing and Portland’s value in home prices, we still have had it pretty good.  Of major metropolitan areas, Portland still ranks on many Continue Reading »

I think it was a little more than a decade ago that my dear friend Susan tragically died.  Elizabeth Furse came to the memorial in her honor and was one of the speakers that took to the stage to say nice things about her.  I knew that Susan must have been so proud and grateful, because political activist and feminist that she was, Susan had worked awfully hard to get Furse elected.  And it is in the midst of this absolutely insane electoral season that I have to ask:  “Elizabeth, Elizabeth, what on earth has happened to you?!”  I’ve just seen not the first but the second commercial for Gordon Smith’s Continue Reading »

Former Philadelphia 76er and Duke University basketball player Shavlik Randolph has made the Portland Trailblazers 18-man roster. He is widely believed to be in a battle for a final spot on the team with two other players, inluding former University of Oregon star Luke Jackson.

It turns out that Mr. Randolph isn’t so fond of gay players. He was one of a handful of players who offered boneheaded responses to former NBA player John Amaechi’s coming out in February of 2007.

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These are VERY scary times we’re living in.  I know, I know, not the first time I’ve uttered such banalities here or there, but whatchagonnado?… I was still a child when I went to my parents and asked:  “Why is everyone so stupid?”  And that question has repeated and repeated and repeated throughout the years and decades.

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For the second installment of must see lesbian films, I have selected Bound. Bound has received much acclaim for its production and cast, as well as being a highly recognized lesbian film. A brilliant lesbian film, produced by the Wachowski brothers, Bound is a film that should be viewed by lesbians and lesbian-film lovers alike.

The premise of the film concentrates around Violet (played by Jennifer Tilly) and her rocky relationship with her husband, Caesar ( portrayed by Joe Pantoliano). A third element to the film is added when Corky

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If you are a fan of Douglas Adams 1992 sci-fi/humor book and series “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” you’ll know that “The answer to life, the universe and everything” is 42. Of course, if 42 is the answer it becomes rather obvious that we don’t really understand the question in the first place. The search for the question is the premise of his series. Though intended as humorous and non-sensical entertainment, he posits a not-so-insignificant idea to consider - is it possible to know both the question and the answer at the same time?

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PORTLAND HOME VALUES

There tends to be about a 2-week+ lag time in getting the new RMLS statistical report for the preceding month; figures usually come out about mid-month or so.  So it was with particular anticipation that I was waiting to see the August figures arrive on my monitor this September.  I say “particular anticipation” because I was beginning to note some change and flux in the market, from an “on-the-ground” sense, and was trying to peek around the corner to see whether our sinking ship of real estate was beginning to be righted.  Our market here has been, when all is said and done, relatively flat for the better part of the last year, with a more noticeable pricing decline in the last couple Continue Reading »