This is a post for a certain someone, just to let them know we’re thinking of them. From the files of boing boing gadgets:

You know how a jar of natural peanut butter separates into two layers: a rock hard layer of solid peanut particles on the bottom, and a liquid layer of oil that splashes onto the kitchen counter and your clothes when you try to stir the two layers together? John Falk Kelly didn’t like it when that happened, so he came up with a way to mix peanut butter easily. From Wired’s How-To Wiki:

When you buy a jar of all-natural peanut butter, don’t stick it in the pantry. Park it on top of the refrigerator, upside down. Once a day, when you walk by it, say “hello peanut butter”, and flip it over.When you’re ready to open it and stir it up, it will be half mixed for you (and not hardened into a frustrating marble block).

He says he was so pleased with the results, that filed a patent on it: U.S. Patent # 6,325,533.

Boing Boing Gadgets.

The fantastic blog A GAY ATHLETE’S LIFE (http://clubhousecloset.blogspot.com/) will continue, despite the author’s post a few months back that he is retiring from his day job due to injuries. The blog was started back in 2005 by a closeted professional baseball player, who (writing under the name “Slugger”) uses it as an outlet to discuss what it’s like to be a queer sports star, the pressure he feels to be a trailblazer by coming out (“I am not the gay Jackie Robinson”) and even just as a way to kill time on the road (men are frequently asking him on dates and sending him revealing pictures — which he posts!) and tell great stories (like the one about the 5′ 10″ blonde “Slump Buster” he balled to turn his shitty season around).

Slugger probably won’t be swinging his bat anymore (“I’m staying in baseball. In what capacity I am keeping private”) but he will continue posting his blog — definitely worth a read.

All dressed up and everywhere to go — that’s New Year’s Eve in The City That Never Sleeps. With so many fucking things to do, how does one decide how to spend tonight, the final night of the ugly aughts? Here are some last-minute ideas:

For the truly daring, there’s always the chance to join the throngs of bridge-and-tunnelers and drunken tourists who descend upon Times Square as the eyes of the world — and more than a billion via the telly — gaze upward at the big crystal dropping ball as it makes its magical journey back towards Earth. A terrifying and exciting experience indeed.

For the rest of us, there’s always booze and dancing, drugs and decadence. As always, MyOpenBar.com offers the best listing of free and cheap drinking options in NYC, from the Cake Shop’s Death To The Decade (free PBR, $15 cover, lots of great music) to Legion bar’s No Cover New Year’s Eve (free Colt 45, vodka, champagne, no cover). For people looking to rock the fuck out, the Times offers a lengthy rundown of music offerings all across NYC, like Chuck Beery at B.B. Kings, Mariah Carey at Madison Square Garden and Brooklyn Afro-poppers Antibalas at the Knitting Factory. The Village Voice has its own list of musical options, while Pitchfork.com’s list expands things with listing of events from around the world.

Cheers!

New York City’s murder rate is the lowest it’s ever been (there’ve been only 461 homicides so far this year) — and we’d like to keep it that way. So this year we suggest that revelers follow the sage advice given this week in Miami and don’t aim their guns up in the air and fire them off at midnight tonight! In Detroit, a gun shop owner suspended ammo sales to cut down on celebratory gun shooting, and more than 1,000 Baltimore cops will flood that city looking for midnight gunslingers celebrating by unloading their weapons in the air. Stray bullets can kill, and getting hit by one sure ain’t the best way to ring in the new year. Try popping some bubbly instead.

Red and green on Dec. 25 isn’t just about Christmas — it’s also the colors of a tight phat bowl of ganja blazing like Rudolph’s little nose at 4:20 in the morning.

Merry Christmas from All Your Buddies At NYCGuys!

Zekes craving cock Stuck in his dorm during the blizzard hes crawling the walls for some balls- So we oblige arranging a booty call with Wade- Soon its more than the snow getting plowed- Zekes going to have change his major to polesmoking with a minor in cum gobbling

We were just sent a link to the original post of The Right Wing Fucktards on the Big Gov Blog. Though they are against gays, trannies, recycling, jews, blacks, dolphins and health care, their acknowledgment of the sheer stature of our dear Hedda Lettuce is belied by these two tiny words:

“legendary transvestite”

Don’t get a big old head about it Mx Lettuce – but we here at this humble blog think it’s about time someone tapped you to be the spokesperson for this here movement! Folk songs must be written! This is the gay “Alice’s Restaurant” moment! Which makes Hedda either Alice or Arlo Guthrie.

As if the kerfuffle over ‘noted gay male’ Simon Doonan decorating the White House Christmas tree weren’t enough to set the right wing keening, Doonan’s managed to slip in ‘noted gay icon’ Hedda Lettuce alongside Warhol’s Chairman Mao and Obama’s face on Mount Rushmore.

Quoth the right wing fucktards:

Have a Merry perverted, Commsymp, egotistical Christmas!

Retorts Mx Lettuce:

I may never get equal rights, I may never be blond and pencil thin, I may never see Lady Gaga in concert this winter at Madison Square Garden (I could not get a ticket) but one of my balls is hanging in the White House with my name for all to see.

via Gawker.

Boy, they get bent out of shape about the PAGAN tradition of decorating a tree!

Read Hedda’s Account of how she got her face on the White House Christmas Tree!

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Hairy, horny, Jewish Men and the holiday season!

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