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Freddie Stroma Joins "Game Of Thrones," An Ode To The Dad Bod, Westboro Hates Kim Davis, Too: BRIEFS

Plus "Where The Bears Are," and remember that wacky gangster family?

Here is last week's caption pic winner. This week's caption pic is at the bottom of the page.

Thanks to everyone for participating! The winner is ....

"You shouldn't literally give a bigoted homophobe an axe to grind!!"

Thanks to Jwb52z for this week's winning caption!


Weekend Birthdays! Dave Salmoni (above), who is 40, Max Greenfield is 35, Beyonce is 34, Bob Newhart is 86, Raquel Welch is 75, Freddie Mercury would have been 69, Sylvester would have been 68, and Jane Curtin is 68. One more look at Dave. *sigh*


Westboro Baptist Joins the Anti-Kim Davis Bandwagon, But the Reason May Surprise You


Note to Job Applicants: Don't Text Nude Selfies to HR Manager


An Ode To The 'Dad Bod' -- From A Gay Father's Perspective


Freddie Stroma, who you may know from the Lifetime show UnREAL, or more likely, as Cormac McLaggen in the Harry Potter franchise, will join the cast of Season Six of Game of Throne. He'll play Dickon Tarly, which is now one of my all time favorite character names. I approve this casting, and now would be the time for the show to give us that gender nudity equality we've been demanding.


Matt Baume on Kim Davis and delicious bacon.


Here's Episode Three of Season Four of Where The Bears Are. "Reggie (Rick Copp) feels pressure to solve the Dickie Calloway murder when his boss Maggie Dexter (Missi Pyle) insists he be more aggressive in order to beef up his show’s ratings. Meanwhile, Wood cuts a deal with the Inquisitive Channel to feature his new swimwear line on all their shows including Murder Time with Reggie Hatch."


Here's the Friday Puzzler! "Tongue Tied"


And here's The Weekly ShoutOUT™. Each week we're going to focus on one out athlete/performer and feature a daily pic and career timeline. We'll be showcasing the big names, but also the lesser-known gay celebs who deserve more recognition. This week we give a ShoutOUT™ to ... Sal Mineo

Closing out our week with Sal, he played the killer in 1965's Who Killed Teddy Bear, alongside Juliet Prowse.

In 1969 Sal directed the stage play of Fortune And Men's Eyes, with an 18-year-old Don Johnson. His last film role was as Dr. Milo in Escape From The Planet Of The Apes in 1971. Sadly, just when Sal's career was on the upswing, tragedy struck.

"By 1976, Mineo's career had begun to turn around. While playing the role of a bisexual burglar in a series of stage performances of the comedy, P.S. Your Cat Is Dead, in San Francisco, Mineo received substantial publicity from many positive reviews, and he moved to Los Angeles along with the play. Mineo was arriving home after a rehearsal on February 12, 1976, when he was stabbed to death in the alley behind his apartment building near the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, California. Mineo was stabbed just once, not repeatedly as first reported, but the knife blade struck his heart, leading to immediate and fatal internal bleeding.

After a lengthy investigation, Lionel Ray Williams, a pizza deliveryman, was arrested for the crime. In March 1979, he was convicted and sentenced to 57 years in prison for killing Mineo, and for committing 10 robberies in the same area. Although considerable confusion existed as to what witnesses had seen in the darkness on the night Mineo was murdered, prison guards were later revealed to have overheard Williams admitting to the stabbing."


Continuing the top 30 TV themes/opening of the 90's ... at #13 is The Sopranos

Airing on HBO from January 10, 1999 – June 10, 2007, The Sopranos was an immediate ratings and critical smash, winning the Emmy for Outstanding Drama twice (the first cable series to win the award). The opening titles, set to "Woke Up This Morning" by Alabama 3 perfectly conveyed the feel and tone of the show.


Congrats to lazycrockett, who guessed that yesterday's Pixuzzle™ © ® was Planet Of The Apes.

Here's today's Pixuzzle™ © ®. Here is a scene from a FAMOUS MOVIE. Can you name it?


Here's your caption pic for this week. Drop your caption ideas in the comments (And please remember to keep the captions PG-13!)

Today's Briefs are brought to you by ... Furry Friday Guy Rejis Balcasse

VIA LION KING!

Having enjoyed Snicks' 70s list so much, I made a similar one concerning the UK. The rules are the same "every song must have hit the top ten on the official UK charts, and they all must be performed by female vocalists, either solo or as part of a group". I added one extra rule, out of respect for master Snicks, which is that every song that would be eligible for both lists would not be included in mine.

The weird will be there side by side with the wonderful, because that's what the British Charts are all about.

We have arrived at # 51, otherwise known as the No 1 of the bottom half: Mamma Mia was an important moment in Abba’s career. It was their first UK No 1 after Waterloo, which helped them escape the category of “Just Another Eurovision Winner” and move into the more prestigious category of “Super-Group”, soon to be “Mega-Group”. As per usual in such cases, the record was released against the wishes of the executives.

Mamma Mia, which was to be the opening track of their 1975 self-titled album, was the last song recorded. Although it was one of four songs from the album to have a music video made, it wasn’t initially intended for release as a single. It was Australia that cast the deciding vote: When I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, topped the Australian charts for 3 weeks, it left the public hungry for more. When the promo clip for Mamma Mia proved the most popular after repeat screenings on Australian television, their Australian record company asked the head office that "Mamma Mia" be released as a single but they originally refused. After they relented, Mamma Mia was released in Australia in August 1975 where it spent 10 weeks at number one.

After this success in Australia, their UK company took notice of ABBA for the first time since Waterloo: they began to heavily promote their singles and as a result S.O.S. made the Top 10 and follow-up Mamma Mia went to No 1. S.O.S. was the first of a series of 18 consecutive Top 10 singles in the UK. Except for Australia and the UK, Mamma Mia was #1 also in Germany, Ireland and Switzerland and Top 3 in Austria, Belgium, Norway and New Zealand. In the US it made #32. Also it was used as the title of the hit stage and movie musical that would keep Abba relevant well into the 21st Century. The only people that possibly hate it are probably a handful of Queen fanatics, because this was the song that brought the epic 9-week run at No 1 of Bohemian Rhapsody to an end.

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