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England’s Notice Of Revocation Of Independence

by Alan Baxter, Peter Rieden and others

To the citizens of the United States of America,

In the light of your failure to elect a President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective today. Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchial duties over all states, commonwealths and other territories. Except Utah, which she does not fancy. Your new prime minister (The Right Honourable Tony Blair, MP for the 97.85% of you who have until now been unaware that there is a world outside your borders) will appoint a minister for America without the need for further elections. Congress and the Senate will be disbanded.

A questionnaire will be circulated next year to determine whether any of you noticed.

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Last Harvest

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01 – Rainy Day Parade – Jill Sobule – Pink Pearl – 03:04
02 – Heroes – Jill Sobule – Pink Pearl – 02:57
03 – Someone’s Gonna Break Your Heart Someday – Jill Sobule – Pink Pearl – 03:12
04 – This Is Love – PJ Harvey – Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea – 03:43
05 – Impressive Instant – Madonna – Music – 03:37
06 – Human Disco Ball – Plastilina Mosh – Juan Manuel – 03:32
07 – I Know – Shawn Mullins – Beneath The Velvet Sun – 03:59
08 – The Way – The Pierces – The Pierces – 04:46
09 – Morning Afterglow – Electrasy – In Here We Fall – 03:57
10 – Touch And Go – Vibrolush – Touch And Go – 03:47
11 – Wake Up – Teddy Thompson – Teddy Thompson – 03:11
12 – Paper Tigers – Yuji Oniki – Orange – 03:36
13 – Teenage Dirtbag – Wheatus – Wheatus – 04:02
14 – 2wicky – Hooverphonic – A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular – 04:43
15 – Host Of Seraphim – Dead Can Dance – A Passage In Time – 06:16
16 – Protection – Massive Attack – Protection – 07:49
17 – Liquored Up And Laquered Down – Southern Culture on the Skids – Liquored Up And Laquered Down – 02:24

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Will & Grace, Things Are Not Better for Gay People on Television

Despite the presence of gay characters on TV, there are still no openly gay actors on television, and that’s a problem. The real problem with Ellen wasn’t that her character was gay, or that there were too many gay themed shows, as some people claimed.

It was that Ellen Degeneres, not the character Ellen Morgan, was gay. During the debate over ratings and issues that surrounded the cancellation of her show, the example that proves that point, the real reason the show was no longer on the air, got overlooked.

During Ellen’s last season, there was an evening in which Ellen show aired at 9 p.m. Airing that same night at 8 p.m. there was an episode of Spin City. On that show, the gay character Carter, (played by a heterosexual man) kisses the heterosexual character Mike Flaherty as a joke. The fact that it happened was practially ignored, except that it aired as the promo for the show for days before hand.

That same evening on Ellen at 9 p.m., Ellen Morgan, a gay character, kisses her heterosexual friend Paige as a joke. Not only was it a big deal, it was given a warning prior to the show, and was universally criticized afterwards.

What was the difference between the two events? Both featured a gay character kissing a straight character in a romantic way, but as a joke. The only difference was that one of the real-life actors in the second show was gay in real life.

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Young Americans

The summer season of the WB’s show “Young Americans” ended last night. This is, certainly, one of the strangest shows I’ve seen on TV It’s almost a homoerotic wet dream with dozens of gorgeous, doe-eyed, apple-cheeked, buffed young men running around at an all-boys pre-ivy league prep school. Almost homo. They try to clean it up a little to get it under the hetero radar.

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Simplify

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01 – Six Pacs – The Getaway People – Turnpike Diaries
02 – Sundown – Elwood – The Parlance of Our Time
03 – Tonight & The Rest Of My Life – Nina Gordon – Tonight & The Rest Of My Life
04 – Summerfling – K. D. Lang – Invincible Summer
05 – Extraordinary Thing – K. D. Lang – Invincible Summer
06 – Jeremy Newborn Street – The Nields – If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home Now
07 – This Town Is Wrong – The Nields – If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home Now
08 – If It Were Up To Me – Cheryl Wheeler – Sylvia Hotel
09 – Fall Of The World’s Own Optimist – Aimee Mann – Bachelor No. 2
10 – Daddy I’m Fine – SinŽad O’Connor – Faith And Courage
11 – No Man’s Woman – SinŽad O’Connor – Faith And Courage
12 – Promise – Eve 6 – Horrorscope
13 – What Do You Do – Bargain Music – Bargain Music
14 – The Man Who Murdered Love – XTC – Wasp Star (Apple Venus Vo. 2)
15 – Can’t Sleep – Tom Maxwell – Samsara
16 – Last Night On Earth – Mekons – Journey To The End Of The Night
17 – Nevermind Her Hips – Virgin Wool – Open Heart Surgery
18 – Roll The Dice – Dusty Trails – Dusty Trails
19 – Turn Off The Light – Nelly Furtado – Whoa, Nelly!
20 – I’m Gonna Make You Love Me – The Jayhawks – Smile

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Songs That Turn Me On

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This started out to be a CD of songs about sex, but I realized some of the songs that I find arousing aren’t necessarily about sex at all… Like number 7 through 11, which are all songs that have a sort of hypnotic gypsy sound that I find erotic.
01 – I’m On Fire – Bruce Springsteen
02 – That Summer – Garth Brooks
03 – Shadowboxer – Fiona Apple
04 – Because The Night – 10,000 Maniacs
05 – You’re Okay – K. D. Lang
06 – Set The Prairie On Fire – Shawn Colvin
07 – La Serenissima – Lorena McKennitt
08 – Salva Nos – Maedieval Baebes
09 – I Am Stretched On Your Grave – Sine‡d O’Connor
10 – Maa El Kerro – Vþrtinnþ
11 – Gamen I Vulture – Garmina
12 – You’re Making Me High – Toni Braxton
13 – Sex-O-Matic Venus Freak – Macy Gray
14 – Touch It – Monifah
15 – Gett Off – Prince
16 – I Touch Myself – Divinyls
17 – Save Tonight – Eagle Eye Cherry

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