Found this in the art room basement of my dorm. Half the smiley is painted on the pipe the other is painted on the wall.

Well you probably have already have seen this video of Lady Gaga doing an acoustic performance of Telephone that she  dedicated to Alexander McQueen. Its worth another watch or two. Her outfit is so regal, stunning, surreal, and she is going to use up every idea imaginable which will leave the Pop Stars of the future labeled as crude replicants.

I love Lady Gaga because she reminds me that we still do have gods. They take the form of idols.

My sister loved watching Shirley Temple as a child. Via “Childhood whatever is on TVosmosis“, I as well have absorbed Shirley Temple.

Shirley Temple taught me a lot of things about Orphans, and about how bad they have it. Actually her movies, and portrayal of Orphans encouraged thousands to adopt. Actually no, but she is my favorite female orphan, who is not redheaded. Shirley taught me a lot of things about life too. One thing in particular is that her movies revealed to me what a “bitch” was.

Maybe her films aren’t timeless. Maybe its a bit “old fashioned” for a little girl to kiss an old man tell him that you “like” him, and then proceed to snuggle with him. Maybe Shirley Temple did nothing to express the plight of orphans. Maybe all her movies were the same. For me, Shirley Temple was more orphany then any of those “real” orphans. I’m sure a gypsy would prefer Shirley’s Orphan tears over any other old orphan tears. Even though Shirley was an “orphan she became a success, and you don’t see “non-orphan” Dakota Fanning doing as awesome as Shirley.

I’m a freshmen at Rutgers University majoring in English and Journalism. I also happen to be Gay/Homosexual?/Butt Pirate??/I already did this joke!/. I’ve met a myriad of gay men, and women at Rutgers via Demarest(My Dorm),Biglaru(Rutgers Gay Straight Alliance), and Delta Lambda Phi(Gay, Bisexual, Progressive Men Frat). The people I met were quite friendly, composed, and most of all classy.

Perhaps I only skimmed the surface of the gay community at Rutgers. For a certain website has unearthed an unsightly underbelly. Over the past several weeks the website isawyourutgers.com has become the leading trend among students. People post about a stranger they saw around Rutgers Campus in hopes of reconnecting with them, and ideally the person mentioned in the post responds back. The average posts are a bit questionable, but some gay “sightings” are down right deplorable, but most seem desperate.

I love you gay community. We have done great things for art, music, fashion, and the community. When it comes to the internet though, we tend to go primal as seen below.

Here are some more “candid” sightings from Isawyourutgers.

Its winter time.

Dive bars, thrift stores, buying vinyl records, taking pictures with slr cameras,  judging people, things that friends do… hipster friends

Clam diving?, taco trecking?, vaginal voyage? misogynistic?

Frustrated math major, he will even settle for “the bi ones”

MAN! because men prefer not to talk about love life.

Whats this? a response? an emoticon?

What this? a budding relationshit? A one nighter? Lunch? another emoticon?

Should these guys be directed to Manhunt instead? Probably. What about Craigslist? Some seem desperate enough so I suppose “Manly Man” should mosey on down over there. Most of all though I think these posts are reflective of the gay climate at Rutgers. I feel like I fit in well with the gay social life at college, but at the same time I feel like the gay organizations at Rutgers could do more to reach out to the other gay people on campus. To the people who post on isawyourutgers good luck, but the internet isn’t the cure all for your relationship woes. Take time to socialize with people, and get involved on Campus, and get off of your laptop. Aren’t I preachy.

The posts aren’t deplorable. Maybe they’re a tad bit desperate, but they are most defiantly interesting. Interesting because they’re created by people. Interesting because these posts give us a chance to look beyond the veil of social norms.

Sometimes you need to sit back and observe beauty. The power of humanity to build upon our earth. When watching this video you forget, just for a moment, that we are bound, and still limited. We are ignorant geniuses. That ignorance is displayed in a form of a high quality video. It is beautiful we are not just artists we are pieces of art.

The following is a relevant video. Mildly funny, mildly interesting, and mildly creative. I posted this because i’m busy. I posted this because they talk about “Gay issues”, and because SNL is “funny”. Why did I put those things in quotation marks? Well because I want to add depth to this post. So by adding those quotation marks I set a questionable tone to the whole post. Is this really “funny”. Well history tells us SNL is intend to be funny, but its not funny. Its “funny”. Maybe a while back it was funny, but now its “funny”. Maybe Don’t Ask Don’t Tell was a “Gay issue” a while back. Now maybe its just common sense. Think about it…because I’m not, I’m busy.