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If you want a hipster breakfast* in any large metropolis, anywhere in this great land of ours, chances are you’re going to end up in a region called “midtown,” at a place with lots of ironic 1980s lunchboxes, ironic inky velvet paintings, ironic VCRs, and all manner of other vintage/retro kitsch from decades gone by.

*By “hipster breakfast” I mean menu items of a more interesting nature than, like, plain eggs/bacon/pancakes. For example, in the anecdote below I got jalapeno grits topped with beef brisket – both of which were absolutely delicious. Hipster breakfast places employ the aesthetic flourishes of the classic diner (like formica tabletops and mediocre coffee) while in no way being a classic diner. They’re more like commentaries on the classic diner.

I was at such a place recently while attending (ironically) the Southern Baptist Convention which is maybe the least hipster thing there ever was, aesthetically-speaking. The provided amusement at this breakfast place was a 1980s version of Richard Simmons “Sweatin’ to the Oldies,” but projected in larger-than-life-size on an entire breakfast-place wall. It was perhaps the most ironic thing I’ve ever see

Is It Fair to Consider Richard Simmons a “Gay Icon?”

“I went to dinner with him once,” Dan Taberski recalled, chatting with me about his friend Richard Simmons. “He got up to go to the bathroom, and we were wondering—‘what happened to Richard? Where did Richard go?’ And we see people jumping up and down outside the window of the restaurant. We realized he’s outside the restaurant making people exercise.”

Those were the good old days, before Simmons abruptly retreated to his mansion in late 2013 and proceeded to cut off contact with almost everyone he knew, issuing only sporadic public messages since. It was an abrupt adjust for a man who was once a perpetual motion machine and a magnet for attention. Taberski, a longtime friend, was flummoxed. A producer who worked on The Daily Show and directed the documentaryThese Cocksucking Tears about gay country singer Patrick Haggerty, Taberski had been talking to Simmons about making a documentary about Slimmons, the Beverly Hills exercise studio notorious for frantic workouts that were part-burlesque, part-therapy.

“It’s incredible,” said Taberski of the studio. “It’s like a class? Cabaret? Body burlesque? He screams and he’s lou

Homosexuality and Gay Marriage – Part 1

The purpose of this series, just up front, is my want is that it would produce light and not heat, to provide us understanding and not to inflame people’s emotions. I want to give entire disclosure up front. I’m no expert on the issue of homosexuality and gay marriage, but in the last 10 or 12 weeks, of course I’ve taught about this, on this issue, in the past, but in the last 10 or 12 weeks, I’ve done a significant amount of research and have really learned a lot, and what I’m here to do is to gentle of report that to you in this presentation. I want to be as objective as I can, but you demand to know up front that I am a Christian and I arrive from a with a Biblical perspective. And finally, I would say this, as I look advocate on my life, I have never really had any very real, what I would call proximate friendships, or really famous anyone very closely who was a homosexual or lesbian that I could talk to about this issue. I did contain a first cousin who I didn’t realize was homosexual until I create out he had AIDS and died a couple years later after they had discovered that was what he had, and I did have seve

Obituary of Beverley Klein

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Beverley Klein

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

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Passed away peacefully on Wednesday August 8th , 2007 at Strathroy Middlesex General Hospital. Beverley E. Klein, at the age of 68. Beloved wife of Gary Klein of Strathroy and devoted mother of William Sanderson, Bradley Sanderson (Diane), Catherine Horn, Carol Riccobon (Peter), 13 grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren also survived by her father Roy Simmons, Brothers Bill Simmons (Gay) and Richard Simmons (Janet) and step children Wayne Klein (Ingrid) and Debbie Grace (Bill). Visitation will be held at Denning Bros. Funeral Place 32 Metcalfe St W. Strathroy on Friday, August 10th from 7:00pm to 9:00 P.M. Funeral service will be held on Saturday, August 11th at Mt. Brydges Combined Church at 11:00am with Rev. Don Keenliside officiating.