I didn't mean for the title of this blog to be misleading. Michael Jackson did not have AIDS. But I didn't want to not blog about what everyone will be talking about today. Yes, today I am a follower. I've always been a consumer of pop culture. This is, by far,...
Entertainment & Pop Culture
Bruno’s Balls Out Performance
Bruno meets Eminem at the MTV Movie Awards. The YouTube video may be taken down by the time you read this blog. If so search "Eminem Movie Awards" over and over again until you see the clip from the MTV Movie Awards, a 2-hour promo for the Twilight sequel in...
Hemo2Homo Connection: Star Trek
The Hemo2Homo Connection is Shawn Decker and Steve Schalchlin. Just two guys with AIDS who like to review movies. The creators/stars of the Hemo2Homo Connection met online in 1996, and posted their first movie review in 1998. Both have been living with HIV for...
Hemo2Homo Connection: Wolverine
The X-Men Origins: WOLVERINE Review Hemo: Hey Homo, everyone's all like, "Have you seen Star Trek? Have you? Huh?" It's a recession, and I'm still counting my dollars trying to figure out if I'm going to see the Wolverine movie... Homo: ...
Swine Flu’s Patient Zero?
In the HIV epidemic there was "Patient Zero", a handsome blonde flight attendant who is "credited" for spreading HIV to a large number of people. Well, now that the panic surrounding the Swine Flu has rendered the AIDS epidemic obsolete, I'm proposing a "Patient...
Interview with the Werewolf: Andy Deane
Check out my interview with Andy Deane, we discuss his debut book, The Sticks: Could a werewolf eat a positoid and survive the meal?. Find out!
New Depeche Mode Album, Old Synthetic Division Tale
Today, Depeche Mode's new album, Sounds of the Universe, comes out. As many know, they are my favorite band, and I got to meet them at 14 through the Make-A-Wish Foundation, the highlight of my existence until I got laid. Today's date is a triumph for the band, but...
Pageants and Wrestlemania
After the DC trip last week I judged a pageant, in which not one but two girls were crowned. It was the last preliminary before Miss Virginia, and contestants had to have been a runner-up in a previous pageant to qualify. High stakes! As a thinblooded judge, the...
Sean Strub, Cable Positive and OMG Rachel Maddow
Back in November, I wrote about how President Obama should appoint Poz founder, Sean Strub, as the new White House AIDS Czar because an intelligent and thoughtful positoid in that position would be incredible. Well, the administration didn't follow my...
Pedro & Sean & Me
I am so relieved- MTV's "Pedro" was a good movie. I got teary-eyed, it hit all the right notes and it was interesting to see the details portrayed in Judd Winick's graphic novel, Pedro & Me, come to life in this film.It didn't hurt matters that the...