August 18th, 2020
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Coverboy USPS Mules Still Deliver Six Days A Week
Fireworks in August?
By Daddy
Las Vegas — House speaker Nancy Pelosi is calling the house back into session cutting the summer recess short. The focus will be will be postmaster general Louis Dejoy and the chairman of the USPS board of governors Mike Duncan. Given the current outcry over recent actions including the "Friday Night Massacre" and the removal of both mail sorting machines and mailboxes I expect this to be a fairly painful process for both especially since it appears that POTUS is backing away from them while continuing to complain about voter fraud.
I've coded most of the user interface for the program that started this entire odyssey of learning Swift and being on the bleeding edge of development the very first thing I tried wasn't available. However, workarounds do exist and one by one I've putting them in place. I'm thinking to do a baseline app for OSX and document/publish it so that others don't have to so much digging for these missing pieces.
I think I'm ok for the rest of the month but I can't tell for sure as the Online Bankings has been reporting: "Not Available" for the last two days. However, I do have the 2nd half of the car insurance due early next month. I'll still need to throw the rest of the stimulus check into the pot. To all those that have donated, Thank you! Any help is appreciated. Here's a link to the How to Donate Page
Josh Groban Won't Let Virus Stop His Live Music and Album
By Mark Kennedy (AP)
Cyberspace — It's the sound of silence that Josh Groban finds hardest to hear during the pandemic. Quarantine hasn't stilled his voice or songwriting, but the give-and-get Groban usually enjoys from interacting with his audience is gone. He sings into a machine and hears nothing back. "When the song is over, to have silence is so weird," he said. "The back and forth that I love so much, chatting with the audience, going into the crowd — I've had to fill in that gap in my head." (More)
Many High Profile LGBT Speakers at Dem Convention
By Lisa Keen
Cyberspace — There will be a lot of history made at this week’s Democratic National Convention. Some will be highly visible – like prime-time closing night speeches by two high-profile LGBT leaders. Some will be totally behind the scenes –like the role of an openly gay man as the convention’s chief executive for operations. (More)
BBC Presenter Comes Out as Nonbinary on-Air During Pride Special
By David Artavia
BBC — On an August 8 live broadcast, BBC Radio Wiltshire presenter Shivani Dave came out as nonbinary as part of a special celebrating Pride and LGBTQ+ stories. Dave is now the second nonbinary person to present on the BBC. Last year, Gaydio host and producer Jacob Edward was the first nonbinary person to host a show on the BBC when they went on-air during the 2019 holiday season. (More)
Randy Rainbow Heralds Democratic Knight in Shining Armor: ‘Kamala!’
By Andy Towle
Cyberspace — The 1960 Broadway musical Camelot could not have been given a better reboot than the new video from brilliant political musical parodist Randy Rainbow on Joe Biden’s pick for running mate Kamala Harris. (More)
Kameron Michaels and Vanjie Mateo Kiss and Tell in “Drag Race: Vegas Revue”
By Christopher Rudolph
Las Vegas — Forget the Interior Illusions Lounge: The queens are bringing the drama to Sin City in VH1’s new docuseries RuPaul’s Drag Race: Vegas Revue. The six-episode reality series follows six Drag Race legends—Season 11 winner Yvie Oddly and iconic queens Asia O’Hara, Derrick Barry, Kameron Michaels, Naomi Smalls, and Vanessa “Vanjie” Mateo—as they prepare to launch the RuPaul’s Drag Race Live! Vegas residency, which debuted earlier this year. (More)
A Distant Moment of Artful Eroticism
By Gary M. Kramer
Cyberspace — Following PinkLabel.tv.’s restoration of Arthur J. Bressan, Jr.’s “Passing Strangers” (1974) in June, the director’s other gay adult feature, “Forbidden Letters” (1979), is available August 22 for streaming on the PinkLabel website. (More)
America’s First Black, Gay Male Pro Tennis Player on Growing Up as a Gay Person of Color
By Tris Reid-Smith
Cyberspace — he idea that your skin color, let alone your sexuality, may have a grave impact on your life is something no young boy would understand – myself included. The earliest time I can recall that I experienced racism and homophobia would be around grade school. (More)
Pelosi to Call House Back Into Session to Vote on USPS Bill
By Aamer Madhani & Matthew Daly (AP)
Washington — Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday she is calling the House back into session over the crisis at the U.S. Postal Service, setting up a political showdown amid growing concerns that the Trump White House is trying to undermine the agency ahead of the election. (More)
‘Dramarama’ Is a Sweet Look at Queer Teen Life Dripping in ‘90s Nostalgia
By Curtis M. Wong
Hollywood — Jonathan Wysocki is hopeful audiences will come away from his new movie, “Dramarama,” ready to re-embrace their teenage selves ? even if they “cringe at what they see.” The new comedy is Wysocki’s debut feature and begins virtual screenings next Saturday as part of Outfest Los Angeles. It stars Nick Pugliese as Gene, a high school drama geek who is struggling to come to terms with his sexuality. His road to self-acceptance, however, contains a number of emotional obstacles, given that he attends a parochial school in the conservative-leaning suburban town of Escondido, California, circa 1994. (More)
