We all just wanted to thank you for all your support of our benefit calendar. So far, 111 have been sold, which wildly exceeds our expectations. (We were aiming for 60.) One thing: I'm working on a "print-it-at-home explanation sheet thing" for buyers, in case you are giving them as stocking stuffers, so people know what the heck it's about. And here's a little more context for you.
Here is the PSA that's running in North Dakota now, to educate people about housing discrimination.
Age, sex, gender, disability... Oh right. Notable what's missing, right? Correct. It's still open season on the gays in the land of liberty.
Tags should read: Zack Benefits North Dakota.
+1
+a lot a lot!
IN. THOSE. JEANS.
LOL. Damn, ginuwine's gonna be in my head all weekend. Thanks a lot NVC.
JUST ONCE, IF I HAVE THE CHANCE
THE THINGS I WOULD DO TO YOU
Could you quit this stallin'? You know I'm a sexaholic.
You're an amateur. I just got an offer of oxycontin, a blowjob, and a haircut.
+1,000,00fjkldajfkdajklfjdslkjfdlshf
111? At $4 per calendar for Zack, that's like...a thousand dollars! I don't know. But I'm starting my own calendar, ladies.
I'll take 111.
ONLY IF YOU PROMISE TO GIVE THEM OUT AT WORK.
Oh, that's gross.
Haaaaaaa YES IT IS.
I would buy one of those!
I work with little children, y'all! And he is a disgusting, horrible person who does not.
That's true! Little children are just a hobby for me.
@C: EGO, STROKED.
No Moff 144 would be gross.
Dude, THE FIRST RULE OF FIGHT CLUB IS DO NOT TALK ABOUT FIGHT CLUB!
WE NEED TO START A MIDWEST AWL BACKYARD WRESTLING LEAGUE.
111 PLZ
Didn't you get in on that epic UW snowball fight everyone keeps emailing me about? One kid's face was BLEEDING. Not enough fight club for you?
No, I'm old and curmudgeonly and have no time for shenanigans. Also, I was too tired from shoveling to leave the house yesterday.
Apparently, the UW kids also rolled, like, an eight-foot-diameter snowball and left it in the middle of one of the main thoroughfares? Which would be funnier if THERE WERE ANY WAY TO GET AROUND DOWNTOWN MADISON BESIDES THE THREE OR FOUR PRESCRIBED ROADS.
I attempted to email @Awl video of snowmen being plowed down on the Madison campus. I'm pretty sure I screwed up the linkage.
But everyone should watch it! It's on the Youtube!
It's like Tiananmen Square for Frosty.
@moff: omg, so it's true what i'm told and madison has totally turned into a city of farmers market/Overture center-going real-estate-flipping killjoys! When Kohl moved hockey downtown and ripped down an Ogg hall, i knew it was over.
This may be video of the event.
Or it might be a link to nowhere!
http://www.tvweek.com/viral-video/4/
a ha ha. there is NOTHING that sun prairie-living city worker enjoyed more than to plow through those spoiled uw kids' fun. And then they threw a snowball at his truck? sigh
In my defense, I have been a killjoy since long before moving here.
The Overture Center, though. I've been to two rock shows there (and I use that term loosely), and boy oh boy did the gray-haired ushers seem to think the Decemberists and Andrew Bird were about a degree away from being Slayer and AC/DC. Fortunately, we were allowed to stand up while they played -- but it was touch-and-go there for a few.
That is VERY satisfying to watch.
OMG! I had a boyfriend in Ogg Hall. Very convenient, as I lived in Sellery. And later, on the very Gilman street where the Frosty Masacre took place.
Everyone had a boyfriend in Ogg.
*call me
MY PHONE DOESN'T WORK IN THE BASEMENT.*
*This is true.
Whoa. It's like we're long lost brothers.
WHAT AM I LOOKING AT? I feel like I just got date raped!
(Am I right? Do I win?)
Now it feels like Christmas.
I did NOT email the small JPG of Zack and his toes to my blackberry and set it as my screen display.
That would be creepy, right?
Y'ALL just HAD to frame in the "Power Ram" in that last picture....It has Choire ALL over...Now I feel diry too.
I was going to say something...
You sound like someone I know.
PS - HE IS SO CUTE.
RIGHT!?
I take back what I said about Mount Rushmore being the most attractive men in the Dakotas.
Right? And not that it matters to him, but he is also very appealing to the straight girls. He's adorable, but not a twink, so we can actually pretend he's straight for fantasizing purposes (not that I've done this*). Kinda like Jake Gyllenhaal.
*but the the night is young
Your syntax has somewhat confused me, but if you're saying what I think you're saying (ie, "Jake Gyllenhaal would totally fantasize about Zack,") then I AGREE.
My syntax confused me too.
I meant that Jake Gyllenhaal is also somebody who is not a twink that straight girls can make-believe is straight for fantasizing-related purposes. This statement would also insinuate that Jake is not straight, and would therefore probably fantasize about Zack, too (WHO WOULDN'T?!). Yikes, sorry Colonel, I'm not sure that clarification even helped. I have had a long week.
Dear Jake's lawyers,
I am an anonymous commenter, and Choire and Balk do not necessarily share my own personal unproven heresay-based beliefs about Jake's sexuality. Don't sue them. They only have like $600 in change anyway.
xoxo,
HTMB
OMG I like Carhartt too!
Just bought mine. Merry Christmas! Chappy Chanuka!
BTW Abe, make sure you don't fuck up this kid's taxes - he might need an accountant.
strongly agree.
Measures are being taken. MEASURES!
There are a few measures I'd like to take on Zack. Namely inseam.
So gay.
Also, he's a little taller than me so I'd say he's 6'1"... inseam? At least 34....
Not to be critical, you're doing a great thing. I've just one too many people geta tax bill when they were expecting a refund, because they forgot about income. Thanks for doing this, Abe. Calendar purchased.
No. Thank you!
Wow, good luck Zach!
Can we get an updated number? I want to know if my Facebook strong-arming has been working--
Hey Zach,
I grew up gay in Grand Forks in the late 60s. I had a few close friends and my best friend was who I came out to first.
I moved to Oregon to go to college, dropped out and moved to glorious San Francisco, became a professional dancer, traveled around the world.
Now live in the wilds of Ontario, Canada on a 100 acre farm. Love Canada, where gays are completely equal and can be married.
I have family in Saskatchewan, just across the border and Winnipeg was always a cool place to me.
Good luck!
Zack and Abe--
Can you guys please do a follow-up in the new year, say Feb.-Mar. when everyone is tired, wan and depressed? It will be feel-good news by then to hear than another 40,000 calendars have been sold. :-)
Seriously, I want to know what comes of all of this. I am hoping for something very, very good.