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News & ArtsTuesday, September 6, 2011
LGBTQITSLFA Perky Eunuchs
Posted by Dan Savage on Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 12:00 PM
Male meteorologists at local TV stations are well-groomed, presentable, and handsome-but-not-sexy guys with nice hair and twinkly eyes. They're guys that nice girls could picture bringing home to mom but not guys that moms could picture slamming it into nice girls. I'm thinking it can't be a coincidence that so many local TV stations have these interchangeable perky eunuchs doing the weather. That "perky eunuch" quality must be something station programmers look for.
Anyway, it's hard to maintain that perky eunuch quality when you're waking up in bathtubs with dead guys wearing dog collars.
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I couldn't get past "KARK meteorologist Brett Cummins." To my 8th grade sensibilities, even the word "meterologist" (sp) looks dirty.
I don't don't spend a lot of time in the personals section, can someone tell me what KARK stands for?
I don't don't spend a lot of time in the personals section, can someone tell me what KARK stands for?
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...I don't get it. Why mock the poor guy who woke up in the hot tub with a dead friend or lover?
I know you like to bill yourself as being an asshole Dan, but usually there's some reason behind it.
I know you like to bill yourself as being an asshole Dan, but usually there's some reason behind it.
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@5...the stories about Theron Zahn are pretty.....interesting. And I'll just say I wouldn't touch him with a body condom. Or Jim Foreman for that matter.
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Perhaps Dan's point is that Jacuzzis and drug-use-to-the-point-of-unconsciousness are not a good combination, with or without the dog collar. Wearing one of his many hats, Dan has long been an advocate for finding safer ways to engage in one's kinks.
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Dan, just so you know, the dead guy in the bath tub was an acquaintance of mine. The dog collar business is bullshit. It was a loose choke chain he wore almost all the time. The police and media reports are trying to sensationalize the story where it needn't be sensationalized. Dexter was a sweet kid and he'll be missed. I wish now I'd taken the time to go over and say hi to him when I saw him last week at the library instead of just waving.
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@9: All sympathies, but "The dog collar business is bullshit. It was a loose choke chain he wore almost all the time."
what's the difference?
what's the difference?
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@10 Maybe because the media appear to be trying to add a kink/fetish angle to this story when none exists? A person's choice of fashion accessories typically doesn't get mentioned in the first sentence of an article about how they died unless it's pertinent to the story.
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@10: The difference is that it was a fashion accessory, a simple necklace, really. It wasn't a fetish toy. Calling it a "dog collar" reads into the facts a titillating element that is neither necessary nor likely true. He was a good person, and he doesn't deserve to wind up as the butt of a joke about a TV weatherman's sexual escapades.
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From the police report:
"Dexter's face was blue and purple in color with a chain around his neck... [According to Barbour:] After Brett awoke, they discovered that Dexter was not conscious and his face was a different color. He then explained that Brett screamed and became ill and left the bathroom and vomited on the carpet in the livingroom...they cleaned the vomit prior to our arrival. We did observe a bottle of carpet cleaner and a washcloth on the coffee table. Mr. Barbour then explained that Brett left the home and stated that he was going to return."
BradCav, I'm sorry for your loss, but there's a lot that looks funny about this. If your friends found your cold, dead, discolored body, shouldn't they prioritize calling the cops and leaving everything the way it was, rather than cleaning up and leaving the scene?
"Dexter's face was blue and purple in color with a chain around his neck... [According to Barbour:] After Brett awoke, they discovered that Dexter was not conscious and his face was a different color. He then explained that Brett screamed and became ill and left the bathroom and vomited on the carpet in the livingroom...they cleaned the vomit prior to our arrival. We did observe a bottle of carpet cleaner and a washcloth on the coffee table. Mr. Barbour then explained that Brett left the home and stated that he was going to return."
BradCav, I'm sorry for your loss, but there's a lot that looks funny about this. If your friends found your cold, dead, discolored body, shouldn't they prioritize calling the cops and leaving everything the way it was, rather than cleaning up and leaving the scene?
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I mean, I do understand wanting to get rid of the drugs... but I don't see any reason for cleaning a possible crime scene except to remove evidence. Unless they were both awake together all night (which they deny), they must have each realized that the other one was a possible suspect in Dexter's death.
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@1: KARK is a radio or TV station. Their call signs start with K or W in the US.
Why does "meteorology" sound dirty?
Why does "meteorology" sound dirty?
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Erica, it's the way the "dog collar" bit has been reported that I find unnecessarily exploitative. I think you are exactly right about your other observations.
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EricaP @15/16
Sometimes, when people are in shock they prioritize things in ways that may seem odd. I've done similarly odd things when first processing something horrible, like a friend or family member's death.
Heck, I'd probably be the one mechanically cleaning up the vomit, while waiting for the ambulance. Not to hide evidence, but because the vomit was gross and all over the floor, and needed to be cleaned up, because that's what you do with vomit on the carpet.
Sometimes, when people are in shock they prioritize things in ways that may seem odd. I've done similarly odd things when first processing something horrible, like a friend or family member's death.
Heck, I'd probably be the one mechanically cleaning up the vomit, while waiting for the ambulance. Not to hide evidence, but because the vomit was gross and all over the floor, and needed to be cleaned up, because that's what you do with vomit on the carpet.
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@1: Are you really so dense? KARK is a TV station in Little Rock,Arkansas. Just to amuse you: Radio and TV stations west of the Mississippi start with K and those to the east of it start with a W.
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@22 - Mmmm, no, that isn't it. SWCM ISO SWCF or KARK for possible LTR... I think I've read that. This thing on?
I'm actually sorry my whole un-GSOH comment had to play out in a topic about someone who lost a friend, and probably their career.
I'm actually sorry my whole un-GSOH comment had to play out in a topic about someone who lost a friend, and probably their career.
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Are we gonna talk about the whole Eunuch thing now?
Perky, well, yeah. Non threatening, yeah.
Eunuch? Really? WTF?
I give this Dan Post a trainwreck grade of "A+"
Perky, well, yeah. Non threatening, yeah.
Eunuch? Really? WTF?
I give this Dan Post a trainwreck grade of "A+"
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@27- Yes. A eunuch is someone completely bland, neutral, incapable of effecting change or much of anything else. Vanilla, cream-of-wheat, oatmeal come to mind...and weather-persons, male or female.
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