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TAKE A NUMBER – Today’s Modern Love column in the Times is so fucking funny. Bob Morris describes gay marriage best in terms of Fresh Direct or smoking or Botox or parking permits. Read on.

Then there’s the fact that marriage often lasts about as long as a Botox injection. And what is marriage anyway but (if I may be so pretentious) a hetero-normative institution that clumsily mixes property and the State with the divine and ethereal ideals of love?

Then there’s the most insightful quote I’ve read all year:

“Being gay and single is becoming the new smoking…”

Who is this Bob Morris man? And when can I break up his marriage (and subsequent re-marriages), and keep him for myself?

• We’ll Marry Each Other as Often as Needed | Modern Love [NY Times]

WE DON’T NORMALLY DO THIS BUT… Skimming through today’s Daily News, as we devoured our meager salad, we bumped into ANTM winner Saleisha Stowers (Cycle 9). In a newspaper ad. Wearing Rampage. For Macy’s. WTF!?!  It makes sense. 1.) Macy’s is in bed with the CW. 2.) Saleisha has modeled for Macy’s in the past.  Still. How is it that the ”winner” of America’s Next Top Model is busy posing for catalogs, while plus-size Toccara Jones (Cycle 3) — who didn’t win – has a spread in Vogue Italia? Conundrum or poetic justice?  Work it out Toccara.

SAY AHH! – The gay we love to hate got himself a little feature in Wired this month. Go ahead. You know you want to read it. It’s okay. You’re not alone.

The blogs-to-riches story of Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr. is the stuff of online legend. In 2004, during what he calls “the worst year of my life,” he was a fame-obsessed loner who had just been fired from a reporting job at Star magazine. (”It poisoned my soul,” he says.) Dreaming of becoming an actor, he moved from New York to LA, unemployed and broke. Too cheap to pay for Internet access at home, he set up shop at a local Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf. There, enjoying the free Wi-Fi, he stumbled across a few personal blogs. He thought of writing an online diary of his own but concluded that his life was too boring. [Wired]