http://hthse.com/wordpress Mon, 11 Sep 2006 20:57:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en To our dear readers: Hothouse is alive and well, and just taking an extended leave from the daily blogging grind. Our deepest apologies for leaving you with no word of our whereabouts. We miss you and hope to return soon, but in the meantime, we leave you with this bit ... http://hthse.com/wordpress/2006/09/11/weve-been-neglectful The world’s chewing over Mel Gibson’s anti-Semitic meltdown, (Christopher Hitchens’ screed over at Slate was a particular favorite) so Good As You resurrected some moldy oldies from interviews Gibson gave in nineties, offering his thoughts on the gays. (Hint: in one he says, “…I do feel that gay people will ... http://hthse.com/wordpress/2006/08/02/the-other-people-mel-gibson-hates From today’s Page Six: Angelina Jolie loves to eat out—as long as a woman is serving her. When Jolie and two pals breezed into the Dakota restaurant at the Hollywood Roosevelt the other night, she oddly requested “a female server only” to bring her halibut and salad, our spy says. “The ... http://hthse.com/wordpress/2006/08/02/angelina-gets-served The L Word Online has up a screen shot of the August Details magazine spread with Leisha Hailey, Sarah Shahi, Kate Moennig, Mia Kirshner, and Erin Daniels. In it, the ladies jump on a bed, attack each other with feather pillows, and squeal while clad in skimpy nightwear. Hot, right? ... http://hthse.com/wordpress/2006/07/31/l-word-pillow-fight Our loyal correspondent, Katie Halper, on the front lines of the culture wars. The tragic congressional defeat of the bill meant to defend the family, i.e. amend the constitution to ban gay marriage, makes me think of one of my favorite people ever. Mary Cheney. Mary just “came out” with her ... http://hthse.com/wordpress/2006/07/31/katie-halper-looks-at-the-m-word Shakespeare’s Sister has an excellent post up about a recent, and largely unreported, trio of gay-bashing incidents in California and Maine. Her questions: At what point does this become an “epidemic?” And, better yet, when do we start blaming it on the rhetorical Republican gay-bashing that appears every year come ... http://hthse.com/wordpress/2006/07/31/gay-bashing-coincidence Ani DiFranco announced she’s pregnant last week after accepting at award at the NOW convention in Albany. The poppa-to-be is Mike Napolitano who produced her upcoming album Reprieve. Ani DiFranco announces pregnancy at NOW convention [AP] http://hthse.com/wordpress/2006/07/31/anis-expecting Actress Kristanna Loken, most famous for playing a machine in Terminator 3 (and making out with Pink in a Monte Carlo nightclub) is set for 10 episodes next season. She’ll play a single mom who meets Shane at a PTA meeting (don’t ask, ’cause we don’t know.) More info at ... http://hthse.com/wordpress/2006/07/28/l-word-casting-4 Much as we’re loath to write about the lady again, we were amazed by the follow-up to her “Clinton is gay” theory. This time, she showed up on Chris Matthews’ Hardball where he asked her about her recent on-air ramblings on human sexuality. Before she repeated her claims about the ... http://hthse.com/wordpress/2006/07/28/ann-coulter-just-cant-help-it Oh, let us count the ways. Queerty links to a story from Meade, Kansas about a straight couple, J.R. and Robin Knight, who run a bed and breakfast and recently started flying a rainbow flag outside their home. That was all it took for the local gentry to hit the ... http://hthse.com/wordpress/2006/07/27/whats-the-matter-with-kansas-2