Mike Tidmus

Germany “Satellite”, Lena – Winner of Eurovision Song Contest Final 2010 (video: BBC One at YouTube) Germany won with a lackluster ditty. The good news therein is that for the second year in a row the former Soviet Bloc countries failed to vote as a bloc. And, shame on Oslo, Norway for screwing up the [...]

Moldova’s SunStroke Project & Olia Tira – Run Away (video: eurovision at YouTube) SunStroke Project & Olia Tira will represent Moldova with the song Run Away at the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest in Oslo, Norway. All the excitement, all the fabulousness and all the over-the-top camp kick off on Tuesday the 27th with the first [...]

InCulto – Eastern European Funk – Lithuania (video: eurovision at YouTube) If you’ve been hanging out in these parts for long, you’re undoubtedly aware that it’s coming up on time for the international campfest known as The Eurovision Song Contest. As I did last year, I’ll be posting a selection of videos, and I’ll post [...]

From 50 best protest signs of 2009 (photo: anonymous) Check out BuzzFeed‘s 50 Best Protest Signs Of 2009. There’s some very funny stuff there. Trust Mike. (tip: Zakiya Khabir)

Funkyzeit mit Brüno (photo: Universal) Brüno, Brüno, Brüno. Here’s a handful of reactions and criticism: From Roger Ebert: “Bruno” is a no-holds-barred comedy permitting several holds I had not dreamed of. The needle on my internal Laugh Meter went haywire, bouncing among hilarity, appreciation, shock, admiration, disgust, disbelief and appalled incredulity. Here is a film [...]

Eminem gets teabagged by Bruno (video: MTV via YouTube) Sacha Baron Cohen, in character as the flamboyant Austrian fashion reporter Bruno, swooped into the MTV Movie Awards last night and ended up straddling Eminem’s face.

Et S’Il Fallait Le Faire by France’s Patricia Kaas (video: Eurovision at YouTube) Yesterday, a friend asked me what the Eurovision Song Contest is all about. I said take equal parts of The Ed Sullivan Show and Cirque du Soleil and inject the combination with some serious steroids and voilà! that’s Eurovision. Here’s how North [...]

Russian neo-fascists, religious fundamentalists and police descend on gay activists in Moscow on 27 May 2006 (Photo: Sergei Karpukhin, Reuters) I’ve added a graphic button for Slavic Pride and the Eurovision Song Contest which are set to collide in Moscow over the next several days. It links to special coverage at Andy Harley’s UK Gay News. Europe’s [...]

Svetlana Loboda’s second rehearsal at the Olimpiyski Arena  (video: Eurovision at YouTube) Representing Ukraine, Svetlana Loboda will be performing Be my Valentine! (Anti-crisis Girl) in the Eurovision Song Contest.  Catch the more polished official preview video here.

Greece’s Sakis Rouvas’ second rehearsal (video: Eurovision at YouTube) Next week, 42 contestants representing countries from Iceland to Israel will assemble in Moscow for the Eurovision Song Contest. The performances will range from simple torch songs to over-the-top flamboyant production numbers, and most of Europe will turn its attention to this amazing televised campfest in Moscow. Shaun Walker, [...]

The Big Gay Teaser (video: The Big Gay Musical at YouTube) … The Big Gay Musical! Sorry readers, but after a morning of non-stop TittieGate, I was in the mood for some opposite entertainment. Yes, that is Village Voice columnist Michael Musto storming out of a performance of The Small Straight Play. Tip: La Dolce Musto

Bowie does Ziggy (photo: Debi Doss/Getty Images) And what a time to come of age: the decade that finally washed its hands of the lethargic, pot-smoking, flower-in-your-hair generation that preceded it and developed attitude. An attitude that was then squandered by the new romantic fops of the 80s. The 70s were special – don’t let anyone [...]

Do not miss this priceless op-ed in The New York Times: The Bigots’ Last Hurrah By Frank Rich WHAT would happen if you crossed that creepy 1960s horror classic “The Village of the Damned” with the Broadway staple “A Chorus Line”? You don’t need to use your imagination. It’s there waiting for you on YouTube [...]

The National Organization for Marriage’s Maggie Gallagher and Brian Brown — the comedy team behind what is undoubtedly the most ridiculed, mocked and parodied television commercial in media history — are taking a bow and thanking all the little people for their  epic failure  enormous success. In an email yesterday, NOM’s Brian Brown, wrote: Speaking of [...]

The Colbert Coalition’s anti-gay-marriage ad (video: Colbert Nation) Oh. My. Dog! There’s a giant gay storm gathering, and before long the winds will be blowing each other.  Stephen Colbert on the National Organization for Marriage’s unintentionally-hysterical ad: “It’s like watching the 700 Club and the Weather Channel at the same time.”