David: Wake up all you passed out hipsters. Did you know Lurid Digs has a growing community of fans over on Facebook? We post regular updates PLUS kookie interior design tips that you won’t be able to live (or decorate) without. And, better yet, a special gallery devoted to Lurid Digs REJECTS (try to imagine — we dare you!)

JOIN US on The Facebook. And when you’re done — spread the word — tell your friends, tell your high school P.E. coach, tell Maggie Gallagher — hell, tell your mom — she’s homo-hip isn’t she?

File Under:News

12

David: You’ve probably heard of The Facebook. Yes? I just found out about it yesterday — it sounds like quite the internets phenomenon — so my apologies for not having created a comfy corner for you earlier on The Facebook. Yes YOU, our regular and diligently loyal Lurid Digs fan. We want to thank you — warmly. And rest assured you’ll find goodies on our The Facebook page that you won’t find anywhere else. Little kookie, tacky tidbits and even some hugely horrifying horrors; news events and tabloid catastrophes within the gyrating world of (gay) bad taste. Yes, I mean stuff that we don’t necessarily post here on the official Digs excavation site. (Though we can’t promise that Betty White will be stopping in any time soon). So, please JOIN US on The Facebook. And when you’re done — spread the word — tell your friends, tell your high school P.E. coach, tell Maggie Gallagher — hell, tell your mom — she’s homo-hip isn’t she?

File Under:News

27

Your big break!

Glamour. Prestige. Cachet. Your name in lights. The start of a brilliant career.

Publisher David K. is on the make for new blood — and you may be just our type! We’re in the market for a fresh-faced, doe-eyed, bushy-tailed intern to cover a gamut of topics, from porn chic and porn creep to queer music, art and film. Indulge your innermost Jimmy Olsen fantasies — and ours!

Our qualifications:

* An exposure to the arts and a background in print or web design is desired, but not required.

* An enthusiastic, flexible work ethic.

* A love of art and music and smut and the skill to articulate it with charm and style.

* A great vocabulary and starlet-worthy diction.

* An ass that won’t quit.

Contact David K. for further information and/or questions. Please include with your introductory email a link to your blog or online writing portfolio. Good luck!

File Under:News

Don’t miss any of Lurid Digs’ future crash (pad) landings.

Yes, we finally succumbed. Now we’re just waiting for you. We dare ya!

So join us on Twitter. Don’t miss a single catastrophe.

David K.

File Under:News

28

The tick-tock of time. The collection of dust (and doilies). The non-stop bad decisions of horny gay men across America — self-portraitizing themselves and inadvertently sharing the horrors of their homes with, well, everyone in the world. It’s enough to make you cry into your eggnog (and cancel your Manhunt subscription.)

As the year closes we’re making some changes here at Lurid Digs. Our lone Italian Peacock and style maven, John Calendo, is taking time off to focus on the full-time demand of finishing his first novel. John will still work as Senior Editor with Nightcharm and maybe, if I can beg with enough fervor, make the occasional appearance here on LD.

Longtime Nightcharm contributor and Lurid Digs style honcho Shawn Baker will be assuming John’s former position as Executive-Editor with NC. And I’ll write more about Sean’s meteoric rise to the top of queer porn’s smartest website later this month on Nightcharm.

And finally, I’d like to welcome to the fray our newest interior design mensch, Canadian wunderkind Sean Horlor.

Sean’s the co-creator and co-host of a comedy lifestyle reality TV series called Don’t Quit Your Gay Job (coming to Logo in the US in 2010), a garrulous author and a columnist covering Vancouver’s nightlife in the city’s first gay blog Up Your Alley.

When I emailed Sean yesterday, to let him know that he’d landed the LD’s appointment, he responded:

“Are you telling me that the countless hours I’ve frittered away checking out guys online over the past decade was all in preparation for a moment like this? Kelly Clarkson is probably so jealous right now that she could bottle me in the throat.”

And she is pissed! Kelly called me this morning to let me know that her life does indeed now, officially, SUCK, after losing out to Sean. Yes, the cutthroat world of interior design thrashing (and trashing). It’s killing us all.

Love,

David K.

File Under:News

14

 
 
Recently I got on the phone for a lengthy interview with Drew Rowsome, associate editor of Fab, a gay scene monthly published in Toronto.

Drew had a great set of questions for me about Lurid Digs, including what exactly my qualifications were as an expert of interior design. (Talk about feeling cornered and outed!)

I know I sent out a Tweet about the magazine last month, but forgot to post a link here to the feature on the site. So, for your pleasure here’s the interview.

Should you guys (or lesbian decoratoresses) have any questions for me, feel free to post in the comments section below and I’ll do my best to answer. (Please though, nothing about ‘cut’ or ‘uncut.’)

And ‘no,’ that’s not me on the cover of the magazine. o_0

Love, David

File Under:News

3