Today we have a dual milestone. In addition to being New Year’s Eve 2008. This very post marks the milestone of 1000 articles on this blog since its inception in April of this year! May there be another thousand for 2009! See you next year boys!!! Have fun tonight - I’m out on the town. Drive safe and drink responsibly. If you can’t handle that take a cab, bum a ride or just walk dammit! Happy New Year!

If you haven’t yet decked the Halls its time to whip out the tinsel. Christmas Eve has always been my favorite part of this holiday. My family (Me, Mom and Dad) always sat by the fireplace listening to Carols as we opened presents from each other Christmas Eve and opened the rest on Christmas Day when the extended family congregated for dinner. In recent years TBS has added another tradition - watching A Christmas Story at least once during their annual 24-hour marathon. 2008 marks TBS’s 12th annual A Christmas Story marathon.

You Better Watch Out - A stripping Santa from Aussibum…

Second Guessing Grandma - a heartwarming short film set in the 80’s about a young man educating his beloved elderly Jewish grandma as he comes out to her.

Madonna sings Santa Baby

The original theatrical trailer for the modern Christmas Classic and personal favorite, A Christmas Story. If you are unfamiliar, tune into TBS anytime from 8pm tonight until 8pm tomorrow as it airs back-to-back.

via WickedGayBlog and WayOutWest

I never really planned to do this blog all by myself. When I first started it, I kinda hoped for more comments and perhaps even some like minded peeps across the globe who might want author privileges. In the past Buttersboi has had some insightful and occasional scathing comments and also sent me some great rants that I turned into posts, but when he sent me his tirade on the munchkin formerly known as Prince, I felt he’d earned his own byline… Welcome to HeroesNHunks, Buttersboi, i hope you survive the experience.

And be sure to e-mail me if YOU (yes you!) might like to contribute sometime?!?!?! Got something to say about Comic Books? Sci Fi? Gay Rights? Human Sexuality? Entertainment? Politics? Action Figures? XXX Feature Films? or Pornstars? Than by all means - drop me a line at fanboi@heroesnhunks.com

If you managed to get through dinner without encouraging the crazy aunt until she confesses to kissing the patriarch, or the out to everyone but mom-n-dad relation throwing a turkey in the deserving lap of a constantly viscous judgmentally superior sibling than you probably did OK.

I’m a little melancholy this Thanksgiving. My mom had a hip replaced a few weeks ago and aside from the time in hospital, this is the first time I’ve ever seen her as anything less than a force of nature. But today she was in pajamas with a cane at Thanksgiving as we ate pizza. Mom has always hated cooking the whole turkey-n-stuffing combo (she’s more of a holiday ham gal) so deep down she probably see’s this as a “get out of Thanksgiving free” card but was still distressing to see her so frail and not up to the task of a holiday dinner. Dad made it sound like she WANTED pizza, but I think he was just too lazy to find us a good alternative - I’ll take over if she’s still not reay by Christmas. According to Dad, she’s really making good progress tho. :). So, I’m just trying to be supportive and help her with anything Dad might not foresee - he is typical of the unconscious straight guy on many levels - lets just say, although he DOES care for her deeply - (she’s his world) but he’s not always hella empathic.

For some reason the extremely dysfunctional ensemble cast of Home For the Holidays chears me up a bit - call it schadenfreude…

P.S. Although the drama is entertaining, I hope your own personal Thanksgivings went off without an emotional hitch. Happy Thanksgiving form Fanboi at HeroesNHunks!

I came out to my own parents quite late, as I was chicken, the only child, adopted AND they’re from a different generation (mid-70s now). But they’ve been surprisingly cool and supportive to a point. I’ve mentioned my boyfriend (whom you may remember as popapathy) numerous times over the past year, they always ask after him and say nice things about being happy for me etc, yet they have yet to ask to meet him. I’ve decided once Mom is well enough to get herself downtown for lunch again, she’s well enough to meet him. Now I just have to get her and him on board.

media via WickedGayBlog

HeroesNHunks has been suffering from server induced technical difficulties all week. I lost a couple posts and comments when they rest things back to the way there were on Monday.

I know there is alot of talk about the record numbers of African American California voters who showed up in droves to elect Barack Obama (YAY!) and eliminate my legal right to marry a member of the same sex (BOO!).

I want to say that do not misdirect your anger. I’m hearing news of No on 8 protesters verbally abusing random African Americans with hate speech (yes THAT word). NOT COOL PEOPLE! That is the exact opposite of what needs to be done. By sinking to that level not only do you step right into the image that may have made that person vote Yes on 8 (and likely an image spoon fed them by a pastor or other “person of faith”) but also you never know you could be yelling at an African American, straight but supportive or flaming homosexual NO on 8 voter. SHAME ON ANYONE WHO DOES THAT!!!!!!

We need to reach out to the people who were lied to by the Mormon Church - make them realize the underhanded way they were tricked. There are many people who voted for Prop 8 who wouldn’t have had they truly seen the parallels between African American and LGBT quests for civil rights. We may not be the first group of people to kick around under cloak of faith and feel good about it, but GOD WILLING we will be the last.

via Queerty and Huffington Post

Despite the sweeping Obama victory, the close, apparent (fingers crossed on that 4% but not holding my breath) passing of Proposition 8 severely bummed me out. I just don’t understand how someone can vote in the country’s very first African American president while in the same breath choosing to eliminate rights from a minority group. Also it REALLY chaps my ass that the Fucking Utah Mormons can poke their noses into California politics by pouring millions of their tax-free dollars into the Yes on 8 campaign. I want to see any politically outspoken Church lose it’s tax exempt status. If they want to share the hateful christian “faithful political perspective” in their sermons and homilies, fine. But the second they spend one tax exempt dime on a media campaign meant to influence politics and government that is crossing the line between Church and State.

Well that was my rant. My sweet Popapathy sent me the best letter to help put things in perspective… here it is.

Even though it’s a set back, there are mitigating circumstances that will hopefully minimize this insult to nothing more than a tiresome, expensive court showdown, a historical anachronism. because this will be appealed somehow. Don’t let it get you down. Remember:

it’s at best a sad last gasp of an entirely repudiated party and ideology.

the larger battle was won, with Obama in, the legal jeopardy is minimized because domestic partnerships (which everyone in the whole world supports apparently) protect us on so many fronts.

as an amendment, it really doesn’t change anything, we’ll still get to visit each other in the hospital.

the kids growing up now, will never support this and will change it, federally maybe.

in the perspective of recent history, it was just the late seventies that we were de-listed as a mental disorder, the nineties, when sodomy lost its sex offender felony status, and barely 2000 for the passing of widespread domestic partnership provisions.

So we’ve come far in a short amount of time, let them have some time to adjust and have this desperate act, all the better to shame them in history’s unstinting glare because eventually it will be trivial.

HeroesNHunks reached a milestone today when our counter passed the 100,000 mark!!!!! Now if only more of the lurkers would say hi…

Next milestone will be my 1000th post. Only 228 to go.

The flier I created for Lookout’s and Lord Martine’s ACTIVATE!’s Halloween Funhouse is popping up all over San Francisco’s Castro. It features a photo of pornstar Eric Rhodes by fashion photographer Justin Monroe and the photoshop wizardry of pxlforge (a.k.a. me, your host fanboi - what - did you think THIS pays any bills?) I just saw it pinned up at Castro and 18th Street. I love seeing my work out there on the streets of San Francisco.

ACTIVATE! at Lookout is a Castro neighborhood venue full of a hot and sexy crowd and they’ve lined up some great events for your Halloween entertainment so break out your best fangs or faerie wings and check it out if you are able!

via ME!

While I was suffering from that crippling spyware infestation, I ended up breaking down and looking for a game that I could play without internet, and decided on Neverwinter Nights 2. Its not really all that new, but i hadn’t played it despite enjoying the original and actual traditional D&D.

Well now Cynn Abyr is a level 14 Sorcerer / Level 1 Red Dragon Disciple and I’m hooked so bad it has totally interfered with my blogging, not to mention actual life. Rest assured over the weekend while other bloggers rest, there will be some more comics previews, my picks from the 27th and some beefcake just for you!

I know people don’t always feel that the random though in their head is worth sharing as a comment (it is by the way), so I decided to try adding some random reader polls. Right below the 5 highest rated (the stars below the articles are for you to rate stuff) articles you will now find a random reader poll. I only have 4 polls rotating now, but I’ll add more. If you have an idea for a poll, click on the comment link and share it… I want to show what people want to see, but I only know what ya like if you say something or click on the polls…

Sorry gents, even the most obsessed of fanboi’s needs a weekend off occasionally.

Heading up north with friends to Russian River for the weekend. We went up last year for the first time for a good bud’s birthday and it was so much fun we decided it deserves being a tradition. Poolside Mimosas and boys in briefs for everyone! Have a great weekend and be sure to go out of your way to have a good time.

Back on Monday! In the meantime… I always encourage searches, the tag cloud and using the calender to peruse the the wealth of geektastic previews, reviews and general babbling I’ve been doing since 042008. And theres a lot of hot hunks having sex too.

Startup I work for seems to be winding down instead, so I finally have to bite the bullet and quit my current position and find a new one. Payroll is always late and now the check bounced. So if you know of a position for a graphic designer fluent in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, Dreamweaver, Premiere, Maya and 3D Studio Max… or if you just need some freelance design work, drop me a line at fanboi@heroesnhunks.com and I can forward my portfolio link.

Thanks for TattMe619 for adding me to QueerClick’s sticky list!

I always appreciate getting a link. So if you want a shoutout on HeroesNHunks, give me one on your favorite site and I’ll shout back!

I’ve added a RSS newsfeed widget under the blogroll. The Gay and Lesbian news is from the San Francisco Chronicle and the Comic Book News is from Comic Book Resources. I’m still looking for a good porn RSS feed (that works with Wordpress - tried a few that didn’t) if anyone has any recommendations.

Since HeroesNHunks has been viewed in over 70 countries, I decided to look into translation widgets. To the right you’ll now notice a number of itty bitty flags. Just click a flag to translate!

The rating system (blue stars) are fairly new as well. Please rate posts from 1 to 5 stars so I know what you like.

I just installed a new plugin that let you see any image links superimposed over the current Page!!!! No more extraneous back button usage! I’m always looking for ways to make this blog more user friendly so PLEASE offer any suggestions that come to mind.

I figured I’ve been at this a few weeks and as of April 3rd, heroesnhunks.com has been viewed over 1670 times in at least 52 countries, so I figured the least I could do is tell you a little about my inspiration. I was out having drinks with my man (Popapathy) and left him dancing with his “Grace” I prefer calling them that to “fag hag.” He’ll catch up with me later tonight after he’s all danced out.

Anyway I digress, but a few Cosmos will do that. So, motivation… a few years back, I started following a few blogs (Gaypornblog and Fleshbot). One of these eventually led me to Dudetube which was the jackpot of all blogs for me… it covered comic books AND gay porn and I’d never met anyone else who had a similar interest before, so I immediately started checking it daily and bookmarking links it spotlighted, Through it I found many other blogs I still follow (such as queerty and SuperUndewearPerverts are both still favorites.)

A few months after I found Dudetube I discovered a new comic book store called Whatever in San Francisco’s famous gay neighborhood, the Castro District, and soon had met a whole group of comic book reading gay geeks. I had no idea there were so many of us, but it makes sense. What is a fanboy anyway. Described by Urban Dictionary as “A passionate fan of various elements of geek culture (e.g. sci-fi, comics, Star Wars, video games, anime, hobbits, Magic: the Gathering, etc.), but who lets his passion override social graces.” OK I’ll give then the passionate part, but I do think I am capable of social graces when necessary. We are not all the Simpsons “comic book guy” caricature that has become everyone mental image of the straight geek. In some ways I think the gay geek is a VERY different animal, but in others we are quite similar (but I think the differences have little to do with the acts performed).

The closest I ever had to a gay geek role model was Michael Novotny. And I must say just seeing that character interacting with his gay posse did more to make me comfortable with being myself as a gay geek than anything else. Before that i think I really truly believed I was some sort of an anathema.

So Dudetube gave me awareness I wasn’t alone, and Whatever gave me a peer group. As months progressed, Dudetube became more a place to find hot clips from xTube and pretty pics of the muscular goofball boys of fratpad, and I was venting about the dwindling comics content to a friend one day when he suggested I should fill the void I was complaining about. So here you go…

What is your idea of a gay geek? Is sexuality the only thing to differ a gay geek from a straight one? I seriously think some lucky psychiatrist could write a fascinating paper on parallels between comic book superheros and pornstars. I believe both foster an unrealistic idea of the human form (I call it the superman complex - straight boys get the PowerGirl complex, but its the same thing.) If I get some discussion, I’ll continue this line of thought later. Now I’m going to read few free comic books (I’ll review some tomorrow) and go to bed. Don’t worry, I’ll pick a Daily Peep first!