Will Clark World

TWITTER ME AND WATCH ME RUN NAKED

Yes I do realize the absurdity of trying to get 499,000 Twitter followers in the next 7 days - if only I could become friends with Ashton Kutcher, I'd get there in no time.

What am I talking about? Well, it all started a couple days ago when my friend, singer and Austrailian Kylie Edmond (who'll be a guest on the Will Clark Show on January 5th) put it out there that she'd run naked through the streets of Manhattan if she got 500,000 followers by the end of the calendar year. I chimed in and said I'd join her if I got the same number.

Sure, maybe, as one friend on Facebook said, I'd run naked through Manhattan anyway but this way it's a lock that you'll see it happen (cuz I'd film it).

In any event, if you're a Twitterer and you would like to see a redhead shuck his clothes and make an ass out of himself, not only friend me, but tell all your friends to friend me too. I promise that if this happens by midnight December 31st, 2010, I'll spend the first few minutes running through the West Village with nothing on but a smile (and definitely shoes .. and maybe a really good hat because, as they said on Seinfeld, you could be completely naked and be out in the cold if you have the right hat.. I hope to test that theory).

Stay tuned......

FACEBOOK AND GROWING INDIFFERENCE

As I write this, I am grateful that the look of my profile hasn't, as of yet, changed. It's taken me a long time to figure out where the photos are, where the sent messages are stored and a half dozen other things - the learning of which will now be rendered obsolete through yet another redesign.

However, lest you think I'm one of those who complains bitterly about the whims of a free social network service, I want to add here that while I used to get really annoyed, with this redesign I almost couldn't care less.

Facebook has become, for me, sort of like that guy we all know who has a lot of boyfriends - not all at the same time, but in succession. They are usually younger than him (but not always) and they are usually wildly inappropriate for him (but not always) and they always fail at just about the point when things get serious (usually somewhere between three to six months). If you are like me, you have stopped learning the names of the serial boyfriends, because really, what's the point? By the time you see the friend again, he'll be on to the next one.

Better save that parcel of grey matter for something that really matters -  like where to stand on the platform when you get on a train so that when you get off, you are right where you need to be to get out of the station. (There are many terms for this but I call it "pre-placing" yourself).

What this really signals for me, is a sudden kind of indifference to the website. I went nearly an entire week without posting anything on the site - although I did that with this blog as well. Not sure entirely what that means, but it feels significant somehow. I have to say that THE SOCIAL NETWORK left a bad taste in my mouth about the whole social networking phenonema .. which I don't think was Sorkin's intent.

So, with this new redesign, Facebook has become a serial dater - the look changes but I just can't get too excited to really leran it - because another one will come around soon enough anyway. I guess I'm 'just not that into it'.

SNOW GLOBE YOURSELF WITH THE PUPPINI SISTERS

Want a unique holiday card? Try using the Puppini Sisters' snow globe feature on their website... share a little music, a little holiday cheer and any image you want to place inside it (yes, that's a challenge by the way). Click here to go to their site and start sending those notes in minutes!

THERE'S AN AP FOR THAT

A little funny faux commercial from Funny or Die ...

iPhone Murder Apps from Emma Stone

PRIDE WEEK EVENTS: WHO LOOKS BEST IN A NEOPRENE VEST - JOAN OR JUSTIN?

TONIGHT, Thursday June 24^th, Pride explodes.. but first... this morning, the BF and I took a walk before work and noticed a big to do in front of the Apple store on W. 14th. So many people lined up for the new iPhone 4, it reminded me of bread lines of the 1930s (how far we've come, huh?). I'm glad that recession is over so that so many people can afford a new phone.. what? Oh yeah, never mind. (sorry, it's just disturbing to me that while people are still clawing for a job, there's enough wealth for hundreds of people to have to line up for a phone.. yes yes yes I get it, sales of phones equals more jobs somewhere.. but I can't help but think that there's something about this that's really wrong...)

But back to the fun Pride stuff.. tonight there is an embarrassment of riches to choose from – do you go to the Joan Rivers show at the Gramercy Theatre or do you go to the opening night of Bianca Leigh’s new show (that runs Thursdays through August 5th) at the Bowery Poetry Club at 308 Bowery between Houston and Bleecker (presented by Theatre Askew)? Well, actually Joan's show are already sold out tonight so if you didn't get yer tix, you'll have to wait til July and August when she's got more shows booked.

Happily, Bianca's show is still available and you can show her some lovin' on her opening night by showing up at buying some tickets (really much cheaper than the iPhone 4 and there's a bar open throughout the show). 

Or you could celebrate Pride with the New York AIDS Service Center at their annual Safer Sex in the City event held at La Pomme (37 W. 26^th Street) from 6:30 to 10pm. You can find out more info by going ot the AIDS Service Center website. Tickets start at $100 and entertainment includes Kelly Killoren Bensimon aka one of the Real Housewives of New York and Vivid Girl, Savannah Samson.

Or you could ditch all the pricey things and head over to the Chelsea Cleaview and catch Hedda Lettuce’s interactive commentary for “Mommie Dearest as part of her weekly show. This definitely will sell out because who doesn’t like to watch an out of control bitch scream at her children as a way to celebrate Gay Pride? And Joan Crawford is scary too. (Kidding!!) (Also: why had no one ever pointed out how similar Joan Crawford and Michael Myers from Halloween look?)

There’s also always last night’s super sexy Bingo guest, Justin Utley who will be appearing at 9pm sharp at Stonewall to debut a new single followed by Lourds at 10:30. If Utley takes off his shirt again, there will be another riot. Talk about lines forming. Seriously not kidding. Yum. (The neoprene vest was donated by Nasty Pig to the gay football league - where all told we raised $450 -  to auction off - thanks Justin for modeling it for us!)

And there I think I've actually run out of things to say - for now! Keep it hot n safe!

FOLLOW FRIDAY: PINPOINTSX POINTS YOUR WAY TO PLEASURE

Now see if Roy Ashburn had subscribed to PinpointsX, he wouldn't be in the mess that he's in. Why? Because PinpointsX is a new ap for your iPhone or iPad Touch or it's even available on the web (for us old school folks who have sausage fingers and find pressing those tiny icons on the iPad really infuriating.. no I wanted PinpointsX, not the Weather!!) that lets you find the nearest sexy place -- or car service for those nights when you really don't need another DUI - to party on with your peeps.

Like, the closest gay bar, or straight bar or strip club or dance club or sexy upscale restaurant where you can take that special male friend on a 'business dinner' so no one will know you're fucking him after you sign important anti-gay legislation. But I digress of course. :)

A couple weeks ago I went to a fabulous art gallery in Soho for a cool media show of the new PinpointsX product. I love this kind of stuff and frankly would rather go to Vegas for the CES convention than the adult stuff because although I'm traditionally a late adapter on many things gadget-oriented, I do love my toys especially when you're looking at something that you know is going to be super big (like 3D television - the next big thing since color. Seriously. Not only are the prices now sorta kinda in the ballpark for buying but it'll be maybe two or three years tops before it's just a thing that people start to get en masse. naturally the trouble is that there isn't a lot of 3D programming which is why if you're an actor or a writer the next few years is going to be one hell of a great ride - because Hollywood will be scrambling to create mountains of entertainment in order to justify to people to ditch their just purchased - relatively speaking - flat screens and opt in for the 3D).

And of course wait til the porn industry gets a new lease on life by recreating the industry with 3D porn. Dominic Ford is the only one doing it now but not for long ......

Anyway, PinpointsX is sorta like Grindr in that it's a way for people to find each other for hook ups. Granted the ap is more pansexual leaning towards straight than strictly gay like the Grindr.

A quick aside, I'm not much into Grindr, partially because I have a boyfriend and in theory I'm not really looking for sex (leave that alone) and also because last year it was like the new meth - where folks were just addicted to it to the exclusion of all else. 'dude, I found someone ten feet away' accompanied by swiveling heads and desperate furtive looks to where 'ten feet away' is (it's New York so 'ten feet away' could be in a completely different business than the one we're in).

BTW when I approached the Grindr guys about cross promoting with Bingo, they sent me their promo package where it would cost me $400 to promote them. Uhm WHAT? Yeah, those Grindr parties that you see around town, they cost the promoter $400 to put on. And that's just to get the Grindr logo on the thing. I think it's a fun site but honey, nothing's that fun. And by the way that is one great GREAT scam - let's charge people to promote our business. Brilliant. And that people actually do it is hilarious!! My dad used to say that you could see those kinds of people coming a mile away.

Anyway, PinpointsX has really great graphics and a detailed map of the city you're in (it looks like Google Maps) dotted with icons for various erotic type of activities. The first step is to sign up on their website (maybe you can do it on your iPhone but geez, sitting at a real keyboard is just plain easier I think) and then it takes you through the steps pretty easily. It's a gay and straight site and I was impressed with how savvy the creators of the menus are giving a wide array of options - looking for escorts or groups or one on one.

If you're a business or a professional you can list on the site too. With one touch on the screen, the name of your business - restaurant, comedy club (Comix is on PinpointsX), massage place, dance club, etc, - will pop up and will lead to another screen with full details - location, website, phone number and so forth. And geez, I even found an all male strip club on there that I never knew existed - located on W. 28th Street. Gotta check THAT out soon!

Naturally this is one of those things that in the early stages can feel a little like 'where is everybody?" but it's an investment over time and as more and more people, straight and gay, join in, your options will expand rapidly.

POP CULTURE TUESDAY: PARISIAN LOVE PARTS 1 AND 2

STUMBLED OVER this while looking at Superbowl ads since I missed the actual game.. the first "Parisian Love" ad is sweet and cute, the second one, dark and disturbing (and almost feels like something a student would do).. but people are talking about it and I'd be interested in your reactions...

Part 1

Part 2

CATCH UP THURSDAY: PEE WEES IPAD

Well, this is definitely a commercial for iPad although Pee Wee (whose LA show ends this Sunday Feb 7th) does have some good natured (?) fun with it. Given Pee Wee's subversive nature and his eventual arrest in a male theatre, I wonder, what exactly did Pee Wee have to agree with Steve Jobs to do to get "one of 50 iPads in the US"? I'm not entirely sure I want to know <wink>

So it's "Catch up Thursday" and today I'll be writing all the things that I've been meaning to write here all day long. Tonight, a private party at the Museum of Sex as they open their exhibit on Rubbers. I'll be there with Mike Dreyden, Bryan Slater and Colin Steele and naturally pictures will follow tomorrow(ish). :)

Pee-wee Gets An iPad! from Pee-wee Herman