Even The Gays Love Big Boobs

For the past, oh, three hours or so, we’ve been trying to figure out what’s the best part of Thom Nickels’ story in the Weekly Press this week about his trip to a press junket at the Borgata. (It’s the story in the bottom corner. WP articles don’t let you link to them directly anymore. Argh!)

Was it the part where he talked about gamblers jumping off roofs of casinos? Was it the part where he hit on one of the members of the group The 5 Browns? Was it the part where he wonders about why there weren’t any beautiful men at the junket?

No, kiddies, the best part, we think, is this two-paragraph look into cleavage:

What is a sure guarantee is that all the public relations women who set up the tour or even public relations women on board as “writers” on the junket will have the demeanor and look of New York fashion models. The trend these days is for women in PR to look like the celebrities they represent. The PR women on my junket were all beautiful and slender, and quite of few of them showed ample cleavage.

As a gay man I enjoy looking at cleavage but probably because I am gay I don’t think twice about letting my gaze linger. Cleavage to me is symbolic of the fall harvest, a bountiful spring, or ripe melons in an organic supermarket. Even as a boy I was fascinated by this part of the female anatomy. As a toddler, I once told my great-aunt that the woman we had just encountered in a bikini on the Ocean City boardwalk “had two bottoms.” My great-aunt then had to correct me and say that the second bottom was really cleavage. I’ve been hooked platonically ever since.

We’re pretty impressed, actually. From male full frontal to obsessing over cleavage in just over a month!

The Weekly Press
June 12: Nude As The News

Nude As The News

Oh, if you have not seenthe current edition of the Center City Weekly Press, you are missing out. Why, you might ask? Well, if you don’t live downtown, you can click that photo above to enlarge the cover. Or, you can just read this: Penis on the cover!

Okay, it’s not that large of a photo and the resolution sucks, but it’s still two naked men standing next to each other on the cover of a non-pornographic newspaper. Woo hoo! It’s good to see nudity making it into our weekly papers. The Daily News is sure to follow any day now.

The reason for the above cover photo is this week’s lead story — written by, who else, Thom Nickles — is about a recent nudist gathering hosted by Philadelphia Area Naked Guys (or PANG). I’m sure you’re looking for a money paragraph, and I’ll grant your request:

I made my bed, disrobed, and then covered myself in sun block. They say that nudism inspires body confidence as well as helping you to accept your “flaws.” In a nudist camp you very quickly find out that everybody has some sort of body flaw, even the so-called “perfect people.” A Tom Cruise look-a-like, for instance, may have pottery barn love handles or a protruding beer belly; a handsome weight lifter may have spotty skin or an unseemly large mole on his buttocks. An otherwise attractive man may have thick “fossilized” toenails, Anorexia thin legs, or a severe case of Rosacea.

Yep. I’m sure the attendees at the camp all felt better about their body image until their flaws were pointed out in the newspaper.

Weekly Press

Namedropping: It works for professional writers and it can work for you

Clearly, Philadelphia-area writer Thom Nickels knows how to churn out the words. He’s the author of, I think, eight books (but it could be as many as 81). And he writes columns for the Weekly Press and Metro, &c.

He’s developed many a writing trick in his years as a writer, and in the cover story for the Weekly Press this week — it’s about the glorified bus stop art project at around 40th and Walnut — he shows us the fine art of namedropping:

Oh, what a witty bon mot, and OH Susan Sontag! Whoo! You met Susan Sontag! I’m totally reading ’til the end now.

The Weekly Press [Philly1.com]