Yes, yes, it is everywhere now and rightfully so:
Estelle Getty died this morning. She was 84.

It has brought on a whole new round of emails from people today, debating:
"which dead Golden Girl would you rather sleep with?"
followed by:
"are 'dead', 'dead to me', and 'playing dead' all different?"

Yes, my friends are classy.

Also, does it confuse anyone else that she was the youngest of the Golden Girls, the first to die and was aged 84?

I'm wrong — Blanche is younger. Unless, like her character, she is lying about her age.

Betty White: January 17, 1922
Beatrice "Bea" Arthur: May 13, 1922
Estelle Getty: July 25, 1923
Rue McClanahan: February 21, 1934

"thank you for being a friend…"

[via The Triumph of Bullshit]

How about a long list of fun things to make Friday speed by a little faster?

The Beeb has a story about twin siblings, separated at birth, who then got married and then found out they were related. Oops.

In a related note, how about the couple in Poland who found each other at a brothel — him visiting, her working. Oops.

As is now our way, how about a joke whose punchline involves orgasms and the Golden Girls theme song? Who says art doesn't imitate life?

A new product from YouTube — glasses to make watching HD resemble the quality of YouTube videos, since, you know, we are now used to bad encoding when it comes to these "moving pictures."

How about a Hello Kitty Jesus tattoo? Yes, you read that correctly.

A serious look at Obama vs Clinton, arguing the difference is not cosmetic.

The greatest song I have heard all week — a mashup of Johnny Cash and Wu-Tang Clan. Seriously. And it is seriously awesome. This is the mp3, for those of you are lazy.

I know Kurt and John loved this, as did I. So here it is — the best part of Season 2 of The I.T. Crowd — the anti-piracy ad:

And finally, one more video. Less funny but true in too many ways.
This would be funny, if it wasn't so true. Also, Hima, I am looking at you here:

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one more:
gladwell briefly talking about steroids and drugs.

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one one more:
an article on news-a-rama (the comic book site) about the new issue of playboy, which happens to use bodypaint to depict the playmate as wonder woman this month. i have mixed opinions about this, frankly. i think i actually lean towards the tasteless side, but maybe that's because wonder woman leans towards fetish naturally, why do you need to sink to that lower level?

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and again:
an injection to prevent addiction is coming. soon. guess i can pick up a trendy drug habit in the next few years. instant rehab!

look, sincerely, i didnt want to keep this conversation going. ok, that's a lie. talking about all this makes me laugh way too much. and if you are tuning in late, you need a primer in tornados, j.o.'s and the golden girls.

because the whole topic is…frightening, i won't attach names to this followup, though i can claim no credit for the following. it was just too good not to share.

friend #1 finds a link to "Trannyshack presents The Golden Girls: The X-Mas Episodes", where trannies dress up as the golden girls and re-enact episodes of the show. here in sf, of course.

friend #2 follows this link up with the following:

2 questions come to mind:

1. Is it gay to j.o. Into a tornado with a guy dressed as a Golden Girl?
2. What is more of a turn off while j.o.ing to Helen Hunt in Mad About
You, an actual Golden Girl walking in on you or a dude walking dressed
as a GG walking in on you? Bonus question: is it gay if he watches you
finish (but does not participate)?

Discuss

this is why i love my friends. and surely i can't be the only one who finds this funny on a very high scale.

also, the fact that question #2 is both valid and well-reasoned in my mind both delights and concerns me.

i try to keep my postings on this side of appropriate, but i have something to share of questionable taste. please, let's not make a fuss out of this.

1. a couple of weeks ago, i came across the best craigslist ad ever. ever. it came through a delicious link in my feed reader, before you go asking what i was doing browsing the houston casual encounters. this post was so good, i emailed the link out to a bunch of people.

but it wasn't enough. it became a huge topic of conversation among most of my friends and i had to go back and save the posting out to a pdf to ensure i had it in the future.

and now, i will share it with you. seriously. best ever. but it is a a bit graphic and def not safe for work. so tread carefully. i'm looking for a jo bud with a twist (m4m) [pdf].

2. you read that yet? your mind blown? ok, so kurt doesn't think this is real. john and i think it's about as real as it gets. either way, it's mind blowing.

but then last night in the car with mike, john, kurt, roxy and i, heading into the city, a new topic was born:

could you
a. j.o to helen hunt?
b. on 'mad about you'?
c. watching it on tv?
d. when any of the golden girls walk in?
e. in person, not into the scene on tv?
f. and would you stop after they made their entrance?

we were in tears, laughing so hard.

yes, we are a tasteless bunch.

but seriously — j.o.ing into a tornado? man, that is rad.
but no gay stuff.