Gay Commercial: Heinz Deli Mayo

This commercial has now been banned on UK television after only a week, to many complaints.

The tag line is "Mayo With a New York Deli Flavor"... I believe that the commerical wants to show that everyone can be a good housekeeper and making sandwich like a NY Deli, if they use this mayo.

Commercial Closet Association

Company: H.J. Heinz
Brand: Heinz
Ad Title: Deli Mayo - "Mum" in the Kitchen
Business Category: Packaged Foods
Media Outlets: Television
Country: United Kingdom
Region: Europe
Agency: BBDO Worldwide
Year: 2008
Target: Mainstream

Gay Commercial: Heinz Deli Mayo

This commercial has now been banned on UK television after only a week, to many complaints.

The tag line is "Mayo With a New York Deli Flavor"... I believe that the commerical wants to show that everyone can be a good housekeeper and making sandwich like a NY Deli, if they use this mayo.

Commercial Closet Association

Company: H.J. Heinz
Brand: Heinz
Ad Title: Deli Mayo - "Mum" in the Kitchen
Business Category: Packaged Foods
Media Outlets: Television
Country: United Kingdom
Region: Europe
Agency: BBDO Worldwide
Year: 2008
Target: Mainstream

Sanguine Shadows (Breathe 1) by Willa Okati

The story is pretty simple: Darce is an old vampire, how old we didn't know, but he has the behavior of a cowboy in the Old Far West. He is a lonely wolf, he doesn't mix well nor with humans or with vampires. He pretty much would like to be left alone. But Raven has other ideas; as Darce is old, Raven is very young, barely a six months old vampire, and he was turned when he was still a boy. So he has all the energy and the expectations of a young man, and he is not able to stay put where you left him.

Raven sees Darce and he decides that he likes Darce and that he wants him; the fact that Darce would prefer to be left alone is not important for Raven: Raven only agrees to do things when they are what he likes, otherwise it's like nothing was said. And so he drags Darce in a relationship where Raven is the classical top from the bottom, even when Darce is trying to "punish" him, it's Raven that directs the scene.

Almost all the 51 pages of the book are devoted to describe Darce and Raven's relationship, how Darce can't help to fall for the young man. All in all Darce is not a bad guy, he is like a teddy bear, all strenght outside and tender heart inside; probably he is not enough clever to outcome Raven, the boy is too smart for his own good, but truth be told, Darce doesn't try: even if he wouldn't say, probably he likes Raven as he is, and he needs to be shaken from his torpor.

Enjoyable short story for a nice break.

http://www.changelingpress.com/index.php?uaid=ISFUDNYA

Reading List:

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Sanguine Shadows (Breathe 1) by Willa Okati

The story is pretty simple: Darce is an old vampire, how old we didn't know, but he has the behavior of a cowboy in the Old Far West. He is a lonely wolf, he doesn't mix well nor with humans or with vampires. He pretty much would like to be left alone. But Raven has other ideas; as Darce is old, Raven is very young, barely a six months old vampire, and he was turned when he was still a boy. So he has all the energy and the expectations of a young man, and he is not able to stay put where you left him.

Raven sees Darce and he decides that he likes Darce and that he wants him; the fact that Darce would prefer to be left alone is not important for Raven: Raven only agrees to do things when they are what he likes, otherwise it's like nothing was said. And so he drags Darce in a relationship where Raven is the classical top from the bottom, even when Darce is trying to "punish" him, it's Raven that directs the scene.

Almost all the 51 pages of the book are devoted to describe Darce and Raven's relationship, how Darce can't help to fall for the young man. All in all Darce is not a bad guy, he is like a teddy bear, all strenght outside and tender heart inside; probably he is not enough clever to outcome Raven, the boy is too smart for his own good, but truth be told, Darce doesn't try: even if he wouldn't say, probably he likes Raven as he is, and he needs to be shaken from his torpor.

Enjoyable short story for a nice break.

http://www.changelingpress.com/index.php?uaid=ISFUDNYA

Reading List:

http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=reading list&view=elisa.rolle

Tony Gibble & Clint Shields: TimCafè

Look look what I noticed today logging on my Yahoo Group page:



This is the Italian version of Yahoo Group and the banner is to promote an online social network (with the obvious purpose to find possible partners). There are various banners, both with hetero than gay couples, and the one above is the male/male version, the tag line more or less says: Thousands of single people are waiting for you. But... do you recognize the couple in the banner? They are Clint and Tony, two of my Men Candy (a real life couple)! I wonder if they know that their faces are on an Italian commercial!

If you want to read more about Tony and Clint, here is the post where I featured them:

http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/438174.html

Tony Gibble & Clint Shields: TimCafè

Look look what I noticed today logging on my Yahoo Group page:



This is the Italian version of Yahoo Group and the banner is to promote an online social network (with the obvious purpose to find possible partners). There are various banners, both with hetero than gay couples, and the one above is the male/male version, the tag line more or less says: Thousands of single people are waiting for you. But... do you recognize the couple in the banner? They are Clint and Tony, two of my Men Candy (a real life couple)! I wonder if they know that their faces are on an Italian commercial!

If you want to read more about Tony and Clint, here is the post where I featured them:

http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/438174.html

In This Land: The Purple Book by Matthew Haldeman-Time

In This Land series by Matthew Haldeman-Time is quite a famous trend in the M/M romance world: Matthew Haldeman-Time is maintaining an online and ongoing series, and people can read any new chapter paying a small fee every month. I started the subscription more than two years ago and it was just well far on deep in the story, so I really don't know when all started. I have to admit that now I interrupted my subscription, but not since the story was no more interesting, but since the author finally decided to release the story also in print version, collecting all the various chapter in 8 different book (and later on I will explain why 8, or at least why I believe there will be 8 books) and I obviously bought the book in print version (I have all the book of Matthew Haldeman-Time in print...).

The starting point of the series, is Bade's personal story. Bade is a prince of a fantasy kingdom, a realm that is a mix of medieval and arabian custom. In Bade's world, homosexuality is not a crime, even if not so common; since Bade is not the first born, he is relieved from the task to provide an heir to the throne, and so is his twin brother Vane. Bade and Vane are inseparable, but at the beginning of the book they are forced apart by Bade's particular "mission": he is chosen by Prince Orinakin, the royal diplomat of a more important and wealthy kingdom, as suitor for his pharaoh Anosukinom. Prince Orinakin is travelling among all the kingdoms of the world to find various and handsome suitors and Bade is one of the chosen. Bade doesn't know why he is considered worthy, or why the chosen was him and not his more friendly twin Vane, but he takes the choice as a task, a way to bring the issues of his native kingdom in front of the powerful pharaoh.

For Bade is quite a cultural shock: even if in his native land, homosexuality is not forbidden, he is not used to openly manifest his sexual behavior or desires. Instead in this new land, sex is a common expression of a natural need, and not only it's not forbidden, it's also warmly adviced. The Bade we met at the beginning of the book almost separates in two different men: one who remains inside his mind and that has quite a predisposition toward Orinakin, the royal diplomat, and one that becomes to express himself also through his body, and that is deeply fascinated by Anosukinom. It's quite interesting to see Bade's evolution to see what will be his final choice. On the other side, both Orinakin than Anosukinom are interested in Bade, but Anosukinom, as man and god alike, already knows who will be his future husband, and so his intetest in Bade could mean that he is the final chosen. Instead Orinakin fears to care too much for Bade since, if he will marry his brother, he will be forever forbidden to him.

Even if Bade, Orinakin and Anosukinom are the main characters of this first book, all the other brothers of Orinakin have big supporting roles in the story, and since they are in total 8 (with Orinakin and Anosukinom), I have the feeling that every book will focus more on one of them, and that only in the final book all their stories will come to an end. Every brother has a different color who identify him, and Purple is the color of Orinakin.

"In this land" recreates a very complicated and interesting fantasy world, with deep arabian characteristic, like the harem and the use of water and gardens to embellish the palace. I felt almost like a cultural clash when Bade arrives in the new land, since his background was more european medieval, with all the boundaries that this means, and he found himself in a country that was at the same time terrifying and fascinating, since it disputed all he believed since then. I have also the feeling like Bade moved from a world in black and white, or better in soothing color, like brown and black, to a world that was a rainbow of joyous color, and this reinforced the sensation of cultural clash I had.

http://www.lulu.com/content/4895867

Amazon: In This Land: The Purple Book, Volume One

Reading List:

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