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The deluxe edition of "Trespassing" has been battling Glee for the number one spot on iTunes all day. :)

One last interview. This is just the Q&A portion of a radio show appearance. More talk about singing and also songwriting technique. He also talks about how they got that "Nile Rodgers vibe" on the album, but the most fun part: his response to a suggestion given to him at 14:03.

I got the deluxe set with the LP included. I have nothing to play it on, but there's something wonderfully nostalgic about holding an LP in my hands again. I forgot how much I missed the large display of album art. :)

I told a few local friends I would be posting this on Thursday evening, and I am just getting to it now. Life happens.

Anyway, Adam Lambert's new album comes out this Tuesday - Mine has shipped already! Meanwhile you can stream it HERE. I can't wait until I can play this in my car and sing at the top of my lungs!

Rolling Stone and several others have given it great reviews!

And now, a more recent interview. And look! A woman who can sit next to him and not flirt or constantly touch him (You'd be amazed how much it happens. It's both pathetic and creepy. In one interview, if the woman had been sitting any closer, she'd have been on his lap!). This woman talks more as a sister or a friend. The interview is conversational, rather than one-sided, which isn't always enjoyable, but in this case, it is.

(Let's use the icon and mood GIF that will be most likely to make conservative fundies clutch their pearls! [Mine is an evil laugh!])

Well, this has been an interesting day.

It started with me Googling the NC Marriage amendment vote, and discovering (to the surprise of no one) that it passed.

Congratulations, North Carolina, for stepping back into the 1950's. That happy time when women knew their place, and it was OK to say the "n" word. And you could arrest the F*GS for being F*GS. And Senator James Forrester, I'm sure you're looking down from heaven and beaming that your last political action in this world was successful. Because yes, GOD is the real president, and your version of his law should be forced on the entire population. This will be your lasting legacy. I hope you are very proud!

This is what happens when preachers are looked to for all the answers. Their words should be a guide, at best. We are people - not sponges who should give our power to any other human being.

People were calling the Michelangelo Signorile show in tears. Somehow, it's very different when something is not legislated, but voted on by the people, who, by an overwhelming majority, have told you in no uncertain terms that You. Are. Not. Worthy.

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In the second hour of the show, however, Signorile announced that President Obama finally came out for marriage equality.

This now separates Obama in a very real way from Mitt Romney, who yesterday reiterated that not only does he not support same sex marriage, he also does not support civil unions. I guess it's that "slippery slope" argument.

Speaking of slippery slopes, you know the argument that same sex marriage will lead to pedophilia? Well, guess what? In North Carolina, you can get married when you're 14! HETEROSEXUAL MARRIAGE HAS LED TO PEDOPHILIA!!!

Legislatively, this declaration means nothing, unless this next election ousts a good number of GOP's in congress. And nothing will really happen until there is an LGBT version of Loving vs. Virginia heard at the Supreme Court.

But historically, the most powerful man in the world just told you in no uncertain terms that You. ARE. WORTHY.

After listening to North Carolina "pastor" Sean Harris' rant about punching your effeminate sons and make sure your daughters look and smell like a girl, while his audience amened and laughed, this, from another North Carolina PASTOR, is very refershing.

Please vote NO on Amendment One.

More clips from various interviews and concerts.

What this idiot wants his sheep to vote for is the NC marriage amendment, which not only puts "one man, one woman" in the state constitution (NC already has a DOMA law banning SS marriage), it bans ALL domestic partnerships, civil unions, etc., both gay and straight.

Tell me, does this sound like a metaphor to you?

He unpologized because he couldn't take the heat when his words went viral.