Friday, July 23, 2004

Hanging Chad Savage: Gay Porn Star Services the VRWC

Some things are too awesome to make up, and this might be the greatest Page 6 item ever: "THE power-moguls and political heavyweights now luxuriating at ultra-exclusive retreat Bohemian Grove are unaware that they're being waited on hand-and-foot by a famous gay porn star." What is the Bohemian Grove, you ask? It's an annual retreat for the, um, right-leaning male members of the world's polticial and financial elite. Grove alumni include George H.W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Alexander Haig, Henry Kissinger, William F. Buckley, and John Major, and every Republican president since Calvin Coolidge has attended. It's sort of like Skull and Bones, only simultaneously more powerful and more infantile:
When they're not listening to policy speeches, "Bohos" are known to urinate freely in the redwoods and perform mock-druidic rituals that revolve around a 40-foot-tall stone owl. In one ritual, called "Cremation of Care," members wearing red-hooded robes cremate a coffin effigy of "Dull Care" at the base of the owl altar.

While the club has claimed its share of accomplishments — Grovers privately boast that the Manhattan Project to develop the atom bomb was conceived on its grounds — its oddball activities aren't for everyone. Richard Nixon once famously described the gathering as "the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine."
Nixon sure knew how to deliver a line, didn't he? Naturally, the good folks over at Wonkette, Gawker, and Fleshbot are all over this.

[Nice work, asshole. Now we're going to pick pick up hits for "bush," "dick," "gay porn," "all-male," and filthiest of all, "kissinger." At least you didn't include a gratuitous joke about how far to the right Chad hangs.--ed.]

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