For a surprise vacation in which I was told just to get on the plane and go, Las Vegas was the perfect getaway. Between the strip, Vietnamese cuisines, gigantic Daiquiris, KUNV jazz station, books, and a fantastic confidant, what more could a man ask for? I didn’t even have to do a thing (I love surprises) since someone else already done a great job of all the planning. In addition, you can’t beat a vacation in which all your meals are paid for courtesy of Pai Gow. Although I am now physically back in NY a couple hours ago, I still am in my LV state of mind.

Updates will resume sometimes late next week. Peace!

In The AfterEllen.com Hot 100 List, the author stated that “Clearly, what straight men and lesbians find sexy in a woman is a little bit different.”

The main different is that Queen Latifah made it to number 55 on the list. Is it because of her incredible role as a lesbian in Set It Off?

On a Radio VNCR’s interview, Y Phuong speaks highly of Ngoc Lan as her idol. (Tip for VNCR, kill the background music when she sings.)

Tim Brown’s “Blogging with Ma.gnolia“:

Bookmarking things in Ma.gnolia is nearly effortless and is a huge efficiency for me because it helps me remember, sort and share things both inside and outside of the Ma.gnolia website. Treating bookmarking like blogging works for my style of information sharing.

Jeffrey Zeldman’s “E-mail is not a platform for design“:

Unlike the web, which also started as an exchange medium for text messages but which benefited from the inclusion of images and other media, e-mail works best when used for its original purpose, as the most basic of content exchange systems.

Billie Holiday’s “Me, Myself and I” swings behind the beat.

Caren Bohan’s “Bush to press Vietnam on arrests of dissidents“:

After a Vietnam court on May 11 sentenced two activist lawyers to up five years in jail, the White House criticized an increasing number of arrests of dissidents and said they were out of character with Vietnam’s recent modernization.

Pupsam presents photos of people kissing themselves.

Scatch that. Not iPhone’s Internet. It’s just… the Internet. From the new iPhone ad.

Is this the world’s most polluted river? (Just unbelievable)