Listen to this. Lifelike remix of The Presets’ “This Boy’s in Love.” The new album is very good, very much their sound but lots of new directions.

Since it opened a year or two ago, I have been into the Spring Street Ben Sherman store a few times and only ever found a couple of things I liked. So I went in yesterday with the lovely Dana Dynamite looking for something and to my surprise I kind of love the entire spring collection. There was a lot more black and white than I think they’ve produced in the past, and anyone who has ever seen me out knows that my apparel rainbow is pretty much grayscale. Perfect. So she helped me find some amazing stuff that I’m bringing with me to Vegas. Without Dana I think maybe I would have been showing up to Tao in holey underwear and a poncho.

Yesterday was Geneva’s official birthday so we had dinner at 24 Prince, and as usual, I basically died. I want them to cater my afterlife. Finally introduced Nikki to Christian, and they had lots to talk about, obviously. When I get back next week I’m going to do some awesome photos with her.

Today on Gawker I read a thing about Prodigy (Mobb Deep) blogging that America is racist because there’s often just one or two token black people in shows & ads. Now, I’m not saying that America’s not a big racist craphole, because it still clearly is and every one of us knows plenty of people who will have their heads entirely up their asses until the day they die, but this is one argument I can’t get behind. Google tells me that 12% of Americans are black. That’s one in eight. So if you have a show like Saturday Night Live with about a dozen primary cast members, and only two are black, that makes sense, doesn’t it? Every show has a token gay now, too, but gays in America number one in ten at best. So it doesn’t seem wrong to me to have limited representation. At least the “token” black on every show and in every commercial is not a gross caricature of all blackness, as most “token” gay characters are these days.

He then says “They only put the one or two blacks in, so when we confront them about being racist for not hiring more blacks they can say ‘that’s not true, look there’s a black right there, look and a black there!’” This is also probably somewhat true (ad execs are often pretty vile people), but at the same time, he criticizes the “all-black” versions of commercials and print ads that run in predominantly black locations. So what do you want? You’re mad when there’s a technically accurate representation, and you’re mad when everyone is black. I can’t be mad at both Everybody Loves Raymond and Queer as Folk, can I? I think a show with ten recurring characters, of whom six were gay, would just be awkward. It’s unrealistic. It would come off like some sort of steroid version of affirmative action and make me feel even more singled out, because a whole boatload of people would be going way out of their way to be like, “GAY! SEE? GAY!”

Unrelated and totally GAYSEEGAY: I am absolutely DYING to have the gray jacket and both jeans designed by Justice for Surface to Air.