[Yawn]

It seems that just before sunrise on the West Coast, Nathan Gunn was on TV again on the East Coast, this time singing something (Sting? Billy Joel? Tom Waits? (Tom Waits? :-?)) on Good Morning America to promote the new album. I always know when there's a major event in Nathan's career because I'll suddenly get a obscene-looking spike of hundreds of people Googling his name, compressed in a few tight, frenzied hours.

And so I would like to take this opportunity to publicly apologize to Nathan Gunn: I swear, I never—ever!—could have imagined that my silly blog post from nearly three years ago would now be the fourth top Google hit for your name, just under the links to nathangunn.com and your bio. And I'm very sorry that you've had to issue an edict to your kids: "We have a rule in our house—my children can never Google daddy."

In addition, that post is now the top hit for "nathan gunn gay," and not a single, blessed day goes by without a few people wiggling their fingers on the keyboard wondering about that in an infinite number of permutations: "is nathan gunn gay?," "gay nathan gunn rumo(u)r," "nathan gunn wife," "billy budd gay porn star?" (I'm not making this up, you know), and, as Alex pointed out, the genteel and discreet "nathan gunn personal info."

If it's any consolation to him, Nathan is in ample company on this front (though no one gets nearly as many hits as he). Herewith, a sampling of folks whose sexuality TSR visitors are curious about:

christopher maltman gay
barihunk simon keenlyside gay
"philip ens" and gay
david gockley gay
is josh groban gay
eleanor steber gay
"montgomery clift" gay
"krystian zimerman" gay
thomas ades gay
"julius eastman" gay
george tsontakis gay
wilkes bashford gay
"mattin nobila" gay
roddy schrock gay
edwin outwater gay
lisa hirsch gay
nathan wall gay
marcus maroney gay
kosman gay (Ed. - No.)

Bonus track, for the person looking for "'gotham lullaby' lyrics": You're not serious, right? But for the record, I believe it goes:

Walalali, watalanitesanananate, walalalalalala,
walalalalalalalasinananananatinanananate.
Walala.

Comments

[vilaine fille]

Besides "dolce gabbana" + [name of Italian soccer player] (often coming from Islamist nations, including military ISPs), the evergreen Google strings for ma blague are "joshua bell gay" and "juan diego florez gay."

[sfmike]

Wait a sec, now I'm totally confused. You have an editorial note that Kosman is not gay, which sort of implies that everybody else on your list is gay, but last I heard David Gockley wasn't claiming membership in the tribe either. And what about cute little Edwin Outwater? And was Eleanor Steber a lesbian rather than a fag hag or am I completely misinformed? Help. I won't be able to sleep tonight.

[M. C-]

To paraphrase our Supreme Court in the decision that crowned Bush emperor seven yrs ago: the above consideration of Mr. Kosman is limited to the present circumstances, as the problem of equal consideration of all Googlees generally presents many complexities. (In other words, I wouldn't assume precedent is created from that one example...)

[Bryant Manning]

In my interview w/ Nathan for Time Out this week, I couldn't help but mention TSR in passing. FYI

[M. C-]

i hope you let him know that i am not "rabid." or, at least, that i don't bite (that hard)