I Was Ready for My Close Up! There's been lots going on in the Züri G. kitchen lately ... both literally and virtually. Tivo was here for a two week visit ... in which we did many cool things, but most often we sat around like couch potatoes watching TivoTapes. I have a few interesting things to report, but at the moment not much time. So keep checking back for updates ... Meanwhile, to all of you who've emailed ... I've got quite an email backlog too, but I WILL answer you.

Now as to what's been cooking in the kitchen (literally), nude male art photographer Marco Carocari (think Bruce Weber or, I don't know, that guy that throws the nude pool parties) came over yesterday to take pictures of me in the kitchen for publication. Dear readers, now I know how Claudia Schiffer feels after a hard day's work. (And, unfortunately, I've been so busy watching TivoTapes into the wee hours, that the bags under my eyes had bags.) You can sample some of Marco's work at www.marcocarocari.com (mostly suitable for moms). My readers with a "queer eye" might have already seen his work on his 2004 calendars Couples and Undressed (probably even on sale in Dallas at that silly Crossroads Coffee Shop that was a cool bookstore and most probably not suitable for moms - they are gay nude male art photos). Don't worry moms and everyone else. I didn't drop trou. Long time readers, half of Zürich, and the Slidell,Louisiana postman have seen much more of me then Marco photographed (on this site, at the Streetparade, or pasted to my Christmas package to mom and dad - that last bit was just to goose mom who complained that she didn't want people maybe seeing my Streetparade photos). You could show the pics we made in church. (Yes Amanda, there is a Santa Claus, but I didn't get that hot.)

More as the story ... develops.


It's a Long Shot, but ... Ok, anyone landing on this site before Monday January 12, please go to http://www.fairvue.com/?feature=awards2004 and nominate me for a "bloggie" in as many categories as you want or can (suitable category suggestions are "Best European Weblog", "Best Tagline of a Weblog", "Most Humorous Weblog", "Most Modest Weblog", "Best Kept Secret Weblog", and "Weblog of the Year"). That would be "Nominee: Steve Holyer/Züri G'Schnäzlets - or heck if you're American - just "Steve Holyer / Zuri G'schnatzlets" and "URL: http://steveholyer.blogspot.com".

It's a little hard to figure out the rules, but I think they say you have to nominate at least three unique sites - that's to keep you from just stuffing the ballot for me. If you're not reading any other weblogs may I suggest you also nominate:

Nominee: Dave White / Dave White Knows
URL: http://davewhiteknows.blogspot.com
Categories: "Best American Weblog" (in any other category he might fit, he would compete with me)
(Why you should also nominate him ... he's really cool, hot stuff, and really funny. And the rules say that the weblog has to have been published during at least part of 2003 even if it later dropped off of the face of the earth.)

Nominee: Jase Wells
URL: http://www.jasewells.com
Categories: "Best glbt Weblog" (in any other category he might fit, he would compete with me or Dave White)
(Why you should also nominate him ... you've gotta nominate someone else to nominate me and he's cool, informative, and much smarter than Moby.)
posted by Steve at 1/08/2004 09:27:00 PM

Tivocam Photos by Tivo

posted by Steve at 1/01/2004 05:21:00 AM

I've attempted to leave this blog in the state it was in early 2006 as a historical artifact, but Google broke my original Archive page. What you see above is a quick reconstruction to rebuild some archive functionality without altering the original blog layout (or researching too deeply into Blogspot).

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