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    Bears on Bears nominated for Best Nonfiction Book in Gaybies

    Posted By Ron Suresha on March 5, 2010

    Bears on Bears nominated for Best Nonfiction Book in Gaybies!

    Bears on Bears, revised edition, front cover

    Great news from the TLA folks, who now carry the full line of BBB titles, including Bears on Bears:

    TLA is the largest online (tlagay.com) and mail order retailer of gay home entertainment and books in the US. The TLA Gaybie Awards honor what we feel were the best films, books, actors, blogs, film festivals & more in 2009. You have been nominated for:

    Nominees were chosen by our staff from the best and the best-sellers of 2009. The winners will be determined solely by online voting with the results to be announced on April 15. Customers, filmmakers, fans, friends, family (and even enemies) can all vote as many times as they like during the month of March, so please vote early and often. Voting will end 11:59pm ET Wednesday March 31, 2010.

    You can find the full listing of nominees along with all details of the 2010 TLA Gaybie Awards here:

    http://www.tlagay.com/gaybies/a-2

    Congratulations on your 2010 TLA GaybieAwards nomination!

    TLA Gay Awards - Vote Now!

    So folks, let’s get busy! Head to TLA Books online and vote for Bears on Bears — and show your bear book pride!

    And thanks!

    Books in Day’s local author roundup

    Posted By Ron Suresha on February 28, 2010

    Local authors release new tomes, The Day 02/26/2010

    In Rick Koster’s roundup of books by local authors:

    Our local writers have been busy – no doubt the bleak mid-winter affords plenty of time to wax inspirationally over a computer keyboard.

    Here are some new publications from authors in the region. …

    “Bisexual Perspectives on the Life and Work of Alfred C. Kinsey” by Ron J. Suresha (Routledge, 168 pages, $125) – This is a har[d]cover reissue – with new material – of the book nominated for the 2008 Lambda Awards for Excellence in Bisexual Literature.

    Also a revised edition from Suresha: “Bears On Bears: Interviews and Discussion” (Lethe Press/Bear Bones, 328 pages, $25) – Five new interviews are included on this examination of a gay and bi men’s subculture.

    Of course most of these books were not likely written during “the bleak mid-winter.” But it sounds romantic…

    Bear Soup #67: Bear Cult intro; “Who’s Goldilocks? IBR”

    Posted By Ron Suresha on February 22, 2010

    Bear Soup, with Ron Suresha

    Bear Soup #67

    Bear Soup #67, streams online tonight, Monday, February 22nd, at 10:00pm Eastern & Pacific on BearRadio.net. Repeats Wednesday, same times. In this episode of Bear Soup:

    • E. Lucie-Smith’s Introduction in Chris Nelson’s 1991 book of classic Bear magazine photos, The Bear Cult.
    • “Who’s Goldilocks? International Bear Rendezvous,” an article by T. Bundy in SF Gate
    • Shoutouts, and the usual ursine hootenanny.

    Do drop in for another fascinating edition of BEAR SOUP!

    Bear Soup is sponsored by the bibliobears at Bear Bones Books.

     
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    Bear Soup #66: The Cult of Masculinity

    Posted By Ron Suresha on February 15, 2010

    Bear Soup, with Ron Suresha

    Bear Soup #66

    Bear Soup #66, streams online tonight, Monday, February 15th, at 10:00pm Eastern & Pacific on BearRadio.net. Repeats Wednesday, same times. In this edition of Bear Soup:

    • “The Cult of Masculinity,” by  Arthur Evans, from White Crane Journal’s 20th anniversary issue
    • Shoutouts, and the usual ursine hootenanny.

    Do drop in for another bubbling and dee-lish serving of BEAR SOUP!

    Bear Soup is sponsored by the bibliobears at Bear Bones Books.

     
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    Bear Soup #65: The big bad bear porno show

    Posted By Ron Suresha on February 1, 2010

    Bear Soup, with Ron Suresha

    Bear Soup podcast #65

    The big bad bear porno show

    Bear Soup podcast #65, streams online tonight, Monday, February 1st, at 10:00pm Eastern & Pacific on BearRadio.net. Repeats Wednesday, same times. In this steamy spicy NSFW bowl o’ Bear Soup:

    • “The Real Men of Gay Sex,” a section from Behold the Man: The Hype and Selling of Male Beauty in Media and Culture, by Edison Wayne Dotson
    • ChiChi LaRue’s bear porno vids from Channel One, and the bears that inhabit them, including “Barry Barrett” Barry Barrett
    • Shoutouts, and the usual audio woofenanny!

    Do drop in for another bubbling and dee-lish serving of BEAR SOUP!

    Bear Soup is sponsored by the bibliobears at Bear Bones Books.

     
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    Bear Soup #64: J. Mann poem, L. Mass interview

    Posted By Ron Suresha on January 18, 2010

    Bear Soup, with Ron Suresha

    Bear Soup #64

    Bear Soup #64, streams online tonight, Monday, January 4th, at 10:00pm Eastern & Pacific on BearRadio.net. Repeats Wednesday, same times. In this bowl of Bear Soup:

    • A Jeff Mann poem printed recently in GLR, “For a Seductive Student.” *
    • The first part of “Weight and Fat as Masculine Drag,” my interview with Dr. Larry Mass from Bears on Bears.

      Bears on Bears, revised edition, front cover

    • Shoutouts, and the usual ursine audio smörgåsbord.

    So drop trou and drop in the hot tub for another bubbling batch of BEAR SOUP!

    Bear Soup is sponsored by the bibliobears at Bear Bones Books.

    * If you have a damn good bear poem and would like it read on Bear Soup, please send it to bearsoup AT gmail DOT com

     
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    Bear Soup #63: “Best of Whatevah”: “Husbandry” in The Masculine Mystique

    Posted By Ron Suresha on January 4, 2010

    Bear Soup, with Ron Suresha

    Bear Soup #63

    Bear Soup #63, streams online tonight, Monday, January 4th, at 10:00pm Eastern & Pacific on BearRadio.net. Repeats Wednesday, same times. In this edition of Bear Soup:

    • BEAR SOUP voted top US podcast in Best of the Bears 2009! Congrats to Bears in da City (Ozbears) for being the Best Bear Podcast/Blog votegetters. CompleteBear shrugs its furry shoulders and claims “voting irregularities” as if that was self-explanatory. Even if there isn’t a prize, award, sash, cash or tiara — isn’t something called “Best of the Bears” worth doing right, or at least very well? Maybe someone else should take a crack at it.
    • The revised edition of Bears on Bears nominated for the Lammies. Support the Lambda Literary Foundation by becoming a member.
    • Shoutouts, and the usual ursine audio mishmash. A delightful and safe New Year to everyone!

    I’m cooking up something steamy . . . it’s a bubbling bowl of tasty tangy BEAR SOUP!

    Bear Soup is sponsored by the bibliobears at Bear Bones Books.

     
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