by Cary Harrison
GoHarrison.com

FROZEN TREATS

While shopping in the Whole Foods on SMB/Fairfax, I stood glancing through the freezer doors, eyeballing the allegedly healthier “ice creams,” all chemically-induced from some unsuspecting soy bean. A nattily-dressed man in front of me began gnawing on an ice cream bar he’d just plucked from the freezer, the wrapper floating to the ground. I caught his profile — a very handsome celeb—fully enjoying his guilt-free, fat-free, (price-free?) frozen-non-dairy-confection treat. I thought, “Good for you, Leo DiCaprio! That’ll show Whole Foods’ conservative CEO, John Mackey, a thing or two.” Mackey, using his corporate backbone, has so aggressively blocked any decent healthcare reform for the American people, including any brief glimmer for a public option. Ironically, many shop at W.F. to avoid the toxic trash known as the America food supply ... all the while, CEO Mackey — in a display of spectacular political douchebaggery—has simultaneously denied us the very thing that would provide long-term health.

WEHO WALK OF WANG

The BGS (Big Gay Starbucks) across from 24 Hour Fitness is our version of a neighborhood “town hall” since L.A. is basically a 50-mile-long suburb with no real belly button. At BGS you see the entire spectrum of the gay rainbow from the withered and weathered to the fit and firm. I was approached by a mid-30ish out-of-towner who asked me where he was supposed to go to “sign up to do porn,” as if there were some sort of porn kiosk on Santa Monica Boulevard. Presumably, this would be where new arrivals go to register their genitalia for the next day’s shoot, as it were. Turns out, West Hollywood’s external reputation has grown such hair and teeth that traveling gayfolk envision popping into the ‘hood for a day or two, then departing with a bag of cash and their own (porn) star pressed onto such fabulous locales as the Koo Koo Roo sidewalk.

CAUGHT IN THE ACT

Charlize Theron was spotted grocery shopping at Pavillions — WeHo’s “gay bar with produce” — emerging two hours later with three shopping carts of food • Porn star Francois Sagat was seen all sweaty inside the Big Gay Starbucks post-workout with an unfamiliar but hunky guy • Jane Lynch was caught buying baked goods at Stolichnaya Russian Bakery • Gay-fave Kathy Griffin was spotted on the Robertson strip, stopping into The Abbey and Here Lounge.