born 7 July 1970

Allan Hale, Bad Hersfeld, West Germany, possible spook

Almen Wong Pui-Ha, birthplace unspecified, Chinese actress

Aron Wade, birthplace unspecified, Belgian actor

Atli Örvarsson, Akureyri, Iceland, composer

Chayse Dacoda, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, interior decorator

Chris Odom, Queens, New York, swing dancer/documentarian

Domenic Scotty, Hawthorne, California, extra/set medic

Erik Zabel, Berlin, East Germany, cyclist

Gyözö Szabó, Nyírbátor, Hungary, actor

James Getzlaff, Devil’s Lake, North Dakota, participant in gay reality show

Juan Carlos López Duran, Caracas, Venezuela, documentarian

Levon Minasian, Leninakan, Soviet Union, Armenian short filmmaker

Michael McCrary, Vienna, Virginia, NFL football player

Peter-Arthur Straubinger, birthplace unspecified, Austrian documentarian

Robia LaMorte, Queens, New York, actress

Zoe Tyler, birthplace unspecified, English singer/voice coach

The recent city heat has melted my brain, and short-circuited my already dim critical faculties. If I had to choose a winner from this group, it’d be the guy who was the focal point of the Bravo channel gay reality show, whose name no one can remember, which appeared to be an all-male version of “The Bachelor”, but with the twist that half the suitors of the love object (Today’s Winner) were revealed, in the second or third episode, to be “straight”, not gay; there’s a lot to be dubious about here, not least of which that the entire series, whose name nobody can remember, is available as a DVD boxed set, even though it was only six episodes in duration, not to mention: what is a “straight” actor portraying a gay guy on a reality TV show supposed to tell his “girlfriends” about his latest job…it kind of takes the prize for the most dubious and odious reality show concept ever executed (a crowded category): Today’s Winner takes his prize for returning to the woodwork from whence he came, to be neither gay-seen nor straight-heard-from again.