He's outrageous, he screams and he bawls

In his otherwise serious article criticising the excessive fascination of eugenicists scientific researchers into the existence or otherwise of the "gay gene", Alex Andreou in The Guardian adds a comment that I found quite amusing:

"The genes in question are "chromosome 8" and "Xq28", which makes complete sense, since they both sound like names of Soho gay bars. I'm fairly sure I went to Xq28 once."

But seriously, folks! Gay gene or no gay gene, I agree with Mr Andreou - why don't these "experts" concentrate on the identification of medical interventions for genuinely important human traits, such as the predisposition towards cancer, or Alzheimer's, and leave their obsession with what we get up to in bed out of their equations?

Anyway, here's an appropriate song, methinks:

David Bowie - The Jean Genie [Top of the Pops 1973]

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Lost Bowie

A rare David Bowie Top of the Pops performance will be shown on television tonight for the first time since it was originally broadcast in 1973.

It was believed that every recording of the singer performing his hit The Jean Genie had been destroyed.

It emerged last week that one had been found - and it will feature in the Top of The Pops 2 Christmas Special on BBC 2.

The footage was found when retired TV cameraman John Henshall realised he had his own copy of the performance.

The film emerged earlier this month when it was shown at the Missing Believed Wiped event at the British Film Institute in London which celebrates the discovery of long-lost TV shows.

Read more on the BBC.

Can't wait!