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Marilu Henner of Taxi fame and also Evening Shade with Burt Reynolds, is one of a small number of people who are able to recall every detail of their life in vivid detail down to the date, what the other people were wearing and what was said. Now I first learned of this when she was on a talk show and she told the interviewer this. The interviewer picked out a random date and she was embarrassed and then related that was the date she lost her virginity. The would be a memorable date for most and in this case more so as the date was July 20 1969. I have very vivid memories of that date as it was the date of the first moon landing (for those who believe that we did actually land on the moon). So I was not particularly impressed. Several years later, she was interviewed on 60 minutes and related that from that interview, she was contacted by about 5 people who had the same ability and together they were being studied at a major university. It is clear known that the strength of a memory is related somewhat to adrenalin and dopamine and that is why particularly emotional events are remembered very vividly. Most of us of a certain age can recall where we were on 9/11 or, if you are of a certain age, on November 23 1963 and many of the details surrounding it. Yet few can recall what we did on 9/10 or November 19, 1963.

I think running into acquaintances at unexpected locations can be challenging. You have the vague notion that you know the person, or you are sure you know them but are not sure from where. I would often run into patients in the grocery store or at the movies or at a restaurant and I was sure they were a patient but could not place their name. Oddly, I would often remember many details about them, either their medical conditions or their relatives without being able to recall the name. Yet, if they did come to the office, I would immediately recall who they were just by the name and in those situations, I could remember just about all of their medical issues and most of their history. Memory is a very complex function but once triggered, other connected memories are easily accessed. Just the other day, I went to the gym in the morning. I am usually an afternoon guy. A very attractive man said hello to me and when I seemed perplexed, he asked if I remember him. Well, for the life of me, I could not recall his name, but I did recall our conversation details and was able to tell him, sure I do, you and your partner moved here about a month after I did and we struck up a conversation when I remarked about your Nebraska sweat shirt. You were quite cordial and we were having a nice conversation but your partner was not happy about something and he insisted that you needed to leave. He said, he was surprised I remembered all thar from our single visit. He was leaving the locker room when I was entering and he waved goodbye and said it was nice to see me again. I still do not know his name, nor can I recall his face but I am sure I would recall all this if I met him again. His name, nope still do not recall.

I have known Apollo for a decade or more. He will top, though that is not an activity I can comment on. He has not bottomed for me and when asked, he said that it is something he does. YMMV but I know him well and I believe if he did that, I would have had an E ticket for that ride.

The Steel Gym in Palm Springs, for those coming to the Weekend or for a trip at another time, is essentially a gay gym with an older leaning crowd. The steam room dress code is towel for the extremely shy and nude for all the rest. There is a lot of self play followed by neighbor can I borrow a cup of cock, nipple play, blow jobs and even deep kissing which I find interesting to happen between strangers. I have seen one guy get pig roasted but that was the only anal activity I have seen there, but I am sure it happens. I would say 8 out of 10 times in the steam there is something going on, which usually stops when the door opens and resumes right after it closed when it is clear it is not an employee checking up. I have had a few brief mutual jerk off encounters. I went in the steam with an escort and he purposefully strutted around hard and then came to me and I blew him for a bit. When I came up, the other 6 guys in the room were either jerking themselves or their neighbor. At that point, the escort and I left.

That theme song certainly hints as there being a gay component to the Maharis' character. They have him looking longingly at something unseen and then a quick switch to Martin Milner's handsome face. They are talking and directly looking at each other and then Milner stares at a passing women, while Maharis tries to get his attention, never looking to see at who or what he is staring. At the end, he wraps his arm around Milner and keeps it there as they walk. Milner does not respond in kind. Particularly in westerns, but in many "buddy" shows as well, there was often a gay subtext with longing glances and crotch close ups and needless shirtless scenes.

Love that package in those tight jeans and a very handsome face

An endangered species, the introductory TV Theme Song. Even Rarer, the end of the show Theme Song. There are few new ones but there are plenty of old favorites. I was torn between My Mother the Car and The Addams Family. Snaps up for the Addams. Do you have a favorite?

Why would the Greatest American Hero need frequent flyer miles? After all believe it or not he is walking on air.

The Rookie is very popular and they moved that in competition with Watson and it is likely that Watso could not compete. They should bring back Sherlock which was a better show with better actors.

I should think older people, no matter their orientation or gender, should have learned to deal with life in its various stages and should have made sure they were prepared, as much as possible, for the vicissitudes of life. . It is not a mystery what age brings. . As we age, we lose physical flexibility. but many gain fiscal flexibility. We lose the interest of youthful admirers but gain interest in out bank accounts. We lose sight and gain insight. We lose hearing but gain freedom from all the unnecessary noise. Ultimately, I believe what this gentleman said is somewhat true, but that if older gay men want to be heard, they need to have something worthwhile to say. If they want to teach about gay history, they need to recognize that gay life has changed rather than bemoaning those changes. They need to accept the concept that being beautiful and desirable is more in who you are than what you see in the mirror. Older gay men, and in most cases, older people in general, are best served growing up about growing old. There is no choice about aging, there is a choice to do so with grace and style.

I have sent out the address and basic info for this. Seems about 20 people are interested so far. I think we can do better than that. If you are thinking about attending, do not be shy. It is more a meet and greet and eat and a pool to beat the heat. Just let me know. Those of you who have already answered should have a DM with the address and deets.

Seems that he was a motorcycle noise polluter with little concern for his neighbors but the neighbor apparently pushed him twice before he responded.

Time to stop living with the fantasy and start living the fantasy. Get back on the horse. It's time to ride. Hire an escort. Tell him what you want and go for it. If you are in the Bay Area, there is a member of the forum I would recommend as being able to give you everything you mention and more. I will send you his name and when I see him here in Palm Springs in a few weeks, I will check if you have contacted him. So consider this a homework assignment. Call this guy.

Just suggest you update your references. Although the Hippocratic oath dates back almost 2500 years, there are parts of it which are regularly ignored. Updated version speak toward the cogent aspects of it. But such aspects as not cutting for the stone to proscribe gall bladder surgery have been updated. "The Hippocratic Oath today is a modernized, symbolic, and often voluntary pledge taken by medical graduates, focusing on patient welfare, ethics, and privacy rather than the original classical restrictions. Most schools use revised versions, such as the 1964 Lasagna Oath or the Declaration of Geneva, emphasizing humanistic care, confidentiality, and treating the patient rather than just the disease." I can understand why you might not have said: I suppose you kept your Lasagna Oath intact, though it would have been amusing had you done so.

However, he has told me on more than one occasion, that kissing is a if not the favorite activity of his.

There is a difference in denying service once a person is there and informing them that service will not be rendered in the future. What I did was standard of care for patient's dismissed from a practice for whatever reason. Care was rendered. The patient was informed they had 30 days to find another provider and in the interim care would be rendered if needed. They were addressed in person and in writing. As I said, if this were a critically ill patient, they would not have been an issue. As it was, even a mild illness was treated and the patient given time to make other arrangements. I believe there is a significant difference between a doctor and the person for whom he is caring as opposed to a baker and his cake purchaser. Eventually, the baker won his case at the level of the Supreme court. In addition, I suppose I would treat all my large swastika tattoo having patients the same way, they hardly compare in number to the groups you sited. i believe he was the only one in 40 years of medical care. In the US, they are not a group recognized as a minority deserving of legal protection. Similarly, if one opts not to hire an escort once they know information about them which they find offensive, the escort is not being discriminated against, he is reaping the fruit of his actions.

It is how we act on the information that we have that measures us as human beings. Not knowing his beliefs is one thing. Knowing them and hiring him anyway, is quite another. I have told this in the past. I had a patient come in to my walk in center and he seemed as though he were a perfectly attractive twenty something with a minor medical problem. During the course of the examination, I went to listen to his lungs and he had a very large swastika tattoo on his back. I continued the examination and treated him as I would any other patient. As he was leaving, I told him that while he seemed to be a very nice young man, he would be receiving a letter from us that he should find another medical care provider as we would not be caring for him after 30 days of that notice. I very explicitly told him that his tattoo was so offensive to me, that I did not believe I could look past that. He confronted me for it and I simply said, I will not offer care to someone to whom I can not offer care confidently and compassionately and that tattoo caused me to think that would be the case if I continued caring for him. If I happened upon someone in a more dire straight, I would not turn them away no matter their beliefs or tattoos, but given a situtation which there is a professional option, I chose to take it. He made some unflattering remark though not vulgar and left. He never returned. I believe that had I not seen that tattoo there would not have been an issue, but once I did, I was faced with a professional and moral dilemma as are the people here who are debating hiring this person or not. Ultimately, one has to set standards for oneself. Some people can live with hiring this man and some cannot. Neither is right nor wrong, only different.

Speaking of Jawja Tech, where is he and why no response to coming this year?

Look up Palm Springs Event here and there will be the details. The weekend is April 10 to 13

For those who do not speak Spanish or do not want to bother translating this. The reigning national champions were defeated when a player from Spain made a three point basket.

Found dead in a Chicago Restaurant Bathroom. 28 years old

I have worked at busy inner city ERs and this show is as realistic as you could expect for TV, where everything and anything needs to be condensed into one 23 hour period. It would be more realistic if it were in a 14 day format with each show being one day. The character arcs could be fleshed out further. The patients could be followed in more detail and not with a sense of insanity that this ER demonstrates. Still, I like the show. The patient cases are interesting but not so obscure that I find myself thinking that they are really reaching. I have seen patients with just about every one of the diagnoses that have been presented. They could add a bit of compassion to some of the characters. I find Noah Wylie annoying this season. Okay he is burned out. But that does not allow him to face his last few hours before a break acting like a total ass. Especially sine he was so caring in the first season. The dramatic change is less convincing of burn out than if the changes were more subtle. By the way, no one mentioned his stint on the Librarians, I always found that show to be an interesting diversion, especially the early seasons with Bob Newhart and Jane Curain,

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There is some medical data dating what is now HIV AIDS back to the 1950. As a medical student at St Vincent's Hospital in Greenwich Village, the epicenter for the "gay cancer". I was seeing many, many patient's with HIV in the early and mid seventies, but just not with that name. Kaposi's Sarcoma, rarely seen now and in the 1970's thought of as a disease of older Jewish men, was rampant. Parasitic intestinal diseases of all types brought in many patient's volume depleted and unable to control the diarrhea, called Gay Related Intestinal Disease, GRID. Men with fevers, sweats and lymph nodes everywhere which all tested negative for a presumed lymphoma told us there was something going on that was new and horrible, but there was not a name for it. Unusual pneumonias, unresponsive to the usual outpatient antibiotics, but fortunately treated with Sulfa changed the protocol for out patient pneumonia, it was known as PCP then. As a student and then a resident and later as an attending physician, there was fear that you could be next, even without the gay activity or being Haitian or a drug addict. We worked through the fear, as we would 40 years later with Covid. The emotional toll on the gay community in NY was catastrophic. The emotional toll on the medical staff ran a close second. I was not having gay sex at this time and it probably prevented me from having sex with men for decades. A hidden victim of that pandemic.

There will be bells but no one will be wearing them, most likely.