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You have to watch this until the end.

Why does this make me think of a David Bowie song?

At least it wasn't you who asked about him last Wednesday. ?

Print/Digital: The New Yorker (Print/Digital offer was less expensive than digital only) Architectural Digest Men's Health (Same deal as The New Yorker) Digital Only: The Washington Post The New York Times (considering cancellation unless I get a deal on print/digital) The Arizona Republic The Chicago Tribune Dwell Vanity Fair The Wall Street Journal

The mind races with the potential pyrotechnics for that one.

The rule dates back to long before the Rentboy shutdown. It is intended to ensure an escort has an opportunity to provide a response to a review. It also serves to ensure that reviews are submitted to the review site, where they belong.

Another option is to report your own post and ask whether it crosses the line. I did that with a reply that could have been construed as being political. When reporting myself I said something like "if this is considered political please delete it rather than moving the entire thread to the Politics forum."

There's a lot of that to go around. In fact, a friend, we will call him "Matthew" does this in reverse. Matthew moved to NYC from Naperville, IL (a far-out suburb of Chicago) shortly after the 9/11 attacks. During one visit, I observed him telling his friends he is from Chicago. Not wanting to be an asshole, I didn't say anything and let him have his fun despite Naperville being as much like Chicago as Poughkeepsie is like New York. So, we met up with some of his friends and their friend. The friend-of-friends asked me how I know Matthew and Matthew butts in and says "I know him from when I lived in Chicago." As I always do, I clarified that my most recent home was in Evanston (across the city limits) and f-o-f asks Matthew what neighborhood he lived in. After a few awkward, silent minutes I said "Naperville!" Everyone laughed. When Matthew went to the bathroom one of his friends mentioned he now knows why Matthew had never heard of his favorite Chicago restaurant.

Alas, she is not a hot male. I almost drove to Tempe (10-ish miles away) where two of the pharmacists (if they are still there) are kinda cute, but I just wanted to get my grocery shopping done. I did have a crush on the 40-something, handsome, hairy pharmacist who was previously stationed at my closest store, but he was reassigned.

Right? I think the company that originated the idea markets them as "bandit barriers." They are pretty slick - little sliding doors where one can't open if the other is closed, a microphone system so the client and teller can hear one another, and everything. Of course, the bankers are at their desks like wingless, sitting ducks.

Ha! I got a lollipop, too. Pharmacist has a sense of humor. ?

Funny you should mention that. We still have not re-opened all of our offices to clients. The ones that remain open are typically those with drive-though windows and the ones that remain shut are those without them.

That"s the other reason for getting the shot at Safeway. My doctor's office didn't have availability for a few weeks. Fortunately for me, the insurance my company offers provides excellent coverage (Anthem BCBS) and both the pneumonia and shingles vaccines will be no or low copay.

Got my flu shot at Safeway last weekend. I was there, the pharmacy had the shots, and I didn't want to wait any longer. They use the little room they built when they thought about installing in-store clinics. The pharmacist sanitized the room and prepared the vaccination while I watched. Was really happy with the set-up. Next week is pneumonia and then shingles. Plus, I get a 10% off groceries coupon with each vaccination!

I use the same standard we use for work attire. If you have to ask "is this appropriate for the office," well...

When I was looking at places to live I mentioned Scottsdale to a colleague. She looked at me and said "Are you nuts?" I moved to downtown Phoenix and love it. Good for you! I have so little in common with Boomers it isn't funny. My employer still does not allow in-person meetings, even with clients. Client-facing staff at branches (I work for a bank) either have plexiglass shields in front of their desks, wear a face shield, or work behind the teller line bandit barriers, which we installed at almost every branch several years ago during a robbery wave in California.

The little girl was eating watermelon and her mother noticed that she was swallowing the seeds. “If you swallow watermelon seeds”, her mother warned, “a watermelon plant can start to grow inside you and your belly can get so big that you will need an operation.” The girl stopped swallowing the seeds. Later in the day, her mother’s friend, who was 7 months pregnant stopped for a visit. The little girl patted the woman’s belly, smiled at her and said, “I’ll bet I know what you’ve been doing.”

I was born in '64 and consider myself to be a Gen-Xer. Douglas Coupland, who wrote the book, re-defined the upper threshold to start in the early 1960's. I think he didn't want to be labeled a Boomer. Back to the topic, where do you live? Here in Phoenix it is the Millennials who consistently wear masks covering their mouths and noses and the college students wear them out on the street when they don't have to. In fact, in Downtown, where I live, almost everyone wears one. By contrast, in Scottsdale I've seen people of all age groups try to slide by without covering their noses, but Millennials stand out as the ones who consistently don't want to social distance or wear masks. Scottsdale, by the way, borders Phoenix. It's weird.

Somehow, when I think "Priapus" I don't see images of a cock ring strangling a semi-erect penis and/or of the mark left after removing it.

It is difficult to answer this question without using profanity or terms that could be described as pejorative. To my knowledge, I've never dealt with an escort's personal agent or assistant nor have I seriously considered hiring someone whose ad said they did. One escort I've hired (and had a great time with) started using a service but stopped doing so because it turned clients off. On the other hand, an agency that advertises escorts is completely different. Although I never hired any of his guys, Dave at Man For Man was great. I came close to hiring a guy once and then Dave called regarding negative feedback he heard from a couple of clients about the guy. He wouldn't send the guy on any more appointments until he clarified what had happened. Dave told me he was dropping the guy and that was that.

My company offered me two packages, relocation or severance, and I took the transfer. The severance package was enticing, but there are really no jobs in San Diego that equate to what I do and/or use the experience I have. In fact, had my current employer not hired me in 2002 I would have left San Diego back then. It was never a good fit, but a condo and job anchored me. When one of the anchors was gone, it was much easier to leave.

Agree on being cleaner. If you compare "like for like" (i.e. Manhattan for an equivalent area of Chicago, such as McCormick Place/the South Loop on the south to the Evanston city limits on the north and 2 - 3 miles in from the lakefront on the west) the area is about the same (22.9 square miles vs 24.5 square miles). If you look at total area within city limits, then New York City is about 30% larger (303 square miles vs 234 square miles). You can easily live without owning a car if you live along the Lakefront, but with more suburbanites moving to the city, car ownership has increased. The Orange Line goes to Midway. The ride provides stunning views of he city. Midway is a much more tolerable airport than O'Hare. Friends don't let friends drive to O'hare. They give them a Ventra card and directions to the nearest Blue Line station. Since @bashful mentioned suburbs, Oak Park and Evanston are both lovely places to live. Having lived in both places, I'd give Evanston a slight edge due to it being on the Lakefront and the availability of shopping. Oak Park, on the other hand, has a lot to do and is more accessible to O'Hare, and Midway. The neighboring city of Berwyn has a burgeoning LGBT community, thanks to elderly residents drying and their families selling their well-maintained, albeit dated, bungalows. Oak Park and Evanston are both very LGBT friendly. The two communities try to out-liberal one another. If memory serves, Oak Park was the first to have a domestic partner registry. Not to be outdone, Evanston responded by creating a registry AND included protections for trans people into its Human Rights ordinance. Were I to move back right now, I'd live on The Gold Coast. Always wanted to live there, but relocated to San Diego instead.

Agree, although for me it is more odd than disappointing.