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Does anyone know who this is sitting next to Rock Hudson? He's quite the looker.

Forget any fictional series, just read the newspaper. Through the door, I would ask the man what he wanted and see if there were some way I could help him, but I wouldn't let him in. Maybe his phone died & he just needs to make a call, or maybe he's planning to kill whoever answers the door. The dog? Let him in, feed him, play for a good long stretch, set up a makeshift bed for him, then take him to the shelter in the morning.

I remember our first TV "remote" attached by a wire. You could turn the TV on/off & switch channels (all four of them, pre-cable). But because the wire was kinda short, you had to sit on the floor in front of the TV to use the remote. Still, we thought it was super-cool, LOL.

I remember ordering from mail order catalogs. I'd be so happy when LL Bean sent their really thick catalog with almost everything they sold. I also loved getting the International Male catalog, even though I never ordered anything from them. I know, I'm not really going back that many years, but ordering from catalogs, as opposed to online like we all do now, feels like it was ages ago.

Dang, naked swimming, makes me regret being born a few years too late. But maybe it's a blessing in disguise. Had I been surrounded by my entire high school gym class starkers, my head would have exploded. Or something would have exploded.

I just remembered another one: going to a TV store. Yeah, believe it or not, such a thing used to exist. Before Best Buy, Wal-Mart, etc., you used to go to a TV store, little boutique shops, to buy a TV. Then the big box stores negotiated such deep discounts from the manufacturers that they could sell retail for less than the wholesale price that mom & pop TV stores paid. Needless to say, that was the death of the mom & pops.

From imdb: Nicholas has long known he is different, that there is something shameful & unacceptable in him that must stay hidden, denied even. But South Africa's minority government is embroiled in conflict at the Angolan border, and all white young men over 16 must serve 2 years of compulsory military service to defend the apartheid regime and its culture of toxic racist machismo. The "black danger" is the real and present threat; what is wrong with Nicholas and others like him can be rooted out, treated and cured like cancer. But just when fear pushes Nicholas to accept unspeakable horrors in the hopes of staying invisible, a tender relationship with another recruit becomes as dangerous for them both as any enemy fire. By the way, "moffie" is a derogatory Afrikaans word for a gay man.

Yeah, the smallest euro bill is 5€, US$6.07 at today's exchange rate. If you get a bit inebriated & start lavishing the tips, yikes, it could make for a pricey evening without even getting a lap dance.

Thanks for linking the article. I read in another thread about the "groundbreaking" porn flick, but since I never saw "Boys in the Sand" nor knew its historical context, I had no idea why it had a special place in gay porn.

Both the coin purse and the manpurse are Louis Vuitton. That makes it gay to the fourth power. Yeah, I'm basically a one-man walking Pride float.

Spanish is my second language. Once in a literature class, we were discussing the violence of the 1968 Mexico City riots. The Spanish word for riot is "motín" but I got mixed up & said "mote" (which means nickname). I noticed the professor giving me a weird look, but like an idiot, I just kept prattling on and on about "violent nicknames."

I remember European travel before the Euro. You had to exchange money in each different country you visited and had to budget a lot more carefully because if you exchanged too many francs, for example, you then had to exchange the francs for pesetas (or marks or whatever), thus getting nailed twice with exchange fees. Before my time, but my uncle used to talk about the days when only luxury cars had air conditioning. The father of one his friends bought a Cadillac that had air conditioning, and they were the envy of the whole neighborhood.

D, definitely, I go nuckin' futs over a hairy ass. B can be a pleasant surprise. If I see a guy has a smooth ass, only to see fur surrounding his hole when I part the cheeks, it's a very pleasant surprise.

I think it's because the US has the lowest denomination bill of all developed countries. Canada has a dollar coin but no dollar bill; the EU mints euro coins but no bill. If a quarter drops out of your pocket, no big, but if you lose a euro, you're actually kinda bummed.

Hmm, if you're traveling, I don't think a manpurse is all that gay, more practical than anything else. But if you carry one around everywhere every day like I do, yeah, supergay. My cousin was thinking of splurging on a Louis Vuitton bag (he had won big at the poker tables while visiting Vegas). I warned him that sporting a Louis Vuitton manpurse is thisclose to wearing a Rainbow Pride t-shirt. He was recently divorced & back on the market. He's the gay-friendliest straight guy you'll ever meet but ultimately decided against the LV bag because he didn't want future prospects to get the wrong idea.

Yeah, I think coin purses are kinda gay. Manly men just let change fall out of their pockets. Mind you, I have a coin purse that I carry around in my manpurse. That's like gay squared.

I saw the first season of "The Blacklist." Wow, it was awesome, one of the best shows I've ever seen. I stopped watching it only because I stopped watching English-language TV. Maybe one of these days I'll binge-watch all the other seasons. I'm glad the show is still going strong. And yeah, James Spader found the role of his career. I can't imagine any other actor playing Red.

I don't know if it'll change @Paul Graham's opinion of him, but he didn't come up with that quote. It's an oft-repeated proverb in Spanish. Mind you, he still chose to post it on his Twitter, so you can judge him for that.

I wouldn't call ABBA a girly thing. I know plenty of straight guys who love ABBA in a guilty pleasure sort of way. Bellinis, yeah, definitely. Does Campari & soda qualify as girly enough? It's my go-to summer drink, but I only see ladies ordering it. Ballet & figure skating are my two big ones. After seeing Dance Theatre of Harlem perform Balanchine's "Four Temperaments" over 30 years ago, I became a total ballet addict. Figure skating, when done right, is like ballet on ice.

How da heck does one become the "official" mistress of the king? Is any certification or licensing involved??

When I lived in Boston, a cute guy with a Boston accent made me just melt. Something about that accent was just so masculine, authentic, and sexy. Now almost nobody in Boston proper speaks with a Boston accent because those who spoke with one all moved out to the suburbs. As much as I hope it endures, something tells me that the Bahstuhn accent will eventually fade away.

A friend who is a (super)extrovert prefers to travel alone because she meets more people that way. When she's traveled with a companion, she naturally tends to spend most of the time with that person and consequently gets to know far fewer fellow travelers & locals.

He's adorable in this video. It was fun to hear him gossip about his scene partners. I had no idea that Colby Kellar was a Trumper.

Despite not making that much in my 20s, I managed to take 8 trips to Europe, a trip to Australia & AZ, and live in Spain for a year. I traveled on a shoestring, even slept rough a few nights, but at least I had the experiences. I wouldn't trade those experiences for the world.

Either crazy or very very rich.