TonyDown

I will miss her.  She is awesome.

Did any of you ever try Patric?

Visiting LA again.

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The Chanticleer holiday performances are underway.

Lovely choral repertoire.  Highly recommended.  We have our tickets.  Looking forward to it.

Chicago, Louisville, LA, and elsewhere.

On 11/25/2023 at 4:41 PM, jeezifonly said:

If, instead the closeted bi man you were dating was a closeted bi woman, and she expressed interest in a 3-way, and you brought her daughter as the guest, Netflix would build a series around it. 

Like a rom-com!!

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I wonder if the father was upset that videos and pictures of his son's sexual escapades are spreading around in the cloud?

Nothing wrong with any of them being a sexual athlete.  Still, I expect a lot of people want private encounters to remain private and might be taken aback that one's own son had a digital record of sexual adventures now being shared around.

13 hours ago, azdr0710 said:

just finished it (English dubbing and subtitles) after reading about it here in the subforum......as Tony said above, the Rome scenery is fantastic.......smooth, clean Italian movie with none of the melodramatic fluff and overwrought crap of many American movies.....the two leads plus Antonio are exceedingly good-looking (full nudity of the two leads and Antonio's butt for those keeping score at home!).......though really not much more than another "lost love" flick, it's still just a fun watch with the scenery, secondary characters, and with the classic Italian-style of movie making.....the final slow panning scene to an earlier dinner date that never happened was nice.......

If keeping score, is it fair to say the two leads are naturally well endowed?  😄

The director did not let that opportunity escape the camera!

I watched it twice.

IMO the appeal of the movie deserves to be recognized.

The actors are quite handsome.

The nudity is honest and beautiful, not to mention erotic.

+++++SPOILERS+++++++

The idea is accessible to a lot of men how, during their college days, male friends fall in lust and even love, and how that is never forgotten, even though college "buddies" find separate paths, often marrying a woman.  

The movie is so beautifully shot, entirely in Rome.  

Folks frown at the sad ending, yet I would remind how the director does show us what might have been, the movie's theme of time and space of life's map by chance could have allowed the end scene, Enea and Pietros' joyful meeting at the pizza shop.  To me that was similar to Name Engraved Herein ending.  A happy idea.

The theme of hiding secrets and also the theme of ignoring friend's issues, in this movie it was  Enea's gal pals, felt a bit lukewarm.  But no biggie.  I did wonder if it all made the most sense,  as written in Italian.

I might watch Nuovo Olimpo again sometime. 

Alvise Rigo plays Antonio.

May I ask how

Descanso 

Twin Palms

and Santiago resorts compare?

I see the pricing on their Websites and they have some kind of relationship.  Same owner?

What I'd be interested in hearing is any pluses and minuses for each and your recommendation.

Santiago is the oldest? They brand themselves as a luxury resort.

I realize rooms may not be available in some cases.  But I'd still like to know your opinion for these resorts.

Thank you!

Has anyone seen Kiki and Herb perform?

Looks like a fun time.

The are doing shows in NYC, SF, LA, etc.

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I agree with the above comment wanting to watch the prices as the cashier rings up my items.  However, at my Walmart last week, there was no screen to see prices.   

$%$@ Walmart, ya know?

I checked one of her older videos on YouTube.

1.5 Billion views. 

A lot of fans for a long time.

I did self checkout but switched back to cashier.

On 11/12/2023 at 4:50 PM, Charlie said:

I wonder if there is anyone else here who is dealing with a situation similar to mine. I am now basically the fulltime caregiver for a spouse who is several years older than I am, and in steady decline, both physically and mentally (advanced Alzheimer's). He comes from a large family, which includes a younger brother, a married nephew and an unmarried niece, all of whom are both able and willing to assume responsibility for him if anything were to happen to me. However, I have no family; I was an only child, so I not only have no siblings, I also have no nieces or nephews; my closest blood relations are a couple of younger cousins whom I barely know, no one from a younger generation to take care of me if I become unable to care for myself. If I should need care while my spouse is still alive, I have no doubt his brother, niece and nephew would take care of both of us. But there is a good possibility that I will outlive my spouse, possibly for many years. My spouse and I have been together for 55 years, so his brother has known me since he was a college kid (he's now 75);  his children have known me all their lives, and sometimes even refer to me as "Uncle Charlie." Nevertheless, I wonder if they would feel the same kind of  responsibility to to take care of me after their brother and uncle is gone, even though it would probably not impose a financial burden on them. I like them and trust them, but I don't think I should expect the same commitment from them that I would expect from my own family members, if I had any.

If anyone here is in a similar situation, what kind of plans have you made for a future in which you might no longer be able to care for yourself?

 

I have similar thoughts.

I am the youngest of 5 and likely will outlive my siblings.

My nieces and nephews are not close by.  

I will need to figure out a plan some day.

9 hours ago, dutchal said:

But he looks gorgeous.

A nice looking handsome man, yes!

Jonathan Bailey is easy on the eyes as well!  Adorable.

4 hours ago, Rod Hagen said:

I wish the acting were better.  It's an interesting subject.  I purchased the memoir of the showcreator's obsession with an escort (haven't read it yet).  But the acting, meh.  I'm trying!  Always when confronted with this period I ask myself, how the heck could Roy Cohen have done that to his own people?  How?

The story is a bit uneven for me.  

I'm good with the acting.  I especially like Baily.  

I'll keep watching.

Why?

I was in the audience at a sold out Bette Midler concert, San Jose Arena, where everyone new the words and sang along to Crackin Up from Having Lack of Shackin Up.

To each his own. 

For Swifties, there are just a lot more of them.  Quite a phenomenon!  

Paying for someone to  touch me in sensual ways?

Outrageous!!

To the OP,

I doubt they'll be a list.

Jeffries has been gone nearly 9 years.   I don't know much about him, yet I assume a company CEO that allows piggy workplace behavior is taking his eye off the business enough to allow competitive advantage to languish.

Their stock price has skyrocketed over the last year.  The shareholders must be relieved the Jeffries affairs are in the past.

On 11/2/2023 at 2:33 PM, Becket said:

Recently I saw the movie Beach Rats. Kinda sexy, kinda sad. Seemed to be an accurate portrayal, IMHO, of the struggle many of us share with gay and bi teenagers. There was one scene of the main character looking at pics online of men looking for sex. He would cover his eyes with his hands, then spread his fingers out and cautiously peer through. It was like he wanted to look at the ads, but couldn't stand himself looking at the ads. KnowwhatImean? His internal struggles looked very real, very familiar. 

The lead is great.  There is some triggering stuff but still a good movie.

10 hours ago, pubic_assistance said:

It's sad after so many years of bigotry to start calling gay people "strange" or "weird' now that we've demonstrated its perfectly normal. If you want to call a hairy dude in a pair of heels and a frock, queer...then I could get on board. That's always gonna be weird. But there are plenty of gay and bisexual peope who lead perfectly normal lives. So why refer to them under an umbrella of weirdness ?

Good point.  It's perfectly fine to be gay. 

Is it necessary to chime in with "by the way, I'm gay" or "I'm queer" at every gathering?

Perhaps when announcing it to strangers or extremely casual acquaintances, would it be weird.

Your choice though. You do you.

10 hours ago, José Soplanucas said:

Would you say you are gay AND queer? Honest question, no snark here.

Yes! But that sort of goes without saying based on my post, right?

I'm gay.

I understand "queer" acknowledges a larger umbrella of folks that vary from a "norm".

As time passes I think back to guys in college that were attracted to me, affectionate and sometimes sexual. Now married, with families, I doubt if they identify as bi yet I believe they could identify that way.  

20 hours ago, stevenkesslar said:

We've come a long way from Philadelphia.

This interview with writer/creator Ron Nyswamer, which doesn't contain any spoilers,  was helpful to me in terms of understanding why the characters may have been developed the way they are.  This part in particular jumped off the page: 

I find Bomer's character to be morally ambiguous, at best.  But I think that may be the point.

Nyswamer was nominated for an Oscar way back in 1994 for writing Philadelphia.  That was clearly an effort to bring The Gays into the mainstream and create sympathy.  How could anyone not open their heart to Tom Hanks, with AIDS?  And it worked.  But my point is that it was also kind of one-dimensional.  We were moving victims.  Not the guys with the adorable boyfriends in romcoms.

What I am loving about LGBTQ cinema now is that we can be multi-dimensional, and all kinds of things.  Heroes, and assholes, and morally ambiguous people just trying to get by.  I loved Red White and Royal Blue because it was a sweet, if shallow, fairy tale about what the future for young Gay and Bi men can now be.  Fellow Travelers is anything but.  More like the opposite.  I think part of the statement Nyswamer was trying to make, which is okay to say now, is "Here's the shit we had to put up with.  Here's how it kind of warped people.  And yet, we were not beaten down.  We survived."

If that is part of his message, I find it noble in a very realistic way.  It's an emotionally piercing exploration of what McCarthyite homophobia and hypocrisy, and AIDS, did to our past.  And, proudly, we survived.  I'm looking forward to seeing where this goes.  Even if it is not as easy on the heart as Bomer and Bailey are on the eyes.  😉

 

 

I also see the story as realistic.

For example the portrayals show how these men are often on the prowl for anonymous sex, yet also have capacity at times to bond with each other.

There is so much food for thought, and so many reveals in just the first episode.   Too much?

But I don't want to judge until a few more episodes.

James Ivory once said that good looking actors make a good movie even better.  Fellow Travelers is an example.   ❤

On 10/28/2023 at 9:32 AM, MikeThomas said:

… with Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey.  Pretty good show with lots of sex scenes bordering on soft porn.  Not sure I’m liking Matt Bomer’s character, but I’m only one episode in.  Recommend.

 

I agree, Matt Bomer's character is not exactly a noble fellow.

I will definitely continue watching.

Had 2nd session with Billy. 

Therapeutic with deep pressure and stretching.  Very good IMO.

I really need that.  I did 90 min 👐

Nice guy.

I still haven't tried Alex.  His Sunday/Monday schedule is difficult for me.

Two members of one of my teams at work had COVID this month.  

I was not exposed.

I called the Walmart pharmacy to schedule vaccination but they were out of vaccine.

The demand is rising.