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I once had sex with a priest but I met him in a gay bar and he was in regular clothes. He only told me after the dirty deed had been done. I felt weird about it.

That’s so Fire Island in days of yore.

Cerf was my favorite. He was so erudite and always had a twinkle in his eye. So many people died mysteriously after JFK’s assassination. Like Mary Myers, his girlfriend and mistress, wife of the CIA deputy head, Cord Myers.

I have a friend here who is in her 90’s and Dewey was a neighbour of her family in an apartment building on 5th Ave. In New York when she was a kid. I think she said Roosevelt sent him to Russia during the war to visit Stalin but could be wrong about that.

I remember when Dorothy Kilgallon died. She was doing a television show from NewYork, a panel show. Was it What’s My Line? Anyway, the host of the show was almost in tears the next episode. I think Bennet Cerf was on the show too. Many years later I read her death was suspicious. Is my memory serving me right here?

I only kept a diary once. On my first trip to Europe in 1969. It was a 3 and a half month hitchhiking voyage to 13 countries. It was a daily diary and I referred to it in 2019 the entire summer to recollect where I had been and done on that day 50 years ago. I then put it away and maybe will take it out in 2029. Should I survive that long and remember what book shelf it is on. Lol

Well you must keep a daily diary. Good for you. Do you refer to it often?

Boy, what kind of records do you keep? That was the year of the American Bicentennial. I remember that summer in quite a bit of detail but not down to days and how evenings were spent. Except one night in PTown.

I remember when Le Marais was relatively cheap. That was when Le Musee Pompidou was new.

I seem to remember some gay bars with back rooms in Paris in the 80s around Les Halles. Is that possible? One night I was in one with my then lover and when he emerged his gold chain necklace which I had given to him was gone. Was I pissed!

Do you or anyone else remember when the Bronx closed. Was it still going in the 1980's? From what I reading here it had its heyday in the 70's but the name rings a bell for me but it would have had to be in the 80's. That's when I started visiting the gay bars in Paris. On my trips there in the 70's I was only there on business trips and sampling their Michelin starred restaurants. A completely different scene.

It’s that maritime rule of requiring a stop at a foreign port which has created the issue. I’m not sure how easy it would be to change it as it’s tied in with a long-standing rule of commerce, I believe.

Forget it. Canada has banned all cruise ships in its territory until 2022 and they must go through Canadian waters to get to Alaska. So Alaska cannot have any cruises ships at its ports for the next year. The governor of Alaska expressed his great disappointment at this announcement. This was just a week ago. I haven’t studied the geography but don’t know why they just don’t go via Russia. After all Alaska used to belong to the Russians. I do know from my history that Canada was upset with the British when they traded away our territory to the Americans in the 19th century when we were still a colony of Britain’s. They gave the U S the Alaskan panhandle and Oregon and Washington.

That might be true for aToronto’s Pearson Airport but the last time I flew from Ottawa’s airport to New York vis Newark NJ , I cleared customs and immigration there, not Ottawa. And on the return, I had to do the same at Ottawa, not NJ. This was just 6 months before the pandemic struck.

Yes those CNN guys are quite dishy.

Well, enjoy the read. You will find out why this book, released after his death, I think in 1964, left many of his old friends feeling chagrined. He was quite nasty writing about them. In particular, he ran down the Murphy’s, who had befriended him when he was a struggling writer. When Mary Hemingway tried to get back Hemingway’s letters to them after his death, Murphy’s widow refused.

Waking up at the cottage on the first day of summer vacation. It would last from shortly after school got out until just before Labour Day. Those two or so months beckoning seemed endless. No more putting on shoes in the morning and running around barefoot all summer.

Yeah, that’s actually something you don’t want to happen, getting cum in your eyes. It not only stings but can transmit disease.

You know back in the day of Hooboy, there was an escort who called Indianapolis his home. He spent a lot of time in the winter in Fort Lauderdale, where I met up with him. He had a boyfriend from Ft. Myers, who I met but only after our appointment was finished. I think the bf was more of a bottom. I forget his name now but the Indy guy was super hot, about 6’3” and hung like a horse. Unfortunately he passed away about five years after I met him.

Well I remember when NY had that low drinking age of 18. A friend of mine‘s family had a cottage in the Thousand Islands in Ontario, where the drinking age was 21, so we would drive over to Alexandria Bay, NY, to drink. There was a bridge with a customs control but in those days things were so lax that crossing the border, even a little tipsy, was not a problem. This was around 1964/65.

Although, I have to admit I was sneaking into bars then, armed with a fake ID. Lol

God, were you of a drinking age in 1962??

Giving to charity. I give around 8 percent of my annual income (after tax) to local charities and organizations that have meant a lot to me in the past. Have been doing this for the last 10 years. The rewarding part is being involved with these charities and helping to guide them as a member of their boards of directors.

Was it Helen Hayes who said, “90 percent of success in life is just showing up”.

That was a great rendition of the song. ?