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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. ?

Boy, nobody can roll their r’s like ‘the little sparrow of Paris’.

Have you ever read ‘A Moveable Feast’ by Ernest Hemingway? He did move to Paris after WWI and stayed about 7 years or so. He found his literary voice there. He was also smart to leave when the going was still good. He found other places to live that inspired him to write great fiction and appealed to a broader audience. Still, I can appreciate your regret. Paris has so much to offer.

Yeah, I had the same experience in undergraduate school. Struggling with my sexuality and not exploring my gay side except through reading and seeing some gay films. Graduate school was a different experience. While still closeted, I started having sex with guys and it started the process of my accepting who I was. Even after graduation and starting my work life, it took another 4 years before finally ending relationships of a physical kind with women. So I sort of regret the amount of time it took to become comfortable with my sexuality. But the times were different in the 60’s and 70’s when all of this was happening. I imagine my life would have taken a different trajectory had I been born 20 years later.

I picked my username back when I joined Hooboy, shortly after retiring. I took an early retirement and was anticipating having a lot of time to play, which has turned out to be the case.

It usually works the other way in the videos C to B, condom to bare. Lol.

Did you ever try calling him to say he had quite the on-line persona?

The LA Times said on Feb 3rd that we still don’t know if the inoculated can spread the virus. Look it up.

Thank you. That succinctly summarizes my views at this time in our current state of knowledge. I’ve been trying to convey that viewpoint but perhaps not as well as I could have.