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“Glory in the flower” is usually overlooked In any précis of the poem. But it deserves equal emphasis.

“...take strength in what remains behind.”

I agree. I read RFTR years ago and in these last 4 years have had flashbacks to the arc of history of the 30’s. Today I’m thinking maybe Donald will burn down the White House rather than relinquishing it to Biden. Shades of the Reichstag.

I hadn’t realized that was Toobin’s latest book. Ironic title given his recent experience.

I know. I posted first before seeing your post. Your wording is a bit different. I did mine from memory. Is yours the actual wording?

They made a movie and gave it the title “Splendor in the Grass” from a line in what poem?

Did she also say “ I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor, and trust me, rich is better.”

That was the quote given to me in my high school yearbook. Did I have some splaining to do with my parents!

I would love to have that book.

Can you imagine how much money that amounted to spent on porn over the years? I winced when I threw my stuff out.

As a kid, I used to love those moments in American films on TV when the criminals crossed the county line with a sheriff and posse in hot pursuit. (These were mostly Westerns or comedies like Laurel and Hardy.) Once in the next county, the bad guys would turn and thumb their noses at their pursuers. I always knew this had a legal significance in the American context, whereas it did not in Canada, where criminal violations fall within federal or provincial jurisdictions. The way we distinguished counties in Canada back in the 50's was whether the roads were paved or not. When you crossed a county line and went from pavement to dirt road, you knew you had entered the territory of a member of the government opposition party (roads were a provincial responsibility and political boundaries were generally drawn along county lines in the countryside). Unpaved roads were a way to remind electors that they should switch party allegiance in the next provincial election. I think this mostly applied in Quebec, where politics were pretty hard-knuckle.

I've always preferred the city.

Thanks for your clarification and expansion on the subject of the continuity of the crown when a current occupant is dethroned. My understanding is that direct heirs of these unfortunate souls (from their perspective), are referred to in the vernacular as pretenders to the throne. This has happened all over Europe over the centuries in countries like Russia, France, Spain, Italy, etc as revolutions or wars have toppled their thrones. The monarchy did get restored in France In the 19th century for awhile, as in Spain during the 20th century, as two more prominent examples. As you pointed out, the restored rulers in Britain became a different sort of monarch, a constitutional one, not an absolute one claiming divine rule. Certainly paid off in the long run.

I beg to differ. I had a SB when I was in my late 30’s. He was in his early 20’s. I moved him to Canada, paid all his considerable debts before he came, bought him a car, put him in college so he could stay in the country (today would be different, I could just marry him), gave him an allowance, and we took vacations 2 or 3 times a year to exotic destinations (Hawaii, Caribbean Mexico, Spain, Italy) all to keep him happy. But he was a party boy at heart and I had a serious job, so the relationship soured in 3 years. I don’t blame him a bit because at his age I was a party animal as well. Today, 35 years later, if I was in a position to be a SD, which I’m not, I would have a 35 to 45 yo SB. For me, the ideal age for sexual energy, experience and maturity of outlook. And, if necessary, he could pass as my nephew LOL.

Tell me about it.I could have bought an Andy Warhol canvas for $3500 in 1976 in a SOHO gallery but it wouldn’t fit in my car to bring back to Canada. Boo Hoo.

Last fall I was contemplating a trip to London and made a few advance enquiries to see if I could line up some prospects. I usually do this before I hit the ground in another city. One escort I was interested in had a line in his RM ad that he wouldn’t accept clients over 70. I asked him about it and he told me he had had a terrible experience with a client over 70 who had a serious heart attack during a session In the escort’s home. He had to go with the man to the hospital in the ambulance. He found the episode very stressful and didn’t want to repeat it. I didn’t bother to argue the point that many men have heart attacks as early as their 40’s and more commonly in the 50’s and 60’s.

Picasso used to pay his tailor with a canvas for a suit in exchange, early in his career. He stopped when his canvasses started to skyrocket in value. There was a 95 year old artist in Vancouver a couple of years ago who witnessed an auction sale of a work he sold for $200 over 60 years ago , that went for $1.6million. Good old supply and demand at work.

Wasn’t Clark Gable married to Carole Lombard who died tragically in a plane crash during the war, trying to sell government bonds in the war effort. Surely he wouldn’t have cheated on her.

The news seems to be encouraging today on the prospects for an effective vaccine pretty soon. If this works out well, the next question will be how soon everyone will be able to get a shot. Here in Canada the federal government has a deal with Pfizer for I believe 60 million doses which would cover 2 shots for the entire population likely to want one. And they are pledging to make them free of charge. From a public health point of view, this is the way to go. Just as our Covid tests are free to everyone. not sure what the US intends to do but that will be up to the BIden Admin to determine.

My birthday was back in late May and like everyone, I am not getting any younger. In my case, I’m in my 8th decade so the urgency of celebrating while I can is strong. I took stock of my own circumstances then and decided to ge ahead with having an escort visit me for the weekend, two overnights in all. It was wonderful, we did so much and the weather was glorious to boot. We took precautions about how we were dealing with the virus before we met and these things are continuing, as I have seen him three more times for weekends or single overnights. I realize this is not for everyone as our respective circumstances vary widely. Still, for me life is to be lived, not deferred. That vision on the horizon may just be that, a mirage.

I would take issue with the title of the post containing the word lockdown. It suggests we are currently living under an order to stay quarantined at home in isolation. There are many restrictions worldwide that vary according to local conditions. A Relatively small number of people worldwide have been totally locked down. The rest of us are navigating limitations on what we do and what we can’t do. I see this lasting for several years, at varying levels of restraints.

The testing strategies you suggest and other measures seem sensible but one wonders whether anyone is receptive at this point. As I see new cases skyrocket in the USA and other countries, people are obviously not doing as much as we seemed to do 6 months ago which flattened the infamous curve the first time around In many countries. Not in the US though, which has seen more cases now than any other countries, even large ones like China and India. As we enter the winter months, I fear the Covid virus at this point more than the seasonal flu, which I have always got vaccinated for over the last 20 years. It also seems it will be less widespread this year for various reasons. At least we had a respite this summer in Canada from the Covid virus which I took advantage of to see some of my favourite escorts.

I likewise destroyed my collection as I went along. First the Super 8 films from the 70’s along with getting rid of the screen and projector, then the Video cassettes of the ‘80’s and that machine is probably still in my garage, then the DVD’s of the ‘90’s. Kept that machine for viewing home films from the ‘60’s which have been converted to DVD’s. Most of the DVD’s I rented at the time so nothing to dispose of. Now I subscribe to pornhub and get all the stuff I want at the click of the mouse. The one thing that was hard to throw out was the cassette I commissioned with a filmmaker and an escort more than 20 years ago. They came to my home and we made a film, full length, with me as a supporting actor (the bottom). The top was the star. I kept it for the longest time but rarely watched it. So out it went. Of course I still have my homoerotic art, which I paid substantial amounts of money to acquire over the years. It’s all good stuff, oil paintings, bronzes etc and I have it on display in my house. So family and friends see it. I recently gave a beautiful large oil painting by a good artist from Montreal to an escort friend to decorate his apartment and I helped him install it. It looks great as you enter his place.

You must be a bottom LOL

When I was spending a lot of time in Florida, I was struck by how large Jacksonville looked on the maps, much more vast than Miami. But then I learned that the City of Jacksonville, which has a smaller population than Miami, is consolidated w Just to add the origin of “Commonwealth” from British history, when Oliver Cromwell chopped of the head of King Charles I, he styled himself the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth, and thus not a king. For his relatively short reign, England was not a monarchy. People often think the British monarchy goes back a thousand years but this is not so. There was that “interregnum” which I am sure monarchists would prefer to forget.