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On 2/12/2024 at 10:33 AM, marylander1940 said:

Madrid and Barcelona by far!

Legal, reasonably priced, plenty of choices to meet guys in brothels, bars, cruising areas (Montjuic), etc. Obviously the younger and in better shape you're the more likely to get it for free but we're on this site for a reason.

Speak for yourself. I resemble that remark. Lol

There’s a sad note in his ad where he says he has lost his home in Ukraine. Can you imagine not being able to go home. It must weigh heavily on him. 
He was in Canada briefly last fall. I wish I had tried contacting him. 

Based on the video with Dematteo, I would hire him if I were in Atlanta. He looks like a good top.

6 hours ago, Charlie said:

Ah, memories! I loved sitting there in just a towel watching Bette between trips back to the steamroom.

I only became aware of Bette Midler when she had her breakout hit, You Gotta Have Friends. Did you see her perform before she was a star?

On 1/11/2024 at 7:47 PM, purplekow said:

Sean Knight.   He of the magic left nipple.   He would practically come from playing with the left nipple.  The right one not so much.  He left the business and was traveling as an assistant and trainer to several different professional tennis players.  Great guy and seemingly doing very well after a short but illustrious career in our favorite profession.  

Interesting, I have the same wiring. My left nipple gets me going and my right would rather be left alone. 

The important thing is that you had a good time. That’s all that counts in my book. Congratulations.

8 minutes ago, Decatur Guy said:

So here's an example of someone I me this evening I'd consider clean cut. I had a great time. 
 

NotOnMyLevel - Pornstar Performer, Rentboy, Gay Massage in Atlanta, GA | RentMen

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Pornstar Performer & Rentboy in Atlanta, GA - NotOnMyLevel: Dom with a soft side.

 

Well, his ad says he has a scruffy beard and he lists PNP in his likes. Is that your definition of clean cut? 

2 minutes ago, Luv2play said:

Sounds like couscous to me. The best I ever had was done by Pied Noir from Algeria who had settled in Geneva after the war of independence.

I just looked it up: a tangine is a clay bowl with a conical lid. I’ve had couscous served in one at a Moroccan restaurant in Montreal. 
I saw that other dishes can be prepared in it or a skillet or other similar utensil ( I use Creuset ware myself) like lemon chicken without couscous.

6 hours ago, Charlie said:

I couldn't tell you much about the ingredients, but a Moroccan tagine is a large pan in which food is cooked and served; most contain meat (lamb is a favorite) and a variety of vegetables and spices. Since all the meals I had were communal, we had tagines frequently, and I never was served one that I didn't enjoy.

Sounds like couscous to me. The best I ever had was done by Pied Noir from Algeria who had settled in Geneva after the war of independence.

54 minutes ago, CuriousByNature said:

Unlike utilitarian items (like most clothing, utensils, bent boxes, etc.), totems were created to stay in situ, within the community until they naturally degraded in the elements.  They were not intended to last forever in an antiseptic, artificial space.  Many non-Indigenous people - myself included - have traditionally thought that museums served a purpose in preserving artifacts for the benefit of all society.  However, I've learned that in doing so, the proper attitude towards the created item has often been lost.  

 

This is where the clash of cultures occurs. In most cultures, artistic artifacts are treasured and preserved. In this seemingly isolated example the people creating the art conceived of it decomposing into nothing. Sort of like Banksy in slow motion. 

11 hours ago, mike carey said:

This thread is about the Natural History museum and there is a category difference between displaying indigenous artefacts in such a museum and displaying indigenous art in gallery. Displaying art is more likely to give indigenous people agency in a way that treating them as part of 'nature' does not.

We had this debate in Canada years ago. In the 70s Indigenous art was not displayed in the National Gallery in Ottawa but rather in the Museum of Natural  History. At the time I was having an affair with a native artist. He had a job at the latter museum as a curator. He called a press conference one day and publicly condemned Canada’s policy on Indigenous art. He called me to tell me proudly he had just got fired!

Ten years later the policy had changed and now Canada’s Indigenous art hangs in the National Gallery, including his.
 

This thread and Empire_Man may disappear soon. Just saying after seeing post on TechTalk.. 

1 hour ago, Charlie said:

The only place I have been to in Morocco is Marrakech, about a dozen years ago.. We went because an old friend threw a milestone birthday party for himself, and invited friends and family from around the world to join him (he rented two riads in the medina for all his guests). Since it was a mixed group, there was no gay sexual hankypanky, so I can't speak to that scene, but the setting was as exotic as any I have ever experienced, right out of an old black-and-white movie from the 1930s. I would gladly go back, if only for the food.

I’ve heard about kif but never much about the food. What makes it special?

I’ve never been to Tangier but having read about it from different sources over the last 20 years, I would have liked it in the post war period up to the 70’s. Of course far too young then so if I had been there I would be dead now, like all the people who were part of the scene. Paul Bowles and his lesbian wife, Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, Burroughs, etc. There were some super rich Americans and British there too like Doris Duke and I think a Guinness heiress. 

On 2/6/2024 at 10:52 AM, Snbrd said:

It seems to be an issue in the U.S. In Europe RM lists rates.

And in Canada.

Currently he has an ad saying he will be in Montreal in April for two weeks. I may have to look into his availability. 

3 hours ago, SouthOfTheBorder said:

for those who are interested in facts about Rio, from a Brazilian source - see the attached, the December 5 2023 headline is 

THEFT & ROBBERY RATES SKYROCKET IN COPACABANA, WITH  ROUTINE SCENES OF VIOLENCE 

the point is overall Copacabana specific crime is up more than 25% in one year, (2022 to 2023) - and pedestrian crime is up 56% in one year.  And that’s on top of an existing very high crime rate. 

 

Índices de furtos e roubos disparam em Copacabana, que vive rotina de cenas de violência

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Segundo os dados do Instituto de Segurança Pública, o bairro teve alta de roubos (25%) e furtos (23%), na comparação entre 2022 e 2023. No último sábado...

sure, totally safe - just like any other city.  nothing to see here 

 

I only have great memories of Rio from 22 years ago. I mixed with the locals every day during the daytime. I paint so several days I took my artists pad and pastels and sketched scenes on the beach and in the local outdoor food market. 
 

The kids would surround me and not being able to communicate with them , they would give me the thumbs up to indicate their approval. And big smiles. 
 

After visiting the saunas in the early evening we would go out to dinner near the beaches, take taxis as required and sit in a local square near our hotel later having drinks. 
 

I’m glad to have these memories and when I look at the oil paintings in my house that I did later from the sketches and the framed sketches themselves, some of which I gave to family, I am reminded of that great vacation. 

3 hours ago, SouthOfTheBorder said:

some of these comments seem to be from people with limited or no experience in Rio

you guys are way better off on “the other site” where it’s all fantasy & delusions 

 

I don’t know if you are referring to me but in any case I visited Rio back in 2002 for 10 days with three other gays from Florida. I was spending my winters there but am from Canada. One of the group had an apartment in Rio and we other three stayed in a hotel on Copacabana Beach. 

Our companion who had the apartment had a similar profile to this murder victim. He was a millionaire with a house in Boston and condos in Montreal, Ft Lauderdale and Rio. He was younger, in his 50’s. His apartment in Florida was spectacular, a penthouse overlooking the Port of Ft. Lauderdale and the ocean. 
 

The one in Rio was in a good neighborhood and luxurious by Brazil standards. He used to pick up taxi drivers in Rio. I visited the saunas practically every day, both there and in Sao Paulo where I made a side visit for 3 days out of the ten I was in Brazil.

I went out day and night in both cities and had no problems. My nephew went to Rio 3 weeks after my visit and got held up in daylight at knife point behind the Copacabana Palace Hotel. They took his and his girlfriend’s money and jewelry. 
 

I have read the country is not the same as 20 years ago so not sure I would go back if the opportunity arose. All those old friends are dead now (by natural causes).

4 hours ago, SouthOfTheBorder said:

No - not really. It happened in Rio because of the specific circumstances there.  Why ?  

Because the gringo had a home in Rio  & frequently mixed with very young providers at local rentboy saunas and brought them to his home.  If the murder had gone according to plan (meaning the real killer got out of Brazil), then everyone would have assumed it was one of the sauna boys.  The husband who appears to have masterminded the plot, had suggested the killer was someone the victim met in the saunas & he could help identify suspects - so the plan was definitely to place blame on a sauna boy.
Because the victim was known to frequent the saunas & bring unknown men to his house - it was the perfect plausible explanation for this crime.  It would have been a somewhat ordinary crime in Rio had it simply been an unknown provider kills a client.   These same circumstances do not exist in other cities. This was a plan that was specific to Rio because of its rentboy saunas and the victim who used them. 

These types of murders happen everywhere. The victim here had houses in three countries. Since the ex lives in Cuba it was less likely he would stage a murder there and the victim was not likely to go there since the divorce was still pending. 
 

This kind of incident happens not infrequently in NYC but the alleged murderer was a Cuban so more difficult for him to get into the US. I agree that Rio provided the most convenient site given the circumstances. But I was responding to your saying the real scenario was the victim bringing back a young garoto from the sauna. This has been shown not to be the case. 

From what I have read here in the various newspaper accounts of the murder, the location of the murder site is incidental to the reason for the murder. It appears this was a contract job which could have been carried out anywhere. 
 

The alleged murderer didn’t reckon with the security camera at the residence where he cased the place for hours before going in and out for a total of 14 minutes, just enough time to do the dastardly deed. He also didn’t have to force entry in the early morning but appears to have let himself in and out easily which suggests he had a key. 
 

This could point to the victim’s estranged husband who shared parenthood of a son with the victim. If it ads up with all the evidence, this appears to be a domestic violence case. Not a gay tourist hooking up with Mr. Goodbar(remember that film with Diane Keaton).

7 hours ago, Charlie said:

Yeah, I've slept with a few guys who are named on Wikipedia, but I am not.

Now I’ll have to check a few of my long ago hookups. Lol

On 2/4/2024 at 10:46 PM, leo2510 said:

Two that have become stuck in mind - one of riding in the front seat of the Chevy wagon, towing Dad's Porsche 356 over the Snoqualmie Pass to the Seattle Raceway. Dad's long passed, but Mom said this has to be from 1965 because that was the only time that we all went along with Dad on racing trips - so that had to be when I was 2 1/2 years old. The other memory is of being in the front seat of the same 59 Chevy, rolling down the hill in the back yard toward the line of trees separating the yard from the house behind. i somehow managed to release the parking brake while playing in the car while ir was parked in the carport - Mom confirms this was also the fall of '65, as the car was never the same after that, and got traded in on a Buick wagon with the glass roof panels which is featured in a lot of family photos from that period.

I remember the ‘59 Chevy wagon as our neighbour at the cottage had one. His mother, a grandmother, took sick at her cottage next to his and he put her in the back on a mattress to take her to the hospital in Montreal. That was the summer of ‘59 and we never saw her again except in her coffin at the funeral a few days later. They got rid of the car because of the bad association it had of that terrible 3 hour drive. 

One of my brothers is in Wikipedia. He’s still alive so the final chapter is not yet written. He had a very public career in politics. 

11 hours ago, Rudynate said:

I went to college in the 70s  - when the popularity of fraternities was at a low point.  They might have existed at my  school, but I wasn't aware of them.

Many local chapters of fraternities closed at McGill during that period. Including mine and they sold off the house. It would be worth millions today. 

I’ve seen him twice and getting hard was not a problem for him. Also he was very friendly and completed the job with an explosive climax on his part. What’s not to like?