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and didn't he play Steven's lawyer/lover on "Dynasty"?

not the cream, but I got a very deep massage once, and the rest of the day I had vertigo. I can only theorize that he released SO many toxins during the massage that it knocked me down for a bit.

Agreed. The only time I've had them is stealing leftovers from a patron's plate when I worked a restaurant in college, but that's exactly what it tastes like.

I heard a story on NPR last summer about support animals and how easy it was to get them "certified", since there really is no standard for certification. I find myself more and more behind the movement, though ... no secret that I'm a dog lover. We just moved my father into an independent living complex, finding one that allowed dogs (big ones, he's got a retriever like I do) was first on our list of criteria. Last week when I visited him there with my dog, I walked her through the lounge on the way out, and ended up spending about a half-hour longer there as the residents wanted to pet and play with my dog. One admonished me sternly, "you bring her back next week!"

Good advice. When I check my buddy list I usually make note of the time they last logged in, if available.

I'm curious, any fans of aspic out there?

One of the chapters in "Gulp", by Mary Roach (a whimsical look at the science behind all things involving food & digestion) she talked about the waning popularity of organ meats, and how good they were, nutritionally. I've never had sweetbreads, I'm not exactly sure what organ they are, and I'm honestly not eager to try them.

I've noticed that NPR has recorded a slightly different version of the Morning Edition music, and there's a bit in the background that sounds exactly like the default iPhone ringer. (Or maybe it's always been there and I just noticed it recently...) Makes me check my phone every time.

Why does that sound a bit suggestive? :-D

I wouldn't say "patiently" :-D https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/d7175c4c-885a-4cbd-a57d-62f7726ac65a

I saw a hawk in the neighbor's tree this morning, and have seen them in the nearby park. My dog's big enough that I'm not too worried, but some of the folk I meet in the park have small dogs that a hawk could easily snatch up.

One of my first-ever experiences was with a guy who gave massages out of a private studio downtown, it turned into a "he kept brushing his hardon through his shorts against my hand" and it went where you'd expect. :-) Years later, he was working at a legit spa, I got a massage from him; no play this time, given the location, but he kept rubbing and squeezing my achilles tendon, which HURT. I asked him to stop a few times, he kept zeroing back in on it, so I got up, dressed and left. Nothing like the "very very thick 9", but leaving is always an option.

I'm with @azdr0710 , there seem to be a LOT of posts about this happening to people in the past couple of weeks. Is it a new phenomenon, or has it always been happening and people are just talking about it more? (Wow, talk about a parallel to the #MeToo movement...)

agreed. I don't spend a lot of time on twitter, but I checked out a couple of porn star twitter feeds yesterday, and the onlyfans tweets overwhelmed any actual content.

Didn't Jamie Lee Curtis do a photo shoot for some magazine withOUT the preening and retouching? I picked up a friend at the airport after his trip to South Beach. He looked around the Detroit airport & said "oh well, back to the land of ugly people..."

Me too. "I saw your ad and wondering how long you'll be in town" is usually as explicit as I get in the first text.

Is this the book you've been working on? :-P

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Colby Keller & Tommy Defendi in "Dumped", where Colby shows up a dirty mess at Tommy's house after being dumped by his girlfriend. Tommy puts him in the shower to clean him up. I haven't been able to find any pictures before it gets explicit, where Colby's out of it but getting hard as Tommy's soaping him up, and that's the part that I find fascinating. https://daily.squirt.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Dumped-7-725x1087.jpg

This picture was in "The Year in Movies" in my Dad's playboy stash, and was one of the first naked man pictures I ever saw. I must've been 10 years old or so.

I remember a radio story about 10 years ago where a TV reviewer said that getting a DVR totally changed the way he watched TV. And that he knew how ridiculous it sounded and he would have made fun of himself saying it before he got the DVR, but then found it to be true. When I signed up for one, the cable rep was giving me the spiel, but kept breaking off her 'script' and said "It's just awesome!" several times, with such enthusiasm I knew it was genuine on her part. And it was. To steal his line, it's totally changed the way I watch TV. I tried for years to convince my father, a more avid TV watcher than me, to sign up; and now that he's moved into a retirement community and has a new cable system, he's got one. I look forward (well, kind of) to showing him how it works.

That email reminded me of the chapter in "Flowers for Algernon" where Charlie first learned about punctuation & tried to use it in his diary.

I've never heard of that one. But few would call me hip. When I was working with my trainer around 2002, he tried to fist-bump me, and I looked at his hand like "What's that?"

what does UWS mean?

:-D At the now-defunct Happy Tap in Windsor, a guest dancer (forget where he was from) performed to a song that was REALLY familiar - then I realized it was the music from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, when the Durmstrang competitors arrived at Hogwarts.