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Watch him and Lombard in "To Be Or Not To Be". That's all you need to see to understand his brilliance.

Watch him and Lombard in "To Be Or Not To Be". That's all you need to see to understand his brilliance.

I turned 62 this year and although fit, active, involved and vital, I felt pretty invisible. A 25 year old in a class I was taking came onto me so blatantly 1 evening that I thought I was being punked but to my everlasting surprise, he meant it and I've been having a fun relationship with him ever since. It won't last forever, I'm not in love with him and I don't think he is with me, but there is genuine affection, great sex and astoundingly, we have a lot in common and many mutual interests. I feel like it might be my last fling and I'm enjoying every second of it. Getting older is difficult for everybody but growing older gay is especially tricky. The consolation is that it happens to EVERYone eventually.

I enjoy playing cards online, especially Hearts but due to the aggressively belligerent attitudes of many of the players, I think I'm going to give up playing. The vicious remarks and horrifying language used in the chat boxes that accompany the games are really demoralizing and discouraging and disheartening and sickening. I once shot the moon but still lost by one point and one of the players typed, "Typical. N.....s can't count." When I have succeeded in hitting somebody with the Queen, I've been called a cunt, a faggot, an asshole, a douche bag, and accused of fucking my mother or watching one of the players fuck my mother or selling my mother to ISIS as a sex slave. I've also been told to suck dick, eat shit, fuck off, and to finger myself.
 
Enough. I think I'll just watch movies instead or play solitaire. People are often just disgusting when they're anonymous.

I enjoy playing cards online, especially Hearts but due to the aggressively belligerent attitudes of many of the players, I think I'm going to give up playing. The vicious remarks and horrifying language used in the chat boxes that accompany the games are really demoralizing and discouraging and disheartening and sickening. I once shot the moon but still lost by one point and one of the players typed, "Typical. N.....s can't count." When I have succeeded in hitting somebody with the Queen, I've been called a cunt, a faggot, an asshole, a douche bag, and accused of fucking my mother or watching one of the players fuck my mother or selling my mother to ISIS as a sex slave. I've also been told to suck dick, eat shit, fuck off, and to finger myself.
 
Enough. I think I'll just watch movies instead or play solitaire. People are often just disgusting when they're anonymous.

The haters are going to be all over me, calling me "grammar cop" or "spellcheck queen" but I couldn't resist citing the correspondence below.
 
An escort recently emailed me after I texted him and the spelling, punctuation and grammar errors were so frequent and frankly funny that they actually turned me off. I'm not looking for Einstein with a big dick but a little rudimentary English is not a lot to ask for.
 
( I always' like to keep on TOP ! Of anything that I get involved with! (Specializing! In Toy’s!
I’m in A (# 1 all around good health ! ( And like within Safe limit’s )
 
Expert in bodywork, have trained in Thailand it's self, for real! And also know many other styles . I have at Rates are in calls 150 or 220 out

In his email, he said he'd give me the code for his "pryvet" photo.
 
Why do people use apostrophes for plurals?
 
Let the hating begin.

Candles, candles, candles. I'm at the age where it's the only flattering light!

Candles, candles, candles. I'm at the age where it's the only flattering light!

I'm in firm agreement with you on all of these shows except one. I actually keep a pad and pen handy to jot down ingredients, measurements and methods. I'm afraid Lidia is not on my list. As another posted below, she never gives quantities or amounts in her recipes and it drives me nuts. Martha is very precise in giving measurements and the ladies on the new America's Test Kitchen do likewise, but Lidia just chops away and throws the stuff in a pot and we're supposed to guess how much. And there's something about her manner that really irritates me. I can't say what it is but when she utters "Just like that" for the 15th time, I want to smack her. I stopped watching Ina for the same reason - her catchphrases really grated on me, particularly "It's not a party until you have to call the Fire Department", and "How bad can that be?"
 
Speaking of America's Test Kitchen, I think Dan Souza is a dish. I know the consensus on here is that Paul on "Great British Baking Show" is the hunk of the kitchen but I find Souza really hot. But I've always been attracted to that nerdy type. He is now the editor of a monthly cooking magazine I subscribe to and that combination of knowledge, erudition and nerdy handsomeness really pierces my heart. Sigh.
 
The Great British Baking Show is the best. Ever. I still watch the reruns knowing full well who's going to be Star Baker or who's going home. And I never miss Paul and Mary's Master Classes. Her madeira cake with chocolate ganache on top is the best cake recipe I've ever learned. I make it every Christmas and it's a "showstopper".

Raul Esparza

I've always been on the edge about A Prairie Home Companion. I found some of the sketches very funny, and some of the guest stars over the years have done unusual and unexpected things that made the show really delightful but I always found Keilor to be a big bore. I much prefer reading his stuff to listening to him. Chris Thile is a charming, talented, sincere guy but the show has become rather sophomoric in his hands. I used to turn the radio on in the kitchen on Sunday afternoons while cooking for the week and listen to the show while working away but now, I tune to the classical channel for the live broadcasts of concerts and operas instead. I saw Thile singing Christmas songs on a Sunday morning show last week and he was wonderful but as the new host of Prairie - meh.

My favorite t.v. couple was on a short lived series called "The New Normal" with Andrew Rannells and Ellen Barkin among a superb cast. The male couple who hire a surrogate to have their baby was loving, funny, eccentric and even had a sex life. I really liked that show even when it was just a tad over-the-top. Strangely, I don't like the new "Will and Grace". I know - sacrilege!

I agree. The Dr. Blake Mysteries is rather boring and pedestrian and A Place to Call Home was just glamorous soap. I kind of like 800 Words, although it can be a bit plodding.

I've never owned an automatic. I've only driven them when I've rented cars out of town and my left foot kept reflexively pushing down the non existent clutch!

I've never owned an automatic. I've only driven them when I've rented cars out of town and my left foot kept reflexively pushing down the non existent clutch!

I've never owned an automatic. I've only driven them when I've rented cars out of town and my left foot kept reflexively pushing down the non existent clutch!

I've never owned an automatic. I've only driven them when I've rented cars out of town and my left foot kept reflexively pushing down the non existent clutch!

Why remake it? The original was superb, and we all know whodunnit.

So happy to see the Sara Ramirez character join the team. But I'm getting a little tired of Tea Leoni saving the world single handed every week. I love the show but the plot lines are a tad preposterous at times. It's better than "Designated Survivor", though. That one just stinks like old fish.

Why remake it? The original was superb, and we all know whodunnit.

Why remake it? The original was superb, and we all know whodunnit.

Why remake it? The original was superb, and we all know whodunnit.

Why remake it? The original was superb, and we all know whodunnit.

I've posted about this before and people wrote and wrote and wrote about how unfair I was being to the actress but the ad that makes me gag is the one for Irritable Bowel Syndrome medication in which there is a young woman in a tan leotard and a horrible red wig portraying the IBS that is plaguing the other young woman in the ad. It's offensive in so many ways and the haters are going to come after me again but what I object to the most is that the actress portraying the disease appears to be mentally challenged (as the character, not the actress herself). I'm embarrassed for her and horrified by the ad campaign.
 
I think the Mark Wahlberg ads are horrible too. How broke is Anjelica Houston that she accepted a job in which she stands behind a curtain and then exits wearing a dollar sign over her dress? Okay, haters, bring it on!
 
And what about the English woman who gave people ass wipes as they went into the bathroom and then asked them about their "experience" afterwards? Or the animated bears touting toilet paper?
 
And the networks wonder why viewership of commercial TV has declined so dramatically. It's the commercials, stupid!

Yossi and Jagger is one of the most moving films I've seen in a long, long time. It stayed with me for a long time, just like Moonlight did.