Rudynate

A friend of mine asked me if I thought bodybuilders using spray tan on stage wasn't blackface. I thought it so preposterous, I had a hard time not laughing in his face. I said "they aren't pretending to be black, just that they have a great tan."

I remember a movie starring Godfrey Cambridge - Watermelon Man - where he played a racist white guy who woke up one morning to find that his skin had turned black overnight.

Right.

We've been binge-watching "The Great . . .," a paradoy of Catherine II and her reign. A few of the characters are played by black actors. It was disconcerting at first to see black actors playing 18th century Russian courtiers, but it didn't take much to get used to it.

On RM you can specify just the kind of man you're looking for - muscled-not muscled. dick size, height, weight, hairy/not hairy, top/bottom, ethnicity, etc. You can generate a pool of possibles, narrow the pool by reading the profiles, and when you have a short list, post it here for specific recommendations. It can take as long you want it to take- 5 minute or 5 hours.

That crazy liquid protein diet popular way back when, based on hydrolyzed collagen, would give you ~150gr protein for about 600 calories.

I need to take my own advice. Since bread has started costing 8.00-9.00/loaf, I have been baking bread. I have learned to make a killer loaf of white sandwich bread. We can't leave it alone.

If you eat out a lot, fish and salad are your friends. Skip bread and dessert.

I don’t have any desire to eat more calories than I need. I wasn’t always this way. I have to be mindful about food choices and hydration- those parts require some focus.

It's a jungle out there. Almost any stranger who hits you up on social media is suspect.

On IG, I get occasional DM's from an incredibly handsome Arab who tells me he's the Crown Prince of Dubai. There actually is such a person, but I doubt that he would be sending DM's to random men on social media.

They always want to move the chat to google chat or whatsapp.

A while back - I had a gorgeous young doctor from Dallas whose partner had dumped him and left him with tens of thousands in credit card debt.

A while back, I encountered a version of the oil rig. Incredibly sexy German, he was an "engineer" and had taken a job on an oil rig, the job turned out to be a dissappointment and he needed money to buy out his contract.

Yes!! Amazing-looking guys - they are all recent immigrants, and they have a design firm and they manage their investments on the side.

I was thinking the same thing. Grizzled ass? 48?

Age shaving and other minor (or major) deceits are just a feature of the sexual marketplace,, whether you are talking about sex workers or civilians. I once went home with a guy and he lived in a dinky studio apartment. He told me "this is just my 'other' apartment, I actually live at 'x'" and gave me the name of a prestigious apartment complex. Even as young and naive as I was then, i thought "yea, right." I don't really mind if somebody shaves a few years off their age - to me, it's a harmless white lie.

I don't know why, but that's always my experience. If a guy asked me for payment upfront, I would be happy to pay him. But nobody ever asks - so it is sort of like a geisha experience.

Well sure. But there's a big difference between discretely leaving some cash on a table and presenting your bounce-back coupon to be punched.

I had a cysto as a young boy with an old-fashioned scope but they put me to sleep for it. I didn't mind it because that was back when they got you very loaded on pre-op meds before any kind of procedure. As an adult, I have had two, a conventional one that hurt like hell and the one that didn't hurt a bit. Still, I hope I don't have to have another one.

A year ago, I stayed at the Fairmont in Dallas. On Sunday, they had no housekeeping, nor food service of any kind, except for crap from the gift store.

Several months ago, I read an article about the hotel industry. The author posited that raising rates and cutting back on guest services to recover from the hit they took in the pandemic was going to bite them in the ass. Maybe so.

This. I think the best providers are good at downplaying the transactional side of the relationship.

That's actually not a total suprise - San Francisco is usally mobbed with tourists at this time of year. Just the other day, I was thinking "Where are all the tourists?"

Mostly not. There have been a couple situations. My spine surgeon is a tall, handsome triathlete and he has a big personality that just envelopes you. So I like seeing him - it's like sitting down to chat with an old friend that I haven't seen in a long time. One time I had a cystoscopy. The uro who did the procedure had a technique that was nearly pain-free. I didn't get hard, but having that scope snaking around inside of me was very erotic. It was over way too soon.