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I saw Jeff Stryker in an Off-Broadway show about gay sex in jail. Many years ago. Now I wonder why. I liked other porn stars more (and hired a few, even guys who post in Gallery occasionally mention me when posting a photo of Billy Brandt).

As someone else said: “And when you're a star they let you do it. You can do anything ... Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything."
 
I haven’t yet watched the Oprah special, but she would have done a great service if she mentioned Trump’s tape as a shining example of the celebrity dynamic. I’m doubtful that she did, though...

As someone else said: “And when you're a star they let you do it. You can do anything ... Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything."
 
I haven’t yet watched the Oprah special, but she would have done a great service if she mentioned Trump’s tape as a shining example of the celebrity dynamic. I’m doubtful that she did, though...

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” — Upton Sinclair
 
The Jacksons are going down. The two men’s graphic descriptions, made during separate and uncoordinated interviews, are nearly identical — which makes them even more believable.

No. We post snarky shit to old people too. It’s a cultural thing...bar-stool talk without the bar. Shade without a tree. Etc.

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” — Upton Sinclair
 
The Jacksons are going down. The two men’s graphic descriptions, made during separate and uncoordinated interviews, are nearly identical — which makes them even more believable.

Louisiana?

What's the point of that? To try and shame or make a person who is out about their status look bad? I used to date someone who was HIV+ and we used all the precautions. Guess what? I am still negative. Also, Kayden is literally one of the sweetest guys you could ever have the pleasure of meeting and even answered questions I had. He is safe, our time was safe and I would highly suggest anyone who is interested to go down and see him. Let's not continue with the stigma. it does more harm than good and it's unnecessary.

In a day where a number of odd, out of the usual, things happened to me, this one takes the cake, lol, and I just had to share.
 
I'm done with work, and given the cold weather and my desire to get home, I decided to hire an Uber rather than to take the subway. (I indulge in this occasionally lol.) I would have a 5 minute wait for the cab. I waited in a usual "safe spot" nearby - under the lighted marquee/overhang of the college theatre complex I work in.
 
Occasionally, when I wait there, some of my students or faculty colleagues will pass by, along with anyone else passing by on the sidewalk. None of them tonight, but then, a man approached me. He said hi, I said hi back - and I'm already trying to figure out if I know him or not - but I don't think I do. He seemed very friendly, though, as if we did. He said something else to me that I can't remember, but it prompted me to ask, awkwardly, if I knew him. (He was an adult - he could have been a faculty member I had met briefly or something.) He extended his hand, said his name was Paul, and I shook his hand and told him my first name. It was clear that I did not know him - I don't remember anyone named Paul that he reminded me of.
 
I should also mention that it's a cold winter night and we're both bundled up in our coats. And there is light around us, but not all that much, by the theatre doorway. This is also a busy city street, not some secluded area.
 
Then he says, unmistakably, out of the blue, "you're very handsome."
 
:eek:
 
Awkwardly, my instinct had me come up with a "thanks." But this was damn weird. He started asking me where I was from - did I live in Boston, etc. I mumbled something, trying to get out of this - and he then repeated that he thought I was very handsome. At which point, I started walking away and said goodnight. He said goodnight in return (and mentioned my first name as well) and that was the last I saw of him. And it wasn't long before my uber showed up and I was on my way home.
 
So here I am, humbly an average looking guy with too much belly lol, being picked up by some random man in the middle of a busy downtown Boston street on a very cold winter night. WTF??
 
Of course, all those afterthoughts appeared in my head - what if I had gone along with his flirting and seen where this could have led? Maybe he was a nice guy after all. But no - his approach was so strange that I can't imagine it would have been safe to pursue this with him. DID he know me somehow? From where? Or did he really just try to pick up a stranger in the oddest of places? Was this something he did often, maybe trying to snag some vulnerable college kids? What the hell was all this?
 
I know I made the right decision to get away from him...but the whole thing has left me rather weirded out. Especially given the weather and all that. (Like, what a weird night to be cruising lol.) This was not a place I'd expect to be approached like that - and to be honest, I'm not the kind of guy that naturally does get approached like that.
 
Just...so...fucking...strange...

The best Best Picture in recent years I think is Moonlight..such a great film with beautiful visuals, a somewhat oblique storytelling style (in a good way) and characters whose stories are not often told in film. I was really rooting for Roma for the same reasons, but the addition I guess of it being in foreign languages made it to much of a challenge for the academy voters.

Vienna is very beautiful. Berlin is very sexy.

If Spike could relax and stop being Spike, the incremental change you have noticed would not be happening, and “BlackkKlansman” would not be such a great movie.

The Academy changed its Best Picture voting system in the wake of the scandalous omission of “The Dark Knight” from a nomination a decade ago.
 
Now, a complicated “preferential ballot” is used, and it has changed the selection dynamic. It’s explained here:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/how-oscar-s-preferential-ballot-works-could-produce-a-best-picture-shocker-1189677

BTW my comments on Spike’s “unsportsmanlike conduct” aside I did really like “Blackkklanman” and it was my downloaded-for-flying iPad movie just ahead of “Green Book” when I traveled last week...in anticipation of Oscar night.

“Chicago” was genius. Catherine Zeta Jones, Renee Zellweger and Richard Gere couldn’t dance, so mostly they were shot from the hips up. Jazz hands!

I think these paragraphs from the LA Times article relates pretty well to judging Spike Lee's performance:
 
It’s strangely troubling that Ali — who won his first supporting actor Oscar for 2016’s “Moonlight,” an achingly beautiful portrait of gay black masculinity — has now won another award for playing a gay black man in a movie that has so little respect for his identity. There’s an even ghastlier irony in the fact that the academy that broke new ground by giving its highest honor to “Moonlight” two years ago has now seen fit to bestow the same prize on a movie that is “Moonlight’s” complete aesthetic, emotional and moral antithesis.
 
Vulture’s Mark Harris aptly described “Green Book” as “a but also movie, a both sides movie” that draws a false equivalency between Vallelonga’s vulgar bigotry and Shirley’s emotional aloofness, forcing both characters — not just the racist white dude — to learn something about themselves and each other.
 
It’s a tactic, Harris noted, whose echoes can even be found in a terrific older movie (and best picture winner) like “In the Heat of the Night,” and it exists mainly to reassure any audience that might be uncomfortable with a black man gaining the moral high ground.
 
You can argue that Ali was as much a lead actor as Mortensen, and that it's an insult that one was nominated for a supporting role, and the other for a lead role. That being said, Ali won. And now he's one of only two Black actors to win two Oscars, I believe. And if there's a statement to be made by his two wins, it's that he's a very good actor and he can portray very different characters in emotionally searing performances.
 
And Ali's two award-winning performances are not the antithesis of each other. Dr. Shirley was a fighter, and the movie showed him fighting. The movie was actually ABOUT him fighting racism, albeit in a subversive way. It was not inappropriate to have Rep. Lewis basically bless the film. But it is fair to say the way that Green Book and Moonlight were made was pretty much the antithesis of each other.
 
I agree with the LA critic that there was a false moral equivalence in Green Book. The movie was set up to be a feel good movie for White people - which is probably why somebody like Farrelly (There's Something About Mary) was chosen to direct it. In fact, it should be mentioned that Spike Lee was nominated as Best Director, and Peter Farrelly wasn't. There's some justice in that.
 
It doesn't surprise me at all that Spike Lee would, in effect, publicly and loudly call bullshit on what he sees as a false moral equivalence. His one word answer to a question in the press conference covered it: "Facts."
 
From the LA critic:
 
Still others will be tempted to identify a stubborn strain of Trumpian anti-intellectualism among “Green Book” lovers who dug in their heels in defense of a much-maligned favorite.
 
They may have a point. I remain optimistic that, as with “Crash’s” ill-remembered victory, the coronation of “Green Book” will turn out to be not a re-entrenchment but a calamitous fluke — the academy’s last concession (for now) to that portion of the white moviegoing audience that still believes stories of justice and progress will always have to be negotiated on their terms. As Shirley tells Vallelonga early on in “Green Book”: “You can do better.” His rebuke might just as well extend to the movie he’s in and to a voting body foolish enough to honor it.
 
To dredge up my rear view mirror analogy, I think that last paragraph is spot on. Whether you call it a "fluke" or a "last gasp" of a certain kind of sentiment, Green Book will probably be remembered as an entertaining and palatable symbol of what we were leaving behind. Not what lies ahead.

One big disappointment, regarding the relentlessly mediocre "Bohemian Rhapsody:" The name of fired director (and gay sex-predator) Bryan Singer was studiously avoided as the (relentlessly mediocre) movie took home four Oscars. Opportunity lost.
 
Would that someone, preferably star Rami Malek, had pointed out that Freddie Mercury offered an inspiring life-story about how to discover gay pride, while Bryan Singer offers a shameful story about becoming a predator. It would have done a world of good, especially for the perverted beliefs promoted by the Mike Pences of the world.

“Green Book,” a feel-good movie about the comedy-laced struggles of a white bigot to accept the humanity of an exceptional Other in the apartheid American South, wins Best Picture.
 
As today’s LA Times put it in a blistering column by their film critic (who is not white): The worst movie to win since “Crash.”
 
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-oscars-green-book-worst-best-picture-winner-20190224-story.html

Three of the four characters played in the Oscar-winning acting categories are homos. So there’s that.

Three of the four characters played in the Oscar-winning acting categories are homos. So there’s that.

Spike Lee should at least have been nominated for Do the Right Thing.

There is something fucked up about a movie whose Black character is the lead being filtered through his interaction with his bigoted white driver. Also the Green Book itself was a publication to guide Black people on what,establishments were open to them to allow them to travel safely through Jim Crow areas. So why does a movie bearing the name of a book to help Blacks avoid interacting with racist white people put a racist white man front and center?
 
As I understand it, Shirley's family objected to the depiction of the relationship between him and his driver as inaccurate. Since that's the focus of the movie, that seems irresponsible.
 
I agree that it's getting love because it has a Black character but leaves White audiences feeling all fuzzy. The whitewashing of history should itself be disqualifying irrespective of technical merits. Same should be true if Dances With Wolves came out now. (To be clear, I'm solely talking about Best Picture and screenplay, not acting or technical awards.)

Plastics are timeless.
 
Jeff looks pretty good in this vid from last summer:
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-klCQ-2SXJg

Reports say Kraft is not the largest fish caught.

Supposing you don't provide them with any accurate information about yourself, what does it really matter? Also- if you think your info is not being tracked, sold, and monetized via any other service (online or offline) you're in for quite a shock. Are you a member of a grocery store club? Do you have health insurance? Are you on any mailing lists? Ever joined a gym? Do you have any credit cards? A cell phone? Then congratulations- your information is already being bought and sold.
 
So you understand where I'm coming from, I am an IT Network Engineer with a Masters degree in Information Security. I have been working and teaching in the InfoSec space for almost a decade.