Lucky

Gosh! I can't wait for chapter 2!

https://buyfromben.us/ Ben's prices are higher than those at the local Gay Mart, but not by much. I read an interview with the guy who once ran the popper business, and in it he says that Rush and Super Rush are the exact same thing. I also wouldn't advise buying the larger bottles of poppers, since once opened the solution starts losing its potency. Not that I would know from personal experience! 🫥

@Gar1eth It is nice to see you posting here again.

It was thrilling to watch Houston lose.

"At this hour?" From what I can tell, you posted at 1:45 am. I hope that your sneezing has abated and that you are sound asleep now.

Seventy dollars now!

Is it streaming? Where?

Are you speaking to yourself?

We're talking massage here. WTF does a small penis have to do with massage?

Who knew that you could get pseudoephedrine from the pharmacist? @Charliedidn't, and I'd say he is an otherwise informed consumer. Since he didn't know it, he was "forced" to buy the stuff that didn't work. I agree, forced may be too strong of a word, but in an effort to stop a few drug dealers, a whole lot of people bought the stuff that didn't work.

A year ago I wrote a positive review of an Asian masseur I met at Time Square Mens Spa. Now I can't find it. Does anyone know if he is still at that spa, or what his current status is? Thanks.

People were forced to buy phenylephrine so that drug dealers couldn't get pseudoephidrine so easily. A useless drug exchanged for one that actually works. Using Sudafed to make meth has been surpassed with other methods.

Well, there is now more advice! Thanks, guys. My Ipad is old. Not sure how old. It takes cellular, but I canceled it long ago. My budget for a laptop is about $300.

My Ipad is not very good on the internet. Pages beyond the first simply don't load. Hopefully a laptop is more suitable.

Gay here. I hate it when I see newspapers use "queer" as an accepted word. One website that I use has expanded the LGBT acronym to LGBTQIAP+ Where does it stop?

I am humbled by the overwhelming lack of response to my inquiry. At least I got multiple suggestions over at gayguides.com/forums.

The sequel had a pretty divided response as I remember.

DALLAS vs houston for the AL Pennant How boring.

I want to buy a good but not high end laptop for traveling. I have no idea what the good ones are or how to compare them. Perhaps a savvier guy here could help me find the best choice. For starters, this is one I think looks good: https://www.amazon.com/URAO-Quad-Core-Lightweight-Computer-Bluetooth/dp/B0CF9VHS45/ref=sr_1_3?crid=2EX0OFCBVF9U0&keywords=laptop&psr=PDAY&qid=1696977804&s=pbdd&sprefix=laptop%2Cpbdd%2C113&sr=1-3&ufe=app_do%3Aamzn1.fos.ac2169a1-b668-44b9-8bd0-5ec63b24bcb5 Thanks for any help. Lucky

Why would we need an RSV injection? I don't know what that is. Do you have to RSVP to get it?

Why did he think it was miserable for an elderly man?

I just finished another gay-themed novel, this one about the theater world and New York in the eighties. I enjoyed Up With The Sun a lot. It's by Thomas Mallon. Street hustlers are common in the novel, and a visit to Rounds and the Haymarket are included. (Remember Rounds?) It's basically a story about Dick Kallman, a gay actor whose career never reached great heights before he and his partner were murdered. The narrator is a musician who played in the theaters of New York. Check out the reviews on Amazon. The first one says that "Enjoyment may vary greatly with one's knowledge of and interest in the subject matter" Well, duh! The theater, New York life, hustlers, etc. should get some appeal here! https://www.amazon.com/Up-Sun-novel-Thomas-Mallon/dp/1524748196/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1696529924&sr=8-1

I liked it too.

In other forums here, there is some wonder why people wait years to report that they were sexually abused. The Lookback Window, by Kyle Dillon Hertz, tells one man's story. It is powerful and depressing. Starting at 14, he was raped and abused by an older guy who sold his services to other men for three years. The book details plenty of abuse and is hard to read in that sense. It's a novel, not a memoir. But that bad things happen to young men is an inescapable fact. I quote from the review of the novel in the New York Times: At the outset of the novel, New York State has passed a new law called the Child Victims Act, which greatly extends the statute of limitations for new child victims of sexual abuse. Previously, child victims had until they turned 23 to report being assaulted. (New York actually passed such a law in 2019.) For people who sit in the gap of the old law and the new law — people who don’t qualify for the new law’s definition of “new victims” but who have already aged past the old law’s statute of limitations — there is a one-time exception: a yearlong period when they can bring a civil case against their abusers. A lookback window. That window has opened, and Dylan must peer through it. It’s a grimly effective frame for the narrative, a clever literalization of the trapdoor of trauma, how the facade of the present collapses under the weight of the past. But “The Lookback Window” is not the courtroom narrative of pain and testimony and justice one might expect from this setup. It is more like a journey into hell. Confronting the past comes with a cost. Driven by a restless, reckless fury, Dylan descends into a world of surreal abjection, of bar fights and drug binges. In doing so, he realizes the word for what he wants: “Not justice. Vengeance.” At his best, Hertz sheds the trappings of traditional realism, adopting instead a swerving, almost psychedelic style that mirrors the abrupt and mercurial perceptions of a turbulent mind. He follows the worthy example of writers like Jean Rhys, Gary Indiana and Denis Johnson (Dylan’s tattoos reference Johnson’s own debut novel, “Angels”), all of whom have written brilliantly about wounded people in degraded circumstances, salvaging a ferocious humor and a jagged, weary poetry from the wreckage of the world. “The Lookback Window” is also a novel about the lives of gay men in America today, about sex and marriage and parties on Fire Island, and the varied forms of intimacy and recovery that might be found in such things. Hertz has managed to tell a story of queer healing with all the narrative force of a thriller and the searing fury of an indictment. It’s an achievement of language, of style, in which the process of finding one’s way back to the world is considered at least in part as an act of learning to “speak the unspeakable.” It’s a matter, Hertz seems to say, of finding the right words. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/01/books/review/the-lookback-window-kyle-dillon-hertz.html?searchResultPosition=1

I wanna lick ass, not plastic.