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@glutes is probably half-way to Ecuador by now!

I first visited New York when I was 12. I had sold enough newspaper subscriptions to win a trip. This is 1960. We were 12 and 13 year olds. The first thing most of the guys did was buy Playboy magazines. My last visit was in November. As much as I like walking in New York, the pandemic had left me out of shape so it was painful. Yet I persisted!

If crime in Brazil is up due to the inflation and COVID closures, it might be best to wait to go to Brazil until the economy improves. Yes, I know some are going now, but these guys, so far as I know, have many local friends and are not walking around by themselves.

I am curious if the stats would show a decline in posting lately.

The Yankees were pretty lackluster last year, so I am surprised to see that they are pretty lackluster this year. The Angels are much more watchable.

Movie theater entrance was ten cents, a Coke was a nickel. I remember riding the trolley with my mother in downtown Detroit. I remember refusing to wear a t-shirt to kindergarten. It's what I did yesterday I have trouble remembering!

Thank you for the update.

I'd prefer Starbucks and fucks!

Leak? Like a dripping from the penis? Or do they mean anal leakage?

I did introduce myself to several people. I have met over 100 posters in the past years and am always happy to meet new ones. But I don't imagine that I will ever be as well known as @Oliver or @Epigonos!

Well, gosh, @Epigonos would not have to wear a name tag! Everyone knows him!

I have never heard of him. Could you post a link?

One of the hotter guys at the pool event suggests that next year we wear name tags. Good idea!

In case anyone was wondering, I did get the job done, but it wasn't fun.

The Angels played Houston in Anaheim this weekend, and I found myself rooting for rookie Jeremy Pena, making his big league debut. He is the son of a former major leaguer. https://www.chron.com/sports/astros/article/Astros-rookie-Jeremy-Pena-bio-learn-more-shortstop-17065034.php

I bought tickets to see Our Town at the South Coast Repertory Theater in May. While perusing their website, I learned things about Thornton Wilder: It’s not exaggerating to call Thornton Wilder a Renaissance Man. Where to start chronicling his remarkable and varied career provides a challenge to anyone seeking to wrap their minds around how much Wilder (1897-1975) accomplished in his 78 years. SCR commemorates the 125th birthday of this Renaissance Man by producing his seminal work Our Town, which runs May 7-June 4 on the Segerstrom Stage. SCR is the only Southern California theatre producing one of Wilder’s works this year. To commemorate Wilder’s 125th birthday, more than 150 productions of his plays go on stage worldwide. This includes a new Broadway production of The Skin of Our Teeth and a first-ever staging of Wilder’s unfinished play The Emporium at Alley Theater in Houston. Along with that, the Thornton Wilder Library is releasing a new edition of The Bridge of San Luis Rey and special Thornton Wilder Library editions of all his novels and major plays. On April 27, a short documentary, Thornton Wilder: It’s Time will premiere at Lincoln Center Theater, the site of the Broadway revival of The Skin of Our Teeth. That documentary, featuring rarely seen footage of Wilder, along with interviews with Mia Farrow, the late playwright A.R. Gurney and others, will be made available free online. On Tuesday, May 3, the Library of America will host Our Town for Our Time: How Thornton Wilder’s Play Speaks to a changing America and Around the Globe. The online conversation, which features a conversation with theatre director Michel Hausmann, Sorbonne University professor Julie Vatain-Corfdi and Tappan Wilder, the author’s nephew and literary executor, is free. Register here. The celebration of Wilder’s 125th birthday honors one of the most decorated men of letters of the 20th century. But Wilder was more than a playwright, more than a novelist. There’s the three Pulitzer Prizes: two in Drama for Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth and one in Fiction for The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Wilder remains the only American writer to win Pulitzers in two different categories.There’s the proficiency in four languages. There’s the teaching career at the University of Chicago and Harvard. There’s the screenwriting career, where Wilder wrote the first draft of Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller Shadow of a Doubt. He wrote the libretto for Paul Hindemith’s The Long Christmas Dinner and Alcestiad by Louise Talma, which was based on Wilder’s play. And there’s the man who served his country as a decorated officer for the Army Air Force Intelligence Department during World War II. Even Tappan Wilder finds himself running out of verbal real estate trying to encompass Wilder’s overall contribution to the arts. “Wilder was a man of many parts: most people know him as a playwright and a novelist, but he was also an actor, translator, educator, lecturer, musician, lyricist, screenwriter, and the list goes on,” Wilder said. “Constantly experimenting with form, he wrestled with the questions of the cosmos, of what it means to be human. With the celebration of the 125th anniversary of his birth, we’re putting him back together. It’s a moment to celebrate the depth and breadth of his work, as well as his legacy—his influence on the writers of today.”

OMG! This guy thinks highly of his services. AVOID! AVOID! Don't hire a confident, muscular guy! Unless you are attracted to him and think he is well worth the money. But isn't that true of any escort?

It strikes me that this guy believes he provides a top quality massage and is charging for that. No one is forced to accept his terms.

My thanks to @Oliverfor hosting the pool event, and to @Epigonosfor the good job on the food. Yes, I ate the eggs! It was nice meeting fellow posters too!

The Netflix documentary is written about in today's NY Post. https://nypost.com/2022/04/11/sex-and-discrimination-sunk-abercrombie-fitch-netflix-doc/

@FrankR Thanks for the info in that thread. The thread is, however, closed to new posts, so I am trying again here.

I don't mean Meals on Wheels or fast food delivered I am speaking of sites Like HomeChef or Blue Apron. What was your experience with them? I was signing up for Blue Apron. They gave me a list of things to select whether I ate them or no. So I unselected fish and seafood. Then they presented their choice of meals for me. It was all fish and seafood! So I went back, starting over, and unselected fish and seafood. My meals then popped up and were the same ones- fish and seafood. I canceled. These sites often give big discounts to new clients. I am looking for a good one that does not require me to prepare the meal. I want heat and serve! HomeChef I had to prepare. Blue Apron was going to be heat and serve.

I got the appropriate tax forms from irs.gov.

No understudy will take over, according to the NY Post. The show is shutdown. At least for now. https://nypost.com/2022/04/07/sarah-jessica-parker-tests-positive-for-covid-19-plaza-suite-shut-down/

I didn't really figure it out as I cannot access the tax worksheets now. They did not ask me for other deductions, nor did they ask me if had paid estimated taxes. So the info is wrong and I can't fix it! This will be the last time for Cash App.