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He was scared! https://pagesix.com/2022/04/06/jesse-williams-terrified-of-being-nude-in-take-me-out/?_ga=2.99371486.1704212213.1649167424-1964945804.1649167419

When I say "spread 'em!"

What a bad picture! Doesn't he want his ad to work? Yes, this thread should be under Masseurs! (Shouldn't WanderingAzn meet our @Wanderoz?)

My favorite Palm Springs masseur, ever!, was dylanasian. I am so shocked to see that it was FIFTEEN years ago!!! I just assumed it was 4-5 years past. How time flies! https://www.companyofmen.org/topic/28673-palm-springs-asian-masseurs/#comment-265040

How could I have missed the NY Times review? Their critic says: At its best, “Take Me Out,” which opened on Monday in a fine revival at the Helen Hayes Theater, is a five-tool play. It’s (1) funny, with an unusually high density of laughs for a yarn that is (2) quite serious, and (3) cerebral without undermining its (4) emotion. I’m not sure whether (5) counts as one tool or many, but “Take Me Out” gives meaty roles to a team of actors, led in this Second Stage Theater production by Jesse Williams as Lemming and Jesse Tyler Ferguson as his fanboy business manager. In full: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/04/theater/take-me-out-review.html

The joke here is that once you order the large bottle from Amazon, you find out that the very same bottle ordered directly from the manufacturer is half the cost!

Diabetes seems to be on the rise even discounting COVID. The Washington Post reports a dramatic rise in pre-diabetes in children: U.S. residents on the cusp of developing Type 2 diabetes include about 28 percent of youths ages 12 to 19, according to research published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/04/05/prediabetes-youth/

Has my 2d booster shot already worn off? They don't sem to be effective for very long. From nytiimes.com: A second booster shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine provides additional short-term protection against Omicron infections and severe illness among older adults, according to a large new study from Israel. But the booster’s effectiveness against infection in particular wanes after just four weeks and almost disappears after eight weeks. Protection against severe illness did not ebb in the six weeks after the extra dose, but the follow-up period was too short to determine whether a second booster provided better long-term protection against severe disease than a single booster. The study focused on adults ages 60 and older, and did not provide data on the effectiveness of a second booster in younger populations. The findings, published on Tuesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, suggest that additional boosters are likely to provide fleeting protection against Omicron infections in older recipients, and are consistent with evidence that vaccine effectiveness against infection wanes faster than against severe disease. “For confirmed infection, a fourth dose appeared to provide only short-term protection and a modest absolute benefit,” the researchers wrote. The results come in the midst of a debate over whether and when Americans might need additional boosters. The Food and Drug Administration is convening a panel of outside advisers on Wednesday to discuss the broader U.S. booster strategy. The rapid spread of the highly transmissible Omicron variant, which can evade some of the body’s immune defenses, has intensified the discussion of whether second boosters are broadly necessary. Last month, the F.D.A. authorized second booster shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines for adults ages 50 and older, as well as immunocompromised people ages 12 and older. The agency also authorized an mRNA booster for adults who have already received two doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. It’s likely to be a tough sell: While 66 percent of Americans have been vaccinated, just 30 percent have received a booster shot. It is clear that the Omicron variant has blunted the effectiveness of Covid vaccines, but data on the benefits of a second booster remains limited. A previous study from Israel, which has not yet been published in a scientific journal, found that older adults who received a second booster were 78 percent less likely to die of Covid-19 than those who had received just one booster shot. But scientists criticized the study’s methodology, and the benefits of a second booster for young, healthy adults are less clear. Some experts note that most adults who have been vaccinated and boosted once are already likely to be protected from severe illness and death. On Jan. 2, Israel authorized a fourth dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for adults ages 60 and older and members of other high-risk populations who had received their third shots at least four months earlier. Israel’s vaccination campaign has relied heavily on the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. The new study is based on records from the Israeli Ministry of Health on more than 1.2 million older adults who were eligible for the fourth shot between Jan. 10 and March 2, when Omicron was the dominant variant in the country. The researchers compared the rate of confirmed virus infections and cases of severe Covid-19 among those who had received a fourth dose to those who had received just three doses. Protection against infection appeared to peak four weeks after the fourth shot: the rate of confirmed infections was twice as high in the three-dose group as in the four dose group. By eight weeks after the fourth shot, however, the additional protection against infection had almost disappeared, the researchers found. Rates of severe disease were 3.5 times higher in the three-dose group than the four-dose group four weeks after the booster shot, the researchers found. That protection did not appear to wane and actually ticked up slightly by the sixth week after the shot, when rates of severe disease were 4.3 times higher in the three-dose

Yes, sir, gluuuutes!

it's going to be 97 on Saturday an 89 on Sunday, so I might take @MikeBiDude's suggestion and wear only the mask! But then, that would scare people away...

His bulging muscles are wonderfulllll.

@WilliamMDoubled your pleasure, huh? Your post above is duplicated... ...What are you trying to say when you post a copied pic with no comments?

The show is getting great reviews. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2022-04-04/take-me-out-broadway-jesse-williams-patrick-adams https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/broadway/ny-broadway-take-me-out-review-20220405-wd6onmshbncp7pdnch76ube464-story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/theater-dance/2022/04/04/take-me-out-jesse-tyler-ferguson/ https://nypost.com/2022/04/04/broadways-take-me-out-is-an-explosive-funny-baseball-play/

Many are aware that I am at increased risk of getting more sick from COVID than the general population. So now I am looking into the Pool Event on Sunday. The COVID rate is very low in Riverside County. About 3 cases per 100,000 people. So that is a comfort. Then again, guys will be attending from across the country where risk is higher. So just thinking out loud here, I am wondering if i would be the only one wearing a mask at the event. Am I overreacting?I am double vaxxed and double boosted. But, I don't want to chance illness...

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A Singapore performer on Only Fans is running into trouble with the authorities. Titus Low, a soft-spoken bisexual man, is trying to hang in there anyway: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2022-04-04/singapore-titus-low

I look at the Legacy Gallery every day, but only click on a select few categories. I sometimes wonder why we need so many images, but if folks choose like I do, there is still something for everyone. The new Private Gallery does not interest me much.

I doubt that Mathew Broderick could even work up a credible fart on stage. He is just going through the motions, with no heart or skill in his work.

The NY Times reports that 30% of COVID deaths have been diabetics: After older people and nursing home residents, perhaps no group has been harder hit by the pandemic than people with diabetes. Recent studies suggest that 30 to 40 percent of all coronavirus deaths in the United States have occurred among people with diabetes, a sobering figure that has been subsumed by other grim data from a public health disaster that is on track to claim a million American lives sometime this month. People with diabetes are especially vulnerable to severe illness from Covid, partly because diabetes impairs the immune system but also because those with the disease often struggle with high blood pressure, obesity and other underlying medical conditions that can seriously worsen a coronavirus infection. “It’s hard to overstate just how devastating the pandemic has been for Americans with diabetes,” said Dr. Giuseppina Imperatore, who oversees diabetes prevention and treatment at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Diabetes patients hospitalized with Covid spend more time in the I.C.U., are more likely to be intubated and are less likely to survive, according to several studies, one of which found that 20 percent of hospitalized coronavirus patients with diabetes died within a month of admission. Though researchers are still trying to understand the dynamics between the two diseases, most agree on one thing: Uncontrolled diabetes impairs the immune system and decreases a patient’s ability to withstand a coronavirus infection. Diabetes is a pernicious disease that is at once ubiquitous and invisible, partly because most people with the condition do not appear outwardly ill. It affects 34 million Americans, or 13 percent of all adults, but draws less funding and public attention than other major killers like cancer, Alzheimer’s and heart disease. Even as the pandemic’s hold on political leaders and the public begins to fade, researchers, clinicians and other experts in the field are hoping the disproportionate suffering and death among people with diabetes will bring renewed attention to the disease, which annually claims 100,000 lives and soaks up one in four health care dollars spent. The article goes on to say that a COVID infection increases the chances of a person developing Type 2 diabetes! "One study published last month found that patients who recovered from Covid were 40 percent more likely to be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes within 12 months compared with the uninfected, though researchers have yet to determine a connection between the two conditions." https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/03/health/diabetes-covid-deaths.html

The LA Times has this quote that I liked: "David Dennis Jr., a senior writer at Andscape, added: “I don’t think the Academy would ever recover if Will Smith is the first person stripped or severely punished by the board.” He also joked: “If Chris Rock had known he would have rich white people rally around him like this he would have asked a Black person to slap him years ago.” https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2022-03-30/will-smith-slap-chris-rock-academy-reaction

Into The Woods remains the show that annoyed me the most. I couldn't stand it, but I do hope it is a good experience for you!