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13 hours ago, sync said:
Just watched the movie titled High Strung, which features (sigh) Nicholas Galitzine as a talented violinist playing in the NYC subway as he meets and begins a relationship with a beautiful ballet student named Ruby. They enter a talent violin/dance competition together and are victorious. It's a pleasant feel-good movie.
In the film Nicholas Galitzine is sporting his natural dark brown hair and a roguish brooding look, (sizzling).
I was smitten by Nicholas Galitzine's hotness in Red, White and Royal Blue, but I should have donned my oven mitts before watching High Strung. 😍
Is it streaming? Where?
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Just now, BriansBodywork said:
Why acting so stupid?
Are you speaking to yourself?
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1 hour ago, nycman said:
"Forced"?
I don’t ever remember pseudoephedrine ever being completely removed. At least not in the US. I mean yeah, they moved it behind the counter and you weren’t allowed to buy 5 lbs of it all at once, but I’d hardly call that being "forced to buy phenylephrine".
Btw, CVS is voluntarily removing phenylephrine from their shelves because the crap doesn’t work.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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4 hours ago, cany10011 said:
What is the purpose of the traveling laptop? Is it just for sending emails /searches or do you need it for work? For me, I prefer investing in a lightweight travel laptop. I have the Dell Latitude, which suits me just fine and is relatively lighter weight (had a Sony Vaio before that and I loved it). I hardly use my ipad if i bring my laptop. Otherwise, I’d suggest an ipad or Samsung galaxy tablet if it works for you.
My Ipad is not very good on the internet. Pages beyond the first simply don't load. Hopefully a laptop is more suitable.
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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?
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I am humbled by the overwhelming lack of response to my inquiry.
At least I got multiple suggestions over at gayguides.com/forums.
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7 hours ago, Rod Hagen said:
You're right, I guess I mean out in the world people I talk to, which is my own world so how would you know?? 🙂 But also, wasn't there another thread here about this book, or is this the only one? I might be thinking of somewhere else.
Anyway, I love it, but I know many people who think it's crap.
The sequel had a pretty divided response as I remember.
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2 hours ago, Becket said:
DALLAS vs houston for the AL Pennant. Can't wait! I'm sure Houston Astros will win because they are the better team and lil ol Texas Rangers really aren't good enough. 😉 😉 Hope my streak of picking it WRONG continues........
DALLAS vs houston for the AL Pennant
How boring.
- thomas, Marc in Calif and Becket
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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:
Thanks for any help.
Lucky
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1 hour ago, Charlie said:
A number of years ago, an English friend of mine retired to Portugal because he thought he could live there more comfortably than he could in London on his modest pension. He would occasionally phone me practically crying, because he said the health care was great, but otherwise he found it a miserable place to live for an elderly gay man.
Why did he think it was miserable for an elderly man?
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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!
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On 8/11/2023 at 4:54 PM, Lucky said:
I just finished reading Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style by Paul Rudnick. It is a very likable gay romance novel about a very handsome rich kid and an aspiring young playwright. Lots of history, lots of sex. Pretty good book. Not that it didn't irritate me a time or two.
I liked it too.
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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.
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I wanna lick ass, not plastic.
- TorontoDrew, marylander1940, + Yellowrod and 10 others
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I vote for @Jarrod_Uncut to find a new occupation that might please him a bit.
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16 minutes ago, nycman said:
She did lots of great and lots of horrible things.
In other words, she was a politician.
In my book, dying in office….of old age, was one of her greatest sins.
What the fuck is wrong with that generation?
Are they really that self-centered and narcissistic?Anyways, RIP
From the above article:
"Feinstein recalled finding Milk's body and searching for a pulse by putting her finger in a bullet hole."
That’s really fucking weird. For the record, that’s not how you look for a pulse in a gunshot victim….ever.45 years later you want to criticize Feinstein for this? Hell, two people were just murdered and you expect perfection?
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3 minutes ago, pubic_assistance said:
Statistically unlikely.
Unless you live on a remote island somewhere cut off from civilization, everyone's had Covid. What you mean is you never were aware of catching it because you never developed symptoms.
That might include me as I never tested positive and don't believe I ever had Covid.
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Hey, soulless, I am not claiming to be an expert on anything except recognizing trolls. What I said here involves my experience. Six visits has as much credibility as one wants to give it. Note that I said "your mileage may vary."
If you want to discourage travel to Rio, be my guest.
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I just spent 12 days in Rio and 4 in Sao Paolo. Not once did we feel a sense of danger, even while waiting in a lonely Metro station at night. Six visits to Rio now and no mugging.
I understand that your mileage may vary, but I wouldn't let these incidents in this thread stop me from enjoying Rio!
- Marc in Calif, + nycman, + azdr0710 and 1 other
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Would you pay $46 for two Emporio Armani jock straps?
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Seventy dollars now!