Rod Hagen

Big Island, Kona, fingers crossed.

I get the sense that before my time, in the days of the pagers, most were wee-hours calls.

Fucking LA, it's been in the high 80s, and now 90s, since Late June. Makes it impossible to enjoy the mountains which I'd normally be doing now. Going to Catalina for the day for some relief but it's high 80s and the water is closed due to pollution. Going to Hawaii soon too, forecast is also too fucking hot for this time of year. San Francisco is looking better and better.

My dad and his wife love Aleve (naproxen sodium.). I've never tried it, but this is good news. Combo drugs are great, nothing kills a headache like Extra strength Excedrin, which is brilliantly Tylenol, Aspirin and Caffeine combined in one gel (if you get generic) pill. So absolutely stupid they banned Vioxx all those years ago. Best NSAID, pain medication, ever for injury. Two painful lessons: always disclose and never overcorrect. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1779871/

It is good work. I hope most are enjoying it like I did, and if they aren't, or not as much, and they are good performers, then good for them, good for everyone. :-)

Honestly, no I don't know who she is either. Sorry.

I tend to avoid things like Glee and Wicked and Abbot Elementary. All that positivity. No, I have not seen Baby Reindeer. I remember it being mentioned here and there. I read the description online, it sounds like trauma-porn, like that book I stopped reading 15 years ago, A Little Life, or I Shall Destroy You. Richard Gadd certainly is sexy. Oh, yes I know Hannah Waddingham , I liked her as a guest. She's super sexy too. She's great. Also: Oh, yes, now I recognize Ana Gasteyer. I admired her on SNL. Thank you.

Yes. That description is also stupid.

That's why I put a smiley face on it.

Saying something does not make it true. It's how you feel likely because you can't imagine being turned on by an average or god forbid below average client. That makes sense. Standard tastes are standard because they are held by the majority and most gay men only want hot and skilled guys, so anything else is at best settling, at worse a chore, at the very worst unmanageable. Since you live in your own head, like we all do, it's probably hard for you to comprehend that throughout time lots and lots of prostitutes don't feel that way about appearance or sexual proficiency, which is why we stick with it. There are lots of Rod Hagens and Benjamin Nichols and Mike Gaites and Calvin Culvers and Dane Scots who do this for years, decades, with a smile. Do you imagine that we are gluttons for punishment? Sure on any particular day it may feel like a chore because the escort has other things he's thinking of, life, or maybe he came accidentally earlier in the day and is now trying to muddle through. Muddling through occasionally is true of any job, even the ones we love. But if you love your job, that's only occasionally. Many guys love escorting and enjoy their varied clients. But I'm the one who brought up longterm escorts which kinda derailed this conversation a bit I suppose. I only did that because I always want to encourage people to either hire the escorts who are established, or if that's not possible to select the ones with the most reviews (use a proxy server) on Rent men from reviewers that seem to write "real" reviews. But it that's not possible, then yes of course a lot of those unestablished guys may very well be grinning and bearing it just to get by for a bit to get over a $ slump. I hope they make you believe it. But there are lots of guys in the major cities available to you who are not faking.

It's whom :-). But also, fucking strangers 5 minutes after meeting them is NOTHING like other customer service jobs and you know that.

For fuck's sake, stop calling it an illusion where established escorts are concerned. My Journal confirms that while escorting in my 20s and 30s and 40s I was turned on by every type of man out there and I'm not the only escort who felt/feels that way.

This calling masseurs masseuses stopped being cute some time ago. Google is your friend (said the guy who in another thread earlier this morning couldn't come up with Jean Smart's name). That said I'd much prefer those occasional fuckups to using the ridiculous term "massage therapist" or the one that makes me puke that everyone started using without my permission, "provider". You're fine, don't worry about it. Nothing bad's going to happen. The only VERY RARE setups were in Vegas, and a couple in Texas long ago. You are in Chicago, you're fine. What was your "bad experience"? __________ And for others who read this thread later: It's not hard. Rentmen has reviews. You can use a proxiserver to read them. You can select escorts who have multiple reviews from clients who have reviewed multiple escorts informatively. If you're still unsure after using that logical tactic, hiring well reviewed escorts/masseurs from consistently informative clients, you're medically paranoid and you'll never be comfortable hiring, so give up. Thinking is important. Overthinking doesn't do shit. Now go have sex :-)

Jean Smart is extraordinary, I just have a hard time remembering her name. Apologies, Rosie's guest was not Josh Gadd, it was someone else with a similar name whom she admired and I was unfamiliar.

Reading it and loving it. He and his dad have such honest interactions. He's kind of a brat, understandably: I thought I grew up in an isolated community (800 people, nearest movie theater 45 miles away) but he lives in an equally small town, or smaller, but at the end of the world. I'm not quite buying how he talks to his grandma. Can't imagine anyone being that crass with their own grandparents. Great book so far. I think he just had to get the sadness out of him, his funny drunk now dead Mom out of him, with the first two books, and now we'll see a less morose Douglas Stuart.