Rod Hagen

Just over a month, yes I am counting the days. :-)

So, this is intriguing. Say more about both halves of this sentence, please. :-)

Like I said in a different response. It's not just the price, it's the FUCKING HOA. When I look at NYC realestate listings, the prices often match my expectations, but the tax and the Maintenance, no fucking thank you. Not that the tax on the house I briefly had here in LA was low, but my god the HOA on For-Sale NYC Condos is ridiculous.

You probably don't know exactly, since it's not your pad. but I imagine the HOA, or "Maintenance", is unGodly. Add that to the tax, and, well, wow.

Oh yeah, that's a definite spoiler, the OP should not have mentioned that part. Yes, agreed, the climax was fantastic.

Thank you, But no, I should have guessed. Always best to be a couple steps ahead.

Always hated this pushback that started in the '90s, calling people who rerference categories, WHICH HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A REASONABLE and USEFUL THING, as "Labeling". Because yes, we all know that "YOU" the person calling out the labeler, are a unique butterfly-unicorn hybrid that defies all categorization. Aren't you special? When my friends and I first noticed this around '92, so many would say "I don't believe in labels", and we'd respond to this ridiculousness: I can even label you. You are an individual in that group of people of people who deny the existence of labels. That's your label.

That scene is amazing. They could have easily broken their necks in there, no joke. https://thegay.com/videos/175466/the-boys-of-venice-1978-full-movie/?start_time=191.565758

Just watched the first ep., What a twist! And I'm annoyed with myself for not seeing it.

I'm excited too, and though I think Alyson Janey is a good actress, she's a bit too corny for me, so I wish she weren't in such a significant role this season. Oh well. Should be fantastic.

In my 30s, so old only by escort standards (at that time), I left a Regal theater downtown two separate times because it was too loud. Never been back since.

Michelle Goldberg hates it, which for me is a check in the Positive Column. nytimes.com WWW.NYTIMES.COM

Has anybody figured out who he is? Initially, I was turned off by his obsession with Luxe, but then I had to remind myself how much I was into that stupid crap in the first decade of my escorting career. It's kinda inevitable when you're surrounded by it only to return in the morning to your shitty wood-framed one-bedroom. More importantly, ignoring the Luxe and the Elevator Posing, he seems pretty level headed and he knows NYC, the whole city not just Manhattan, extremely well. I like him. Definitely like his accent. Physically, he's not my taste at all. But I like him as a person/escort.

Three eps into it. It's fun. I keep repeating,"Thank God I never joined the military," but a close friend of mine had a very good time in the army in the '80s. Constant fucking is how he describes it. While watching, I keep remembering the old joke, "How can you tell when you're in bed with a Masculine Marine? He holds up his own legs when you fuck him."

Plot is thin, Movie is quite good. I was happy to see quite a few gay boys in the audience, reminiscent of the late '90s when Strand put out gay films regularly and men came out to see them. I recognized the sad and real 1962 footage of men being arrested in a similar sting in the from William E. Jone's art installation: William E Jones WWW.WILLIAMEJONES.COM William E. Jones -- artist

Ha Ha. No, the line "Dude why is your shirt so tight?" and his response "I'm not gay" are quotes from the movie. :-)

Sean Penn is so friggin RIpped in the movie. "Dude, why is your shirt so tight?" "I'm not gay if that's what you're asking." Lol He looks like this:

Yes, he was in the Q&A. Interesting guy, really good actor.

The other night saw a DGA screening with Q&A afterward, Julia Roberts flaked (supposedly not feeling well). I liked it. Guy who shot Clockers did the cinematography and like all of Luca Guadagnino films, it's beautiful.

I've heard from other people that they hate that movie, but I never got a good explanation as to why? It's so iconic for so many of us Gen Xers that I need to ask, what is it that you don't like about A Christmas Story?

Glad you liked it. I'm conflicted. I loved everything before Atonement. Atonement was a major achievement, and I only "liked" the section before the war. Saturday is well written, but the artifice of a book representing a day feels wrong to me, and done to death by other great writers. And he is a great writer. Chesil Beach SUCKED. If he's written other books since then, I'm unfamiliar. I will read What We Can Know, but I'm not expecting to be blown away like he used to do for me.

I'm not. Never heard of him. So I just had to google him and could NOT hit stop on the video fast enough. Not my kind of music. Oh well.

The other day I was reading old emails from Mom, early 2000s. In one of the emails she was gushing with gratitude for the TV, VCR and computer I'd purchased for her. 25 years later, yesterday, I was thinking how nice it was to be able to do things like that for her, and how sad she would have been had she known from where that money came. Not disappointed, just sad. People open to a lot simply are not open to this business (except when they need it).

Who is he?

Decades ago Mom was devastated about her unwanted divorce from Dad. Being a bonehead I thought I'd share some beautiful music with her because I'd just seen The Highlander and I knew she loved Freddy Mercury. Hadn't even dawned on me how sad the music was until I played it for her and she said, "Turn it off, too sad." Idiot.