Rod Hagen

SUCKED! so dumb.

The first listing is a condo not a coop, but it lists Common charges: $1,838 a month Taxes: $1,499 a month https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/realestate/housing-market-nyc.html

CONSTANTLY!

When Brokeback came out he described the relationship as stalking. If I remember right his sone and/or others put out statements (pre-Twitter) that Gene was not being Homophobic he just misunderstood the film. Knowing very little about him then or now, that seems likely.

For some strange reason in the Thursday listings they sometimes separate Maintenance and taxes on Condos too, not just coops. Oh well.

I didn't know that. I wonder why the NYTimes lists them separately.

I always considered overnights to be a bit more than 12 hours with time for fucking before dinner and time for morning fuck and cuddle and breakfast and fun and cuddle and not-rushed goodbye. But I like to eat early. If the client isn't available until say 10pm or later, this happens often with people from out of town because they have dinner with coworkers and escorts are not invited :-), I wouldn't say the escort is obligated to stay till noon, he's got shit to do the next day too, unless he wants to. Be flexible AND reasonable. But like everyone else said, this is all stuff to negotiate beforehand. So then why the heck did I contribute to the thread? :-)

Quite good. I recommend. I never did get to The Americans, unfortunately, but he was very good in Perry Mason. The episodes are tight. Characters are sufficiently quirky. It's not Twin Peaks, we'll never have anything that good (first season anyway) again. But it's well done and fun.

Here's the Maureen Dowd https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/06/opinion/marilyn-monroe-birthday.html Here's the brilliant novel you should read: https://www.amazon.com/Blonde-Novel-Joyce-Carol-Oates/dp/006093493X Here are the two films containing her two best performances.

On Broad City he played a Personal Trainer, I believe at Equinox, and My Memory is that we saw him in shorts and T-Shirt a few times and definitely in tight shirts. Would never have imagined he'd become a show runner. I'm impressed.

More Fucking! :-)

Such a dumb movie, she was very good. She has range. Movie is TERRIBLE. Theater was PACKED.

* Failing to prepare is preparing to fail. I'm prepping. * There's an Elevator * In contemporary times, it's a losing gamble to expect good behavior borne out of your generosity. All that said, thank you :-)

Yes, I hope that's true. I also wish they would abandon family-apartment life and buy a house like proper rich parents; It's not as if we are in Manhattan, there are houses all over LA. But, I struggle with optimism. I believe that the best way to handle the future is forecasting, and the best way to put the past into a useful perspective is backcasting. Those are my tactics in an overall preparedness strategy. That said, I know that optimism is helpful. Yes, hope in one hand shit in the other see which one fills up first is true, so hope feels naive to me because simply hoping isn't doing anything. But hope is not nothing, it's not naive, it doesn't have to ignore reality. When circumstances seem beyond a man's control, the one thing he can change is his outlook.

Thank you everyone. Someone asked about moving to the top floor. I too have always, before now, lived on top floors for the simple reason that it means one less neighbor to deal with. My partner doesn't like top floors because he believes firmly that they are too expensive to keep cool. Well, this is the consequence. Having a baby below, I believe, would be much better than above. The only other acceptable top floor unit in this building is the one above the baby and they only just moved in so I don't see them moving out any time soon. We did look at another unit in the building away from the family. Our Unit is our favorite unit in the building, and moving we would always be missing our unit. Nevertheless, we will see how picky we are the first six or seven sleepless nights and unproductive days. I purchased these earplugs: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FBMJY4W4?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title And this sound Machine: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074FL2HL2?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1 And wishlisted this Air Purifier which I'll purchase soon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08KPJCDN6/?coliid=I40HF9BNBUIY9&colid=41YSORTN5762&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it&th=1 I meet with the landlord/manager today. We are very nervous about this, their "blessing", and since we found out both ironically (or stupidly) waking up late at night with pre-anxiety! Thank you again everyone, any more thoughts?

"Steps" such as?

Thank you. Thought of that. Unfortunately, our apartment is Ceiling-Heated.

After years of day and middle of the late-night barking from untrained dogs owned by entitled residents in my last place, I moved to my current apartment because it's concrete and steel, and it's one of two apartments in West Hollywood thus far successful in keeping out pets. (The other is rundown and noisy for other reasons). It's been blissfully quiet In the nearly year I've been here. In that year, one Zillenial asshole resident decided he is so special that he will break the 50-year policy of no dogs. Good news is his apartment isn't near mine so I've never heard the new dog, bad news is it creates a precedent and others will follow. God knows how those dogs and owners will be. Nowadays landlords rarely evict tenants for getting a dog in violation of their lease because it's so easy to get the "service dog" certification. Last week, I found out that the woman above me is going to give birth in a month. Fuck. Have you lived next to or above or in my case below an infant? It's a well-built building, is there any chance that its screams won't wake me up at night and irritate me during the day? Any at all? While I can hear them walking, I've never heard their TV or their talking. Talking of course is not the same as a baby screaming. I know that apart from pressing the the landlord to instal carpet if it is a problem, do you have any other practical suggestions. Obviously, you can't zone against parenthood. https://alblawfirm.com/press-mentions/crying-baby-noise/ I purchased this and this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D3V6Y38G/ref=twister_B0D6C4LZPN?_encoding=UTF8&th=1 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074FL2HL2?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title Any suggestions besides establishing a relationship with them, my landlord, and the Manager, all of which I've already done? I love this building so much. I do not want to leave. Thank you. I'm terrified. Am I screwed?

They are adorable together. I like Rami very much, I wish he were a better actor but unfortunately even though he does what he does very well, it's all kinda one note. One impressive note. Mr. Robot, a pretentious bore to most, to me only gets better each time I watch it (3 times total). I like his steady same-note performance, the flatness of the co-stars, particularly Meryl Steep's daughter, and the absurdity of the story. If you give the show patience, some slack, and some love, it's quite good. I hope The Man I Love does well (I don't know the other actor, Luther Ford).

I always feels sad when I see SMG. She never was able to get past the Buffy label. Same struggle Sally Field initially had with Gidget, though Sally Field, a much better actress, eventually did push past it. I love you Buf..Sarah!

Here's a good interview with the Director. The interview will reveal what you find out about the older character early on in the film:

Saw this at a Q/A Saturday. I was the only audience member who asked a question, people are too timid. Both Reed Birney and Kieron Moore were excellent. I expect good things from this director and nearly zero recognition for both actor's performances because of the film's subject matter. Kieron Moore's as a Camboy with bravado is probably the least controversial thing about this movie. It doesn't go as far as Mysterious Skin does, but it's liable to piss off lots of people (who probably won't be bothered to see it). I would resist the urge to click the times review only because 10 minutes into the film there is a big reveal which Wesley Morris couldn't leave out of his review. It's a strong movie for strong thinkers. Enjoy. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt34915693/ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/movies/blue-film-review.html Kieron Moore Boots:

Which completely contradicts the purpose of a default setting, "...eliminate the need for users to repeatedly select preferences, letting the system carry out standard actions automatically."

I've told this story before. Years ago I was fucking a guy at a party. An hour or so later in a different room I was going to fuck him again and asI started to roll on a condom his eyes widened and he asked, not angrily but clearly turned off, "were you wearing a condom when you fucked me before?" I looked down and said yeah, hugged him as I always do when intimate interactions are over, or in this case when they didn't resume, and walked away. It was only later that I realized my "yeah" was sheepish and that in a way I was apologetic for wearing a condom when I fucked a guy (silently in a dark room where there is no conversation, no Heated-Rivalry dialogue laying out of the terms of each interaction, you know...a sex party). It simply struck me how much had changed from the years of men being the bad guys when they DIDN'T wear a condom. As you said, a 180.

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