Rod Hagen

I worked for a Neuroscience department at University and many of the PHd students were getting their MD concurrently, and paid for, which I thought was cool and impressive.

I haven't seen Silo, but I agree on the rest and I'd add Tehran to the good Apple TV list

There's real money, and there's Fuck You money. You gave up the Fuck You money!

Thank you. I keep forgetting to see Past Lives before it leaves theaters. Looks great

Taco Bell has a couple fantastic dishes. Also, McDonald's Quarter Pounder and Fries is perfection, and if you like good-bad food there's no harm in having it once a year.

I remember calling the operator just to ask for the exact time. Did anyone say that one yet?

Nathan's hot dogs are extraordinary. Don't get them with all the extra crap. Just mustard. Just Mustard:

I was there for the opening night screening of the movie and was able to gush to Don and the guy who directed it.

Rafael Alencar, two words :-) Two more, MIchael Vincenzo

If you have something to offer instead of or in addition to money, it can be a partnership. Don Bachardy was "18" when he and Isherwood (40?) met up, and were together decades until Christopher died. Isherwood was never "rich", but was smart and interesting, to say the least, had enough money, a fucking awesome house in the end, and he and the AMAZINGLY beautiful Bachardy made a life together. Digression: Still kick myself for not posing for Bachardy.

I used to see a fair amount of people reading this at the Gay Starbucks in WeHo. I looked it up, and it's just not for me from what I've read about it. My childhood and adulthood have been quite blessed in that nothing about being gay, or the brief time in youth I hid being gay, troubled me particularly. But you are right, as an escort the information could certainly help me with my clients. Thank you.

There was a drive-in theater near my hometown (actually, it's still running this summer). They had double and triple and sometimes quad features that would go very late. The whole thing was an excuse for very heavy, MASSIVE, underaged midwest drinking and, less so, but somewhat, also for sex. I remember when Bird fucked this one super duper slut in the back of someone else's car and afterward I asked him if he felt he needed a shower, and he said "I need a fucking gun so I can shoot myself". Booze makes you do funny things. It was also the place where I learned that lighting farts afire wasn't urban legend. I'd always ride into the theater in the trunk, next to the cooler, because avoiding the $4 entrance felt like getting away with something.

I don't know, I thought he was pretty damn funny. He's a TERRIBLE person, but funny. I feel sorry for him, for recent events however.

When you put it like that, it makes me feel/sound lazy :-)

I know the OP was a question about books by escorts, but not necessarily about escorting, nevertheless I'll add John Preston's book about Hustling. It's quite good. He escorted, a bit. Amazon.com WWW.AMAZON.COM Also, Boy Culture. Not great literature, but fun, and the movie (14 years ago?!!!) is better, but the book is fine: https://www.amazon.com/Boy-Culture-Novel-Matthew-Rettenmund/dp/031237271X

Hawk Mountain was quite a book. I finished it today. I wish there were ways of discussing it without spoiling it. Before two weeks ago, I'd never heard of Conner Habib. After I started his book, I emailed him and invited him to coffee and got a very nice reply back (he's living in Ireland). I've also recently watched and liked his porn, and this week I've listened to and enjoyed many of his podcasts, the ones not dealing with Spirituality. Against Everyone | Conner Habib CONNERHABIB.COM AGAINST EVERYONE with CONNER HABIB Against Everyone with Conner Habib is podcast featuring my conversations with countercultural figures, and... I love that professional name. His Mom is Irish, his dad Syrian. Conner Habib. I love that for once an escort wrote a book NOT about escorting. That's like finding a Unicorn in a book written by a Dragon. No, that's not right. Anyway, good on him for thinking outside the box for his first book. I don't suppose anyone here can remember when abouts he escorted? I'd love to find his Rentboy ad on the Internet Archive, as well as his Daddy's Reviews, if he had any. The book is a horror book. It's a gay book. But it's a horror book. It's not a thriller. One of Conner's favorite films is Hellraiser, so be warned, things get dark. It is a very well-written book with characters I will think about for a long time.

Oh, I'm surprised, I thought you'd find it too much of a downer. Cool.

Lucky you would not like this book.

Thank you.

Again, thank you everyone. Turns out Mobic does not cause me heartburn, either it used to or I had horrible heartburn the last time I used it, but it was unrelated. In any case, I took Mobic once a day for several weeks, and really leaned into the home Physical Therapy. I do think that if you do exercises to help alleviate the pain from Tennis or Golfer's elbow, you should do it every other day or every two days, because every days may simply irritate it further. So, for me, it was fixed with anti-inflammatories and these, fantastic, exercises. And, as someone here said, the most important thing you can do to get rid of the problem, is to eliminate for as long as you can whatever activity likely caused the injury in the first place (probably not Tennis or Golf). For me it was Yoga. p.s. I did get a steroid injection, it did seem to help, but I think the NSAIDs and the exercise, AND stopping Yoga for some time, were the true solutions.

Thank you again, all of you. After reviewing this information, and beginning his Peritoneal Dialysis training, he decided that it was too dangerous, and entered home hospice. He died, in his house in his bed with me there, a few weeks later.

I'll tell you all what HIS experience with this was, and then briefly go into what it is for others. The week before surgery he was non weight bearing and got around on a knee scooter. After the surgery where a pin was put in, he was to stay home for two weeks, keep the foot elevated, and be non weight bearing using a knee scooter around the house. He was in a hard splint, similar to a cast. After two weeks they removed the splint, put him in a boot. Initially he was only to use crutches outside his house, as he was returning to work then, and to walk carefully at home without the crutches as tolerated. But, seeing how unstable he was on crutches, they switched to a walker all the time, at home and outside home, using the boot, for two weeks. After those two weeks he was able to use the boot without the walker for two weeks, then switch to orthotic shoe for two weeks, and then, now, begin walking in regular shoes. He should be able to drive next week. That was his experience. He needed two knee walkers (scooter), one for outside the apartment and one for inside the apartment, two walkers, one for outside and one for inside, two Boots, one for outside one for inside, and two orthotic shoes. He needed a transfer table for the shower, side rails for the toilet, a wedge pillow for the couch and one for the bed, each one 10" high, and something that slipped under the mattress in a jerry-rigged side rail fashion to get in and out of bed safely, as well as a "couch cain". For those two weeks post surgery, he was not allowed to shower at all, so we bough a supply of dry shampoo caps as well as shower wipes. It's very expensive to be injured. Now, his experience is not the only experience. We read ALOT of case studies of Jone's Fracture Surgery recovery, and there are doctors who have patients on their feet, usually very athletic ones, just one week after the procedure, and we read of one surgeon, in Atlanta, who has them weight bearing the next day! Now, both approaches make sense in their own way. Weight-baring helps bones to heal, HOWEVER postponing weight-baring (is it bearing?) reduces the likelihood of reoccurrence down the way. Thanks again everyone for your feedback. Oh, and yes, there are many who don't do surgery, just keep you off your feet for several weeks. But, studies show that surgery helps reduce the likelihood of reoccurrence.

Yep, was a good movie. Don't know why so many people made fun of it (usually, without seeing it).

At first I didn't recognize you, and then I saw that redhead photo and thought, "Oh my god, HIM!" :-)

They have an extraordinary app.