Rod Hagen

For the last 21 years Hooboy's forum under Daddy's guidance, and then under Daddy entirely after Hoo died, functioned as therapy and true social networking. Never met him unfortunately, my gratitude is immense.

O Mi gosh, yes, Stephen Spielberg. Thank you

or OR she's proud to see her revolution blossom.

WTF!? It's like the video for REM's Losing My Religion got updated. :-)

Armpits!

And people say, "Why is Stephen King making a musical?" Well, he already did a musical SCENE of Anything Goes, and it was great!

Nice! Anything by The JMC makes me smile. Thanks for posting.

Bathroom looks really good size for NYC. The number of lottery applicants will be dispiritingly large.

Maybe books?!

I mostly like the kitchen, but I need more light, maybe a skylight or a SunTube.

The 4-handed massage I had years ago in Vegas added nearly nothing to the massage, and a couple hundred to the bill.

Whoever came up with this headline (yes it's a real game) must have laughed his butt off. Here's how you could win $1,000 by playing cornhole in your own backyard https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/14/us/trugreen-cornhole-thousand-dollar-prize/index.html

Thank you. I'd love that too

Average. AVERAGE! not small

That's a very good point. I don't think I even remembered the songs as they were being sung (I'm guessing one was called "UrineTown").

I don't remember if the movie ever said. SOME kind of Brain Injury.

It's an objectively original plot/tale: two poor mountain ranchHands falling hard in the 1970s To call it cliche only because the elements that make it tragic (secrets/closet/struggles/death) are familiar is to truly not understand what is cliche. By no possible stretch of the imagination could you call BrokeBack a rehash of anything that's come before it. A movie where the main character is a detective, about to retire, who has to complete one more "impossible" case is a cliche not just because the story has been told a thousand times, which I repeat Brokeback hasn't, but also because retelling it doesn't contribute anything to our understanding. You may be cynical of a great work of art like Broke Back, but five minutes on almost any gay Message Board will show you how deeply it contributed to people's understanding of how hard it is to live a lie. The post above me said it's "all about taste". I very much disagree. Broke Back is an objective work of art. Just because you don't like something shouldn't preclude you (I don't mean you Benjamin I mean generic You) from classifying something important as important. I don't like Philip Roth, but I will defend him as a great artist, a great writer. This habit people have adapted in the last 20 years of not sticking to their guns about something being objectively good, or bad, and not making arguments on the one side or the other baffles me. It's leaked into criticism. Read a Gore Vidal critique of a book or a Anthony Lane or Pauleine Kael review of a movie and you can see how important it is to argue the worth of something. Today critics say things akin to "it's not my cup of tea". Grow a pair! Anyway, to shit on Broke Back but to swoon (and again I don't mean you Benjamin, I don't remember if you did) in another thread over an entertaining and insignificant (but not cliche!) show like Grey Gardens is to just not give a crap about art. That makes me sad. I usually express my sadness through anger.

Definitely loved that one.

An argument can be made that an hour is an hour. Nevertheless, there's a Gaping Gap b/w 2 and 8! and 8 is more than enough.

I guess sleep with the "right" wives? In other words wives smart enough to keep their mouths shut about the details and motivations, but confident enough to push their husbands in the right ways.

Hated Nomandland so much. I love depressing films, but have a point. Her earlier movie, The Rider, showed great promise. But she's a sellout like so many (but not all). Not basing this on Nomandland, but on the fucking stupid superhero movie she's got in the works (finished?). The Rider:

Cliche defined: 1. a phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought. "the old cliché “one man's meat is another man's poison.”" 2. a stereotype or electrotype. How can a movie about two poor mountain ranchHands falling hard in the 1970s fit either definition? And were that true, given that innumerable plays and short stories, generally shorter than Novellas, became successful films, what would its clicheness have to do with it being a Novella originally? I'm fairly certain the word you are looking for is unprecedented, not cliche.

I'm glad I didn't pay today's prices for Naked Boys, but it was definitely fun.

Looks like a good book. To me his greatest were Who's Afraid, Angeles in America (though I get the criticism of an entirely straight cast), and of course everything Nichols and May.

Yeah I definitely fucked the Peanut Butter jars when I was a kid. I always wanted to use it as lube, and then the bottom could say "you got peanut butter in my chocolate!" Many of you won't get that reference.