Rod Hagen

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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If they don't list "daddy's" maybe it's because they just like other men. I'm in my 50s now and am absolutely turned off by that term, Daddy, it's not my scene. When I was in my '20s I was having sex with guys in their 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and yes 90s and not once did I ever call any of them Daddy, nor think of them that way. They're guys. I'm a guy. We are guys: Guys in different or similar age brackets who kiss and cuddle and fuck and talk. Daddy is overused.

I was 9 when that movie came out and I was floored by that line. 1. It didn't fit the otherwise gentle film, it's as if little Drew Barrymore came up with it on the fly and they left it in 2. I simply could not reconcile Penis and Breath. hmmmm??

For years Peter Attia has been, and remains, much more than a Guru to me. Thanks to him and to his brilliant guests, my exercise is much better, my sleep is remarkably better (and it was already good), my Mental Health picked up, and my Metabolic Health and diet improved as well. Additionally, he's a fantastic interviewer, his podcasts have no ads (take that Hoberman) and if you are a member like me you get a lot more useful material. Anyone who read his bestselling book Outlive knows that long ago he was friends with Epstein and that Peter Attia at the time he wrote the book was ashamed of himself and his decisions in the past, including that friendship. With that information public, people continued to appear on and listen to his Podcast. Then private emails from a decade ago were revealed, and we found he and Epstein, shock, said inappropriate things to each other. Of course if at the time of their friendship Peter knew what monstrous things Epstein was up to, then he was even a worse person then than we knew. It's more the Timeline I find damning than the things they emailed which can be read as simply vulgar, or vulgar and complicit. We can't know. But the timeline indicates to me that their friendship did continue once we knew what Epstein was guilty of doing. What we know is Peter did something wrong, befriended someone who turned out to be Evil, and gave him medical advice, he cutoff the friendship and discussed those bad decisions openly in his book, Outlive (excellent book). He did not break any laws and is not suspected of breaking any. We always knew he was not Board-Certified, he did not hide that. I think he would have been brilliant at his new job at CBS news, and I absolutely understand why they would rescind that. Hot potato Hot POTATO! On his podcast, he has not had one guest since these emails came out in January. Every episode since has been interesting and important, but no guests. I don't want to lose him because he emailed vulgar things (he who is without sin release his own private messages). What do you think? What I've hated in all this is the media classifying him as a Longevity influencer. That's dismissive, superficially accurate, and grossly short of what he offers his listeners. -RH p.s. I was going to put this in the Podcast forum but thought it'd get more eyeballs here.

Take it from a West Hollywood guy who frequently visited Shutters and Casa Del Mar, and has a collection of their Rubber Duckies as reminders of those good times, provided it's not in the HEIGHT of Rush Hour, you should have no problem getting an escort across the 405 to see you. Have fun!

He was so beautiful in Borgias I could hardly follow the ridiculous story.

I found that having friends who know is only a relief/helpful when those friends are clients or have escort experience. There will always be those you feel you can't tell, and the few you do tell can't really get it without their own context/experience and frankly, after the initial shock maybe, aren't particularly interested. Make friends with escorts and with clients if you want confidants.

You hit it perfectly there. When you have every reason to expect a deep makeout session and your tongue gets blocked right away, it's worse than disappointment it's treachery.

I agree with VM, during a massage you should leave the room, even if you are good friends. And do leave the room, there's no reason to be uncomfortable during a massage. Oddly, as an escort I never wanted a client to leave the room to fart, or even turn around and say "excuse me" to burp, we were already so intimate it seemed unnecessary. Also, I had a high bed and getting in and out of it, particularly if one was heavy and/or older, was a bit risky.