Rod Hagen

Not as good as "Headless Body In Topless Bar" but nevertheless, excellent.

Are you kidding?

It's not underrated, but I'm put off by people who live in California for decades without visiting Yosemite or, and these people are much worse, don't want to return to Yosemite because of the crowds. Guess what? Beautiful places draw people.

Haven't been to Catalina in years. What restaurant(s) for dinner and what restaurant(s) for lunch do you recommend?

Favorites in descending order: 1. BookWorm (only good books) https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/bookworm 2. Bret Easton Ellis (Asshole. Love him) https://www.patreon.com/breteastonellispodcast 3. Sam Harris (Reputed Asshole, love him) https://samharris.org/podcast/ 4. Ask Any Buddy (Podcast about Classic Gay Porn) https://www.ask-any-buddy.com/podcast 5. My Dad Wrote A Porno (Just great) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/my-dad-wrote-a-porno/id1044196249 6. Marc Maron: (I am lukewarm on him, BUT he has great guests) http://www.wtfpod.com/ 7. Al Fanken https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-al-franken-podcast/id1462195742 8. The Reason Round Table (Reason Magazine) https://reason.com/podcasts/the-reason-roundtable/ 9. Longform (interviews with people who write longform Newspaper, Magazine, and online articles) https://longform.org/podcast 10. The Bugle (Funny British, Australian, America, and Canada guests and hosts roast that week's news) https://thebuglepodcast.com/ You're welcome. I don't actually listen that often, only when the subject or guest interests me OR when I haven't listened to a particular one for several months. Driving I prefer to listen to audio books, sometimes podcasts. I also listen to podcasts when I'm doing the uphill part of a Mountain Bike Ride. Swimming and walking I only listen to music.

If you are hoping to make new friends, I'd make adjustments to those two parts of your daily schedule. Yes Television is amazing right now, but it's also just TV. If 10 years from now you still hadn't seen one episode of Game Of Thrones, or whatever it is people are watching nightly, you will be no poorer. I don't really know what a Youtube Channel is, though I presume it's a collection of videos you narrate. However, that's making relationships at a distance with people you likely won't meet. Maybe by focusing on the things you enjoyed before Must See TV and your YouTube Channel became nightly routines it's possible you will make new friends to see offline when you have time and availability be that day or night. I may be wrong, but something to think about.

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.