Rod Hagen

I have a friend who loved this show. I haven't seen it, but I've seen other Rami projects. Perhaps he is one note. That hadn't come to mind, yet. I still find him compelling.

I think Rami IS pretty much one-note, but Mr. Robot called for exactly that note and it made both the show and his performance very, very good.  You should watch it if you're a fan of his. 
I don't think he deserved the Oscar for Bohemian Rhapsody (I think the Academy gave it to Freddie Mercury more than to Malek) and he looks the total lightweight standing opposite any of the actors in Oppenheimer or Russell Crowe in Nuremburg.  He even made a weak Bond villain.  But he does have that crazy look in his eye, which makes him watchable.  

Thank you for that article. It's interesting how Rami talks about his fear. He seems to dance around the real issue. Playing gay more than once can have consequences in Hollywood. I often wonder if Chalamet would every do it again. I tend to doubt it. Same with Gyllenhaal.

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!

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).

rami won an academy award. i think he was great in that film.
 

My two cents: It seems like you didn't give him an exact time either. This seems more like an imagined amount of time that doesn't seem to match without actual details. You are not being specific yourself.
"You'll find out Ttyl" sounds like a reply I'd give when I was in my 20s. I gave that kind of responses out of lack of communication skills and discomfort with asking for details myself.
If he's interested in your business, he'll reach out. If he does, I'd suggest to rather than asking again like that, communicate your number of how long will you actually expect him to last. If he cannot or will not deliver, or if it cannot be negotiated, then it was not meant to be.

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson. Absolutely incredible book. 

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:
 

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I actually kind of dated a guy I hired in Singapore. He would always visit from Indonesia. We met many times, so at one point I just asked him to stay with me. We tried that out a few times. I’d even let him use my spare bedroom to meet his other clients while I was at work. We’d go out for dinner at nights and have fun. It was a great experience. 

I'm a fucker not a shopper, this idea of shopping during an overnight or multi-day experience, actually part of the fun and the compensation, is strange to me:  Apart from dinner or a show all I wanted was to spend the time wrapped up tight in the client.

Years ago I remember a friend of mine who met up with us at Joshua Tree for a Rock Climbing weekend, Erik.  He was dating Craig at the time.  Erik had little experience desert-camping, and asked craig what he needed to bring.  Craig said just a sleeping bag because you and I will share a tent and you can use my climbing gear since you're flying in from Colorado (to Palm Springs).  Erik froze every night* because the bag he brought was basically a Sears Catalogue Sleeping Bag and Joshua Tree is a desert, ie fucking cold at night.
For the rest of his tooShort life Erik blamed Craig for not being sufficiently specific about what kind of sleeping bag to bring, and Craig maintained for the rest of his also too short life that Erik should know, even if he is inexperienced, that deserts are fucking cold at night and therefore he needed a Winter Bag (it was October).
What we think of as common sense isn't that for others and the consequences and resentments suck.
 
*Technical sleeping bags are too narrow to share.

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. 

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 saw The Christophers in a theater tonight.    Directed by Steven Soderbergh.
Michaela Coel is perfect, IMO, playing the young, thin, artsy chick in London.

 
She did everything with what the script provided.
I look forward to her in other roles.
Ian McKellen was....well, Ian McKellen. 👍

The plot seemed bumpy in a couple of spots but this is still my kind of movie.
 

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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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I just found out one of my favorite science fiction authors, John Varley, died in December 2025. I enjoyed so much of his work and I'm sad we'll never get another book about Cirocco Jones.