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I'd caveat that with maybe a consensus of friends/people. Listening to a hothead friend, no matter how otherwise intelligent and respected, can be a big mistake. I have a couple who I've learned the hard way to usually do the reverse of their urging even if I was originally inclined to the same thinking. Bad inclination + hothead good friend can = disaster.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/02/16/we-need-to-talk-about-judas/

1st memory - An old 1949 Nash we had and how the seats all made a double bed for what were then 2-day trips to see my mother's family 150 miles away.

or park

In DC there's little status to any sort of car. It's having a driver.

Where do you sleep a 6ft7 for overnight? 175lb jock?

New award.

and you have no idea the joy of having a $20 tip in your hand as you look in a Mercedes and say " this one's nice, but it has over 5000 miles on it, can we get a little newer one?" used cars?

If you have status and a great corp code with a big rental co. (like National) and a friendly (ie-tippable) big location, renting as needed can also be fun. For 2 years I got mostly BMW 420 convertibles almost every week in warm weather from National for about $150/wk. New clean maintained one every week. Like a kid in a candy store picking out the lux car for the week. Some have under 100 miles. If you travel a lot even better.

Nuts is only if you haven't thought about it, but sometimes even impulse decisions are right. (*Not usually, but sometimes*)

Now in theaters and on HBO Max free. Even though beloved HBO seems to be in an AT&T takeover death spiral, there are a lot of new Warner movies free now (unlike FBI/MLK which came out for King's birthday but had a $6.99 charge to watch). This movie, FBI/MLK, and Trial of the Chicago 7 are of the same time. FBI is a narrated documentary, Chicago 7 is a slightly revisionist story and Judas is a pretty accurate (and revealing) drama of the FBI's murder of Fred Hampton and a few others for fear they would become the feared "Black Messiah". Hampton was especially feared because not only was he very young, but he had successfully assembled a unique Rainbow Coalition of Blacks, poor whites, Puerto Ricans, and others. I like how the movie avoids any documentary aspect and has really good personal drama between the actors. You feel the tension and the fear but also the relationships and the joys. It really is a contender for best movie of the year.

On second thought I guess you're right, it's the ears one notices most

I noticed when I got my booster that there a few young guys now in line, maybe "healthcare workers". But even in DC they're about to expand the list a lot. And in some areas there are massive inoculation centers on a first-come-first-served stand in line basis. Maybe one silver lining of the pandemic is it will for a while make "vaccinated daddies" more popular.

In reverse order: 3. I think some jobs still actually require pagers 2. Delivery now is almost everything 1. You don't have Comcast lol

The "proof" would be those CDC cards they give you that can be copied or forged easily (although 2-sided). They're all over the internet. btw- I found you should keep a photo of yours on your cellphone plus if you lose yours or want a duplicate you can get one easily with the information by going to any pharmacy associated with the program that gave yours (Safeway/Albertsons keeps records for mine). Some kid will make pot money snatching a handful of those cards and selling them lol.

God's Own Country If Josh O'Conner were American his dick would have it's own zip code.

Herd immunity probably requires 75% vaccination and for covid, under 18's (20% of the population), are not approved for the vaccine. Add to that the fact almost a third of people do not want the vaccine and herd immunity is less a chance than continual flu-like yearly vaccines to protect the vaccinated against variants that will keep occurring. Guys on Grindr are already advertising "vaccinated".

Pompidou opened in 71 and the Marais was cheap then although relatively not for me in 73. I was living free in a dorm and getting all meals in student cafes around town for 1 franc (25 cents) for those 6 months. My daily spurge was a beer to get in the Bronx. (maybe a sidewalk croque monsieur). Then 76 must have been the last year for the Bronx (maybe early year). I heard from friends the gendarmes started getting more and more lengthy with their closures.

It's possible. Even today Les Halles and next-door the Marais have gay bars, although Le Marais has gotten very expensive. And in those early days gay and criminal were intertwined in a way we don't understand today.

? Unfortunately no. Rue St Anne was all gay bars and le Sept expensive restaurant in 73 but by 1980 Rue St Anne was only Japanese restaurants ( a small street). I checked back and saw just Japanese cafes. ( I should go back and lay a wreath at #11). The Bronx was especially short-lived (3 years max) as the gendarmes were constantly closing it, sometimes for a day, sometimes for a week, then more and I heard eventually the owners just gave up in maybe 75. France was still pretty homophobic and The Bronx took gay to a whole new level.

There was a front room? lol. I do remember never going far back as with all the sex in the middle I didn't even want to think what the very back was like ikink=wise. Sort of a very early Lab.oratory for the younger crowd to relate.

If you can travel back in time......Paris 1973, the (infamous for huge orgies) Bronx Bar on Rue St. Anne next to posh 7, there was a body-builder young German truck (lorry) driver who would come to the bar (open 11pm to 6am) and put himself in ceiling chains for everyone to share whenever he drove through Paris (once a week?). Dreamy stack of muscles, beautiful but tough face, and nice guy. We had breakfast after once but I couldn't take him back to my dorm and his lorry was parked at a Metro terminus. I was at The Bronx most nights for 6 months that the gendarmes didn't close it. No cellphones then to know when he'd be in town. Hooked up at the bar maybe 20 times in 6 months. Hope he had a good life. ? http://www.hexagonegay.com/region/paris70-SainteAnne.html Sexiest place (for looking), Port Douglas just north of Cairns, Aus, a sugar cane town where there seems to be a law that males have to wear short shorts everywhere that bearly cover the jewels and often give a glimpse of the butt fold. No place on earth is billards such a delightful spectator sport. (It's the Aussie Rules football shorts).

some "copy image address" links work, some don't. nice twitter photos work but disappointed tweets don't open. haven't found any gip or video links that work (other than YouTube).

I was really surprised at mini-series Little Fires Everywhere. with Reese Witherspoon. Even in older/middle age she's got that privileged thing down. Golden Globe nominee. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWGkX8ClhBI

Yes I read the article and a couple others and spoke with my MD. There are so many things that raise LDL that there's no sense in needlessly adding another big one in the form of cafestol when it's so easy to filter most brewing methods of coffee. A regular Mr Coffee paper filter fits fine on a french press plunger and some may want to switch to pour-over with paper filter or drip. (and I never knew that K-Cups had paper filters inside).