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I read an article online. And Francois Arnaud was joking around about how Robbie GK is a barista but has the best physique of any of them.

While I can't match your furniture "deja viewing", and it's possible I've mentioned this before-but over the summer and fall I started to get into the superhero shows from the CW. I saw one or two episodes of Supergirl. For some reason I kept going back to Melissa Benoist, the star's Wikipedia page. Unless it was my subconscious trying to tell me something -I didn't really pick up on anything. I just wanted to look up successive questions I had about her career. I had watched Glee. But I had never seen her in it as I pretty much gave it up after the second season. But as I said I kept going back to the Wikipedia page-sometimes veering off to her handsome ex-hubby's page Blake Jenner (who according to her committed spousal abuse and who according to him was mutual) and her just as handsome -perhaps more so current hubby Chris Wood. Her bio says she grew up in Colorado. Her parents divorced, and she was mainly brought up by her single mom. Finally after reading that over 10 times over the space of several months, i realized i knew her father. We weren't best friends or anything. But we had a couple of classes together. I possibly might have met her mother once or twice as Jim was married during school. And I might have seen Melissa as a toddler if we ever had had a family event at school. This gives me a (Kevin) Bacon Number of 3 as Melissa was in Patriots Day with Mr. Bacon-so a Bacon # of 1. Melissa's father Jim would be at #2. I'm at #3. And all of you out there in cyberland thru your acquaintanceship with me have Bacon Numbers of 4-unless you have your own closer connections to Mr. Bacon.

Oy-I'm overwhelmed.

I lived in Tacoma, Wa from 2008 to 2011. And from 2012 to 2018. The latter period coincided with Daddy living in Washington state. He was in a Seattle suburb. It may have been Renton. I had the pleasure of making his acquaintance for lunch. We met one time for sure. But we may have met twice. The reason I say twice is because I'm fairly sure I paid for lunch the 1st time. I have a vague memory he paid the second time-or maybe he had some coupons, and we only met once. We went to a nice Asian Buffet Restaurant in Tukwila, Wa.--Mizuki Buffet. I can't remember who moved away from Washington first. I moved back to Texas in early 2018. I still find it difficult to believe he's gone. I wish I had gotten a picture of the two of us together.

I can't remember how active I was on here in 2020. I don't think much. Even if I wasn't posting, I'd look in fairly often. And I remember how shocked I was that he had passed. It was almost like one minute he was there and then gone. We had a few email exchanges. I'm sorry I never had the chance to meet him in person.

I don't disagree with that ranking.

I only became aware of this song fairly recently. It was used as part of the theme music in a second cousin once removed's wedding video. (No I wasn't at the wedding. I wasn't invited. I have about 40 something second cousins. I don't even know them all in person. I didn't know the bride, but I'm Facebook friends with her mother who is one of my forty or so second cousins. I think I met the mother once or twice in my teens. And I had met her mother (one of my Dad's first cousins a few times.). Anyway beyond the family stuff, I thought the song was really beautiful. Alex wrote it as a tribute to his wife. But there's a cover by Sam Tsui and his husband Casey Breves which I may like even better. Here are two men expressing their love for each other in song. It's very beautiful. Plus I'm a sucker for harmony. Here's the original for comparison.

Why a disappointment?

A two-fer!!

The above link didn't work for me. I'm assuming this is the guy in question. https://rent.men/Brent_G

PS: As a gay male I'm also supposed to like opera, but it's not my cup of tea.

In this case it's not just gay men enjoying it but straight women, and I've even heard there are some YouTube or podcasts by straight hockey fans that really like it. I'm not sure what you were expecting, but you seem to be in the minority regarding your feelings about Heated Rivalry. This is a fantasy romance. As I said in my previous post to you, it's not Shakespeare -nor is it designed to be. It's pure escapist fare with the purpose of (I've just heard several Youtube videos on this ) having a happy ending. Possibly it's that you aren't a fan of this genre. Your dislike however is totally fine. As a departed friend of mine often said, "De gustibus non disputandum est". There are many things that are part of the cultural zeitgeist that I'm not particularly fond of either. I don't know how you feel about the show "LA Stories." I took a gander at it because one of the stars made some disparaging remarks about "Heated Rivalry. ". I understand it's reasonably popular. I watched about 10 minutes of the 1st episode and didn't like it at all. The characters seems too "LA" for me-if a majority of people in LA are really like this, I don't think I'd have much in common with them even if I were their age -and I thought the gay character was both too stereotypically LA and too stereotypically gay. I also disagree with your opinion on the acting-especially the two leads. I think they are great. But again your opinion is totally valid even if you're in a relative minority.

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I remember when (American) Queer As Folk premiered, it was all the rage back then-groundbreaking for its depiction of gay sex. But it was nothing like this. Of course the internet while also big was nothing like it is today.( I'm assuming the British QAF was groundbreaking in the UK, but things didn't crossover the way they do today. So it didn't make that much of a splash stateside.). Queer As Folk Ran So Heated Rivalry Could Skate EXILEDFAN.SUBSTACK.COM Queer television 25 years apart: what changed, and what stayed the same? I've been looking at a lot of YouTube interviews with the actors and the showrunner. I didn't realize until the interview that Shane and Ilya are only about 17 when they first meet at the exhibition game. And I think the 1st exhibition game is supposed to be a year before they go thru the draft and join the MHL (=NHL). I wonder how old on average new hockey recruits are at the time of the NHL Draft, and what percentage stay with the major club and aren't sent down to the minors for seasoning.

I agree about Connor's Russian soliloquy. Does anyone here on the Message Center speak Russian? I was wondering how well he is speaking it. SPOILER: But also the scene in Episode 6 of Shane and his mother talking outside the parents' cottage really broke me.

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I haven't read this. But doesn't it have a rather sad ending? Heated Rivalry seems more uplifting.

It had definitely occurred to me.

He is exactly my type. Some things are so disturbing that once known can't be overlooked.

Spoiler Episode 6 When Shane went out to talk to his mother -geez I'm tearing up now thinking about it (but I tear up a lot lately at the stupidest things). Shane says, " I tried." He's obviously talking about he tried to be straight. That really hit me. I personally never really tried because I didn't have it in me. But I wished with all my heart I was straight. When I came out to my siblings 13 years ago, I did it by email. It was after a major reversal in my life that still has repercussions to this day. But I couldn't face telling my mother. My sister offered to. And I gratefully accepted. When I saw my mother shortly after that, she immediately hugged me. I've still never publicly said anything to my adult nieces and nephews or my cousins. I doubt they care. But I do have one very conservative niece-in-law. I've never had a significant other. I wonder if I ever do have one whether that's going to throw a monkey wrench into family gatherings. At the time I came out to my siblings, my father was still alive. But he had fairly severe Alzheimer's dementia. We weren't sure if he would have understood. If he understood, whether or not it would have made him angry . And whether if we told him one day, whether he'd remember the next. So we made a decision not to tell him. That did hurt. I wasn't close-close to my father-but he loved me. And I loved him. But it was my own fault for being such a chickensh*t over the years. At the point I partially came out, as regards my father, what was best for him was vastly more important than my needs. As of today, I'm more accepting of my being gay than I ever thought I'd be. Maybe someday I'll be totally accepting. But that statement of Shane's definitely struck right through to my heart. PS: It would probably help a lot on my accepting if I had either Connor Storrie or Hudson Williams as a boyfriend.

I just finished episode 6. I thought it moved on the slow side to begin with. But maybe I'm just tired as I finished it about 15 minutes ago. And it's now 1:22 AM. So minor spoiler-I'll space it down so people can avoid if they want. Shane and Ilya finally meet for their one on one time. Both of them are nervous. Shane more externally nervous. While this is fiction, it put me in mind of my first overnight with an escort. I had only been hiring about a year at that point. Thank gosh for The Review Site in helping me choose. I had tried several guys. One guy that I was interested in was the porn star Sam Tyson-blond and athletically muscular was definitely my type. But I think he was busy when I would have wanted him. This was back in 2003. Hooboy was still with us. At that time there were two escorts out of Baltimore/DC area. A couple. I can't remember their escort names. And one has since died of cancer. The other as far as I know is still alive but not escorting. The one who died had kind of burly daddy coach/woodcutter look. I still remember a picture of him on the Review Site wearing a cap, a plaid loggers shirt with the sleeves torn off. I was attracted to him. I think he advertised as versatile but seemed more of a top But his partner was more classically good looking and athletic. Maybe not so intimidating to me -not like his partner with the coach look. So I chose the athletic partner. In those days I had a career. And a group from my company was attending a convention in Orange County. We were all staying at one hotel. But we were coming in a day before the convention. I made some excuse and booked a different hotel from the rest of the group for one night. So here I was. I flew the escort in from probably Baltimore to John Wayne Airport in Orange County. I was so nervous. He had a stellar reputation. But what if he no-showed. Or on the other hand what if he actually showed up. I think i remember somehow getting past security to get back at the gate area even though I didn't have a ticket. I waited for the escort's plane. He did make it. He came off the jetway. I think I followed him to baggage claim and then introduced myself. It ended up being a good meeting. I was sorry it was just overnight. I believe we ended up having two more overnights together before he quit advertising

In the words of Yoda-there is no ..... Actually I hope you have a great time. And we're all on the edge of our seats waiting t to read what you can share.

My preference is to keep it as far from my rear as possible. The next county over is a great STARTING point.

I start new insurance January 1st. So I had to get it done. I had my first post-op surgery today. In my practice, the ophthalmologist does the preop evaluation and the magic of surgery. Then the follow-ups are by optometrists. They didn't explain that that first time. I was surprised I wasn't seeing the surgeon. Anyway the optometrist who saw me today for follow-up said I had minimal inflammation. Interestingly enough after the first surgery, I felt good for about 1-1/2 hours. My family and I went out to a local restaurant for lunch. But as lunch ended I started feeling a bit nauseous. I went back home and went to sleep. I was fine when I woke up. Yesterday I told the nurse anesthetist beforehand about the nausea. So she gave me some IV anti-nausea medicine. But when I came out of the sedation for the procedure, I had a headache and felt nauseated immediately. So I went home and to bed immediately. I slept about 4 hours and was fine. My surgeon said because of some retinal abnormality I couldn't get a multifocal lens. So she put in distance lenses. It's very strange after having been near-sighted since I was 12 to need glasses to see up close. Overall I'm very happy with the surgery-new vision for a new year!!