Charlie

"Zac" is described as a "professional massage therapist CMT" with "7 years experience," but he looks about 16 years old. Where are they arriving from, and why to Palm Springs? Their mapped addresses are both at shopping centers across the street from motels, which are supposed to be closed right now to anyone but essential workers. There are several Asian massage places near one of the shopping centers, but they may be closed, too. If you call, you may be told that they can't do in-calls and will have to come to you. Everything about this sounds fishy.

I do.

I wasn't sure whether it was a Chevy or a Pontiac, because I couldn't read the model name on the first photo. I thought it might be a Holden. The second photo is obviously not taken in France--who would have shipped a car from Australia?!

Probably father and son: look at the noses, eyes and mouths.

That is a strange tan pattern.

I thought reviews were not allowed for meetings that never actually took place (?)

A GM car with right-hand drive?

The only time I eat fast food is when I'm traveling by car and need to find a place to stop for lunch. Then my first choice is always Subway.

We have been having similar controversy about plans to open and In-n-Out Burger in the neighboring town of Rancho Mirage.

Lawrence and Trask both got whipped in their bowl games.

Is that a woman in the upper left?

You may be right. I was sitting between Ben and TomCal at dinner, which would have been a violation of proper client etiquette at a Hooboy social event, like cutting in on a dating couple who are dancing.

No, I probably have posted more often now that I am old and have nothing else to do.

Even if I call a restaurant (when they re-open) and ask to reserve a table for Prince Charlie?

It is available for take-out.

Now there is an interesting combo. Both of them came to some of the early weekends.

Did you dissuade him from a career in escorting? My notes say he was a Columbia grad with a degree in urban economy; we had a very interesting conversation at dinner.

You kept him for yourself?!!

When I went downtown yesterday, it was almost a ghost town. Driving the whole length of Indian Canyon through town on Tuesday morning, I saw only two pedestrians in two miles. The restaurants which are open are only doing take-out.

Well, yes, but when I pulled out the volume for 2005, I couldn't find anything in the index about how you made the invitation. The meeting took place on Saturday, Feb. 12th, and we all congregated at Blue Coyote, where you had made a group reservation for dinner. There were nine other people besides us and our spouses, and Oliver stopped by later to meet all of us (he had a previous dinner engagement). TomCal brought along a cute young Filipino escort named Ben, whom we never saw or heard of again. I met Jackhammer and Bigguyinpasadena for the first time there. After dinner we made a toast to Hooboy, who had brought us all together. Then we went as a group to the Palm Canyon Theater for a performance of Sordid Lives, for which you had bought tickets for everyone. The next afternoon you had a party at your house, at which several more people showed up. Harold even drove all the way from New Mexico to make the party. The weather was cold and wet all weekend, and we decided that future get-togethers should probably be a little later in the season.

Is that like "Dulce de Leche," my favorite Haagen-Dazs ice cream flavor?

I wasn't interested in the rest of him (not my type, as they say), but I could certainly see why you were fascinated by the thighs.

61 kilos is actually 134.482 lbs.

I wonder how long it took to put together than necktie decoration. Oh, sorry--I am easily distracted. Now, if I just cut off the top of the photo and---wow! those are pretty exceptional thighs! The calves could use some work now.

When I was a student in Austria a number of years ago, I was surprised that my teachers would sometimes exclaim, "Scheisse!" ("shit" in German). They were surprised when I told them that an American teacher would never use that term in front of students.