Charlie

I have been noticing lately that some of my favorite Trader Joe's frozen dinners--like Cod Provencale--were missing from stock at my local store. Yesterday afternoon, I stopped there, and the parking lot was so full I had to park much farther from the entrance than usual. Inside, the aisles were full of people, and I was able to find all the items I had been missing. When I asked the checker, she told me that they had just gotten in a new supply of all the frozen items that they had not been able to get from the supplier for weeks. I guess I'm not the only person who missed their Lamb Vindaloo.

What's with these hot white guys who claim to be based in Singapore, which is not exactly a great place for gays?

It must have taken some consideration to decide which category to post this one in ("Hmm, silver daddies, hairy chest, foot fetish.....?")

I think that is the first massage ad I have ever seen with a photo that focuses on the masseur's feet.

Earlier this year I traded my Mercedes SUV for a Nissan SUV. I have concluded that the only thing better about the Mercedes was the radio.

At least one won't have to wonder whether to tip the driver.

When the escort lists the languages he can "speak" he often is simply telling you in what languages he can say "hello" and "good-bye," and quote his rates.

I'm grateful that I have lived long enough to do everything I wanted to do, see everything I wanted to see, and experience everything I hoped to experience, and to have known lots of great people while doing it all. If Armageddon arrives tomorrow, at least I will have no regrets.

Although there is an official Thanksgiving in more than one country, they don't all celebrate it on the same date. (e.g., Canada celebrated it on Oct. 9).

Congratulations to the Texas Rangers on finally winning their first WS championship. I think they are the only team still playing in the original stadium in which I first watched them play. (E.g., I haven't been to a Dodgers game since I used to go to games regularly at Ebbets Field.)

One of the top women pro tennis players is named Storm Hunter.

Thugs don't usually advertise as bottoms.

It does look like he is enjoying it.

No wonder my heart rate always increases when I read this site🥵

The pup is cute, but I don't think they really need him to attract attention.

Sunny and 83 in PS this afternoon, but we are under a high wind advisory.

Adam and Yves in the Garden? (but who does that extra leg belong to?)

Adam and Yves in the Garden? (but who does that extra leg belong to?)

In regard to the anecdote I mentioned earlier about the Italian-American brothers from CT, whom I met about 40 years ago: I had seen the original ad for the brother duo, with no photo, in a magazine (this was long before Internet advertising existed). I hired the older brother in NYC, and in conversation I learned that he was one of the duo; he told me about recruiting his straight younger brother to work with him as a pair when they lived in New Haven. After "Mario" (really Michael, the gay older brother) decided to move to NYC, he worked alone, and his brother stayed in CT but occasionally also worked alone there. After a short time in NYC, Mario moved on to CA, where he ended up in prison (I learned this from a mutual acquaintance who had been infatuated with Mario). One day I hired a guy from a new ad in NYC, and when I went to his apartment, I realized just by looking at him that he had to be the straight younger brother, because the physical resemblance was so striking. After we had finished our business--and it was obviously strictly business for him--I told him that I believed I had once hired his brother, and he immediately admitted the relationship. He said that when Michael had recruited him, he was interested in making money, so he had agreed to the deal. He had no problem having sex with a client, or watching Michael have sex with a client. But he said that most clients also expected the brothers to have sexual interaction with one another, and that made him psychologically very uncomfortable, which was why as soon as he learned the job, he preferred to be a solo provider. He only did it when he needed the extra money, and his ad didn't stay active for very long.

Brothers do sometimes work together. I remember a pair of Italian brothers from Connecticut. The older one was gay and the younger one was straight; the older one recruited the younger to work as a pair, and taught him what to do. The younger one wasn't really into it, but he was willing to do it occasionally. They stopped working together when the older one moved to NYC, and he continued working alone. But sometimes the younger one would also work alone when he needed the money. I hired each of them individually, and had an interesting conversation with the younger one about his brother, who by then was in prison.

According to one article I read, the diocese was already dealing with another scandal in which a 40 year old priest killed a 26 year old deacon with whom he had some kind of relationship, and then committed suicide. The story made national news because the bishop was forced to resign.

Maybe the steroid shot is working after all. I haven't sneezed in the past 36 hrs, and my sinuses seem much clearer. But my eyes still itch.

Yes, it was 1:45am. I usually go to bed at 9pm.

My spouse sailed the original Queen Mary from Southampton to New York in 1965, because it was cheaper than flying in those days.

My doctor gave me a prednisone shot this morning, and the sneezing stopped completely--for about ten hours. I am up and online at this hour because now I am sneezing as badly as I was before.