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We had a very simple wedding, just with two witnesses. However, I did wear white

Please do not invite anyone to the party without consulting Oliver first. It's his party.

The resort fee was invented to make more money from the guests, and then the excuse was devised that it covered the cost of amenities, even if the guest doesn't use them.

I will have a few days in both Vancouver and Toronto next month. Any recommendations on museums in those cities?

World Gym at Sunrise and Vista Chino is where most of the gay gym bunnies go. During the White Party is when it is busiest.

They acknowledged that fact, but said there would be no special promotions, deals or events connected to it.

It has just been announced that the PS Tramway, which has been closed since the Feb 14th storm that caused a lot of damage, will re-open on April 1st. Hooray!

Most of my elementary school teachers were 50+, so by the time I was old enough to be curious about meeting them again, it was too late. Ditto for middle school, but one of them was younger and transferred to my high school the year after I moved up, so I got to know her better. However, I never met her after I graduated. The only teacher whom I had post-graduation contact with was my high school history teacher, who married the daughter of neighbors of ours, with whom my parents were friendly into old age, so I followed his adventurous later life, but we never talked about the old days when I was a student. Of course, the advent of the Internet allowed me to slake my curiosity about their lives before and after I was a student, and at one point I became obsessed with finding out more about them. For instance, I was surprised to learn that one woman was younger than I realized, and had married a Danish businessman who was a refugee from the Nazis, a backstory I had never imagined for her. My mother's cousin retired from teaching elementary school at 50, when she married a widowed banker. She still had regular reunions with her former students until her death at 100.

What does it cost to put up an ad? Constantly pulling ads and putting up new ones does not seem like a good business model. Surely not everyone who hires from rent.men checks out the ads through this site every day!

A branch of my family lived in Stockbridge, and my cousin modeled for Rockwell when she was a child. It inspired her to go on to become an artist herself.

Forecasts that predict the weather almost a month in advance are really based on averages from the past. This has been a very non-average year so far in Palm Springs. Today is the first day of Spring, and in most years it is sunny and warm (80s) during this week, but today has been chilly, cloudy, occasionally wet, and for the past several hours the wind has been howling so bad I can hardly hear the tv over the noise from the shaking of the house. I am still wearing the winter clothes that I usually have packed away in early February.

Why would someone who has done porn work be reluctant to show his face in a rentmen ad?

I haven't done any sex travel in years, but if I were to do it again, it would be the old stand-bys: NYC, SF, Amsterdam and Berlin.

"Smoonant"??

When I am awake.

I can think of at least three other gallery categories in which this would fit very nicely.

This thread is fascinating to me. I grew up in the Manhattan gay scene from the days of the dance bars like the Cherry Lane through the days of the sex clubs like the Mineshaft. I lived in Chelsea and Hell's Kitchen when they were straight neighborhoods. I haven't lived there in 35 years, and I haven't even been back to visit in ten years. It sounds as though if I were to return today, I would be as lost and clueless as I was when I arrived sixty years ago.

Why would a male escort use Dubai as his home base?

I would second the caution about times you put water in your mouth without thinking about drinking it. I usually brush my teeth with beer in India.

I never thought I would see the day when "Hackensack" would be in a rent.men ad! I remember when the main action in Hackensack was at the bus terminal parking lot, but that was sixty years ago.

Airbus has announced that it will stop production of the A380.

I think I later learned it was Barry Manilow (my fellow citizen here in Palm Springs), although I didn't know who he was at that time.

If you are in Agra on a moonlit night, try going to the Taj Mahal. You probably won't get into the grounds--the gates are usually locked at night--but moonlight on the building can be beautiful, and there will be no tourists on the grounds. If you stay at the Mughal Sheraton, try to get a room with a view of the Taj. Don't drink the water in Goa (even a bottle of water in a hotel room may have been filled from the tap in the utility room), and beware of restaurant drinks (like lassi) that haven't been boiled. The worst "Delhi belly" I ever had was while staying in a small hotel in Goa. When traveling in the country, stop at a coconut stand, and have them slice open a fresh coconut; the liquid is very refreshing and safe to drink--bring your own straw.

Yes, Bette did perform at the Continental Baths in the early 1970s. I saw her there.

The White Party is a huge annual event held in Palm Springs. I believe it got its name from the fact that participants were encouraged to wear white.