Charlie

I realized while reading the Owen Wister biography that somehow I had never read anything by Jack London, so a few days ago I took Call of the Wild out of the library. I have just finished it, and I feel strangely exhilarated by the experience. I feel like howling.

He is so humble🙄

I can't believe that.

Re: Cumberland Law School comment. There were few law school in the US in the 18th and 19th centuries, because most lawyers did not go to a law school. They interned in the office of a practicing lawyer until they were ready to open their own practice (see Abraham Lincoln, for example).

I remember being interested in the Christine Jorgensen story, which was in the news when I was at a very impressionable age. It was when I first began to realize that I would like to have sex with males, but I thought one had to be female to do that. Once I understood that was not true, I lost any interest in transitioning.

I wonder if FFA has a directory of certified professionals.🤔 (That is not Future Farmers of America)

You are so innocent.😈

I am older than most of those commenting here (older even than OP Lucky!), so I never watched "Leave It to Beaver." It was broadcast while I was in college, when I rarely watched TV (we didn't have TV sets there). I wouldn't have known who Tony Dow was if it weren't for the hoo-ha about the obituary. Looking at the photos now, I can certainly see what you were attracted to then.

When Owen Wister, the famous American novelist of the late 19th/early 20th century, was on a trip out West, somehow a report started that he had died. He was on a camping trip and didn't find out about it for some time, but all the newspapers in the East picked up the false report and published obituaries. His wife even got on a train to head west to recover his body. It took days for the mistake to be discovered and corrected, and he said he sometimes shocked people long afterwards, who exclaimed, "But I thought you were dead!" He often quoted his friend Mark Twain's famous comment. Most newspapers have prepared obituaries in their files for noted persons of a certain age, and someone at the NYT probably jumped the gun to get theirs out first.

If you want to know about gay life in the Regency years, you should have started with Ch. 3 ("Sexual Pastimes, Pleasures and Perversities," sections VII, VIII and IX)).

The Maine, the sinking of which in Havana harbor was the excuse for the Spanish-American War. ("Remember the Maine !!"

It is 7:30am and 64 degrees.😀 We are up in the mountains above Palm Springs, where it is already 89 and going to 115. I kept the windows of the cabin open all night and slept under blankets. Glorious!

I think that is only used for pets, thank goodness.

Well, if he really is blond, whose photos is he using?

The opening lines of an obituary for H. William Brown of Palm Desert in today's Desert Sun: "For all we know, he did not cross over, he did not go to meet his maker, and he did not pass. What we do know is that he died on July 4th, 2022."

On my landline, I let all calls from unknowns go to my answering machine; most of the time they don't leave anything. On my cell phones, I don't answer, but I check voicemail later, and there is usually nothing there. Only about 10% of spammers/scammers actually leave messages.

But why does he describe his hair as "blonde" on the new RM format? One wonders how good his English is.

You beat me to it!

Al Parker and Casey Donovan are both deceased.

This morning at Von's gas station, with a discount for my Von's [supermarket] account, I got premium [91 grade] for $5.59/gal. Gas prices are starting to fall here in Palm Springs.

I think you have confused Montana with Oregon.

I think it is hard for many people to choose a lifestyle of healthy diet and regular exercise if they weren't raised that way. To me, it just seemed natural, because, as with @Luv2play, that was my parents' lifestyle.

When I lived in London fifty years ago, I didn't know anyone who had air conditioning, but it was considered very desirable to have central heating, so it was always mentioned in rental ads if it was included. I have friends who live there who still don't have central heating or a/c. During the unusually warm summers of 1976 and 77, when temperatures got into the 80s, the parks were full of sunbathers every day, and sunscreen was hard to find in the chemist shops.

That's the one! That handsome face, the penetrating eyes, the long fingers (he was a talented pianist), the insouciant slouch--sigh. You could take him to the opera or a leather bar, and people would notice him. When he came back from a trip out West, people commented on the loss of the baby fat and pallor of his days in the law office.

I think the cover that you posted is of a later paperback edition. The hardcover edition is available on discount websites.