Charlie

It wasn't there when I lived on West 58th.

He has been on RM for 6 years, since he was 19?

David Anthony has been around a long time, and so have some of those photos. He's been on RM for a dozen years, and was on Rentboy before that. It's hard to believe he has only 13 reviews.

When I saw this on the comics page a half hour ago, I said to myself, "I'll bet samhexum will post this in the 'grocery shopping' thread."

I love a class with hands-on instruction.

I'd love to take him for a ride in that Packard.

I believe the British general term for it is a "grunge" fetish. I knew someone who liked to have sex while rolling around in motor oil. I knew someone else who wanted to have sex while dressed in a used sewer cleaner's outfit.

I did neither--I am a properly behaved concert-goer.

One of the first LPs I ever bought was her first solo album in 1961. Unfortunately, I didn't get to see many of her live performances, but I remember a concert performance at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia in the 1960s, when the audience was so enthusiastic that they were gasping loudly and clapping even before she stopped singing "Doretta's song" from La Rondine.

I bought it when it came out, and I may still have the copy somewhere.

Interesting that in the front row, The Handmaid's Tale is the only one that is not a true "classic." (It's also the only one I have never read.)

James Dean and Sal Mineo?

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.