bigjoey

Laurence Sickman was a big proponent for Chinese art in Kansas. Some of his antique pieces came up for sale a few years ago I believe.

His parents were missionaries in China and he grew up there. When the main building opened in 1933, the rage was for Egyptian artifacts (King Tut’s Tomb and all that). The Nelson could not afford much Egyptian art BUT Chinese art was “cheap” and Sickman bought large quantities of Chinese art to fill the building?. With his great eye, he bought the best at “low” prices. Thus chance played a big part in The Nelson having such a major Chinese collection.

One of my favorite museums is the Rodin Museum in Paris which contains some of the namesake's greatest works, including The Thinker, The Kiss, Adam, and the model for the Gates of Hell. Besides the sculptures, the museum is surrounded by beautiful grounds where I shall one day be married.

 

http://www.musee-rodin.fr/sites/musee/files/jm_4540.jpg

 

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-f3s3zOjS824/Ua5TFT7vIFI/AAAAAAAAEu8/HaJf4JwzOiE/s1600/Rodin_TheThinker.jpg

http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/7997008-3x4-700x933.jpg

The Rodin Museum in Philadelphia is closer and many of his most famous works are there (Burgers of Calais is up the street at the Philadelphia Art Museum).

For us “older” Broadway Queens, the gay bar scene from “Applause”:

For us “older” movie queens, the pool scene from “Gentlemen Prefer Blonds”

For those interested in asian art, the Met currently has a great exhibit of Tale of Genji inspired objects and screens. Also, would like to add the Liang Yi museum and the Hong Kong Museum for those into ceramics and furniture, as well as the National Palace museum (Taipei) and Palace museum (Beijing), and Shanghai museum of Art. Must not forget the portguese Gulbenkian in Lisbon for its wonderful chinese scholar objects and ceramics too. Tokyo has the lovely Nezu museum of pottery and wonderful tea room.

For Chinese Art, The Nelson in Kansas City has one of the best collections in the U.S.

https://www.nelson-atkins.org/collection/chinese/

No, I send Seasons Greetings cards ... that seems to cover all the bases for me....

I send “Seasons Greetings” and a few Chanukah cards. I always write a hand written note inside of something that would be of specific interest to the reader.

Close friends get Harry and David pears or Wolferman’s English Muffins separately.

Like @poolboy48220 I too made friends at work.

 

That was before I started my own firm. I reckoned that only 2 work-friends would stay in touch with me, and indeed they proved to be true friends. When I sold my firm years later, I thought only 1 work-friend would stay in touch after I retired and he did prove to be a good friend.

 

To answer the OP, you’ll know when an escort is truly into you…not only will the love-making be passionate but no money will change hands, and he will pick up the check when you go out to dinner afterwards.

Exactly. See my post #10 above.

For example, one escort and I became close friends and he treated me to a getaway weekend where he paid the bills??. We have remained friends and I was even invited to his wedding (to a man). We are very close friends.

Yes, such friendships can happen.

When the “transactional relationship” ends and you become “friends with benefits”, then you’ll know?

Just moved from Boston to Oregon...downsized to a 2br condo.

 

Be honest and ruthless. Donate the books. Sell off large pieces of furniture if you can. The antique market is for shit right now so don’t have high expectations.A dumpster is definitely your friend. Invite friends and coworkers to come over and take what they can use. At the end we finally called 1-800-got junk to take the dregs

Yes, 1-800-got junk is highly recommended.

We have owned five houses, and never lived longer than 13 years in a house. The first three were actually within walking distance of one another, so the moving process was pretty easy, and could be done in stages. But when it came time to move from the east coast to the west coast, we realized that we had to simplify what got moved. We found a dealer who would buy furniture and other items that we really didn't want to spend the money to move 2500 miles, and we gave some things to the local Salvation Army resale store. The biggest problem was the books--we both have a hard time giving up a book, so we had a collection that went back to college days, some 4000 volumes in all. There were bookshelves on every floor of our three-story townhouse, not to mention on the shelves in the basement. We realized that we had to be ruthless: no one wants out-of-date textbooks or things that are falling apart, so they went literally into the trash (except for the ones we kept for sentimental reasons, like books written by people we knew). Public and school libraries were happy to get some of the good ones, and there was a book exchange we belonged to, that took books that other members might like, and we took none in return. We thought that no one would want old cookbooks, but were surprised to discover that re-sellers always have a market for them. We finally managed to get the collection down to 1200 items, which we boxed and put on the moving van. In the new house we were much more conservative: for one thing, we learned to borrow books from the public library instead of always buying and keeping them. Even so, by the time we were ready to move again, the collection had crept back up to almost 1800 volumes, so once again we pruned, but still ended up moving about the same number we had moved before. Of course, I still find myself looking for a book, only to realize that it was one of the books that I thought was expendable a few years ago, and now wish I still had.

After living in the same home for 30 years, I faced the same issue with books. I had a large collection of gay books going back into the 1970’s. Missouri University at Kansas City has a large gay collection. I know the librarian and he came by and took box loads away. There were many he said were not in their collection and was happy to have them.

My surprise was he wanted old “bar magazine/weekly newspapers” as they told our story over time. He would have accepted old porn magazines as well but I had discretely disposed of them along with old videos.

Having Thanksgiving dinner with my sister and brother-in-law outside in the bright sunshine and fresh air. Usually, a large family gathering with kids. This year playing safe.

Despite this year’s hardships, we have so much more to be thankful. Instead of looking at what we have lost with the pandemic, we will focus on what we have to be grateful and our hopes to return next year to our regular large family dinner.

I have to agree that he looks great especially in the first photograph. Uunfortunately he doesn't mention kissing in his list of thing he is into.

He does now????

I like the reporting of the Wall Street Journal, but I cringe every time I see the editorial and opinion pages.

I like the Wall Street Journal for the news as well. They cover many stories I do not see elsewhere. Their business news is very good.

I glance at the editorials and columnists to get a full range of opinions that contrast to other outlets. In addition they run op/Ed’s that do not match the paper’s editorial views.

Reading a wide variety of sources keeps one from being in an echo chamber.

He's a terrible person. Also, didn't the link you posted the other day say it was a Farrakhan Op/Ed? That's much much much much much much much much much different from an article. If it was an Op/Ed it is reckless to call it an article "about" him, you shouldn't do that. If it was an article about him and not an Op/Ed I apologize for not reading that link as closely as I should have. --RH

Yes, I should have been more clear. Sorry.

BUT, when Senator Tom Cotton wrote an op/Ed the Times published that did not sit well with its liberal staff, heads rolled and the paper attached a note in the digital edition about the op/Ed.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/06/12/media/new-york-times-bret-stephens-tom-cotton-op-ed/index.html

That same standard was not applied to the Louis Farrakhan piece that praised him. Part of the double standard at the Times: the Cotton piece makes black staffers uncomfortable so heads roll for publishing it and it gets a note attached to the digital edition. A Farrakhan piece that makes Jewish staff uncomfortable stands and no heads roll. The Times finds Louis Farrakhan more acceptable than Senator Cotton.?

@bigjoey, you Quoted your friends being disgusted with New York Mayor Bill De Blasio quite recently as well.

 

Isn't it irrelevant on a public Forum, given we have no idea who your friends are?

I could just say “people” instead of “friends.”?

I have several friends with Parkinson’s and the Michael Fox Foundation has been a help. With his activism and advocacy, he is a hero to many. God bless him.?

The idea that the NY Times is antisemitic is ludicrous. Many of their reporters are Jewish and they have a huge following among New York Jews. Granted, over time errors can be made, but again, over time, it's clear that the paper is fair to Jews.

From the multiple specific examples I have given (and could list more), there seems to be among the editors a built in anti-Jewish bias in both the stories they fail to present, the stories they do present and how those stories are presented.

“Errors” like the cartoon they ran shows they are oblivious to antisemitism; they just didn’t see it. “Errors” like publishing a favorable, glowing story on Louis Farrakhan without mentioning his rabid antisemitism and hate is like praising Hitler for building the autobahn but overlooking WWII and the Nazi horrors. “Errors” like the antisemitism in the workplace that went unaddressed that Bari Weiss wrote about. Sorry, after a while the “errors” show a pattern of antisemitism.

From my Jewish friends and reading both the Jewish press stories and others, the feeling that the paper is antisemitic and unfair to Jews (that I documented in post #20) is not ludicrous. What is ludicrous is ignoring a clear pattern and waving away what it clearly shows.

Very odd that a newspaper owned by a Christian/Jewish family permits such antisemitism. Interesting article about the family and its Jewish faith vis-a-vis antisemitism:

 

https://www.aish.com/ci/s/The-Jewish-Owner-of-The-New-York-Times.html

The family has not been Jewish for two generations. My opinion is they wanted to be part of the establishment and by becoming Christian, they believe that goal was accomplished. As the article notes, even before then, they did not want to seem “too Jewish” and wanted to be seen as upper class and part of the establishment of NYC.

The New York Times, while possibly diminished currently, remains the best source for longform journalism combined with breaking news, as well as the best, and this is the most important to me, investigative journalists, math wonks, and global news.

 

Additionally, every link you posted makes a point and also nobody with a brain would deny that that cartoon was just awful. Further, twitter does nothing but get people and companies in trouble; I wish it would disappear and I know it won't, I don't have that power.

 

Yes, the New York times gets facts wrong, and yes that happens to all papers more often these days. Yes, the NYTimes lost some giants, and I miss them terribly.

 

I loved Bari Weiss's articles on Israel, a country I like very much. I was skeptical of her complaints about bullying only because it seemed as if she needed to pick a lane: were people her age and younger becoming too sensitive (generally, not regarding Israel), which she often argued, or too insensitive? It's hard to make a case that both are true. That's not to imply the internal bullying against her didn't happened, Slack is a horrible bitch-fest. Many suspect she left to join forces with Andrew Sullivan in some new venture. I guess we will have to wait and see with that one. Taking your toys and leaving, VERY LOUDLY, does not seem very graceful.

 

If I hated everything about The New York Times I would continue reading it for Jeffrey Gettleman a master writer, reporter, human being, and bureau chief.

Richard Wagner wrote some of the world’s best music. Truly a great composer. However, he was a terrible antisemitic man.

Likewise, The NY Times is a good newspaper as you point out but the staff and editors lean antisemitic and their news coverage is biased with their antisemitism. I do read it but no longer buy it as I will not send them money.

While my accusation against the paper may come as a surprise to some, for Jews who read Jewish news sources, the antisemitism at the Times has been ongoing for some time. I linked to only a few of the examples to show that there is a factual basis for my belief.

I grew up reading the Times. Seeing how they have changed over the years has been very sad to me. They are now reflecting the open antisemitism that is growing in this country.?

She is of course entitled to her opinion. The problem I sometimes have with relating to Bari Weiss is that she has been crying wolf for so long (basically everywhere she has studied and worked except for her time in Israel) that one has to wonder if she is truly seeing the big picture or caught up in tunnel vision. I appreciated her pieces, but her history as a rather militant pro-Israel commentator does tend to rub people the wrong way. Her comments are protected under free speech but she seems to forget that free speech isnt consequence free. ??‍♂️

 

Anti-semitism is undoubtably alive and well (sadly), but how you define anti-semitism it is also important. But that is a different topic for a different day.

In the Jewish community, there has been a feeling that antisemitism was alive and well at the Times in specific and the country in general. The Bari Weiss affair just brought it out in the open.

Here are more instances of antisemitism at the Times:

https://www.camera.org/article/does-the-ny-times-have-a-problem-recognizing-antisemitism/

Antisemitism there goes far beyond Bari Weiss. The Times, as the article shows in its specific examples, is infected with antisemitism.

Perhaps praising Louis Farrakhan (without mentioning his rabid antisemitism) shows the editors at the Times are blind to antisemitism or antisemitic themselves:

https://m.jpost.com/diaspora/new-york-times-criticized-for-positive-op-ed-on-antisemite-louis-farrakan-646336/amp

And:

https://honestreporting.com/nyt-op-ed-sanitizes-farrakhans-ferocious-antisemitism/

Clearly, the editors at the Times need an education:

https://www.ajc.org/news/5-things-the-new-york-times-got-wrong-about-antisemitism

The antisemitism even shows up off their printed pages in their tweets:

https://forward.com/fast-forward/430069/new-york-times-anti-semitic-racist-tweets/?gamp

What has been obvious for some time broke out into the open this year: There is open antisemitism at The NY Times and their news reporting has become very biased. What should have been kept to the editorial pages has infected the news department.

https://www.thejc.com/news/us/bari-weiss-resigns-claiming-bullying-at-new-york-times-1.501577

Chatted and he states he does not kiss or suck. Not sure i understand what type of BF experience he claims to offer per his ad.

He offers an “ex boyfriend experience”??

While not “go go” boys, the Strippers at The Gaiety could make over $10,000 for the week. It was hard work (pun not intended) but very lucrative. I knew dancers who made as much as $15,000 for the week plus sometimes “gifts”.

I used a flipper (aka developer) once. It was a large and historic house in a rapidly improving area that was well-connected for transport, restaurants etc. To answer the question from @Unicorn, IIRC the discount for the rapid sale was 10%.

 

I’d already found my “perfect” house (a centrally located, larger historic house which, along with only 11 other houses, owned a communal garden of 3 acres) which I bought for cash. So I found selling the old house this way advantageous as I was very busy at work; there was no hassle and the sale went through in a week.

When you figure saving a regular real estate agent commission and the time value of money, 10% is reasonable.

He says he is a full time nursing student. Imagine coming out of surgery and waking up to him being your nurse.