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I saw a couple of interviews with Lee Child on YouTube in which he was asked about Tom Cruise. Child was obviously being a team player in his response, scripted even, but he said something interesting. Namely, that most Hollywood actors are short, so that criticism of Cruise was not significant. I once saw Cruise in person, and even with shoelifts he was really, really short. Alan Ritchson is perfectly cast. The series hews closely to the book. I thought it, and Ritchson, were terrific.

I was at the Rigoletto live HD on Saturday, Jan. 29. One of three theaters showing it in the Coachella Valley, 20+ people at the showing I attended. Great cast. Setting it in Weimar in the 20’s worked. Mild synchronization issues between audio and video at the beginning which improved with time. Some audio issues toward the end - the voices seemed a bit muted. But a lovely experience overall.

Of course escorts have the right to select clientele, on many levels and in many areas. Beginning with only taking clients who can pay and moving on to those whom they can do a good job for, for whatever reason, and then into arenas of personal preference. But the truth is that escorts with wider acceptance parameters will have a larger client base to appeal to. The other truth is that among those willing to pay for companionship there are a lot more older, larger, plainer men than there are younger, fitter, handsome men. So what’s your market opportunity?

Good points, Tasso. Given the greater simplicity of electrics, why are they so much more expensive? Is it the rare earth metals in the batteries? Are the car companies jumping up the prices to reflect the subsidies? is it a new technology that hasn’t yet hit mass production pricing? It’s easy to go demagogic on these questions, either from the right (it’s the fault of government policy) or the left (greedy companies) but I wonder if these cars are really overpriced. Or are the cheap Chinese cars underpriced to grab market share?

I am interested in a Tesla or another EV as my next car. I drive a 2017 Prius, get terrific gas mileage - up to 60 mpg on freeway trips. Very happy with it, especially with the current inflation of gas prices, and plan to keep it awhile. Waiting to see if the concerns with Tesla are worked out, what its EV competition will be like when I’m ready, and what electric rates will be. Electricity in the Coachella Valley, where I live, is quite expensive. But so are gas prices. California gas is usually a dollar or so higher than the national average. @Charlie’s story about the Tesla stranded on the I-10 speaks to my fears about insufficient range on the open road away from urban areas, but it also speaks to Tesla’s reputation for taking care of its customers, a reputation I would like to hear more about, both positive and otherwise.

I’m confused. I thought this conversation was about the lovely Joey, with all his aka identities. I had an awful moment when I read Lazarus’s post, thinking that Joey had died. Please assure me that Jersey etc. is not Joey, roided up and tatted to the nth degree, but that this unfortunately deceased individual is someone entirely different.

I called up Dane Scott’s RM page today (DaneScottUSA) and it says “Not Available”. Does anyone have insight into this?

Apologies if needed for resurrecting this thread after so many years, but it is the only one that named the TH’s superlative pianist Rick Unterberg. I learned today that Rick died of the Covid-19 virus on April 23. The TH will be holding a tribute to him on Tues., Sept. 28. I am afraid I cannot be there in person, but will be holding him in my heart.

As far as I can tell, gay people live all over the Coachella Valley and the adjacent Morongo Basin to the north, alongside Joshua Tree NP. The various communities skew along socio-economic and lifestyle lines. Thus, working class Spanish speakers are everywhere but more concentrated in Indio than La Quinta perhaps. Gays likewise. Your upscale gay golfers more likely to be found in Palm Desert than Desert Hot Springs, but the reverse for your gay bikers. Something for everyone. Except for snow lovers. But even they have choices. Idyllwild, Big Bear, Arrowhead. That would be your Log Cabin types. 😜

I’ve reconciled myself to not finishing Proust. It’s not a book so much as it’s a world. So reading A la recherche du temps perdu is a bit like visiting a great city as a tourist. Every time I go there it’s a bit more familiar, but there’s always so much I haven’t seen yet.

Lismore Speyside is a pretty good single malt at a pretty good price. A Trader Joe’s staple.

I suppose it would be the YMMA.

At the moment I’m rereading Patricia Highsmith. I love noir fiction, especially fond of Raymond Chandler. But there is something about Highsmith. Ignore the movies (Ripley especially) - most of them take the characters, rewrite the book and shift it around to achieve a clearer or more morally coherent narrative. Because she isn’t about narrative/moral clarity, she is the master of suspenseful anxiety. Draws the reader into her strange world, where there is always a crime but you have no idea what’s going to happen. No one is the good or bad guy. There is no necessary linkage between act and consequence. I find that true to life. Her style is deceptively simple, plainer than Hemingway, but not as an affectation, as in H. The voice is authorial but the point of view shifts from character to character. Every time I reread her I am amazed at how subtle her texts are. Always something new.

The kind of beef you eat or the kind you admire?

The kind of beef you eat or the kind you admire?