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I just renewed my automatic monthly contribution to this site. I started doing automatic monthly donations in 2016 when I led a fundraising drive. I set mine up to continue for 12 months and then it automatically shut down. I just renewed it for another 12 months.

I was just talking with an LA escort about this line this weekend: "The best clients come from Texas, and the worst come from LA." That's from Matt Adams' Hustlers, Escorts, and Porn Stars: The Insider's Guide to Male Prostitution in America. When I read that line in 2000 I first thought it sounded bigoted. But in my experience it turned out to be true. I can't think of one Texas client that ever flaked out on me. In LA it was not unusual. And sometime the flakiness almost seemed like it was intentional. One Orange County client described the flakiness, correctly I think, as having less to do with all California and more to do with Hollywood/entertainment industry bullshitting. I have no idea if it correlates in any way to political party. But after years of experience I'd say Adams nailed it, at least as far as any gross generalization goes.

Thank you for the post. I was wondering whether you or David would post something. Many of us heard about what happened and were worried about you two. I hope you have good health insurance. If we can help by raising funds to pay for unexpected medical expenses, etc., please let us know. We have done this before. Meanwhile, glad to see you have the right attitude. We are all clicking our heels for you. In no time at all you will be back to normal, or homo sweet homo, or wherever it is you are after you've flown over Kansas.

I just wish we could all be as tolerant as you. The super good news is Bozo is gone. I don't think BVB was much into him anyway, but the clown was well hung - that was part of what actually convinced Diamond to be his MBTC. Those fine red pubic hairs are a bitch to get out of the carpet and hot tub.

I suppose you should consult with Victor on that. I may be ignorant, even dishonorable. But I am discreet. I can say that on good account it was told to me that Guy checked in on Victor several times during the night at Canyon Club. I also have it on good account that Guy is a good marksman, he is excellent at using his gun, and he never misses a shot. So I ain't saying nothing. But me being ignorant, and you're being good at deductive reasoning - I'd say this one is one you. Why don't you tell us what conclusion you reach, sweetie? (And you know I'm just bullshitting. Guy spent the whole night with me at my house, actually. So I know he slept like a baby all night long. See what happens when you miss the party? You just don't know which gossip to believe. And besides, we all know the real action happens at the gigs run by BVB and Fresh Fluff).

Me too! I think this was my 10th consecutive year. And that's not escort years or escort inches - 10 actually means 10. No one else has said it, so I will. This is a year in which the threat of survival hung over us in a way that it never has before. Will escort websites still be around a year from now? And if not, what will be the oxygen that feeds and connects this community? I've felt this way every year, but I think I felt it this year more than ever. This is a community I love, and am proud to be a part of. Nothing anybody says or does, and no law that tries to diminish us, can change that. I love Oli. I love Epi. I love the fact that we are who and what we are. I love the fact that every year some hot, bright, shining new escorts arrive, and they look ever younger and prettier and ever better endowed. I love the fact that new forum members bring their passion and excitement and hunger for friendship and support and community. I love the fact that men who I have known for moving on two decades show up, smile, care, cuddle, and suck cock. They've been my rock in good times and bad. The oxygen that feeds this community is the love, respect, and concern we have all shared with each other. And neither the Palm Springs winds nor federal laws can blow that away. Our community set a national example for how to feel and care and love and accept when it came to same sex marriage. This is a scary and confusing time. But my conviction coming out of this weekend is that nothing has changed, and we are stronger than we have ever been. This next year will probably be a wild ride, and I don't presume to know exactly where it will lead us. But wherever it goes, we're all in it together. And next year we'll have Oli's beads and Epi's empanadas and Tristan's kind eyes and hot body and Lord knows what new wonders to enjoy together. So, yeah. I can't wait for next year!

What, are you doing your best James Joyce now? Is this "right in your own backyard" supposed to be allegory or metaphor or whatever? Cause I don't get that shit. Or are you just channeling your inner Dorothy? I met Victor for the first time this weekend, and of course Tristan is my future fiance. So I was shocked to find out that as much as they are nice guys and very engaging conversationalists and what not, they were not right in the backyard. They were actually right up everybody's ass, apparently. I have that on very good account. Being a quiet Midwestern boy at heart, I found it all rather titillating. So you can take your fancy Big Sur getaway and your casual elegant pussy. But I'll just stay here and enjoy the view of Big Sir. As you point out, even from such a long distance, it's quite a view. And there's even more than one of 'em.

Suit yourself. I personally wouldn't think of dressing for a place like Sierra Mar without consulting with Lady Kockwood. But we all have our definition of good taste, I guess. As far as you dropping your trunks and what not, my hunch is your Cuban guests won't be the least bit critical of your fashion sense. Mostly what they will care about is what Ben is wearing. Go figure.

I just have a bad feeling about this whole thing, Fresh Fluff. http://www.postranchinn.com/dining/ Here's what it says on the menu of Sierra Mar, the restaurant at Post Ranch Inn. "Our dress code is casual elegant. Please wear something that you would feel most comfortable in for a nice dinner out, however shorts, t-shirts, sandals or athletic gear are not permitted." Now I assume in your company you can possibly get BVB to do casual elegant. But jock straps fall under the category of athletic gear, and I seriously doubt they are going to be enchanted with muscle strippers in thongs. And we all know BVB can't pry himself away from his cock, even when he is in the presence of a refined pussy such as yourself. Of course, you are outgoing and friendly. So perhaps you can share the Pacific House with BVB and his coterie and dine with strangers. That will give BVB and friends plenty of time to eat in, privately. There will no doubt be plenty to eat in the room. And look on the bright side. Big Sur is absolutely stunning. As opposed to getting stuck in a shit hole like Puerto Vallarta, where the views absolutely suck. http://www.gaypuertovallarta4u.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/wet-dreams-puerto-vallarta.jpg http://www.gaypuertovallarta4u.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/puerto-vallarta-gay-hotel-happy-hour.jpg https://www.gaypuertovallarta4u.com/recommended-bars/

Sweetie, it's not worth trying to convince you. Thing is, in Mexico they do tequila. Yeah, you can get some hot Mexican stripper to bed down with you. But you probably ain't gonna be convinced by his delicious brown foreskin, either. And on top of that he's gonna want his tequila. It's just gonna be a fucked up mess for you. Now, next time I'm down there, I'll try to find a hottie that likes gin. But don't hold your breath. Sad to say, but I just don't think it's gonna be a match. http://i.imgur.com/jzXs2.gif

If you do win the lottery, and buy one of those houses, can I be your special friend? We'll have a party, and you'll have a wonderful time.

Have you (or anyone?) ever heard of Mexican cops posing underground to bust Gay tourists for picking up local guys for pay? Since you mentioned this, I was just curious. I was in PV once in the zocola with a US client I've known for over a decade. We were out walking and we sat down on a bench next to a handsome Mexican guy, and my client started a conversation. I forget the exact story, but the guy said he just moved to PV from somewhere else, like Mexico City, he was staying at some cheap hotel, blah blah blah, maybe he said he was starting a new job next week or looking for a job at a hotel. It was around Christmas or Easter I think. My client asked him if he had plans for the holiday, and invited him to dinner the following night - we had reservations at a nice restaurant. Somehow even though we were all sitting on a park bench, the client checked with whether I was okay with all this, and I said fine. But the whole thing just felt a little suspicious. This client doesn't speak a word of Spanish, and the hot Mexican guy just seemed too well dressed and well spoken in perfect English to match the story of somebody new to town just hanging out and looking for work. I knew the client well enough, and he was not the kind of guy who would say, "Hey, let's go to our condo and fuck right now." So I figured it would just be interesting to see how all this turned out. We agreed we'd meet at the zocalo the following night at a certain time and have a really nice dinner together. So the following night we show up and are sitting on the park bench and the guy is not there. Maybe 5 or 10 minutes after we're supposed to meet he walks up to us and tells us that some girl he met the night before called him and wanted to have dinner, or something like that. So he regretfully could not join us after all. So we said, Great, and he walked off, and we just went and had dinner as planned. Never saw the guy again. I never said anything to the client about feeling suspicious, mostly because he was enjoying talking to the guy and I had no way of knowing that it wasn't exactly what it appeared to be. I will always believe the guy was an undercover cop and if we had propositioned him, we would have ended up getting arrested. Maybe it was just normal job paranoia on my part. But the guy's story and appearance and dress and language skills just didn't add up to me. I've never heard of any kind of stings of Gay guys in PV, or anywhere in Mexico, so I don't really have a clue. And we have hired strippers out of the Gay bars, so it also seems unusual that the cops would bother working the zocalo if they were going after Gay guys. I've actually never seen what appeared to be hookers, male or female, working the streets down there anyway.

The more recent numbers on the US military have surprised me. I used to think of the military as a way for poor Blacks and Latinos - as well as poor Whites - to climb the ladder, get an education, get skills. (That's what my White Dad did using the GI Bill in WWII). The Obamas always did a good job of honoring veterans in their speeches, I thought, and I always felt like part of that is they know full well how military honor and respect resonates for many Blacks, both haves and have nots. All of that is still true, but I think the volunteer military is better paid, better educated, and more professional than ever. http://www.nytimes.com/images/blogs/freakonomics/posts/Enlisted2.jpg How much of that is due to the fact that the military is a good job gig, and how much of it is due to patriotism, I don't know. Mostly, I think it's a great thing for America. I wasn't proud that a lot of liberals trashed the film "American Sniper," - either as a film, or as a story about a real hero. We all know Eastwood is a Republican. But he's a great Director. I was blown away by how nuanced and objective he was in telling that story. I'm ignorant about the military. But I know a lot of what drives it is patriotism, and I am deeply respectful of that. So I wasn't slamming rich military kids. I have another N of 1 story that is relevant to Cancun. One time I was there with a client in the hotel zone, and I stayed one extra night after he left, because I wanted to check out the Gay scene downtown. So if I recall right at the time there's a free bus shuttle that goes from the hotel zone to Centro. I take it, go have fun at the Gay bars, and then get back in the bus for the trip back to the hotel zone right around bar closing time. The bus is almost empty until we get to one of the first stops in the hotel zone. We stop outside a TGI Friday or some chain like that, and the whole bus fills up with drunk American kids on Spring Break. I had a bad feeling about the kid who sits next to me, so I move. Which is a good thing, because a little later he vomits on the floor. That whole bus is now full of screaming, drunk American assholes. And I am close enough to the front of the bus to hear some White kid harassing the bus driver because he asked him a question in English and - guess what? - the Mexican bus driver is not fluent in a foreign language. The whole thing was an unforgettable experience about ugly, drunk American kids. In fairness, I was once on a very full local bus in Cuernavaca where I was taking Spanish classes, and some Mexican bus driver was barking at me for some reason - I either didn't know he was talking to me, or didn't understand him yelling in Spanish. So the people around me get my attention. I think he wanted me to move further back or something. He asked me where I was from, and just out of embarrassment I said, in Spanish, that I was from Germany. So he made some asshole comment about Germans not being able to speak Spanish, and everybody on the bus just laughed at me. I think I mostly didn't want to be a personal embarrassment to the US. So when I was getting off the bus a little later I leaned over to him and I said, I think in almost perfect Spanish, "Has estado in Alemania? No. Porque deberias viajar mas, amigo!" Translation: "Been to Germany? No. Because you really need to travel more, my friend." There are assholes everywhere in the world, and I guess I was pleased with myself for letting the Mexican bus driver know that I wasn't stupid, and he was a poor, dumb asshole driving a cheap Mexican bus. Maybe I was just being an ignorant American. There are murderers everywhere in the world, too. And if you don't want to take the risk of running into one, it makes sense that you shouldn't travel - at least to places like Mexico. But if you look at where the drug gangs are flourishing and where the death rates are the highest - whether it's Columbia a generation ago or Mexico or now Guatemala or El Salvador - it usually has a lot to do with drug trafficking to the US.

Part of the problem in Mexico is that some of the cops and some of the politicians who hire and fire them are corrupt. It's not like we don't have that here, either. But not to the same degree, I don't think. We don't have journalists being slaughtered here because they are reporting on this kind of corruption. In Mexico, they do. https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/12/22/572822696/number-of-journalists-killed-in-mexico-reaches-historical-high-report-says Which reinforces my point. This is savage, targeted gang-style execution driven by the drug trade, which the United States encourages by being the best customer money and murder can buy. And a lot of Black activists in the US would dispute whether an American who happens to not be White can call a cop or get stopped by a cop and expect "a certain level of protection." I'd rather keep this post focused on safety in Mexico. But there is an aspect of how we think about this that does have to do with race, I think. This is an N of 1 that proves nothing, and I already told the story earlier in this thread. I ran into these two muscular, married White cops who were vacationing in the Grande Luxxe in Nuevo Vallarta, which is essentially an extremely safe, gated community resort a little north of Puerto Vallarta. They had been in the town square in Puerto Vallarta with their wives the night before - got out of a taxi, walked around for a few minutes, got back in a taxi, and went back to the hotel. They wanted to know if it would have been safe to maybe have walked a few blocks further up and down one of the streets, which at that point of night would have been filled with thousands of locals and tourists - mainly Mexicans. We just laughed, because the place is extremely safe. That's true whether you go by lots of personal experience, or by objective crime statistics. Idaho is probably a pretty safe place, and I doubt they'd feel the same way walking around any city or town there at night. I am not saying that these were racist White cops. They were really nice people. But it just seemed funny: of course it would take two muscular White cops from a place like Idaho to ignorantly conclude that you couldn't even walk around PV. I mean, why be cops if you can't take any risk? And why go to Mexico? Or why get in a taxi and go into town? My point is I view it as ignorance. You are right that if your experience of cops in Mexico is getting robbed by the cops, that would turn me off, permanently. I got robbed once in Mexico, by a woman hooker who groped me and was pretending to want to be hired for sex while she was stealing my wallet. That certainly didn't enchant me. But it could have happened anywhere in the world, and I decided I was the stupid one for letting my guard down and carrying my wallet in my pocket while traveling. I'm not saying people shouldn't feel concerned for their safety. If you don't feel safe about going to Mexico, don't go. But a lot of this is driven by ignorance. And on a policy level, when you talk about the drug trade, it stinks of hypocrisy. People who live in glass houses - full of opioids and crack and all kinds of nasty, murderous garbage - shouldn't be throwing stones so easily.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uQt7YfFGA3U/TE-tJcdUDUI/AAAAAAAAHBA/20cFMGLqI1U/s400/chilpancingoejecutados2.jpg I hope it doesn't violate some policy to post a picture like that. It is actually extremely mild compared to the readily available photos on Google of Mexican gang murders where the victims are chopped up and left on pieces on the street, beheaded, skinned alive, or gradually beaten to death or burned alive so that they don't really even look human anymore. It's debatable whether it's better to die that way, or to just be blown up by a US bomb in a place like Iraq or Syria where you instantly end up in about 1000 little pieces. We've killed lots of men, women, and children that way. My point is that one of the reasons I hope Kim drops a nuclear bomb on my backyard in Palm Springs, and LA, and NYC, and DC is that I want to see several million Americans - myself included - die horrific, ugly, horrible deaths, and then we can comment knowledgeably on how it feels. When we went through 9/11 and got a very serious taste of what it felt like to have 3000 of our own innocents slaughtered, that kind of pissed us off real good. I can only imagine what a nuclear bomb will do when Kim takes all your asses out. Mostly, we like to talk as if we know something about this shit, when we don't. The people who know more than us are the Moms, Dads, brothers and sisters and kids of the people who are slaughtered in gang deaths in Mexico. And most of them aren't exactly innocent, because if they were targeted in the way the people in that picture above clearly were, it was probably because they were in a gang and a rival gang wanted to take them out, execution style. And the murders are particularly brutal because - like ISIS learned - part of the whole point is to scare the living shit oot of everyone. That's why it's called "terror." The people I feel really sorry for are the politicians and journalists and others who are executed for trying to stop this, as well as the innocent Mexicans who have to live around this 24/7/365, and just happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. The same shit happens every day in many poor urban areas of America, thank you. It happens in neighborhoods I own rental properties in, in places like Sacramento. I hear about it when my tenants tell me their kids had to run when they were walking down a street in daylight and they heard bullets. I'm not a slum landlord, and I would not call my houses slum houses or the neighborhoods slum neighborhoods. But they are in urban, diverse places where a lot of people wouldn't live, and where you have to be more careful than in an affluent gated community. So we have no reason to feel smug about anything we do here. There is a case to be made that it would be a good thing for America if we not only had to go through 4 years of Trump, but if we had to go through 4 years of Trump that was like the Duterte regime in the Philippines. He is way more popular than Trump. So how about if we follow Trump's lead, and have the death penalty, and follow Duterte's lead, and embrace a policy of extrajudicial killings of drug traffickers and users? I would particularly support it if it targeted mostly affluent White teenagers and young adults, people who got to affluent private high schools and are students and Harvard or Yale. I'd like to see several bullets popped into their skulls, by on duty cops, and then I'd like to see them dismembered and left on Harvard Square or by that bean thing in Grant Park. Some place a lot of tourists would see. It would send a message pretty quick that if you are involved in building the demand that makes the drug trade in Mexico flourish, even at a very small retail level, things may not go so well for you. I think all we'd really have to do is take out 1000 or so rich White college kids. (I'd even throw in a couple unemployed coal miners from West Virginia who buy synthetic Mexican crack, just so it doesn't feel like I'm picking on rich people). That would be more than enough to send the message, and it would probably be the best thing we could do to stop drug gang murders in places like Cancun and Cabo, because it would dry up demand real quick.

That's fine. Would you also take New Orleans, Baltimore, and St. Louis off your list of cities to go to? They are among the 50 most dangerous cities in the world in 2017, according to the list I've seen. Cancun is not. Amazingly, Chicago is not in the Top 50. Since 2016 the Republicans and Trump have talked about Chicago like it is the epicenter of all murder in the world, partly to argue that handgun control is a worthless policy and partly to blame it on the Democrats. Of course, averages are averages. So the fact that some neighborhoods in Chicago are particularly deadly doesn't mean the entire city is deadly. But if you believe what we've heard, O'Hare should be a ghost town, right? I searched 5 different articles to see if there was anything specific about who was murdered in Cancun, and where. The closest I could find is this: "Luckily for tourists, the murders appear to be gang-related and it is very unlikely any holiday goers will be caught up in the violence - but visitors are still concerned. The gang violence, mainly driven by the thriving drug trade, has cast serious doubt over whether Cancun is a safe, family-friendly holiday destination. The violence is not only isolated to Cancun. Earlier this year, the Mexican city of Los Cabos was named as the world’s most violent city." https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/945749/Mexico-murders-2018-is-Cancun-safe-right-now-people-killed-FCO-advice Here's another interesting factoid: "The figures surpass Cancun’s previous record of nine killings in a day, which was set on Nov. 25, 2004." https://nypost.com/2018/04/11/streets-of-cancun-run-red-with-14-murders-in-36-hours/ I stated the second part because since 2004 I've been in Cancun repeatedly, and nothing about it felt unsafe. I was in Los Cabos a few years ago, and that felt entirely safe. As the article above mentions, where the murder rates are high in Mexico it is driven by: 1) gangs, and 2) drugs. Shockingly, where murder rates are high in the United States it is driven by: 1) gangs, and 2) drugs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate That chart says that Mexico is safer than the US, if you look at gun deaths in general. In Mexico it's 8 per 100,000, in the US it's about 12 per 100,000. Either way, something like 99,990 out of 100,000 people in both Mexico and the US don't die because of guns every year. In Mexico almost all the gun deaths are homicides. In the US the majority of them are suicides. You could argue you should go live in Mexico, because you're less apt to commit suicide.\ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_guns_and_homicide This list probably does a better job of describing the dangers of death by drug gang in Mexico, since it measures "intentional homicide." If you only look at that subset, Mexico is more dangerous - about 16 per 100,000 in Mexico v. 4 per 100,000 in the US. I think that speaks to what is happening in places like Los Cabos and Cancun - it is gang members involved in drug trade intentionally killing each other for control. It certainly doesn't sound tourist friendly. But it actually is, because it is the tourists who make the trade - whether they are buying in Mexico, or once it's imported into the US. If you know Cancun you know the hotel zone is like a Fantasy Island that is separate from the town. So my guess is that saying a lot of people died in Cancun is like saying there was a gang slaughter on the South Side of Chicago while I was staying with my brother in Albany Park. A lot of the statements made about Chicago during the campaign just seemed to reveal a lot of ignorance about Chicago, not wisdom about drug or gun policy. I have no problem with these kinds of statements about Cancun or Cabo or even Puerto Vallarta, as long as people also say that you should never, ever, ever walk into a Gay bar in New Orleans at night - not to mention a lot of other places in the US. Because if you do, you are putting yourself in as much or more risk as you do when you go to Mexico.

Mr. SCHUMER. Finally, I want to note that I have heard concerns that this legislation could be misused or abused to penalize websites that promote important health and safety information to survivors of sex trafficking, including about HIV prevention and treatment, and provide access to community and peer support services. This information is particularly critical to the victims of sex trafficking and others who face high rates of violence and exploitation, like people who use drugs, people of color, and LGBTQ people. I believe the use of this legislation to create any liability for this important work would be an impermissible misreading of the statutory language and legislative intent. https://www.congress.gov/crec/2018/03/21/CREC-2018-03-21-pt1-PgS1849-8.pdf The problem is not figuring out what any moderator of this website has in mind. Or what any participant has in mind. The problem is figuring what the hell the 100 members of the US Senate had in mind, starting with the Senate Minority leader quoted above. He was the only one speaking that said anything about LGBTQ or anything that sounds remotely related to anything I've been involved in for the last two decades of my life. So you have 24 pages of floor speeches railing against predatory sex trafficking of children and women. Great. The word "trafficking" is used on every page, again and again and again. But somehow the word "prostitution" gets slipped into the bill - even though if you read all 24 pages, almost nobody actually uses the word "prostitution." I read all 24 pages. The one significant exception where the word "prostitution" is actually used is Sen. Heitkamp, who talked about how there was a lot of prostitution in North Dakota as a result of all these men coming in for the fracking boom. But even she pretty much equates prostitution with abuse of women and nonconsensual trafficking. Here's Heitkamp's take on "prostitution": "Ms. HEITKAMP. When I began my journey to the U.S. Senate, I engaged and started visiting with my old friends in North Dakota law enforcement. As I have said many times, I am a former attorney general from the great State of North Dakota and have great friends in law enforcement. Their message was simple. They were seeing a lot more drugs. Obviously, North Dakota was experiencing an oil boom, and that was creating some social upheaval, additional crime, additional concern about crime. They then told me something I didn’t expect: We are seeing this incredible rate and increase in prostitution. I thought about that. I thought, well, what does that mean, and how do we investigate it? So many people would argue that this is a victimless crime and not a priority, and we started looking behind this. My colleagues in law enforcement in North Dakota started doing stings. They did something that peace officers all across the country do: They sat down with the women they were arresting, and they started listening to their stories. The stories were heartbreaking—stories of being preyed on as young girls, either in their home or as they were running away, the stories of how they got in the life. Many of my colleagues in law enforcement began to say: These women are not criminals; they are victims." So nobody knows what the fuck this law actually means, other than that it seems to be designed to go after predators of women and children. And it is not supposed to go after Gay men, or Gay escorts, or people on websites who talk about things like surviving HIV. Or people like me who want to be part of a community with other escorts, who are my peers. So I don't know what the fuck this law means, or why they passed it, or how it is supposed to be enforced. I'm not a woman or child. I'm not a trafficking victim. So I don't blame anybody for being confused by this poorly written law. I have that citation of Schumer's bookmarked and one thing I will do is keep repeating ad nauseum that whatever this law was supposed to do - IT WAS NOT MEANT TO GO AFTER ME, AND US!

It has a chilling effect. Think what that does to erections, sweetie. Which is why I was suggesting Mexico. It's warmer down there.

He's a Gemini. Mercurial. You could argue it goes with the territory. (With all due respect to every other Gemini reading this).

Great advice, as far is it goes. But do we also have permission to ignore the assholes who attend?

Y'all can go fuck yourselves, okay y'all? Because I still don't know what a metaphor is! (Except for Ace. It's his birthday, and I'm sure he's been fucked well enough already).

First, what's a metaphor? Second, if you go to Ace's profile, it says this: Ace Keeper of the Cookie Jar Male, from Las Vegas So I think it's supposed to stand for something. Knowing Ace, probably something to do with sex. Long story short, we probably don't want to know.

And it's possible to take it one step further, so I will. Epigonos correctly anticipated this problem and came out here last year and ran around looking at places, and prices, and then started a post far earlier than usual so people could think about the date and book a room while they were abundant. There will always be people who have good reason to wait until late in the game to book. But when you are going to popular places at popular times and you book late, that usually means you pay a premium. Palm Springs is not unique in that regard. I live here, and I guarantee you if you want a party in the middle of the Summer rates will be cheaper and rooms will be easy to cum by (men, too ). And it will be 120 degrees. Just like rooms in Florida in the middle of hurricane season. Which is another thing worth mentioning. It was due to unusual circumstances a few years ago that Oliver scheduled the party later than it had been previously. The weather has generally worked out well. It actually does rain in Palm Springs. One year I remember having to move inside from the dinner at Tropicana because it was cold and then it started to rain. Since it was moved to this time, it seems to have worked perfectly. The last few years were a little on the hot side for some people (weather, not men). So we graciously arranged to get the weather cooled down the last few days. This weekend should be perfect. I've spent lots of time in Florida and many days there you never know which hour it will rain and which hour there will be sun. The problem with this time of year is it's when everybody wants to be here, so you're fighting with White Party, Coachella, and also normal tourism. That's why Epigonos wanted to get word up really early. This suggests that next year, once Oliver frees Epigonos from the shackles he uses to keep her in the kitchen, we will perhaps want Epigonos to do the same thing. That way if you don't want to have that problem in 2019, you can book early. Another party in Orlando sounds fun. And since no one has mentioned it, perhaps we should also consider an annual party in Puerto Vallarta, as well? It's on the right side of The Wall, and we won't have to worry about FOSTA.

Happy Birthday Ace! You could not have picked a better time for a party. Or better weather. Now please don't expect us to keep our hands out of the cookie jar.

"Finally, I want to note that I have heard concerns that this legislation could be misused or abused to penalize websites that promote important health and safety information to survivors of sex trafficking, including about HIV prevention and treatment, and provide access to community and peer support services. This information is particularly critical to the victims of sex trafficking and others who face high rates of violence and exploitation, like people who use drugs, people of color, and LGBTQ people. I believe the use of this legislation to create any liability for this important work would be an impermissible misreading of the statutory language and legislative intent." - Senator Charles Schumer, March 21, 2018, during floor debate on FOSTA/SESTA. Schumer was the only US Senator to use the word Gay or LGBTQ in the course of 24 pages of floor speeches on the US Senate. https://www.congress.gov/crec/2018/03/21/CREC-2018-03-21-pt1-PgS1849-8.pdf As a member of two groups he mentioned - an LGBTQ man and an escort who counts on this forum for community and peer support, I sincerely hope we can take his commitment seriously.