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  1. Side note - While walking in Center City Philadelphia last week, I noted a storefront on a second floor that I missed - 'Removery' - which is a "franchised tattoo removal clinic". 

    Looks like the product lifecycle has come full circle first with a significant increase in media, TV shows about tattoos, increase in the number of tattoo parlors, and now, a retail operation specializing in tattoo removal.

  2. Recent article highlighting that most transmission in our community, well I guess I need to say 'men who have sex with men', that for us, it is more a sexually transmitted disease versus a 'skin to skin' spread.  I guess putting a dick in your ass or in your mouth is about as close of contact as you can get, so... makes sense!

    Philly area vaccinations are a nightmare.  I will likely be hiding out through the fall.  

    Side note - I'm surprised vaccine companies aren't setting up clinics for paid vaccinations.  I would pay out of pocket it for it, especially if a company were to donate one dose for free distribution for my paid one.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-health-and-wellness/sex-men-not-skin-contact-fueling-monkeypox-new-research-suggests-rcna43484

  3. Shocker.

    Another.... "the hairless, white muscle boys" are the popular kids that everyone dreams about being or dating playing on decades old stereotypes in hopes that it can crossover to drive a few liberal straight people to the theater... 'gay movie'. 

     

    Slow claps to bitter NYC queen Billy Eichner for cashing in on a total work of fiction that only happens .000000001% of the time in real life.     

  4. There are some disparate threads about this Netflix show but thought I would start a dedicated thread in the TV section.

    I didn't hate the show, but overall found it a bit contrite and recycled.  Darren Star is getting a bit too formulaic in his approach. The characters are now so predictable that it doesn't take a second thought to see Billy as Samantha, Stanley as Miranda, and Michael as a Charlotte/Carrie Combo with a Suzanne representing gal pal Stanford.  How about some NEW character types?!  Can't gay men be more interesting than this?

    The show is 'brain and eye-candy' both, but found it a little depressing showing the same bitchy, shallow, predictable New Yorkers doing their vapid best to seem so very cool.  

    I think it needed like 4 more episodes to build some depth in the tone deaf characters.  D-Starr rushes to get as many break-ups, hook-ups, make-ups, marriages, and finishes with a cancer diagnosis that I predicted after two episodes - OK not really, but I was expecting some 'gay disease' to come a'creeping into the plotline.  The male breast cancer was a different angle at least.  There's also a smattering of Grindr jokes - Thanks Captain Obvious!

    I guess something showing a little more diversity in the community isn't possible when New York Insta-gays are the apparent end all be all of gay existence.   Maybe I am missing the point?  Is this show for 'us' or is it for the straights?

    Given the lack of good gay content out there, I will probably watch the second season if there is one, but overall I give the show a hard 'C-'.

  5. The one thing about this outbreak that has 'hit' me hard is all the references in news articles to gay sex and how much sex gay men are having.

    Let me say up front - There is ZERO judgement on my part, if anything, I'm jealous.  I go months between sexual encounters, but so many of the articles I read reference the multiple partners and multiple times a week gay men are having sex.

    Is there just a haves vs have nots thing going on here?  I feel more and more disconnected from the 'community' and feel like I'm not one of the cool kids.

     

    I will say, monkeypox definitely sounds like it can be mild or really fucking scary.  I'll be on sexual sabbatical for a while as a result. 

     

     

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