AdamSmith

Something was not going right in his life at that previous time -- I got that sense when we met recently, but did not press for details. Not making an excuse for him (nor was he), just reporting a datum.

>Your reseverations for a party of six are confirmed. }( > > Let me know of you need additional places in the queue. As long as you're willing to run my tab -- keep a "C" table near the kitchen open too! In the spirit of SilverDollar, StuCotts, KY and other good examples, I also owe reviews of a couple of instructively so-so experiences.

>When will we >see it nationwide in the USA. Not in my lifetime unless the >Supreme Court steps in, which seems very unlikely anytime >soon. Sadly too true. Fixing the Supremes will take 8 years of Hillary followed by 8 years of Barack. Or something equally drastic -- substitute your own names here. (Whoops -- here goes another political thread.)

Conway, I must admit I too found Jason hard to reach and arrange with, a couple of years ago. Never went as far as booking and then a no-show, but twice he did say he would return a call, then did not. Seemed at the time he was trying to disengage from the business, possibly conflicted about getting out vs. staying in. However, for now at least, he appears to be back in the game full-bore. Since I'm local, and he was very responsive when I called him recently, I went ahead and the appointment could not have gone off better, in every sense. Granted he could drop out or flake out at any time, as could anyone. I intend to make hay while the sun shines.

>Snatched right in front of our eyes, Ben's pic of Jason Rylee >no longer available here. Intellectual property protection, don't you know. Surely you won't deny Ben's right to control access to valuable images he procured at great trouble by clicking on Jason's ad! >And, Adam, as for Cesare Mancini, I found him to be a real >flake. Sorry to hear. I had no trouble. Did he not show? Not perform? Sump'n else? EDIT ADDITION: I just remembered -- you posted he was a no-show. (Spelling variants -- he goes back & forth between 'Caesar' and 'Ceasar'. Your variant, 'Cesare,' was the name of the creature that inhabited 'The Cabinet of Dr Caligari'!)

>...Whom have I left out? :9 Forgot -- two more near-raves: Caesar Mancini/LA Joey/Portland OR http://www.men4rentnow.com/ds/index.asp?cm...78&Login=Lucky6

When I first viewed Lucky's post, I didn't see Jason's pic either. Then I logged in, came back here, and voila -- there it was. If you can't see it, try pasting this URL into your browser. Delete the space between ".com" and "/JasonRylee.jpg" (I had to insert that space to force the URL to display here): http://www.benjaminnicholas.com /JasonRylee.jpg More pics in his rentboy ad: http://www.rentboy.com/location/getrb.asp?...62&Location=165

Very nice! He looks, if possible, hotter in person.

>Which escort are you going to surprise >next? P.S. Also looking for the chance to meet Andre's buddy Cody. http://www.men4rentnow.com/fs/149283.3E136D7E.jpg

Hoping Ethan Evans might be next! Can't help with Jason pics other than recommend his rentboy ad. But as for A, a bonus 2-pack... Summer: http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c79/lewi...ictures_034.jpg Winter: http://www.men4rentnow.com/fs/143528.2DD74977.jpg

"High on my guilt stack" acknowledges the stack itself is pretty high, no? And yes, somehow I did find an evening when funseeker had managed to let go of Ben. My good fortune. My misfortune is that I saw him summer 2005 and have still not managed a repeat. Email is just not the same, even with titillating pics attached. So to sum up my guilt stack... Raves: Ben/LA Jason Rylee Trey Thurston Near-rave: DenversLatinboy Nice, probably would repeat: Eric/SF Not quite for me but likely heaven for many: Adonis/NYC Category by himself (torrid mental affair ongoing -- we have evolved a private email language since meeting): Rick Munroe ...Whom have I left out? :9

Interesting about Eric/Jay. To compound my sin of posting in deferral of full review -- nice guy, easy to make arrangements with, very accommodating -- willing to drive far out of SF to inland of San Jose to meet me. Nice body. Good fucker, adequate fuckee. Not so great a kisser. Accepted oral only with condom; did not offer to give it. So -- good time, I would probably repeat, but he did not knock me into orbit the way a few have (Andre, Jason Rylee, Ben/splendidpup/LA, Blake Christopher, say). Looking back at my effusive post above, the more considered impressions here are the more accurate, I think.

>set him straight. Not sure that's the desired outcome. (Sorry to stoop to that crack but you so seldom play the straight man! All right...) In person the hair is not so distracting. Or rather it's offset by stronger distractions. }( >Isn't talking about boys better than talking about Rico? Rico who? :+

P.S. Almost forgot to mention... In your golden category of smooth young Latins and Asians, my most recent find, earlier this week: http://www.rentboy.com/location/getrb.asp?...958&Location=71 Highly affectionate. Highly kissable, huggable, suckable, versatile. Highly recommended. And high on my guilt stack of to-be-written reviews.

>Adam, did you notice that you are post #13 in this thread? >Doesn't that help explain why Rico was banned in Boston? How could I have missed it? Friday the 13th is always my favorite day. And come to think of it, I was living on the 13th floor (labeled 14th of course) when I met Andre. My luck must be the opposite of Rico's. >BTW, is it true that you are planning a big New Year's Eve >party with Andre, Trey, Denverlatin, and Jason Rylee? I could >come help if you needed it! Actually (this is more than half true) the target is a New Year's Eve cluster fuck in Raleigh involving Andre, Trey and Ethan Evans. Y'all come! Earlier this year Trey showed me how Raleigh has become astoundingly gay-friendly. As witness this town-square statue of its namesake in mid-swish! http://www.huvard.com/becka/raleigh/images/tall_raleigh.jpg

>Rico was >banned in Boston! I live here, so I like that. But what do you mean?

>Rico didn't >die in jail... Well, "sitting pretty and with a whole lot less stress now" is not necessarily incompatible with your previous surmise about Rico, depending on one's theology -- and one's previous stress levels. Two forms move among the dead, high sleep Who by his highness quiets them, high peace Upon whose shoulders even the heavens rest, Two brothers. And a third form, she that says Good-by in the darkness, speaking quietly there, To those that cannot say good-by themselves... -- Wallace Stevens

Regrettably I am starting to think twice about how much to reveal. Not because of the recent outings but, as you say, because law enforcement could seize on this as a new crusade. I hate thinking this way because I have never liked or practiced the huggermugger of concealing a lot of personal information from an escort.

>Hmmm, suddenly we are up to 8800 members. Prophetic? Or did >someone stuff the box? What, is this site hosted by Diebold?

He certainly does. http://www.goldenbeaus.com/naked/leonardo_dicaprio1.jpg This is from www.goldenbeaus.com. Looks pretty convincing to me. Wonder if it's really him?

This inscrutable post ought not to sink without a reply. The pic at least gives a whole new meaning to 'hits.' Sorry in advance for the implied fish, but the inescapable companion piece... http://www.angelo.edu/faculty/rprestia/130.../IN415aBern.jpg

>>Leo who? ;-) > > Is he a bottom ??. :9 He was a top in "Total Eclipse," a stinker in which he attempted to portray Rimbaud. Verlaine was the bottom. http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/Vil...30/Rimbaud1.jpg

>I think that's an extremely relative argument as long as one >believes that non-aliens and non-citizens are entitled to the >same rights that aliens and citizens are. I don't. Perhaps, >you do. And I can respect that difference of opnion. Respectfully we do differ on this. Three years ago I heard no less than Dick Armey make a strong case against the Bush administration's various lockdowns against foreign nationals. A Ph.D. economist, he started by talking about current visa policies that make it difficult for highly skilled non-U.S. professionals to come here and work -- he cited big dollar figures in lost U.S. wealth creation as a result. But then he surprised me by going on to an even more impassioned plea about how the Constitution and the republic are founded on the core principle that "all men are created equal" -- not all citizens, but all the human race. And because of that, practically alone among nations, the U.S. extends equal protections to ALL within its purview, not just its own. Of course he was not denying that terrorists exist, but reiterating Ben Franklin's point that, in being frightened into curtailing our own founding principles, we are letting them win.

I wish I could. Instead I wasted an evening seeing "Running with Scissors" despite knowing better. Although Jill Clayburgh's performance eating pet kibble and obsessively watching Dark Shadows was worth the price.

Well, there is the small matter of the erosion of habeas corpus. It has happened before, but in hindsight was never judged a good thing. The Alien and Sedition Acts are recognized as a low point of John Adams's administration. And Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus during the Civil War ultimately brought this pronouncement from Justice David Davis: "(The) good and wise men (who wrote our Constitution) foresaw that troublous times would arise, when rulers and people would become restive under restraint, . . . and that the principles of constitutional liberty would be in peril, . . . (That is why) the Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with (its) shield all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances. . . No doctrine, involving more pernicious consequences, was ever invented by the wit of man than that any of (the Constitution’s) provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government." There is debate over whether the current administration, with Congress's compliance, has gone this far. But we are, at least, well along the slippery slope.