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And you went there for the clothes! The Priape chain of gay merchandise stores has shuttered. Although deeply in debt to start with, it could not continue if the highly profitable amyl nitrates were not bought by its popper-happy customers Poppers cost pennies to make, smell horribly, burn easily, and apparently keep gay merchants alive. According to gay Canadian magazine Extra!, Priape didn't have much of a chance after health advocates hit on poppers. "A fixture of gay villages, Priape says it has been struggling since Health Canada demanded retailers take poppers off the shelves. In June, just before the Pride season, Health Canada issued a warning asking retailers to stop selling and distributing alkyl nitrites or, as they are more commonly known on the party scene, the popular drug “poppers.” “For us that represented a huge amount of sales and profit, so that’s what triggered it all,” Leblanc says. “It’s not so much percentage of sales, but the gross profit it brought in, and proportionately it was very significant.” Extra! reports. 58 employees are now unemployed, and numerous creditors, including many gay businesses, will be short almost 3/4 of a million (apparently Canadian) dollars. I hate poppers for many reasons, yet I used them for quite awhile until it just seemed so stupid to be inhaling directly into my brain crap made in a bathtub. At least that's how the first popper salesman I knew made it. He could get $20 a bottle at the gay nightclub, even more if it was late and guys going home needed the rush. This individual eventually became a millionaire, supposedly a philanthropist, yet he was not well liked. But, an entrepreneur he was, and I'll bet many an orgasm is credited to him as the popper rush kept guys going and going and going all night long.

Ah-choo!

A former soldier who showed up in a pink polo shirt at Michael Lucas' Hell's Kitchen studio ended up going to jail on September 12th after things got out of hand when he demanded to know why he was not getting more work. 28 year old Michael Caswell “...just stormed into our offices and started beating people up,” claimed [Michael] Lucas. “Several people locked themselves into the editing suite. You had to see his eyes the veins bulging on his forehead. It was scary.” (Gallo's bulging forehead not prominent here.) Gallo was charged with trespass, not assault, and ended up in jail, pink shirt and all. “It was a nightmare,” he said of the ordeal made no easier by his flamboyant attire. NY Post The Post further reports that happy ending may be in store for all: "The 28-year-old makes approximately $1500 per film and is a top model at the multimillion-dollar agency. We were using him all the time,” said Lucas. “He’s very popular, he’s very good looking and he’s one of my top four performers. We’d love him to return if he goes through very serious anger management and see a shrink.” So goes another day in the glamorous life of a male sex god. Caswell was honorably discharged from the Navy after he confessed his orientation to a navy chaplain in November of 2010 shortly before President Barack Obama ended Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. http://nypost.com/2013/10/21/jail-a-nightmare-for-gay-porn-guy-thrown-into-lockup-while-wearing-pink/ No doubt that Gallo still looks pretty in pink, but I couldn't find that shot!

I am still signed in every time I visit, despite signing out when I leave. I don't want folks thinking I spend my whole day here!

That was my understanding as well. Not so much a sauna scene as a street scene.

Welcome to the site. Enjoy Rio, but I do not know that scene. Surely they have it though!

It just sunk in on me! Five Weeks in India? By yourself? How adventurous. Given your health problems in Cambodia, be extra careful in India. I am jealous!

Moot question.

I wonder if he had become too hot for The Guardian to handle. In other words, forced out.

Great post, lurkerspeaks! I enjoyed it.

My "fix' didn't stay as I was logged in when I came here, even though I had signed out.

No thanks needed! It already says Good Lucky on the bill!

I couldn't get this photo to upload in response to Adam Smith's post about it, but it seems if I try a new post, it goes as an attachment. So, in the Green Path thread you will see why Mr. Smith posted this. AdamSmith Posted Today, 04:30 PM Somewhere in the attic amongst other juvenile jokes & novelties, I have an old dollar-bill parody which in place of "Silver Certificate" reads "Rubber Snapificate" and is of course printed on rubber instead of paper. Elsewhere in place of the standard text are several puns about how it will bounce, etc. View images of front and back here: http://currency.ha.c...92&lotIdNo=8066 (Can't post the image directly because the image type is not supported here.) The one pictured here is issue of The Delighted States of Hysteria. Just recalled that mine is currency of The Untied States of Anemia -- rather more fitting for our times today, even though I got it back around 1972.

It's so nice to have the Brazil stories back. I enjoy every one of them.

At 40, Mario still looks gorgeous, even if his pants were too tight. (Thanks, HuffPost.com)

No wonder I found a pair of Thai briefs on my edit function.

I saw the original show (twice!) at the Jane Street theater with John Cameron Mitchell and went nuts. It was just wonderful.

Oz, I tried that, and still no edit function. But, having faith in you and the guys working so hard on this, I tried it again just now, and guess what? I was able to submit an edit for consideration! Interesting enough, my other comment that I was coming to the site already logged in seems to have been fixed too.

Judge Richard Posner, who wrote the majority decision saying that requiring ID from voters was legal, now says that he was wrong. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/16/us/politics/judge-in-landmark-case-disavows-support-for-voter-id.html?hp

I still can't find the edit function. If I could, I might want to suggest kindly that this is no longer true of Ground Zero: "While a new building will eventually be constructed, Ground Zero today remains a large, unimproved hole in the ground".

Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity. H. P. Lovecraft He was a very quotable guy! But he died at the age of 46, apparently having said all he had to say.

Oh, I'm pretty wired already from seeing those pix of yours! BTW, I met your avatar the other day:

Adam, glad to know we can count on you. Nothing sinister is expected to be found, however. It could just be a simple matter of me having given my password out to too many people! Is this a reliable quote? Adam never said that!

"Most members ever online in one day was 90, last accomplished on 14 Oct 2013" Yesterday was a banner day for boytoy.com, yet there was no hullabaloo over it. We set a record! Isn't that wonderful? Lots of folks coming here to read EXPAT and hitoallusa and tomcal and lurkerspeaks and, well, YOU! So we should be at least happy if not proud. Unless. Yes, unless the statistic is not reliable. I say that because since the site upgrade, when I come to the forums I am already signed in, even though I signed out when I left my last visit. So does the above statistic reflect people who are actually here, or people who are signed in but have no idea that they are? Inquiring minds want to know!

The saving grace of all of this is that they have way too much information to actually look at or listen to. And so much of it is foreign languages, they will need far more translators than are available. Now if they just focused on suspected terrorists, their workload might be more manageable.