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No one can answer that question except the one who posted. What he posted was rather harmless. I don't know why he signed into my account and then posted using my name. Perhaps just to annoy me. We had a few days earlier had a misunderstanding wherein he thought I was pushing too hard for timed-out members to be welcomed back. I explained to him that I was spoofing the matter as entertainment and not a serious effort to undo the time-outs. That seemed to be the end of it. Suckrates really hit the nail on the head. Trust was breached. Nothing illegal was done on either side. I had contributed some 13000 posts to that site, had coined the name "Hooville" for its message board, started the Palm Springs Weekends, been named a moderator, something I was admittedly not cut out for. The site owner had been a guest in my home. Ironically, Rick Munroe and I are (were) the top posters there. Yet the powers that be felt that they had to get rid of us, their most prolific posters. I have no idea as to why. I've never received an apology nor an explanation.

One valuable example of how this site can come in handy occurred recently when I was planning to rent an apartment in Ipanema. Lurkerspeaks informed me that the Ipanema subway would be closed then. That was very valuable information to have.

Without intending to invite anyone to re-hash this thread, I did read something here in another thread that disturbs me. A poster wrote today: "Ever since Lucky had one of his posts 'rewritten', you have to know that the ass hats are in charge over there..." I write now because it is important to me that what really happened is not lost over time. The above statement is not accurate. No doubt we have all had our posts modified from time to time and were not bothered by it. What was bothersome, and apparently to me alone, was that "daddy" signed into my account, used my password, and posted topics as if he were me. In signing into my account, he not only could post under my name, but he could send private messages as if it were me writing them. I would never know what damage he did because any response would necessarily come to him. I can no longer sign in to my account. But for those who think there might be something sacrosanct about their user account there, get over it. All private messages you send and receive can be read by him. Of course, he banned me "for life" (!) when I complained. Ultimately, he did me a big favor as I was able to break once and for all my connection to that site.

Ah, so now we have hito saying that it is okay to misbehave as much as you want at the theater as long as you don't like the show. Never mind the 1000 people there who do and paid the big bucks to see it. The show was Pippin, btw, one of the most popular shows out now.

Violence ensued if you believe this article from today's NY Post! What is it with people and their phones? cannot they let go for two hours while the rest of us enjoy a show? Last week I had to shush a very well-dressed couple who would not stop talking. It worked, until the guy started getting texts. He would light his phone up in the dark theater, read the message, contemplate it for awhile...then pass it on to his wife for the very same ritual. All the time the phone stayed lit. This must have happened three times before intermission. That's when they moved a seat away from me...thank them! I was still left with the old lady behind me who was sure she was in her living room where she could chat loudly about all she was seeing. Yes, I hushed her at intermission and was surprised to see her actually shut up for the second half. C'mon! I paid some $100 to be there, to see a show, not listen to her. So, back to today's article in the Post. We see it happen from time to time where a performer interrupts the show due to a ringing cell phone. And I'll admit the culprit was once me, with a new cell that did not shut up like the old one did. But going forward, we gotta do better, both in the theater and the movies, or else we will lose the communal experinece of enjoying something together. Today's Post: Theater cell smash By NATALIE O’NEILL Last Updated: 6:19 AM, May 17, 2013 Posted: 2:21 AM, May 17, 2013 Silence your cellphones — or else! A theater critic got so fed up with an audience member’s mid-show texting, he smashed her cellphone — prompting her to smack him at a hot new Manhattan play, sources said. Columnist Kevin Williamson, 40, says he became a manners “vigilante” after he and ushers asked the woman several times to turn off the gadget at “Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812” in the Meatpacking District. “To the theatergoing public of New York — nay, the world — I say: “You’re welcome,’ ” he wrote on the blog The Corner yesterday. Security booted Williamson from the $175 play after he threw the phone — which repeatedly beeped and glowed — against a wall at the pop-up venue on Wednesday. But Williamson said he considers it a form of activism. “I did it to make a statement — but also I was just annoyed,” Williamson told The Post. “I go to the theater every week, and I’m used to bad behavior. But this was over the top. “These are people who are not smart enough to sit through a two-hour play.” Williamson, who writes for the National Review, claims he first politely asked the woman to stop using the phone during a press showing of the play. He told her it was distracting. “So don’t look,” she responded, according to Williamson. He then reminded her of the show’s “no-cellphones policy,” which staffers announced prior to the play, he said. Ushers even asked the woman to turn off the gadget at intermission, according to Howard Kagan, the play’s producer. “We went in and warned her,” he said. “We tried to address the problem without making a scene.” But she continued to text and to chat loudly with friends, Williamson said. That’s when he snapped — snatching the phone and tossing it toward an exit. It hit a curtain and fell to the floor, which damaged the phone, Williamson said. The woman smacked him then ran out — but the play didn’t stop. The dinner-theater-style play opens tonight in a tent-like structure at West 13th and Washington Street. The play is based on a section of the book “War and Peace” and features an electro-pop opera. The woman has not filed a police report, but she threatened to, Williamson said. Producers declined to give her name.

EXPAT, thank you for sharing the story of your week. I know it must have been exceptionally difficult, but you did what had to be done. I hope things work out for both you and your father, but as others have pointed out, a change has occurred and it will be hard to adapt to it, but I have no doubt that you will. (Still retired, but i wanted EXPAT to know that I care about what he is going through.)

You're voting on whether it's all right for us to call each other fag, and I don't think that is something that should be voted on. Your articles want to refer to us as traveling bitches and fags, and that will simply never be okay with me. That you think a majority vote can undo years of fighting gay oppression indicates how far apart we are on this. Thus, have fun with your site but it won't include me.

As the person who stated his opposition to the word fag being used in an article on this site, I find it insulting that my reaction is now being put to a vote. Thank you for allowing me to post on this site, but my retirement is effective now.

Now i am not a fag, just a little fairy. So sorry Oz that you keep needing to come up with names like this to describe your travelers. Why you can't just use adult names that show respect for us I don't know. But, I am beginning to think that I am in the wrong place here.

Amour won for Best Foreign Film at the Oscars tonight. I wasn't watching the Oscars, I was watching Amour. it's the story of an elderly couple in France. The wife suffers a stroke, the husband cares for her. It goes okay until she has a second stroke, and then the caregiving is not so easy. The acting is very good for both leads, but only the wife is up for an Oscar. As of this writing, the award has not been announced. The film does a great job of showing the level of commitment in a relationship that leads one spouse to care for the other. Yet the husband is no spring chicken, and it gets much harder once the second stroke hits. The daughter of the couple is portrayed as distant and unrealistic. The movie raises the question of assisted suicide as, after the first stroke, the wife does not want to go on. After the second stroke the husband doesn't want her to go on either, especially as he sees her deteriorating. It's poignant. The director, in my opinion, should not win any awards. At times the movie moves so slowly as to be painful. Other scene changes are abrupt, and some scenes leave the viewer wondering what he just saw and why it was on the screen. All in all, a good, but not great movie. It's in French with English subtitles, and sometimes none.

The house behind us, completely behind a wall, is undergoing noisy renovations. On the weekend they either put a watchdog in there, or a tape recording of a dog barking that plays endlessly. I heard one of the neighbors yelling at it to "shut up." It did, for all of two minutes. This barking went on all night, or so it seemed. But I fell asleep, realizing that the poor dog couldn't help himself. It probably doesn't hurt that I have two dogs myself. So, when I stopped resisting the barking and just accepted that it was going too happen, did I follow the very same advice that I just called stupid?

Tracie Bennett reprises her tole as Judy Garland in End of The Rainbow, playing March 12- April 21 at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles. I saw the show in New York and loved it. I might see it again. www.centertheatregroup.org/rainbow

The link worked for me, but took a second to load. Too bad, but they don't show the go-go dancer on the story. He must be shy.

See the news story of the ax attack in Phoenix at the Oz Bar!! http://www.towleroad.com/2013/02/go-go-dancer-helps-subdue-ax-wielding-man-in-gay-club.html

Poor Acapulco. It just can't get out of the news! here a guy was trying to keep his Mercedes from being stolen near the princess hotel... ACAPULCO (Reuters) - A Belgian man was shot dead in Mexico's Pacific resort city of Acapulco on Saturday, the latest episode of violence to strike one of the country's most important tourist destinations.

His sequester column: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-will-the-manufactured-crisis-of-sequester/2013/02/22/d22d4466-7c81-11e2-82e8-61a46c2cde3d_story.html

I also went alone the first time I went to Rio. It was fun learning the lay of the land, so to speak, but on subsequent trips I had more fun. tagasian, I hope that you have a great trip.

Thanks, EXPAT. That did allow me to view the article. Since point holders have the opportunity to book through 2015 under current rules, they should be able to use their points before moving to a chain that values them more.

Or everything they hear. But Americans are notoriously ignorant when it comes to history, so I say Hollywood has an obligation to get it right. I know, I am outvoted.

I am not a reappropriator. Some words deserve to live in shame.

Once I had sex with a man, I never again went with a woman. I'm gay, and proud of it. I realize that diversity is to be valued, so if your boat floats with women once in a while, then sail on, my congratulations.