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Well, I did look, and even laughed. But some are poignant, some are sad, and some are inspiring. 19. A Syrian refugee vs. Mickey Mouse

You could buy this deluxe hand massager at $129.99, plus S&H. Or, you could simply place one hand on top of the other and rub gently. A mitten would do the job as well.

Gee whiz! Loy Kratong is the excuse that all of those lurkers have been using too. They just can't delurk until Loy Kratong is over. I guess the flood of new posters begins...now!

I'm with hito. Why start my day with disturbing images? I'd rather look at Cam4.

Okay, I will tell you right from the start that this interview is from 2010, but it was new to me. If you have seen it already, my apology. http://www.towleroad.com/2010/07/an-interview-with-bel-amis-george-duroy.html George Duroy (Bel Ami) makes the point that while most of his performers are straight-identified, one can always hope: On the other hand, I can't imagine that a really STRAIGHT man would be able to perform the way our models perform, no matter what they think they are. I, for one, certainly wouldn't be able to be "straight for pay". We live in a world where traditional labels don't apply anymore, partly as a result of gay emancipation. Being gay is not taboo anymore, and I'd say at least thirty percent of city boys in the Central European region happily experiment with their sexuality. Many enjoy it, but they wouldn't think of themselves as being gay. They simply mingle freely, going with their girlfriends to gay bars and fondling other boys in front of girls. And now tell me—what is their orientation? Sometimes I joke, saying that very few gay men are so enthusiastic during sex with other boys as these "straight" boys. I suspect that gay men lost their monopoly on gay sex as a part of their social acceptance. Or that experimenting with all-male sex is simply "in". So, if you are imagining a Bel Ami model stuffing your stocking this Christmas, it isn't outside the realm of the completely possible. But for me, the interview is an interesting look into a world I only see from the outside.

You haven't seen the windows after I wash them!

The website boyculture.com has selected history's 50 hottest actors. I can't put them all here, so go their site, enjoy, and come back here to tell us which one you like the best. I did try to post one of them, a JPEG image, but this site says it doesn't allow those. I never can figure out which pix I can post and which I cannot. But, I would have posted the Tony Danza shot. (This came from another website.) http://www.boycultur...ors-a-list.html

The service industry is not. I tried to call the NY Times customer service. I was told that my wait period would be 3 minutes. After 13 minutes they disconnected me. Then I called Express Scripts to update my credit card. The machine got all of the information, but could not get the expiration date right. So, I followed the instructions on the bill and went to their website. First I had to register. I did all of that, and the response came back that I could not register. I had to go through United Health's website. So, I logged in there and was met with the response that an error code prevented me from transferring to the prescription site. Then I called AMEX to cancel a credit card. The card offered a companion certificate, but flights are never available, or require you to fly for hours to cities you don't want to visit. I went through their totally annoying phone menu, finally was able to ask for a representative. There I was told that my wait period would be 4 minutes, but they disconnected me after 2. I kid you not. All of this happened today. At this point, I am just exhausted!

Well, they are done. It took them 100 minutes, times two guys, equal 200 minutes. Roughly sixty dollars an hour. Not bad for manual labor. And yes, I felt the need to tip. 15% seemed adequate give the high cost of the labor. If they were illegal aliens, I have no idea and did not care. My gardener is Mexican as are the annual house cleaners. (The rest of the year we do it ourselves.) The house cleaners are cheaper as they charge roughly $20 per hour each. I will ask them if they do windows!

My window cleaners arrived. Last time I had them done , it was two gay guys. They quoted me $90 which I raised to $100 since I thought that they under-priced. I added a $20 tip at the end. This time I chose a professional window cleaning company. The two gay guys are out of the business. I got a quote of $180, obviously higher, but the neighbors windows sparkle. She had a nice plump happy girl do hers. So I get two young guys, and they are friendly enough, but give the impression that this may be a career opportunity for them. My intuition tells me that a tip will be expected despite the higher cost. I guess this is just life today. The other day the phone guy at Costco spent some time fixing my new phone up even though it was a replacement phone. I broke the one he sold me. I had no trouble giving him a $20 bill for his help, so why does it annoy me to have to tip the window cleaners? (I know, I know- I don't have to.) I always thought that when it was a fixed price, that that was it. But life works that way. These guys probably see only a portion of that $180, so in essence they are working as cheaply as the two gay guys did. No, neither is cute, so I don't have that excuse. But first, let's see if the windows sparkle...

The only thing that interests me about this is the thought of William shooting the baby-making sperm. The royal sperm, as it were.

I enjoyed the talents of the lead boy in the opening number, but I just don't enjoy drag shows, so the rest of it was a bit of fast-forwarding for me. But obviously everyone worked hard to get ready for the show.

My carrier is Verizon.

Actually, my plan is $7 a month and $99 charge on a claim. It is also with Asurion.

So who is preparing the lawsuit- you or a lawyer?

I didn't know that you were out of the USA. Where are you these days?

hito now speaks in the royal "we." Some lawyers!

Well, I won't thank you then. On Wednesday I dropped my Android onto a stone floor and the screen shattered. Because I had bought the insurance, I filed a claim on Thursday. On Friday a new phone arrived at my house. I was pretty impressed with the service! (lookin, thank you for reading this post.)

"So I'm preparing a lawsuit against a major bank." I did not know that you were a lawyer.

Has the thread been hijacked? Either way, I do want to mention how good the food is at the Madonna Inn restaurant. And Dance night is loads of fun: http://www.calpolyballroom.org/slo_dance_frameset.html

Predictive spelling has changed so many words on my Ipad to to use the word they think I wanted or thought I should use. It's a pain to keep going back and correcting their changes. My Samsung Galaxy is worse. As I am typing, they keep changing the word to what they think i might want, and they get so far afield, that sometimes I forget the word i actually wanted. And today I wanted to go to the online Bay Area Reporter, the weekly San Francisco gay newspaper. So I typed in ebar.com, and they came up and said: "It seems you meant to go to ebay.com. Do you want us to block malicious websites for you? Are those two questions even related?

it occurs to me that maybe the lurkers, while liking photos of naked men as much as the next lurker, might feel that boytoy.com is all about hot pix. We sure have enough of them, But we have little in the way of substantive conversation or dialogue. Anyone want to talk about that?

(My HP Cue-Scanning Flow Component Has stopped Working. Whatever that means.)

We also work with whom we have. That's why this Delurking contest could be beneficial to the site. I often see many names logged in that have zero posts. But why not post? The more, the merrier, they say. Too often the message board can be a lonely place to play. So, come on, lurkers. Let's hear from you!

Inspired by Oz, I went through my photos and found the best ones that I would like to share with you. That's when I learned that my scanner no longer worked! But, thanks, Oz. I sure got to re-live some grand memories looking through those photos.