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It's 82 and sunny in Palm Springs. It would be warmer except that it is winter here.

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Best wishes to all of the contestants. I will not be entering the contest as my prize will be seeing the increase in quality posts from all of you!

When I was nine years old, I saw the movie Old Yeller 4 times. It was the classic boy and his dog movie. (SPOILER ALERT) The movie Warhorse is similar, substituting a horse, of course, and a happier ending. I saw it this afternoon and liked it, but felt rather manipulated as it is designed to bring a tear to the eye. Tears, I expected. Drooling I didn't. Jeremy Irvine plays the boy, and boy, is he hot. The production values are also much improved since old Yeller. How could you not root for him to be reunited with his horse? I just wanted to hug him and tell him that the ending was going to be great. Is it a super wonderful movie? Well, I didn't think so, again the manipulation with all the orchestra clanging, and the wondrous vistas and colors. A bit much, but not a turn off. My interest was all, well, a lot, in Irvine. According to the Hollywood Reporter: The 21-year-old, a student at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, lacked enough acting experience for the role. (His biggest role at the time: playing a tree in the chorus of the Royal Shakespeare Company.) "I had a couple of months of going in to audition two or three times a week, sometimes doing videotape and knowing it would be shown to Steven," Irvine told THR. "It was quite intense." Irvine, who auditioned six times before winning the role, waited weeks following his first audition to hear back. "I got a call at about 8 p.m. or 9 p.m., saying, 'Can you meet Steven for tea in a hotel in London tomorrow morning?' I did what any actor would do: I freaked out," he recalled. (end quote) So, imagine yourself a casting director, seeing Jeremy and the likes of him for weeks on end. I think I would have to retire... Interview with Jeremy. I think they pumped his lips up for the movie: Jeremy Interviewed

I figured as much, and I realize how easy it is for retired folks like me to wish others spent more time here. But I value the site, enjoy it, and always want to have more interesting posts to read. So I ask. You know what they say, ask and you shall receive. If only I had asked that go-go boy at Mickys...

The Hispanic go-go boy at Micky's on Friday night had a very fine ass, the kind that goes with champagne as it was bubbly. And, on Cam4 last night, a guy who says that he is a US Marine had a super fine ass. As a matter of fact, he also has the best body I have ever seen on Cam4, and that is saying something. He claimed to be straight, but was fucking a rubber replica of a male ass, which, he said, was sent to him by a loyal fan. He was on for hours, wearing a mask to keep his fellow Marines unaware...! They'd recognize his body in a second.

Telly Leung is one of the "faces to watch" in today's LA Times. The write-up includes information about a show he is working on for the Old Globe Theater in San Diego, yet the Old Globe website says nothing about it: Leung will go from his current engagement on Broadway in "Godspell" to an ambitious and risky project taking shape at San Diego's Old Globe: a musical about the internment of Japanese American citizens during World War II. In "Allegiance," written by Jay Kuo and Lorenzo Thione, Leung plays a young man (George Takei of "Star Trek" plays the character later in life and Lea Salonga is another star) forced into the Heart Mountain camp in Wyoming, where he becomes a writer for the official camp newspaper who experiences tangled loyalties. Leung may be familiar to sharp-eyed "Glee" fans -- he is a member of the Warblers, the show choir at the private school the characters of Kurt and Blaine attended in the second season. He also played Angel is the production of "Rent" that Neil Patrick Harris directed at the Hollywood Bowl in 2010.--Kelly Scott

Hmmm...the menu heading reads Lucky Loses One Finger. No, I still have eleven! But to answer your question, why yes, the holidays did ruin my weight losing efforts. Finally I had reached the 20 pound weight loss mark. But now, I am back to losing only 15 pounds. And Oliver arrives a month from today! Can I lose ten pounds by then? If your answer is yes, then you haven't seen the Christmas candy still lying around my house! Thankfully the bf helped out by single-handedly eating almost a whole box of See's candy.

As some might have noticed, I have been encouraging folks to post more, and more often, to keep MER an exciting place for all of us to visit. I even took a short holiday to allow others to get a word in. There are 27 unpinned threads on the main menu page of the Hooboy Pub. (I eliminated the banned threads by Simon.) 8 of these threads are started by BiBottom Boy. Ten are started by administrators Tampa Yankee and Totally Oz. The last response in 20 of the 29 threads is by BiBottom Boy. So, how is this equal dispersion working? Well, not so well, although I congratulate One Finger for his efforts to increase his posting. When you look at the above statistic, you see that just a few people seem to be carrying the site. And if, by chance, you thought one or more of them was not a very interesting poster, then there is even less here to attract your interest, and, by implication, the interest of others coming to the site. We did have some new members recently, but they didn't stay long. Anyone wonder why? Many of us enjoy having this forum available as an alternative to other gay websites. But I don't see how it can be maintained by such a small group of regular posters. So, without any hectoring or badgering, I am simply trying to, once again, make the simple point that you need to give some of your own effort to maintain a lively site worth visiting regularly. In fairness, I should mention that I am focusing here on the Pub, but the other forums do have some greater diversity, even if not the readership the Pub gets. In sum, and without any attempt to hector or badger, I would just kindly suggest that as a New Year's resolution, you decide that you want the site to thrive and make a solid effort to add more content to the site. More reviews, more threads, and more responses to the posts that your fellow members are adding each day. Happy New Year, then, to those who make the commitment to the continuing vitality of the Male Escort review website.

The owner of a gay website recently announced his intention to move to Portland, Oregon, thus making it the inside favorite to win this contest next year. I like Portland too, except it is a bit wet and insular.

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Yes, it is true that Adriano has been a great poster with much to offer, and I join in the welcome. That said, we often get some new faces here who do not receive any kind of welcome. Perhaps they would stay longer if they did.

I would like to let Lookin have the last word here, as his word is simply gorgeous. But I need to say that I had always considered Adam Smith a treasure of this website, and was dismayed to hear that he had found other pastures to plow. Perhaps he is making the first step in returning to MER. That would be quite the occasion.

"I am also sure that our spanish speaking poster (episevilla) is quite correct in boys being available without much in compensation if you speak Spanish." Without meaning to step on anyone's toes, what would be the reason that men who, and let's be frank, need to pay for sex, are somehow desired for free by entering Colombia? Are Colombian youth just that horny? Or does the older man take on a different attraction in that culture? I mean, let's face it, we don't want to exploit anyone. Most of us would be willing to pay. Perhaps it is cultural, as I often found in Mexico. The boy doesn't want to ask for money, lest he be considered a prostitute, but he will accept a taxi fare that more than covers the price of a taxi. Am I close?

At biddingfortravel.com, a website advising on Priceline bids, one poster reported getting the Holiday Inn Silom next month for 4 nights at $49 a night. That's pretty good, and indicates other bargains are there to be found.

Well, then, so be it! I'll have a double, my good man. Take that, hotel! (Hey, I can only do one cameo today, so it has to be fun.)

Can you imagine how boring Flagstaff would be as a place to live?

gcursor, I hope that you had a very nice Christmas.

With the new government in Myanmar I am hoping things will continue to progress. I hope to spend a few days there next month. Does anyone here have any direct knowledge on what that might be like...I mean either real experience or knowing someone who has such. I have walked across the border in northern Thailand into Myanmar, but they only let you go so far. The people kept their distance, but smiled and waved at me. It was like stepping back into the fifties. I'm excited to think I might see more. Years ago a tour bus I was taking from Shenzen to Guandong China stopped in this little village for a lunch at a restaurant which was behind a wall. I took one look at the food and left the place, walking to the main street. I became quite the attraction as people on their bikes- there were hardly any cars- all turned around at least once to get a better look at me, a tall white guy very rare in those parts, at least at that time. My guess is that people in Myanmar might keep their distance too.

I have been stopped at the old Crowne Plaza on Silom, now the Holiday Inn. They wanted $40 and registration, but the guy did not have ID. I had security come to my room at the Narai, wondering if I had a woman in the room. He insisted on checking after I said no, and found my hunky guy in his undies. Again, $40 would have left the guy in the room, but again, he had no ID. I stayed at a hotel off Sukhumvit where the manager was a friend of my friend, and he assured me I could bring a guy to my room. So I did, and escorted the guy out when done.(I can still remember how nice his body felt!) Some guy followed me back up on the elevator. He pushed a different floor than I did, but when we got to my floor he got off and said he was security and insisted on checking my room to see if I had a guy in there. Well, of course the guy had just left, so that was that. The next day I asked the manager why this happened, and he insisted, after investigating, that no security from the hotel had checked my room. I never learned who the mystery man was. The Montien hotel would never let a guy past the entrance at night. So I pretty much learned to like the Suriwong hotel.

"Now I don't worry about the future; I just enjoy the present." That must be another Charlie posting on the other site about how worried he is that he will have no one to care for him when he gets old and feeble.

Next month the Le Meridien hotel is available at $106 a night, no breakfast. The location simply can't be beat. So often I would like to go back to the hotel for awhile, and this makes that so easy. I don't bring boys to the rooms anyway as I usually am expected to share the wealth with the hotel, and I don't like to do that.

I used it earlier this year for a hotel in Bangkok. I got the Millenium Hilton, on the river, for $100 a night. That was a bargain then, but with the floods I see hotel rates down for this January.

Dorky Lucky is enjoying temps of 74 and bright blue skies today...a far contrast with that cloudy, rainy day in New York. I won the trip for selling newspaper subscriptions, so went on a bus with many other young boys. Everyone raced for cigarettes and Playboy magazines as soon as they got their hotel room keys. I wouldn't have either dreamed of or dared buying a Physique magazine. I discovered those much later.

I saw Other Desert Cities last month and agree that Rachel Griffiths was excellent. The entire play, which takes place in Palm Springs, is wonderful. It got better as it went along, something that always appeals to me. It will play in LA Nov 20 - Dec 20, 2012 at the Mark Taper Forum.