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Gcursor makes me think of someone who swears a lot, especially saying G-Damn it!

AIDS has been such a big factor in my gay life that it is hard to imagine that so many young people today know little about the epidemic. That's one reason why the producers of the AIDS play The Normal Heart are offering tickets for $30 to those under 30 on Thursday nights. Here are some reactions from guys who were just babies when AIDS hit: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/24/theater/young-gays-on-broadways-normal-heart-revival.html?ref=arts

I don't know why the Brazilophiles are so up in arms about this. It's all a matter of where one thinks his vacation funds will get the most bang for their buck. Sure, Brazil was a bargain for a while, but now that it is not, people may choose to go other places. Why get so defensive about Brazil? The fact is that once you have been there a few times, the novelty wears off. That's not true for me in New York or Thailand. Montreal became boring after several visits, but I don't see Montreal fans posting such defensive threads. Get over it already!

You have to read this to believe it. Just when you thought society was becoming more enlightened: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/06/21/national/a044550D67.DTL

Well, think of the Pub as a playground. This is where I play. When there is no one here to play with, it is no fun. Especially now, when people are out enjoying the warmer weather. But I can't do that. It was 113 here today. So,I know that when people come here, they want to see something interesting. If they don't,they don't return.So I do my part to keep things interesting, and I rely on others to do their part. It's just that right now things are slow. So sure, I encourage others to join in. We all profit when they do. But one person cannot carry the load, and readers would get tired if all they saw were the posts of one person. So, it's a team effort. Join in and we all profit! Yoo-hoo you! (Note that shepards ignored me!)

Since shepards is currently on line, I bump this in the case that he might see it and respond!

We have decided not to go to Brazil, and are going to New York City for a short stay instead. Thailand is still on our minds, and if we can get a good consolidator fare, then we will go there at a later date.

Why not just wait for it to come out in black and white?

The Best of times is now. La Cage Aux Folles. Empty chairs at empty tables. Les Miz Would you light my candle? Rent

How would you like to go in for a steam and see guys getting it on? How would you like to go for a steam and find that you just sat in someone's cum? The steam room is for steaming, not sex. I've been to many gay gyms and just gave up on the steam room as it is all about sex. And trust me, they don't clean up afterwards. You can be sitting there peacefully when cum starts flying at you.

Nobody answered my question despite 52 views. So I guess I am wrong in thinking he looks like Obama.

My friend may have liked the Green Lantern movie, but the bf and I did not. The 3-D was the cheapest I have seen yet. Ryan is not right for this part, although still adorable. But the movie looked cheap and did not have a lot of intelligence in its planning.

From SFgate.com: Folks at the beautifulpeople.com will tell you that hanging with the beautiful crowd has its perks - until an angry ex-employee crashes the pretty-people party with 30,000 of his or her ugliest friends. The exclusive dating site reports it was targeted by a virus aptly called "Shrek" last month, allowing thousands of so-called "ugly people" to set up profiles on the site without approval. Usually, the site's members vote on whether applicants are worthy of a beautifulpeople.com profile. "We got suspicious when tens of thousands of new members were accepted over a six-week period, many of whom were no oil painting," site director Greg Hodge said in a prepared statement. (If you think that's a little odd, read on.) About 30,000 users reportedly got a not-so-polite rejection email informing them their profiles would be shuttered. "Sorry to inform you, you're not beautiful enough," the email stated, according to one report. "We have sincere regret for the unfortunate people who were wrongly admitted to the site and who believed, albeit for a short while, that they were beautiful," Hodge said. "It must be a bitter pill to swallow, but better to have had a slice of heaven then never to have tasted it at all." The flippant tone of the statement - and beautifulpeople.com's history of publicity stunts - has some calling the site out for faking the virus. After all, this is the same site that once falsely reported it was making users reapply for membership after the holiday season because too many "let themselves go." Graham Cluley, a blogger for Naked Security, wrote: It's a fantastic piece of chicanery, of course, designed to boost awareness of the dating website, get them many thousands of pounds of free publicity with little risk of damage to their reputation. But beautifulpeople.com managers maintain that's not the case. They're blaming a disgruntled ex-employee for the "Shrek" virus. From the site's statement: The origin of the 'Shrek Virus' is still being investigated internally. It was initially thought to be one of the 5.5 million BeautifulPeople.com rejects, but further investigations point to a former employee who placed the virus before leaving the team in May. Despite wreaking havoc with the application process, member privacy and security was never breached. And that's just convenient enough to make the world skeptical. Beautifulpeople.com proudly claims to have rejected about 5.5 million applicants. But now: "BeautifulPeople.com has set up a hotline on 1 (800) 791-0662 to help recently rejected applicants deal with the hard news and can give tips for those wishing to re-apply. " I'm guessing tip No. 1 goes a little something like this: "Become prettier." Posted By: Amy Rolph (Email) | June 20 2011 at 03:21 PM Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/hottopics/detail?entry_id=91399#ixzz1PrMJepMe

The gloves are off in Wasilla, Alaska. Despite taking him to the Republican convention and then getting engaged to him again after a break-up, Bristol Palin now claims that she was raped by Levi Johnston. Not only that, but: She blasts him as "the gnat named Levi Johnston constantly spreading false accusations against our family" and calls him a self-involved slacker "who cheated on me about as frequently as he sharpened his hockey skates." (AP) Upon hearing that she was pregnant, Plain claims that Levi responded: "Better be a (bleeping) boy." The AP article goes on to say that "Her reaction to learning that her son's father had posed nude for Playgirl: "Puke!"' The young teen abstinence advocate goes on to reveal that on ABC's "Dancing With the Stars," as each week passed and she survived her rivals "got a little colder." No doubt not as cold as Levi will be on hearing her rape claim!

Just in time for Father's Day! Well, doesn't Nicholas Sagar, a (straight) London model look like Obama?

My friend who saw The green Lantern loved it. he says Ryan Reynolds is charming and sexy. Too bad it tanked at the box office. I would have thought Reynolds was a better draw.

I saw The Tree of Life today, and sat through all 2:18 of it. Parts of it are pretentious, pompous, preposterous- take your pick. In his NY Times review, A.O. Scott, who otherwise liked the movie, concludes: "But the imagination lives by risk, including the risk of incomprehension. Do all the parts of “The Tree of Life” cohere? Does it all make sense? I can’t say that it does. I suspect, though, that sometime between now and Judgment Day it will." So maybe I will change my mind on Judgment Day, but for now I cannot recommend this movie. I did like the parts where Malick stuck with the O'Brien family. How he worked a dinosaur into that escapes me.

Hans Falluda's Everyman Dies Alone is a great book, saved from the war, about life in Berlin during the war for the average man. For some reason, I have read a lot about this era...I guess because it is of great interest and because we try to understand it. Let us know how you like the Moorehouse book.

I know that some here are fathers. Oliver, Tomcal and KyTop come to mind, and I have heard them speak of how valuable their children are to them. I have no doubt that the reverse is true. Fatherhood was not for me. I know many gay men get married and have children, but once I realized that I was gay, I never went with a woman again. But I think it can be a pretty good thing to have children who make you proud. In a certain sense I miss that, but hey, I am not going to start now. One thing for sure, all of us have fathers, some living and some not. My father passed 24 years ago, but I remember him today, among many days. He supported my coming out before most others did. And, for all of those sugar daddies out there, hey, take the day off. Give the dough to me instead!

That's the title of an op-ed piece in today's NY Times, and it does ring a bell with me. It seems that people cannot just give to charity, they have to make it fun. Well, okay. But then big overhead costs arise to accommodate the walkers, the runners, the cyclists. Organizations form to further this means of fund raising. Salaries start to be paid, and suddenly travel across the country becomes important to the administrators. The, on some occasions, ego gets involved. The race suddenly becomes about the runner, the walker, the cyclist. Look what a good person I am! Look how much money I raised. God forbid, but people and businesses are using the events to advertise themselves. They can't give money if they don't get something out of it. In the op-ed article, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/opinion/19gup.html?ref=opinion the author raises interesting questions. "Why are benefactors moved by the sight of urban hordes headed for the suburbs and back?" He discusses the man hours involved and wonders how those same hours could have benefited the poor or other group with direct services- houses built, public spaces improved, meals delivered to shut-ins. It used to be, he says, that a raffle or auction could win support without all of the overhead. The author is fair to point out that a donor may not be so willing to give to charity, but he might be willing to support a friend who is in the walk, etc,. And, he concedes, this sort of fund-raising appears to be the future direction that fund-raising is taking. So, if this is what it takes, he (and I ) do not oppose it. But, for me, I sure wish people were more interested in reading the audits and making sure the money they raised is well-spent. I remember the AIDS Cycle scandal, which is the predecessor of the current AIDS Ride- an attempt to clean up a scandal. I am against the huge salaries that sometimes "become necessary to draw the right kind of leaders." I think my feelings stem from the early days of AIDS. Gay men gathered together (and lesbians, for sure) to help the needy any way they could. Food delivery, house cleaning, driving to appointments with doctors, hospital visits, nursing the sick. These man hours went directly to the needy. No overhead. Now the director of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation makes over $400,000 a year. No wonder they had to encourage these mass fund raising efforts! Just don't forget the sick and the needy when you are so busy raising funds from people who will sponsor your walk, etc. It would be a shame if they were forgotten in the hullabaloo.

The author on the Jon Stewart Daily Show advocated recycling urine as drinking water. it gets purified first, although scientists say urine is already purified by the kidneys. So what is this opposition to finding alternate sources of food? People eat lots of weird things.

Lookin at the registration page, it seems that even Silver Members have free blow up privileges: SILVER MEMBERS - Free Member Privileges Plus : - Capability to enlarge escort pics (reviews or profiles) - Advanced Searches feature - Up to 15 Favorites on your favorites list - Up to 15 messages read and sent per 24 hours - Up to 4 IM's at one time I've seen Lookin- he deserves at least a Silver Membership. Could we get this rectified?

The world needs to be innovative on its food supply. Just the other night on The Daily Show, there was an author who has written about the coming water shortage, and he too advocates water made right in your own home. Burgers have always been an American favorite, and with July 4th around the corner, well barbecues across the country will be grilling burgers.

Prominent poster Lookin has lost his privilege to blow up photos of escorts on their profiles, and there is quite a back-up now lined up for him to blow: Come on, let's get Lookin back to his blow up privileges!

It was 40 years ago today that the country's president, Richard M. Nixon, declared the wildly successful war on drugs. Today drug use is virtually nonexistent. No longer do thugs hang out on street corners peddling their evil wares, and no longer are pot heads walking free. The war, which has cost the country only about 75 billion dollars annually, could be declared over any day now by President Obama. In fact, he no longer even uses the term "war on drugs." 11% of California's budget now goes to prisons, compared to 7.5% to schools, yet the increased expenses have brought peace to Mexico as the drug cartels found the markets dried up here in the US. A drug-free rally to celebrate the birthday will be held this afternoon by tens of people at the Starbucks on the National Mall. Free samples of caffeine-laced drinks, the only drug currently available to the American people, will be given to the first 25 in attendance. More information can be found here, including a detailed analysis on the war: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Drugs