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  1. Ooohhhh ... that word that is in-our-face viral. Like, Who knew? Schoolmarms are also net-essential. Maybe more so than ... what was it? ... auntie Meme. Now, she can be fun and knew how to get it out of her system.
  2. Further to that, creativity can better be channeled into interesting sexy anecdotes. I am sure there are many attention-grabbing stories that highlight our common purpose.
  3. PS, I meant elusive (mispelled). Yes, please do share so we can gather clues. Wish I had been on to this during a very slow 2 weeks in Fortaleza.
  4. All that is explained is a word in French I understand to mean 'same', and I am the one explaining it, so the thrust is plural similarity and commonality among more than one nut, greater than one shell?? Trying to put it together. Who went the extra mile to go out and find a subject that has transformed this thread into a portrait gallery that is all over the place? Very hard to read, not so difficult to read. Sometimes that level of counterfeit gif artistry is pitch perfect funny. Otherwise, laughable. I repeat: patience is key. No need to roll over so fast to illustrate my initial point. Leave a little of the work to me. This is being made easier than I thought. Just waiting on the one busy with multiple roles as advertised in LAMD direction. My patience is not tried.
  5. Riobard

    1968

    Parker Posey plays the Smith villain-y role in the new Netflix reboot.
  6. Apparently some people make a living on Instagram, with vast followers, but more product placement than Youtube tally payments. Then you have millions of wannabes with little life direction who want to cash in. I think the money symbol represents a desire to convey they are keen to parlay their time, which they have lots of, into profit, which is illusive. What that employment might entail is something you have to delicately explore. It is hard to make symbol generalizations.
  7. I will pick it up here, not hijack a thread. On many social forums exist fringe trolls. These bottom-fed miscreants share one purpose. The aim is to criticize, embarrass, or shut down other members. They are usually not well organized as a subgroup, each attempting to stage their own usually futile attempt at a mandibular paralysis hex on another member, sometimes desparately trying to recruit support, often demonstrating antipathy even among themselves. The digs can range from subtle to unambiguously obnoxious. I find it fascinating as a theme but usually droll. The central MO seems to be fruitless vying and lobbying for control. Oddly, once in a while these interlocuters contribute something of interest and value ... you might want to reserve your overall judgement about them, until, etc. There are two fundamental ways to respond. First, ignore and avoid engagement, wait and see, shrug it off. Second, experiment with overtly holding your ground and critiquing the editorializing, gentle or more vigourous pushback, reciprocating the less than welcoming tone with a dose of the same medicine. When someone is a pill, dishing back to them is tempting. Even the most guileless here can get their hackles up and behave against type, that is how pervasive and insidious the sick dynamics. That often results in a cascade effect as others weigh in and try to sort alliances. Before you can say boytoy, an elaborate set of overt or subtle vendettas sets all of us back on our heels and permeates completely neutral topics. Look, this is likely to keep occurring. Think letters/comments to news articles. Who sucks up disagreement any more? Already I sense some readers making stabbing motions with their sharp red pens. So impatient, the same lack of delay tolerance that prompts seemingly random nastiness in the strangest of thread places. [OMG WTF why did he use that word or phrase oh me oh my I have an 8-second attention span and it takes 9 seconds to look up a word in my dictionary ... oh kentucky fried krispy kreme kreist I don't have a thesaurus just an emoji pictionary. But, like, it only takes a split-second to be a cunt] I have not met anyone here. It is not a vital source of social oxygen, but I sometimes find enough enjoyment to participate at various degrees. My approach is friendly but not friends. If I call something out it is because it grinds against my principles. If anyone thinks a personal attack is of any consequence you are sadly mistaken. This forum is a mere sliver of the real world. I write this as an attempt to center my own thoughts on the unusually extra intense level of antagonistic spiciness that has flavoured our topics of late, as much as an attempt to offer some perspective that may be useful to some of you within the LAMD heading. Oh, and did I forget to say that nobody here is my editor. If you want to be my editor we can have a private discussion about my writing goals and what wages and benefits you have in store to provide.
  8. I like ginger Brit Lewis a lot ... Band of Brothers, Forsyte Saga, Homeland, Wolf Hall, and Billions. And here he is in production playing Rob Ford, mayor of Toronto when I was living there and he was publicly open about getting chemotherapy across the street. Or did Chuck get the edge on Bobby, forcing him on the lam? M
  9. You are killing me!!!!!!! 110% what I go after ... counting down the months!
  10. Someone directly asked about events this weekend ... I had happened to see one earlier today, on netgay. It is when MR is closed. It got somewhat "overposted", true. I thought visitors might like to know about these regular events, and it is rare to find porn clips. If you still think it is irrelevant, so be it. I would be happy to censor it if I could. I also grasp now that the question seemed to be directed to you specifically. So that is wtf ... you be the judge. You asked, you also made a valid suggestion I won't re-post it. Members here can look these things up on netgay. That site is referenced here a few times. I initially mentioned the model in the ad to explain the absence of his hole on Sunday. He may be at nearby Sao Bento church services. What is in the water lately? Not cachaça.
  11. Carioca Metro/VLT, or Sete de Decembro VLT is even a little closer.
  12. David McIntosh ... strikes me as a bit dunderheaded. Has been in a Jennifer Hudson track vid.
  13. I have not been to these ... there is a blogspot, and a few short ass-fuck clips from the xnxx vid site. The model in this photo is a Brit, just the usual ad agenda.
  14. Sounds idyllic ... did not know you had some experience around there. There is progressively more press about these underdiscovered treasures. I hear Lviv Ukraine is nice.
  15. No surprise a quarter century on Netflix picks him up. If a certain clever, genteel, North Carolinian writer is tuning in here ... greetings and salutations! But maybe the moon is a bit of a reach in this regard.
  16. Also aware of the trends and dangers Gotti refers to, they influence my decisions. The woman who died was killed because the patrolling police elected to use the tourist vehicle for target practice when the driver got confused and drove through an ambiguous checkpoint. My greatest fear is buying it prematurely because of someone's sheer stupidity ... poor judgment, someone driving while intexticated, inability to see grey, anything like that. Also, I simply do not know if a community rep is a prepackaged talking head or a more spontaneously recruited addition to the tour. Are they a fundamentalist radical homophobe at the same time they lament the challenges and governmental/societal treatment of the poor? How safe would it be to drill down provocatively, as I am wont to do? The tourist mishap is rare ... that and other factors are filters I employ looking at the menu.
  17. Sorry, I just meant it is not my cup of tea. I think there are two camps, those into it and those not. There is rich cultural heritage there. The tours are educational. While these areas are easy to learn about by reading, you may be someone who would enjoy it as a sensory experience. It is not that I avoid that dimension. I sidle up to the Gamboa rise regularly by the aerial tram station but go no further than the base, though I have a reason to be there unavoidably. I have also been to live, very moving performances of the Maré Youth Orchestra. I thought you were possibly foregoing some guided tours and there are many other things to see and sweeping views to be had. Don't let me sway you. You are not alone in keeping it on the bucket list. A lot of things can be done without a formal tour but there may be comfort in a new place picking from the professional excursions available. I subscribe to the local news there. It naturally influences my impressions but, like anywhere else, highlights ths bad incidents, eg tensions between neighbourhoods and military police. Nobody can easily drive a truck viciously into a large gathering of people in a favela.
  18. Also my first gay book when the 1st in the series was published beyond the 'zine stages, but just as I launched into big city life and realized San Francisco and New York might be more interesting than the OK place I landed. Then Kramer's Faggots ... perhaps a little more jarring than Maupin fare. But who had much time for books competing with tea dance?! I suspect Faggots in Alabama was shelved under fireplace fuel.
  19. These 3 will put you into Cyrillic territory language-wise, extra-alert territory regarding non-paid hook-ups, and unchartered territory hooker-wise. I believe some eastern European countries are lovely to visit if sex is not among the foremost goals on the agenda. My mantra would be: If you cannot unearth much information on your host, walk within strict lines as a guest. I may have been spared a very private remote Costa Rican burial years ago when my head counselled my dick just short of putting it on a rickety bus accompanied by a rough-looking Nicaraguan hustler to the barrio he suggested for an assignation. Soon after I met a family (mother-son) while exploring Fortuna near Arenal volcano, and the unemployed young man was commissioned to rent some horses and guide me on a DIY jungle waterfall excursion. Platonic but so very enjoyable. The lesson for me ... compartmentalization. The suggestions about the tried and true are repeated here because of their truth. Dream in one place, live the dream in another place, and stave off flatlining.
  20. Correction: Elio ... has all the letters Oliver has, wheras Elias is more in tune with the antiquities theme.
  21. It is interesting to witness the culturally based liberal use of terms and worthwhile to give credit, as you have, to their capacity to make distinctions between colloquial usage and more conventional understandings of shared blood.
  22. A really good clinical primer on family secrets and their consequences would be found in Ackerman Institute's Evan Imber Black's work. She covers a broad range of typical related themes that shape family dynamics.
  23. The proof is only in the pudd, but aren't viable DNA samples hard to cum by in establishments such as Lagoa?
  24. Well, they are British [grin] but a lot of families everywhere are not that open. I am just halfway through, had other things occupying me, and I get eye strain at times that is less bothersome off paper. But I, too, liked Part 1 and got ahead of myself. Also working my way across a few other really long novels. The father-son motifs do not mirror Elias-MrPerlman, that's for sure. Different strokes of inadequacies for different folks. If memory serves me from previous works, Hollinghurst's style is to let the reader fill in the gaps while he time-travels with each subsequent section weaving in some of the characters from the previous. To me, it is a balance of plot and interesting on-point interior and internal characterizations. He varies sentence structure at times from the norm which stalls me a little, thwarting my bad habit of skimming. The impression given is a great deal of thoughtful deliberation. The Dax homestead Cranley Gdns bordering Kensington and Earlscourt is just a few blocks east of where Villa Gianni house of boys now sits. My father was stationed in WW2 nearby the Fulham area where the art restoration shop is. It does help to be a homosexual insider reading the book, as some things are not described on-the-nose.
  25. You do realize in your new family therapist role, sanddunes, it is considered bad form to fuck all the session participants.
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