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Oops, hit report instead of quote... So, Gale or Peeta?

I've been pleasantly surprised to find people who find me attractive, but can't imagine how fucked up you'd have to be to be on either side of the 'gainer' fetish... Now that I've lost a lot of weight I'm stuck in between... had one or two people wish I was heavier! Don't suppose excess skin is actually a fetish of a bunch of hot young WeHo clones...?

It's not a matter of people not being able to seek it out, it's a matter of it being worked into curriculums and assemblies in the off chance it gives bullies, or maybe more likely, bystanders, reason to think and maybe act differently.

Should I know who is this is? I didn't just lose my gay card, did I? Whomever he is, I think he's pretty damn cute!

Given the heavily "Twilight girl" part of the audience you'd think so, but it's not really a sexual film at all. Guess that's how you can have children slaughtering children and still get PG-13! FUCKING MPAA.. but anyway, there are two cute guys and every sign of a love triangle with the heroin (personally, while I'd kick neither out of bed, my first choice would be the actor that plays 'Gale' over the on playing 'Peeta'), but there's not much time spent on that and I can't remember seeing as much as I'd like of either... So again, 180 degrees/opposite of Twatlight with its perpetually shirtless werewolf. And if you want your fill of homo-eroticism the choice remains John Carter.

I have still had luck posting on Craigslist (M4M or Casual Encounters) mentioning gen in the ad... But it's hard to believe there's no longer anywhere to go (certainly not in person, but even online), browse available guys and pick one. Sure, Rentboy, but many of those guys are talking appointments, etc...

I just don't see the GoGo boys as anything like the answer to this question... sure maybe if the planets align on just the right night you'll find one who'd exchange numbers for a future meeting (possibly at exorbitant rates...) but as to the question of where to find available working guys in LA, especially of the old SMB/Numbers/Spotlight model is still in great need of exploration! Even online, anybody try Adam4Adam? Heard good things in passing. Gaydar.co.uk had an interesting flexibility in postings from escorts, last I looked, but there weren't many on and it's been a while...?

I am very glad to hear that the assumed worst was not in fact the case!

Happy Birthday Oz! Here, I got you a stripper...

I wonder if poster-boys like Santorum are helping the building anti-Catholic sentiment? Love this protest!

Good ( R )-Money vs Frothy political cartoon:

Maybe if they keep it up Fox News will be a self-correcting problem? Fox News Literally Scares Woman To Death I barely resisted the urge to try to shake some sense into a dipshit going on about Obamacare in the supermarket today. Maybe if I had it'd save his life some day...

Hard to imagine a 'beloved High School Principal'; easy to imagine this happening in Arizona... Cynthia Davis, a respected and beloved principal at Paradise Valley High School, was fired by the school district at a meeting last Thursday that so enraged parents police helicopters were brought in to control the situation. The parents had no idea why the board had voted 5-0 not to renew Davis' contract. Arizona's 12News now believes they know why Davis was fired: On Friday, community member Shelly Hickerson came forward with a letter she had written to the district administration, including Superintendent James Lee, on March 11 praising Davis' work as principal. In the letter, Hickerson says that a governing-board member had "aggressively" questioned Hickerson on whether she approved of the selection of Davis as principal in 2008 and "... told me she was concerned about her (Davis') lifestyle." Hickerson was on the committee that made the recommendation to hire Davis. Hickerson, whose daughter graduated from Paradise Valley High School in 2008, said she never received a reply to her letter. Davis said she learned of the allegation of the "lifestyle" comment on Friday. Davis tells 12News that she is gay, has lived alone since 2005, and has always kept her personal and professional life separate. The school board won't comment on the reasons behind the vote. The district does include sexual orientation in its non-discrimination policy. Read more: http://www.towleroad.com/2012/03/beloved-arizona-high-school-principal-appears-to-have-been-fired-for-being-gay-video.html#ixzz1qGz4KVSB

I didn't think much of the smoking 'till I saw this blurb.

Fucking MPAA!!! Bully is going to have to be released UNRATED. Usually a death sentence for a movie, hopefully not this time! The Weinstein Company will release the film Bully unrated on March 30 after the MPAA refused to budge on its 'R' rating on the film, according to a press release received by Movieline: Furthering proof that the R rating for some language is inappropriate for a film that’s meant to educate and help parents, teachers, school officials and children with what’s become an epidemic in schools around the country, the fight against the rating continues on. The outpour of support by politicians, schools, parents, celebrities and activists for the film’s mission to be seen by those it was made for – children – has been overwhelming. Nearly half a million people have signed Michigan high school student and former bullying victim Katy Butler’s petition on Change.org to urge the MPAA to lower the rating. Said BULLY Director Lee Hirsch, “The small amount of language in the film that’s responsible for the R rating is there because it’s real. It’s what the children who are victims of bullying face on most days. All of our supporters see that, and we’re grateful for the support we’ve received across the board. I know the kids will come, so it’s up to the theaters to let them in.” It will be up to movie theaters to decide whether or not to let minors see it. Read more: http://www.towleroad.com/2012/03/the-weinstein-company-will-release-bully-unrated.html#ixzz1qGxNk6JK

Love that! Of course Fox tries to spin it when it's actually about the dangers of having people like Murdock and Romney get everything their hearts desire.

More specifically, 2/3rds of the Senate required, so not even if a miracle occurred and we got 60 seats in November. The House of Representatives brings charges, called "articles of impeachment," against officials it considers guilty of criminal or ethical violations. If a simple majority of the House finds sufficient evidence to support impeachment, the official proceeds to trial in the Senate. The Vice-President of the United States presides over impeachment trials involving Article III federal judges and Supreme Court justices. Conviction requires a vote of two-thirds of the Senators present. Plus I don't agree with the principal of removing Justices for controversial opinions, as much as I disagree. It just underlines the importance of not letting a chimp like Bush make the appointments. So the best we can hope for is a sudden death of Scalia and Thomas. And that Obama has enough political capital left to appoint people more worthy to the positions, and I personally hope he continues to appoint women. The oldest justice serving is Ginsberg though.

Ah yes, today I learned... But while there are already (a couple, competing, per Democratic usual) petitions up to 'impeach The Supreme Court 5' it doesn't sound like it has a snowball's chance in hell.

Good writeup from Towle, though I quite enjoyed going in blind... 03/24/2012 Now Playing: The Hunger Games BY NATHANIEL ROGERS "The Hunger Games," now in their 74th year, began as a way to punish an uprising against the government. The totalitarian regime of Panem (in what remains of the former United States) maintains total control over the outlying districts. Each of the 12 districts is required to send forth two "tributes" annually, a boy and a girl between the ages of 12 to 18 chosen by lottery. They are shipped to the Capital where they are paraded about and then shipped off to die for the amusement of the masses. Everyone in the nation watches. There are no alternatives in this dystopia. Only one adolescent will live bringing supposed honor (and maybe food?) to their starving district... or so claims the capital. What honor there is in forcing teenagers to kill each other is not a question the Capitol asks itself. Any similarities that THE HUNGER GAMES has to the Japanese classic Battle Royale (2000), which also features schoolchildren forced to kill each other by a totalitarian regime -- only one survivor allowed -- are, according to The Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins, entirely coincidental. Another film in this subgenre, the little seen Series 7: The Contenders (2001) also features mandatory lotteried killing for televised amusement. In short, the ideas are nothing new, just the treatment; these are topics we're obviously grappling with in popular culture in this era of televised "reality" and winner takes all capitalistic vice. The gap between the haves and have nots grows and this dystopia gives it steroids. When 12 year old Primrose Everdeen (Willow Shields) is named as tribute in "The Reaping" ceremony, her protective sister Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) volunteers to take her place. The district also sends Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) a sweet strong baker's son who Katniss knows a little. Will they kill or be killed? They're off and running... AFTER THE JUMP... The first hour plus of Hunger Games is touching and quite visually intriguing, "The Reaping" sequence is especially memorable with Effie (Elizabeth Banks) a flamboyant disconcerting fuschia in a sea of grayed out zombie teenagers fearing their name read aloud. The last hour, the actual games, paradoxically thrills less. I have not read the novels so the world building was fascinating and even semi-plausible. For the most part director Gary Ross (Seabiscuit) delivers an artful scifi drama. Particularly impressive are the sound and scoring, both less bombastic than this type of film usually receives and more affecting for it. When a contestant dies there is a low "boom" that's surely intended for the combatants to keep count (since the Panem audience will already know who has died) but it adds to the dread. Consider it an artistic reminder that less can be more since the offscreen deaths are just as unsettling as those we witness. Once the tributes reach the arena, basically a forest with clearings, the slaughter begins. The initial bloodbath is filmed mostly in blurry handheld camera and incoherent quick edits (as are most subsequent action sequences), either because Ross has little feel for action, because coherent editing is out of style or because the R rated material wanted a PG-13 for a bigger box office reach; I'm guessing all three. He's also overly fond of foreshadowing and controlling where you're looking on the screen even when several people are in frame. Even if you haven't read the books it's easy to sense who will live longest based merely on who the camera asks you to look at. And one thing above all else becomes clear - this movie belongs solely to Jennifer Lawrence and cares possibly more about how wonderful Jennifer Lawrence is to look at than the sorry plight of teenage tributes as cruel pawns in a snuff film. Here's a basic shot list during the games: clearing, blurry slaughter, Katniss, Katniss, Katniss thinking, confused running, Katniss, tree, a report on who has died, Katniss thinking, Katniss sleeping, trees, Katniss waking, closeup of weapon, Katniss, nature, Katniss sleeping, Katniss, control room, Katniss thinking, Katniss, other contestants, Katniss, control room, Katniss walking, fireballs!, Katniss running, Katniss falling, Katniss running, Katniss, Katniss, Ohmygod it's Peeta, Cato and his gang, Katniss running, Katniss hiding, Katniss climbing, disgruntled teenage assassins, Katniss, Katniss sleeping, everyone sleeping, Katniss waking up, Katniss & Rue, something deadly, Katniss thinking, weapon, a particularly gross death, Katniss, Peeta, Katniss hallucinating, people watching the games, Katniss, Katniss walking, Katniss, Katniss, control room, Katniss & Peeta, Katniss sleeping, fire, Katniss running, Katniss, Katniss singing, Katniss making a friend, Katniss, Katniss crying, Katniss looking at the camera, nature, Katniss, Katniss, control room, Katnis suddenly thinking of Peeta, Peeta, a parachute, Katniss pretending to sleep, Katniss, Katniss strategizing, Katniss, grass, something threatening, another contestant, blurry fighting, Katniss running, Katniss hurting, Katniss, and so on... and some more Katniss. There are 24 tributes but you wouldn't know it to look at her. I didn't know where to begin in reviewing The Hunger Games which is specific enough as a concept to excite immediate feeling but vague enough as a metaphor to invite all sorts of projections. Like many pop culture phenomenons, what you bring in to the theater is half of the experience. The Hunger Games will surely spark a lot of conversation as the angles are endless: man's inhumanity to man as entertainment -- with us since the days of the Gladiators; Television as the opiate of the masses; The politics of wealth distribution; Our complicity in the perpetuation of our own misery; Etcetera. The Hunger Games flexibility with metaphor even extends to mass market entertainment and actors as celebrities. Katniss and Peeta are styled and primped before public apperances preceeding the games and they're repeatedly encouraged to be "likeable" so that they'll win sponsors. The movie hedges its bets this way too, employing the reliable trustworthy Disney tactic of not really making the heroes kill people unless its indirectly. (It might make them more likeable but it also kills some of the psychological horror the concept promises.) The showbiz doesn't end there. Katniss's mentor Haymitch (Woody Harrelson) even encourages her to amp up the drama during the games and she complies. The best thing about Jennifer Lawrence's work here might be the occasional beats of ambiguity -- you're not entirely sure how much her feelings for Peeta are real or amplified for survival, and when she acknowledges the audience on occassion, how much is she really feeling? The Hunger Games will surely make Jennifer Lawrence, who came to fame with an Oscar nominated turn in the poverty-stricken drama Winter's Bone, a huge star. Curiously in both films she plays a destitute but resourceful Appalachian girl who kills squirrels and who happens to be her sister's proxy mother since the real one is terrible at the job. It may be the tiniest niche an actress has ever inhabited but Lawrence is a very big deal. Nathaniel Rogers would live in the movie theater but for the poor internet reception. He blogs daily at the Film Experience. Follow him on Twitter @nathanielr. Read more: http://www.towleroad...l#ixzz1q6v1o9A4

Seriously, there was no better candidate for a viable donor heart than this sack of shit? I'm sure there's somebody half his age (or less) dying today because they didn't have the connections or black soul of Dick Cheney!

Yep! He needs to make hay out of their war on women! It's sad that two groups he's done the most for, the military (getting them out of Iraq and now Afghanistan) and us (LGBT) are dissatisfied at best!

There's been stuff said between Romney and Frothy that make it seem really unlikely he'd be invited onto Romney's ticket. Neuter is clearly game, in fact he may well be a prop now to keep Romney from having to take on Frothy directly. But Neuter's showing in the south was bad and he's got many enemies and a *lot* of baggage. There was a lot of speculation that the governor now known as 'Governor Vaginal Probe' was on the short list... now that he's known for that though... is winning the south worth losing women everywhere? Love the Republican primaries!

Yes! I would in a second if I thought it'd do any good! But AFAIK there's no constitutional method for removing a justice. Best we can do is pray for them to die. Absurd as that sounds, there are apparently religious conservatives routinely praying for 'liberal' justices to die! Good thing it accomplishes exactly jack and shit, I suppose!

Tired of people paying for couple-hundred-dollar purchases entirely in wadded up ones?

Do they still have the laser hair removal ad with the bear on all fours, "yes, even there!"? Always loved that one!