TotallyOz

Thank you so much for the great post. I loved the Asian Accents home. Have you stayed there and enjoyed it?

>Oz have you ridden I love riding. Hot Air Balloons, Convertables, Horses, bikes, guys. Once you get on, all those old memories just keep coming back and you don't forget. but if you aren't in the physical shape to take on such >a feat you'll be wishing after a few miles you hadn't signed >up. Just my half cents worth of babble. Thanks Greg. I do appreciate it very much. My body is old and used from many years of fun and games. But, I don't usually start things I can't finish. My motto in life is: -Life is here, life is now. Life is soooo short... and sex is just too delicious! Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, Champagne and Strawberries in one hand, Diet Coke and Godiva Chocolate in the other, a personal bottle of Eros, A BOX OF TROJAN MAGNUMS, and a good Cuban cigar in the your pockets (ALL partially used), a wallet ALMOST empty of currency but noticeably used from the rainbow colors of THE SEVERAL bills THAT REMAIN from a multitude of countries and cards charged to the max from the joys of life, body thoroughly used up, OLD AS TIME ITSELF, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO - what a ride!--- Want to join me for this ride Greg? I'll be the first to help sponsor you.

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I have always wanted to do a bike ride for charity. I am actually considering doing this one. Are there others that do this? Would it be worthwhile to get a MER group together? I had a friend once that did the Boston to NYC ride and it was truly an amazing experience for him. I was one of his contributors but also his friend and was there at the finish line cheering him on. That was many many years ago and since that day, I have had this in my mind. http://www.aidslifecycle.org/

Truthfully, I would love to blame it on booze. However, I have never been drunk once and I don't like any alcohol. So, truth be told, I had a brain fart. It happens.

Sorry KY, A snafu of my finger trying to edit my responce to your thread and it was totally deleted my apologies. Can you repost? Sorry guys! BTW: I say the Bears by 13

>I just had 3 Montreal boys as house guests for the past >month. > >Does that answer your question? > > Well, actually it does. You are a slut. Live long and prosper!

And I was able to meaningfully >consent, I think, since at least age 12. I'm not advocating >this for everyone or as a universal standard. I'm simply >reciting my experience as a sexually active minor. Damm, you were a late bloomer. I beat you by a few years. Of course I was 6 feet tall by the time I was 12.

Thanks for your post. I was not tearing apart your earlier post at all. At least that was not my intent. I respect your views on the matter very much. My statement was more along the lines of there is a line for everyone. To each his own and everyone has to decide where that line is.

While you are waiting for Scottt, I'll add my two cents which was not asked for but I just love sharing. I feel that most escorts are open to negotiations. However, it all depends on their need at that moment. Most I know are willing to negotiate for longer stays and weekends. Also, if the destination is appealing to them, they will go down in fees a great deal. I have taken boys to Montreal for Black and Blue in years past and the rate was great. But, I am not demanding on them sexually or time wise. I am also very up front with them with my expectations and theirs. I don’t ever ask an escort to change his rate for one hour or two. However, if they are someone I want to spend large amounts of time with, I will tell them: “hey, I am going to Brazil for a week. I’ll pay XXX for the week plus all your expenses. I’ll also make sure you have a good time.” I don’t consider this a negotiation but rather an offer. If they come back and say, I’d love to go but will you pay XXX, I normally will say that is not something I can afford. When I ran an escort agency in years gone by, our rates were never negotiable. They were set in stone. At least they were set in stone up to the overnight rate. Anything beyond that was discussed. I think each escort has a set rate for an hour, two, etc. I think it is changeable depending on the circumstances. I hired Scott about a month ago. I asked him his rate and paid what he requested. I did not offer less. If it were not something I could afford, I would have simply said no. I really enjoyed my time with him and I hope to see him again in the future. However, I am not much of a one-hour guy and as long as he is getting the big bucks, he should continue to go for it. At this point in time, I don’t see a trip to Thailand as a good business move for him at the rate I pay. I once had a escort I had hired on many occassion who wanted to go to Europe with me. I was not interested in an escort for the trip so I told him I would happily pay his expenses and his hourly rate for each time we had sex. He was thrilled and went with me. I can not tell you what a bad move this was for me. I should have said I'd pay the hour rate for each time I wanted sex not everytime he woke me up to play. I still had a great time but was too tired at the end of the night to really enjoy the day and too tired at the end of our nooner to enjoy the night. I also got inducted into the mile high club on that trip and enjoyed that the most.

>IF I knew that Oz owned a video production company where >barely legal guys were being encouraged to bareback, then, >yes, I would stop posting here. But I don't think that is the >fact as I have never seen anything to support it. I have always found it interesting that people pick and choose where they draw the line. When this site was started, there was a lot of controversy that I made money from a bareback website. Most of it was from evil doers on the other site. What I always found amusing is that for years, the hooboy site made the majority of its money from affiliates that have bareback sales on their site. What that told me was it is OK to link to sites that sell bareback videos and movies but not OK to own a site that was bareback related. It said that having big money being made from AEBN and TLA video stores was OK even if the top 10 movies downloaded were bareback but it was not OK to own a site that was bareback related. I had never quite understood the full argument. I believe any 2 consenting adults should be able to have any kind of sexy they want. I believe that any one person should be able to make all the decisions based on his body. I also think it is best to have an in depth conversation with sexual partners about their practices and if they bareback, I want to know. I think intelligent decisions are based on more knowledge. I have never swayed from this position. I have always believed that men who hookup with other men who are open about practicing bareback sex are making more intelligent decisions than those who hook up from other online sites that don't discuss it. Intelligent decisions are based in knowledge. If an escort barebacks with clients, I think the client needs to know this and make an informed decision whether or not they want to hire the guy. I don’t own a bareback video company. If I did, I would make millions. I guarantee you. I have never had the time or the energy to do this. I normally spend the majority of my time where I enjoy it. I love hookers. I love them in every shape and form. I love pimps and gogo boys and the like. Since I enjoy these things I spend my time on them much more than I do other things that I just make money from. Luckily, I am able to enjoy life and have the ability to do this. If I only spent time in the area where I made the most money, you would never see me here. You would most likely not see me on a gay website at all. I know many of you hate the smell of tuna, so I won't even go into great details. Truthfully, and please don’t spread this around; I am not a porn person. I don’t like it and never have. It has been many years since I watched a porn flick (at least 15). It is just not my thing. But, for those that love it, I don’t think I have a right to say you are not allowed to watch it.

When I first came out, I thought I wanted to settle down with one person and make quilts and read books by the fireplace. It turns out that life was not for me. Instead, I have jumped from one guy to the next for 10 years. I have had some long-term relationships of over 5 years each but they were open and not monogamous. I am not even sure that monogamy is possible for me. I have seen many that love it. I have seen many that say they are monogamous but they are fucking around on the side. I have seen many relationships that have rules built in that allow the relationship to stay strong. My question is simple: Is monogamy something you want? Do you know of many guys who are able to stay monogamous for LONG periods of time?

Looks like Harry Potter is growing up. He has said that he needed to shock the world to get the image of good Harry Potter out of everyone's minds and he has decided to do a play in which he is nude for a scene. The controversy is just beginning I am sure. The play opens in London this month. http://www.theatre.com/photos/3005734.jpg

>I call children raised by non-traditional families, >"children of harmony," and this world needs more >harmony. Wow. That is such a great way to word this. Thank you for that!

Thanks for the pics!

>I seem to recall you being too busy to come cabanna hopping at >Hustlaball with me but I did extend the invitation :9 You may have casually mentioned it in an ephemeral conversation. My concentration must have been on your six-pack at the time. My attention is easily diverted.

>way below a two day >late lime treatment of a three day old outdoor port-a-potty >shit box at a construction site. First off guys, lets not get into pissing contests. Breath in. Breath out. Relax. Do that 200 times before each post. Second, the lime treatment ramark is perhaps the funniest thing I have read in weeks. Thanks for the laugh. Now, breath in. Breath out. Relax.

Sorry about that. There is an e-mail at the top of this thread, maleescortreview@gmail.com that is best to use. Oz

>Having had coffee with Brent here in WeHo in the last couple >days and spending the evening in said cabanna with him Damm. I wish I had your life.

>I'd get extra >security at your Palm Springs event. Another party and I'm not invited. Damm. Where are all these invitations going?

I loved the interview with her father last week with Wolf questioning him about the pregnacy. Mary finally spoke up and said that gay couples were just as qualified to raise children as hetrosexual couples are. Imagine that! I just spent a few weeks with a lesbian couple who are raising 2 children of their own. They are amazing parents and I really enjoyed getting to know them better and the birth father. It never crossed my mind that gays would not be good parents but aparently socienty does. Or, at least large parts of it. Why? What are they afraid of? http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/31/us/31cnd...=rssnyt&emc=rss

Molly Ivins, the liberal newspaper columnist who delighted in skewering politicians and interpreting, and mocking, her Texas culture, died today at her home in Austin. She was 62. Her death, after a long fight with breast cancer, was confirmed by her personal assistant, Betsy Moon. In her syndicated column, which appeared in about 350 newspapers, Ms. Ivins cultivated the voice of a folksy populist who derided those who acted too big for their britches. She was rowdy and profane, but she could filet her ideological opponents with droll precision. After Patrick J. Buchanan, as a conservative candidate for president, declared at the 1992 Republican National Convention that America was engaged in a cultural war, she said his speech “probably sounded better in the original German.” “There are two kinds of humor,” she told People magazine. One was the kind “that makes us chuckle about our foibles and our shared humanity,” she said. “The other kind holds people up to public contempt and ridicule. That’s what I do.” Hers was a feisty voice that she developed in the early 1970s at The Texas Observer, the muckraking biweekly that would become her spiritual home for life. Her subject was Texas. To her, the Great State, as she called it, was “reactionary, cantankerous and hilarious,” and its legislature was “reporter heaven.” When the legislature was set to convene, she warned her readers: “Every village is about to lose its idiot.” Her Texas upbringing made her something of an expert on the Bush family. She viewed President George H.W. Bush benignly. (“Real Texans do not use the word ‘summer’ as a verb,” she wrote.) But she derided President George W. Bush, whom she first knew in high school. She called him Shrub and Dubya. With the Texas journalist Lou Dubose, she wrote two best-selling books about Mr. Bush: “Shrub: The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush” (2000) and “Bushwhacked” (2003). In 2004 she campaigned against Mr. Bush’s re-election, and as the war in Iraq continued, she called for his impeachment. In her last column, earlier this month, she urged readers to “raise hell” against the war. Mary Tyler Ivins was born on Aug. 30, 1944 in California and grew up in the affluent Houston suburb of River Oaks. Her father, James, a conservative Republican, was general counsel and later president of Tenneco Corporation, an oil and gas company. As a student at private school, Ms. Ivins was tall and big-boned and often felt out of place. “I spent my girlhood as a Clydesdale among thoroughbreds,” she said. She developed her liberal views partly from reading The Texas Observer at a friend’s house. Those views led to fierce arguments with her father about civil rights and the Vietnam War. “I’ve always had trouble with male authority figures because my father was such a martinet,” she told The Texas Monthly. After her father developed advanced cancer and shot himself to death in 1998, she wrote: “I believe that all the strength I have comes from learning how to stand up to him.” Like her mother, Margot, and grandmother, Ms. Ivins went to Smith College in Massachusetts. Graduating in 1966, she also studied at the Institute of Political Science in Paris and earned her master’s degree at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Her first newspaper jobs were at The Houston Chronicle and The Minneapolis Tribune, now The Star Tribune. In 1970, she jumped at the chance to move to Austin, where she became co-editor of The Observer. Covering the statehouse, she found characters whose fatuousness helped focus her calling and define her persona, which her friends saw as populist and her detractors saw as manufactured cornpone. Even her friends marveled at how quickly she could drop her Texas voice for what they called her Smith voice. Sometimes she combined the two, as in: “The sine qua non, as we say in Amarillo.” Ronnie Dugger, the former publisher of The Observer, said the political circus in Texas inspired her. “It was like somebody snapped the football to her and said, ‘All the rules are off, this is the football field named Texas, and it’s wide open,”’ he said. In 1976, her writing, which she said was often fueled by “truly impressive amounts of beer,” landed her a job at The New York Times. She cut an unusual figure in The Times newsroom, wearing blue jeans, going barefoot and bringing in her dog, whose name was an expletive. While she drew important writing assignments, like covering the Son of Sam killings and Elvis Presley’s death, she sensed she did not fit in and complained that Times editors drained the life from her prose. “Naturally, I was miserable, at five times my previous salary,” she later wrote. “The New York Times is a great newspaper: it is also No Fun.” After a stint in Albany, she was transferred to Denver to cover the Rocky Mountain states, where she continued to challenge her editors’ capacity for prankish writing. Covering an annual chicken slaughter in New Mexico in 1980, she used a sexually suggestive phrase, which her editors deleted from the final article. But her attempt to use it angered the executive editor, A.M. Rosenthal, who ordered her back to New York and assigned her to City Hall, where she covered routine matters with little flair. She quit The Times in 1982 after The Dallas Times Herald offered to make her a columnist. She took the job even though she loathed Dallas, once describing it as the kind of town “that would have rooted for Goliath to beat David.” But the paper, she said, promised to let her write whatever she wanted. When she declared of a congressman, “If his I.Q. slips any lower, we’ll have to water him twice a day,” many readers were appalled, and several advertisers boycotted the paper. In her defense, her editors rented billboards that read: “Molly Ivins Can’t Say That, Can She?” The slogan became the title of the first of her six books. After The Times Herald folded in 1991, she wrote for The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, until 2001, when her column was syndicated by Creators Syndicate. Ms. Ivins, who never married, is survived by a brother, Andy, of London, Tex., and a sister, Sara Ivins Maley, of Albuquerque, N.M. One of her closest friends was Ann Richards, the former Texas governor, who died last year. The two shared an irreverence for power and a love of the Texas wilds. “Molly is a great raconteur, with a long memory,” Ms. Richards said, “and she’s the best person in the world to take on a camping trip because she’s full of good-ol-boy stories.” Ms. Ivins worked at a breakneck pace, adding television appearances, book tours, lectures and fund-raising to a crammed writing schedule. She also wrote for Esquire, the Atlantic Monthly and The Nation. An article about her in 1996 in The Star-Telegram suggested that her work overload may have caused an increase in factual errors in her columns. (She eventually hired a fact-checker.) And in 1995, the writer Florence King accused Ms. Ivins of lifting passages from Ms. King’ for an article that Ms. Ivins had written in Mother Jones in 1988. Ms. Ivins had credited Ms. King six times in the article but not in two lengthy sentences, and she apologized to Ms. King. Ms. Ivins learned she had breast cancer in 1999 and was typically unvarnished in describing her treatments. “First they mutilate you; then they poison you; then they burn you,” she wrote. “I have been on blind dates better than that.” But she continued to write her columns and continued to write and raise money for The Observer. Indeed, rarely has a reporter so embodied the ethos of her publication. On the paper’s 50th anniversary in 2004, she wrote: “This is where you can tell the truth without the bark on it, laugh at anyone who is ridiculous, and go after the bad guys with all the energy you have.” http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/31/business...=rssnyt&emc=rss

I am seeing Babel this weekend. I heard great things about it but have yet to be interested to see it at all. I have decided to give in and give it a try.

John, The best way to send it is to: maleescortreview@gmail.com TampaYankee and I are the only ones with access to that account. We value privacy. Tampa is the one that answers the e-mail there and he is the Boss. Hope this helps! Oz

Who do you think will win? I think the winners will be: Best Picture: Lettters from Iwo Jima Best Actor: Forest Whitaker Best Actress: Judi Dench Best Supporting Actor: Eddie Murphy Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Hudson Best Director: Martin Scorsese