It's trivia time in blog land!

Let’s have some fun…UMKAY? I think almost all of my regular posters (except Chuck and some friends IRL that don’t have blogs) are members of RTVW and I was wanting to have a little fun and see just how much you know of the place we all love to visit. Since it is early evening on Tuesday, I will give everyone until Friday afternoon to get your answers posted here.

Feel free to use the search engine (I can’t use the damn thing!) to try and locate the answer. You may want to keep/save links in a document in case we have disagreeing information. I have saved where I found the answers and will share that with anyone that thinks we have different answers.

I am going to use these ten questions for round 1 and will do more research for a second round next week. I say let’s do this once a week over the next month and then the four peeps with the best results will advance to a run-off to see who knows the mostest. Syren emailed me information that I am going to incorporate into future quizzes and want to THANK HER in advance for sharing the information.

Here is how it will work:

I will give the forum that the info can be found unless the question is to identify a specific forum. Most answers will be a specific person but doesn’t always have to be but I think I will specify what I am looking for. Feel free to post your answers and discuss as the week goes along. If you have any questions about exactly what I am asking…feel free to inquire!

Let’s start with the easiest one:

I am not going to number this one because it is so easy but what is the most well known real name that is made fun of over on OT? It isn’t Rory!

Mystery forum:
1) What forum did I post the infamous “perfectly popped popcorn” thresd and how many posts did it receive before getting locked?

OT:
2) Who likes Frosted Mini Wheats, Apple Cinnamon Cheerios and Crispix? This one may be tough to get so if there appears to be problems I will give hints later.
3) Who am I describing? She has 2 yorkies (or did at the time of the post), favorite color is purple, married an opera singer, was on Wheel of Fortune and wanted to be a sportscaster.
4) What current posters have been to Nova Scotia in which they both have family that live there?
5) Who started the “pudding” frenzy?

Real World/Road Rules forum:
6) Who is a regular in blog land to post on the RW/RR forums and isn’t Arkie, Knockers and myself?

Survivor forum:
7) I_AM_HE posted a picture of Boston Rawb in the Bashers forum and it was a photo shop of (Rawb) as a cartoon character with another character beside him. Who are the two cartoon characters?

Big Bother:
8) Someone called Amy “Miss Trailer Park Trash 1998” in an official summary. Who was it?

9) The Amazing Race:Who nicknamed Adam during his season of TAR and what was the nickname? The answer may surprise you!

Let's have fun and enjoy! Good luck to all!

I WILL ACCEPT ANSWERS BY PM (at the other place) OR BY EMAIL. I WOULD PREFER PM BUT IF YOU HAVE MY EMAIL ADDRESS...HAVE AT IT!

It's all over but the crying or celebrating

Well, I had my third interview this afternoon with a company that I would really like to work for! I think all of my interviews went very well with no *oh shit! I should not have said that!* moments. I hit it off with the V.P. of Sales and he would be my boss so I am really hoping to have good news by the end of the week.

Please send good thoughts/ideas/prayers my way!

Also, I will work on the trivia game for OT tonight and tomorrow. I want to make sure I get a good mix of questions. Thanks for the interest everyone!

Anyone up for a game?

It has been a really rotten weekend and I am ready to get back to fun and games. Are you?

I have been thinking of coming up with a trivia/scavenger hunt for the RTVW site and was curious if you guys would be interested. I spent some time this weekend lurking out in the archives and came across tons of funny stuff that I had forgotten.

Anyone want to test your knowledge of the other place? If enough peeps want to do it I will try and come up with a “prize” for the winner and get the questions together.

An example question could be:

With whom and how did I (we) countdown to our 2K posts (simultaneously) in OT?

A weekend post

This picture was taken yesterday by a friend of mine while he was hiking and I thought it was beautiful! It takes me to a very care free place and I need it this weekend. Just thought I would share the pic.

Thank goodness yesterday is over!

Yesterday was not a good day! I wasn’t in much of a good mood anyways but things started going downhill fairly early. One of my best friends called to say that his wife had miscarried their expecting baby. She was 9 weeks along and they were so looking forward to having a baby…right now they are just coping with the loss the best they can.

My mom called mid-afternoon to inform me that nurses were removing the IV that my uncle has had for over the last month or so. I don’t know if you guys remember but I have an uncle that has been in and out of the hospital many times over the last 6 months and they (the doctors) don’t think he will get much better. He is 84 and lived a long life and I just hope his last days here are not in suffering.

Let’s hope today is much better for all involved and I also want to WELCOME Alec to the world of blogging! As you can see his site has been added to my links section and I am sure he will bring some more cutie pics in the future. WELCOME ALEC!

ETA: Well, it didn't get any better! My uncle passed away this morning.

Things I don't understand

I pride myself on keeping up to date on things but there are some things and jokes I just don't get.

Color me confused today...but I stay confused so I don't know why I am surprised.

Does anyone like?

Really works wonders for me!

Breakfast

Could someone please explain to me why I had a 6" cold cut combo sammich from Subway for breafast?

Also, does anyone want new smut pics posted?

I went with the yellow tie

And thank goodness I did! I went with a dark blue suit, light blue shirt and a yellow tie. The guy interviewing me? He chose a dark blue suit, light blue shirt and a solid red tie! We would have been twins…so thank goodness I chose yellow!

I am suppose to hear last this afternoon or tomorrow if I make the cut for the third round of interviews.

I have the blahs

I’m not in a bad mood and not in a good one either. I have the blahs!

I had a very busy day yesterday and feel like I just wasted the time I had free. Last night was one that I really wish had just fallen off the face of the earth. Seriously, I would have been better off sticking my thumbs up ass and humming My Heart Will Go On! Or is that “worms up my ass”? I get them confused.

Today? I have an interview at 2pm with a company that I think is owned by my old boss. I can’t find out from anyone if it is for sure his company but I guess I will find out in a few hours. Wish me luck.

I will look very snazzy because I bought a new shirt and tie yesterday. Actually, I bought two ties and can’t decide which one to wear…you know it is all about the power tie. I will wear a dark blue suit, blue shirt with a power tie. Should I wear the red or yellow tie? The yellow tie has blue stripes and is one of my favs but I do like red ties as well. What do you think?

The sex tapes

It seems like everyone that is someone now has a sex tape scandal. Seriously, have you heard about the Colin Farrell sex tape? Last week a Web site went up advertising the tape for download and it didn’t take but a couple of hours until Colin’s attorneys got involved and the site was taken down.

Colin claims that the video was taken with consent by his then girlfriend and himself but that the video was to never be made public. I guess they decided to film themselves as part of the allure of the sex itself.

Fast forward a few days and pics of Colin are being posted on one of my favorite message boards (not that board but one you could easily find if look closely). There is one of Colin standing and his whole body is in the frame with a face shot. He has a shaved head with a go-t. And yes, his golf equipment is there in all its erect glory. It is of good length but nothing that would make you gasp and swoon.

Today I have been thinking of why would Colin break-up with the lady and not either force her to do away with the video or give him the original with her promising there were no copies made? If Colin truly doesn’t want the video to go public then why would he even risk it? Makes no sense to me.

Anyways, yesterday I found a link to download the complete 13-minute video for free and I did. It was ok as the video is shot by Colin while the sex acts are taking place so it is “jerky” at times and sometimes not centered. There is one point when he is giving her oral sex and she is holding the camera and that is really the only time you can see Colin. I watched it twice and deleted.

Now…who out there has a tape of themselves “in action”?

WOO and freakin HOO

Let me slow the train down for a few so I can celebrate! My University of Tennessee Vols beat the previously unbeaten and ranked second in the country Florida Gators in basketball! This is the biggest win for us in over 5 years.

WOO and freakin HOO!

The mechanic

Do you really have to ask why I posted the third pic? WHEW!

Enjoy Red Dobie!

The finale of my dating life

From the point I realized what was going on and thinking that I had just witnessed D dying there were others around me but I was on my knees sitting beside the car holding D’s hand. The next thing I knew the ambulance and police had arrived and cleared the area. The police were asking me questions and all I could do was stare through their eyes and see emptiness.

The little town we lived in is such that everyone knew each other and someone had called D’s mother and she arrived at the accident. This part of the whole ordeal was a complete hell to have to suffer through. D had crossed the yellow line and basically hit head-on by the dump truck. The truck had hit his brakes but there wasn’t enough time and it was as if D had no idea he was going to get hit. The truck basically pushed the motor into the front of the car and D was pinned in. The accident happened closely to 2:30 in the afternoon and he was not taken out of the car until after 6:00pm. That was the tough part knowing there wasn’t anything we could do but stand there and glare at all the lights and listen to the noises.

After the shock wore off of what had happened, I started the process of trying to deal with the tremendous amount of feelings I was going through. The toughest part wasn’t going to the funeral but dealing with his family. They all wanted to talk to me when they found out I was the first person to him and his mother had many questions. The only thing I could tell her that would give her any comfort was that I didn’t think he suffered at all.

The police determined that a car was turning into my neighbor’s driveway and D must have not seen the car stopped to turn in and thought he would miss the car by getting in the other lane of traffic. They speculated he didn’t see the truck and I have to say this is the only thing that really made any sense to me at all.

With the funeral over it was time to move on with my life but I had a tough go for a while. I couldn’t stand turning into the driveway because there were stains from the accident months later. I had always wanted to be in sales for the company I worked for at the time and put in for a sales job. I knew this would take me to some other part of the country and would get me away from everything that reminded me of him and our time together.

By the end of the year, I got a job in sales covering the entire state of South Carolina. I was in a place that I knew no one and I felt as if I were starting over. In South Carolina I made friends with my neighbor that was gay as well and we had some time to just go out and have fun. The apartment complex had what they called “rock parties”. The complex had moved these huge rocks in front of each of the 8 buildings and the peeps that lived in that complex were responsible for drinks/finger foods for one hour and then we would move on to the next one. It was a day long party that really helped ease the pain.

In late 1990, I was approached by my company with a position I could pass up. I was offered a product manager position back in Tennessee and I thought about it for a weekend and decided I could return but I didn’t want to go back to the small town I once lived. One of best friends at the time needed a roommate and he brought one of his friends to help me move back. The friend? The UPS guy I dated for 5 years…however we didn’t start dating right away and it took me a while to get back into the dating scene (about 2 years to be exact).

After that relationship I was ready for some fun and no drama so I took about 2 years to just go out and party my ass off. I think I did a good job of it and lost many brain cells in the process. At a party I met the attorney that I mentioned in my first post.

That is the story of my dating life except for one-night stands I have been getting into over the last couple of years. I have found that I really don’t want the drama attached to many gay men and their unstable lives. I am not saying that all gay men are this way but damn it seems there are more (as a percentage) than drama in straight relationships. But maybe that is just from my point of view.

Today's smut

As you can tell...I really like this guy. I have a busy morning and afternoon ahead. I have to take mom to the doctor at 2:15 and will be back to post my follow up to "my story". I may not be able to post until late afternoon (4-5 o'clock) but I will post.

Enjoy the skin.

I got busy

This afternoon and then lazy so I didn't finish my story. I will later but I am sure you guys are tired of all that reading anyways!

I didn't spend too much time over at the other place today but I don't know if I am happy with the changes. Will have to let it play out and see.

Just a little smut

To help make the day better. Seems there are some weird things going on at the other place and I thought some man candy would help out. Does it?

My story part 3

AAAAHHHHH 1984 and my senior year in high school was a good time that went by so fast it made my head spin. I started dating a girl that was going to a rival school and D was dating a local whore that I didn’t care for. It wasn’t that I was jealous, as you will see in a few minutes because I was getting what I wanted and then some! However, she was a girl that really got around and I never understood why/what D saw in her.

The bar was set high on the very first double date and we were determined it would be this way every time and would strive to make it better in the future. It was a Friday night and we headed off to the football game (in my 1979 dark blue Trans Am complete with eagle on the hood!) in the small town of the school. After the game we decided to go somewhere, park and make out. We did this for about an hour and then we took D’s girl home first and then my girl was next because she lived about 20 miles away in the opposite direction.

D would spend the night with me after our double dates and the night always ended up the same way! The first double date was also my first time to lose my anal sex virginity. As HD has informed everyone there are tops and bottoms and with this experience we took turns. The feelings between the two of us just went off the charts as we laid in each others arms for about an hour afterwards and didn’t say a word just lying there looking up at the ceiling. I finally broke the silence with a, “WHEW! That just rocked my world!” and D’s response was, “We are going to have to go on many double dates in the future!”

The double dates continued and I think this is where the jealous girlfriend started to suspect something was going on with D and I. D told me one time she asked if we had made out or had sex before and D denied it but after he told me this the relationship with the local tramp went downhill. She was always cordial to me but she wasn’t cheerful at times. She knew though that if she were to remain with D she would HAVE to put with me.

These types of things continued after I graduated high school and started to college. However, during my first year in college D and I had a few arguments over the whore and our relationship became strained because he wanted to date her and she refused to be around me. One time I was out just riding around and I knew that D and her were at D’s house so I decided to drive by. D lived on a cul-d-sac so I went into the neighborhood and the whore obviously saw me go by and she ran out of the house flipping me off while screaming obscene names. This and other things that we didn’t agree on caused us to go our separate ways towards the end of 1985.

It was also around this time that I broke up with the girl because she said that I spent too much time playing sports and being with my friends. So, she told me I could either date her or have my friends and sports. To this day, I haven’t missed her one time! We were good friends but in the time we dated we never had sex and I think she knew about D and I.

I spent the next year and half in mourning as my one time “always with me friend with benefits” continued to date the wicked bitch of east Tennessee. In the summer of 1987 (my junior year in college), D appeared at my house just out of the blue. He was in tears and was telling me that he could not believe he allowed her to destroy something that he considered to be the best thing in his life! I was in shock and didn’t know what to say or do. D stayed at my house all night as we talked until the sun came up. We were talking about our lives over the last few months and D was finally convinced that I still had the same feelings for him as he did for me as well.

From that point we were back on track and we started doing the things we used to do and just acting silly. I look back during this time and just think of all the good times and all the silly things D used to do. I remember one time we were outside playing basketball and we were playing one-on-one and I was beating him pretty good and he jerks his “golf equipment” out of his shorts and says, “If you beat me at this game you ain’t getting this later on!”

Fast-forward to the night of March 22nd 1989 and D appears at my house with a bag of Doritos and a movie and says, “Let’s have some fun!” We sat around and munched on the chips and watched the movie he had brought (it wasn’t porn and we didn’t have sex) and he left with a hug and a kiss on the cheek. This was very strange for him because I can barely remember any time he ever kissed me on the cheek.

The next day I was working a half-day and then leaving with some other friends to drive to Western Kentucky to watch the Lady Vols play in the Sweet Sixteen round of the NCAA tournament. The day started out foggy and a few drizzles but it cleared up around lunchtime and was very cold as I recall. I went home and got ready for the trip and called D just to check in to see how things were going. I woke him up at around 1pm and I found this strange because he is a morning person. He told me he had to go the video store and then he was going to help his uncle that was building a house. I told him I was going to leave around 2:30 and would call him the next day.

Around 2:25 on the afternoon of March 23rd my friends arrived at the house to pick me up. As we were getting in the car to leave we hear a terrible noise and we knew it had to be a wreck (we couldn’t see the road from the house as it was off the road a bit). As the road started coming into sight I remember screaming to stop as I could see that D’s car had just been flatten by a hug dump truck! I ran to the car in tears and not really knowing what to say or do. When I reached the car D was slumped over the steering wheel and I took my hand to pull on his shoulder. D fell back and had a horrified look on his face as I watched him take his last breath.

Since this has been a long post let me wrap things up with one more post on how I handled the entire situation that was a life in ruins (or so I thought)!

The high school years

From the meeting in the hospital waiting room, my life would be changed forever! I had no idea just how important that moment in time would be and really didn’t realize the biggest part of it until I starting thinking back to write this.

The summer of ’79 was spent getting to know almost every aspect of each other’s lives. We truly became one as we hardly ever did anything separately. I remember at one point our parents actually asked us to start doing things with them as a family and to cool it a little bit.

Through the next couple of years we managed to get more of a grip on the friendship and enjoy other friends as well. Fast forward to my sophomore year in high school (1982) as my hormones began to kick in and the sexual fantasies really started! During this year in school D played football and I played basketball and we started making other friends and meshing them into our own little group EXCEPT one guy that D refused to let the rest of us be friends with.

It was a guy (I will call T) on the football team and was the smallest person on the squad. The times I was around him, I always got the feeling he looked at me as “the other” guy and wasn’t too friendly. One night when D spent the night with me he told me that T wasn’t too vocal about his feelings as far as what he thought of me but he told me that T was jealous of our friendship and he (T) wanted the same type friendship with D as I had with him. D was very open about not wanting that to happen because D told me we had too much in common and lived through too much for change to occur. This was the first time I ever realized just how important D was to my life and happiness. It was a big thing for D to talk this way and something that I was really pleased with as well.

This was the first night that D showed any type of affection for me. We had our chat in the early evening and we had rented videos to watch but we had planned on staying up all night to watch them. I will never forget the way it all happened and how innocent we were but how good it all felt. We were watching “Journey To The Center Of The Earth” and we were both sitting on the sofa. It was fairly warm weather because we both had on shorts and t-shirts and as the movie progressed D kept moving closer to me until finally our legs were touching. D slowly moved his hand to rest on my leg and I was shaking so much I thought it would show but I reached down and grabbed his hand. We sat there the entire movie holding hands and every now and then D would reach over with his other hand and gently stroke my hand in his hand.

Nothing sexual happened between us until the next year (1983) when D was spending the night with me again. He was all excited that his mom let him buy bikini underwear and he surprised me as we were getting ready for bed and comes out of the bathroom wearing them! To be honest, the look really took my breath. Here this drop dead gorgeous guy is standing in the middle of my bedroom in bikini underwear and I was speechless. I remember him saying, “Well, what do you think?” At this point in time I had already decided that I wasn’t going to hold back anything and I said, “Do you really want to know?” He said, “Sure!”

Keep in mind that I had already gotten out of the bathroom and was in bed under the covers wearing my typical “tighty whities”. As D stood in the middle of the room, I slowly removed the covers to reveal just how excited I was. I looked at him and said, “Does that answer your question?” He didn’t seem surprised at all and I was very happy to give up my virginity that night or at least my oral virginity. We played around with each other with hands going everywhere until I felt his warm wet lips and I just about jumped out of the bed. I was having feelings that I had no clue existed or could exist.

This scene played out numerous times through 1983 and I was head over heels in love before I knew what being in love was. D seemed just as in love as I was but we didn’t really talk openly about our feelings. This was the year that D and I talked about keeping our little “thing” secret as we would both try and find girlfriends to help “keep it under cover”.

The T issue never went away but he did remain friends with D. I always suspected that something was going between the two but I don’t think it was. However, it was during 1983 that T’s house burned and they lost everything in the fire. I felt so bad for him and his family. I remember I gave the family $100 that I had made re-upholstering car seats (this is how I made money through high school and college).

Next up: My senior year, totally losing my virginity, jealous girlfriend and the end of “my story”.

Man candy

Staying on track.

I am entering the "how we met" world

I know everyone is doing it or at least has done it so I am going to throw my hat into the ring with the “how we met” story. My story is a little different on many levels and I hope you will bear with me while this plays out (as this is going to be more of "my story" type deal and not just how we met). I have been in love 3 times in my life and I feel like I grew so much with each of them.

The last relationship was with an attorney that lasted about 3 and half years. He was very needy and something I wasn’t too happy about but he was fun to be around and we had a great time together. Another thing I didn’t like is that he had too many hang-ups when it came to sex (he only liked to masturbate with hardly any touching between us). Anyways, he got a job in Memphis and moved away.

The second relationship I had lasted more than 5 years and prolly the most stable of the three. He was/still is a driver for UPS (unbelievable percentage of sisters) and been with them for years. A mutual friend introduced us and we hit it off immediately. In the end, he started getting very jealous and that lead to the end our relationship.

I have not told this story, in its entirety, to anyone. Friends in my life have come in and heard bits and pieces or just highlights but I will be letting you all in on a big aspect of a relationship that molded me to believe in how I do today. It made me grow up in a hurry and let me see the good/bad/ugly in life way too soon!

It all started when my dad was ill and had to be hospitalized when I was 13 years old (even though this is a long story I will try and get it told in 3 shorts). Dad had surgery to remove 12” of his colon due to some polyps that had been found. The surgery went well but dad was hospitalized for a couple of weeks.

My third cousin on my mom’s side of the family came to visit the hospital and he brought his second (and new at the time) wife. After meeting, the wife told me that her son was in the waiting room and was about my age. I thought this would be a good way to get out of the hospital room and talk with someone to get my mind off things.

I got off the elevator and looked around the waiting room and saw only one guy about my age and he had a cast on his left arm. I walked over and introduced myself and he told me his name. I will just call him D. D had broken his arm playing football at school during recess. This was a couple of weeks into summer break in 1979, D had turned 12 in the fall and I turned 13 the week after we met. We sat in the waiting room and talked about what we liked and found so much in common. We were both just getting all giddy learning about each other and how we were going to be starting school in the fall. We also realized that we would be riding the same bus and were planning to sit together.

I remember thinking about how good looking D was but knew deep down that I would never be able to do anything about it as I was a very shy guy and had no idea how D would respond to anything like that. D was always a little taller than me and had a tight body that goes with being a quarterback on a football team (the only sport he played). You all know the type…a butt you could eat breakfast off of (well, maybe I did but that smut will have to be in a later post)! He had dark hair and skin with greenish/blue eyes that just about made me melt looking into.

We exchanged telephone numbers and I went back to my dad’s hospital room. I couldn’t wait to get home and call him later that night. I remember being so giddy that I could barely sit still and was looking forward to getting to know more!

This whole process of remembering has brought back so many feelings and things that I thought I had lost. However, just wait until we encounter a jealous girlfriend, jealous friend and you won’t believe our double dates!

Just to keep the mood on SMUT

Just a little man candy to start the week off with a BANG!

WELCOME!

I would like give a huge WELCOME to WD *points over to the conversation box*! WD is a good friend of mine in real life. She went with me to see Brokeback Mountain.

Everyone say hello and welcome her to our little party!

New addition to the family!

This was one of the presents my dad got for Christmas. Meet Jack and Joe!

Smut time!

I just realized that it has been for ever since I posted smut. Hope you liked these additions. Edited to add the eyes. The first one is last guy and second one is of the guy right below it.

BTW: How do I move pics around?

Just another Friday

I have been on the go today but got home and wanted to update to fill you all in on what has been going on.

Mom and dad were in town today and I met them and we ate at Chili’s. This is the Chili’s that I used to go to back in my partying days. I would go out drinking at least 3-4 nights a week and knew everyone that worked in the place…even the cooks! I could also call ahead on a busy Friday/Saturday night to let them know I was on my way and there would be a bar stool and a gin/tonic waiting when I arrived. Yes, I said gin Arkie! I used to love gin and tonic with a lemon but one bad experience and the taste of pine needles for 3 days made me switch to vodka. I will sometime have to tell you the night I tried every single “specialty” margaritas (I think there were 10). I would go into detail here but it gives me a headache just to think of it!

After lunch we went over to Borders books and I found a DVD of Blind Date Uncensored (Deluxe Edition) for $2.99. I HAD TO HAVE IT! I got home and immediately had to watch it. It was about 1 hour and a half long and had me in stitches many times. The uncensored part is they leave in all curse words but the best part was the nudity. I was very surprised at how male nudity there was in the DVD but it was some good stuff! I could make a whole post on the review of this DVD but will spare you for now.

After that we went to the hospital to visit an uncle of mine. He is 84 and has been in the hospital four times over the past year and each time they say he isn’t going to make it. He has pneumonia and this one did just about get him. He is very weak and the doctors have said there isn’t anything left for them to do. It is just a matter of time. We will see.

HAVE A GOOD FRIDAY NIGHT!

Today is a new day...

I went shopping yesterday and we had a great time. Mom and I went to shops that we had not been to for months. The weather was sunny with highs in the 50s and was perfect for what we did.

Today the temps will be in the mid to upper 60s and I will be doing something outside. I think I may just sit on the back patio and read the newspaper/book. I can’t believe it is mid-January and we are seeing temps this warm at this time of year.

Enjoy it everyone! What is going on with you guys today?

My day just got scrambled.

I didn't know until this morning that my mother has two doctors appointments today one is at 9:30 (she is there right now) and the other is at 2pm. She wants me to go shopping with her between appointments. Guess what? I am on my way to meet her.

My "to do" list will just have to wait I guess.

You all play fair today. Check in later!

Must hang head in shame...

Bebo smacked me on the wrist! I feel so low and ashamed.

Another busy day

My list is taking priority today. However, I am going to take some time out of the day to start writing about the love of my life so far. Sort of a "how we met" and/or "this is our story" and just so you know...there is only one person IRL that knows the beginning of this story. However, no one knows the entire story until I let you guys in on that little secret!

Stay tuned...

Monday and my list

Today I am hitting the ground running with a “to-do” list that could take me well into the late evening to finish. Between checking OT and the blog world and doing my things…it will be a busy day.

A little off topic here but I have a little complaint in that one of my neighbors (lives behind me) still have their Christmas lights shining brightly. Last night I noticed that they had them on until after I went to bed (11pm). I understand that some people are too lazy to take the lights down but are some people too lazy to unplug them? URGH!

This week the weather is going to be above temps and I think almost rain free. I hope it lasts.

One last thing…A neighbor of my dad’s gave him 20 pounds of freshly ground sausage yesterday. I guess we will be making tamales for the freezer and that will take up one day this week.

What else is going on in your world?

Dave Lieberman

I can’t be the only one to see something here.

I saw Brokeback Mountain

Where to start? I saw the movie this afternoon and was really in a bummer mood afterwards so I wanted to take some time to reflect and just think things through before I wrote about it here. For those that haven’t seen it, I won’t give anything away as I am more or less just going to be general in nature.

The movie overall is a great piece of work! I think almost everyone’s performance is top notch and made the characters very believable. There really isn’t anything good at the end (as far as feelings go) so you are left with just emptiness (or at least with me). It was excellently performed and just draws in and leaves you just like one of the characters at the end…like you have been hit in the gut.

Jake Gyllenhaal (Jack Twist) did a fantastic job playing the more outspoken guy of the two. I thought Jack came across as being honest and again believable to have fallen in love with Ennis. Jack has a better grasp on what he wants and seems to be very comfortable with himself. At times Jack has this “fuck the world” mentality and just wants to be happy with the one he loves (Ennis).

Heath Ledger (Ennis Del Mar) steals the show. WOW! Ennis has a hard time dealing with the fact that he has fallen in love with a man (Jack). Ennis is more worried about what others think than Jack but then again I think Ennis was just being cautious due to the time frame the movie takes place. The two originally fall in love in 1963 and the movie covers the next two decades and back in those days it wasn’t too far fetched to be killed for doing what these two were doing!

One thing that may be hard for some people to understand is the bitterness Ennis has towards Jack at times. I think that Ennis has a hard time just dealing with the whole falling in love with Jack. Jack knows what he wants and has no problem voicing those feelings.

Michele Williams (she plays Ennis Del Mar’s (Heath) wife) does a fabulous job as she isn’t really the center of the movie but she is a part of the center character of the movie. At times you feel for her because you get the feelings she is having. There is one scene with her and Ennis are in the kitchen that really just gave me chills. She pegged the scene without looking as if she were even acting. I wonder what “place” she had to take herself to in order to get in the role.

Anne Hathaway (plays Jack Twist’s (Jake) wife) did a fairly good job but for some reason I thought she was the weak link. Her acting was well done but her hair and make-up was lacking. At times, she appeared to stick out like a sore thumb because of her big hair and make-up she became the center of the scene when she shouldn’t have. I think she did a great job in a phone scene towards the end of the movie.

Overall, I think they hype of all this man-on-man sex thing is blown out of proportion but the hype about the acting and directing are spot on. The movie deserves the attention it is getting and I am so glad I got to see it in the theatre. Just be sure to tinkle first…the movie started at 1:10 and I got in my car to come home at 3:45. I give it a must see!

My last vacation

This isn't actually my last vacation but it is the last really fun one. There were 13 of us and we had a blast. This pic was taken just before I started down the hill and quickly did 3-4 flips with my head being the first thing that hit the snow. Ahhhhh the memories!

WHEW!

I have been in a tailspin since reading the paper this morning about our local NBC affiliate thinking of not showing The Book of Daniel in my area. For those that don’t visit that other place that we talk about sometime…here is the skinny.

For those that have seen the thread over at the other place feel free to skip the next paragraph.

The local NBC affiliate received around 350 emails from Christians that were concerned that the show would be offensive to them. The Christians decided this just by viewing the 30 spots that have been airing as commercials. The affiliate invited a few of them to a viewing last night. No one else was invited and all of them said they were offended by what they saw. The affiliate will decide today on whether to run the show tomorrow night or not.

I don’t think I have ever gotten a thresd over 100 posts that quickly. Anyways, today has been a yucky day weather wise and I have the blahs. Does anyone else have the blahs?

Anyone for a leather dude?

This man appeared in Advocate Men (under the name of Paul Stephens) back in the '90s but I still like it!

Actually, I was just playing around with my new scanner and wanted to make sure I could use it and it's new editing software. I guess it worked!

Brokeback Mountain

The movie starts in my city on Friday and some friends and I will be going for the first or second showing.

I can’t wait to see it and will give a review after I have seen it. A friend of mine from Atlanta saw it last night and said that it was very touching. He wouldn’t give me any hints as to anything that happens but he said we HAD to talk after I see it.

I will finally be able to see what all the hype is about.

Are you gonna see it?

Very serious post

Over the past few days I have discovered that I am not as educated on some things as I thought. Let’s get serious for a few minutes...umkay? Let’s talk porn!

I have been watching porn for years and have seen a wide variety of fetishes and have always felt in the know with what was popular. I am not talking about just gay porn but all types as I am a real voyeur and love to watch! (Ok...maybe that was TMI but get over it). I know the peeps behind the counter at my local rental place think I am really a screwed up individual. The local place has an ongoing special of renting 3 vids for $10 for 3 nights...can’t beat that with a stick! I have been known to rent a straight, bi and gay video at one time. I guess I am an equal opportunity porn watcher if you will.

However, over the holidays I happened upon a site that is very similar to RTVW except they discuss porn and porn of all types! Over the weekend, I spent time reading many of the threads there and I learned more in two days than over the 20 years that I spent watching the stuff. The funny thing is that porn is just like TV in that there are trends (fetishes) and tend to change very quickly.

All this got me wondering just how many of these types of fetishes are played out in homes of the very people that post over at that other place. How many of them are played out with the peeps reading this right now? You know who you are!

Bowl Day

Today is going to be a lazy day for me as I am going to be on the sofa watching football all day. The weather is terrible so no need to go outside. I feel a call to Pizza Hut coming on...that way I can just nibble all afternoon long.
Anyone want to join me?

Yesterday was a great day for me and the family. I went to my parent’s house and had a wonderful lunch and then my 3 nephews and I played croquet all afternoon long. The temps were in the 60s and was just screaming to get out and enjoy. I feel like I was productive on the first day of the year and now I am going to enjoy my favorite sport...FOOTBALL!

Have a good one everyone.