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Just to contrast with most of the guys who had what I call a bowl cut, but that's probably not accurate either. I could have just said a regular haircut but that wouldn't help much. I suppose there are names for hairstyles. I don't know them.

It's not being used from what I could tell when I asked people at the food stand outside about what the bar used to be called

Have updated my original post with additional contact details, also added Siam House; which is between Dorothy's and Poseidon.

Zing continues to be very busy. While I was checking in yesterday (about 2 pm), they turned away another customer without a reservation & told him that they were fully booked.

I always love it when someone says they had to go somewhere for a "conference" My doctor last time I went to visit him said he was going away for a week to Indonesia for a medical conference I said what's the difference between a holiday and conference "I can claim back on the Tax deduction he said ,all paid for !

The “indoor swimming pool” consists of what could be described as a large bathtub, through which flows a pumped stream of water, against which you can swim. I found this quite amusing but my 2 night boy refused to join me in the water. I stayed there just before Covid - it was fine, but I can’t remember using the restaurent. It was 100% gay.

50 years have just passed since the very gay Pier Paolo Pasolini's last film Salo, or as it is often referred to as The 100 Days of Sodom, was premiered. Based on the writing of the Marquis de Sade it is as usual with Pasolini highly erotic, yet also as described by The Guardian as a "terrifying masque about fascism and compliance, an accounting of both sides of the totalitarian coin. Like De Sade’s own writing, it’s about power, not pleasure: who possesses it and whom it destroys. It’s an apocalyptic masterpiece that remains unbearable to watch." It was so shocking it was banned in the UK for 25 years. The Marquis de Sade had written the book while imprisoned in the Bastille. But he was only there for 37 days before he was transferred to an asylum. As described in an article in the New Humanist magazine, the story line is gresome - The film’s plot is straightforward. Four “Fascist” libertines – the Duke, the Bishop, the Magistrate and the President – kidnap nine young men and nine young women, and take them to a villa near the town of Salò. (The choice of “Salò” was no accident – the real Salò was the de facto capital of Mussolini’s Nazi-backed Italian Social Republic, and it was near here that Pasolini’s brother Guido had been killed in 1945.) Accompanied by four male guards, four soldiers and four middle-aged prostitutes who tell lewd stories to inflame the men, they carry out a series of tortures and humiliations on their young victims, eventually torturing them to death. Pasolini was a brilliant intellectual, one of the most prolific creators of all time and yet an artist who always courted controversy. In effect, and despite the shocked reaction of audiences, the movie is essentially an amalgam of Pasolini's own very left-wing views. In it he attacks authoritarianism, globalism and consumerism, basically telling us how disgusting modern society had become in his eyes. To a certain extent he was a visionary for much of what he considered life had become has indeed come to pass in 2025. Even so, some of his work came to be much praised. Frequently criticised violently by the Vatican, in 2014 it partly changed its mind and called Pasolini's movie The Gospel According To St. Matthew "the best film ever made about Jesus Christ." A month before Salo's release, Pasolini was murdered in the most gruesome manner. Always gay, he had a predilection for teenage working class hustlers. On November 2 1975 he was found dead in the seaside town of Ostia outside Rome. The evening before he had picked up a 17-year old youth named Giuseppe Pelosi near Rome's main station. After eating dinner together, they drove to Ostia. After the body was discovered, Pelosi admitted that Pasolini had made a particularly painful homosexual advance on him. Pasolini tried to get him to change his mind, whereupon the boy battered his body very badly, especially around his testacles. He then ran over the body in Pasolini's silver Alfa Romeo before racing it back to Rome. Some, including members of Pasolini's own family, considered the boy was a patsy and that the murder had been committed by more influential figures in Italy, perhaps even the mafia. But that still remains conjecture since Pelosi had after some days confessed to the murder. In 1983 he was released on probation. Yet nearly 20 years after the murder, Pelosi retracted that confession. He died of lung cancer in 2017 aged 59. The real motive behind the murder and by whom it was comitted remains a mystery. Pasolini was just 53. There is a lot of full frontal nudity in Salo. There is one scene where the teenagers about to be married all enter naked. I can only find a copy of the complete movie on a Russian website. This one below is dubbed into English. And for anyone wanting to see that particular scene, look at this you tube version at 41'15" in from the start. Just click on the small screen at the top. There is more nudity elsewhere where the guys seem particularly better endowed. But I just do not have time to locate them! https://m.ok.ru/video/1644224711193 The young Giuseppe Pelosi in prison - photo The Italian Insider website https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/nov/01/what-did-pasolini-know-fifty-years-after-his-brutal-the-directors-vision-of-fascism-is-more-urgent-than-ever https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/4908/salo-the-unseen-movie https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/24/who-really-killed-pier-paolo-pasolini-venice-film-festival-biennale-abel-ferrara

Haha no doubt there is a shortage. I was referring to local guys willing to top

Maybe if Mayor Pete runs you could be his running mate. It would add to diversity to the ticket. 😉

600 Thai baht is $18. Not a very expensive lesson. It can be all overwhelming under your circumstances. I have a feeling that you are going to be more prepared for the next adventure. Have some fun.

Hillary Clinton pantsuits REALLY dont suit me....... I am more of a cock-tail dress kinda girl ! 😏

Some of us have standards.

I never Godon but I did find another very attractive CMU model. Do other beside Goson also work in massage shops?

The only push back I would make to that is that some Republicans don't like cruelty .................... to themselves. As in committing political suicide by fucking over their own constituents on health care. We've seen this movie before in 2018. Just trying to kill Obamacare and pre-existing conditions killed 42 Republican House members. Of course the GOP had a larger majority before the 2018 midterms. So they had more to lose. And as I argued above, killing Obamacare would have been way more severe and hurtful than just taking away relatively new help on affordability. So you can even argue the Republicans are less cruel than in 2018. I don't think they will lose 42 House seats. Democrats have already mouthed off that they are expanding the number of House seats they target to include some House members in what would be considered pretty solid red districts. Running against Trump definitely would be dumb in these districts, since Trump won them. Running against his cruelty and how people were fucked on health care and hunger and prices is a hole different matter. We'll see if Democrats can do a Pelosi-style raw political execution without Pelosi in charge of it. Here's the bad news, regardless of how well things go for House Democrats. First, as you note, we are stuck with Trump for at least three more years. Unless he has a fat attack and dies. Praise Jesus. Second, in that same 2018 election when Democrats romped in the House, they lost two Senate seats. Some red wave! And how it happened is, I think, one of the most important problems Democrats face. Democrats picked up two seats in Arizona and Nevada, and lost four seats in Missouri, North Dakota, Indiana, and Florida. Charlie Cook nailed it that year by calling Trump a "color intsenifier". He makes red redder, and blue bluer. And a handful of states like Arizona and Nevada still don't know what color they are. I don't think this brawl will get settled until Democrats win back states like iowa, North Dakota, Florida, and Indiana. It is simply mathematically impossible to break a Senate filibuster, or even get 51 votes. And I think we know that winni9ng those states means being less woke, and more working class. And right now there are at best only glimmers of hope that this can be done. I ain't holding my breath for 2026. Which means a Senate GOP majority in 2027 is still very likely, if not certain. That said, if they fuck with health care and food prices enough, maybe not. But my main point is that fighting Trump for being Trump is necessary, but not sufficient. It helps in California and New York City. It hurts in Iowa, Indiana, North Dakota, and Missouri. If we want a majority that can actually help the working class, and not billionaires, that needs to be at the center of what the next Democratic POTUS ushers in. Any volunteers? How about you, Sis? 😉

January: Quiet month! February: medical conference in Fort Lauderdale Late March-April: Belgium & Paris May: Cruise--Barcelona, Toulon, Cinque Terre, Rome, Capri, Valletta, Messina/Taormina, Palma de Mallorca, Cartagena, Granada (Alhambra), Portimao, Lisbon, further travel to Sintra, Batalha, Tomar, and Alcobaça. June: fabulous Flag Day party at my place! July: Saugatuck Michigan, Grand Rapids, Mackinac Island. August: fabulous party at my place! September: quiet month! October: Sensational New England leaf peeping tour, including the easternmost point in the Continental US/closest place in the US to Africa (West Quoddy Head, Maine), topped by a medical conference in Providence RI November: just finished a quick trip to Las Vegas, preparing family dinner for Thansgiving December: Antarctic Cruise, with extension in Santiago

while you are right there's other side of coin - customers who after massage ++++ pretend they were under impression that massage fee incudes everything and refuse to pay tip. I heard it quite a few times in both Pattaya and Bangkok, most recently on my last trip in Aug. So unfortunately venue needs to take steps to shield boy's earnings

what about sightseeing ?

I owe, I owe, so off to work I go... 😉

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Was Sister Conehead too much for the justices to suffer, yes, even for the Gavel Gang at our corrupt Supreme Court? Perhaps the MAGA playbook doesn't call for killing marriage equality right now. Indeed, let's keep our eyes open for another attempt. 🌈

Kaikan Onsen: First Impressions Straight away you’ll notice how different Kaikan feels compared with some of the older saunas in Bangkok like Sauna mania. There’s a modern sleekness to the building, a strong Japanese aesthetics/minimalist vibe. Plenty of pools and zones, a real men‑only playground. It has a spacious main pool and a long jacuzzi pool beside it. It is the only onsen style men facility with outdoor pool in Bangkok. All others are entirely indoors. The Crowd & Vibe This place is not cliquey in the way that some places can feel (“you must know someone, you must be part of a group…”). It leans open and inclusive. Body types? Everything from lean twinks to more mature guys, a lot in their 30s to 40s, comfortable in their bodies, relaxed rather than hyper‑sculpted. With an occasional bear. Age range seems broader too, older guys show up, they mix in, and there’s less of that “everyone must be 23 and ripped” pressure than in some rivals. Please do your research on the onsens before you go. Ryuu onsen for example is notorious in being cliquey and making those who don’t fit their criteria feel unwelcome. While the onsens in Bangkok does not have clear age boundaries like many saunas in Japan. That does not mean you are made to feel welcome everywhere (!) Facilities Worth Mentioning Outdoor pool: one of the few gay men‑only onsen/sauna venues in Bangkok that features a proper outdoor pool area. Multiple zones: steam room, sauna, milky bath, cold pool, and a “cave”‑style milky pool that gets a lot of thumbs up for mood. Lockable cabins and private rooms upstairs, good for chilling or more discreet chats. The place is “busy but not chaotic” and the crowd “friendly, educated”. Please bring condoms and lube if you intend to spend early time in the lockable or not so lockable cabins upstairs. If you want to attend the secret hour, then lube and condoms are provided free of charge. The “Secret Hour” There’s a special moment from around 8:30 pm upstairs where things shift. Models in glowing necklaces appear; and are available for fun in public. The vibe becomes more party‑charged, play enters into the mix, orgiastic. If you’re comfortable with more “social” or “interactive” atmospheres, this is when the scene deepens. Pro Tips: Arrival earlier in the evening gets you better space in the pool areas; if you turn up late, you might find the premium spots taken. While the place feels inclusive, staff are a bit tight lipped. Pricing is transparent but premium compared with some older saunas (450B during weekend). Also be aware of the day (complete nude day etc check their facebook beforehand) Also you will be informed which models will be attending the secret hour. I will not review the facilities in depth as this has been done on YouTube:

Seconded - and the host of other great British actors like Dame Judi Dench, Dame Helen Mirren, Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Derek Jacobi. They were all jobbing actors who made their reputations early in their careers by playing in weekly repertory plays that toured Britain. That is how I was able to see Dame Maggie as a youngster when the new National Theatre toured. She was in a Franco Zeffirelli production of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing with her then husband the wonderful Robert Stephens and a cast including such luminaries as Anthony Hopkins, Derek Jacobi and Frank Finlay. All for peanuts in those days.

Yes, City became Gacuya. It was rumoured to belong to a policeman. The mamasan was a flamboyant character whom I recall wearing outrageous, feathered hats. She could go outside and then suddenly open the door theatrically to re-enter, expecting the clientele to look round in admiration. We tended not to do so. It was a twink bar. And one of my favourites..

Debatable - agreed. But the governments in both Singapore and Hong Kong have spent billions in attracting international business corporations to base themselves in their cities because that is where the big taxation profits will eventually accrue (although Singapore has reduced taxation in the first years of relocation to the city state). Equally their Tourism Associations have spent more billions in providing some of the things expatriate managers - middle level and above - will miss if they are relocated to their Asian offices. Often managers just do not want to move, to relocate families, find schooling for their kids, and live in a part of the world they know little about. To suggest that musicals which tour to those cities - and indeed now to cities like Taipei, Shanghai, Beijing and others - are sub-standard is simply untrue! The quality is extraordinarily high, even given the demands and the costs of touring compared to having a show sit in London or New York for years. Besides, they provide a major tourism draw. I was on a contract for the Hong Kong Tourist Authority when Phantom of the Opera first visited for a 16-week run exactly three decades ago. It was only also performing in Singapore and Seoul that year. Just one travel agent in Taipei sold 10,000 3-night Phantom packages offering three different levels of Hong Kong hotel including the 5-star Peninsula. Others in Taiwan and especially The Philippines sold many more. The producers of most touring musicals aim to give Asian audiences an experience virtually as similar to those originally produced. As far as squality is concerned, perhaps @khaolakguy will inform us if he saw CATS, The Lion King or the handful of other imported touring musicals which have visited Bangkok and played in the excellent 1,500 seat Rajadalai Theatre. Did he regard the quality as sub-standard or is that just an impression? Please tell us. I saw them, and the quality was not in the slightest sub-standard. Singapore has additionallly had hugely successful runs of Mamma Mia (I took friends three times to see it in Singapore on its first run of several months there), WIcked, Sweeny Todd, Miss Saigon, Les Miserables, Beauty and the Beast, The Sound of Music, Hamilton and a host of others. Indeed, as reported in the Straits Times, a Broadway aficionado, Mr Jian Yang, the managing partner at integrated communications company Distilleri, who used to travel to Broadway and London to watch his favourite musicals is among many Singaporeans who merely stay at home to see the plethora of internationally renowned musicals now performed there. https://www.straitstimes.com/life/entertainment/curtains-up-musicals-enjoying-post-pandemic-boom-in-singapore

Not to nitpick, but the name was Gacuya, not Gaycuya. Here's an old post from 2006 by catawumpuscat (RIP) that mentions Gacuya Bar. If I remember correctly, the narrow Kawaii Bar was just to the left of it, then past that, the stairs leading up to the second floor Dynamite Bar, which was above Kawaii and Gacuya bars.