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I would be thrilled if this fella showed up at my door! http://www.vulture.com/2012/08/michael-shannon-escort.html

"Looking back, we were really very privileged to live in that thin slice of history where we changed how man looks at himself and what he might become and where he might go," Armstrong said. Hard to say it any better. http://www.cnn.com/2....html?hpt=hp_t1 Wonderful piece on the SEALs who secured the splashed-down capsule: http://lightyears.bl...apollo-11-home/ Sure to be much more in the next days. P.S. Great photo spread: http://life.time.com/history/photos-up-close-with-apollo-11/#1

A friend of mine on FaceBook has taken to posting pictures of himself taken during his younger days. This is making me nostalgic since I was crushing on him big time back then. A bit of history,,,, I moved to the Los Angeles area in 1995 and soon became a regular at Hunters and Numbers. I would see this guy in those places but did not connect with him for about five years. I then started"helping"him out financially but did not have sex with him despite the fact that he was totally "my cuppa". A few years later I was visiting the city he had relocated to and took him to dinner. I revealed my past feelings o him and my dissapointment that we had never fooled around, He …

Connie Chung turns 66 today. A former anchor, she was the first person to interview magic Johnson after his HIV diagnosis. Married to talk show host Maury Povich, she lives in New York at the famous Dakota apartment building. I stayed there for awhile myself. The Dakota has long been home to luminaries besides me, including Yoko Ono, Lauren Bacall, and Roberta Flack. I have seen Ms. Bacall, said hello to Yoko One right outside the mail room where John Lennon was taken after being shot, and rode the elevator with Ms. Chung. She was impeccably dressed and rode up with her head down so as to avoid contact. But, when I held the door for her, she gave me a nice smile and a t…

We should all know that as we get older we need to have a colonoscopy procedure. This is Billy Connolly's hilarious description (not for the faint of heart!) ScottishColonoscopy.wmv (sorry I don't know how to attach this without the need for readers to download it)

Anybody watching this MTV show? If so is it worth me catching up? http://www.mtv.com/v...html#id=1692102

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Actor Ron Palillo, best-known as loudmouthed Horshack on the '70s hit sticom Welcome Back Kotter, has died unexpectedly at age 63. He was survived by his partner of 41 years. http://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/television/2012/08/14/welcome-back-kotters-ron-palillo-dies

With the lovely Darren Criss putting on his best Justin Timberlake impression. . .

Returning to Bangkok last night, I read in the Asian edition of Business Traveller magazine about a frequent flyer who had had over 3 million miles deducted from his account by an airline! Apparently he flew regularly on a European airline between Spain or Turkey and the US west coast. Often he would not complete the trip by stopping over in Europe and then not using the last sector or two of the ticket. The flyer had asked an expert if such a deduction was legal. The answer is ‘yes’! The airlines can more or less do what they like with your miles and there is no legal redress. Governments are not going to help because they all want to tax frequent flyer miles but so …

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16 Grindr Profiles Now Banned Under the New Puritan Rules By: editor editor Apr 14, 2010 Software makers revise their guidelines all the time, but nobody tightens the rules faster than developers subject to Apple’s increasingly stringent rules about what can be sold in its iPhone app store. And that includes Grindr, which just outlawed a whole slew of profiles with some new PG-rules. That’s gonna affect a lot of ya.. The GPS-based meet-hook-look-up app has, because of the App Store’s existing rules, never allowed members to display naked photos in their main profile pictures. (What transpires in private chat is up to you.) But updated rules go much father. Basical…

A teacher in New York was teaching her class about bullying and gave them the following exercise to perform. She had the children take a piece of paper and told them to crumple it up, stamp on it and really mess it up but do not rip it. Then she had them unfold the paper, smooth it out and look at how scarred and dirty is was. She then told them to tell it they’re sorry. Now even though they said they were sorry and tried to fix the paper, she pointed out all the scars they left behind. And that those scars will never go away no matter how hard they tried to fix it. That is what happens when a child bully’s another child, they may say they’re sorry but the scars are there…

And the abject decline in discourse/news... The truth about the Fast and Furious scandal Quite simply, there's a fundamental misconception at the heart of the Fast and Furious scandal. Nobody disputes that suspected straw purchasers under surveillance by the ATF repeatedly bought guns that eventually fell into criminal hands. Issa and others charge that the ATF intentionally allowed guns to walk as an operational tactic. But five law-enforcement agents directly involved in Fast and Furious tell Fortune that the ATF had no such tactic. They insist they never purposefully allowed guns to be illegally trafficked. Just the opposite: They say they seized weapons whenever th…

Last Sunday, May 6th, some of the hottest boys on Broadway appeared at XL Nightclub in New York for Broadway Bares: Solo Strips. This was a precursor to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS' annual fundraiser, the dynamic vaudeville burlesque show known as Broadway Bares XXII. Solo Strips is more like the smooth and saucy little brother to Broadway Bares, and men packed the club to see the naughty nocturnal performances. Ironically, when Broadway Bares launched in 1992, it was actually quite similar to Solo Strips— a series of solo performances held at New York City’s legendary dance club Splash. Now 20 years later, Broadway Bares has grown tremendously—even spawning a rece…

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Joan Rivers commented on seeing these pictures of Elton John's ass on his yacht mooning a passing yacht, "You know the difference between Ellis Island and Elton John's ass? We know who's passed through Ellis Island. . "

Some of us might have want to start taking the bus!

James Franco has "teamed with gay art-porn director Travis Mathews to direct James Franco's Cruising, inspired by William Friedkin's controversial 1980 gay murder mystery Cruising." Warning - bare butt at link.

This episode aired tonight and this particular scene is still one of the funniest scenes I've ever seen. I laughed so hard when I saw this. Enjoy.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/entertainment/post/2012/08/comedian-phyllis-diller-dies-in-los-angeles/1#.UDKQvIl5mc0 Phyllis Diller has died in her sleep at the age of 95. She was quite the funny lady and a pioneer for women in that business. I actually saw her live a couple of times.

After many months of silence, BL has reappeared on one of the Boards! Passions will no doubt be reignited!

Someone call hitoallusa and get to the "bottom" of this! Apparently 20,457 pairs of fake Christian Louboutin shoes were seized late last week at Los Angeles International airport! The shipment came from China (of course) with hopes of raking in a street profit of $18 million. This is the most direct reason we believe hitoallusa must be in China. He's sending over shoes to sell on the streets of Santa Monica and Beverly Hills. Customs and Boarder Protection officials released this statement saying, "Often available on illegitimate websites and underground outlets, counterfeit high fashion commodities multiply the illegal profits of smugglers and traffickers," the agenc…

Comprehensive vivisection of how Microsoft got the way it is today. I had seen bits and pieces of this in other places, but nowhere as complete or synthesized: http://m.vanityfair.com/business/2012/08/microsoft-lost-mojo-steve-ballmer