AdamSmith

One can hope.

Day after I first met him there, I came back in at my usual derelict mid-afternoon hour, and the barmaid sternly addressed me: '[Adam,] last night you spent an hour hitting on Frank Miller!' To which I replied, 'Only intellectually.' The lovely thing was that, moments after that scolding, Miller himself sauntered in, picked a barstool right beside me, and resumed our convo from the night before.

Actually, his was such a mess that almost anything I might have done could only have improved it.

Yeah! But as you noted above, his real-life domestic situation was FUBAR at that time. So one kept to just a bit st the distance.

We may not think of it that way simply because it's not. in circa late '70s-early '80s, as an undergraduate it entertained me to flirt with and try to seduce some of my male professors in their 30s (the ones still in their 20s were generally still too tender and uncertain). And a couple or three of us had a very good time. Vithout ze Provost having to know!

Ruling seems pretty carefully & narrowly drawn, to allow plenty of room for legal opinion to grow into formal approbation of sex work in future. i am pretty optomistic here.

Again...

After your death, why do you care?

Here we go.

Like we weren't before.

Wong is one of the baddest asses on the planet right now. He doesn't give a shit about his personal safety, so he is the greatest kind of danger to the Beijing regime. (Very much like Pussy Riot's leaders to Pootin.) Here in the US, things like the Selma march were much the same. This could really go places for the Chinese citizenry.

But, again, a fascinating bar buddy!

There is definitely that. And yeah, I would not like to have been any of his life partners. (As such.) He is definitely an asshole in his personal life.

You think? He was a cute little thing in person... (I am 58 now, so we were age-appropriate. And he is 'straight,' so that would have been interesting...) We would sit around talking about Krazy Kat etc & the origins of cartooning.... Fascinating!

But again, in the end, Mueller...

Actually, yes.

EVERYONE does.

By seducing & dragging home every patron therein (male, female & every creature in-between) across 2 years of sitting there and becoming genuine friends with them. I even almost (wouldn't have happened, but only by a little bit) turned drinking partner Frank Miller. Sin City, Batman Returns, 300 etc I suppose I really was Barnabas after all!

We do have this egocentric attachment to the construction of our own neurophysiological system. 'Dave. Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave?...''