AdamSmith

Well, don't just stand there jawboning,Spock -- get crackin'!

Accords with my experience with my most beloved ephebe... http://mobile.philly.com/health/?wss=/philly/health&id=140040923

!!! The verb was, indeed, meant in all its senses.

My after-hours-poolhall Irish boy on the DL from his mates. You must know him!

Beautiful mind! (Your'n. ) Exquisite nugget at heart of the question is how to diagram the relationship between privileged modifier "winter" and those secondary others "flip dark chill." Ah, Anthony! Second in some ways only to the divine Nabokov. ...the tongue taking a trip of three steps to tap at the teeth...

P.S. Sorry, correction. Meant to say the Napoleon Symphony quotation riffs the opening of the symphony's scherzo movement, not the first movement.

You noticed! ...Isn't everything available on Amazon nowadays? Except, possibly, catamites. Unless they are tagged under some euphemism. Must figure out how to add them to my Recommendations algorithm. To the point, just about any first line by Burgess is a tour de force... "What's it going to be then, eh?" There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie and Dim, Dim being really dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar making up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening, a flip dark chill winter bastard though dry. Ok, 2 lines. Or the start of Napoleon Symphony where he miraculously transliterates the opening bars of Beethoven's third -- From bivouac to bivouac to bivouac to bivouac and all the way with torches held aloft... or something like that, and so on. (http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/11/30/home/burgess-novel.html) Hmm...how hallucinatory would it be to make this summer's project a plow-through of all things Burgess? "...I was cured, all right!"

The Guardian gifts us with yet more goals to aspire to (read: reasons to feel inadequate)... http://m.guardian.co.uk/ms/p/gnm/op/sfioWFXk6cILR-DQO91AOkg/view.m?id=15&gid=culture/gallery/2012/apr/29/ten-best-first-lines-fiction&cat=culture

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Call

Soylent Yellow?

...the risks when Paracelsus has to work from memory...

And not to forget Japan's Iron Penis Festival... http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanamara_Matsuri

We will meanwhile suppress reference to that infamous statue in Brussels which manages to invoke not one but two of the more prominent paraphilias.

You know my pinching your idea was the sincerest form of flattery. Credit to Lucky for first pointing out Gresham's Law of Posting and its operation here. Good to hear management likes the notion of sequestering the currency in question.

Sally Struthers Returns!

Well, a vacuum (waiting for sniggering and sucking sounds from the peanut gallery to subside... ) which, as we know, nature abhors. That is to say, I happily glut myself on TVLand and oldie rock but most of the contemporary TV and music discussed here bores me shitless. My loss, but still. Point is, if more white space opened up in the Hooboy Lounge, I and others might feel more urge to fill it. Who knows?

Second the suggestion of creating a dedicated Entertainment/Arts forum (not THOSE entertainments!) for TV, film, music, drama.

Occasional-feature larf riot from The Guardian wherein Mrs P.M. pens the day's doings. Here after David's having to protest to a reporter that he really does know the price of milk, after all he does the shopping of a Friday or a Saturday... http://m.guardian.co.uk/ms/p/gnm/op/szH8cw2MQIXz5iLRAfqL-dQ/view.m?id=15&gid=lifeandstyle/2012/apr/24/mrs-camerons-diary-daves-politics&cat=lifeandstyle

Loved Barnabas, adored Frid. Weep then we with laughter... http://wn.com/mobile/Dark_Shadows__LIVE_bloopers!!

Next you will ask me to give up falling in love with my escort.

Baden-Powell admired Mein Kampf.

Let me be indelicate and suggest that one could, just possibly, if one were of tender heart and well meaning, experience perhaps an ever so slight meanness of tone in for example suckrates' continuing cracks about the twinks that a number of us post images of and/or swoon over. But, if so ... eh! Arguably any community benefits from at least a little piss and vinegar. Water sports can be enjoyably reciprocal.

Well, legalize sex work. ...But then, ah, rational social policy. Not always the strongest suit of our Shining City on a Hill.

Just so. As you say: Food? Nicotine? Also: Other drugs? At-risk sex? Violence (to others or to self)? ...Has always seemed to me a stroke of psychological genius that somebody thought to lump together the particular vices overseen by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

That was based on field work. But the FBI lab in Quantico, VA has yet to complete its investigations. I know some folks who work there; they are among the best forensic scientists anywhere. We'll see what, if anything, they find.