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No problem. I always get blasted when I talk about this again but hell, it has been a long weekend anyway.
Other than a few escorts, I spent more time with the Hooboy than anyone on these message boards. We spent time together on 4 different continents and in a variety of places. We had a blast together. Hooboy ran the Male4Male Escort Review site which split off into this site and Daddy's site after his death.
During its peak, Hooboy was making a great deal of money from many sources. When I owned an escort agency in NYC, I paid handsomely for banners on his site but so did many others. When he convinced me to retire and start traveling more, we spent a great deal of time with finances and he was making well over 20k per month from one vendor alone. That was the reason when he died that so many people were so interested in trying to take his site away from his estate without the knowledge of the family. It would have been easy to do had I not interfered and offered a tremendous amount of money to the executor of his estate. I offered it as I knew I would get a good return on my investment.
Daddy and I both started sites after Hoo died but neither have been the same as the original site. Hoo's was the best and made the most amount of money. But, even during its heyday, Hoo would ask for donations. I am not sure why he did that but it was something that many people wanted to do. Once they found out they had been duped all those years, many left with a very bad taste in their mouth for donations to any site. Understandably.
I do not know how much Daddy makes. It is not my business and I do not care. But, many of the old timers know what these donations are often used for and prefer not to give. However, I have the opposite advice. If you get value from his site and you wish to pay him for his services, please help him. I think it is good use of money. Do not consider it a donation as much as a present. If you look at it that way, you will not be upset in the end.
For many on these sites, money is no issue and they do not mind helping out the owner of the site. That is very thoughtful and should not make anyone feel bad for donating. Please give to him if you have the ability and want his site to continue but don't think it is a donation to a charity case as much of a gift for someone to live a live they enjoy.
While you are at it, I am really in need as well. I saw Justin Beiber and Orlando Bloom were in Ibizia. I'd love to go there but the ticket is 9,000 (business of course) and my hotel is 1k per night. 12 nights would be sufficient for me to have a good time and recuperate from my surgery this week. (yes I had surgery and can provide proof of that for any party interested in making a donation) However, I can't provide receipts of the 21k as I might spend a bit of that on a few escorts being the whore that I am.
Please send this money to $#%^@#$^$#@mac.com Western Union OK. Paypal OK. CC OK. Cash better. USD or Euro only.

Several years back, I lived in Thailand in a beautiful 5 bedroom house with a huge swimming pool next door to the ocean. I love it and I filled each of the 5 room with beautiful Thai boys who were there with me day and night. It was a very fun year and I am still friends with those boys and 2 of them are still living with me now many years later.
I wanted to throw parties and have fun and I did. I threw the most amazing parties with tons of booze, good music and great food. My parties were famous for being the gay events to attend. There were a few groups of people in the city that I was friends with. One group hated some other gay men in the area. As I am the friendly sort, I was able to be friends with both groups.
At a party I was having to celebrate the King's Birthday in Thailand and no bars are open and no liquor can be sold in the stores that day, my pantry was full and the party was going to be filled with over 70 of the hottest gogo boys you could imagine as many were friends of the boys living in my humble abode.
The party quickly grew in gossip and everyone wanted to attend. I invited them all as I really wanted everyone to have a great time that night. Finally, my best friend in the city said that he hated one guy so much that he would not be going to the party unless he knew that the guy was not invited. Now, that guy he hated was hard to take, very boisterous and pretty damn controversial in the city. He even pissed me off from time to time on the message boards by spreading gossip. But, I loved hanging out with him. He was great fun and all my boys loved him as he treated them with kindness and they loved his goofy demeanor.
My best friend threw down the gauntlet and demanded that I now cater to his need to have this guy uninvited. I thought about it and finally I decided it was not a road I was willing to take. I told my best friend that I care about him but I was not going to play games with inviting and uninviting people to the party. He said that he would not be there and that his friends would not come either. I said OK and that was no problem for me. The party was really for the Thai boys to have fun and they did. The foreigners that did come had a blast and to this day tell me when I see them about the amazing parties they have in their memory. My best friend, well we are no longer friends. He did not like that I "chose" someone else over him and I did not like being put into an uncomfortable position.
Parties are supposed to be great events. My house was huge and would have been very easy to avoid one guy when over 200 were in attendance and more than 80 percent were hot sexy boys. But, my mother always told me something good when I was a kid and we were having a small party for family and friends. A similar situation arose. She said to my cousin, "don't ask me to choose between you and someone else. As much as I love you, I'd always end up choosing the person who didn't ask me to do that." That has stuck in my memory all these years and perhaps that is the main reason I love to have parties and invite many and let them all decide if they wish to attend the party. For those that don't want to attend, I am saddened but life goes on. For those that wish to attend, I can promise a good time and good conversation and good food.

Look, every time there is a meltdown on the other site, one escort or poster comes over here to decry how horrible we are to not be more supportive and to stir the pot. The first time this happened was when the site started. The escort in question revealed things on the site that he got from admins of another site. It may have just been coincidence that he decided to post them here but the ending result was new posters would see the passion that many on the site have about both sites.
The same thing happened during the great meltdown.
The same thing is happening now with one poster trying this darnedest to stir the pot and constantly keep bring up things so that the threads progress in a negative way. I'll call this the Karl Rove of the escort boards. Why? The playbook is always the same. The results are always the same. Maybe I am over reading things. But, when a duck walks like a duck and has web feet and a bill, I often think it is a duck.