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Right now, I am in New York doing my best to support the theater. I have seen 3 shows so far, with 3, or 4, to come. My reviews will have to wait until I get home since I can add pictures and clips using my PC that I don't know how to do on an IPad. Visiting New York is not only fun for theater, but I get to see so many old friends. I am also going to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Central Park, and Century 21, my favorite discount department store. On top of all of that, I will be meeting a gay grandnephew for the first time. He is living the party life in New York that I would have loved to do. Of course, I'd be dead if I had moved to New York at 21. On the trip in. I really was lucky. Got Premium Economy to Denver, then an exit row to NYC with no one in the middle seat, and most surprisingly, my luggage was the very first one to come out to the luggage belt! The hotel gave me a room with a view of Times Square, and the show I saw my first night was one of the funniest shows I have ever seen.

Thanks, Bud. Where would we be if you had not decided to join us?

Gosh, all of those poor soldiers who went to war to protect and defend our rights did so for noting if we are going to give up those rights so easily to so-called "trained" people to handle them as they see fit. I have to say , hitoallusa, that you don't seem to value freedom and liberty and the American way.

All I asked was for the bitching and kvetching to be done in a thread that did not have my name in the title.

Is it not enough that you have won the hearts and minds of your fellow posters?

citylaw, I would respect your position much more except for the fact that when you were recently banned, you asked me to post a thread at Daddy's calling attention to the problems at the site. I could not get back to you because that was when the malware issues here began. In the interim, you were allowed back at the site and I was banned. But, when you got back to the site, did you create the thread there that you had wanted me to create? No. Did you complain at all when I was banned? No. Yet we here are now supposed to be all concerned that you got yourself banned again. Now we're are all brothers in arms...at least until you are allowed back at the site. Then we will again be forgotten.

There is a website called biddingfortravel.com at which I participated for a long time and contributed quite a bit of information. The website is owned by a woman named Sheryl, and she rules the place with an iron hand and a short temperament. She has driven so many posters away that the site is of much less value since so few contributions come in. The purpose of the site is good. You post the bid that won you a hotel on Priceline, and this helps others make more intelligent bids on Priceline. You no longer bid so blindly. If you have no trouble following Sheryl's rules, the site might make your bidding much better. Sheryl does not like the fact that I find her rules cumbersome and say so. She beat deej to the punch long ago and banned me! It always amazes me that sites that depend on contributions of members can be so difficult to deal with. She is still in business, and I have no problem with you using that site to your benefit. I not only made money for her by using her link to Priceline, I travel a lot and provided many helpful bid information and other contributions to the site. Thankfully I am now a pretty savvy Priceline bidder and don't need the site as much. Are there any sites that you have problems with? Let us know so we can avoid them!

The problem for me is that the discussions on deej and the other site are coming here under a thread with my name on it. I don't care to be perpetually linked to the issues over there, so I will start a new thread for these discussions and ask that you respect the change and use that thread.

I've cleared the cache a million times and still get the warnings. Fewer of them, but it is still annoying.

It finally went away. It turned out to be a conversation that someone started even though I didn't know Yahoo had conversations.

Gosh. I didn't think he would actually read what I wrote...now he knows that I was worried about him.

That would be so cool if he did. My two posts there would get read! Gay movies would get discussed, and the Dead Sea Scrolls would still be dead.

Every once in a while this site goes through a flurry of posts about the other site. Attention is paid, and then those who came here to discuss that issue leave, and we are left where we were. This site will not grow if it just a place to bash the other site. My suggestion is to move on, post interesting things that others will want to stick around to read, and remember, only this site shows hard cocks.

Chicago theater audiences saw two plays in 2012 that were expected to be Broadway bound. Both played at the Goodman Theater, a leading Chicago house. One starred Nathan Lane, a proven Broadway winner, the other starred Diane Lane and the hunky Finn Witrock. Neither will ever be seen on Broadway in what is proving to be the toughest market in years. The NY Times reports: "Among plays, meanwhile, two admired revivals at the Goodman Theater — of “The Iceman Cometh” and “Sweet Bird of Youth” — will not be coming to Broadway because of lack of interest from producers. Two other plays that have been announced for Broadway, “The Miss Firecracker Contest” and “The Velocity of Autumn,” are awaiting word on theaters, said the producer of both, Larry Kaye." With 15 backstage unions to deal with, costs to mount a Broadway show are rising, and audiences are not willing to pay the increasing prices necessary to make a profit. Investors, too, are wiser, as they see several shows flop this season. The musical Diner, previously scheduled for April 10th, has been put off until the fall. "“Diner” is only one of several musical projects that were announced or aimed for Broadway in the 2012-13 season but were delayed or canceled, in some cases because producers were not able to raise money. The other shows include movie-to-musical adaptations like “Flashdance,” “Big Fish,” and “Honeymoon in Vegas,” as well as “Rebecca” and “Prince of Broadway.” Fans looking forward to the musical Rebecca were doubly disappointed. Not only did it not open as planned, but the investors turned out to be partially invented by a middleman now charged with fraud. So, I guess I was lucky that I went to Chicago and saw Nathan Lane in A Long Day's Journey into Night, and Finn Witrock in Sweet Bird of Youth. Not so lucky though that both plays were good. I thought Sweet Bird stunk. Only Finn's abs made it worthwhile.

I like them, I just can't afford them!

Thanks, guys. I like this thread so much better than one where I am talking about problems at the other site. Let's let that one slide into the past and take advantage of several new posters here to build this site into a friendly and intelligent place to interact with other gay guys who also like escorts!

Yes, I am following this. The boy giggling on the tape must be one of the stupidest kids in the world. I hope they suffer the consequences of their behavior.

Let's stick to the funny stuff, shall we? I had my friend glutes take a picture of me in the cornfields today:

Well, if Townie is going to be there, all the more reason to try to add it to my calendar!

Surely Mr. Aces can find a computer somewhere. I hope that he wasn't in despair when he left. After all, his fortunes had taken a turn for the worse. But he has friends here, and when you need friends, this can be the place to be.

I don't know Rod Hagen, but I think he made some salient points and that he did it with respect. it didn't come across as whining to me. I have always felt that the contest was arbitrary. I don't know BudFoxx either, but everything I have seen so far tells me that he has the chance to be a funny and charming guy. Or is crazy as a fox? We'll see.

RA1, I had missed your comment, but now that I have seen it, yes, you should have been banned! Seriously, it does give some real perspective to what causes a ban, or more the arbitrariness of it. None of us though will end up lionized in biographies. One of the things that seems consistent with a biography is that we learn how flawed the person was. Any biography of me would have a (corn)field day with all of my flaws. If we didn't have them, we wouldn't have learning opportunities. It is just not an honor to a person to whitewash his life. To say he was flawless is to say he wasn't human. To love a person, flaws and all, is the better tribute than to have loved a cardboard cutout.

The movie is based upon the survival of a real family, a Hispanic family, But of course they are white in the movie. The NY Times review says it better than I did: Survivors are also witnesses, and “The Impossible” shows us, through the eyes of one unbelievably lucky family, some terrible things, including mangled bodies and parents in despair. But as Maria and Henry’s ordeal unfolds, the film’s focus starts to feel distressingly narrow. Virtually everyone shown suffering after the tsunami is a European, Australian or American tourist, and the fact that the vast majority of the dead, injured and displaced were Asian never really registers. At one point Maria and Lucas are cared for by residents of a small village and later they are helped by Thai doctors, but these acts of selfless generosity are treated like services to which wealthy Western travelers are entitled. And the terrible effects of the tsunami on the local population are barely acknowledged. This is not to dismiss the real anguish of people like the family on whose miraculous survival Mr. Bayona’s movie is based, nor to scold the director for making this movie instead of another. But there is a troubling complacency and a lack of compassion in “The Impossible,” which is less an examination of mass destruction than the tale of a spoiled holiday. You could also say that it is a movie about the consequences of global inequality, but unfortunately only by accident.

"Overall though, it is a positive story about the strength and perseverance of parents under unbelievable adversity in order to ensure the safety of their loved ones." It is that. But I agree that the Thai guys should not see it. Not because it might be too traumatizing, but because it takes a major event in their country and makes it about rich white people. The Thais are pretty much kept in the background. The movie isn't so much about the tsunami as it is about this family. I didn't have any reason to care about them over anyone else who suffered. I would rather have seen a more general movie about the tsunami. It does highlight the problem of being in a foreign country, unable to speak the language, and needing serious help

I think a little bit of Ice on my face would do it.