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The Help gets a devastating critique in today's LA Times: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/the_big_picture/2011/08/is-the-help-hollywoods-latest-liberal-civil-rights-fantasy.html

And more: Cristiano You can meet Rafael Nadal at Macy's New York Herald Square on Thursday, August 25th, at 5 pm. Maybe even wait in line for hours!

Every Sunday I like to look at the NY Times wedding announcements to see who the cutest guy is. What do you think of today's choices? All in fun, right? The Asian: The Caucasian: The Gay Guys:

The bf waited in line for hours at Macy's to get me this poster of Marky Mark, and a signed pair of briefs. He got to shake Marky's hand- the very hand that held his dick and probably got cummed on many times. The poster now hangs in my bathroom, where I see it every day, and never tire of looking at it. So it was a good gift, eh? Like many of you, as a boy I loved looking at the Sears catalog pictures of men in their underwear. They never had bulges though. It took Calvin Klein to restore male virility to advertising. Even as time passes, and it does even for Mark Wahlberg, there are always new men willing to pose in their skivvies for us. For that we are grateful, are we not?

I clicked on the link in his last post and wrote to that blog. Do you have a better address?

I would not recommend waiting to book a New York hotel room until the day I arrived.

"I rarely read non-fictions these days but a movie based on the novel is in theaters so I decided to check the book out." The Help is fiction. My friends raved about the movie so much that we are seeing it this afternoon.

Think of all of those gay guys living in the deeper parts of China who have no chance to be who they are. North Korea too! But in each place there is no doubt someone who is trying, and then there are those who can't hide it very well. It must be a tough life. "The official China Daily newspaper said in 2005 that the number of homosexuals in China came to around 30 million, although it conceded few were willing to acknowledge their sexuality." (Picture and quote from AndrewGouldingarticles.blogspot.com)

The Edison Hotel for $297 a night? I once had a suite there for $125, but my mom had to barricade the door at night as the floor was full of strange characters. We moved to the Marriott Marquis for $159 a night. The Hilton Towers, where I have stayed for as little as $88 a night is now $391. The Hilton Garden Inn is $389, and that's supposed to be a Hilton Jr. Most 3 star hotels list around $300 a night. 2 Stars run about$225. I love New York, but like Rio, my visits there may become fewer.

That remark was not tongue in cheek. Every Sunday pastors implore us to become our better selves. It's perfectly fine with me if someone here wants to do that too. I can always use the reminders.

I had that problem with Air Asia. Nothing would work. Finally, at the last minute and as a last resort, I entered my AMEX number and everything went through the way it should have.

I thought it was funny that the guy did not want what he could have for free. Isn't that the case with a lot of us?

I am unfamiliar with bertj, but I wish him a happy birthday as well. I see that his 11th post is to thank hotoallusa. What does he have in store for the next 11?

A cute post, EXPAT.

Less than $10 to get naked guys right in your house? Where do you live, hitoall...the USA or Thailand?

BiBottom boy is not yet back, but I'd rather this thread led the menu than the one about Daddy's deleted comment! BTW, speaking of missing posters, I wrote to the blog that Four Aces said was his. I asked him to return to MER, but he did not respond. Do you suppose it was never really his web site?

Ditto!!!

Remember my question is whether it's worth seeing to drool over Conan, not whether it's a good movie. I just saw The Devil's Double, and it was worth seeing for Dominic Cooper's acting...and his butt...but I didn't care at all for Uday Hussein.

It's about straight women, but we can imagine it being about men, can't we? SEVEN DAYS IN RIO By Francis Levy Two Dollar Radio, paper, $16. Levy’s first novel, “Erotomania: A Romance” (2008), drew critical comparisons to Charles Bukowski, Henry Miller and D. H. Lawrence, with one critic praising his attention to “the mechanics and energy and animal filth of rumpy-­pumpy, bringing to his sex scenes all the humor they need.” These traits are on full display in his second novel, a ribald chronicle of the 60-­something Manhattan accountant Kenny Cantor, who’s come to Rio de Janeiro as a sex tourist. Cantor is obsessed with rumpy-­pumpy, yes; but he has exacting standards. When a buxom, beautiful concierge throws herself at him, Cantor is disgusted. “The thought that she wasn’t a prostitute and that I didn’t have to pay for sex was so repugnant to me that I lost all interest in her.” Cantor appears to be a lifelong bachelor without friends or attachments. He traces his preoccupation with prostitutes (or “Tiffanys,” as he calls them) to the wanton ways of his mother, “whose vagina was visible to me through the diaphanous nightgowns she insisted on wearing around the house.” This fever dream of a novel traces Cantor’s “desire to find the perfect whore to settle down with,” a rather insatiable goal.

In a startling example of how China discards its athletes, a former gymnast Champion has been found panhandling and performing street stunts to keep himself alive. More to the story: http://www.whatsonningbo.com/news-4000-ex-world-champ-zhang-shangwu-found-performing-gymnastic-stunts-for-money.html (If you are interested in sending me to China to help this young athlete, send checks to me!) In an unrelated matter: Hard times have caused handsome Christopher Alonzo, 26, to rob banks. We can't help him out now, but hadn't he heard of escorting?

I typically don't like movies like this, so my question is for those who have seen it: is it worth going to see just to drool over the body of the lead actor, Jason Momoa? About Jason Momoa

From the LA Times: Joe Manganiello, Alex Pettyfer, Matt Bomer, Matthew McConaughey and Channing Tatum. The Jeopardy answer: What is the Ministry's idea of Christmas morning? That list of easy-on-the-eyes actors is the nearly confirmed cast of "Magic Mike," a romp through the lives of male strippers based on Tatum's real-life experiences as a young exotic dancer. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/gossip/2011/08/magic-mike-stripper-movie-joe-manganiello-matt-bomer.html

"Our nation, and Europe it seems, have forgotten the lessons of the Great Depression or just do not believe them. It certainly is the case that those who do not remember history are destined to repeat it. Unfortunately, if they prevail they take everyone else with them." It doesn't look good, does it?

It seems like only yesterday we were bitching about Firefox 4.0. I upgraded to that and they took away my Google search bar, claiming it was incompatible with the new version. I don't remember 5.0, but now they want me to upgrade to 6.0. This time it is my AVG program they want to get rid of. So, I hit the "submit feedback" button to tell them what I thought. I dutifully listed my complaint and hit the submit button, but that did nothing. Apparently you can't really submit feedback.

It seems to me that it is irrelevant whether he read the book. He was asking her questions about things that were discussed in her book, but she wanted to control the interview and answer only what she wanted. He should hack her phone!