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If you want to read really top-notch crime novels, then the best are by R. J. Ellory. A Quiet Belief in Angels, A Simple Act of Violence, and City of Lies are my 3 favorites. Order from Amazon as the only the first one has been released in the US. The stories all take place here, however. The writing is fantastic. City of Lies will be especially popular with New York aficionados.

Here is a spoof of Thelma and Louise done for the CMT Award show. At about 1:47 Chord Overstreet tries on the Brad Pitt role: http://www.cmt.com/videos/misc/662071/2011-cmt-music-awards-open-with-shania-twain-and-taylor-swift.jhtml

Well, Lookin and MsGuy, you have given me a good laugh. And I needed it! All week I have been doing taxes. Yes, in June. One good thing the Obama admin did, through the IRS, is allow domestic partners in community property states to use the community property laws to calculate their tax obligations. Since I have always done my own taxes, I have spent all week learning how to do this. The nice thing is that it is retroactive to 2007, so I can file amended returns and essentially get back several thousand dollars as the community property taxation calculates to much less tax due. But what a pain in the ass it has been, and I have only done the 2010 returns. So, yes, I am receptive to a compliment today! (PS- Lookin, why Bucharest? Barcelona maybe, but Bucharest?)

Ditto. I am sorry to hear of your injury and glad that it was not worse.

Verizon also has a $350 termination fee if you cancel early, but I couldn't live without my Droid.

Did Daddy get mad again?!! LOL Great pictures, Steven. The power of nature is amazing. I wonder how much energy was released in all of that. Probably enough to power the world several times over. BTW, I like that you have only two links for your website and reviews. With some guys the growing list they attach to each post is more of a deterrent to seeking further information. Lucky Website, Reviews, Complaints against, mother's favorite photos, life plan, etc.

I looked to see if EXPAT had posted anything to indicate he might need a speedy recovery, and he had not. He logged in this am and did not offer any clarification on this thread. So what is this thread about?

The Wall Street journal reports today that those apps you might use on your smartphone store your data in unencrypted fashion, thus making all the personal info vulnerable to hackers. But the hackers will probably get it anyway. Citibank reports another hack that got customer info, including social security numbers. Trust us!

Every once in a while I will get lucky and have the chance to meet with an escort traveling through town who just wants to have a nice dinner with someone who knows his world. It's a pressure free way to get to know escorts. Tonight the bf and I were flattered that Chicago-based escort Dane Scott chose to spend one of his last nights in town having dinner with us. I can't meet folks off the board and then talk about what we said in private, but this one is particularly easy because Dane is not a gossip, and we hardly talked about the boards or the personalities. Instead we talked travel. We had seen some of the same places, but had different experiences there, so it was nice to compare notes. Escorts often lead interesting lives, especially the smarter ones who see themselves as involved with an honorable career, so talking with them is also interesting. What I liked about Dane is that he talked about us as well as himself. He and the bf both love pastries, and Dane showed us pictures of some of his cakes and cookies which were simply masterpieces. Too bad the cookie world doesn't pay as well per hour as the escort world! It is one thing to be seated at dinner with a guy when you have seen his whole naked body in pictures, but I saw them on Rentboy, it wasn't him passing them around. That lack of ego involvement speaks well for him. We just struck it up as old friends from the start. Yes, I've seen your big cock, now about those cookies... Escorts may learn this over the years- the ability to converse easily with men they hardly know. This was the second time that Dane chose to meet up with us, so it was more like meeting an old friend. Hopefully next time we will meet in Chicago. I hear he knows the manager of a very prominent theater there...how lucky is that?

I wonder if he will ever get $1500 from that site...hehehe. Now my real hope is that he and others will post more so my name isn't so prominent on this page. I do try to keep the conversation going...but will be glad to yield to some new posters and old friends. The more the merrier is true on message boards as well.

When I said I didn't read much non-fiction, well, I did read Manning Marable's book on Malcolm X and just finished Erik Larson's book In The Garden of Beasts, about the American ambassador to Germany during Hitler's rise. Both well done. But Phillip Kerr's series on detective Bernie Gunther does a great job of taking the reader into Nazi Germany, making you see, feel, and hear all about life during that time and in that place. They don't get any better.

Well, for one, a divorce may be likely. That leaves baby being raised by a single parent. For two, baby grows up knowing that pix of daddy's hard cock are on the internet and the whole world has seen them. For three, no one will think of daddy without thinking of his hard cock. Notice the small d in daddy! The little weiner hasn't a chance!

I tried to read Herb Vonnegut's new novel, but didn't like it. Dale Brown's new novel is atrocious. Currently I am reading Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin. On my library hold list, I have Portrait of a spy Carte blanche : the new James Bond novel Buried prey : Harlan Coben A drop of the hard stuff : by Matthew Scudder Betrayal of trust : a J.P. Beaumont novel Robert Ludlum's The Bourne dominion Before I go to sleep : a novel Trader of secrets : a Paul Madriani novel I am always interested in suggestions. I love spy novels, don't read much non-fiction or romance novels!

Fo shizzle!

Now, now. He won a contest fair and square.

The pic released is this:

Some ten years ago a young computer repair guy told me that the wave of the future was to store stuff elsewhere besides your computer, and that we would soon only need small, portable computers. I thought he was nuts. Cute, though.

Adam Smith last logged in on March 11th. I know he loves living in New York, but whoever thought it could take him away from his beloved MER, you know, the place that gave him $1500 for winning a posting contest. (I am relying on my memory here.) We seem to be hitting the summer doldrums again, but every once in a while there is a post from someone who hasn't posted in a while, or there is a post from a newcomer who never returns. My suggestion is that when we see either of those, we should make a point of either welcoming them back, or welcoming them period. Let them know that we appreciate their presence here and hope they will make it a regular thing. I hope Adam is having fun in NYC, but sometimes I worry that he took the wrong subway and can't find his way back to his computer!

Thanks, Lookin and Steven for explaining, or trying to, cloud computing. Some companies that had used Amazon's cloud computing came to regret it when their data was not available to them when they wanted it. I also learned what the RSA token is. It's a device that generates a number that allows you to enter a computer network. The number is different each time you enter, thus more secure. Citibank, for example, has 50,000 of the devices for their employees to use to access the in-house system. So you can see why they want it to be secure, but apparently RSA waited some time before revealing the insecurity of its devices, thus pissing off the companies that thought they were secure. Now on to E-books. I dread the day when the inevitable will come and I can no longer pick up a traditional book to read. Yet the trend is clear. Current E-books leave a lot to be desired, especially if you take NY Times tech columnist David Pogue's word for it. Today he reviews 2 new readers, each an advance over what is currently available. He begins his column thus: "We think we’re so modern. We think we’re hot stuff, with our touch-screen tablets, video cellphones and Internet movie downloads. But mark my words: we’re in the Paleozoic era of consumer technology. Our grandchildren will listen to our technology tales — spotty cellphone coverage, 24-hour movie viewing windows, three-hour battery life — and burst out laughing the minute they’re out of earshot. Take e-book readers, like the Kindle and its rivals. “Come on, Grandma. You really couldn’t read Kindle books on a Nook, or vice versa? What a dumb system!” “Tell us again why you couldn’t read Harry Potter books on e-readers?” “Grandpa, what do you mean ‘monochrome?’ ” This week, though, e-book readers just took their first slimy steps out of the primordial soup." He then goes on to review the new Kobo and "All-New NOOK." In is review, he mentions that there is a cheaper reader available, but you have to allow ads to appear on it. I cannot imagine buying that. Here is his review if you are interested: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/09/technology/personaltech/09pogue.html?ref=personaltech

Long gone are the days when I couldn't figure out what www meant. But all the time I read stuff in the papers that I have no idea what it is. Cloud computing? Um, is that's using God's computer? Or just computing in an airplane? Now I learn that RSA Security's SecurID Device has been compromised. But I have no idea what that is. (On the other hand, it seems all things computer can be hacked.) Truthfully, I have no idea why someone with a laptop would also need an Ipad. And don't even get me started on computer games that millions of people play online. Why? Do you play them? And Twitter. I know no one who tweets. I know no one who would want to keep up hourly with my random thoughts tweeted onto their computers. Do you tweet? Who reads your tweets? And what am I to make of Nintendo's new hand-held screen with HI-Def when I have never even played a Nintendo game? It's easier than ever to feel like a dinosaur.

A Delaware pediatrician waived a jury trial rather than have them see the evidence against him, and his case is now in the hands of a judge. Previously, his patients were in his hands- that is, until they weren't: Detective Scott Garland testified how he and other forensic analysts uncovered more than 13 hours of videotape the defendant made of sex crimes against 86 victims, whose average age was 3. The tapes date from December 1998 to Dec. 13, 2009, just days before Mr. Bradley was arrested. Mr. Garland said some videos showed Mr. Bradley with his hands wrapped tightly around the heads of young children, violently forcing them to perform oral sex on him. When Mr. Bradley was finished with such assaults, the detective testified, he would pick up the young victims by the head and throw them several feet through the air onto a couch. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/08/us/08brfs-PEDIATRICIAN_BRF.html?_r=1&ref=us

The new Terence Malick movie The Tree of Life is only showing in the cities that are important to the country right now, so I haven't seen it. I did see an article wondering if it were too boring to sit through. Has anyone here seen it? Would it not be worth seeing just to gaze longingly at Brad Pitt?

But if you are going to continue your escorting career, I'd suggest you do somethng about that green skin tone!

If we analyzed all the posts a person makes, no doubt we each make some stinkers. It's the overall attitude that I look for, and my points about hitoallusa are mine only. We read the stuff that interests us and ignore that which doesn't. There is no one size fits all.

Yes, the review is at the former Hooboy site. I think dated May 30 or around there. NY Tomcat will make a fine escort if half of this review is accurate!