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Kwanzaa celebrates African heritage for a whole week every year. This celebration is from December 26th to January 1st. The first celebration was in December 1966-to Jan. 1 1967. It's not a religious holiday, and many who celebrate Kwanzaa also celebrate Christmas. It's possible and encouraged to celebrate the holiday even if you are not of African heritage as a form of recognition of our brothers who are. Since I have several nephews of African heritage, I will join in this year. The complete guide to Kwanzaa: https://holidayvault.com/kwanzaa/

RockHard, I am impressed with your response to my post. Very classy, and not something an "old queen" would write, so I withdraw that remark! I think we agree that criticism should be said when the person is alive, or at least not in their memorial thread. Perhaps OZ will take the post down, as well as posts like mine responding to it.

So you think that sharing stories is okay in a thread like this. Well, I do too. But it's not the time for you to get up on your soapbox and post things like this: ROCKHarD:: I have been very frank in the past about my thoughts on obesity. Even though I have a few XXL friends and family members I love, I can't imagine any overweight stranger enjoying some of my posts. I've also been very critical of kiddie-porn, Nambla, and other chickenhawk type posts.. While it can be fun to re-visit my days as an 18-year-old and imagine a shower scene with one of my college interns, I find the look of younger boys to be a serious sexual turn-off. Most images from Helix Studios do not turn me on. Much like scat or latex underage boys (or girls) are a fetish I can't wrap my brain around. I definitely can't bear the visual of an old fat guy naked with a skinny boy who looks fourteen or younger.:END Pontificating and moralizing by Rockhard What the hell does that all have to do with mourning or telling stories about processing other deaths? Who cares what you think about obesity, kiddie-porn, etc? If you don't like scat, why throw it at lurkerspeaks in this thread? You are taking him to task for his weight and then suggesting he is into kids. Shame on you! You think that you are too precious, but the reality is turning out that you are just a pompous old queen.

kjun, could you tell us all how long you as a person have been posting on these boards, including that other site?

Strongly disagree, Adam Smith. There's respect and there's mourning. The two don't have to be in conflict. I think Axiom's post is right on. Why call his post "weird" and "psychopathic?" That's really playing dirty.

What was wrong with the old joke thread? It wasn't started by BiBottomBoy! LOL

A gay couple from San Diego was arrested when leaving the country after posting pictures of themselves at the Temple of Dawn on Instagram. The pictures showed them baring their butts in the sacred place: http://sdgln.com/news/2017/11/28/local-married-gay-couple-arrested-bangkok-exposing-buttocks-temple

Hopefully, all of us are different from each other. This forum would be quite a bore if we all agreed.

The Paradise Papers reveal how many companies (and individuals) hide their profits from taxes with offshore accounts. Bezos reinvests his profits, and I find that the more honorable way to do business. If he runs into antitrust problems, the current administration will try to crucify him since he is a liberal.

With only one response to the OP, I take comfort. Who cares about Harry and his marriage? I don't know him or her.

This thread feels like something that might have been asked 30 years ago, more or less. Maybe if the OP was 18 he might not know the answers!

One Finger, I am glad that you liked my review. It seems we are the only ones interested in this show, so I can ask you a question right here: The kids on stage were, I thought, meant to be Donna's kids. When she gets her cancer diagnosis, they sit with her and talk about how they will fight this. And then you see them asking who she is, celebrity-wise. But they can't be her kids in either scene as she was 63 when she died and her oldest daughter was 39. So they must be her grand kids. Did you see that at the time? I must have missed it as I certainly thought they were meant to be her kids. They are presented as tight-knit, but once she died they fought after her $75 million estate. David Geffen did good by her if she was bankrupt when she left Casablanca.

I think photoshopping dicks may be entertaining, but I see little point to it. Why not just accept the dick that the guy has?

RockHard defines himself as too cynical, too educated, and too precious. Moderation is the best formula for him. Okay, I concede all of that! What I want to know is how you know that you are entering the last third of your life? You could be there already, and maybe pretty far along!

A full page ad in Friday's Wall Street Journal raised my eyebrows. Titled "Allied Against Terrorism", the script reads as follows: Until now, counter-terrorism efforts have been fragmented, with nations and groups often taking isolated initiatives against the growing threat of terror. From November 26th, international counter-terrorism efforts will take a new dimension. Forty-one Muslim countries are coming together in Riyadh to launch a global, multi-disciplinary strategy that aims to tackle terrorism at its deepest roots. Under the banner of the IMCTC, these nations will forge an unprecedented and powerful coalition against terror- a coalition that will source sustainable counter-terrorism initiatives in the four strategic domains of Ideology, Communications, Counter Terrorist Financing,as well as Military, to build a cohesive, united front against terror. *** IMCTC stands for Islamic Military Counter Terrorism Coalition, which is revealing as military seems to be the focus rather than Ideology, etc. But getting 41 nations to agree on anything would be impressive!

Braggarts!

The Warwick Rowers acknowledge that gays are the biggest part of their audience.. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/warwick-rowers-calendar-2018_us_5a15c9c8e4b09650540f0615 I wonder why...

Do you think that the deer community will react strongly to this sad news?

I don't know for a fact, but my companion remarked on the lack of British accents.

When I Googled the gay remarks controversy, it amazed me how many gay men dealt with it by denying she said anything negative. Of course, we know she did. But she sure denied it a lot! https://books.google.com/books?id=drkDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA32&lpg=PA32&dq=donna+summer+gay+controversy&source=bl&ots=u9a6MdGNzz&sig=3IMv_aaj1A39AJdspUU3LHhFsJ8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjX56rIqt3XAhUSwWMKHdhADjc4KBDoAQg4MAM#v=onepage&q=donna summer gay controversy&f=false

I learned that the TV presentation was only 90 minutes long, versus the almost 3 hour play. The first act took an hour and 20 minutes. I was pretty bored by then and did not stay for more. The Pasadena Playhouse is a wonderful historic venue.

I saw the show last night. The house was sold out and enthusiastic. It's easy to see why One Finger liked the show so much. The three Donnas have spectacular voices. Obviously the music is good, or you wouldn't have gone. The set is colorful. So far, so good, eh? But, as One Finger points out, the backup dancers are all female, often dressed as males, but they didn't fool me. Since gays were virtually ignored in this show, gay guys who attend, hoping to see a version of their younger selves on stage dancing to Donna Summer's songs, too bad for you. No sweaty shirtless guys absorbed in Last Dance or MacArthur Park. Just girls. There are two references to gays in the show. One is where Donna found that she had something in common with a male friend in that they both had boy friends. Later, when she is talking about being the Queen of Disco, a character on stage says something to the effect of "it's nice being a queen." He does that in a very effeminate manner. The biggest reference to gays is when the Donna character acknowledges that there were three types of men in her life, the latter being her gay audience. She then mentions her Adam & Steve comment and apologizes for it, saying that she never judges anyone. Oh. Well, how about acknowledging that without the gay support for her music she would probably never have reached the level of stardom she did. Using female dancers in the show cuts out the gay men entirely, so we are still left to wonder how much she appreciated the support she received. As a whole, I don't see this show going to Broadway. A huge rewrite would be needed as some scenes are quite flat and unnecessary. The public is pretty unfamiliar with her life story. I didn't know she was married three times and had three kids. She was beaten a lot. She complains about success a lot. She sued Casablanca for bankrupting her, and then hired David Geffen, who is not identified as gay. Without the support of the gay community, even a re-worked version of this show would find trouble on Broadway, which is run by gay men and Jewish men. The show features abundantly her faith in Jesus, and, as said, virtually ignores gays. I just don't see that going over well in New York. All of which left me to enjoy the music and the singing. And I enjoyed that a lot. MacArthur Park was wonderfully done, even without watching sweaty shirtless hunks dancing to it. Note: Summer denied making any anti-gay remarks. She was lying, of course, as the musical clearly acknowledges the Adam & Steve comment: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/12/donna-summer-anti-gay-remarks-apology-letter_n_1591615.html One man's view of Donna Summer: http://marksking.com/my-fabulous-disease/enduring-legacy-donna-summer-gay-men/

I just show my CA driver's license, which barely gets a cursory glance as I look so old.

Excellent observation, tomcal!

I have found Tom to be correct about Wednesday nights and Saturday nights at 117.