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I am convinced who will prevail. Sounds like we'll see something later this year but haven't seen a date.

The best part of it for me was how the movie is shot. Many very poignant shots. I especially love the very first scene and the very last, and also when they went to Penghu Island. I liked this movie quite a bit! Anyone that knows or imagines how it was back in the 80s, being sweet on another boy. The stigma. Difficult! Probably more so in Taiwan. We could have a thread on that, the crazy shit some of us went through coming out to ourselves and falling for another boy. There is a director version coming with 40 minutes that Netflix cut out. For example, some clips in the trailer aren't included in the Netflix cut. The downside is the English subtitles aren't perfect and some key plot points aren't all that clear unless you chat with someone that is Chinese and knows how their alphabet works. Still, I fill in the gaps knowing what the director intended, what he went through himself, as some of us did too, way back when. The two leads are very good and easy on the eyes. This still is from the movie, and is included in the Netflix cut.

The crack in our democratic reputation was at first visible when SCOTUS handed the presidency to Bush. But yeah, the Trump presidency has accelerated the weakening in carrying out our principles of democracy, and then today it appeared the bottom sort of fell out. Huzzah for Repbulicans Mitch Romney and Adam Kinzinger for telling it like it is today. They are a silver lining in a dark Republican cloud.

I hope the Cabinet can act quickly.

The Dems must find a way to keep the Stacey Abrams energy alive and definitely show her some love and give her and GA credit for the big save.

Yes, watching the returns was nerve wracking! But worth it. This means Little Marco, Ted Cruz, Moscow Mitch, and LindseyBell can all sit down. The image, from Britannica, may be copywrite material, is used here under Fair Use legal policy.

I recall gay.com went public near the end of the dot com boom. The stock did poorly. There was finger pointing that the board and the executive failed to perform. At one point Bill Gates bought a piece of the company to help out, bless his heart. But the stock never recovered. If or when it delisted, I was no longer paying attention. I visited their chatrooms, but eventually spent most of my time on another site, mygaydar.com which I believe was a British Site. They had a radio stream with dj host that was cool. And they had a chat area a lot of guys used for hooking up. Eventually the gay.com site failed to evolve and the domain was bought by another gay media enterprise.

Listen until the end!

I didn't spend much time in the porn threads, but more in the Think I'll Have Asian thread,. Maybe that WAS a porn thread. I still don't navigate across the forum well. Sad to see those Asian images go. My posts there were not porn. I admit the images originally did belong to someone. I did not realize the problems that might cause. I wish there was a way to overcome this. So many beautiful Asian men images were shared.

That he received so many votes is certainly amazing, but is no reason to applaud him. He only knows how to cheat and take, and not how to run anything. No I can't waste any time admiring anything about him but rather grieve how Americans still vote for him, and how the GOP puppets still line up to support him. Anyway, back to the topic. To the original post, the rhetorical question whether blacks deserve to be shot I might add (in the back.). Or I might add why are these cops shooting to kill? Is this what they're taught in police school or does it represent the lack of value for human life?

Yes. So sad. He was a beloved, special talent. After his death a Leslie Cheung film festival was organized in LA, which was my first chance to see Happy Together.

Congressman Kinzinger took another swipe at Trump and his quislings. I'm beginning to see a trend he is being groomed for the GOP future. They'll need some members that smell clean. His young look and new bride won't hurt. She's Latina? https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/27/kinzinger-trump-election-defeat-republicans-450826

How do these spas compare to ones in the US, for example in LA?

A buddy of mine is a Wong Kar-Wai fan, and sent me a link to a curated retrospective series, highlighting the career and select works of the Hong Kong filmmaker. Last night I watched Happy Together, one of the series. This film belongs on the 50 greatest gay film list in that other thread. It released around 10 years before and remains just as timeless as Brokeback Mountain . I actually saw this in a theater years ago but wasn't in the mood for the despair of the film and maybe not clever enough that day to realize the beauty of it. I expect the performance of Tony Leung will always stay with me. The direction and cinematography was stunning.

...and followed the above with streaming Chanticleer Christmas. $25 for me is worth the spend They are unmatched. https://www.chanticleer.org/special-events/a-chanticleer-christmas-from-darkness-to-light

Mentioned on the Christmas thread, I can confirm Guthrie Theater A Christmas Carol is quite good. The $10 price is a deal! I'll watch again. https://www.guthrietheater.org/shows-and-tickets/2020-2021-season/dickens-holiday-classic/

This sing-a-long from Canada!

Speaking of cats and Christmas, The Nine Lives of Christmas on Hallmark might satisfy the cat mafia up in here. It plays all year around for how popular it is.

On Xmas eve will be joining friends virtually. We will stream The Guthrie Theater's Christmas Carol, https://www.guthrietheater.org/shows-and-tickets/2020-2021-season/dickens-holiday-classic/ followed by Chanticleer's Christmas Concert. https://www.chanticleer.org/a-chanticleer-christmas

Who's the cat that won't cop out when there's danger all about?

Interesting how the top five in the list are 5 of my top gay films today, 12 years later. Here is a recent video about Shelter. Amazing that was 13 years ago. It used to be the #1 gay film for a lot of people. After all these years Shelter hangs in there.

My boy went to the other side of the mountain last year. Miss him. I've thought about getting another dog, especially now, but I've worked pretty much continually through the pandemic, so I don't offer the companionship a lot of other people are experiencing right now. I have a relationship with a neighborhood cat. He has a personality.

What kind of trouble do you fear he'll stumble into? I have not stuck with most of the onlyfans pages I've tried. There are factors that make some onlyfans pages a winner and most of them not. But he'll never know unless he tries. What can it hurt? Why does he think he is a good candidate to break into porn? Did you ask him his opinion of himself, whether he thinks he has a good look or a plan how he'll style himself. I get off on a sexy, scruffy nerd, but not everyone does.

Perhaps walking will make a comeback. I friend from Scandinavia is all about hiking. His diet sucks though.

Since Lindsey Graham is not on the review committee for Transportation he would not take part in questioning Buttigieg. Too bad. Could have been fun. Tammy Baldwin, Tammy Duckworth, Amy Klobuchar and Ted Cruz do serve on that committee so there could be some interesting banter if someone decides to "go there" about sexuality. CBS ran entire stories about Mayor Pete when he ran for President without mentioning he's gay. People can figure it out or not, but most don't care, except for the few that still try to fill their collection plate by preaching fear of the "gay agenda." Looking at the current Sec. of Transportation, one might be encouraged to get someone like Buttigieg to retool that department. But yeah it's too bad he didn't get Ambassador to the UN. He'll get almost no press now in comparison. He could have an impact on the auto industry, discussed in Car and Driver. Their piece on Buttigieg mentions he was an officer in the reserves, and a midwesterner but nothing about being gay. One might expect that some on either side want to highlight it, but one might also wonder if Buttigieg would rather just discuss the work.