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Congrats Lucky! We are all Lucky to have you around! Thank you for all the great years you have been a part of this site. You are truly appreciated!

Yes, you are right. It was the Crown Plaza on 49th Street.

A mom gave her son an IPhone and attached to it were rules. 1. It is my phone. I bought it. I pay for it. I am loaning it to you. Aren't I the greatest? 2. I will always know the password. 3. If it rings, answer it. It is a phone. Say hello, use your manners. Do not ever ignore a phone call if the screen reads "Mom" or "Dad". Not ever. 4. Hand the phone to one of your parents promptly at 7:30pm every school night & every weekend night at 9:00pm. It will be shut off for the night and turned on again at 7:30am. If you would not make a call to someone's land line, wherein their parents may answer first, then do not call or text. Listen to those instincts and respect other families like we would like to be respected. 5. It does not go to school with you. Have a conversation with the people you text in person. It's a life skill. 6. If it falls into the toilet, smashes on the ground, or vanishes into thin air, you are responsible for the replacement costs or repairs. 7. Do not use this technology to lie, fool, or deceive another human being. Do not involve yourself in conversations that are hurtful to others. Be a good friend first or stay the hell out of the crossfire. 8-9. Do not text, email, or say anything through this device you would not say in person. 10. No porn. 11. Turn it off, silence it, put it away in public. Especially in a restaurant, at the movies, or while speaking with another human being. You are not a rude person; do not allow the iPhone to change that. 12. Do not send or receive pictures of your private parts or anyone else's private parts. Don't laugh. Someday you will be tempted to do this despite your high intelligence. It is risky and could ruin your teenage/college/adult life. It is always a bad idea. Cyberspace is vast and more powerful than you. And it is hard to make anything of this magnitude disappear -- including a bad reputation. 13. Don't take a zillion pictures and videos. There is no need to document everything. Live your experiences. They will be stored in your memory for eternity. 14. Leave your phone home sometimes and feel safe and secure in that decision. It is not alive or an extension of you. Learn to live without it. Be bigger and more powerful than FOMO -- fear of missing out. 15. Download music that is new or classic or different than the millions of your peers that listen to the same exact stuff. Your generation has access to music like never before in history. Take advantage of that gift. Expand your horizons. 16. Play a game with words or puzzles or brain teasers every now and then. 17. Keep your eyes up. See the world happening around you. Stare out a window. Listen to the birds. Take a walk. Talk to a stranger. Wonder without googling. 18. You will mess up. I will take away your phone. We will sit down and talk about it. We will start over again. You & I, we are always learning. I am on your team. We are in this together.

Are you referring to me KT?

"Now we all know you hate Russians, hate long lines, and the rest of your hate list, along with apparently hating me too. Congratulations." I don't hate you GB, I love you! but I did think you were a Russian. Are you American?

For years I sough out the steam room at gay gyms in San Francisco, New York, and LA. Why? Damn, it is hot. I love naked bodies. Sometimes I get lucky these days but most of the time not. I still love to watch if two hot young studs get going in my presence. The NYSC in the Marriottt Marquis was my favorite. I never went there where I didn't find a cute guy jerking off or a few sucking and fucking. I just loved it.

"1. You say the guys are not necessarily gay so do you have both boys with you at the same time? How well do they interact or are they more responsive if alone with a foreigner? 2. Do you specify to the 'mamasan' upfront EXACTLY what you want to do/have done as part of the massage/sexual repertoire? I've no problem being direct but I would not like to be insensitive to the local culture." 1. It depends on the boys. I have had great threeways here. But, I normally have one of my regular boys help me pick the third. To just put 2 random boys together often gets mixed results. 2. I tell them exactly what I want and they make suggestions based on that. You can be as open as you wish as that is what they need in order to help you. Often, you find a guy and he does not do exactly what you want but he does enough to make you happy and you take him and he will then do even more. Yes, many are straight but they are willing to do gay sex and many will top or bottom on demand. The 2 I had were both willing to do so but both were married and have kids.

snapshot, I love your analogies. They could not be more accurate.

Over the next few months, I'll be doing a tremendous amount of traveling in the USA from California to New York and many places in between. I tend to use on a few hotel chains but I also look up on Trip Advisor where I want to stay to see the reviews. I have a convention in Las Vegas at the Hard Rock Hotel and I don't like that hotel so I found another one but I had never heard of it. I took a look at the reviews and there were hundreds of positive reviews and so I booked it to test it on this trip. I liked the idea of a 1100 sq foot room in Vegas right off the strip for under 140.00 USD. I'll try to report back here after I stay there.

I think everyone is perfect for Pattaya and while I don't really like all the Arabs encroaching in Sunee Plaza, there is room for everyone in Pattaya. I do find that most people from Russia I have dealt with in Pattaya to be nice. The same I cannot say for the Japanese. They tend to look down on Thais and others. Perhaps I am just over sensitive and don't understand the Japanese culture, but odd things have happened more than a few times with Japanese tourists.

FH said: "I suspect most of us are perplexed about the virus issue and it would be nice to know exactly what happened – and why it seems still to be happening to some readers." I can tell you exactly what happened. Invision Board has a software issue that allowed for malicious script to be injected into the forums. They required a patch in order to stop this. The patch was applied within 12 hours. But, some malicious scripts were already injected. These scripts were cleaned up and removed. Google is the one that reports to most of the software companies that deal with viruses and maleware. There is an area in Google's Webmaster Tools area for webmasters that allows for a site that is designated dangerous to be reviewed. This site was placed on the list. The hosting company and programmers went to work to fix all issues without hours. The issues were resolved. A "Review" was presented to Google and that took 24 hours. The review showed there was no more issues with the website. It took the site off the malicious warning list. In order to make sure the site was totally secure, Scooby upgraded the forum to the latest version and applied the newest patch. In other words, many things were happening in the background to try to have Google remove this "warning" and then to make the site forum area even more secure. Notice I say the forum area as the main part of the site was never compromised. It was only the forums that allowed for someone to "inject" problems into the message boards. The programmers went into the boards and were on top of this from the first moment this happened. The Google Webmaster Areas still says: A review for this site has finished. The site was found clean. The badware warnings from web search are being removed. Please note that it can take some time for this change to propagate. Normally, when a url is listed as bad, it takes 24-48 hours for this to propagate around the world. I don't really know how to explain things better than this but I wanted to try to let you know.

He is such a nice guy and I have met him on many occasions. He has always been beautiful so I am not sure why any of this was needed.

This is one of my all time favorite movies. It still moves me to tears! I love the mother in this movie and I love all the Mama Cass songs. A very sweet and tender movie.

The Facts About Low-Impact Training When it comes to working out, people spend a lot of time talking about high-impact training. This makes some sense – we live in a culture that wants to get the most bang for their buck. People see high-impact training as a short cut to losing weight and getting a ripped body that people will notice. So, they often dismiss low-impact training as something that's not for them because it might not deliver the results they want as quickly as they want. But, the truth is that low-impact training can be just as important, if not more so, than high-impact training. And, high-impact training isn't appropriate for a lot of people. It can be dangerous and has a much higher chance of causing injuries – and in some cases heart attacks, cardiovascular problems and strokes - than the much safer, but just as effective low-impact training. There are entire classes of people who should stick to low-impact training and never attempt high-impact workouts. These include elderly people, pregnant women, women who are trying to get pregnant, the obese, anyone suffering from arthritis, people who have not exercised in the past few years, and anyone who has suffered a muscle injury or a broken bone in the past six months. In fact, one of the reasons why so many older people don't exercise is that they are afraid of high-impact exercises, or their doctors have warned them against high-impact workouts. This is because as people get older, they are much more at risk for broken bones or elevating their heart rates to dangerous levels during high-impact workouts. But low-impact workouts carry none of these risks. This is a good thing, because as people educate themselves about the benefits of low-impact workouts they are destined to become more popular, and people will need to have the training and the equipment to do them correctly. If you suffer from osteoporosis or arthritis, low-impact workouts can have a huge impact on the quality of your life. Low-impact workouts stimulate the growth of muscle tissue, which then helps build new bone tissue. The result is that you end up with stronger bones and suffer less from osteoporosis and arthritis. Low-impact workouts also stimulate the body to create more essential glucose and deliver more oxygen to your muscles. This has the wonderful side effect of naturally controlling your blood pressure – which greatly reduces your chances of becoming a victim of a heart attack or other cardiovascular disease. The main difference between a high-impact workout and a low-impact workout is that with high-impact workouts, you put more strain on your muscles, bones and heart. That's why low-impact workouts are safer. The good news is that a well thought-out low-impact workout program can burn off just as many calories and help you get in shape just as well as a high-impact workout - without any of those risks. But, what exercises are considered low-impact? That's a good question, and we are going to spend some time now talking about exercises that are not only low-impact, but also extremely effective at helping people lose weight and live healthier lives. • Walking. This is the most basic low-impact exercise possible, and probably the one that most people will start out with. Walking works most of the muscles in your body, and you can either do it on a treadmill at the gym or outdoors. It doesn't matter; the results are the same. You can incorporate walking into your life simply by not driving to work three or four days a week. Or you can take a walk through the park, or decide to walk from place to place when you go out. It's an easy way to burn calories and help your cardiovascular system. To get the most out of walking, swing your arms when you are walking outdoors, or don't hold onto the side of the treadmill if you are at the gym. • Hiking. This is the advanced version of walking. Find a hill or some other area of ground that has inclines and declines. You use different muscle groups when you are walking uphill than when you are walking downhill. Both burn off more calories than walking on a flat surface. You can also set a treadmill to alternate between uphill and downhill walking, if you want to stick to the gym. • Stair climbing. Again, this can be done almost anywhere. Climbing stairs burns off a lot of calories while remaining a safe low-impact exercise. Walk up and down the stairs of your house. When you get to the office, skip the elevator. Or, if you go to the gym, use the stair machine. This is the exercise you should move onto when you want to get a little more serious than simply walking. • Interval training. If you set the treadmill at the gym to interval training, it will automatically change the speed of your walking at different times during your workout. By varying the speed of how you are walking, you'll build up your body without pushing it into risky territory like you would with running. • The rowing machine. Most of us don't live in climates where we can row a boat on a lake 12 months a year. But, nearly all gyms have rowing machines. Rowing machines work both your upper and lower body while remaining as low-impact as possible. It burns even more calories than stair climbing, and is a great thing to start doing as you get more into working out. • Swimming. You can't get more low-impact than swimming. In fact some people consider it a “no-impact” exercise. Swimming works all major muscle groups, is extremely safe, and fun - all at the same time! • Step aerobics classes. This is a great way to have a low-impact effective workout while also being social. Taking a step class is a great way to meet new friends and have a professional guide you through your workout. It can also be really fun if you have a good trainer. Those are the facts about low-impact workouts – along with suggestions for exercises you can incorporate into your workout program. All of them can have a huge impact on your quality of life, and all are extremely safe.

Well, I am sure they are an attempt to clamp down on the server and make sure it is secure. We always had a secure environment and never any issues. These issues recently were because of the Invision Software for the forums and I told the programmers to make all changes needed in it to make it as "spam" proof as the rest of the site which we designed. It is not easy to do this with someone else code, but we are trying and it may cause of issues. When it does, tell us and we will put in a request to check it out. Thank you for your patience.

We have so many intelligent and creative individuals here that enjoy discussing theater and literature that we have decided to create a special forum for it. I have always enjoyed the discussions revolving around Lucky and Marc Anthony and others trips to New York to see the latest plays and musicals or hearing what a poster's favorite new book is that we thought the site should dedicate one area to this. I hope everyone will contribute and participate here and lets us know what you see and do and what you are reading!

I don't have any photos of him that I can find. However, if you just ask the mamasan there for him, they will point him out to you. He is tight body and very versatile and very strong massage!

The Rocky Horror Picture Show is the rare movie that is both timeless and completely of its own time. While deservedly a cult classic with moments of brilliance, any objective viewing of it today shows it is filled with elements that modern queer or feminist theorists would certainly call “problematic.” I first saw the movie in Baltimore in undergraduate school. I instantly loved it. I have seen it in many cities but also just enjoy watching it on the computer. I do enjoy seeing the midnight shows in NYC as they are wild and crazy nights! These days, the 1975 musical by Richard O'Brien, who does a brilliant turn as the seemingly servile butler Riff Raff, is known mostly as an audience participation midnight movie. Viewing it in this setting is much more like being at large drag party than simply seeing a movie. People dress as the characters – and not always as characters of their own gender – and scream responses to the dialogue. First-time viewers are identified as “virgins” and brought to the front of the theater before the show begins to be called out. During the wedding scene, rice is thrown at the screen. It is perhaps the only time in America where normally vanilla, tall, hairy guys can be socially accepted while wearing leather mini skirts and garter belts. But, to see The Rocky Horror Picture Show in only that context deprives it of the many subtleties, both good and bad, that are in the script and the libretto. In fact, an at-home viewing of the movie is just as interesting as seeing at a viewing party – and will certainly allow you to remember more if it, since your odds of being wasted and distracted are considerably less. For the virgins reading this, a bit of the back story is needed. The film is set in the pre-HIV era of the mid-'70s, when people were experimenting with various forms of sexuality without much concern for long-term consequences. And at its heart, that is what the film is a celebration of – breaking sexual boundaries, fucking without fear, decadence, (implied) drug use and general partying. It's a giant “fuck you” to the sexual taboos that had haunted America since we were birthed out of the original debt ceiling tax protest of the 1770s. It starts with Brad (Barry Bostwick) and Janet (Susan Sarandon), themselves clearly virgins, at a wedding. Brad impulsively proposes to Janet, she accepts, and they head out to see their former professor/mentor to tell him the good news. Their car breaks down along the way, and they find themselves stranded and forced to knock on the door of a castle to ask to use the phone. (Why Apple has not used this film to sell people on iPhones, I'm not sure.) Getting into the castle is easy. Getting out? Not so much. They are confronted by friendly yet strange people who are hospitable, if vaguely threatening. The leader of this pack is Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Tim Curry), who describes himself as “a sweet transvestite from Transsexual, Transylvania.” While he is clearly a transvestite, “sweet” is hardly the word to describe him. Over the course of the film he will fuck both Brad and Janet, force Brad into wearing his own set of garters, act as a sort of Dr. Frankenstein by building his own boy toy out of spare parts, initiate a cannibalistic meal, be revealed as a murderer and a space alien, and eventually be betrayed by Riff Raff. All of this is good fun, set to very good music. Meat Loaf makes his first film appearance as the doomed Eddie. The best and most nuanced performance in the film is by Little Nell (who in real life became the owner of Nell's in Manhattan) as Columbia, the only person to ever have really loved Frank-N-Furter. The party attitude of the decadent '70s is what makes this film such a joy to experience. That '70s attitude, however, is also where the film's problems lie. This was not as enlightened an era as people would like to remember, and certain attitudes towards gays, bisexuals and women that would be considered completely ass-backward today are prevalent in the film – just as they were during the time. For example, Brad and Janet are not actually seduced by Frank – instead, by modern definitions, they are raped by him – and Janet actually sings a song about how thrilled she is to have been forced into sex. While today it is understood that the vast majority of transvestites are heterosexual, the movie seems to be saying that deciding to dress and act like a woman is what happens when a man is fucked by another man – a troubling and incorrect assumption believed and propagated by the patriarchy that to be penetrated makes a man lose his masculinity. And, of course, the film portrays transsexuals as not simply being people born in the wrong body, but as bisexual sluts who just want to party as much as possible. Then, toward the end, we hear from Columbia as to why she seems so weird and sad for much of the film when she sings, It was great when it all began I was a regular Frankie fan But it was over when he had the plan To start working on a muscle man The implication being that she felt invalidated as a legitimate sexual partner when Frank revealed his interest in men – completely in line with stereotypes that bi men are simply gay men who have yet to meet the right man. However, if you pay attention, the “problem” isn't that Frank is gay or bi, but rather that he's a pansexual predator. His interest isn't in men or women so much as it is with conquering people sexually who are not into him. This explains why Columbia, who actually loves and wants him, is rejected and turned into a maid/slave. It explains why his interest in Brad and Janet becomes near zero after he's taken their virginities. And it also explains why his ideal partner – that he actually has to build himself – is one who is beautiful but nearly brainless. He wants a sex doll that just happens to actually be a warm body. He does not believe in having sexual partners who have any sexual agency of their own. Indeed, even Columbia is portrayed as a victim in her own right. The description of her seduction borders on coercion/mind control - “He took me by surprise!” “He stared at me and I felt a change” - and Riff Raff says that seduction is akin to being “under sedation” - something that happened fairly often in the 1970s when guys would sneak Quaaludes and Valium into girls' drinks at bars and clubs. Still, these are modern complaints. Sexual liberation was a new concept in 1975; people were not as progressive or understanding as they are today. Homosexuality and bisexuality were not nearly as understood, and date rape did not yet exist as a concept. All of which is why the film stands up as well as it does. You can see people trying to explore these ideas. They make mistakes – which is only natural given the repressive culture they were coming out of – and nobody really means any harm. Even Frank-N-Furter doesn't realize he's an abuser, because he doesn't have the social context to make that mental leap. The end result is a film that is fabulously fun to watch either alone or at a viewing party, but that also has plot elements that can make for a good intellectual discussion and debate of sexual issues. This is why, while the film has to be taken as a product of its time, it will remain timeless. And exactly why people keep doing the Time Warp again.

I love gay movies and I try to see most things that have a gay theme. I guess it makes me feel good to see gay characters on the big screen. I will be adding a new movie here each week. My plan is to do a brief review and summary. I hope some of you like this section and participate here as well. I have a list of my top 50 gay movies I'll be reviewing.

From Google's Webmaster area: Status of the latest badware review for this site: A review for this site has finished. The site was found clean. The badware warnings from web search are being removed. Please note that it can take some time for this change to propagate.

If you clear you cache and reboot, it should not be a problem. I apologize for the inconvenience but each computer will read things differently. I have no issues on 5 different ones.

I hope everyone has a fantastic New Year and many more to come!

It takes a while for the web to propagate things over. Google just finished the review and certified things OK. So, it will take other software a while to catch up to them. However, both Google and our hosting provider had checked and double checked things and there is no issue found with the site or the forums. It is all clear. But, no one can control how long it takes other programers to catch up. I suggest you try a different browser and see if the same thing happens.

l am sorry for any downtime the site had recently. We had a problem with a patch that was from Invision. We put it up within 12 hours of notification but that was too late. We were hit with an attack. We did clear out all the maleware from the site and there were no known issues but it takes a while for google to review and agree the site has no issues. They just told me that there are zero issues with the site and I took it back live. I do apologize for it being down for a bit but I didn't want any issues so thought it better to take offline for a bit. Thank you for your patience.