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I saw their deserts as I was leaving yesterday and they looked yummy! Thanks for the heads up! I am headed back to Paragon today and may have to try one.

Right around the corner from Mango Tree (one Soi down from Tartawan) are several great bars. They are very inexpensive compared to other bars in Bangkok or Pattaya. First Mango Tree is a fabulous restaurant. If you don't make reservations, you may not get in. Great Thai food. Solid is a fun bar with about 15 or so gogo boys. They have some great looking guys and it is very laid back and friendly. The drinks are 100 baht. I have known the mamasan since the old Boy dot com across from Future Boys. Super A is around the corner from that bar and you have to walk upstairs. The place is small but some fantastic guys there. They have a short time room for 200 baht. The drinks are 120 baht. There were about 25 guys when I was there this past weekend. Right under Super A is a massage place with about 15 plus cute guys. Massages are 500 baht with happy ending. I was not sure the age of the boys there so I did not get a massage. Night Boys is a great bar that is totally renovated and nice. It is quite well-done and has many boys. Nature Boys only had 3 guys working so I didn't go in. But, if you are looking for a fun night in Bangkok with some amazing great gay boys, go to Mango Tree for dinner and then venture on the same soi for all the bars above. A trip to Tawan on the same soi is also fun but not really my type of guy.

hummm good question.

Lurker, have a fantastic trip! Can't wait to hear your stories!

Do you think they will follow through?

Thank you !

I have been to Palm Springs several times and always really enjoy my time there. I have never been there in the heat of summer so I'd like to try that sometime as well. I hope our board residents from PS have an enjoyable summer!

I was able to eat there this weekend. The food was OK but nothing to write home about. I suggest you order Thai food and stay away from Farang food.

I have eaten at this place several times and the food is always great. It is on the bottom level inside the food court area. If you are at the McDonalds, walk straight back. It is not a closed in shop but has tables in the open area. It is right across from the Fish and Chips place. Paragon has so many fantastic places to eat and the eye candy there is perhaps the best in Bangkok. I usually eat from the stands throughout the mall but sometimes I like a sit down place to chat with a friend. 9th Cafe is great for this. You can get great food at reasonable prices and still see all the beautiful guys walking around. I love their breaded chicken with veggies and potatoes. It is quite good and 2 full pieces of chicken breasts. The cost was like 230 baht I think. The more you dine in the Paragon, the more you find great places. 9th Cafe is one of them. Give it a try when you are in the area!

I am looking for a place that does delivery to my apartment in Bangkok. I tried the store at Siam Paragon but they don't deliver. Anyone know of other places in Bangkok that will do grocery delivery? Thanks!

I went to MBK and had no luck. Anyone know of a good watch shop in Bangkok? I have a few watches that need batteries and some polar heart rate monitors that also need batteries. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

B and N was once my favorite place in Bangkok. But, the last 3-5 times I have been, there were few boys there and not much of a selection. Has anyone had any recent experiences with this place lately?

Right around the corner from Mango Tree are several great bars. They are very inexpensive compared to other bars in Bangkok or Pattaya. First Mango Tree is a fabulous restaurant. If you don't make reservations, you may not get in. Great Thai food. Solid is a fun bar with about 15 or so gogo boys. They have some great looking guys and it is very laid back and friendly. The drinks are 100 baht. I have known the mamasan since the old Boy dot com across from Future Boys. Super A is around the corner from that bar and you have to walk upstairs. The place is small but some fantastic guys there. They have a short time room for 200 baht. The drinks are 120 baht. There were about 25 guys when I was there this past weekend. Right under Super A is a massage place with about 15 plus cute guys. Massages are 500 baht with happy ending. I was not sure the age of the boys there so I did not get a massage. Night Boys is a great bar that is totally renovated and nice. It is quite well-done and has many boys. Nature Boys only had 3 guys working so I didn't go in. But, if you are looking for a fun night in Bangkok with some amazing great gay boys, go to Mango Tree for dinner and then venture on the same soi for all the bars above. A trip to Tawan on the same soi is also fun but not really my type of guy.

I am always happy with Hero and have reviewed it here before. I was there again 2 yesterday and had a fantastic time. On the weekends, Hero has a slew of handsome guys. On this last visit, there were over 45 guys waiting for work. They were all handsome and full of muscle. I chose a smaller guy named Lek. I had met him many years ago and was happy to see him again. He has a great body and gives a great massage. The mamasan there always finds me a good guy and I have never been disappointed there. Ask them what the boys do and they will tell you what they know or go and talk to the guy to find out. The cost of the massage is 600 baht and the minimum tip to the boy is 1000 baht. So, you can't walk out for less than 1600 baht. This is a bit expensive for many but it is totally worth it. The rooms are clean but basic. They have a shower in the room and you can get either oil or creme massage. IMHO, Hero is fabulous! Hero 65 Sukhumvit Soi 11 Phone: (02) 251

Is someone else going to keep it going?

I have always had a crush on Vin Diesel and Paul Walker. They are the essence of hot in my mind. The movie also had some cute Brazilian gangster types without shirts. Unfortunately, they didn't have Vin or Paul nude. It would have have been a great move for the director! IMHO

BiBottom, every teacher in American signs a contract that has a morality clause. My question is who defines morality? Why can't I sit on the committee to define it?

Bush did nothing to help this. This was Obama. The Bush group set it up over the 8 years he was in office and if the way the information was gotten from unacceptable means and the American people are OK with this, so be it. Don't get me wrong. I am thrilled Osama was caught. I am not sad he is now dead. I am sad at what we as a people have had to do in order to get the information needed to find him. It lowers us as a people and makes us no better than any other society.

Border patrol need no reason to search your laptop. They can search if they think you are gay or whatever. They need no reason!

Read the article and then what do you think? Do you think that this is acceptable? Are the private lives of teachers important to their profession? Article: A state appeals court has upheld the dismissal of a San Diego schoolteacher who was fired for posting a sexually explicit ad and photos in the "men seeking men" section of Craigslist. Frank Lampedusa's firing had been overruled by a state commission that said the ad was unrelated to his ability to teach middle-school students. But the appeals court disagreed, saying Lampedusa's conduct showed he was unfit to teach and "serve as a role model" for his students. A teacher's private life can constitute grounds for dismissal if it demonstrates "indecency and moral indifference," said the Fourth District Court of Appeal in San Diego. The court issued the 3-0 ruling last month and published it Tuesday as a statewide precedent for future cases. Lampedusa, 47, has worked for the San Diego district since 1999 and at Farb Middle School since 2004, where he has also handled disciplinary cases as the school's dean of students. He has continued to teach while the district appealed his case. The court said an anonymous caller who described himself as the father of a Farb student told a police dispatcher in June 2008 about Lampedusa's ad on Craigslist. It solicited oral and anal sex, in graphic terms, and included photos of Lampedusa's face and private parts, the court said. The ad did not contain his name or contact information, which could be obtained only through Craigslist. Users of the Website were required to state that they were at least 18. Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/05/05/BAD61JC06S.DTL#ixzz1LZTpIqUr

Brazil's supreme court ruled in favor of granting civil unions to gay and lesbian couples Thursday after two days of proceedings over the case. Minister Luis Fux, who was the first to submit his vote, said he believes that because homosexuality is not a crime, it should not prevent gay people from forming families. While the court decided not to legalize marriage, some ministers involved said it would be the next step in Brazil. For full story: http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2011/05/05/Brazil_Considers_Civil_Unions/

I think a group should be organized for escorts to get group health. It is very needed IMHO. Every other group has it. As far as semen withdrawals. Yes, it a very serious condition.

I got a chance to see it today and I thought it was fantastic. It was not a great story and totally unbelievable but the stunts were fabulous and the movie was enjoyable to watch. It is the 5th movie in this series and the very end (after credits) tell you a 6th is coming! So, if you are looking for an easy movie to get away for the weekend and just enjoy some eye candy give it a go!

As some friends predicted, it wasn't too long before I returned to the Land of Smiles. I just couldn't stay away. There are many reasons for this but I had the intent of staying in Rio or Sao Paulo for a bit but finding a decent place down there for long term is hard to do especially if you don't have someone on the ground. Finding a place in Thailand is so simple and easy as there are so many serviced apartments in Thailand that finding a place is as simple as looking on the Internet. Bangkok has so many wonderful long stay places and the rates are fantastic. I fully intent to go to Brazil at the end of the year for a long stay but I spent a few months looking for places down there and everything I found fell through. FWIW: I thought of going and staying in Sao Paulo for a month to find a place. Do you know the rate of the two hotels I stay at: the Renaissance and the Intercontinental? They were both over 700US a night. HOLY SHIT I could not believe it. Anyway, Thailand was calling my name and I listened! I'll be here for a bit if anyone is taking a trip to LOS this summer.

Here is the word for this week: purlieu \PUR-loo\, noun: 1. A place where one may range at large; confines or bounds. 2. A person's haunt or resort. 3. An outlying district or region, as of a town or city. 4. A piece of land on the edge of a forest, originally land that, after having been included in a royal forest, was restored to private ownership, though still subject, in some respects, to the operation of the forest laws. "A purlieu is an area at the edge of a royal forest that used to be under forest law but isn't any more." -- Edward Rutherfurd, The Forest "She thought of the strange operation of a simple-minded man's ruling passion, that it should have led Jude, who loved her and the children so tenderly, to place them here in this depressing purlieu." -- Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure: Volume 1896, Part 1 Purlieu is an alteration (simulating French lieu, "place") of earlier parlewe, "of a forest."