TotallyOz

LOL I have NO intent on going to Brazil anytime soon. That is the last place I want to be right now. The dollar sucks and it is 1.9 to one dollar. I remember when it was 3.8. What a fucking mess. No way in hell I'll end up there anytime soon.

Here are just a few of the reasons I love Brazil. There are soooo many more! Oz

Last night I saw the new move Resurecting the Champ. It is about a sports writer who rescues a homeless man who just happens to be a boxing fighter who most thought had been dead for 20 years. The movie was very well done and both Samuel Jackson and Josh Hartnett are great in their perspective roles. If you have a chance, take a night off and see this movie. It is worth your time and energy. Samuel L. Jackson, Josh Hartnett, Kathryn Morris, Alan Alda, Teri Hatcher

Rumors are abuzz in the USA and right now I am in a very Cuban community in NYC. The news is that Castro is dead. No major news agency has reported this officially but if you do a google on Castro you will see many fast breaking stories. When he dies, I wonder how long it will take those that love the Latin guys to pounce on the city. I have tons of friends who go there on a regular basis and who also love Thailand. Once the doors are open to Americans, I wonder what the place will be like. There are many gay boys there for pay and the new influx of tourists may make the cities more like Pattaya. haha Well, not like Pattaya, but more like the saunas in Rio.

There are tons of news reports about this right now. Just google Castro and you will see the hints that many think he has died. I just got off the phone with a journalist from the New York Times who has been a good friend since law school and they are on top of the story but they don't know anything official at all. Speculation is afoot but nothing is yet released.

At the fitness camp I was at recently, they only had Stevia as a sweetner for the Green Tea. They did not offer any of the other stuff. They were mostly a vegetarian place and they really believed in whole natural foods. I asked for some last night at a Hyatt I was at and they didn't know what it was. I guess it is not too popular.

I have been trying different kinds of sweetners. I seem to like Sweet and Low the best but there are many out there. What are the pros anc cons of them? Anyone out there done research on these things?

Even though I find it a bit of a bore, I have found I am addicted to it. It was so sad to see Corey Haim cry when he found out that he was invited to be in the new Lost Boys but the other Cory was. Cory Haim burned too many bridges on his drug rampages when he was younger. It was a very touching scene.

After a weekend in Las Vegas with the AMAZING Stef Lacoste, I have to say my Vegetarian habits are broken as we had a few buffets and I am back to being able to sit downwind or upwind.

I am sure that as a football star he will be beloved in prison. However, there are tons of dog lovers in there as well and it will be interesting to see how he is treated. I hope they fuck him daily.

Conway, thanks for the post. I have learned a lot from your experiences. I agree thta it is important to get away from it all from time to time to get into better shape and get your fitness level back to par. There are so many places out there that are available to us that it is not such a hard thing to do. Congrats on your success and keep it up. I would be curious why you chose Nutri System?

I am a dog lover as many of you know and this case had really disgusted me. I could not believe that his business was dog fights and killing them in such a brutal matter. I am also disappointed that the prosecution made a deal. I hope it is not a light sentence and that he spends a long time in jail and is banned from the NFL for life! Oz

haha. Hard to get Rio off my mind. Actually, just hard thinking about Rio. I do love Thailand the most as you know as I feel safe and secure everywhere I go. But, I have always said I like the sex with the Brazilians more. My first bf was a Brazilian heartthrob and I have always had a thing for Brazilians and PR's. I did hear the new malls in Thailand are amazing. I was able to test a few of them out and it was fun. I really enjoyed looking around in the shops at Ceasar's Palace last night. I also saw KA again and remembered why I feel in love with it in the first placfe. I had a boy last night that was fun and sweet. I just could not tell if he was sober when it showed up or left. Perhaps that was his personality. Not sure. Review to come.

LOL. Well, home today is Las Vegas. A few days in the Sin City with a few Cirque shows and then maybe a trip to New York City for a week. The big question will be what happens the week after New York. I do have Club 117 on my mind.

I had family affairs to take care of for 2 weeks and was unable to work out or eat right. As some of you know, I have lost a lot of weight since Dec and I want to continue on the same track. Since I was helping family moved, my exercise was zero and my food habits were horrible as I helped them move over 1k miles and had to pack and unpack more boxes than I have ever seen in my life. I had put on a few pounds and since I hadn’t been to the gym in 2 weeks, I wanted a quick start to get back to track. I decided to book 2 weeks at Fitness Ridge in St. George, Utah. It is a resort spa that has a great fitness program and a 1200 calorie daily diet. The program is built mostly around hikes in the beautiful mountains around the area. We were hiking everything from the remote areas that are not in the guide books to the trails at Zion National Park. The workout rooms are amazing and several very enjoyable classes including Living Drums an aerobic tribal drumming class. I just checked out of my stay there and was there for almost 2 weeks. In total, I lost 15 pounds. I was very happy with the results of the program. The exercises are geared toward every level. The staff was excellent and friendly. The massage therapists were amazing. It was a nice blend of fitness with pampering. They have a brand new facility. It was very well built and the people I met were amazing. It is not a gay resort but I had a blast and I am about as open as anyone I know. Hopefully, I'll find me a cute boy that will want to go and exercise with me one day. The website is: http://www.fitnessridge.com I highly recommend them! Oz

Sorry to air my dirty laundry. or smelly laundry.

I have been in a spa for 2 weeks that is majority veggan. We do get some fish once a week and chicken once a week but we kind of demand it. The staff is all veggan. I have been pretty much off meat and beef totally for 2 weeks. My body feels great and my skin is better. But, I find I fart all the time now. Is this a result of the diet or just the detox of the body? Any vegetarians out there who care to share some feedback?

This is an absolutly fascination discussion. I have really enjoyed the opinions expressed here. I had a talk today with a "liberal" Mormon who knows I am openly gay and run gay adult sites. She is OK with it. She said she had an openly gay friend who moved to her city and opened a business. The business was successful until the community found out he was gay and then he was ignored. He got fed up with all the BS and moved to Vegas. I have also seen many homes in Utah with a front door and a side door. I was told that this was for the different familys of the husband. I have also been told that they are very strict and that they are not allowed to associate with outsiders. I am talking of those with multiple wives BTW. I love multiple partners and expressed this to one Mormon lady and she was highly offended. She said it was only acceptable in the Church's eyes for a man to have multiple wives and not vice versa. I said that was not fair and she said that was the doctrin. I have really enjoyed my stay in this little Mormon mecca. The funniest thing happened last week when I went shopping and this cute clerk in a clothing store said he saw my profile on a site. We chatted until his boss came close and then the conversationi quickly ended.

Max Roach, a founder of modern jazz who rewrote the rules of drumming in the 1940’s and spent the rest of his career breaking musical barriers and defying listeners’ expectations, died early today in Manhattan. He was 83. His death was announced today by a spokesman for Blue Note records, on which he frequently appeared. No cause was given. Mr. Roach had been known to be ill for several years. As a young man, Mr. Roach, a percussion virtuoso capable of playing at the most brutal tempos with subtlety as well as power, was among a small circle of adventurous musicians who brought about wholesale changes in jazz. He remained adventurous to the end. Over the years he challenged both his audiences and himself by working not just with standard jazz instrumentation, and not just in traditional jazz venues, but in a wide variety of contexts, some of them well beyond the confines of jazz as that word is generally understood. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/16/arts/mus...nyt&emc=rss

I thought they were so cute growing up and watched all those shows. Stand by Me is one of my favorite movies ever. Goonies was also amazing. I was young and so were they. Now, they are all grown up and have a new Reality show. I watched the first few episodes and found it quite the bore. Too bad Corey Haim did not age well. He was so cute pre drug days.

I recently had a VO test. It is the volume of oxygen you body needs to put you in the fat burning zones. In the test, they strap you up to a machine and cover your mouth and you breath only from your mouth into the machine which records all your levels. Your heart beat is also recorded at the same time. It gives you the zones in which you should be working in to burn fat and calories at the optimum level. I learned a great deal about my workout regime and how my body can be more efficient when I exercise. Has anyone else had these tests? Did you find them helpful or interesting at least?

I have been in an area for the past few weeks that is heavily populated with Mormons. They have been very nice and sweet and I have enjoyed meeting so many of them. However, I have a massage therapist who lives in a neighborhood of all Mormons and she said they will not allow her son to play with their children as they are not Mormons. The kid is 5 and just moved to the area so there is no history. I thought this was peculiar so I asked a few others who live in mostly Mormon neighborhoods and they all said the same thing. I was a bit surprised and shocked at this. Has anyone had any experiences with this or heard similar stories?

BANGKOK, Thailand, Aug. 14 — “Thaksin, Where Are You?” It is Thailand’s latest political puzzler — the title of a strange little book about the former prime minister that may or may not be what it seems. Thaksin Shinawatra is in London, his home since he was ousted in a coup last September; he is watching and, perhaps, waiting for his moment to return, as the generals who are now in power lead his country through an exhausting series of watershed moments. Next Sunday, in the latest of these, Thailand will vote on a new constitution that would pave the way for an election, tentatively set for November. Meanwhile, a Thai court today issued arrest warrants for Mr. Thaksin and his wife, Pojaman, after the couple failed to appear in the court to face corruption charges involving a land sale. The warrants mean that the couple would be taken into custody if they returned to Thailand, but their lawyer said today that they have no plans now to do so. The court said it would consider extradition proceedings if they do not appear by Sept. 25. Legal experts said such proceedings would probably be long and complex. London is where a young Thai writer says she wheedled and wept until Mr. Thaksin granted her seven hours of interviews for a chatty book about his life and moods that she says could have been called “Lonely Thaksin.” The book was published in Bangkok this month, and it has infuriated the ruling generals, who seem to think they see Mr. Thaksin’s stealthy hand everywhere, including in this seemingly inoffensive portrait of a mild-mannered political retiree. If the book really was the writer’s independent enterprise, Mr. Thaksin got very lucky. It portrays him just as he might have portrayed himself if he had orchestrated the whole thing. “Although he tries to remain light-hearted, deep down in his eyes, I feel his hidden pain,” writes the author, Sunisa Lertpakawat, 32. It is Mr. Thaksin through the looking glass, the improbably unadventurous life of a powerful man, a chimera who still haunts the junta. The book is studded with charming, glossy family photos of Mr. Thaksin practicing his golf swing, shopping in a supermarket, feeding his son birthday cake, riding a bicycle, buying a pizza, looking at fish in an aquarium, smiling at the seaside. “You are interviewing a poor guy today,” says the telecommunications tycoon who has just spent $162 million to buy the British soccer club Manchester City and thousands of dollars more to throw a party for 8,000 of its fans in a city square. “I have some money in my savings accounts, but,” he pauses, according to the book. “By the way, I think I can manage it.” One twist to the story is that the author is a lieutenant in the army, working as a reporter for an army-run television station. She said she produced the book on her own time, secretly, anticipating trouble. And she got it. As soon as they found out, her commanders halted distribution of the book after its first run of 4,000 copies and yanked her from her job. Her offense, technically, was extending a three-day leave to 21 days, and she has since preemptively tendered her resignation. The coup leader, Sonthi Boonyaratglin, personally ordered an investigation and, according to Lt. Sunisa, called her in for a one-on-one talking to. “You-know-who is the hand behind this publication,” one official told a Thai newspaper, treating it almost as a matter of national security. The generals have reacted this way to the Thaksin phantom before. They have tried to suppress news about him by, for example, ordering television stations not to run interviews with him. At one point, they stopped talking on their cellular telephones for fear he might be listening in. “A bunch of panicky people,” The Nation newspaper called them, dancing to Mr. Thaksin’s tune “every time he feels like getting up to a little mischief.” In an interview, Lt. Sunisa insisted that she acted on her own and that she had not been in touch with Mr. Thaksin since her return from London. She said the photographs were given to her at no cost by Mr. Thaksin’s son, Panthongtae, who is a photographer and whom she interviewed separately for four hours at a Thai restaurant in London. Lt. Sunisa, who has a bachelor’s degree in political science, is a puzzle to those who have met her, appearing naïve and calculating at the same time. Click here for the remaining story: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/14/world/as...nyt&emc=rss

I could not agree with you more. I have been so busy in the last year with other things (personal and business) that I have not given the time and attention that is needed to bring more traffic into this site. Sept 1st that will change and I'll rededicate myself to bringing this site more traffic and more reviews. Even if I have to review 5 a week myself.

Thanks for the chuckle. hehe I guess I have always seen it as Hooville consists of everyone that was part of the M4M site. That site is gone. 2 factions of it exist. One is here and one is at Daddy's but both have similar rights to be called the Hoovillians. The family of Hooboy decided it wanted to close the site. It did not take the highest offer to sell the name. It did not want to continue the site. They chose to stop the site and the name from being used. Thus, we now have 2 different groups that were once part of the bigger group. Neither are heir to the throne. The estate made this clear in their decisions.