TotallyOz

>I seem to recall you being too busy to come cabanna hopping at >Hustlaball with me but I did extend the invitation :9 You may have casually mentioned it in an ephemeral conversation. My concentration must have been on your six-pack at the time. My attention is easily diverted.

>way below a two day >late lime treatment of a three day old outdoor port-a-potty >shit box at a construction site. First off guys, lets not get into pissing contests. Breath in. Breath out. Relax. Do that 200 times before each post. Second, the lime treatment ramark is perhaps the funniest thing I have read in weeks. Thanks for the laugh. Now, breath in. Breath out. Relax.

Sorry about that. There is an e-mail at the top of this thread, maleescortreview@gmail.com that is best to use. Oz

>Having had coffee with Brent here in WeHo in the last couple >days and spending the evening in said cabanna with him Damm. I wish I had your life.

>I'd get extra >security at your Palm Springs event. Another party and I'm not invited. Damm. Where are all these invitations going?

I loved the interview with her father last week with Wolf questioning him about the pregnacy. Mary finally spoke up and said that gay couples were just as qualified to raise children as hetrosexual couples are. Imagine that! I just spent a few weeks with a lesbian couple who are raising 2 children of their own. They are amazing parents and I really enjoyed getting to know them better and the birth father. It never crossed my mind that gays would not be good parents but aparently socienty does. Or, at least large parts of it. Why? What are they afraid of? http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/31/us/31cnd...=rssnyt&emc=rss

Molly Ivins, the liberal newspaper columnist who delighted in skewering politicians and interpreting, and mocking, her Texas culture, died today at her home in Austin. She was 62. Her death, after a long fight with breast cancer, was confirmed by her personal assistant, Betsy Moon. In her syndicated column, which appeared in about 350 newspapers, Ms. Ivins cultivated the voice of a folksy populist who derided those who acted too big for their britches. She was rowdy and profane, but she could filet her ideological opponents with droll precision. After Patrick J. Buchanan, as a conservative candidate for president, declared at the 1992 Republican National Convention that America was engaged in a cultural war, she said his speech “probably sounded better in the original German.” “There are two kinds of humor,” she told People magazine. One was the kind “that makes us chuckle about our foibles and our shared humanity,” she said. “The other kind holds people up to public contempt and ridicule. That’s what I do.” Hers was a feisty voice that she developed in the early 1970s at The Texas Observer, the muckraking biweekly that would become her spiritual home for life. Her subject was Texas. To her, the Great State, as she called it, was “reactionary, cantankerous and hilarious,” and its legislature was “reporter heaven.” When the legislature was set to convene, she warned her readers: “Every village is about to lose its idiot.” Her Texas upbringing made her something of an expert on the Bush family. She viewed President George H.W. Bush benignly. (“Real Texans do not use the word ‘summer’ as a verb,” she wrote.) But she derided President George W. Bush, whom she first knew in high school. She called him Shrub and Dubya. With the Texas journalist Lou Dubose, she wrote two best-selling books about Mr. Bush: “Shrub: The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush” (2000) and “Bushwhacked” (2003). In 2004 she campaigned against Mr. Bush’s re-election, and as the war in Iraq continued, she called for his impeachment. In her last column, earlier this month, she urged readers to “raise hell” against the war. Mary Tyler Ivins was born on Aug. 30, 1944 in California and grew up in the affluent Houston suburb of River Oaks. Her father, James, a conservative Republican, was general counsel and later president of Tenneco Corporation, an oil and gas company. As a student at private school, Ms. Ivins was tall and big-boned and often felt out of place. “I spent my girlhood as a Clydesdale among thoroughbreds,” she said. She developed her liberal views partly from reading The Texas Observer at a friend’s house. Those views led to fierce arguments with her father about civil rights and the Vietnam War. “I’ve always had trouble with male authority figures because my father was such a martinet,” she told The Texas Monthly. After her father developed advanced cancer and shot himself to death in 1998, she wrote: “I believe that all the strength I have comes from learning how to stand up to him.” Like her mother, Margot, and grandmother, Ms. Ivins went to Smith College in Massachusetts. Graduating in 1966, she also studied at the Institute of Political Science in Paris and earned her master’s degree at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Her first newspaper jobs were at The Houston Chronicle and The Minneapolis Tribune, now The Star Tribune. In 1970, she jumped at the chance to move to Austin, where she became co-editor of The Observer. Covering the statehouse, she found characters whose fatuousness helped focus her calling and define her persona, which her friends saw as populist and her detractors saw as manufactured cornpone. Even her friends marveled at how quickly she could drop her Texas voice for what they called her Smith voice. Sometimes she combined the two, as in: “The sine qua non, as we say in Amarillo.” Ronnie Dugger, the former publisher of The Observer, said the political circus in Texas inspired her. “It was like somebody snapped the football to her and said, ‘All the rules are off, this is the football field named Texas, and it’s wide open,”’ he said. In 1976, her writing, which she said was often fueled by “truly impressive amounts of beer,” landed her a job at The New York Times. She cut an unusual figure in The Times newsroom, wearing blue jeans, going barefoot and bringing in her dog, whose name was an expletive. While she drew important writing assignments, like covering the Son of Sam killings and Elvis Presley’s death, she sensed she did not fit in and complained that Times editors drained the life from her prose. “Naturally, I was miserable, at five times my previous salary,” she later wrote. “The New York Times is a great newspaper: it is also No Fun.” After a stint in Albany, she was transferred to Denver to cover the Rocky Mountain states, where she continued to challenge her editors’ capacity for prankish writing. Covering an annual chicken slaughter in New Mexico in 1980, she used a sexually suggestive phrase, which her editors deleted from the final article. But her attempt to use it angered the executive editor, A.M. Rosenthal, who ordered her back to New York and assigned her to City Hall, where she covered routine matters with little flair. She quit The Times in 1982 after The Dallas Times Herald offered to make her a columnist. She took the job even though she loathed Dallas, once describing it as the kind of town “that would have rooted for Goliath to beat David.” But the paper, she said, promised to let her write whatever she wanted. When she declared of a congressman, “If his I.Q. slips any lower, we’ll have to water him twice a day,” many readers were appalled, and several advertisers boycotted the paper. In her defense, her editors rented billboards that read: “Molly Ivins Can’t Say That, Can She?” The slogan became the title of the first of her six books. After The Times Herald folded in 1991, she wrote for The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, until 2001, when her column was syndicated by Creators Syndicate. Ms. Ivins, who never married, is survived by a brother, Andy, of London, Tex., and a sister, Sara Ivins Maley, of Albuquerque, N.M. One of her closest friends was Ann Richards, the former Texas governor, who died last year. The two shared an irreverence for power and a love of the Texas wilds. “Molly is a great raconteur, with a long memory,” Ms. Richards said, “and she’s the best person in the world to take on a camping trip because she’s full of good-ol-boy stories.” Ms. Ivins worked at a breakneck pace, adding television appearances, book tours, lectures and fund-raising to a crammed writing schedule. She also wrote for Esquire, the Atlantic Monthly and The Nation. An article about her in 1996 in The Star-Telegram suggested that her work overload may have caused an increase in factual errors in her columns. (She eventually hired a fact-checker.) And in 1995, the writer Florence King accused Ms. Ivins of lifting passages from Ms. King’ for an article that Ms. Ivins had written in Mother Jones in 1988. Ms. Ivins had credited Ms. King six times in the article but not in two lengthy sentences, and she apologized to Ms. King. Ms. Ivins learned she had breast cancer in 1999 and was typically unvarnished in describing her treatments. “First they mutilate you; then they poison you; then they burn you,” she wrote. “I have been on blind dates better than that.” But she continued to write her columns and continued to write and raise money for The Observer. Indeed, rarely has a reporter so embodied the ethos of her publication. On the paper’s 50th anniversary in 2004, she wrote: “This is where you can tell the truth without the bark on it, laugh at anyone who is ridiculous, and go after the bad guys with all the energy you have.” http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/31/business...=rssnyt&emc=rss

I am seeing Babel this weekend. I heard great things about it but have yet to be interested to see it at all. I have decided to give in and give it a try.

John, The best way to send it is to: maleescortreview@gmail.com TampaYankee and I are the only ones with access to that account. We value privacy. Tampa is the one that answers the e-mail there and he is the Boss. Hope this helps! Oz

Who do you think will win? I think the winners will be: Best Picture: Lettters from Iwo Jima Best Actor: Forest Whitaker Best Actress: Judi Dench Best Supporting Actor: Eddie Murphy Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Hudson Best Director: Martin Scorsese

(CNN) -- "Dreamgirls" received a leading eight nominations for the 79th annual Academy Awards, but was shut out of two of the biggest categories -- best picture and best director. The nominees for best picture are "The Departed," "Babel," "Letters From Iwo Jima," "Little Miss Sunshine" and "The Queen." The nominees for best actor are Forest Whitaker ("The Last King of Scotland"), Leonardo DiCaprio ("Blood Diamond"), Ryan Gosling ("Half Nelson"), Peter O'Toole ("Venus") and Will Smith ("The Pursuit of Happyness"). The nominees for best actress are Helen Mirren ("The Queen"), Judi Dench ("Notes on a Scandal"), Penelope Cruz ("Volver"), Meryl Streep ("The Devil Wears Prada") and Kate Winslet ("Little Children"). The nominees for best supporting actor are Eddie Murphy ("Dreamgirls"), Alan Arkin ("Little Miss Sunshine"), Jackie Earle Haley ("Little Children"), Djimon Hounsou ("Blood Diamond") and Mark Wahlberg ("The Departed"). The nominees for best supporting actress are Jennifer Hudson ("Dreamgirls"), Adriana Barraza ("Babel"), Cate Blanchett ("Notes on a Scandal"), Abigail Breslin ("Little Miss Sunshine") and Rinko Kikuchi ("Babel"). The nominees for best director are Martin Scorsese ("The Departed"), Clint Eastwood ("Letters From Iwo Jima"), Stephen Frears ("The Queen"), Paul Greengrass ("United 93") and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu ("Babel"). ABC will broadcast the Oscars live February 25 from Hollywood's Kodak Theatre. Ellen DeGeneres is hosting the show. http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/...ions/index.html

>To Totally Oz-If I wanted to start a thread titled"Rich >website owner spoiling it for everybody in otherwise >affordable foreign lands"I would have done so ;-) But I >belive that was done somewher else far away in a different >time. Time goes forward and so do ideas. As I have said, I don't think I spoil anything for you or other clients. I also don't think those that charge high dollar spoils it for that group. Everyone who hires and who hires out are able to command different prices. I have been in the business a long time and I know the vast difference that guys charge and clients pay or even tip. It is to each his own. It is not a spoiling effect IMHO. But, everyone is entitled to his own opinion. In my statement above, it was not about me or tips but about how the internet changes that medium. In the same sauna I have paid one guy in Brazil 50 R for a short time, he is now in the net working for a Rio escort service. His rates are 3-4 times what he charges in the sauna. If I brougth this guy to NYC, he would be able to charge and get 3-4 times his agency rate. At any point along that line a client can say yes or no. I don't begrudge a guy for what his rates are and when they change one way or another. I guess my response to your first question in the thread should have been: Express your opinion to your friend. Let others express theirs and let him make the best decision for himself and then you decide if he will remain someone you will hire or you need to move on. It is not personal, it is often just business.

I hope all new young working boys will listen to advice from those that are successful as well as those clients that hire often. When anyone goes into a new field, they will get lots of advice from many. The smart ones listen to all and then make an intelligent decision. I hope that boys don't listen to other boys advice to their detriment. If they overprice themselves, hopefully they will realize the mistake and then readjust. Many boys come out of retirement and still get many clients. I am sure that many who adjust their prices will also get many clients. Those of us that are old and been around the block a few times realize that the guys change their mind and we need to just roll with the flow.

Scott is one of the few that can get the fees he charges. Ben and Scott take escorting to another level. I am not saying they are excellent in bed as I have not been with Ben. I am saying that they know how to get publicity and regardless of what anyone says, the more anyone talks about them, the more clients they will get. There will always be a group of men who are willing and able to pay high prices for escorts. When there is someone I want to see, I will do the same. I may not go back for seconds and third's but that is my choice. I met a lad once in Prague that was the cutest thing I had ever seen. I asked him to spend the night with me and I paid him more than most high-end escorts in the USA make. I had the time of my life with him and I did not regret the money I spent on him. I have always wanted to meet Athan from LA. I have tried on my trip to LA to see him on many occasions but he was never available. I would have paid top dollar for him as I have had him on my mind for a few years. When I am in Brazil I have always paid top dollar at the saunas. I have also never been turned down by any guy there. Most are more than eager to go with me but the prices are pretty set by the area. The Internet changes those dynamics. It gives savvy escorts the ability to shine. For those like Ben who are writers and creative, it gives them a chance to really take advantage of the medium for their main source of business income. I have always said that if the price is too much for you, just hire someone else. I hope that most escorts don't start asking for what a few of them are now asking. If they do, it gives me much more reason to visit Brazil more often. However, I don't begrudge anyone from maximizing their earning potential. Personally, I think a smarter escort would see that if he can get 10 more clients a month with a slightly less rate then it is worth it to keep the price reasonable. If the escort is only looking for a few calls a month, they really don't care about that.

I am very excited about a new site. It is www.drag.com It will be a site that caters to the circuit party crowd with free information and listings. Having been a true admirer of drag performers for many years, I am excited about the new site. We are looking for a logo design for the main page of the site as well as for tshirts, etc. If you are an artist or know a graphic artist, tell them to play with some designs and submit them to us. They can e-mail them to: crazycalm@gmail.com We will only take one design but if that design is chosen, we will pay 500 USD for the rights to use it. As I know there are several of you that are good artists and designers, I hope you consider this as a possibility. Take care! Oz

>My own guilty confession: my favorite character is Chloe. I >would do anything to be that buckled-down. I like Chole and her boyfriend. She is loyal. I was sad at the death on the show this week. I always thought he was the hottest one on the show.

I am glad that when I travel that 24 is always available on Itunes. It makes it very easy to keep up to date.

I would love to see a Clinton Obama ticket but how about a Clinton/Gore again? I like Edwards and hope he is able to get into the race and fight.

Great news. It was my second gay bar ever. My first was Monster. I am glad it is revived.

One of my favorite shows just started the new season. 24 has always been one of my favorites and this season looks great as well. Last nights episodes were excellent. I am looking forward to a new season of this. Any more 24 fans?

My wishes are for world peace. Other than that, I think the misson statement is the place to start. And, from what I have seen GayButton is doing a great job. PS: Plus, I am having a hell of a time. hehe If EarWig could only see the boy with me this weekend. I know how he knows every boy in Pattaya with a big dick. This guy is Hot, massive muscles, 24, body like a Greek god and hung 11 inches. He has spent the last few years doing Extreme Fighting across Europe. He changed jobs and is now in charge of boxing and fitness training at a large gym on the east coast of the USA. Perhaps I'll send a pic after the weekend. Damm, life is good. While I am in the middle of a large project, he contacted me and I decided to fly him in for the weekend to spend time with me. I am hoping for an Extreme weekend myself but hope it is not the Extreme Fighting he does. He is perhaps the one guy that could break my heart or make me settle down in life or just have a hell of a weekend! Just wanted to check in and say hello Pearly. Don't forget my dreams of world peace and harmony. Tootles.

I have been given a great opportunity to do some things in life I have wanted to do for years. I have decided to take the bull by the horn and go off into the wild blue yonder. I am not able to do this and keep up the moderation of the board. Every once in a while an opportunity so amazing is offered to you that you can

Can you just take my word for it? The balls are just as amazing as the pins.

If you dream long enough and wish hard enough anything is possible. I don't have a harem. Never had and never will. I have a highly paid bowling team.

>Actually it does. OZ owns it. But that's being dictionary >correct and doesn't have any bearing on this thread. Are you sure? I didn't know that. Really, I didn't. I am not discounting your claim but I did a search for the name and don't have it in my records. Can you get me the username and password for the registrar so I can make some modifications?