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Bah! It's still attached ain't? Rub some dirt on and get back out there...... And remember the oldsters creed when playing U16 teams, "old age and treachery can overcome youth and skills".

I am more impressed with Raquel Welch at 70!

Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water My link The first few chords could send a high school dance into a frenzy. Stairway to Heaven was the other obligatory song all bands had to know. Emerson Lake & Palmer - Karn Evil 9 My link Possibly the most talented musicians ever in rock. KISS - Rock n Roll All Night They had a gimmick and it worked. Beach Boys - Surfin' USA My link They spoke to an entire lifestyle most of the world knew nothing about. The Beatles - I want to Hold Your Hand They changed the world of music forever.

YOU can't have sex until that next damn chapter of Perks is done...... maybe TWO more chapters.

Stories about real men, real heroes fighting epic battles.

Drugs are bad m'kay. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNbExvU42q4

I actually convinced myself when I was your age that because I had no interest in bottoming, I couldn't be gay or bi, that little c*@K sucking habit of mine was just a hobby or something I figured and then one day I met someone I fell head over heels in love with and when I first met him the thought, out of no place, popped in my head 'I want him in me'. Whoa! No one was more surprised than me.

I know what you mean. I am a total top except when I'm not.

After my sister went away to college her cat would sit on my chest, purr and slap me in the face until I got up and fed. This all happened at 5AM usually.

BOO WHO

Mmmm, the story isn't quite what was presented initially, which was one old guys slips and falls goes to hospital depite power of attorney one partner is denied access to the other. One key is they didn't have everything arranged according to the laws, they didn't register as domestic partners, that could have made a difference and one partner didn't just slip and fall, he had been drinking, slipped and fell and was fighting his partner when paramedics arrived so it looked like it was an abuse situation to the paramedics and probably the first police on the scene if they were called and then to the county mental health people and the dementia of the one partner may have prevented him from articulating the situation. The story seems more about bureaucratic incompetence than malicious intent. I do hope the county gets nailed in court for their incompetence, but i think the truth is more complicated than the NCLR's original press blast made things appear, but it served its purpose, it got people riled up.

ha ha ha meet me at Shiang Garden Seafood for dim sum and I'll tell you

I swear to God if I play these videos and those things gets clubbed, you're a dead man ha ha ha

Some more information. Seems that despite a 25 year relationship and 20 years of living together they never registered as domestic partners. Maybe the tragic, lonely end of Harold could have been avoided. Other than that the rest of the story sounds worthy of a tragic GA story...... from the linked story: "At the time of Harold's fall he had already been experiencing some degree of mental impairment, and had been drinking. He fell down the stairs and became angry when Clay wanted to call an ambulance because he was afraid of what the result might be. (And as it turned out, he had good reason to be.) The paramedics who arrived on the scene suspected the possibility of abuse. But that suspicion was false. What happened over the next two months is when the nightmare truly began. Once Harold was released from the hospital to a nursing home, the county refused to tell Clay where Harold had been placed, forced Clay into a nursing home where he did not need to be, auctioned all of his possessions, including treasured and valuable works of art and family memorabilia, and took away his two beloved cats." Dementia plus alcohol is a bad combo and led to a faulty conclusion by paramedics and probably the investigating county officer and then bureaucracy took over. http://www.bilerico.com/2010/04/meet_harold_greene_and_clay_scull.php

And we've been meaning to discuss that with you Tom, you are getting a little gamey after 24 years with no bath

I am always a skeptic on things I read on the Internet because I get sent stupid, outrageous claims left and and right everyday so I Googled the case, Greene v. County of Sonoma et al and almost every link took me to stories based on the NCLR Elder Law Project. I found the story surprising since I know Sonoma State had one of the first GLBT campus groups in CA, Santa Rosa has a very active and vibrant gay community. Then I found this post on Democratic Underground that expresses my skepticism better than I can articulate it. "It's a REALLY infuriating story, but... I'm always mystified when I see Results 1 - 10 of about 93,000 for Greene v. County of Sonoma for something like this, and can't find anything pointing to any story on any news site, & all the references end up pointing back to one source. I just don't like it when there's 1) a VERY infuriating story, 2) no dates on when any of this happened, no details, WHAT hospital? WHAT nursing home? WHAT judge? What was Harold's last name? 3) The story has things like "the county removed Clay from his home and confined him to a nursing home against his will" without saying HOW they did that... I mean what, just because they're EVIL? 4), like I said, every reference I can find to the story points back to one source. My first reaction is to be ANGRY, OUTRAGED, but that little voice is saying "wait a minute... check the facts." and I can't FIND any. All I can find is the Kate Kendell story. Does ANYONE have any additional info on this story?" That is kind of how I felt. It is outrageous if the facts are exactly as the NCLR Elder Law Project lays out the facts and being one of them anti-big-gubmint types nothing surprises me when I read stories about government doing bad, stupid, outrageous things. but I would at least like to see facts from another, independent source before I sharpen my pitch fork and get a torch. If the facts are proved to be exactly true, I hope to see you all at the next tea party because the story is outrageous.

I loved certain directors, John Ford with She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, My Darling Clementine, How the West Was Won, Tobacco Road, etc. Frank Capra, Meet John Doe, It's a Wonderful Life, Lost Horizon, Mr Smith Goes to Washington, A Pocketful of Miracles, etc. William Wyler, Funny Girl, The Big Country, The Best Years of Our Lives, Dodsworth, etc. Howard Hawks, Rio Bravo, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, I Was a Male War Bride, To Have and Have Not. And so many others, Hitchcock, David Lean, George Cukor, King Vidor, the giants of the industry.

Reputation should be based on on how nice or not nice you are not deeply held beliefs. No one got trashed more than Joey in the evolution thread and Joey is a very sweet guy. I also suspect the assault on Joey was a coordinated effort. It seems so petty and high schoolish.

The US is obviously very large, very diverse and very complicated so I'll discuss California only since it is the state I know best. It is easy to find adult and youth leagues in sports like soccer, basketball, softball and volleyball and those tend to be recreational in nature, in other words, not overly competitive. I don't know that the are any adult national championships in basketball that anyone takes seriously because we have the collegiate championship and then the professional championships. Basketball is more commonly played in street 'pick-up' games, anything from 3 on 3 half court to 5 on 5 full court and since the winner stays on, those games can be uber competitive.At the youth level elite players play on club teams that go to highly competitive tournaments throughout the year and these players also play on high school or college teams depending on their ages. Volleyball is highly competitive in California and some think there is even more emphasis on the club level than there is at the high school level. Club starts around 10 and goes all the way through adults and they do have national championships at all levels. Beach volleyball is largely a pick-up sport for two man competitions and there are tournaments all spring and summer and there are different skill levels AA down to B tournaments. There is a large wrestling community also in CA and it competed at on the high school and college level in a style called American folkstyle, but there is also the club level that competes in the Olympic sports of freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling. Not all high school wrestlers compete in the Olympic styles, but almost all the Olympic style wrestlers also compete in high school and collegiate wrestling. Water polo is another big sport in CA and like wrestling it has the high school and college level, but no professional leagues like Europe. The club level is also important in water polo and the clubs go from age 10 through adult and even masters, there are national championships for older age groups all the way up to a 60+ national championship. Soccer is hugely popular in CA and at the younger levels is played through club until high and even through high school, some of the elite travel teams can be more important to the players wanting to make US National teams than their high school team. There are adult leagues in soccer too and I think the US powers in soccer are baffled at how the huge popularity at the youth level hasn't translated into more support for professional leagues as the players age. Softball is a very popular sport for adults, there are fast pitch and slow pitch leagues and during the spring and summer there are games going on constantly. There are national championships at both styles. Swimming is another sport with lots of athletes and it is competitively split for adults (USA Masters Swimming) and for everyone else including the national teams. There are swim clubs, but no one needs to belong to a club to compete in meets, they just need to belong to one of the two organizations. I haven't discussed cross country running and track and field (Athletics) or rubgy, lacrosse, crew, tennis, golf, gymnastics, surfing, snow skiing, badminton, field hockey or baseball all of which have organized teams and compete at the high school and or collegiate level in CA. The clubs are also prevalent in these sports although not so much in the individual sports. I would expect in a major CA city you can find these sports being played and clubs or competitions going on. Oh and I competed in water polo, swimming and wrestling in high school, water polo in college and now I compete in open water swimming and some masters water polo. I also surf, snowboard play tennis and golf, beach volleyball and do the occasional 5k weekend run.

Pretty much any Cary Grant or Peter O'Toole movie. Cary Grant could do comedy or serious drama. O'Toole was just brilliant.

If the movie is being delayed it is because they don't want to spend the money to promote it because they aren't sure it can make money for whatever reason. It could be the political climate, Carey's popularity or lack of it, but you can be sure if the studio thought they could turn a profit with it, they'd release it. Lots of movies never get released in the US or anyplace else. Pick a copy of Daily Variety on any Friday and look at the movies "currently in production", you'll never see half of them or more. Leo DiCaprio did a movie called "Don's Plum" with Tobey McGuire that never had a U.S. release.

I get what you are saying Adam, but then again Dallas isn't a small town in TX either. I wonder what it is like for gay kids in Huff Springs, Marfa or Booker. Has enlightenment reached there yet? CA is the same way in many ways, homosexuality is pretty well accepted and entrenched, Virginia Uribe founded Project 10 in 1984 so kids wouldn't have to go through what the young lady in MS did (as a side note Virginia Uribe DID think the prom story was a big deal and she supported her, but then that is what Ms. Uribe has been doing for 54 years, supporting gay youth). But get into the central valley of CA and it is more like Oklahoma than LA or San Francisco. There are state laws trying to protect kids, but state laws can't stop all harassment or shear meanness. I think it is important we fight the small battles to win the big ones especially when it comes to gay youth in the schools feeling supported from the gay community. You make neighborhoods livable by first fixing the broken windows and painting over the graffiti, you tackle the bigger problems after that. It is all about changing people's attitudes and that takes time. I wish I could be as calm and reasonable as Mark

Has anyone ever accused you James of speaking before you think or think of the hurt the words might cause? I know I have been accused of that and not always inaccurately. I am intensely emotional and often fire from the hip before I think. While the prom might seem trivial to you, it might not to the young lady in question, it seems to her a basic right, to take a date of her choice to prom her senior year of high school. I have only read the barest accounts of the story, but I remember correctly, it was in MS and somewhat rural MS. I don't know when Ms. McMillen came out, or if she ever did or if she suffered at her school because she is gay, but I know plenty of gay kids who have been tormented by their classmates, called names, been shoved into lockers, isolated, had their car and or locker defaced maybe even their homes vandalized. Wanting to have one nice memory of high school doesn't seem too much to ask. Gay youth would like to feel the love and support of the gay community since they may not get it anyplace else, not at school or even at home. And then to be told by a gay adult to STFU. I don't think I could take that, that would be the last straw for me. On a personal note, that you don't understand the incredibly high stakes at making public schools safe, supporting and even friendly places for gay youth shocks the conscious. Most gay people will pay for schools they never have children to send to. To think that we can not support one of our own is staggering.

Today is John's birthday, johnwut. John is "Brian" in It Started With Brian. I know he isn't here as often as he used to be, but I wanted to wish him and his son a great day today and thank him once again for allowing Dan to write the story of their lives. The story had a great effect on me and touched me so deeply. It isn't easy to lay your life and emotions out there naked for the world to see, but I hope he knows the great good done by the story. Happy birthday and God bless.

Love beef liver, coated in in flour, salt and peppered and fried in bacon fat with onions. Chicken liver same way or cooked yakiniku style with gizzards, hearts, and other assorted small meats.