PrivateTim

There are good charities and bad charities. Some charities hide what should be administrative expenses in their program expenses. Instead of spending money on a homeless shelter in their End Homelessness initiative, they are sending board members or program staff to a symposium on how to end homelessness in Palm Desert in January, and so on. The charitable foundation world can be a huge scam while being 100% legal. It would not be unusual for a foundation to have office space in the corporate building. The massive Coca-Cola Foundation, for example, is at One Coca-Cola Plaza in Atlanta.

Surely the beach house must have a lockdown feature on the gate so it won't open. I don't even know where to begin with Brad and Jake. I've been busting Will's balls on his maturity level, but B&J are over the top, take the cake. I hope we are done with the drug crap. I absolutely hate drugs.

Thems some fucked up dewds.

It makes no sense at all. Adults should be able to have rational conversations without going off on a meth binge. I get that Jake would like to remove the stain on his name, but he is in a different commitment now. The honorable thing to do is honor that commitment. The rational thing would have been to involve the family (meaning Stef & JP) in what was on the table and talk things out. Of course that it dull. Brad was too nice. I would have chained the little bastard to a radiator.

Gawd I love gay marriage. Why should breeders have all that misery just for themselves! Thank goodness for pre-nups. Yeah something happened. Brad married a guy after not knowing him long enough and way, way, WAY too soon after Robbie's death. That should have been obvious to everyone.

PS Facebook moves to Palo Alto four months after this.

Brad needs a lesson in manners? How about this: “You two are total dorks,” I said rather meanly. Susannah looked offended, while JJ got all pissed off. Stef was trying to hide a grin, probably because he was irritated with their games as well." Good manners dictates you allow people their space; live and let live, not 'my way of the highway'. Will only has two brothers, why go out of your way to antagonize one of them. The rich (Silicon Valley types, movie stars, scions of wealth) don't have to move. The added costs of living in CA have zero effect on their lifestyles. People who cannot structure their payouts, golfers like Leftie and Tiger, have left for no income tax states. When you win a major, CA is there with its hand out asking for 13% or over $400,000, if you happen to have won the masters. Will will not regret his association with Peter Thiel, the man who gave him the opportunity to become a billionaire, unless Will buys into this bullshit notion that you only associate with people who believe the same thing as you and demonize those with a different view of life.

Peter Theil is an amazing man who believes in individual freedom, recognizes the dangers of Marxism and totalitarianism and believes in American Exceptionalism without qualification. It won't be for awhile. I don't think FB goes public for 8 more years. when I first joined you had to be a college student (in theory) and I was able to join because I still had a berkeley.edu email address. Uh, Mr. Arbour might have whispered to Will that this could be a good deal.

Will and Patrick are in very different stages of life. There is no immediate future for them. I thought Patrick was going to pay Will for the house and then Will was going to deed it over to Johnny? I would not be surprised if the princeling winds up working for Stef and we see more of him.

No where has Will's inner monologue mused on Connie, sent Connie a text, or any such thing. Meh, Alabamans have brought much of the grief they get on themselves.

Seriously? The quote below is why I'll be rooting for the shark in a Will - shark encounter. "I sat on the bed, pretty freaked out by all of this, and not least by Patrick just blowing me off. I mean, I’d jumped in and solved this major issue with Johnny that could have destroyed his career, I’d spent my morning working on his show which would have been way shittier if I hadn’t. Shit, wasn’t that at least worth a fuck? I guess it was all about him." That final line is said without any introspection or self awareness. You don't do nice things for people expecting a quid pro quo. A better, more mature person would have heard the pain Patrick was in and known that was NOT the time to worry about his own wants. You do nice things for people, especially those you love, because you want the best for them and thoughts of self do not enter in at all. Love is to will the good of the other, not yourself.

I was worried for a bit. I don't think Will had sex for three straight chapters, but he quickly made up for it by three sexual encounters in a 24-48 hour period. Oh... and I've decided John should go to USC. He'd get there in time for a national championship or two, a couple of Heisman's and he'd be able to get in with a high B average and billionaire family members.

Never been a MOMA fan. When I was a kid/teen we'd stay at The Stanhope, directly across from the Met and that was much more to my liking. I get why Brad does it, OCD goes hand in hand with Control Freaks like Brad. He KNOWS better than to call Will at 2AM, give him crap, then call back and call back when Will hangs up on him, but he simply cannot help himself. His brain would explode if he didn't.

I think people are far too eager to see Will paired off. In my grandparents generation (time between WWI and WWII), getting married right out of high school was the norm. In my parents generation, the post WWII Baby Boom and College Boom (many more people going to college), meeting your soulmate in college was common. It was so common that the standing joke was that instead of a B.A. degree, girls were going to college for an Mrs. degree. I didn't meet my husband until I was 28 and our adopted son just turned 30 and isn't serious with anyone. At $560k, a house is cheaper than a new top of the line Ferrari or Bentley. If you have a liquid $1 billion invested, even at a modest rate of return, you are generating $3-4 million a month, or over $100,000 each and everyday. You need ways to dispose of that money. Buying a car for someone when you are a billionaire is like giving someone a stick of gum. See comments above on finding a soulmate. I don't find Will to be exploiting Johnny in anyway and he is certainly not doing it to protect Patrick. In my view, Will is doing it primarily to help Johnny, who he feels a kinship with, and secondarily to Stick It To The Man, in this case Johnny's uncles. We have seen Will doesn't like bullies (even if he has a hard time seeing his own bullying behavior sometimes) and if he can intervene to fuck with them, he will. Patrick is not off the hook by any means, and I suspect if he agrees to Will's arbitration idea (and I am sure Mr. Arbour will convince Patrick to do that) we will see a classic dressing down from JP and Stef, each bringing their own unique perspective.

We got both sides of the story and Johnny's version sounds a lot more likely. Patrick left out details that would have made him look bad. But what the actual truth is in this case would not matter. Even if Johnny had consented 100%, begged Patrick to drill him, Patrick still would not have an affirmative defense in NY State. If Patrick is over 21, it would be a Class B felony, which carries stiff penalties. I think Will is responding to Johnny's general distress. Johnny is clearly scarred, either by his time with Patrick, or by the cumulative pressures of his industry and looks. The casting couch is as alive in the modeling world as it is in Hollywood; throw in the high use of drugs in the modeling world and it quickly becomes a minefield for young adults. I assume you mean about being on time for assignments, not the sex/casting couch to get ahead aspects and expectations. This is all well before the #MeToo movement so an awful lot of people got away with an awful lot of misconduct in those days, even criminal behavior. Yes, in 2004 it would have killed Johnny's modeling career, but there may have been opportunities in acting, especially in NY in Soaps. It also might have killed Patrick's career too. It is a recurring theme with powerful people (movies, modeling, money) that they come to believe their doo doo doesn't have an aroma to it and they can get away with whatever they want and it only gets worse as they get away with more and more. Hopefully this works out and Patrick learns something and Johnny does too. Maybe in 2004 the aggressor (I hate to use the word predator for a single, known incident) could ruin someone's career, but now, the aggressor has little credibility once their reputation is shredded. I know a man who was swept up in the zeitgeist of the #MeToo movement. There was lots of talk of him preying on young talent, but no one ever sued him, the police investigated and never found any actual misconduct. That didn't stop his biggest clients from firing him and didn't stop his agency from then giving him the boot too. He could not have done anything to harm anyone's career in Hollywood since the mere rumors made him a pariah.

Oh please, with Will it is Mr. Right Now, Mr. A Little Later and Mr. Okay Just One More. I think the reason was offered partly in the chapter. The gay community is a mass of contradictions and soft bigotries. I remember the days of having a profile on Gay.com, PlanetOut, etc, and having heated discussions with people about guys who put "straight acting" in their profiles either to describe themselves or in what they wanted. It was a serious slap to the ones like Stef who could not/would not hide who they were. It was not the "straight acting" guys who rioted at the Stonewall Inn, it was the queens and drag queens who were mad as hell and not going to take it anymore. It was the flamers who pushed the envelope those early days and took the abuse to advance rights for everyone.

I checked my cheat sheet and I can't see Juan, the stable boy, on Will's hook up list. That can't be right can it? The young master hooking up with a stable boy or an upstairs maid is a staple of English literature.

I'm guessing you don't know many U.S. Navy fighter pilots 😄 If you cut out all the juvenile pranks they pull, there'd be no pranks at all 😁

I think Will and Connie come from such different worlds that it would never work. And no, Connie isn't in love with Will. He might think he is, he might feel he is, but you don't actually love someone in a matter of weeks, it takes months and years and testing by trials. I've made several suggestions to Mr. Arbour.... a runaway bus, an unseen mine shaft in the dark, a hungry tiger shark.... but he never seems to use my ideas. I think Will fucking security guards and shop clerks is a sign of his immaturity and not having enough respect for Stef to call him and not take his call something much worse than immaturity. Did I mention sharks with laser beams yet?

Well aren't you the nosy one? Will is growing up? Having sex in shop dressing rooms? The difference is, most 17 years olds might have had a couple of instances of intercourse by 17, not 40, like Will.

Gawd I love hindsight!

Yeah, it is funny, I think of Stef as having been with JP forever, but in going through the CAP Timeline to refresh my mind on so many characters, I was going, 'oh yeah, Stef was with him, and then him, and then them....' Didn't Stef even sleep with a grandson or nephew accidentally (unknown relationship at the time)? He took a long time finding his way back to JP.

“In different circumstances, it would be easy to fall in love with you,” he said. That actually did make me tear up a bit. “Then you know exactly how I feel about you,” I told him. Oh crap, someone give me a shot of of insulin quick, that cloying sweetness is spiking my blood sugar! Will is more interesting when he is pissed off and being an ass.

I don't recall the beam or draught of Tonto, but if it is much over 40m, I doubt it could get through the channel at Hayman Island or be able to dock. Are the dates on CAP Book 1 accurate? Or did they change on a website format change? I went back and reread the Timeline and Playbill; so many characters I've forgotten and forgotten who is related to whom by blood, what with all the affairs and what not. Reminds me of that old Dr. Demento song, "I'm My Own Grandpa".

It would be in Missouri.... but a little less so in Rarotonga.... and who's to know if you actually are 😉