MrM

I'll wait for the 'Director's Cut'.

Let me challenge you Ye blinded Let me empower you Ye weakend Let me show you The Insurmountable Is Attainable Works of the Soul reveal Works of the Heart anneal Let me show you The Immutable is Changeable Works in Humility liberate Works in Mercy motivate Let me show you The Indomitable is Graspable Justification galvanizes Fortification stabalizes Let me show you The Immesurable Immortal soul Limitless Boundless Endless For in all things The Immesurable Is measured In Love.

Ohhhh goodie! I was about to post this when I saw you did it James! See...the Stennis is Pride Ship!!

Ahhh...ther's always that rocky bump just before you dock the boat.

LMAO!

Your case I can understand, Carlos. You are what I'm used to. Its the ones like what PBax mentions who were clean shaven just a few months ago and now suddenly they are Bears except they aren't Bears. Personally, I stay clean shaven and prefer to manscape a bit because I'm something of an aging pretty boy. But I don't like the 'bare down there deal'. That just feels weird to me.

I explained my Coming Out with this song:

Around here in Hillcrest beards have always been present among gay guys, but they generally mean they are a Bear or a Wolf. Cubs too for the younger ones. It sort of defined the kind of guy you were into and advertised it. They also were kind of necessary for going to the mostly Bear bars in the area. Now...I'm just confused as they seem to be everywhere.

I see ratty ones. I see nicely trimmed ones. The ones I don't get at all are the long rabbi ones. Football Players, Rock and Pop performers, actors. All look like rabbis! LOL!!

I am perplexed. Last year I started seeing bearded men all over the place. Also, 9 out of 10 new music acts I see have someone in them looking like a Rabbi. Please explain this to MrM. He will appreciate it. Theeenk Yeeew!

Something I always find about really gripping Sci-Fi is that the stories are often simple and accessible and relatable. Asimov's works are often grounded in simple ideas. Caves of Steel = basic Detective Story. I Robot = an anthology of many different kinds of fairly simple ideas just cast through the perception of robots who are following (or breaking) their Three Laws. Being a butler. Being a factory worker. Being an explorer! Heinlein's stories, especially Starship Troopers. Totally based on marine experiences in WWII, particularly the Pacific theatre. Star Trek: Basically Voyage To The Bottom of the Sea set against news worthy events and ideas surrounding the Cold War. Romulan Neutral Zone. Klingon expansionism. Also they made great use of Aesop's Fables and Morality Plays. Star Wars: King Arthur in Space. Alien: Haunted House in Space. If you can find a copy look up the old movie "The Cat and th Canary" same movie just with better special effects and a brilliant insect inspired life-cycle. I find that Sci-Fi falls apart when it becomes too esoteric. The original Battlestar Galactica was a good example. We were fine with the Cylons vs Humans thing...but when we started to get into weird religious philosphies that the audience couldn't relate to then the show jumped the shark. 2001: A Space Odyssey put through Kubrick's lense. Totally incomprehensible to me the first time I watched it. Couldn't frigging figure it out at all. Then I read Aurthur C. Clarke's book and it finally made sense. The notion of Panspermia. Once I got that then the whole thing clicked. KISS = Keep it simple stupid Live by this rule and you'll come up with some powerful sci-fi narratives.

I sit atop the bluff...the world paints itself by the Great Spirit's sand in every purple, every gold, and every blue. The Sun goes to bed...his eye shades in the tight woven carpet of night's heavy lid of indigo blue. The coyote sings his lonely song. Tells his man-friends: 'I'm hungry. You are sleeping. Time to eat. Thank you for the deer. Tomorrow, I will take the rattle snake from your boy's walking path.'

Does anyone have any Anal-Eez?

Is it when I take a few hard lessons that my old butt gets tired?

Actually, this is basically the heart of Psychoanalysis. It is probably one of the most useful tools to come from Freud. Other hypotheses he had about things did not proove out, but his insistance that a lot of mental disturbance roots in experiences 'not confronted and accepted' is absolutely valid. Most good Therapists still make use of this Dirt Digging so that these infected memories can be expressed, exposed, and cleansed. My Therapist did this for me with a number of issues including accepting my sexuality finally after 35 years and undoing the years of guilt conditioning that I had lived with and had been keeping me from fully living my life. Reading the stories here is affirming to me. I validates my experiences. I no longer feel 'queer'. My expereinces, as sad as they were at times, were very common. But you'd never know it unless you had others of our 'kind' to express themselves about it like in stories and forum entries!

I kind of lucked out on my first story I read here. The whole thing caught me and sent me on this emotional roller coaster because one of the main characters was me at that age almost to a T. The story was Comsie's Billy Chase Chronicle. The Brandon character is, well...he was me at 15. He is so much like me at that age that I'm actually doing a writing exercise where I am responding with Brandon's side of that story. As I write to fit with Comsie's narrative as Billy, it becomes eerily autobiographical. The shyness, the fear, the overwhelming emotion, the agony of betrayal, the grudge. Themes that we can all relate to, to be sure, but framed in this way, its like Comsie pulled my young self and cast him in his story almost bodily. I vicerally felt Brandon's anger and betrayal when Billy did what did. I seriously became grief-stricken! I'll leave the details to the few that may not have read this incredible story. I probably won't be able to release my response as Brandon here since I haven't been able to talk with Comsie about it, but I've found that this writing exercise has exorcised some old demons I had from my younger days. If nothing else it has energized my imagination to write some original stories that i'll be passing through beta readers and editors fairly soon. I can't wait to read other works by other authors on here. Everyone is so talented!

Shoot....I'm missing all the fun! I have a personal trainer that tortures me so I don't go to a gym persay. He's 24 and cute, but I think he's straight as an arrow. Also, I'm usually in such extremus during the workout that I don't have a chance to enjoy all 6'3" of his musclie self. Planking is so wilting in the crotchital region... Anyway, its been fun reading your steady seduction of B, Marc. 4 Twinks In A Steam Room...well...now I've got ANOTHER story to start.

Sam is such a sweetiepie. I've always enjoyed his character. You paint a great picture.

Yay!!

This one by Cheerleader is also catchy. Also it seems to be my themesong for where I am in life right now. What wisdom from the mouths of babes, no?

New song by an emerging band. I love that my favorite kind of music is becoming popular again with the younglings!

I'm like , PrivateTim!

I'm with you jamessavik. I neither like to give nor receive pain. I'm rather cuddly instead.

Well...we could kind of do what we do in the Gay community. Maybe assign by purpose: Bottom, Top, or Versatile?