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@Carlos Hazday and @Timothy M. Carlos is right. Halitosis! would make a superlative expletive for our Danish friend I can hear him now...

It could have been worse. Much worse. Psycho Hugo could have been the one who showed up! ;–)

At least we now know the Bovary Blond’s name is Danny and that he’s a friend of Amanda’s – Trout should be able to contact him once dear old Granny Beth passes… ;–)

All great questions and answers! Thank you, Carlos. @Mikiesboy excellent reincarnation choice. You'd have fun. I just googled "handsome airedale" and found these picture results

I’m watching a show on Japan’s public broadcaster, NHK. It’s about one of the neighborhood in Tokyo (Tokyo will be hosting the 2020 Summer Olympics) and it was mostly about small art galleries. They visited a sushi restaurant that featured unusual forms that include one with a tofu byproduct replacing rice and an ancestral form that uses two-year-old rice which is very sour – Tokyoites were too impatient to wait that long, so rice vinegar was eventually used as a substitute. Then they went to an Italian restaurant that’s located in a 70 year old house. The appetizer was Satoimo (Taro) that was eaten with chopsticks. The entree was pasta with seasonal fresh tomatoes and just basic seasoning. Very non-traditional. Tony would not have approved! ;–)

Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so. -Belva Davis the first African-American female TV reporter on the US West Coast California Hall of Fame 12th Class (2018) inductee

Thanks for sharing this! Knew nothing about Bird or his work. The selection you chose sounds great on a plucked instrument like the harpsichord; I can sort of perceive the sitar twang which the composer no doubt wanted to bring to Western European audiences. Thanks again for posting it

Borge and Mulvey *clears throat* perform Verdi. (actually, her singing is fantastic, despite all the laughs and clowning around interrupting her)

I’m glad Dev & Ken decided not to do any additional movies. There is always the risk that the one they did will come back to haunt them. Appearances may change, but their voices will still be identifiable throughout most of their lives. And if either one or both of them ever achieves fame or popularity, who’s to say that Pavel the Prague Porn Producer won’t rerelease the video with their true identities revealed? Besides, who know what technology might be invented in the future that might allow the video to be recreated in a new medium that gets even wider exposure? People who posed as ‘artist models’ or for ‘athletic studios’ in the ‘40s, ‘50s, and ‘60s had no idea that their secret images would get wide exposure through porn magazines and later online. Men who performed in film clips during the very secretive 8mm film strip era couldn’t have imagined they’d get released on video and eventually online too. ;–) Fools who send naked selfies to their girlfriend or boyfriend don’t think about how angry ex’s can do revenge posts of all those images. The idiots who post them on social media don’t realize many will end up on Tumblr for anyone to see – labeling them ‘for women only’ just makes them are enticing. And then there are the naïve, desperate, horny victims of women (or ‘women’) who tease the guy into showing his attributes for her – so she can share or sell the images to pathetic old men. ;–)

Is south-east London different from the East End– and does Kent speak Cockney? ;–)

That suggests some cruel, sadistic person or creature might have imagined my life! ;–)

It’d be funnier if the Bovary Blond was Amanda’s brother, Franklin! ;–)

Wikipedia says that Mariah was named after the wind in the song (which doesn’t have an ‘h’ in its name)… ;–)

Why would The Wind say “We love him!”? ;–)

Already? I liked him when they first met at camp! Already! ;–)

It would be staffed by former US Marines from 29 Palms who were discharged by the Corp after appearing in military fetish Gay porn… ;–) They need legitimate jobs to throw off their family’s curiosity about their income (derived mainly from ‘escorting’ and live appearances augmented by porn scenes). ;–)

Apparently Jeff has lots of experience milking cows! ;–) And Connor is an athlete! ;–) Besides, teenagers are notorious for being shallow… as am I! ;–)

With straight boys and men, it's the Madonna*/Whore conundrum where women are either saintly or sinful. I don’t know that there is a male equivalent, but someone who has studied psych theory can probably inform me. And I don’t know where Jeff fits in that dynamic. ;–) * Not the singer!

This reminds me of Ang Lee’s first Gay movie, The Wedding Banquet! Except Trout doesn’t have an existing partner. But the happily partnered Gay Wai-Tung Gao is also marrying a woman and is forced to convince his joyful parents of the validity of the coupling. The parents unexpectedly decide to travel from Taiwan to celebrate what was intended to be a sham marriage so Wai-Tung’s tenant can get a green card. (Two of the first four LaserDiscs I once owned had ‘wedding’ in their titles: The Wedding Banquet and Four Weddings and a Funeral.) ;–) In my own case, because my family has a longer history in the US, I was not forced to marry a woman for appearance's sake. But I was strongly encouraged to not ‘embarrass’ my family by being Open about being Gay. But I’m sure that many members of my father’s Protestant church were aware of my orientation even when my parents were still alive. People might have whispered about my orientation, but it wouldn’t have been something openly discussed. ;–)

Why was no one aware of Trout’s father’s place? Did he keep a mistress (or male concubine?) there? Why wasn’t it described as an investment or something and discussed openly? ;–)

I’m so glad Jeremy’s fortuitous call broke the spell and prevented Alex from succumbing to the temptation in front of him. It would have been so easy and so disastrous for him to place another bet while he was there. Even if Jeremy turns out to be straight, he will still be the best friend Alex ever had merely because he unknowingly stopped Alex from falling back into his gambling addiction trap! ;–)

Sorry, I can’t resist! ;–)

Yes, that sounds exactly like me! ;–) I’ve been reading a few stories on Awesome Dude. Rick Beck’s A Mann's World is an interesting mystery/crime thriller that’s just begun. Rick is a very skilled writer who weaves a complex tale with a satisfying ending. His characters and situations are not the typical ones we see so often in Gay fiction. His Gulf series seems to be posting on several different sites right now and is one of my favorites – I think it’s most complete on AD. Grant Bentley is another AD author I enjoy. His Volunteered brought together a pair of unlikely friends and I’m always a sucker for stories that include the homeless as real people with feelings and goals. This is a topic I’ve thought was particularly useful for readers to ponder as they read. Michael Arram is an author I first read on crvboy.org. His Alike in Dignity is the latest in a great series of stories that slowly shifted from being a college-themed friendship to a kind of fantasy/war tale (in the final stories only) as the protagonist and his friend became adults. This story has only the slightest hint of fantastical. I was reading parts of Alan Dwight’s The Cabin in Maine as the smoke and ash from the Camp Fire was choking the Bay Area. It starts out seeming to be a fairly typical teenager-is-forced-to-move-to-live-with-his-never-met-before-father out in the woods. But he discovers a friend and learns about more his father. And then there are the stories by Ivor Slipper, Altimexis, Colin Kelly, and others that I somehow missed on GA and find on AD!

So, of our three possibilities, we have various advantages and disadvantages. With Connor, Woody has seen his naked crotch area, but they’d have to keep everything secret. With Jeff, he’s genuinely a nice guy and they’re in the same grade, but Jeff lives outside town on a farm, expects Woody to wake up at an ungodly hour on the weekend to help with his chores, and Woody seems to be less attracted to him physically. With Lucas, there are fewer advantages other than his beauty and his singing voice, but they don’t really seem to have much in common. ;–) While it would seem like Jeff is the obvious winner, Woody is male and is drawn to visual treats like Connor and Lucas more than the plainer Jeff. ;–)

Maybe Connor recognized the chair Woody was sitting in or something else in the background when they were camming? He and his brother are very familiar with the room. Connor probably noticed how Woody acted on the day after they came. There were signs that aligned between the cam sessions and their real-life interaction. ;–) At least we know Connor isn’t a convicted child molester or a pimp grooming his latest victim.