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I’m still wondering why you’d want to buy someone with bifurcated genitalia…

BME not only has pictures of people who have had their tongues bifurcated, but also men who have had bifurcation surgery on their genitalia. If you have enough money, you can pay for anything (and according to one website, nearly anyone). Try Craig’s List. Dughlas’ only pain would be in the wallet.

Somehow, Thou Shalt Not Be Gay has managed to become #0.5 (or is it #00 as with baseball jerseys or #0 as with computers?) on the Ten Commandments – a sin far worse than even Thou Shalt Not Kill. Somehow, unlike the other ritualistic purification rites, this was hasn’t become long ignored. (It is your wife’s duty to have sex with you anytime you demand it.) Somehow a prohibition against inhospitableness has been narrowed down to only sharing beds with other men. (But, apparently, it’s still okay to pimp out your daughters.)

Maybe talking about his father has made Liam see that he needs someone who is not closed up like his father. Maybe Liam can open his heart to someone who doesn’t have daddy issues. Maybe Liam is ready for someone whose life isn’t a series of secrets! ;-)

I thought/was hoping the state police were shadowing Scott and Graham, hoping to catch him collaborating with the killer. Ellie was a total shock! It shouldn’t have been, but I was riveted by the suspenseful events as they happened. (I’m definitely a can’t-see-the-forest-for-the-trees kind of guy.)

You mean you don’t want to pull a Timmy and juggle 3+ concurrent stories while dodging pitchforks and Finnish bullets? ;-)

A very emotional and good chapter. It is good, that Liam finally reflects about his relationship to his parents. He is still young. Relationships change, even if one part is dead, because our thoughts on this person can change, as we change. Seems that he is doing some more growing up.

Very nice!

Well deserved, Adi. Congratulations!!! I was just thinking about your charming blue alien story today, and how wonderful and unique all of your work is!

In some very twisted and disturbing way, Curtis enjoys pimping out Travis. I think he gets more satisfaction out of that than the ranch itself. I have to wonder if there’s a sexual component to his sadistic pleasure.

Thirty years ago today, The Simpsons premiered on The Tracey Ullman Show. The Simpsons has brought us Same-Sex Marriage as a tourism ploy as well as Openly Gay cartoon characters including Patty Bouvier and Waylon Smithers.

And we don’t have the vast range of accents and dialects as England! From Cockney (as spoken on Eastenders) to Liverpudlian (as spoken by the Beatles) to Received Pronunciation (aka BBC English). Even those of us who have never been to the UK are at least somewhat aware of those differences. As someone who was born in California, raised mostly here, and has spent the vast majority of my life here, I don’t think we have an accent. But experts say there is a California Accent. No, I don’t mean that exaggerated, artificial ‘Valley Girl’ travesty that is akin to slang and so many associate with the state. Like the rest of the Pacific Coast, our accent is part of the continuum from the US Northeast, Great Lakes, and Midwest, a remnant of our migration pattern. But there are traces of the Southern Drawl in some parts of the state too. We also have an admixture from Latin American Spanish and various Asian/Pacific Islander languages, but more in the form of the words we choose to use.

If that's your biggest 'sin' in life, then more power to you.

*rummaging around for my "Knigge"* all the talk of manners, makes me feeling the need to read Baron Knigge`s good advice again. The funny poem made me laugh. Well done!

Hi, it is an interesting mix of iconography you use. Like a melting pot. I like it. It shows, how thoughts of humans over the epochs are connected to each other.

So now we got a hint at how good Bailey was at football – and how homophobic his teammates were! But still no clue as to why he avoids being touched. Bailey seems to need someone like Declan, but right now he’d reject him without a second thought if Declan made a move.

Hi Emi, I hope you feel a bit better soon.

Happy birthday

Um. I stopped questioning years ago, literally decades ago. I am very certain that I am Gay. Oh, that’s not what Albert was talking about? ;-)

Now you’ve done it! You’ve managed to offend all the Australians, New Zealanders, and South Africans! They’ll all tell you that their accents are quite distinctive and easily differentiated! ;-)

Thanks for the lovely shout-outs, guys. I appreciate it - makes me all warm and fuzzy inside

So, I guess Bound & Bound is not on your reading list...?

Happy Birthday!!! Have a nice day!

Boldog Szülinapot!

I ran into this performance of Pletnev playing some of Dominico Scarlatti's sonatas. Hearing them through this amazing artist's lens makes it clear what a huge influence the younger Scarlatti was on Carl Philip Emmanuel Bach's keyboard work. The playing of K.96 (min. 13:08) is particularly amazing. I've heard this piece many times, and most performers rush through it as a display piece; Pletnev slows it and 'feels' it in a way that brings it back into artistic relevance, imo. K.27 is also a piece I've heard many times, but never as convincingly as here. Hope you enjoy