Tomas

"Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule."

I don't remember where I found this, but do remember I was a young teen and it kind of spoke to me... "What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself ---- and thus make yourself indispensable."

Beings that that happened 57 years ago i don't really remember any particular album, but I do remember the artist that i listened to... Duke Ellington, MJQ (Modern Jazz Quartet), Ella Fitzgerald, Cannonball Adderley, Dinah Washington, and any number of others mostly in the jazz genre.

Today is a special Pi day: This year, 2015, Pi Day comes with a once-every-100-years distinction: It's 3.1415. And at 9:26:53 a.m., the date and time will mark the first 10 digits of pi: 3.141592653.

If only I were fifty years younger!

Leonard Nimoy, star of "Star Trek" on the small and big screen, has died at the age of 83.

Myr is right, it was difficult to find quality gay fiction way back when. Hard to believe that I've been around the forum for 11 years. Didn't join right at the beginning and I really don't remember why (even though I was there), but I have always been glad that I eventually did. GA has always been a source for a 'good' read. Myr did the world of gay fiction a BIG service when he started GA.

Hollywood hasn't had (with few exceptions) any imaginative, truly creative people since the 50s and 60s. All they seem to be able to do is very poor rehashes and sequels of the works of the really creative people of the past. Of course that is just my opinion. yours may vary.

Coffee, Coffee, forever coffee. Preferably cafe' au lait with an order of beignets at Cafe du Monde after a night of bar hopping.

AHHHHH! Middendorf's! Now that brings back memories. A required stop on the way to the farm just outside Hammond every summer.

When I lived in the French Quarter my favorite place to eat was the "Gumbo Shop" on St Peter St. between Bourbon and Royal Streets. They have some of the best Seafood Gumbo in the city. Ranks right up there with home made. Damn, now I'm getting homesick!!

I grew up in New Orleans where seafood was the standard Friday meal in a Catholic family in (at that time) basically a Catholic city. Fried shrimp, oysters, soft shell crabs, fish (usually catfish or codfish cakes). Still enjoy fried seafood on occasion, although not nearly as much as when growing up in N.O.

For our Australian and New Zealand friends. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK6rZ--DhZM

Absolutely amazing!! Thank you for that.

A blue 2005 Ford Freestyle limited. The last vehicle that I will own. Don't need car payments at my age.

I had forgotten all about that little trick. Of course, when I did it in science class it was 62 years ago. Must be getting old.

Ah yes!! The old rotary phones. I remember the first phone that we had when I was a kid. I still remember the phone number AL 4272. That was when they had exchanges with live operators. The AL in the number was for the Algiers exchange. If you wanted to call someone that was on a party-line you dialed the operator and told her the number and added the number of rings for that party. For Example: You would say Algiers 4272 ring four. The operator would cause the phone to ring 4 times and that party would know that the call was for them. Nostalgia... isn't it great.

As some of you may know Tuesday, March 4th, is Mardi Gras day in New Orleans. Midnight on the 4th marks the end of the Mardi Gras season in New Orleans which commenced on January 6th (twelfth night). Parties and balls and parades have been going on since then. Here are two URLS for live cam's in N.O. One is the parade cam where you can watch some of the parades. The camera is located on St. Charles Ave at the corner of Napoleon Ave where the parades start. The second one is of Bourbon street at from the Cat's Meow balcony, which is located on the corner of Bourbon Street and St. Peter Street in the center of the French Quarter. http://www.nola.com/paradecam/ http://www.earthcam.com/usa/louisiana/neworleans/bourbonstreet/ On the right side of the parade cam page is a list of other New Orleans cams, if you are interested. The parade cam page also has a schedule of the parades that will be shown live. A large percentage of the crowds that you'll see are tourist. Many of the native Orleanians avoid the crowds and actually leave the city for the gulf coast (Gulf Port, Biloxi, Ms) on Mardi Gras day. OH! Mardi Gras day is a legal holiday in Louisiana. Enjoy, Tomas

She sounds like a no talent wannabe who has a stack of rejection letters and spends her time believing that it's the established, published authors that are the cause of her works being rejected. It can't be her fault that the rejection letters keep piling up. Maybe, if she spent more time improving her craft rather than blaming others for her failures she might eventually get something published.

I couldn't agree more. Although with me it's always been toss up between Gregorian and the singing of the boys choirs of the churches and cathedrals of England and Europe. My favorite Gregorian was the singing of the choir of the Benedictine Monks of St. Peters Abbey of Solesmes, France. You are right though, Gregorian can be soothing and relaxing.

Jeeez!! Who would have thought that an innocent little post that was nothing more than an observation that some humans end life the same way that they began life, with other adults wiping their butt, would generate so many responses.

Forgot about Mary Renault. I think I've read just about all of her works. Another book that I recall is Patricia Nell Warren's 1974 novel "The Front Runner". They have been trying to develop this into a movie for years and now it seems the SCOTUS and other federal courts rulings on DOMA and same sex marriage have somewhat cleared some of the obstacles and there has been talk of going ahead with development.

Jay Little, pseudonym of Clarence L. Miller "Maybe Tomorrow" (1952) "Somewhere Between the Two" (1956) There are probably other titles, but I doubt that any of them are available. I know that the two listed are very difficult to find.

When you are born, as a baby, you are helpless, so you have adults wiping your butt and cleaning you up. As you get older, you are potty trained and learn to wipe your own butt and clean yourself up. Then you go on to get an education, and hopefully, find a fulfilling occupation. Maybe have a family and kids of your own. After a period of time, the infirmaries of old age start to creep in or maybe you get some debilitating disease and possibly end up in a nursing home or a long term car facility where you realize that you have come full circle and once again you have adults wiping your butt and cleaning you up.

With all the "King Cake" parties that I attended when I was youngster, and all the King Cake that I consumed at said parties, I never once got the golden bean trinket (which in later years was changed to a small plastic baby trinket). Of course, that meant that I never had to provide the cake for the next party.