Bob Crane — of Hogans Heroes fame — was a home pornographer. His son has a web site where you can get pictures, videos, etc., and he’s rather obsessed with how hung his dad was — to the point of publishing his dad’s autopsy report to prove it.
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Just plain creepy
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Gym
I hate the gym. Hate it hate it hate it! I hate the blank-eyed pretty boys with bed-head who go over and lift their shirts to look at their abs after doing work on their arms. I hate the ones who wear clothes more appropriate for the Roxy. I hate looking around and feeling like I’m the only one in sight who has read something more challenging than HX in the last year.
So of course you’re asking, “why go?” I started going about a year ago, after attending the funeral of a cousin. We shared the same immune system condition — X-linked Agammaglobulinemia. He was about 10 years older than me, which was enough of a difference in terms of medical advances for his life to be much more fucked-up by it than mine is. I also think he fought having to be treated for it more than I did. His last few years weren’t pretty, and if being in better shape meant it was less likely to happen for me that way, I thought I should try it.
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Off to Europe
We’re leaving today for Germany and Austria — Frankfurt, Munich, Vienna, and points in between. I may or may not post while I’m there.
On the off chance that anyone here is a fellow geek attending YAPC Europe, that’s what I’m doing in Munich, so send me an email if you’re going to be there.
I give you this amusing post from bradlands.com to entertain you a little while I’m gone — his anchors don’t work, so go to August 13. I found his site while looking at fray.
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the reverse cowgirl’s blog
From Salon’s new blogs, I bring you the reverse cowgirl’s blog — wherein a writer attempts to justify the enormity of her porn collection. So far it’s a bit more work safe than bj‘s site, but we’ll see. Any woman who calls Andrew Sullivan “the screechingest right-wing-flapper homosexual since Roy Cohn” is a woman I want to know and buy presents for.
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Dull, dull, dull
As the date approaches for my 3 weeks in Europe (leaving Sept. 9), I’m getting dull here on the blog because I’m rushing to finish stuff for my clients before I go. I realize I am all the way over at the blog end of the blog/journal continuum at the moment.
I will have a computer with me in Germany/Austria/etc., but I don’t intend to spend much time online while I’m there. I will probably keep notes on the trip, but whether I will actually post them during that time is, as yet, undecided. Andy was sweet to suggest that I should post regularly while I’m there, and that he would like to read my “on the road” entries. I almost always take notes on trips, so we’ll see.
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Last weekend
Now that I have the new blog working, I can talk about last weekend and put up a few pictures. You’ll remember that it was 95 degrees and very humid — a lovely NYC August weekend. If we hadn’t had visitors, I would not have left my a/c-blessed apartment at all. I would have ordered in everything, including ice cream. But we did have visitors — two sets!
The first set was my friend David from high school, visiting from Chicago — a fellow “band fag” — and his friend Stacy (a charming Atlanta girl). Here is a picture of David wilting in a subway station. That orange blur on the left is James jumping out of the way to prevent having his picture taken.
Let’s just say David has grown up a bit since I knew him in high school, and I mean that in the best possible way. He was two classes behind me, and I think I was probably about 5’7″ or 5’8″ during my senior year. David was smaller. Now we’re about the same height, but he works out more than I and is “hunkier”.
He looked me up via Google using my real name about six months ago, and sent me an email. He was thrilled to find out that the moniker of “band fag” was truer for both of us than it was for many of the other nerdy band people. It was somewhat strange to be two homos in NYC, chatting about the world, 18 years after we last saw each other in a backward little town in Arkansas.
We went to Big Cup to eat lunch before heading uptown to the Eakins show at the Met — which I highly recommend. Big Cup managed to surprise me, as if often does. I didn’t see Edmund White there this time, but there were two men at the next table discussing the recent news that the U.S. won’t be increasing Egypt’s foreign aid because of their persecution of a democracy activist. One of them mentioned (I didn’t put this in my post), that Bush couldn’t be bothered to say anything when Egypt tried and jailed a large number of men for homosexuality. Foreign aid discussions at Big Cup!
Our other visitors for the weekend were James’s nephew Paul and his girlfriend Elizabeth, visiting from DC. She was fabulous. Imagine a family member dating someone who can chat about Donald Judd, British explorers in Antarctica, and is incredibly beautiful as well! I was ready for her to move in with us. We spent some time walking around downtown near Ground Zero, had lunch along the water at Southwest, and visited the Irish Hunger Memorial. I hadn’t realized that it talked about hunger on a more global level, and doesn’t just concentrate on the Irish Potato Famine alone. There are even quotes from reports on starvation in Afghanistan in 2001 (before 9/11). It’s an interesting piece of architecture, including the ruins of a stone cottage brought over from Ireland. I love the provenance of the cottage: it belonged to the family of the memorial designer’s (gay) partner. Elizabeth took a couple of pictures of us with Paul, so unfortunately she’s not in these:
I’ll add a vacation photo of her and Paul for the curious:
Yes, he dresses like an engineer. But he’s brilliant and speaks more languages than you do.
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Bloggy: The next generation
OK. I’m done for now with the new and improved version. The more artistically-minded of you will notice the color scheme — it’s based on Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue (1921). I examined the RGB values from the image.
The blogrolling thing on the right isn’t always accurate about whether a blog has been updated recently. It’s because some programs (including the one that james is using) fail to send a “Last-Modified” header. So don’t yell at me if your entry is wrong.
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New blog
Not really new, but it’s new to me. I love it!
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Forbes: Richest Dead Celebrities
Forbes has released its second annual survey of Richest Deceased Celebrities.
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Lefthanders’ Day
Send me presents! It’s Lefthanders’ Day!
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