(Not Just) Knee Deep: The Spring 2012 Gay Thread

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SUP Y'ALL

Ooh,

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holla

haaaaay

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soooo springlike in london today. went for a run in t-shirt and shorts and actually felt HOT! OUTSIDE! and have been working in the garden!

sadly it seems that transcription and blasting mariah carey spring jams are...not compatible

I am spending the day washing all the clothes that haven't been worn (or washed) since last summer </dirtbagstyle>

still sick urghhh

bf brought me beef pho last night in my hour of need tho. that was nice.

me sick too. trying to figure out what I can eat.

It became instant spring here. The moment the calendar said spring, the weather got gorgeous and has stayed that way.

Is beef pho good sick food? Sodium content?

it was hot and brothy, that was all i required

How many times must I change my screenname today?

The folks at the pho restaurant in my old neighborhood said that pho is Vietnam's equivalent of chicken noodle soup for illness.

guys, not sure if i'm going to nguzu anymore so I guess we can hang out some other time - when we can organize a fap further in advance lol

Oh no!

Ok. Next time I'm in town then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jpfconAdU0

xp yeah for sure - will you be at the Utopian Spaces panel on sunday? if so i'll be there so if you see me definitely say hi!

lol elmo i watched that clip at my friend's place recently! that show is just the best

I am 100% gonna be at Utopian Spaces. Been excited to hear JES' piece all week.

awesome! i'm excited about JES' piece as well, the abstract alone sounds incredible.

you want it to just gush right up into your cold, Leroy.

best part of my morning was waking up and coming to the realization that me and lou definitely smoked a j with 2 random black ladies on the street last night

pictures!

damn, EMP weekend even brings surm out

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lou says that link didn't work so just in case here's another try

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i was using the "drunk filter"

it was fun!

o and tonight i get to meet tape store for the very first time! work!

i did not get to meet surm or tape store but i got to hang with lou and brainwasher

my innards ruin everything

surm, i finally bought a film membership over there.

hahaha here you are in my computer database :D

forgot they were playing the house of mirth yesterday, wanted to see that on the big screen again

plz do not share any of my info with my stalkers :)

<3 house of mirth

Me too but I can't watch it often

just watched it a few weeks ago, actually. ugh, that bertha is SUCH a horrible bitch, it gets me every single time

I highly recommend Tom Hiddleston's butt in The Deep Blue Sea

(it's a good film too)

i won't morbzy

yeah the house of mirth was really terrific, if incredibly sad

haven't seen it, book is all-time tho

oh donna, you have to

if only for gillian anderson and eric stoltz and their tragically thwarted ginger love

tape store sleep on my couch

i am in bed with the sound machine on meadow, the fan on low, Ryan at my side and melrose place on

and i have tomorrow off

i'm pretty much set

that sounds perfect/adorable.

things have been a little off with the boy lately - he's stressed with school and a few other things and fixating on like...tiny trivial stuff that i do that bothers him. i was contemplating whether we needed a bit of space and then he woke me up this morning in bed with 'i think we should take a break'

so... there's that.

I'm not even sure if it's a bad thing? Except he got really upset once he proposed it and didn't know if he wanted to. part of me feels like the only way to break out of the dynamic we've been in recently is to have a few weeks apart. but i'm not even sure if it's possible to shift the dynamic at this point.

do breaks ever *actually* work? or are they just sort of delusional?

in my very humble opinion, alex, i don't know if taking a break will 'work' in the absence of frank, open dialogue, which i think is what's needed. i mean, just the fact that he has been fixating on minor annoyances says (to me) that he could be harboring some kind of resentment or holding on to some hurt and it's spilling over into your daily interactions. some time apart might make things easier but it doesn't really solve any of the underlying issues of your relationship. trust me, "state of the union" type relationship conversations are never fun and can be v scary but they are absolutely necessary in my experience.

but maybe you've already had those conversations. i don't know, and i don't want to pry into your private life like that. i know it sounds like lame advice but sometimes you gotta talk it out until you're blue in the face and then keep talking.

just remember to stick to "I-statements" :)

so otm

yeah, fair enough. there have been text messages exchanged to that effect, including a rescinding of the 'break' and i think we're going to have a state of the union conversation in a day or two. i think i just need a day or two to figure out where i'm at.

xp

most of the tracks are child ballads or their descendants, d. picked out british / irish / scottish recordings and i did american ones so there is a good helping of bluegrass / country / rockabilly type stuff there too.

"My life has value!"

It does. More so when I'm not concerned about the welfare of others, obv.

you need some Sunday school, chile

Wow, we used to start new threads after so few posts.

Though I just looked and we're only at 567 here.

Are we living in a post-gaythread world?

They started because someone (who no longer posts in these threads) lamented having no IRL gay friends in town. Which isn't exactly the same thing, unless he was saying the reason he had no gay friends in town is because he wasn't gay enough.

He quit this thread b/c he said it had started as a place for gay folks who weren't into the usual cultural trappings of gayness, but it had turned into the opposite (plus apparently some personality conflicts w/ individuals). He said some of this via IM, but he did tell us off when he left.

Funny you should mention Sunday school because I think it's my creeping atheism that's feeding my desire to not waste any available time being unhappy or reading books.

He quit this thread b/c he said it had started as a place for gay folks who weren't into the usual cultural trappings of gayness

I don't think he ever explicitly stated that. And the best thing about these threads has always been the clashing personalities. THAT is what's missing these days and what's kept post totals low.

Oh, and the list of ex-gay thread regular participants is about twice as long as the current "roster." That too.

funny, I never noticed much friction of anyone with Caz

Really? He was the original prickly pear, though others def eclipsed him on that front.

Atheism keeps you from reading books?

just the Book, i thought.

I am no prickly pear, see?

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I'm sort of doing a piss take here.

as an atheist I can quote more Bible passages than any fundiefuck.

"thou shalt not let...mooches into thy...hut."

*moochers

Fuck.

My 7th Day Adventist upbringing gave me a really good understanding of the Bible, which led me to atheism. A lot of people think the SDAs are nuts, but they act nuts b/c they follow biblical law and principles without all the bullshit and pagan influences that the Catholics and governments introduced. E.g., they go to church on the 7th day.

Also, people think they are nuts b/c they are nuts in a way that is different from the majority of Christians.

is a 'piss take' like a 'spit take' but instead of sputtering your coffee you pee willy-nilly?

Like from surprise?

Sooner or later we' got to work atre going to have to sell it.

How do you like having them?

Am I absent too often to be a regular anymore? I suppose so. I feel mostly like I don't have much to contribute to the discussion these days. Not doing anything particularly exciting and gay. Just living my mediocre domestic existence and trying to get my brain under control. :)

I promise at some point this summer there will be exciting and/or controversial stories to tell. Or not.

Am I absent too often to be a regular anymore?

We all are.

baloney, I hated when I clicked every 3 hours and there were posts hidden already. (usually about bad music)

RIP Bimble

According to Wiki, Taco, Berlin, and Cameo all did versions of "Long Black Veil." Hmmm. Maybe Johnny Cash had a cameo at a Emmylou Harris concert in Berlin where they sang it and then had tacos afterward backstage.

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Any of you seen this? Is it legit or just more Armond looniness?

HypnotiqOne • 26 minutes ago

I wish I could've seen the same movie you saw.

It's been playing for 8 days at the West Village theater where all the amateurish gay movies run, and I'd never heard of it. Hardly anyone reviewed it.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_skinny/

Amateurish gay movies give me a headache. Moving on, then...

I hope the Summer thread title has a P-funk reference too.

you're running out of time, the solstice is Wednesday (?) and I ain't waitin'.

Only saw one paddling at Folsom East; fair was penned in to let CONDO OWNERS get to their buildings (kill kill kill), so I suspect that was my last year.

Also was amused by someone wearing this shirt:

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CONDO OWNERS (kill kill kill)

I assure you, many condo owners who bought before the crash want to kill themselves more.

condo owners in Chelsea aren't going anywhere, I'm pretty sure.

(NYC real estate back to 'booming')

Shoulda bought there, I guess.

And rented at a steep profit.

It's been playing for 8 days at the West Village theater where all the amateurish gay movies run, and I'd never heard of it. Hardly anyone reviewed it.

which theater, chelsea clearview? if so, to be fair the non-amateurish ones like Weekend end up there also, and it's not really surprising that a minority-cast gay film isn't getting huge press.

that said, i knew i was going to pass on seeing "The Skinny" based on the trailer/writer/director alone.

ugh i'm dying for a non-terrible stateside gay movie to come about, i can't even remember what the last one i liked was past the 90s

Would put money on Armond actually being right this time around.

Of course, I thought Noah's Arc was merely OK comfort food TV (+ eye candy).

fauxmarc: No, the Quad on 13th St.

Would put money on Armond actually being right this time around.

comparing patrik-ian polk to gus van sant kills any trust i have in the rest of that article

the quad seemed like it had a lot of random stuff playing i always wanted to check out but never did

smallest screens in Manhattan. usually worst 'arthouse' films too.

I haven't seen any PIP work outside of the TV series explicitly developed for cable TV gay ghetto, which is why I'm not rushing to dismiss yet.

The days are getting shorter now.

morbs started a summer thread

Should I go fishing or get a friend to hang around? Celebrated GAY Summer 2012

Way to leave a forwarding address, Morbs.

"You want an address? 2541!"

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EXIT!

http://www.vice.com/read/the-vice-guide-to-being-gay?Contentpage=-1

nope