Gays, its summer 2010 so... EVERYBODY TAKE OFF YOUR SHIRTS

lol no that's cash money flow

haha someone was telling me about the xanadude party the other night. is that a monthly thing or?

jah

even i know about the Xanadude parties, and i don't live in nyc.

speaking of which, i'm back in the City in AUGUST!!! working the independent fashion label trade at Javits or whatever, so...boys, let's meet up? it would be lovely to see all of the lovely NY faces in one place again.

name a time and date, sugar

speaking of the independent fashion label trade - am i totally addled from sleeplessness or is this maybe the best tie ever?

http://www.zazzle.com/off_center_tie-151870321747820032

i mean, it looks like jeremy blake in cravat form

it does!

if only i'd known about it pre-thesis...

how exactly would you have worked that in?²

loooooool

wearing it during my presentation obvs

this guy totally hit on me at my karaoke regular after i tore thru "wishing well" and "tutti frutti" he was kinda cute i hope i run into him again

I hv mentioned Xanadude (never attended)

I think Mattachine! is this Thurs.

One of the guys I've always held as a pie-eyed prospect in a perfect world but unavailable ... just broke up with his BF of some five or six years. Uh-oh.

― Eric H., Monday, July 19, 2010 1:11 PM (1 week ago)

LOL, I must've been pie-eyed when I posted this. I meant "pie-in-the-sky prospect," as in someone I always viewed as a great missed opportunity.

But after a week of FB msg'ing each other, strike out that "missed."

:0

Well, it could easily be reinstated.

I am in NYC the 7th (day after my birthday!!), 14th, and 22nd, so these are the days that I think we should get drinks! Because I WANT TO BE INCLUDED.

Yesterday I checked out BIKE STOP, the Philly leather bar. But it was happy hour on a Sunday and there were only 8 other people there sooooo. But I will go again some time.

I was planning to come to NYC on the weekend after the 25th.

I got this awesome pin of Divine from PF @ the Punk Rock Flea Market, among a million other things that I can barely fit in my fucking bag that I still have to bike around the city with for another 24 hours... (Salt n Pepa 12", 7 CDs, Pee-Wee Herman lightswitch plate, 4 back-issues of Wire, a friend's old homemade Screaming Females tshirt, grab bag of tacky shit including both "Everyone Loves a Polish Girl" and "Everyone Loves a German Girl" keychains, two prints, a bike map, a pint glass, and more business cards than I can count). Have any of you read Fear of a Queer Planet? I that up too, for $1

How long will you be staying? I will definitely make a trip up for you, love.

jesus that makes me wanna go shopping

See, this is why you need to come visit Philadelphia.

u know i am working on it

Oh oh oh I also got this little picture frame with this silhouette cutout of the Philadelphia skyline, and also FOUR stickers that are just embroidered pairs of lips. All of thie stuff was like $30, too!!!

Sorry, I am totally being all Sally Showoff right now. I'm just mad excited baout all my new stuff coz I so rarely actually buy new things.

elmo that is fucking sweet

really is

xposts

Probably would leave here early Saturday morning and come back Monday. Now I'm not sure if I want to take Amtrak or my car.

What about Chinatown bus? Will surely be the cheapest way to go, and really they're not that bad.

Looks like Amtrak would be cheaper, but I might just drive. I don't think it'll be that much more.

I meant cheaper than the Chinatown bus. Looks like it's running at around $110 round trip.

BoltBus and Megabus have them for $9-$16.50 each way; Megabus even has a few $3 fares if you book this far in advance!

and $3 handjobs am i right

Doesn't look like MegaBus goes from Chi to NY though.

xp naughty!

I am in the Deep South Aug. 3-9, and probably visiting the family in CT on 13th & 14th.

also, free Aretha Franklin show on 12th near Coney Island if anyone wants to join me.

Bolt Bus doesn't go from Chi either. Are you looking at the NJ buses?

elmo, i take it you made a good recovery then? looks fun!

definitely not recovered yet. apparently eating 6 (or more? i do not remember) pieces of thc-enhanced baklava does something to inhibit brain function for multiple days. that, and i must be getting older. ooh lawdy.

in short -- it was a lovely party, with lots of people in costume and plenty of shirtless men. 2 cases champagne were consumed. there will be more pictures later when i figure out my fine motor functions again.

i'll be in NYC from August 15-19 or something like that.

Stevie, i still have things that i got at the punk rock flea market 13 years ago.

that said, if i were to tell you that i would PAY YOU for the "Everyone Loves a Polish Girl" keychain, would you accept?

Wow! If times line up are we really going to have everyone but j0rdan, The Lex and Rev in NYC all at once? Crazy.

xp Yes but I am totally not accepting any money for it. I was hoping I'd find someone that wanted it rly bad (that was also ideally not actually a Polish girl).

I don't think I'm going to be in town the 15th to 19th!! (unless you wanted to come down here for a day)

Goddmanit c I keep thinking you're in Boston

i'll be in the 'environs' for most of august i reckon

Dear gay bwoyz,

Have a Jean Nate day!

xokjb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAMnjq2m7Nc

doesn't seem to be very cost effective, she used most of the bottle.

stevie, i'll be in philly from the 11th-15th or so. let's meet up? i will buy you a beer in exchange for that keychain. (you see, i am 50% polish.)

rewatching that jean nate commercial, i'm now convinced is 100% about watersports

that's a great commercial, i got inspired

hey gays -- never heard of this guy before. That's quite a Stud File.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/26/books/26secret.html

When the author Justin Spring finally tracked down the executor of Samuel Steward’s estate, he had no idea what this sexual outlaw and little-known literary figure had left behind after his death in 1993.

So he was taken unawares by the 80 boxes full of drawings, letters, photographs, sexual paraphernalia, manuscripts and other items, including an autograph and reliquary with pubic hair from Rudolph Valentino, a thousand-page confessional journal Steward created at the request of the sex researcher Alfred Kinsey, and a green metal card catalog labeled “Stud File,” which contained a meticulously documented record on index cards of every sexual experience and partner — Rock Hudson, Thornton Wilder, “One-eyed Sadist” — that Steward said he had had over 50 years.

An attic full of items contained a secret history of a little-documented strand of gay life in the middle decades of the 20th century. Steward’s experience stands in stark contrast to the familiar story of furtive concealment and persecution in the period before gay liberation. As new biographies of artists and writers like E.M. Forster detail the effects of sexual repression on their work, Steward’s history shows what a life of openness, when embraced, entailed day to day....

“It was an Aladdin’s cave of gay paraphernalia and record keeping that was covered with dust and smelled like dog,” said Mr. Spring, whose biography “Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade” is due out next month. (At the moment Mr. Spring is storing the collection.)

coolest pre-dr3w d4ni3l English professor?