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Re: Nina Simone

daddy ·
I'm just getting up (still drunk). You two are killing me a little too softly a little too early. first: Seven, You worked for Olatunji? I'm gagging. And he just died? Such a loss. "Drums of Passion" changed the world! and Joel: I lived in Buffalo for 6 months so I know what you say is true. What an incredible place. You go into a bar and there is "Leadbelly" or "Blind Lemon Someone Or Other" just hanging out getting drunk. And your mother was a stripper? And Screamin' J. Hawkins? wait... I...
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Re: AB FAB

daddy ·
I hope the BF is in the new ones! His face!!!!!! When Patsy catches fire on the bar at Hogs & Heifer's and Eddy throws a drink to put her out and she explodes.
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Re: BEWITCHED

Night Nurse ·
I loved Bewitched as a child as well. My first time seeing the show was going down the street to Maria Falvey's house and watching it at noon with her mother on the tv in the kitchen, so that must have when I was 5 or 6. She too would make us soup and sandwiches and we would watch. Alas, my flamboyant nature even at that age eventually fried Mrs Falvey's Catholic nerves and I wasn't allowed to play with her anymore (though not understanding this at all at the time, I just thought she was a...
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Re: International Chrysis

Night Nurse ·
While still living in DC in the early 90s, Split: Portrait of a Drag Queen played at the American Film Institute at the Kennedy Center, and I went to see the film, but not knowing much about it other than it was about a drag queen, I dragged my friends to come with me. Well, we all loved the movie, and I was fascinated with her oh-so-glamorous life (or so it appeared on celluloid), yet throughout the story the theme was her rising up and above any perceived pain or misery. Being a showgirl,...
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Re: Liquid Sky

hatches ·
Wasn't the full name of the place Cowboys and Cowgirls? Just down the block from Rounds? And there was another bar too, whose name I can't remember. I seem to remember one of the "customers" of note was Vladmir Horowitz whose Adagio et Cantible figured prominently ( and fittingly) on the Interview With A Vampire soundtrack. Those jeans, though... Seventies sweetie, early seventies.
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Re: Liquid Sky

hatches ·
...Has me howling, as usual! I didn't realize the Adele Bertei connection, but now come to think of it... I only really got to know Adele well post- Build Me A Bridge , but I realized she was a terror. She once kicked the queeny Pyramid bar-manager du jour, Peter Plourde right in the balls, when he suggested she should do something like pay some money for her drink or not hoover up coke from the bar surface!
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Re: Party Monster - Michael Alig

Luxury Lex ·
I still haven't seen it yet, I've been so busy lately. But Nowhereboy I can tell you as someone who DID live in NYC during the Alig years, there was soooooo much more going on around town that had nothing to do with the club kid movement whatsoever, and the general public will not be seeing that portrayed in Party Monster (and, on artistic grounds, I can certainly understand why the producers chose to focus on one specific scene). Those other scenes however are what I tend to remember more.
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Re: RIP, VIP

Anna Nicole ·
I have a lil Robert Palmer tale.... nothing much but.... When i was the talent producer for this Brit Tv show (Sky Tv Jameson Tonight)... I booked him... it was just apres the big chart hits... he arrived on his own with no flunkies! He was early so i took him to a bar accross the street from the theatre in Londons' Soho where we filmed ... he was such a charmer ... had a major crush on him right away.. very funny in a dry self depreciating way... He was from Yorkshire and after a few drinks...
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Re: JC Leroy (as Terence put it)

S'tan ·
Now reading it a SECOND time to try to pinpoint where I start percolating... this uncanny effect it has, you too Bobby? Hoping to see if its illusions will take deeper hold, if its luxurious syntax is truth. Not sleeping and mentally overstimulated...! Is it the sexual frisson? (But for me the eroticism isn't the whoring as much as les images de pimpage.) Thanx for the insight in re the second book Cher M. Madison by Wednesday we should be all boned up, homework done, ready to blather on...
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Re: East Side, West Side, All Around The Town

hatches ·
One would hope that these clubs might construct themselves somewhat accordion-style with rooms that could be open or closed depending on the night of the week, which might have a better chance of working. The one that seems to have the most promise IMHO is Crobar which seems to be modeling itself on the legendary Area and may actually have the guts and gumption to pull it off. They have hired both Michael Tron and Gilbert to oversee and that can only be a blessing, as they are both geniuses.
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Re: East Side, West Side, All Around The Town

Luxury Lex ·
Thanks for posting the link, Randella. For all its hype about the new clubs opening, somehow this article was not very encouraging. The best thing about the article was reading how the local community board was -- for once -- powerless to stop all these clubs from opening. That's refreshing to hear, and more power to the new entrepreneurs who are trying to make a difference, forge ahead and reinvent the nightclubbing experience. David Rabin once again shows everyone what an asshole he is by...
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Re: East Side, West Side, All Around The Town

seven ·
The new clubs reported to be gearing up in Chelsea are more a reaction of opportunism. Although I am sure some backers and producers are really inspired and want to bring the city back to life partywise. The club going in to the old Twilo space, which is supposedly going to be called Spirit, would be the most different concept being put to the test, is actually a franchise from its Irish flagship, and if you ask me its ammenities ( a raw food restaurant, a resident dance company ) are a kind...
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Re: Goin' To The Chapel: The Lesbian, Gay & T/S Marriage Topic

mr.joe ·
This in The Daily News from our buddy in the State Assembly. By LAWRENCE C. MOSS Acting to further the equal protection and nondiscrimination provisions of the California Constitution, San Francisco officials went beyond the "man and a woman" definition of marriage in state law last week by issuing licenses to same-sex couples. On the same day, the New York City clerk disregarded not only constitutional principles, but also existing state statutes by refusing marriage licenses to same-sex...
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Re: Goin' To The Chapel: The Lesbian, Gay & T/S Marriage Topic

Luxury Lex ·
A despicable election year trick, intended to drive a wedge between the queer community and our hetero neighbors. While depressing, this article is highly informative and I love the quoted reactions from DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe, the ACLU and others. And though the Democratic presidential candidates are not THAT much better, at least they are against a constitutional amendment and Kerry can boast that he voted against the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996.
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Re: Party Monster - Michael Alig

AVS (Guest) ·
This is my first time posting so Hello there everyone. I saw Party Monster last month and have been wondering why it didnt mention the facts that Michael was first a busboy at AREA then a busboy at Danceteria. His first parties were at Danceteria not Limelight. The Dirty Mouth contest was on Congo Bills' I know this for a fact because I bartended that party and would have won if Musto didnt veto it, because I was an employee or "drop your pants". Uh no thanks. I'll make my money at the bar...
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Re: East Side, West Side, All Around The Town

Luxury Lex ·
LUXURY LAPPING: Revenge of the Titty Bars? A resurgence of name brand Las Vegas-style strip bars in midtown seems to be signaling a new era of "respectability" for the titty-twirlers and for New York. Not quite as sleazy as their Times Square predecessors, these new clubs are sleeker, bigger and more corporate in their approach, but it beats having no titty bars at all. Does this mean the Big Apple's sphincter is finally loosening again after so many years of Guiliani's attacks? Or is the...
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Re: Puritan Watch

seven ·
Americans are so socially naive it is known as a national trait around the world. And how fucking tainted and emotionally lie-mongering are all those congresspersons claiming to be shocked. Total flim-flam. No one gets to be a congressperson without having experienced massive forms of human denigration, simply through atrocious business and political practices. Like they don't remember all the congresspeople of the recent past writing memoirs and exposes about fornicating with administrative...
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Re: RIP, VIP - Chapter 2 (3/5/04++)

Anna Nicole ·
my mate Kersh just sent me this.. his report from the John Peel funeral which I thougth I would share with you... On our pew alone sat Joe Boyd, Mark Ellen, Our Elizabeth, Billy Bragg,Robert Plant and half of the Undertones. John Peel's funeral at the cathedral in Bury St Edmunds was, it has to be said,fabulous. And the turnout gave ample indication of the affection with which the great democrat of the airwaves was regarded by much of the nation. Fittingly, it was a public service - and one...
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Re: Jackie Curtis

Merlinator ·
didn't Jackie Curtis and Holly Woodlawn do shows at the old museum bar and lounge on Columbus Circle on an upper floors in the old white building everyone wants to tear down save Merlin. can still see the balcony from the street when you look up. it was such a wonderful New York experience looking out over the crowd with the baby grand piano and Central Park in the backdrop. and wasn't that Jackie's red lips and eyes on all those Bloomingdales bags way back in the early 70's? Merlin is...
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Re: Farewell Charming Old New York

S'tan ·
God Hatchie I wish I'd been supporting someone like David Wojnarowicz at the time. Thank you for the poignant tale of his making a mountain of gorge trash in swank digs. Me I was ensconced uptown with the Luddite classicist, painter Duncan Hannah who loathed the whole downtown scene and would go into rages over grafitti art. My easy-earned dominatrix dollars ("she's lording it over a hot slave tonight" Rene Ricard used to croak) went to fuelling this fantasy of a 'New Romantic' revolution.
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Re: Farewell Charming Old New York

daddy ·
Hattie if you don't write that G.D. book I'm going to kill you! (Oh wait, that's no good is it?) I forgot about you at The Empire Diner. And Monica Lynch... I had no idea. When I moved to New York (to go to Art School) I was working at FOOD restaurant on Prince & Wooster Streets. (One of the three restaurants in the newly named SOHO district. There was The Broome Street Bar, The Spring Street Bar and Food on Price Street). We also used to feed artists. It was cool. Unlike you though...
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Re: Farewell Charming Old New York

seven ·
S'tan, please calm down. Nowhere have I said I did not like the art. I would respectfully like to hear what you think about how or in what way the art from that secene was influential, and what or whom it has influenced. And what real force it is supposed to have exercised other than an economic one. A widely accepted and agreed hallmark of the vast majority of the art from that scene was principally that it was known for being derivative and for being based on reams of influences. Also, I...
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Re: Farewell Charming Old New York

S'tan ·
This thread is not about the EV Art scene. It was trying to reflect on those aspects of New York we have seen depart: Farewell Charming Old New York. Sanctimonious attitude from those -- including myself -- who are not painters, deciding that some passionate artists are really only sell-outs, or even deciding they were perfect, whatever... what is the point? Do we really know eveything about who they were, and what they intended? Because Kostabi and Warhol were cynical money-lovers doesn't...
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Re: Farewell Charming Old New York

daddy ·
And this from Musto: (FYI the "worst club" is our favorite, CAIN) Musto Rules!
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Re: Farewell Charming Old New York

Michael Madison ·
S'tan-- Sorry for resuscitating this thread, but (from today's Daily News) it appears there're only a few nails left for this coffin. What a long, sad, death. Why don't they just bring out the wrecking ball already?
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Re: Lord D' Drennnan

Chi Chi ·
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Re: Farewell Charming Old New York

Michael Madison ·
I don't know the real deal at this building, but it seems more than a little disingenuous for this Rosenblatt character to use "the homeless" as a pawn in the thing. Ugh. Famed Punk Bar CBGBs Facing Eviction Mar 17, 4:43 PM (ET) By LARRY McSHANE NEW YORK (AP) - Hours earlier, Hilly Kristal joined rock's royalty inside a Waldorf-Astoria ballroom for the latest Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductions. By the morning, though, Kristal sips a cup of coffee and pops an antacid as he considers the...
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Re: Farewell Charming Old New York

Merlinator ·
daddy, met my first manhattan love of my life in front of the old international stud, it lasted for twenty years, lol. the stud had a back room with porn films showing in black & white over head. always confused it with that Aan Fran bar by the same name. met a handsome cab driver who was chauvering Holly Woodlawn around town at the trucks one evening, early, honest! we had to get her out of there, take her back to the loft in chelsea and then over to Avenue D and east 7th. turned out we...
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Re: Farewell Charming Old New York

Merlinator ·
ah yeah, the fun drag acts at the Limelight, and the biggest mix of people you eva wanted to meet. used to order ameretto and cokes there. and we've got to get ourselves back to...... Le Jardin (sp), merlin's favorite dance floor in the early/mid seventies and the roof top deco garden space. before the flamingo, before 12 west. for at least one summer in the mid seventies there was this empty two story building in the west village, it was an after hours bar. a big trucked parked outfront to...
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Re: Farewell Charming Old New York

hatches ·
Ah Merlin, I remember that storefront, though not its name. And the club that was an entire empty loft building, completely unfinished, called the Toilet. I mean they just set up a bar on an old table and opened the doors of an abandoned building! And what was the bar on 17th & Tenth that had a long row of heavy clanking chains that separated the bar area from the backroom? I can never remember the name. The Hotel Diplomat... I was friendly with the desk clerk and took many johns there,...
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Re: Farewell Charming Old New York

S'tan ·
Above the Trendy, the Down and Out By ALAN FEUER NY Times April 7, 2005 Knock at Room 18 on the fourth floor of 559 West 22nd Street and an old man in a watch cap stumbles to the door. "What am I doing here?" he asks, answering the question with a question. "I'm dying here," he says. His name is George Ullrich and, according to his own account, he has been dying here for almost 30 years. He lives in a small room, 10 feet deep by 10 feet wide, and in rooms all down the hallway, a piece of the...
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Re: Fashion, Sweetie

bobby trendy (Guest) ·
Someone emailed this to me, so Not sure what rag its from. Interesting, no?
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Re: SEX in Jackie 60

daddy ·
"In the corner by the DJ booth"!!! Where was I ? Busy talking to Anna Nicole probably. There are so many "Jackie Sex Stories", it's mind boggeling. Like the time I went down to the liquor room to find one of our handsome barbacks with a VERY famous super model. (He recently told me that they were still friends. I love that). Here is another one of my favorites... I was Djing and I needed a cocktail. So of course I avoided asking our famous coctail waitress Rose (for reasons obvious to anyone...
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Re: SEX in Jackie 60

B. Domination ·
Where did you get the idea that I would...I am SHOCKED. I can only imagine only a whore would, on the night of meeting her future boyfriend (you-know-who), have given a hand-job to one boy in the upstairs bathroom, stumbled downstairs by coatcheck to receive mouth-to-puss resuscitation from you-know-who, then tippy-toed to the payphone area to give another HJ to a different male (who the whore might end up going home with later that night, but he would be gross in better lighting), then back...
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Re: SEX in Jackie 60

hatches ·
Sorry to disappoint, S'tan, but I never had sex with gnome. Though, when we first met he followed me, clad in my tattered Ripper Victorian finery, through the early morning streets of the Meat Market screaming in his high raspy gnomish voice, "Fuck me, fuck me!" Chi Chi yelled at him, "Get away you little gnome!" Hence his name. But I never knew about Gen at all! Joey, of course, if it had two legs, or even one, well... When we were working on turning "Bar Room 432" into Mother, for some...
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Re: SEX in Jackie 60

seven ·
Click and Drag. Standing in line at the downstairs toilet. They guy that comes out has a big grin on. I enter. There on the sink sits a pro domme with Victorian dress hiked, she's wiping herself off. I'd just needed the room to set up a couple of boosts. So I figure to share with her. She wants more sex though. Just as we reach an agreement on the configuration of the act wouldn't you know, the light bulb in the ceiling blows out. On the edge of the sink my boosts are lost to sight so I...
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Re: My own private East Village

Atomic Elf ·
Little Poland on 2nd nr 12th nest to Dicks Bar, has some of the best food in the whole neighbourhood. It's no good for Vegetarians though, The Cherry Vanilla ice cream sodas are made with chicken stock. Try the potato lamb soup if you dare. No delivery, great people watching, if your into baggy hose and senseless mumbling, Harris from Letch Patrol is a regular
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Re: Hotels In NYC

Barbara Sommers ·
I should think that the NOTS hotel page might be best, as everything you will want to go to will be Downtown. Anywhere south of Midtown would be a general location. There are some B&B's that are really cheap in the EV, but you will never be able to take anyone back to your room with you... so stick with the hotels-- you never know... you might get lucky! Never, never choose a hotel near an airport. Though their prices are cheaper, there is a good reason for that. They are miles away from...
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Re: Party Monster - Michael Alig

S'tan ·
As per the glamourization of murder, there is no doubt stories of murder and serial killing, etc. are very 'entertaining' but there are limits. E.g. Jack the Ripper -- I wanted to go walking around the area in London one afternoon, and went into a local Information kiosk. The woman would not tell me ANYTHING at all, no directions towards streets, etc. and only urged me to go on a guided tour (they are all at night.) She glared at me like I was a ghoul. I guess I was. I found some things...
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Re: Grey Gardens At Irving Plaza

daddy ·
OK, I'll try. "Grey Gardens" was basically Hattie Hathaway (Hatches) and my thing. Hattie thought of the name (Hattie also named "Mother" BTW, it came to her in a wet dream about Jimi Hendrix but that's another story) It was every Saturday night at Irving Plaza, after the rock shows ended. The Irving Plaza staff (who were incredible) cleared out the drunk college kids faster than one of Messy Bonnie's farts. And in about 20 minutes we (about 15 people) transformed the theater into this eery,...
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Re: Grey Gardens At Irving Plaza

Mister X ·
Ooh, I'll have to dig up some pictures from that era! One of the great things about that night was Hattie's genius idea to situate a bar on the stage! It pandered to all closet exhibitionists...James Murphy would never leave the stage of course. never . I remember Lucianna (of Derek Jarman's Jubilee/painter/photographer/McLaren muse) being there on opening night, just a few months before she passed away.
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Re: Page

Mister X ·
You are correct Bobby that was the first premier of that outfit, before she went to Jackie she popped into Dick's Bar wearing that. I told her she was out of her mind! but loved her anyway. She actually told me what inspired her to make this outfit, but now I can't remember what it was. A few months after, she showed up with the same concept but using a printed pillowcase, she told me this was the "Summer version". I miss Page.
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Re: Grey Gardens At Irving Plaza

hatches ·
Actually it was Daddy's idea about the bar on the stage I think. And having Triscuit bartend onstage... with her frequent bathroom breaks and all (we started counting them off over the microphone, and she never caught on!) But she was a definite hardcore Hopper character, that's for sure.
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Re: Grey Gardens At Irving Plaza

daddy ·
Oh... Yes, the bar on stage was my idea but Triscuit was your vision Hatches.
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Re: Air Travel is shite these days.....

Luxury Lex ·
When I was a child in the early-mid 70s, my mother took me on planes all the time. Chicago, Boston, Miami, L.A. It seems almost a figment of my imagination now, but I remember the bigger planes (on airlines like Pan Am and Braniff) used to have lounge areas where Mom would go to get a drink and I could romp around. There she would be, in her flared jeans and shag hairdo, cackling away with a bartendress while the clouds flew by. Then we would de-board on the tarmac. I so wish planes had...
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Re: Beams to New Orleans

romy and pilar ·
This came today, so I'm pasting it in here: news from the front- pass on if anyone finds this kind of first person report interesting. thanks Clayton When the threat of Katrina was realized, he sent his wife and two young girls to Jackson, MS where his parents live.. but he stayed behind. He is a pathologist and had checked into the Ritz for a medical convention -- which presumably would be safe. That's where he remains. ****************************************************** Thanks to all of...
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Re: Beams to New Orleans

Drama Queen ·
From the San Antonio Express-News: Katrina doesn't cancel Southern Decadence parade Web Posted: 09/05/2005 12:00 AM CDT Rod Davis Express-News Staff Writer NEW ORLEANS "” You know a city has legs when three or four dozen of them are parading down Bourbon Street "” some clad in tutus and grass skirts "” six days after the most damaging hurricane in American history. Revelers take part in the Southern Decadence parade in New Orleans' French Quarter. The parade celebrates the quirky side of the...
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Re: New York 1980's Stars

daddy ·
Gorgeous! "I'll buy that for a dollar!" Matthew was very influential at JACKIE 60 (1990-2000). He helped with our shows MANY times. It's no coincidence that the staff of BOY BAR also worked at JACKIE 60. Or that JACKIE was very drag and show oriented. BOY BAR and THE PYRAMID CLUB were both sort of JACKIE's aunts. Matthew Kastin from BOY BAR and of course JACKIE partner Hattie Hathaway from THE PYRAMID CLUB (The MOTHERBOARD'S Hatches) were both pillars of JACKIE 60. And so was Bobby Miller by...
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Re: The Return Of TRIPPLE XXX!

daddy ·
Yeah, the film loops were great! Of course you actually know the G.I. Joe boy Gobbs. I'm not surprised. There were some pretty hot girls there as well. One is a friend of mine from the gym. (She was the one blowing the go go boys on stage). I love that those girls feel free enough to carry on at a "Boys Party". It's hot. Too bad I didn't see you Mr. Joe. I would have asked you for a couple of drink tickets as well. Oh, and I forgot to mention the "3 legged Rockettes Line" at the end of the...
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Re: The Return Of TRIPPLE XXX!

daddy ·
Yesterday The NEW YORK OBSERVER published a feature encouraging gay men to seek out new places for public sex!! Here's an excerpt:
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