Prubangboy

Love the symbology. In Wash. DC, it's everywhere. As in all things, Black free masonry has the more compelling iconography. Avant Jazz God Sun Ra's album covers showcase it well, if anyone wants a quick, eye-popping Google Image surf.

Jazz has a lot of freemasonry running through its history:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jul/02/secret-jazz-freemason-history-duke-ellington-sun-ra

I'm not a follower, but post your next meeting here and I'll try to come.

Def not the White Market in Nimman. Was there last night and didn't see a single Christmas item. No surprise; most of the tourists there are Chinese.

I think you need Bangkok-level foot traffic to not go broke with a quality Christmas knick knack store.  Central Festival was your best shot and Bangkok-wise, it's not a proper mega-mall.

I just paid for Why Not? Italian. A few people from my building were booking and I succumbed. 

I was misinformed about them offering oysters. They have yellow fin tuna carpaccio and roast sea bass on the seafood side and roast beef and a veal thing on the meat side. half a dozen good app choices and 4 pastas. Plus plenty of non-meat stuff for my wife.

1500 baht, including a Aperol Spritz that I don't really want. No one wants it. I'll prob down six of them just to clear the table. Pistachio cream puff for dessert -that's a pretty obscure, Sicilian choice.

Not a buffet. You order what and as much as you like and then they prepare it to order for you. I prefer this setup, 'have only seen it at high end Indian buffets in Bangkok. The food is actually hot, not just steam table-tepid.

5 minutes ago, FruitPudding said:

 

We are not all here for prostitutes,  you know.

I hope your connubial relations with Noi are as bland and dully convivial as you need them to be.

There's not one straight man reading this that wouldn't sell his soul to live like a gay man if hetero women would go along with it.

4 hours ago, Fairynuff said:

I’ve never met a bigot that admits their bigotry. “I respect them as people” but your post proves the opposite.

I smoked pot with the Indian from The Village People. I respected him As a person; a Puerto Rican person pretending to be an Indian.

I was in New York during the AID's era. I gave a lot of money.

One time, I payed $10 to leaf through Madonna's SEX book for 2 minutes. I also hugged a fair few AID's people at street fairs in exchange for $5 donations.

I went to AID's benefits at famous BDSM Leatherman haunts such as The Anvil, Mineshaft, and The Toilet (a rough night out, that one). I helped Keith Haring build a mini-golf course out of cardboard boxes for an AID's benefit. I stopped traffic and got arrested.

Other than your dullsville, pub bore, sniffy decrying, what have you done for the gay man?

21 minutes ago, FruitPudding said:

 

 

 

Each to their own.

 

 

You don't like it. But you want to make fun of and express your revulsion at people who do.

That's the exact opposite of to each their own.

As long as I'm here, is a poke at the wink proof of gay leanings?

2 hours ago, FruitPudding said:

 

But surely you can understand the very notion of having sex using the poop shute might be disgusting to people, right?

You moved to sex-land, and yet you retained the dull sexuality of a Mormon.

Next up: You move to France. But only for the French fries.

14 minutes ago, proton said:

The Great Mr Crisp on Gaytime Tv 1996

 

I saw him late 70's. It was a matinee and he kept drinking and did 3 hours onstage, even with another show to do that night.

 

1 hour ago, timendres said:

 

I am old enough to remember when all that was needed was a "hint" of the sex

 

Speaking of which, how come you can always show a woman riding a guy cowgirl-style, but never show a guy railing a woman who's bent over a chair?

Always show a woman tying up a guy, but never the reverse? Who decided that these sex practices were anti-feminist?

This prudish, PC airbrushing of sex is worse than having it thrust in my face, which I would actually prefer more of.

1 hour ago, bob smith said:

 

 

she isnt perfect but she is a damn sight better than any bar girl thailand has to offer.

 

 

Wait a minute, Bob can still pull white women? Still?

1 hour ago, mfd101 said:

 but are quite unwilling to accept minority groups asserting their right to the same privileges.

They can assert all day, I'm just not that into their thing.

Same with Jewish culture. Probably more Jewish-interest documentaries than any other belief system. No way am I tossing them 90 minutes.

I like 70's era gay stories where they're going to Studio 54 or being Leathermen in Cruising, rather than current stories where they're having complicated problems with their families. Boys In The Band on Netflix is a great drama (again, redone from the 70's version).

The Indian in The Village People was my neighbor. I wasn't even that into him.

What gay characters or films have you enjoyed?

I ate there last year. I'll be over there soon, so will stick my head in.

As per the "comes but once a year" sentiment, I play this every year (the same genius wrote Patches):

Not too Christmassy, but The Dusit down by the Night Market does a great N.Thai kanom-style mixed platter of many regional bits and bobs for 500 baht. Def the best N. Thai menu I've had.

The coffee and cake for 150 baht looks good too

https://www.dusit.com/dusitd2-chiangmai/dining/special-pro-dec2023/

13 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Still, if in Chiang Mai, I would opt for the cafeterias at CMU.  Great meals, and all you can eat, and the price is my style.

 

 

Your tireless advocacy of their 40 baht lunches has been inspiring. 

-My wife read a book by Chomsky (About the Sandinista's). Want to meet her?

When last I looked, Cigna was the best deal. Gen with insurance, bigger is better.

They cover me here, and I get 90 days a year of international coverage folded into that.

3 hours ago, georgegeorgia said:

 

Stop the drinking ,and in some parts of Australia introduce Sharia law in all for it !

 

 

 

 

OP down at the mosque:

" "Not really feeling the whole wailing, yodeling Call To Prayer-thing. Do you have any AC/DC?".

'Hope he's caught this:

I was thrilled by Beatniks appearing in mid-60's tv shows, about 5 years after they peaked in real life. Maynard G Krebs was my god, Jethro's beatnik episode on the B-Hillibillies was surrealist genius (just re-watched it).

To be a bongo-beating madman with a girlfriend with a severe fringe haircut who was very prone to impromptu interpretive dance -the hippies seemed sexless and dull by comparison.

2 hours ago, georgegeorgia said:

 

"Do more squats ,more squats in the gym ! I shouted to her 

 

 

 

As the young say, "Cool story, Bro".

I just had dinner with a guy, 76 (so a mere five years older than me), who looked like he could be my dad.

I wasn't smug, I was filled with dread: At any point, I can hit similar skids, fast. My 10 years-younger wife is more down than up ,healthwise, so that's another nagging reminder not waste my time on anger, stupidity, or whole cloth making up of imaginary Bing Crosby disputes.

2 hours ago, Celsius said:

 

 

The worst part is boring sex... 

Once that lower body part checks out, the rest of her is not far behind.

If you've gone 3 months without decent sex (or worse, without any sex), that ship has sailed and is never coming back. 

Maybe google The Ick. It's irreversible.

32 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:

Generally the ladies are good, you seem a bit out of touch, the ones doing less than 60 mins are usually newbies

In retrospect, I agree with your astute observation.

My newcomer Thai life attitude is that I find them charming in being a little slack in all ways and have some empathy that they're making such low dollars. 

But if I'm still here a few years from now, I can def see myself shifting more into your column.

Now I'm leaning 4 Seasons, Like 5K all in with the alcohol add-on and the ++.

YOLO, as the kids say.

Nimman area of Chiang Mai is good fun for NYE. There will be bands at the Nimman1 mall, tons of vendors and food, and the streets behind it are low traffic for greater ambience.

Also, the tourist mix skews Chinese and Japanese potheads, no prob no drunken fights.