There’s this guy.
I’ve never really had a real conversation with him, but he’s hot, in that timid ‘I don’t know what I’m trying to say’ kind of way. But he’s hot.
And I want to have a real conversation with him, despite the fact that I’ve never done so; it’s the goal that’s important. Tonight I went to a straight club, with straight people, drinking (sometimes) straight drinks. He was there too, although I normally see him at the gay club, with gay people, drinking (always) gay drinks. We’re gay, that’s what we do.
Anyway, I’m not overwhelmed, I’m not overtaken, I’m not overcome, but I’m not in there, being obvious, being devious, being clear. It’s seduction the way I’d want it to be done - the way that it’s subtle, there all the time but not annoying, available but not desperate. I want to have fun but I want him to have fun seeing me have fun. I want to be watched but not persued. I want to have my cake and eat it.
“I want to have a laugh, but I want him to laugh with me.”
That’s all.
That’s all!
You input one desire and then click on the almost-random other suggestions that pop up in order to add more.
Once I’m more on the way to creating a list for myself, I’ll share it. Until that time, visit:
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I’m home this weekend for a meet-and-greet with my family. I love them to bits, they’re great, but thank god that I don’t have to live with them any more. They’re fun but they drive me insane with their habits, their styles of living and their middle-class clutter.
Everything is just too much around them.
It’s great to see them in short two-day chunks.
….I’m dreading Christmas.
After reading a Wired News article about deep-sea diving, I was intrigued by the Pacific Sleeper Shark. I’ve never heard of it before and it sounds kind of nifty. Supposedly one of the great ocean predators:
Very little is known of sleeper shark life history. Age and size at maturity are unknown. They are thought to be ovovivparous (produce eggs that hatch within the females body), but gestation time and litter size has not been determined. Despite its sluggish and inoffensive reputation, they are voracious and versatile predators. The stomach contents of one 12 foot (3.7m) female weighed 300 pounds (136kg) and consisted of mostly rex and Dover soles. Another sleeper shark stomach contained 3 hair seals. Their diet also includes flatfish; halibut, soles, salmon, and rockfish. Other prey includes octopus & squids, crabs, and carrion (Hart 1973). In the picture below is a chunk of harbor seal skin and attached tissue recovered from the stomach of a Pacific sleeper shark.”
Conservation Institute
Arctic Science Journeys
Google search: Pacific Sleeper Shark
There was a lot of flak hitting the news late April about a Seatle Times photo that was published showing a plane load of US military coffins in the hold - the whole sombre collection draped with the American flag? It was a moving image, and a sorry tale to see the young infantrymen coming home in that way.
What struck me as strange when I looked over the story today is how the author of the piece (link) was Hal Bernton. Coincidence? The name sounds like one I’ve heard before in relation to military matters.
Stupid thought, but I thought it and thought I’d share it.
But still news all the same, I think this is really important at the moment. The Register carries a story detailing how the US FCC has decided that individual states don’t have jurisdiction over whether to tax VoIP services. It’s going to be up to the FCC and Michael Powell whether US users have to pay tax on their calls. I don’t know if this will have an impact on international users who use the software, but I’m sure Skype will tell us if there’s a problem!
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I love how worked up we all get about one another. Once we meet someone we like, we think is hot, comes across as intelligent, we act as though unable to touch them with a barge-pole. We’re conservative, scared and apprehensive. I love how the mind games work - Scott’s going through what I was going through two weeks ago, but he actually writes it online!
Out in the open, ready for all to see.
It’s the ‘Do I contact him or don’t I? Does that come across as desperate or just interested? Can I call without him hating me for chasing so much?” I hate doing this stuff, but it’s kind of fun to watch from way afar.
“This Charlie boy is freaking me out. I just can’t work out if he fancies me. I thought I’d do a bit of fishing this morning by sending him a email calling him gorgeous (he has addressed me as Sexy and fit in two previous emails) and asking how his weekend was whilst letting him know about my weekend.”
Gdayscott
“Observant readers of the Newsblog might remember that we promised you live coverage of prime minister’s question time. Unfortunately, PMQs is not happening today. The mistake was ours, not the prime minister’s. Sorry about that….”
Just made me laugh.
If you don’t know anything about Britain, this isn’t funny. So there.
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“Jake Gyllenhaal reportedly says of his love scene with Heath Ledger in the upcoming gay cowboy movie Brokeback Mountain. “And then I grab him, and I slam him up against the wall, and I kiss him. And we were doing take after take after take.” Even though I know this item is probably the work of a crafty PR person, it’s the kind of information that will inspire me to spend at least a full week’s worth of real contemplative quality time by myself.”
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When do the wounded stop being insurgents and become citizens?
Insurgents have to be from outside the country - people aren’t insurgents of their own country. So whilst the American media claims that all the fighters in Iraq have mysteriously materialised from Afghanistan or Iran, all the Iraqis who disliked the US invasion prior to their ’success’ have apparently disappeared.
The international press doesn’t call the opposition fighters ‘insurgents’, so why is this a US led move? What’s been pushing the American media to discuss the war with these terms? Is it follow the leader reporting, where consumers are so familiar with the Fox-News version of the English language that the press don’t want to use correct language and confuse the readers?
OR, are they being told to use the language? It’s unlikely, but pressure on editors, endless repetition by official voices and interview language slowly has an effect.
SF Chronicle: U.S. Marines tend to a wounded insurgent
