Walking though Choi Jeong-Hwa's Happy Happy

Rule 8: If lying about your age, don't knock off so many years that the person you're talking to will think "Gosh, too bad they had such a rough life... I wonder if it was drugs or liquor."















(meaning that the husband got a facebook request from an old acquaintance from high school who was claiming to be young enough to be his own son)

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"Thanks" to being linked to by a hetero spanking women fetish site this photo from pride has had over 3000 views in only a few days:



Considering the spanking in question occupies just a small part of the pic and given the large number of skinny gay men bopping around in the rest of the photo I'm not certain that the viewers coming from the fetish site would be entirely satisfied.

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A few pics and a quick video from last night's march n rally in Pasadena from the California Supreme court voting 6-1 to uphold prop 8:









While not as large as some of the other protests and rallies, having them happen everywhere, including suburb cities helps to make the point the we are everywhere and that this decision effects all of us.

While I like this version, when I hear it I can't help wondering what if anything to a Mexican Band covering "Mexican Radio"

otra canción de Kinky just 'cause I'm in a mood:

For no real reason:

Pics from the Long Beach Gay Pride parade yesterday:
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Grindr is an iPhone application that uses GPS to let you find nearby gay men.  Three guesses why one would do this.  There are guys there stating that their goal is to make friends and nothing more, but the majority are clearly there looking to hook up. 
 
I’m one of the friends only guys, which has not quite worked out (I’ve never been the best at cold start small talk), but regardless, it has been an interesting insight into at least a certain subsection of the iPhone owning gay population.


Being the geek that I am I’ve been checking it not to see which hot guys are near me, but to see how the age range and racial demographics change in different parts of the city, because well, I’m a geek.


Also interesting to me have been the men using it claiming that they're straight.  Similar in idea are the guys saying they’re on the down low. The faceless, nameless profiles I can sort of accept as possibly being real and put up by men perhaps dealing with certain issues, but the others with pics of their faces showing or clearly identifiable tattoos?  My guess would be that they’re only playing a fantasy role.  I’d ask, but I doubt if I would get a response.
 
The profiles themselves can be fun in the way that any eager sex ad can be.  I mean how can you read a statement like "I love Dick, it’s da bomb" and not smile?  It’s practically the definition of a sex positive attitude.
 
Sometimes the humor is unintentional, such as the one for the guy who wrote that he was “on the DL and in the closeth.” A typo I’m assuming rather than an attempt at recreating a lisp since the idea of a closeted yet proudly lisping would-be macho masculine straight man seems just a tad unlikely.
 
I also amused myself by checking it in Las Vegas.  Specifically in a mall on the strip where it claimed that there were 5 users within 1000 feet of me. When I went into an A&F store the distance for all 5 went to zero feet and I had a hard time not laughing out loud at a stereotype proved real.
 
Even though I’m not quite using it ‘right,’ I’m thinking that I’ll keep Grindr.  I’ve tried other similar ‘Social’ applications, but they’ve been not as much fun.
 
One of them is a thing called appropriately enough the Gay Community Ap.  It also has a find people near you feature called Gaydar.  Yeah, gaydar.  The first time I used it, it found a bunch of guys all within 20 miles of me.  The second time and every time after, it claimed that the closest gay men to me were hundreds of miles away.  While this is possible in some parts of the country, I’m in Los Angeles, so the odds that the nearest queer guy to me using the ap is in San Diego seems a little low. 
 
Unlike some of the other similar aps, this one actually has enough space in the profile to put in some real information, so there’s more to go by than just a pic and a single sentence.  Sadly, that means there is actual information.  Reading a profile for middle aged, McCain loving republican, who made it clear that he was only interested in twinks barely half his age left me shaking my head.
 
I didn’t keep the gay ap for long, not merely because I wasn’t interested in looking for sex, but also because aside from insisting on giving me info for men no where near me (which would have been a pain had I been looking for sex), the darned thing would crash a lot.  As in every third time I tried to use it.  


There was another one called Purple, or Purpl, or some other sort of variant on the color.  When I tried it, it said that aside from a couple of other guys in Los Angeles, the only other gay men in California were in San Francisco.  This time not surprising, since in the description for the application the developer’s mention that it won’t work too well until more people join and that it currently works best for folks living in San Francisco and London.  While truthful, it may be not the best method of advertising and from the reviews it seems to be keeping people away.  It only worked twice for me, then started crashing and after deciding that there was no point in trying to fix it, I deleted the thing not even an hour after installing.


There are other gay specific aps, but I didn’t try any of them since they weren’t free, and I was not in the mood to spend actual money on satisfying mild curiosity.  

I did however check out some more generic social aps, such a Loopt and Match2blue that while not gay specific, do allow you to mention your sexual orientation.  Interestingly, these were where I had the most ‘luck’ in getting offers of hooking up and sexting requests.
 
On one I got an offer of meeting up for ‘fun’ which when I declined, turned into a frankly inane conversation, which ended not because either of us figured out how to save it, but because he gave up and signed off.
 
I also got a message late one night from an 18 year old stating that he was in bed and very horny and asking if I would help him out.  When I responded by asking if he had noticed that per my profile I was 41, he quickly answered with “SRRY NVRMNDTHN!”
 
I sent him a message back wishing him good luck and a good night, and decided that I was really not cut out for IM debauchery.  

Or maybe it's 'cause my friend K and I decided we wanted to do something really, really gay.

Went hiking in red rock canton this morning. Tonite is Cher. Yup Cher. Cause I'm ol' school like that.

Saw Love. I enjoyed the music, but there were long pauses and breaks. R they retooling the show?

Earlier one was telling an unlikely story about how the woman next to him on the plane couldn't get enough of him, or even wait for a better time. It seems she was a screamer.

The straight white guys at the table next to me are trying to impress the black waiter by talking about how cool eddie murphey is

Not sure why, but matzo ball soup in a deep plate rather than a bowl-the mirage

While I don't mind the coyotes hanging out at the bottom of the hill, it's a little disconcerting when I see them walking up the steps towards the patios below the house. I think I need to discourage that behavior.

In other news, I'm heading off to vegas this weekend, so with nay luck, there'll be some interesting stories up here sometime soon.

Be well gente

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Photos from this past weekend. Los Angeles Metro Art tour:
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