Throw on Your Best Cardigan and Celebrate Fall 2011 with the Gays of ILX

Happy birthday, young guy.

happy birthday!

happy birthday jedthro!

Eric's All That Jazz thing is a late '70s fetish

sto lat, jed!

hey jesse,

what was the name of that gay barber shop again

Steamworks.

(Gabby's http://gabbysbarbershop.com/)

thank u

We use a chalk board to keep track of who's waiting. If we're busy you may put your name on the list and go out for a while (please note- door is locked promptly at closing time). Clients are welcome to request the barber of their choice. If you are requesting a specific barber please write and circle his or her initial after your name on the chalk board when you sign in.

i really dislike chalkboards

which i believe can be traced back to me eating chalk on a dare on the last day of 7th grade

Maybe patrons can chip in for dry erase boards.

(which I'm not much fond of either: I have to remind myself to pack a marker)

EW DRY ERASE BOARDS ARE THE DEVIL'S WORK.

but i also love chalk— rock-climbing and playng massive amounts of pool have made me love it.

I love dry erase boards b/c erasing them is so satisfying. And so is marking on them. You have a white surface, you lay down a dense mark of color, and then you wipe it and it's all white again!

Alfred, why did you quote that?

my friend has a giant chalkboard in his kitchen and I'm really jealous of it

You should paint one of your walls with chalkboard paint.

u guys it is so nice out

i want to scream into the wilderness it is so nice

it was crazy windy earlier — kind of fun to bike in before getting an eyeful of street grit and leaves

YES THE WIND

caps unintended but necessary

I was just thinking about how it is ALWAYS windy in Chicago. It's especially windy today - even now - but the air is never still here. It feels a little weird when it stops.

that is great. i'm really not all that into still air. wind is one of my favorite things, even tho MY element is rain.

(they do go together after all)

I like rain... when I'm inside and don't have to be anywhere.

it's nice. water in general is really a good thing. in fact my first ILE thread was

What is your favorite thing to do with water?

Wow, this is a retweet from last night orig a local weatherman:

Gusts 45+ mph tonite; 60 mph ovr open lake wi 18-20 ft. offshore waves.”

Is Gordon Lightfoot still alive? We might need him.

that's hot

I'm a slave to love

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f308/sotoalf/325576_10150345428684521_720269520_7952034_1784762925_o.jpg

I'm eating a delicious cherry puff pastry from Au Bon Pain and thinking of you, Corey.

Hey gays are any of you familiar w author R1ch4rd McC4nn?

M cancelled on me for last night, but wants to hang out at some point this weekend.

I loved stealing the cherry tarts at ABP

I just finished The Women and now I'm going to hang w/ my friend Ph!11!p

i am gonna go dancing tonight although i'm not sure i have anyone to actually go with

think i may make a bevmo run first because i $$$$just got paid$$$$

bevmo

*sighs*

as in, wistfully

beb' mo

baseball tonight, then tomorrow, 4 more baseballs. I may look for Hot Mess in the interim.

*rad date thing in DC this evening with red-headed Moroccan/Italian dude w a huge interest contemporary art and a killer smile. I think we both like each other and are hanging out again, maybe?

*yesterday I talked to Andr3w fucking H0ller4n on the phone for like 15 minutes about The Saint and The Price is Right and oh my god how on earth is this real life idk

I tried on a cardigan today. It looked good, but it was shitty material that felt like sandblasting. But I found a sweet plaid shirt on clearance. Next week I will look around for cardigans that don't give road rash.

I'm thinking it might be a good idea to inform my one or two secret crushes of those crushes. They're ridiculous and annoying to me and my friends. The rejection will hit finally purge those fantasies of romances, and of course open me up to new delusions. For real though, I know they're not into me, but they don't know that I wish they were, so it's exhausting. (/therpy)

wow- a 21 min. xpost....

Andr3w fucking H0ller4n? how?

bevmo?

Bcz i met this dude via Manhunt for a strictly friendly coffee and it wound up being R1ch4rd McC4nn and apparently they're friends and so after me talking a ton abt Dancer From The Dance he basically just like called him and handed me the phone

!!!

Morbs: BevMo is a chain of beverage stores thruout Cali/where I do most of my liquor purchasing. Bought Cynar and Old Overholt on Friday.

This weekend I discovered that alcoholic Redi-Whip-type whipped cream exists. Haven't tried it, but will at some point. It's shelf stable. 30 proof.

I just saw that my boss orders from BevMo sometimes. I've never known him to go to CA, though.

That alcoholic whipped cream freaks me out

Guys, it's time for one of our periodical thinky questions: Why does sex so often lead to a discontinuation of communication? I mean looking back in life, there are tons of guys that I was attracted to and we were pals and all but we never hooked up and we are still buddies and all is well, and there are so many about whom I felt the same way, and we DID have sex, and now we just don't really talk any more. It seems to provide this sort of closure, whether you want it or not, and I just cannot figure out why. I mean, I like to think I have a very open-minded/grounded approach to sex where I can be casual or I can be intimate without getting attached and all of that shit, and I'm fine with having sex just be sex, and yet I find myself doing this same thing where I just lose the desire to maintain the same sort of dynamic we had before we fucked. I'm not talking about, like, "Oh, the sex was so awful; I can't bear to speak to this person ever again", but I just feel like subconsciously it's this end result for so many people, and once they get it they feel like their work is done, I mean not in a conscious/manipulative way but just something deeper down.

Has anyone else had experiences with this?

Yes, mainly 10-20 years ago. I have no real understanding of it either.