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

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You'd prefer lube as poetry?

"The lube was a poem."

At work, so I can't quite pull up the embarrassing litany of Astroglide pr0netry I know exists.

i didn't even read it. the opening graf made me cringe. plus whogivesashit.jpg. fussy self-involved privileged young gay men with literary aspirations surrounded by stupid furniture boners. i'll take ugly and stupid, thanks.

tbh they're really not even that attractive

"furniture boners"!

now, see, THAT is a poetic figure.

starting Ugly & Stupid salon at my apartment; lube provided

^^^ spring gay thread title

The guy organizing it is pretty fine imo. The rest maybe not so much.

googled "ugly gays" and got

http://rantventrant.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/ugly-lesbians.jpg

I'm ugly and stupid, but you don't see me going around celebrating the fact.

i just realized i know the guys who's apartment that is as well. i work with them; they send my office brownies at christmastime.

haa they found each other! xp

surm maybe you can infiltrate the salon and report back!

lol that would be SO COOL if i could make it thru the night without impaling myself with a cheese knife

i'm probably mustering more hatred for this than i otherwise might because i just watched 'metropolitan' last night

The guys in Metropolitan are more smhable than Queer Poesy in Williamsburg.

my bf just told me he's 'friends' with dimitrov on facebook bc dimitrov randomly friended him a couple of years ago. he's like, i have no idea why he friended me. just the whole idea of this guy setting himself up with an arbitrary circle of friends-gone-possible-fuckbuddies skeeves me out.

The only thing that would skeeve me out about it is not being selected to join the circle.

the new york times is so weird why are they covering a private party

bcz everyone is well-dressed and Important.

(I'm sure their mentors and sugar daddies can dress how they like, tho)

I wonder if you gays will like Noel Coward's letter counseling a heartsick Marlene Dietrich:

http://selfstyledsiren.blogspot.com/2011/11/noel-coward-tells-marlene-snap-out-of.html

I don't mind this "peek" into privilege.

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ugh, idk man, that salon sounds like an absolute nightmare

I think I just stumbled (via Facebook) onto the fact that a fairly well-known gay pr0n star also works at my parent company.

oh, that Ch4rles 0sg00d!

that poetry thing seems too remote to get worked up about. there was a guy i thought was cute in one of the photographs.

also btw hi

Update: he's not gay! (He mentioned a former girlfriend.) But he is 23 and nominally my employee.

He says he likes to watch old movies but has no one to watch them with . . . how can I refuse?

CAREFUL!

surm today i had a conversation with a girl in my class about my so called life and she brought up how rayanne does an angela chase impression in the our town episode

she's like "and then your face falls"

it was a major bonding experience

I wonder if you gays will like Noel Coward's letter counseling a heartsick Marlene Dietrich

About as much as this series:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N2vNpHR0a0

i'm sure it was plaxi, ur very bondable

at the NY FAP last night, I threated to get a mobile device as soon as there's an app to find older gsy men near you, which would be activated by answering questions about Judy Garland films or Queen albums. It would be called Limpr.

:|

Here's an enema, old man.

lolll DR MORBIUS

i'm listening to a radio pgm from the late '60s with gay men talking about bars/hangouts/cruising spots of the time in nyc. there was once a bar in north bergen, nj called Charlie Dickens

one of the hosts says he goes to cruise bingo halls in east village churches at least once a week

It would be called Limpr.

Eldr

goitr

one of the hosts says he goes to cruise bingo halls in east village churches at least once a week

― vitameatawalloginavegamin (donna rouge), Thursday, November 3, 2011 2:44 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

nice boys with their mothers?

oh man that nyt thing about the salon, barf city

the vampiric way that older-n-wealthy transacts access to young-n-cute by way of a supposed passion for "poetry" is really grotesque

the Lillian Vernon angle is hilariously naff too

I mean, yeah, twas ever thus- looks help, and who you know helps, and that's always been true in life, duh, but still . . . this is so blatant

I've always been annoyed by this phenomenon in the art world, what my bf and I call "Cute boy art", that is young/emerging gay artists whose work is heavily narcissistic and which tends to commodify and sell access to either the (attractive) artist's body or the hot bodies/faces of the demimonde of their friends/lovers/peers- and you can see this across the arts scene- the breakout of Anthony Goicolea, Ryan McGinley in the last decade- it perpetuates this proximity between "gay" and "goodlooking"/vapid/narcissistic/shallow/looks-ist which I see as implicitly different from, say, the "queer" abjection school- of a Robert Gober or a Jerome Caja or the more humane and measured presentations of, say, Cathy Opie

I never really thought that poetry would be amenable to this kind of bimbo-ification because it's mediated through texts and, y'know, not about "looking" in the first place

guess I was wrong

I wonder if he's getting invited:

http://gawker.com/5785017/this-awful-poetry-video-is-not-a-spoof

The way to put a stop to the cute boy objectification is to ask the twink-poets how well they know Raphael's parts in Paradise Lost.

paul mpagi sepuya