Should I go fishing or get a friend to hang around? Celebrated GAY Summer 2012

I think it makes you jailbait-on-a-curve, Owen.

I was at Julius' last night when the Dirty Looks people were showing Tearoom ... kind of didn't work... WCBS-FM and Jeopardy were also playing.

A gay bar where I can watch and play along with Jeopardy is my kind of gay bar.

Thx for the new screenname, Morbs

The (kinda hipsterish?) Boystown bar I remember liking was Berlin, right next to the Belmont el station, notably not on Halsted.

Aw fuck

oh man – I visited Berlin in 2002 on my first visit to Chicago. Picked up a guy, cautioned my friends to stay away for a couple hours, and couldn't finish the devil's business thanks to their coming in and talking nervous shit about Pearl Jam from the other bed.

would've ended my friendship with them right then and there

Damn, well, you deserve it more, Owen P. I am just middle aged now.

would've ended my friendship with them right then and there

he's the one I said got married three days ago.

Young in number only, I got an old-man body and old-man problems. I see the appeal of a place like Metropolitan or Nowhere but they're not unique-to-NYC enough for me to want to go, as a visitor. And the last time I went to Sway I got in a fight. (Usually I end up at Von tbh.)

I visited Berlin in 2002 on my first visit to Chicago

I puzzled over this sentence for ten seconds

At 33, I feel old only in number.

And yet, my greatest fear is that one day I'll be one of those people in informercials who is all "I'm in better shape than I was back in high school."

I puzzled over this sentence for ten seconds

imagine if I'd written, "I visited Japan when I was in Orlando"

soooooooooooo i am addicted to this grindr

it's really a problem

xp If that's your greatest fear I'd say you're doing fine. That said, I never believe people when they say that, like "did you have polio" or "were you grossly obese".

Plus, they often show side-by-side pics that confirm, no, you are actually not in better shape than you were in high school.

They're liars. Young people are made of rubber.

Would tot drink with you at your next old-man-bar visit, O.

I think I went to Berlin/Chicago once, but this time I didn't even revisit that tin-roofed place with the dark "back 40" (had great moonlit sex there in 2001, maybe).

someone fly me to chicago

Wish I'd had time for the dark back 40.

it's 3 o'clock almost, where's my afternooner

Where are all the girlz

I'm picturing surm on a divan, waiting for his valet

It's a date, Morbs

literally a bump on a log. i'm liiiike ...

i mean honestly what is everybody working or some shit

it's summertime take me to your air conditioned bedroom and have your way with me already for fuck's sake

I'm prepared to find out what it takes to not have to work and to get drunk by 3 p.m.

that will be my next staycation, yr all invited. just don't let me get on the subway.

The tin roof place is the Manhandler. Berlin is a dance club that has a Madonna night. I went there once as a cultural tourist.

That story linked above about homeless queer youth says that Belmont around Berlin is where sex workers work. I didn't know that. It's weird b/c you turn the corner onto Sheffield and it's pure straight douchetown.

It's 3pm and the director of this film I'm scoring is playing Journey on my PS3 while I attempt to score this scene for the fifth time. I have no A/C.

I puzzled over this sentence for ten seconds

A co-worker once told me that over the weekend, she had hung out with a girl we both know who "blew a guy she met in Berlin in the alley," and it took us way too long to figure out that we were talking and thinking about different Berlins.

it's summertime take me to your air conditioned bedroom and have your way with me already for fuck's sake

― surm, Tuesday, July 24, 2012 2:54 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i am in an air conditioned bedroom as of this afternoon! not because of having my way with anyone but because it was the simplest solution to keeping the cat alive and happy and me not crazy neurotic.

that said, if any montreal boys feel the need for some A/C quid pro quo I am not entirely opposed.

can i come over?

sorry i missed ur IM the other night btw! hope you're feeling happy!

haha! if y'all are in town, you're more than welcome to drop by.

i am! i was feeling a bit out of sorts because this cat is pressing all of my nervous parent buttons but i am 100% pretty great right now and will probably let myself take a nap once the reptilian parts of my brain get convinced that because he lacks opposable thumbs the cat can probably not tear out the hose/window attachment part of the air conditioner and jump to his death.

we'll IM soon and catch up. not enough delightful surm anecdotes in my life these days.

At Berlin, this kind of skeevy older guy tried to pick me up and probably would have succeeded had I not been sobering up. We did show each other our dicks in the bathroom tho. I was a total tease. This other guy who had been in the bar later gave me a really judgemental look on the el platform haha.

hot skeevy?

Rev!

I had forgotten how many of the El platforms are open, like a theater-in-the-round stage.

i've been to berlin once... fun but kinda seapunk-y

i live in boystown but don't go to gay bars -- there's one on the corner of belmont & halsted called SPIN and a few days when my dad saw it for the first time from a few blocks away he said "what's 'spin'... a health club?" and i was all "well, in a sense"

There were a couple of places in the area that basically looked like sex gyms.

What is a sex gym? Is it just a gym where people have sex?

attended by sex dwarfs

i can very clearly hear in my head local fox news anchor hope woodside saying "sex gym."

i think sex gyms / bathhouses / sex clubs are illegal here

i knew a guy named Sex Jim

Jim, Sex