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

i hope some of you new york gays are going to this (it's less steep than most other academic conferences i've been to):

http://radicallygay2012.sched.org/

web hookups have saved me the cost of so many pointless dinners.

my old pics actually look older than i do.

surm, room for MYSTERY must be left. Like Jell-O.

that's so funny, i thought you were quoting me, cuz i was going to say the same thing! i love mystery! really. at the right time.

Met up with Alex in Montreal a couple nights ago, it was lots of fun. I came from a mojito party and then was bought cocktails by a generous friend. We got ~wasted~, well, I was wasted at any rate, like that twice a year kind of wasted where you wander round the house the next day feeling confused by the placement of objects. We semi-successfully brainstormed possible gay rap nights to compete with Toronto's "Big Primpin'" (Me: Only built for Cuban Pinx; them: Late Penetration). Alex in MTL is highly recommended for irl hangs.

Agreed. Met Alex all too briefly a couple months back.

That makes two of you I've met IRL though I don't expect Owen to remember me.

I feel like I've met all of you at some point

I've met one of you ... twice.

+ jaymc as an honorary participant

What's more interesting is to talk abt ppl we have known

biblically?

i, too, got drunk last night, but with my roommate. and the trip home took over an hour.

oof

Seems like hosting a weekly trivia at a local gay bar is going to be good (i.e. not good) for my ego.

Yah I remember you jer but we just said hello, right? I was introduced to ILM by _______ who doesn't post here any more. "Oh, you still visit that hive of assholes" he says dismissively.

LOL, OTM

Owen, yeah. Also, you gave me a hug upon my friend's request.

'hive of assholes' = accurate board description.

also, Owen P is a lot of fun to hang out with!

i am in London ON. It is um. not particularly exciting as a place.

What's that John Waters line "the most irritating kind of person in the world is an ex-smoker"? Except with ILX. (He's not at all irritating, just cognisant that ILX brought out a bad side of him.)

He's not at all irritating, just cognisant that ILX brought out a bad side of him.

Among so many quiet qualities.

who? C?

Believe it or not, growing up in Tillsonburg ONT (as I did) London was The Big City. But yeah...

is there somewhere awesome in london ontario i should go? we went to an awesome vegan restaurant yesterday, but i'm open to further suggestions of big city fun

I had drinks and some foolin' with a lovely fellow I met a couple days ago. Way too promising. Luckily containing my enthusiasm has never been one of my flaws.

xp not a snitch

I went to London a couple times to visit my younger brother, it was mostly patio parties and gurls

Are we talking about Casuistry?

enough gossing, folks.

If so, I met him and we hung out for a couple days, then later I pretty much hated him for a couple years, but now I really like him and I hope we meet again. (I told him about my feelings toward him. Don't want to sound like I'm talking behind his back.)

xp

yah i shouldn't have mentioned anything.

does anybody else post from an elliptical, it really fucks with your logic

Anyway, if we're changing the topic: I had a dream about Dr. Morbius. A friend and I were on a balcony facing the woods at a suburban/rural apartment complex at night. The feeling of the dream was unsettling but not scary. I saw Dr. M walking fast, carrying a flashlight, looking over his shoulder with his brow furrowed. He grumbled about whatever was behind him and then he was out of sight. A guy ran by on Morb's same path, apparently chasing him. The friend in the dream asked me if the guy doing the chasing was a "rent boy" and I said no.

xp - sorry Owen. I hope I didn't say the wrong thing.

I've posted from a treadmill once, which I don't recommend. Too bumpy.

i have posted about my feelings for C before, because he went out of his way to offend me (and i gather, others). but whatever, it's all in the past.

I am in my new place, at which I finally have internet. There are kids screaming in the playground across the alley but it strangely isn't disturbing me.

did you move in with yr guy?

yup, we've been here just over two weeks. things are still settling down, but it definitely feels like home.

I don't remember C ever being mean to me, but he was one of the few guys on these threads who could match me in prudery (tho I guess he's attached now?)

ha no worries at all je55e!

I don't have dreams. Then, a week ago, I dreamed about this puppy-love romantic love story between two teenagers at a school for underprivileged kids. The romance ended with the boy shouting at the girl that she "doesn't know him, never understood him" and he runs off to a graveyard to sleep in a grave and have sex with ancient ghosts.

The dream was long and detailed and beautiful and I woke up, while still asleep. I was so impressed that I'd had such a vivid dream that I turned to the people around me and tried to recount to them all the details of the dream. While doing so, certain scenes changed and shifted, the retelling was less true but it was better told.

Then, when I woke up for real, I didn't know whether to write down what I could remember of Dream 1 (love story) or Dream 2 (frantically retelling the love story) because the two had several contradictory elements.

oy, the "waking up while still asleep" thing

i tend to not remember my dreams if i get woken up by an alarm but bad dreams are enough to put me in a funk for the rest of the day, even if i don't remember any details, just the ~bad vibez~

I don't remember C ever being mean to me, but he was one of the few guys on these threads who could match me in prudery (tho I guess he's attached now?)

At first I thought surely we couldn't be talking about the same C, but then I remembered how he used to be so aggressively contrary, so given that the prevailing attitude (on ILX, in the world) is highly prioritizing sex, I can see him taking a prudish stance. He and I argued like crazy on the cuddling v. sex thread - or maybe over IM about the thread - b/c he took a hardline position against orgasms.

i mean, it's like i would bring up sex and next you thing you know i'm a harlot with no morals

i was liiike

no offense guys but the idea of talking about a former poster in their absence like this strikes me as a bit icky

or maybe i'm just squeamish cuz of this hangover idk

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51kus2kxJwL.jpg

the thought crossed my mind but i quickly decided that i don't give a fuck, people who spew negativity don't really make me stop and question my morals too much

but i'm not wed to the subject

how are you donna, did you have a good breakfast?

Yeah this is before my time so I'll just avoid the whole thing. There is a very cute boy at the back of the bus we are on with a really nice short beard.

I just noticed I have a small hickey

but it's August and I'm not wearing a scarf and I'm not a scarf guy anyway

also all this harlot talk is reminding me of my own SORDID ILX PAST

eh not really surm. just cereal with milk. didn't feel like expending effort this morning

sordid!? i don't believe it!

i had a croissant