I'm Also in the Library and It's Raining: WINTER 2018/2019 GAY THREAD

omg i get so much aarp spam

so like i gained 10 pounds

i don't know how i let this happen but i keep eating pints of ice cream

i think i'm not gonna stress it?

I too have gained about 10 pounds in the last couple years. It’s all happening. It’s finally happening.

i mean here's the honest thing about it
i really do think i'm ok looking with a little pudge and makeup looks better on me when i have the baby fat
so WHATEVER
also i'm sure your ten are like toned and aerobicized

mine (more like 30 lbs) are not, and the boys in their 20s like it

ok that's encouraging

hey y'all !!

i ran into Stevie yesterday at the local farmer's market. it was a very lesbian moment for two ilx gays.

kisses,
tabes

hey table, hope you are well! x

i want to meet gay friends at farmers markets!

<3

It's not gay but it feels gay to walk in the sun to the market to get the natural deodorant and the hair oil I like

Also, completely bizarrely, I didn't know who Cazwell was until 30 minutes ago

i love arm and hammer natural deodorant, it's the only one with the texture and consistency i appreciate

I use Weleda. Very sagey

i use Aesop but that's because after working there for several years i literally have trouble with any other scent.

I love Aesop but $$$$ so I switched

yeah, i know. i figure that most deodorant that costs $7 lasts me a month, so spending $35 on one that lasts me 4-5 months is okay, though i might just be justifying one of my only very bougie spending habits.

i've stopped wearing deodorant :p but i'm not a very smelly guy so i can get away w/ it almost every day esp in fall/winter/spring

i got expensive french deodorant as a gift but it was an anti perspirant & it made my pits weirdly sticky so i don't use it... ive just been using tom's when i do indulge

I used Tom's for a while but it gave me a rash (!)

my indulgence is hair gel or wax

(no surprise)

i have no indulgences, esp when Mallomars go away in the summer

soooooooooo i just had a chicken sandwich thing from shake shack and it was game changing, i really didn't know

their burgers are a consolation in the Loop

can i ask you guys like a gay tech question
ok, as gay people, do you own a apple or pc computer?

Apple

which model??

PC

what kind A? i'm getting a thinkpad!!!!!!!!!!!!

a Dell laptop

do i need to b worried about viruses?

Almost two years and none to speak of besides the mild flu I got in 2018

:) awesome

iMac, about 10 years old.

oo i like those, i wish i had a desktop

MacBook pro, five years old, new harddrive at beginning of 2017 (got in right before Applecare expired). had slight dent on screen from when a drunk lesbian decided to show off her nunchuck skills in the house.

lord, have i told y'all how many places i've lived since i was last active on here? i don't even live in California any longer lol.

nooooo, give us a rundown? it's good to see you here.

All right, surm asked for it.

So, Theo and I are still together. After being homeless for a month in early 2012, I went hopping freight trains with him and our best friend Amanda. Came back to Oakland and ended up sharing a room in a fucked up house with some queer methed out witches. we were there for about 8 months.

The meth took over and they kicked us out because we asked them to not smoke so much meth, so we bought a used 14-foot UHaul box truck in hopes of outfitting it into an RV. while doing modifications and repairs, we lived with Amanda in her room in a fucked up drunk-punk/crust punk squat filled with heroin and lots of bad, mean dogs. we lived there for about four months, then moved into the truck permanently and parked next to our friend's warehouse, where we stayed for the next nine months. it was a nice period, to be honest, because the neighborhood was friendly and filled with other weirdos living out of their trucks and vans, so there was some community solidarity.

then we decided to rent a room in a house a few blocks away to use as an office/studio. we lived there for about a year and a half, sleeping in the truck while doing the rest of our daily activities in the house. rent was cheap, we lived with good friends, it was a nice time.

eventually, because we'd been spending a lot of time there, we took a chance on moving to a hobo/railroad museum in far northern California for the winter. we were caretakers there, and while it was fine but a little hard at first, our lives were eventually threatened by this crazy methed out dude named Croatian Mike, and we started keeping a gun next to the bed in our cabin. we got him kicked off the property, but it was a scary time. eventually, we left the land (despite being told we could stay) because of conflicts with some of the racism and bullshit of other people living there (long story short— one of the other residents was constantly talking shit about us, but it turned out he was a junkie who eventually got kicked off the property).

for four months we lived in the truck on our friend's off-the-grid property at 4500 feet above sea level on the eastern flank of Mt. Shasta, about 10 miles and a fifteen minute drive to the town of McCloud, CA (pop 1500). we had an outdoor kitchen, an outhouse, and built some fences and other infrastructure out while we were there.

eventually, tired of the lack of opportunity in the area, we moved to a queer sustainable farming project in Los Molinos, CA, a small farm town near Redding and Chico. that worked out for a while, we both had jobs and the farm was beautiful, but then some interpersonal drama with other residents caused us to leave in a rush. so, after 6 months, we moved to Chico proper.

there, we lived in a small studio on the property of this very weird faerie dude (lived at Short Mountain and Wolf Creek at various points) for six months...though after two months, we decided to move to Philadelphia, as my parents were having medical issues and we were tired of trying and trying and sort of just scraping by in California.

that was 2017. we up and moved across the US, got a crummy slum apartment, lived in it for 9 months, then bought a cheap house in the same general neighborhood, and have been here for about a year.

so, between 2012 and 2019, i lived in nine places, ten if you include the weed farms we occasionally worked on for more than a month at a time.

oh wait, eleven places if you include the philly spots. lol.

so, maybe that explains my absence here for the past however many years.

damn dude. that's a mighty hard tale and i think it's amazing that you made it through all of that, and with some lols to spare. what a crazy thing that we've all made it back here to witness the journey of the past seven years. life is some crazy shit. i hope you love your house and that you are happy with Theo <3 keep survivin'

Oh wow, I missed that post over the weekend. That's going to make a hell of a road movie someday.

a queer sustainable farming project

Show me how to grow queers!

Send self-loathing, closeted ex-congressmen to Coachella.

lol. xpost, it was actually a really great project, but living with two very sensitive folks who are more "primitivist" than "reasonable" was... difficult to say the least. like, they'd buy irrigation tubing without holes in it because it cost a few cents less than the tubing with holes in it per yard, but then would spend days making holes in the regular tubing. just really pathological cheapskate shit disguised as being "environmentally concerned," tbh.

i'm also glad to be back! hi again, y'all <3

<3

It's June, so here's my (by no means complete, occasionally updated) Pride playlist:

https://open.spotify.com/user/cryptosicko/playlist/4RnlBWPlB2tuxnxvLXZFDV?si=ZSSPXIq4Qzm4ToV1mNEi5g

John Ashbery - self portrait in a convex mirror

oops wrong thread.. the reading and gay threads have similar names rn

well, Ashbery was queer (and I love that poem).

:-) i just ate a whole box of unicorn fudge stripes