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[TCB]

The wind has shifted today os that it is now blowing from the north.  So, in addition to the crowds from the Taste of Tacoma, I have the smell of the food and the music from the concert stage.

[elmore3003]

Yes, indeedy!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Travel Vibes to DR Ginny and Richard! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

[Ron Pulliam]

I watched Quantum of Solace last night.  As much as I like Daniel Craig, this may be the worst Bond film ever.  First of all the plot is almost indecipherable...very much dependent on knowing too many details from the last one.

If you are going to be a sequel and can't succinctly recap the info a viewer needs to know from the previous film in less than five or ten minutes to be able to enjoy the film, then don't do a sequel, do a film that is complete in itself and don't carry over crap from the last one that has no dramatic impact.

Characters appear and disappear so fast without much development or establishment, we don't really know who they are or why we should have any feeling about them at all. 

But worst of all the action, scenes are so choppy and kinetic that you cannot get any sense of perspective or know where you are or who just shot at who or who threw what punched or who jumped down from where.  An example: the film opens with  Bond in a black car being chased by villains in a black car.  The cutting is so quick, the cars have not been established, I couldn't tell who was who half the time.  So much of action throughout the film is in quick cuts and close-ups or such obivous CGI that you get no sense of spectacle at all anymore. 

And that was what was so great about the fights and chases and stunts in a Bond movie, there was a sense of spectacle and amazement and, it didn't happen at such a frenetic pace, that you could absorb it, take it all in, and enjoy.  You could revel in the details.  Not anymore.  It's assaultive and just wears me out.

And yet....it was well-reviewed and made a fortune.   Go  know!

[elmore3003]

I will head out soon to PrideFest.

I've seen enough Pride Marches/Parades (and been part of them as well). I don't need to stand on 5th Avenue and 16th Street to watch this one. I'll see my friend at PrideFest, come home, work on the two presentations and take a nap (I woke up at 5am). We will be seeing a friend tonight. He is taking classes at HB and there is a "singing performance"

I think nearly the first 20 years of my life in New York were spent marching in the parade with the NYC Gay Men's Chorus. My memories are the great support from the crowds, the excitement of being in the event, and the claustrophobia on Christopher Street at the end. I also remember standing in the sun waiting for the Chorus or the cabaret group I worked with to sing at the rally after the parade. I given my time and energy and now I don't mind  passing up the event.

Exactly. I watched or walked for almost 20 of the 30 years I've been here. I'll let the others take over.

I don't know how it is in New York, but in my little corner of the globe; they don't want gays my age to participate in Pride at all.  The old queens seem to be an embarrassment to the young, proud, openly gay male.  They think of us as the silly old men who hid in our closets afraid to tell the world who we were.  They seem to forget that we were also the old queens who fought the police harrassment and the college-jock gaybashers; just for the right to have a beer with our own, in the privacy of a quiet bar.

I stopped attending Seattle and Tacoma Pride years ago.

Perhaps it was the chaps-only attire you wore, TCB .  There comes a time when the buttcheeks don't look as spiffy as they did when a person is in his 30s.

Is this the voice of an embarrassed, or embare-assed, reality?

[Ron Pulliam]

The wind has shifted today os that it is now blowing from the north.  So, in addition to the crowds from the Taste of Tacoma, I have the smell of the food and the music from the concert stage.

Apply liberal doses of cologne, douse a hanky with the stuff, and hold it close to your face until the winds shift.    That should take care of the malodorous smells.

Playing your theater records really loud should do the trick in muffling the concert noises.

[TCB]

I will head out soon to PrideFest.

I've seen enough Pride Marches/Parades (and been part of them as well). I don't need to stand on 5th Avenue and 16th Street to watch this one. I'll see my friend at PrideFest, come home, work on the two presentations and take a nap (I woke up at 5am). We will be seeing a friend tonight. He is taking classes at HB and there is a "singing performance"

I think nearly the first 20 years of my life in New York were spent marching in the parade with the NYC Gay Men's Chorus. My memories are the great support from the crowds, the excitement of being in the event, and the claustrophobia on Christopher Street at the end. I also remember standing in the sun waiting for the Chorus or the cabaret group I worked with to sing at the rally after the parade. I given my time and energy and now I don't mind  passing up the event.

Exactly. I watched or walked for almost 20 of the 30 years I've been here. I'll let the others take over.

I don't know how it is in New York, but in my little corner of the globe; they don't want gays my age to participate in Pride at all.  The old queens seem to be an embarrassment to the young, proud, openly gay male.  They think of us as the silly old men who hid in our closets afraid to tell the world who we were.  They seem to forget that we were also the old queens who fought the police harrassment and the college-jock gaybashers; just for the right to have a beer with our own, in the privacy of a quiet bar.

I stopped attending Seattle and Tacoma Pride years ago.

Perhaps it was the chaps-only attire you wore, TCB .  There comes a time when the buttcheeks don't look as spiffy as they did when a person is in his 30s.

Ron, I stopped wearing the chaps years ago.  I prefer the leather jock and the platform shoes.

[Ron Pulliam]

I will head out soon to PrideFest.

I've seen enough Pride Marches/Parades (and been part of them as well). I don't need to stand on 5th Avenue and 16th Street to watch this one. I'll see my friend at PrideFest, come home, work on the two presentations and take a nap (I woke up at 5am). We will be seeing a friend tonight. He is taking classes at HB and there is a "singing performance"

I think nearly the first 20 years of my life in New York were spent marching in the parade with the NYC Gay Men's Chorus. My memories are the great support from the crowds, the excitement of being in the event, and the claustrophobia on Christopher Street at the end. I also remember standing in the sun waiting for the Chorus or the cabaret group I worked with to sing at the rally after the parade. I given my time and energy and now I don't mind  passing up the event.

Exactly. I watched or walked for almost 20 of the 30 years I've been here. I'll let the others take over.

I don't know how it is in New York, but in my little corner of the globe; they don't want gays my age to participate in Pride at all.  The old queens seem to be an embarrassment to the young, proud, openly gay male.  They think of us as the silly old men who hid in our closets afraid to tell the world who we were.  They seem to forget that we were also the old queens who fought the police harrassment and the college-jock gaybashers; just for the right to have a beer with our own, in the privacy of a quiet bar.

I stopped attending Seattle and Tacoma Pride years ago.

Perhaps it was the chaps-only attire you wore, TCB .  There comes a time when the buttcheeks don't look as spiffy as they did when a person is in his 30s.

Is this the voice of an embarrassed, or embare-assed, reality?

San Francisco has quite a proud elderly contingent...and yes, a few may occasionally wear seatless chaps to these events.   Not  pretty, but nobody gives a rip.

[Ron Pulliam]

I will head out soon to PrideFest.

I've seen enough Pride Marches/Parades (and been part of them as well). I don't need to stand on 5th Avenue and 16th Street to watch this one. I'll see my friend at PrideFest, come home, work on the two presentations and take a nap (I woke up at 5am). We will be seeing a friend tonight. He is taking classes at HB and there is a "singing performance"

I think nearly the first 20 years of my life in New York were spent marching in the parade with the NYC Gay Men's Chorus. My memories are the great support from the crowds, the excitement of being in the event, and the claustrophobia on Christopher Street at the end. I also remember standing in the sun waiting for the Chorus or the cabaret group I worked with to sing at the rally after the parade. I given my time and energy and now I don't mind  passing up the event.

Exactly. I watched or walked for almost 20 of the 30 years I've been here. I'll let the others take over.

I don't know how it is in New York, but in my little corner of the globe; they don't want gays my age to participate in Pride at all.  The old queens seem to be an embarrassment to the young, proud, openly gay male.  They think of us as the silly old men who hid in our closets afraid to tell the world who we were.  They seem to forget that we were also the old queens who fought the police harrassment and the college-jock gaybashers; just for the right to have a beer with our own, in the privacy of a quiet bar.

I stopped attending Seattle and Tacoma Pride years ago.

Perhaps it was the chaps-only attire you wore, TCB .  There comes a time when the buttcheeks don't look as spiffy as they did when a person is in his 30s.

Ron, I stopped wearing the chaps years ago.  I prefer the leather jock and the platform shoes.

Well there's your problem....those platform shoes were out after Elton wore a pair in "Tommy."  Go with Birkenstocks....and be proud.

[elmore3003]

I'm thinking I need to purchase a new suit for the 9/18 McGlinn memorial.

[TCB]

DR TCB, such a shame there isn't more respect for the older generation.  In this case there really should be.

It is amazing, even to me, how far we have come in 40 years. I first went to a gay bar in 1969, before Stonewall and I still remember being warned by others that the police in town were taking down the license numbers of all the cars parked by the bar.

[DAW]

I just ride up at the front with the Dykes on Bikes.

[elmore3003]

I just ride up at the front with the Dykes on Bikes.

I wonder if they have time to change my tires or move a piano?

[bk]

Yes, the new radio show is up and running - it's fun, so give it a listen.  And, I reveal the next Kritzerland title.

[bk]

Back from the two-mile version of the jog - all I could do in this heat.

[bk]

I guess it's finally summer.

[elmore3003]

Okay, back to Moross and those ballades de Broadway!

[Cillaliz]

Happy Birthday Mark Bakalor~~~~~~~~~~~

[elmore3003]

I'm thinking I need to leave here around 6:30 to arrive on time for the performance at the York.

[DAW]

Yes, the new radio show is up and running - it's fun, so give it a listen. 

And bk does a mean Carol Channing impression!!!         

[Cillaliz]

My neighbor girls came to my house and rang the door bell this morning.  They came to say good bye.  I went over and said good bye to their parents.  I told them they better come to my house when they have to seel girl scout cookies or anything else at school.  I know I'll see them from time to time, but I am really going to miss them waving to me every day when I come home and greeting me every time I go outside.   

This is harder than I thought it was going to be.   

[Jane]

DR TCB, such a shame there isn't more respect for the older generation.  In this case there really should be.

It is amazing, even to me, how far we have come in 40 years. I first went to a gay bar in 1969, before Stonewall and I still remember being warned by others that the police in town were taking down the license numbers of all the cars parked by the bar.

That must have taken courage to stay.

[DAW]

I wonder if they have time to change my tires

That's a euphemism, right?         

[Cillaliz]

So I am cleaning my house to get my mind off of it.  kitchen is all cleaned and scrubbed, basement is vacuumed and picked up.  Mainfloor bathroom is done and I only have one more load of laundry to do.   guess I better get back to it. I still have a lot on my list

[Jane]

I watched Quantum of Solace last night.  As much as I like Daniel Craig, this may be the worst Bond film ever.  First of all the plot is almost indecipherable...very much dependent on knowing too many details from the last one.

If you are going to be a sequel and can't succinctly recap the info a viewer needs to know from the previous film in less than five or ten minutes to be able to enjoy the film, then don't do a sequel, do a film that is complete in itself and don't carry over crap from the last one that has no dramatic impact.

Characters appear and disappear so fast without much development or establishment, we don't really know who they are or why we should have any feeling about them at all. 

But worst of all the action, scenes are so choppy and kinetic that you cannot get any sense of perspective or know where you are or who just shot at who or who threw what punched or who jumped down from where.  An example: the film opens with  Bond in a black car being chased by villains in a black car.  The cutting is so quick, the cars have not been established, I couldn't tell who was who half the time.  So much of action throughout the film is in quick cuts and close-ups or such obivous CGI that you get no sense of spectacle at all anymore. 

And that was what was so great about the fights and chases and stunts in a Bond movie, there was a sense of spectacle and amazement and, it didn't happen at such a frenetic pace, that you could absorb it, take it all in, and enjoy.  You could revel in the details.  Not anymore.  It's assaultive and just wears me out.

And yet....it was well-reviewed and made a fortune.   Go  know!

I wish I had read a review suggesting we watch Casino again so we would know what was happening.  Who knew Solace wasn't based on the short story it was named for!

[Jane]

DR Cilla, HUGS!

[DAW]

The photos of DR George's cast party over on Facebook look pretty wild.          

[Laura]

I'm sad for you, Cillaliz. I understand how you feel.

[Matt H.]

TOD:

I think the reveal at the end of THE USUAL SUSPECTS is really terrific. And CHARADE has a marvelous one, too.

[TCB]

The last band that played did a real nice version of Chuck Mangione.  This new group is okay, but their female lead singer - not so good.

[Matt H.]

Yes, the new radio show is up and running - it's fun, so give it a listen. 

And bk does a mean Carol Channing impression!!!        

I'll be listening for that! My best friend Joh does the most hilarious Carol Channing impression I've ever heard. Makes me fall down laughing every time he does it.