Of course, you can never totally "replace" someone in a show cast. Hopefully not, any way. There will always be differences between talent. That's one of the things that gives live theater life. I pray for y'all that when you enter one of my most sacred precincts - the live theater - that the performance you see will not be a total duplicate of a performance done before nor ever be duplicated in toto by any other performance, whether you see it or not.
I knew that next week I would be rehearsing an actress into a role in our flagship production for next Friday evening.
This afternoon I found out that I will also be rehearsing an actor in a role in a show whose next performance is a week from Monday. Assuming that I will find another actor to replace him in time. Which I will, of course, but casting is very often a daunting project for me. And even when it goes well, more a question of a week's work than a weekend's.
Pray for me, please.
Friday, July 30, 2010
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Target Problems
If there is a boycott of Target stores, Mav and I are in an oddly bad position.
We clean the halls of a condo building which is close to a Target. The condos do not have any public bathrooms. Nor any janitor's closets with any running water in them. When we need to potty during our work there, we have to go somewhere and so far it's been Target. Which leads to us shopping for some thngs there fairly regularly, to justify our using their restrooms. I can see guilt over boycotting them, should I decide to do so, keeping me out of their bathroom.
The only other public restroom near the job site is a Jack in the Box, and I've always thought that they were more particular about only customers using their restrooms.
Hmmm.
We clean the halls of a condo building which is close to a Target. The condos do not have any public bathrooms. Nor any janitor's closets with any running water in them. When we need to potty during our work there, we have to go somewhere and so far it's been Target. Which leads to us shopping for some thngs there fairly regularly, to justify our using their restrooms. I can see guilt over boycotting them, should I decide to do so, keeping me out of their bathroom.
The only other public restroom near the job site is a Jack in the Box, and I've always thought that they were more particular about only customers using their restrooms.
Hmmm.
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Wizard
When we visited family on that last trip, one of my great-nephews introduced me to this game, http://www.wizard101.com/ , my first online rpg. I love it so much so far that Mav has started trying to help me with my 'addicition' to it. So, I willingly gave myself office hours again. I know that my job will blouse out around them, and that when Mav takes a nap I label it coffee break time (tea for me, actually) and get to play for a half hour, but my soft aim is to not play it between 10:00ish and afternoon tea time (4:30 for me). (You know, I don't think I've ever been to high tea?)
Moral here for everyone: If you are self employed, respect yourself and your own pleasure and health enough to have certain hours each day that you are not working, and one full day off a week. That's as a habitual thing. I know it won't always happen. But, as Picard might say, Make It So!
And Julia Cameron, in The Artist's Way, is in favor of us all taking Artist's Dates, one a week. That's when you put yourself on the calendar, and then have a date with yourself doing whatever you know will please you, hopefully away from any ingrained habits most of the time. Charge up by changing the oil, as it were.
Moral here for everyone: If you are self employed, respect yourself and your own pleasure and health enough to have certain hours each day that you are not working, and one full day off a week. That's as a habitual thing. I know it won't always happen. But, as Picard might say, Make It So!
And Julia Cameron, in The Artist's Way, is in favor of us all taking Artist's Dates, one a week. That's when you put yourself on the calendar, and then have a date with yourself doing whatever you know will please you, hopefully away from any ingrained habits most of the time. Charge up by changing the oil, as it were.
Monday, July 26, 2010
To Read Or Not To Read ...
So, what got me onto thinking about "improper thoughts" the other day was that a while back I found a blog site that was about this guy who was really into being the only naked man in the room, and being subservient most of the time to groups of strangers. It was, uh, very interesting. OK, it was one handing reading for me. Somehow I found it from a specific posting and kept playing around without really checking out the most recent material. When I did, it turned out that he had closed the blog as he was trying to give up that life style and get it together with a regular husby. But though I didn't find any later material, the blog was still open. Did he not know how to close it? Would it always be there, like we hear that anything you put on the internet will be? What? And - Should I still play around on that site remembering that when he posted it it was a good thing to him, or honor his evident wishes and delete it from my "favorites"? I wound up deleting it for reasons explained the other day. So while it would perhaps apply to my current topic, CMNM, I wouldn't have been comfortable recommending it to y'all, and can't any more, any way. lol
Friday, July 23, 2010
Improper Thoughts
It's perfectly OK to do things with other people in our minds so long as we are reasonably sure that these are actions that that person would agree to in person. Otherwise, no. It not only sends some unwelcome sex energy to that person, but its attachment to you turns into a drain on your own energy. A phrase I find handy is, " Him or someone like him." I also apply this to fantasizing with pictures of naked men not associated with Leather. If I want to Leather fantasize about them, I try to remember to apply the same phrase.
Why is porn about young hetero men who are only pretending to be gay for pay? Why is Leather porn about people forced into being the bottom - actually forced, not pretend forced? And, of course, why is porn that combines the two of those?
Better to do as Body Electric suggests and take your own pictures of yourself and become your own porn.
This also gets some of that "Madison Ave." type teaching - that you are not sexually attractive if you aren't young, six packed and hung enough to cause a back ache - out of your head.
Hurray for the Bears!!
Why is porn about young hetero men who are only pretending to be gay for pay? Why is Leather porn about people forced into being the bottom - actually forced, not pretend forced? And, of course, why is porn that combines the two of those?
Better to do as Body Electric suggests and take your own pictures of yourself and become your own porn.
This also gets some of that "Madison Ave." type teaching - that you are not sexually attractive if you aren't young, six packed and hung enough to cause a back ache - out of your head.
Hurray for the Bears!!
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Reading Deprivation
I'm taking a course - The Artist's Way. I've done it a couple of times before but this is the first time I've done it with a group. So, it doesn't really surprise me what they're asking for this week, but I hadn't peeked ahead so it did take me by surprise that it was this week. I'm not supposed to read anything that isn't absolutely essential. So I won't be reading my favorite blogs. I won't be researching CMNM. Etc.
However, they did say that though I can't read I can write. So, I'll still be right here. And if anyone wants to get me, I'll consider comments posted on this blog as being essential.
I'm also going to let myself do my morning sudoku and my computer game, probably. Not essential, but not really written either. So to speak. lol ... And watching TV, I think.
I haven't read what the book says about this yet, how it defines it, so a little of all that might change.
However, they did say that though I can't read I can write. So, I'll still be right here. And if anyone wants to get me, I'll consider comments posted on this blog as being essential.
I'm also going to let myself do my morning sudoku and my computer game, probably. Not essential, but not really written either. So to speak. lol ... And watching TV, I think.
I haven't read what the book says about this yet, how it defines it, so a little of all that might change.
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Long Time Survivor
I was going to blog about Improper Thoughts (a natural consequence of my search for info on CMNM) today, but now it seems more important to say this:
Maverick is a long time survivor. He has had AIDS for more that 22 years now. It can be controlled, lived with, and nearly ignored most of the time. We both are very proud of this fact.
I often think that he is safer than I am what with all of those meds flowing through him helping him fight infections all the time. Like, I have taken to trying to avoid drinking out of public water fountains myself but, even the controlling bitch - oh, erm, Master (lol) - that I can be, I don't fuss at him to avoid them, too.
This comes partly from a time about 20 years ago when I found out that two friends of mine had AIDS and I asked them not to kiss me that night. One got upset and reminded me that it can't be passed with a kiss. I explained that I had a cold and didn't want to give them something potentially dangerous like an active germ. He laughed and explained to me that his meds were quite capable of protecting him from a cold like mine. So we frenched. Happy times.
In fact, Mav has basically promised me that I get to die first this time and he'll spread my ashes on Pikes Peak for me.
Maverick is a long time survivor. He has had AIDS for more that 22 years now. It can be controlled, lived with, and nearly ignored most of the time. We both are very proud of this fact.
I often think that he is safer than I am what with all of those meds flowing through him helping him fight infections all the time. Like, I have taken to trying to avoid drinking out of public water fountains myself but, even the controlling bitch - oh, erm, Master (lol) - that I can be, I don't fuss at him to avoid them, too.
This comes partly from a time about 20 years ago when I found out that two friends of mine had AIDS and I asked them not to kiss me that night. One got upset and reminded me that it can't be passed with a kiss. I explained that I had a cold and didn't want to give them something potentially dangerous like an active germ. He laughed and explained to me that his meds were quite capable of protecting him from a cold like mine. So we frenched. Happy times.
In fact, Mav has basically promised me that I get to die first this time and he'll spread my ashes on Pikes Peak for me.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
College Parties Site
I saw a mention of something very interesting on Aussielicious, http://www.aussielicious.com.au/ , this morning - Colthed Male Naked Male. He says that its all over the web, but I hadn't seen anything about it so I went looking. I found this site about college boi sex parties. It distracted me well enough that it took me a while to realize that it's all a shill come-on for a site that sells streaming videos. Or so I think. Not sure yet, have to look at more I suppose. That site is http://www.gaycollegesexpartiesblog/ .com . Now it may seem a little out of place to mention it here but when you think about how many male saints had really wild times when they were young, and then did what they called reforming. Considering that sex is a beautiful gift from God meant to be shared, was their "reformation" a good thing or really a turning away from living a full and bounteous life? Discuss among yourselves. (Or leave me a comment!)
Anyway, I found this nice picture there of a young man, and now that I know this is a shill site I feel even more confident that he is at least over 21 if not really 26, I offer it to you here. As those of you who have been rereading the past of this blog probably know (and, boy, does that seem to be a common habit for people who find me here! lol), I am turned onto cocks that show their subservience by being fully shaved.
Which I don't think has anything to do with CMNM, but, then, I don't think that the blogger on the parties blog knows what this phenomenon is, yet, either. But I will! (I hope.)
I also feel fairly confident that while some of the most trendy people in Houston may be doing this already - and that I don't know them, unfortunately - that most of the city will be catching up with it later than I do, so I might have some fun introducing them to it, eh?
Oh, Dang! Now! I realize that the picture didn't come through in a supported format. Whah! Well, you can certainly see where my mind was at the time... LOL! So, here is another of my favorites from past posts.
Anyway, I found this nice picture there of a young man, and now that I know this is a shill site I feel even more confident that he is at least over 21 if not really 26, I offer it to you here. As those of you who have been rereading the past of this blog probably know (and, boy, does that seem to be a common habit for people who find me here! lol), I am turned onto cocks that show their subservience by being fully shaved.
Which I don't think has anything to do with CMNM, but, then, I don't think that the blogger on the parties blog knows what this phenomenon is, yet, either. But I will! (I hope.)
Oh, Dang! Now! I realize that the picture didn't come through in a supported format. Whah! Well, you can certainly see where my mind was at the time... LOL! So, here is another of my favorites from past posts.
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Saley by Vaughn
While I like the implied permission of just leaving a photo open, this page is really class in my book by saying how many photos one may "borrow", how it needs to be credited, etc. They, in effect, admit that they would really like these pics (more on their site, but this was the only great smile there, and you know me) to go viral, but only if it helps people find them. Great!
This is a photo of Arthur Sales by photographer Greg Vaughn. To go to the original, and I really suggest that you do, hit this - http://madeinbrazil.typepad.com/madeinbrazil/2010/07/exclusively-at-made-in-brazil-arthur-sales-by-greg-vaughan-part-i.html .
This is a photo of Arthur Sales by photographer Greg Vaughn. To go to the original, and I really suggest that you do, hit this - http://madeinbrazil.typepad.com/madeinbrazil/2010/07/exclusively-at-made-in-brazil-arthur-sales-by-greg-vaughan-part-i.html .
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Bullying Muscles and Welcome, Ravel
In a comment on one of my entries a couple three months ago, newcomer Ravel notes that he doesn't get bullied any more since he's gotten tall. And that it's not easy to conceptualize that a tall, muscularly handsome model ever got bullied. - You know me and accuracy. I may be really badly paraphrasing here.
Also, I tried to answer him with another comment, but it doesn't seem to have gone through. - Well, you know me and computers. LOL
And I needed something to talk about today, other than how well my latest Zoo Tycoon game and my new character on http://www.wizards101.com/ are going. Heheheh.
So, if I repeat myself, the usual apologies.
So, tall and handsome, Ravel, welcome aboard!! Always to hear from a new voice. (And if you're over 21 and would like to, send me a photo to put up. We Body Electric types believe in becoming your own porn, so to speak.)
Remember, that model didn't have that muscle in elementary school. Nobody has that kind of muscle in elementary school. The human body just doesn't do that at that young an age, I don't think. If so, that manly bloom has been forced. (Talking muscle here, not rape.) Which would make him different enough that he would be bullied about it. So, maybe he did get bullied, and maybe, even, he started building himself that great body so that it would stop. lol, but true.
Shocking but true - one morning in Sunday school, I asked for anyone to raise their hands if they had been bullied in the past. There was only one person who didn't raise their hand, leaving us with around 93% who had. And that other person - me - was a bit oblivious at that age to a lot of things. LOL, but true.
And developed, by High School, into a chubby egghead who hung with the jocks, not that any of them ever called me that that I recall.
Also, I tried to answer him with another comment, but it doesn't seem to have gone through. - Well, you know me and computers. LOL
And I needed something to talk about today, other than how well my latest Zoo Tycoon game and my new character on http://www.wizards101.com/ are going. Heheheh.
So, if I repeat myself, the usual apologies.
So, tall and handsome, Ravel, welcome aboard!! Always to hear from a new voice. (And if you're over 21 and would like to, send me a photo to put up. We Body Electric types believe in becoming your own porn, so to speak.)
Remember, that model didn't have that muscle in elementary school. Nobody has that kind of muscle in elementary school. The human body just doesn't do that at that young an age, I don't think. If so, that manly bloom has been forced. (Talking muscle here, not rape.) Which would make him different enough that he would be bullied about it. So, maybe he did get bullied, and maybe, even, he started building himself that great body so that it would stop. lol, but true.
Shocking but true - one morning in Sunday school, I asked for anyone to raise their hands if they had been bullied in the past. There was only one person who didn't raise their hand, leaving us with around 93% who had. And that other person - me - was a bit oblivious at that age to a lot of things. LOL, but true.
And developed, by High School, into a chubby egghead who hung with the jocks, not that any of them ever called me that that I recall.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Enlarge Your Penis
As a part of that interview I mentioned quickly yesterday, the Tantric Yogi claims that you can add up to an inch to your penis from practicing Tantra. Just my luck, he means when it's hard. He's talking about enlarging the cells that hold the blood when you're up. I am quite satisfied with my length hard. It's just that I wish that I had more when I'm soft.
And a good, erotic Tantric Massage is a lot like "edging." I do very good tantric work, and can combine it with Swedish moves, if you feel a need to bail out and not experience the whole thing. Of course, then, you don't get the entire experience, but your muscle soreness is addressed more directly. Trade offs, but ones which move you away from the spiritual side of the event. And deny you the pleasures of male multiple orgasms. (Ususally we refer to it as Taoist erotic massage, but it is closely derived from Tantric teachings, from what I understand.)
I'm not trained enough in the Tantric philosophy to start teaching that yet. But I hope to start taking classes in it this Fall in Austin from Body Electric.
And a good, erotic Tantric Massage is a lot like "edging." I do very good tantric work, and can combine it with Swedish moves, if you feel a need to bail out and not experience the whole thing. Of course, then, you don't get the entire experience, but your muscle soreness is addressed more directly. Trade offs, but ones which move you away from the spiritual side of the event. And deny you the pleasures of male multiple orgasms. (Ususally we refer to it as Taoist erotic massage, but it is closely derived from Tantric teachings, from what I understand.)
I'm not trained enough in the Tantric philosophy to start teaching that yet. But I hope to start taking classes in it this Fall in Austin from Body Electric.
Monday, July 12, 2010
Aussie Tantra
There is a good write up about Tantra on Aussielicious today. http://www.aussielicious.com.au/
Military Poll
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Poll
1st - I'd like to start up a blog that my family can see and I don't want them to link from there to here. Sooo, I don't want to put it on Blogger. Call me timid. It's all right. Where to you think I should find a home for the second blog. It needs to be free.
2nd - I think that the only two pictures of me on my computer are one as Santa Claus and one as a leather Master. I think it's about fucking time that I get over not having a digital camera and post a picture of me. Mainly, I think, because I have been seeing that as a necessity to starting to follow other people's blogs. Which one would you rather, if you have a preference, Santa or Daddy Blade?
2nd - I think that the only two pictures of me on my computer are one as Santa Claus and one as a leather Master. I think it's about fucking time that I get over not having a digital camera and post a picture of me. Mainly, I think, because I have been seeing that as a necessity to starting to follow other people's blogs. Which one would you rather, if you have a preference, Santa or Daddy Blade?
Saturday, July 10, 2010
I'm back again!
Maverick and I just got back from a most wonderful vacation in upstate NY, at a family reunion. Believe me, we had a great time and would not have had any time for non-family members this trip.
We did get down into the city for a half day at the Bronx Zoo.
Mav wouldn't let me tell y'all that we were going beforehand. He was afraid that you wouldn't believe that our home was being guarded by Rent A Rottwieler and I might be setting us up for a home invasion/robbery. Ah, well, dear friends, please forgive me for just up and vanishing for a week.
BTW, my church, Resurrection MCC is having a 12 week course on the book The Artist's Way. Wednesdays at 7:00. You've already missed two classes, but then, so have I. lol
We did get down into the city for a half day at the Bronx Zoo.
Mav wouldn't let me tell y'all that we were going beforehand. He was afraid that you wouldn't believe that our home was being guarded by Rent A Rottwieler and I might be setting us up for a home invasion/robbery. Ah, well, dear friends, please forgive me for just up and vanishing for a week.
BTW, my church, Resurrection MCC is having a 12 week course on the book The Artist's Way. Wednesdays at 7:00. You've already missed two classes, but then, so have I. lol
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