“It’s fun sitting on sequins, isn’t it?” ~ Barbra Streisand
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2024
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2024
Mystery Tracks in the Snow
Andy had seen a fox in the backyard, spending a meaningful moment with it as it sat on the patio surrounding itself with its furry tail. Paths in the snow revealed a series of visits throughout our backyard, mostly nocturnal, and not only of foxes. Squirrels and rabbits make regular visits, often during the day. But the fox holds a special place in my heart, having been a totem animal for me at various times. (And ‘Foxy Lady’ is the song that Andy assigned to me when we first met, because there are no accidents in the universe.)
Our front yard provides easier access for a wider variety of animals – everything from pheasants (our street’s namesake) to turkeys to deer – and whatever these paw prints might be. A neighbor’s cat, perhaps, or maybe something more interesting. Regardless, the mystery of visitors in the night remains to be solved, and I’m content if it stays a mystery, lost to the wilds of the weather. Footprints in the snow won’t last forever.
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2024
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Dazzler of the Day: R. K. Russell
I love a Dazzler of the Day who has so many accomplishments that they’ve already been encapsulated on another website, which is the case with today’s Dazzler R. K. Russell. As they used to say on ‘Reading Rainbow‘, you don’t have to take my word for it. The following is from Russell’s website here:
R. K. Russell is a former NFL football player, a social justice advocate, published poet, essayist, and artist. In August of 2019, Russell made history by becoming the first out active NFL player to identify as bisexual. A decorated defensive end who has played for the Dallas Cowboys and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, he has sacked Hall of Famers and gone up against the fiercest competitors at the height of their game.
Since coming out, he has written about his experience as a Black queer man in sports for The New York Times, The Guardian, The Los Angeles Times, Out Magazine, and Queer Majority, among others. Russell has been advocating for the LGBTQ+ community in professional sports, spearheading multiple NFL Pride initiatives such as the NFL Pride panel and the NFL’s National Coming Out Day PSA. He has been honored by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) by GAY TIMES (U.K.) as Sportsperson of the Year, and he was selected to the prestigious OUT 100 List in 2019. His short documentary, Finding Free, was nominated for best short documentary at the 43rd Annual Sports Emmys and won awards at the 2022 Webby Awards, the 60th New York Film Festival, and the 43rd Annual Telly Awards. His new memoir, The Yards Between Us, is available everywhere books are sold. He lives in Los Angeles.
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January
2024
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2024
Pages of Hope & Inspiration
Every year around this time the plant and seed catalogs start arriving like lifesavers, thrown out from the garden-planning gods to those of us struggling through winter, no matter how benign or nasty. Mom recently received the Burpee’s catalog, but since she gets most of her seeds locally, she let me take it and peruse the colorful photos and pages. I’m not big on seeds – our short growing season in Zone 4/5/6a allows for limited options, particularly regarding vegetables and fruit – so if I’m doing any of that I simply go out and purchase starter plants which have already been hardened off. Saves time and effort (and an elaborate seed-starting set-up), and worth the extra bit of money. It also allows for a more precise number of plants – with seeds I tend to either get feast or famine, with hundreds of seedlings or none at all.
These catalogs, coming as they do when many of us are garden-hungry (well, starving), are mostly just inspirational guides for me. Occasionally, for more rare plants, I will order a seed packet and try it out, but I’ve had much success. I only bother with direct sowing anyway, and maybe that’s my problem. My Mom can work wonders with seeds, as could my Dad when he was alive. Perhaps this year I will learn some patience and try again.
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January
2024
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Dazzler of the Day: Brock Grady
Sometimes all it takes to be named Dazzler of the Day is a certain degree of beauty.
Sometimes beauty is its own point, its own purpose.
Brock Grady possesses such beauty, and from all appearances seems like an overall good guy. More than ample reason to celebrate his power to dazzle.
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2024
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Gay Art Then, Gay Art Now
From the magnificent artwork of J.C. Leyendecker through to the gay pastiche of Ariana Grande’s latest song and video for ‘…yes, and?’ (with references and knowing nods to Madonna’s ‘Vogue’ and Paula Abdul‘s ‘Cold Hearted’) these not-so-hallowed electronic portals have been providing gay artistic fodder at all levels of such content. It may feel like blasphemy to place Grande aside such an artist as Leyendecker, but there is room for all styles and situations here, and I have no tolerance for anyone being snobby about it.
The world wants to put everything and everyone into their own category and label. I’m all for the obliteration of such dividers, and the elimination of the hierarchical organization of art, and the way it’s critically received and graded. Too often we deny something value if it becomes incredibly popular, as if being wildly popular somehow detracts from its worth. Stuff and nonsense, and silly at its very heart.
Like what you like and love what you love. You do you.
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January
2024
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Dazzler of the Day: Colman Domingo, Again
Actor, director and writer Colman Domingo earns his second Dazzler of the Day thanks to his multifaceted arsenal of talent both behind and in front of the camera. With turns on stage that resulted in Tony and Laurence Olivier Awards, and television work that garnered him an Emmy Award, Domingo also appeared memorably in films such as ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’, ‘Selma’ and ‘Lincoln’. See his first crowning as Dazzler of the Day here.
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January
2024
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2024
#TinyThreads: An Insignificant Series
Market still-life: does this Bud have abandonment issues, being left behind in the hommus section with some flashy fontina cheese?
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2024
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2024
Pretty Men Missing Their Shirts
This nasty spell of frigid weather can only be broken by the heat from a shirtless post like this. Glen Powell leads things off, fresh from his naked exhibition of this post, and then this one. A bonus shot follows below for all the Powell fans, of which there are a considerable number.
Giving off his own heat is Jeremy Allen White, whose recent Calvin Klein underwear ads have captured the notice of gay blogs the world over, as seen in additional gay-friendly posts such as this.
Baring a bit of his backside, Adam Peaty gives hints of Olympic glory, sowing the seeds for this summer’s Olympic Games in Paris, France.
No stranger to gratuitously shirtless posts here, Taylor Zakhar Perez does what he does in such fine fashion that he’s doing it all over again.
Billy Reilich has maintained his buff garden body. Who knew gardening could do that to a physique? (And why hasn’t it done anything to mine?)
A favorite of these parts, and in sexy gay blog posts like this and this and this, Chris Salvatore looks resplendent in Bossy red pants, as he does totally naked as seen here.
Technically it’s not a shirtless shot, and if you’re looking for Nick Jonas in shirtless form, check out this post. (And this one without pants.)
Liam Payne closes out this shirtless male celebrity post, reminding of his underwear turn here.
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January
2024
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Dazzler of the Day: Robbie Manson
Olympic rower Robbie Manson provides scintillating fodder on his OnlyFans account, a method of money-making that many an Olympic athlete has fortuitously indulged in over the past year. Happy to see an acceptance of healthy sexual expression becoming more mainstream (and a tad regretful that it wasn’t around when my body was way more OnlyFans-ready). In this case, Manson earns his first Dazzler of the Day crowning for all that he’s been showing off, starting with that incredible talent.
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January
2024
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2024
Bringing Heat to a Frigid Recap
Bear Grylls supplies the heat for this frigid Monday morning awfulness (and scroll through it all for some shirtless Zac Efron too). We are one month done with winter – about one-third of the way through the terrible season, and floating along in a mode of survival and not much else. Hunkering down, I lower my head against the wind, and offer you this weekly recap in the hopes that another winter week passes quickly and uneventfully. Stay warm, friends.
Glowing review of Madonna’s Celebration Tour as it hit Boston.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson walked so Jeremy Allen White could run – both in their CK underwear.
Oscar Wilde is almost always accurate.
Even more Jeremy Allen White bulging in his underwear.
An old acquaintance, not forgot.
There is always a cup of iced coffee in this space.
The day the curtains came down.
I swear, I did not say this at work. Yet.
Practicing this makes for peace.
Missing summer in a very naked way.
Dazzlers of the Day included such luminaries as Jonathan Bailey, Noah J. Ricketts, Paul Giamatti, Steven Romo, Sam Cushing, Bear Grylls and Ayo Edebiri.
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January
2024
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Dazzler of the Day: Ayo Edebiri
Hailing from Boston, Massachusetts, Ayo Edebiri recently earned the trifecta of Emmy, Golden Globe, and Critics Choice Award in the span of a single week. That’s impressive for an entire lifetime of achievements, and this actress and writer has already set herself up for further glory to come. She may add Dazzler of the Day to those accomplishments, for whatever little might that may be worth. Watch her star rise…
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January
2024
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2024
#TinyThreads: An Insignificant Series
I miss summer.
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.” ~
