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Happy 65th Birthday to You, Senior!

So March 20 is my birthday. I’m 65 today. Can you imagine a worse year to turn 65? I mean, it’s the increased-at-risk age for serious complications with Covid-19, so here I am, front and center! Yikes!

I think you have to laugh and shrug. And have some cake. Finally got Medicare, so there’s that, and that is a huge thing in our country. Even though I’ve worked all my life to get here, to cross this invisible finish line, so to speak — hope that soon it’s just standard for every citizen of the U.S. regardless of age or anything else. It’s way past time. It’s the right thing to do.

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With that, I’ll blow out the candles on my tiny cake in my shelter-in-place pod and hope for a great year — another book is coming, so stay tuned!

Author Jim Arnold, wearing fedora in his home office in sunny Southern California.
Author Jim Arnold in a fedora in his home office in Southern California.
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Covid-19, I am Ready for You

Thought I would post something novel-related (novel as in books, not as in virus) but the news of the day dictates otherwise. So, enjoy the photo of this writer’s preparations:

Ready for you coronavirus! Don’t come near me!
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Amtrak Southwest Chief Trip LAX – CHI and back again

Took Amtrak’s Southwest Chief (and the Hiawatha) to visit family in Milwaukee. Some pictures of the journey and my relatives for your viewing pleasure!

Mixed feelings about the trip – was great to celebrate the 4th and see my siblings and their families, also to partake in the summer celebrations in Milwaukee, the main reason I made this particular trip was to join them in burying our parents’ ashes at a cemetery just north of Milwaukee in Belgium, Wisconsin. So, something that needed to be done and a sense of finality with that. I think they would have liked the place we chose (my dad chose the cemetery after my mom died, but not the particular plot, that was left to us) and I think it’s a beautiful and peaceful spot.

Oh Amtrak! Unfortunately the trip home was delayed 16.5 hours because of a locomotive breakdown and then subsequent delays along the entire route. I did complain; I got a voucher to use on a future train trip (like that will be something I’ll do soon – not) but really coincidentally there’s this great story by Justin Fox in Bloomberg which I’ll link to which provides the context much better than I can. I really do enjoy the pace of train travel (it’s not only the Amish!) so I hope they can get their act together before it all goes down the tubes. I’d be very wary of taking one of these long hauls again (anything with a two night overnight, as all trains from the west coast to Chicago or New Orleans seem to be). Anyway, it’s good to be home!

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Ten Reasons to Get Over Your Jaded Self and Go to the Gay Pride Parade Anyway

The Blogger at Gay Pride Parade in West Hollywood, June 9, 2019
  • Because it’s the 50th Anniversary of Stonewall Riots (and you’ve been around for the whole damn thing)
  • Because Haters would just love the idea of the Gay Parade becoming passe
  • Because the powers that be would gleefully take it away from us, if they only could
  • Because of countries like Russia, Israel, Poland and many others which spark homophobic violence whenever they try to put on a Gay Parade
  • Because you Show Up and Represent – in this case, your own generation which is so diminished in numbers because of the Plague Years, and now just because of age years
  • Because a cute guy(s) might still cruise you (yes, it CAN and DID happen)
  • Because it’s rare you can find muscles, jockstraps, drag queens, marching bands, bagpipes, gay dads, Wells Fargo, Warner Brothers, rainbow-painted dogs and (my hero) Congressman Adam Schiff all in the same location
  • Because you never ever want to forget that sense of wonder and amazement that there was such a thing, that first Gay Pride Parade you attended on this very same street in 1981 before WeHo was even a City
  • Because you have rainbow bling (see rainbow ring necklace) which, if you can’t wear it on Gay Pride Day, when are you going to wear it?
  • Finally, because there’s nothing more annoying than a bitter old thing who can’t abide the joy for this special once-a-year-day. Just for today, that’s not me.
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Stephen Varble’s Gutter Art – Rear Opening

Do you keep discards, trash, ephemera, with an eye to what fabulous use (perhaps as an outfit or a statement) these things might possibly have in the future? Neither do I. Especially not this year, not after a bunch of successive Tuesdays Marie Kondo-ing my stuff.

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That pretty much ensures I won’t become another Stephen Varble. Good thing he already did it, and was the original. Anyway, this event on Saturday at One Gallery on Robertson in West Hollywood was a lot of fun, and educational and entertaining as well.

Here’s the copy from their own flier about the event:

“A cadre of performing artists who uniquely defy the status quo will deliver an appropriately inappropriate tribute to the genderqueer provocateur Stephen Varble. Thanks to Greg Day’s photographs and David J. Getsy’s research and curation, Stephen Varble’s legacy of disruption for the sake of art and creatively recycled street-trash couture lives on to inspire future generations. Performers include: Multimedia artist Jason Jenn, aka the Troubadour Trixter, conjures up a spirited homage as the ferociously festooned MC (Mistress unCeremonious). Yozmit, the internationally celebrated visual artist, avant-garde party-artist, and singer/songwriter will enthrall with some of her latest original songs. Enrique Jesus Hernandez, the latinx, performance rock artist and domestic abuse activist will deliver an expressive musical tribute.

“There will be a few more surreptitious surprises to will rock the gallery. Expect the unexpected, expect trashy looks to look good, expect bad taste to be in good taste, expect to be amused—just don’t expect too much. Gutter couture encouraged.”

I didn’t have much in the way of gutter couture to wear to the event, but I was gifted (at least temporarily) with a purple skirt I put on my head (pix) by Jason (Mistress unCeremonious). Much frivolity and fun was had by all. Stephen in the ether shone on.

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Real Stories of Older-Younger, Man to Man Sex 2: Nick

So Nick isn’t his real name, and that’s not really his photo, either. Needed something to make you look, did I not? Anyway, here’s another older-younger meet, and how I remember it.

Nick lives in a city in the same state as I do, a city I used to live in myself and that I often visit, though less so in the last couple of years. Hopefully, that will be rectified, and I can see Nick and others like him more often.

I’m not sure exactly which app I met Nick through, but I am sure it was internet-mediated. Absolutely did not meet on the street or in any other meet-cute sort of way. I’m somewhat sure it was daddyhunt (daddyhunt.com) and as I think I’ve stated elsewhere, even if I didn’t meet that many guys in sheer number from silverdaddies or daddyhunt, the quality of those I did meet with what I was looking for (and what they were looking for) was way more on target every single time than the all-ages focus of apps like Grindr and Scruff.

I was staying with a relative the first time I met Nick and although it was initially kind of embarrassing to let this straight woman know I had a (hopefully) sexual liaison planned. I got over it, though, and she was eminently cool about it though I detected some hesitation on her part about the difference in our ages. She got over that and I got over feeling slutty.

Anyway. I met Nick at a pre-arranged coffeeshop, late afternoon. It was raining, as is kind of normal for this city. We had the requisite coffee and donut or cookie. Nick was around 30, about my height (5-7, could have been taller but not by much), light brown or dark blond hair. Build substantial, not fat, more like corn fed very healthy type of composition. He was charming and enthusiastic, maybe just a touch unsure of himself, which to me made him even more desirable, at least in the moment.

We both knew that this was most likely not an ongoing romance, but we did want to have sex, and neither of us had a place where we could host (he lived with roommates; I was staying in my relative’s living room with her cat), but Nick was resourceful. He knew of a place fairly close by that rented jacuzzi rooms by the hour.
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A short bus ride (yes, we took a city bus together to our tryst) away, this love location was an all-orientation business. In the individual rooms, there was not only your very own jacuzzi, but a full size bed (actually, I think it was an air mattress but a very substantial one with a high base), and a shower. In the cool and rainy weather the room was also heated appropriately so it was perfectly comfortable to get naked — which we did.

Can I tell you how much I do love having sex in a water environment? Because I do; because of residual effects from prostate cancer, the inevitable tiny leaks I experience when having sexual activity upright were just frankly not noticeable. Which I appreciate.

So most of the action between Nick and I occurred in the jacuzzi, and it was consummated, you might say, on the bed. We didn’t take longer than our hour, but we did make the most of it. There even was time for some cuddling and spooning and pillow talk. Nick had (has!) a large penis and did not seem to realize this much (or, at least, at this stage in our interactions, he did not say anything to emphasize this) which was a bit of a surprise. Obviously, it was an extra added attraction to the jacuzzi room.

We kept in touch via the Internet and still do. It’s great to see some of the younger guys I’ve known this way finish schooling and start careers (the case with Nick). We’ve gotten together since that initial time and probably will again, if I can make a visit and we can time it right. By now he’s had more experience with men and knows his size is something, let’s say, above average, and has told me thus and how he wants to use it to more effect with me. I say go for it. I’d like that.

 

 

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Every Day Was Hat Day

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Raising Speed Limits a Disaster for Anyone Not in a Car

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-speed-limits-20181129-story.html

Lit up like a Xmas tree with the blogger

Really dismayed to see this story in today’s Los Angeles Times. Chandler Boulevard, around the block from where I live, is a major bike route — the initial or final leg (depending on which way you’re going) to the Orange Line Bike Path, which is not separated from city streets between Coldwater Canyon and the North Hollywood Metro Station.
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Drivers already use this stretch of Chandler as a freeway or even a dragstrip. The speed limit near my house is 40 mph. I’ve often thought there’s little chance I’d survive getting hit by a car going 40-45 mph as I cycle in the bike lane. This street also borders NoHo High School which hundreds of kids cross every school day. How is this good for them?

Raising speed limits so the police can issue more speeding tickets seems like a really dumb idea. At what price – to everyone? What they need to do is build totally separated bike lanes on this road. Either that or I’m riding on the sidewalk now (which is, btw, legal to do in the city of Los Angeles).

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Real Stories of Older-Younger, Man to Man Sex 1: Josh

Hopefully that title got your attention!

The various posts on this blog pertaining to the idea of older-younger gay couplings are the most popular. I haven’t written one in a while, so I thought I’d talk about one of my own experiences — with more to come in subsequent posts.

First, let’s call him Josh. This is how we met.

I’ve had profiles on two websites – silverdaddies.com and daddyhunt.com, off and on, for quite awhile (though not currently as of this writing, 11/27/18) and generally think they’re not that effective – the main reason being their niche audience and international reach. In other words, yes, there are lots of gay men who would like someone older or younger to be with when you take it on a macro level, say countrywide or worldwide, but maybe not so many in any particular locality (big cities are always, always better though).

That said, the quality of the men I’ve met on both those sites has been spectacular, if compatible partners have been few and far between. When it worked, it was fireworks. The reason for this? From my point of view as the older man, it’s because the younger men on these two sites are sincere about their desires to be with someone older – it’s the main reason for being there. It’s not just some added aspect of a potential date, like it might be (the age factor) on hook-up sites like Scruff or even Grindr (which skews younger anyway). So – with Josh, I think it was silverdaddies.com.

So, again, on how we met: I was searching the site for younger guys in my area who wanted to meet older guys. Josh had created a profile saying he was very attracted to men 20 – 30 years older than he was and wanted to meet someone for an experience, to see what that was like. I believe he was 24 or 25 at the time. I was in my mid-50s (this happened several years ago).

He included a photo and of course, he was adorable, as the majority of 24-25 year olds likely are. Handsome, dark hair, olive skin, solid. I wrote back, saying I enjoyed being with younger guys and could provide that “experience” should he so desire it from me.

After the usual back-and-forth messages via email, we agreed to meet for coffee. I don’t like inviting strangers over nor do I like showing up at a stranger’s house sight unseen (in Josh’s case, I believe he was living with his mother at the time) because it’s not safe or pleasant to do that. I realize, especially with the growth of the apps, that guys do this all the time now but I still  haven’t been able to get my head around it. Wrong generation I guess. Thus: Starbucks, or coffee chain of your choice, perfect for this kind of encounter.

Bonus points to my heart: Josh showed up on time. We got our coffees and I suggested a walk around the San Fernando Valley neighborhood we were in, as this particular coffee joint didn’t lend itself to private conversation.

He told me his story, or part of it: He was bisexual, pretty much inexperienced with guys, had what he called a “compulsion” for older men (his words: “older middle-aged men”) every once in a while that was this desire he could not explain. I told him that from where I sit it’s pretty common, or at least I’d heard this quite often from other guys his age. We didn’t have a long meeting – I just told him I thought he was quite attractive and I’d be able to provide this “older man experience” he was looking for and he should think about it. And we could make a date, if he wanted.
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Probably the next day I got a message from him saying that indeed he did want to make that date. It would be at my house, and he agreed to the day and time – a weeknight, early evening.

I was nervous, of course. Josh showed up on time, came in and sat next to me on the couch. I asked him if I could touch him (consent!) and he said yes. Before I knew it we were kissing, and he took my hand and put it over his hardened cock (still in his pants) telling me that “it got hard as soon as I got out of the car.”

Yay. We ended up in my bed, naked. He had some tattoos, which I wanted to look at and know the stories behind, but he told me: “I don’t like to talk about my tattoos.” Alrighty then.

I gave Josh the best blowjob I could for that day and time (in other words, stellar). I don’t remember if he returned the favor, almost certainly not to completion as this is way more complicated with someone who has had prostate surgery and has no cum (ahem, yours truly).

Whatever, delightful, and after the sex part, pillow talk. What one older guy and younger guy have to talk about — jobs, living situations, aspirations, that sort of thing. I felt that he tried to project a self-assurance that was not completely formed, if that makes any sense. I wanted to say “just be yourself, it is enough” but didn’t, as I thought it might be too intimate for that kind of moment – and I wanted him to come back again.

He did. Josh and I met several times that year, he wanting my ass more than anything which I finally did feel like giving up to him one night. He looked down at me while he was fucking me and said, apropos of nothing, “you’re going to sleep very well tonight.” He was right. I did.

I suspect that eventually, he got tired of my insistence that we make dates, that I wasn’t too fond of spontaneity, especially at my age and extra-especially for bottoming. There being the huge difference in our ages: I just didn’t have the same libido Josh did. Eventually, he met another older guy at a sex club (who he told me about) and said he really was only interested in this other guy. By the way, he also was able to drop the bisexual label by then and thought of himself as gay.

We’ve lost touch. He was beautiful and he was sweet, and I loved how he made me feel. I’m glad I was able to deliver on that “older man experience” for him. I would have preferred it lasted a bit longer, but it was what it was.

 

 

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Living in the “Mad Men” Kitchen

Sometimes you realize that you’re living inside the TV more than you ever thought possible. At least this was my realization last winter when I spent February in Milwaukee helping out my dad. He still lives in the 1949 Midcentury house he bought with my mother in 1988, so for 30 years now. As you can see, they never really updated their 1950s kitchen. As a fan of “Mad Men,” I came to realize that my father is basically living in Betty Draper’s kitchen in their fictitious house in the NY burbs of Ossining, New York.

Just a few fun photos for you to make that connection. That is all.
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