Relationships and Tyrants

So, last night I got drunk enough to reveal to a roomful of girls that the last man I almost dated reminded me of the late Ugandan dictator Idi Amin...

It's a long story, but here's a brief run-through. About a year ago, somewhere around the time I started writing this blog actually, I started hanging out with this guy and we got to a point where we were talking about maybe trying out having some kind of a relationship. It must have been one of those times I go through every once in a while where I'm frustrated and looking for some kind of a father figure (I'm sure a lot of young gay guys go through this). Me and this guy had a few things in common, mainly, we were both writers and we were both into leather. He was in his 30s, black, very hot (didn't really look anything like Amin). One of the problems though, which ended up being too hard to reconcile, was that we were both dom tops.

Anyway, we were hanging out at his place one night, making out, cuddling, that kind of sentimental thing I don't usually go into detail on here with. It was all going great until he decides to put on a movie and picks The Last King of Scotland, which is possibly the most violent and politically disturbing films about a homoerotic, almost pederastic relationship I've ever seen - and I know my queer film history! But women have told me (I learned last night) that they didn't read anything homoerotic into the film, so maybe it was all in my head.

Needless to say, it was a sign that things weren't going to work out, and that's another story I don't feel like writing about. But at least now I can associate the failures of my romantic life with the saga of post-colonialism...

Bashing

Waking Up
Gay American Heroes Foundation
Towleroad

Robert Van Damme and Coby Mitchele

Private Party: The Mystery Begins (RVD Productions)

Robert Van Damme
Queer Me Now: Robert Van Damme In Private Party: The Mystery Begins

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U.S. President George W. Bush re-enters the White House East room to say goodbye to staff and friends after his primetime address in Washington, January 15, 2009. Bush on Thursday defended his actions to avert a collapse of the financial system and protect America from another terrorist attack as he mounted a farewell bid to polish his troubled legacy. REUTERS/Jason Reed (UNITED STATES)

THE PRESIDENT: …I don’t see how I can get back home in Texas and look in the mirror and be proud of what I see if I allowed the loud voices, the loud critics, to prevent me from doing what I thought was necessary to protect this country.

NY Times: Errol Morris: Mirror, Mirror On The Wall

Cash Slaves and the Recession Market

With the economy in its current state, it's been a while (almost since around the time I started this blog) since I've heard from any men begging to submit as cash slaves. But recently, I heard from this guy who's seen one of my profiles and he was practically begging to worship with his wallet. Naturally, the amount he offered me seemed too high to be real so I figured he was just cybering. He asked me to send a picture of myself looking dom and in exchange he would send the money. I expect so little from the internet these days that I was sure there'd be no response, so I sent him a pretty innocent pic of myself fully-clothed (it counted as a dom pic cause I was wearing my steel-toe boots...) And to my surprise, he deposited money to my PayPal account right away.

Now he's been IMing me almost every night, and says he's eager to serve more. The whole cashslave mentality is something I can't figure out. Maybe it's because I'm a broke fucking college student who's worried about finding a job in the new recession. But that same reason is more incentive to play into the system, as a cashMaster. After all, it'd be nice to have an extra $500 (his next offer) in my savings. Of course this could end up being the time he flakes out and disappears. Guess there's only one way to find out...

New Link

Check out Top Sexy Man for more guys like these:

Daniel Marvin and Erik Demiko

From 100percentbent:

Cruising (Men at Play)
MenAtPlay.com

Clinton Successor Supports Same-Sex Marriage

Kirsten Gillibrand, upon learning that she would be appointed to succeed Hillary Clinton as Senator from New York, got in touch with the group Empire State Pride Agenda to discuss her approach to LGBT issues.

"After talking to Kirsten Gillibrand, I am very happy to say that New York is poised to have its first U.S. Senator who supports marriage equality for same-sex couples," said Van Capelle. "She also supports the full repeal of the federal DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act) law, repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell (DADT) and passage of legislation outlawing discrimination against transgender people. While we had a productive discussion about a whole range of LGBT concerns, I was particularly happy to hear where she stands on these issues."

Huffington Post: Kirsten Gillibrand Reached Out To Gay Rights Group

Boys Jerking Off

From Point & Shoot:

Goals.

So I'm back at school, again, for my last semester. At this point I'm excited to just get it over with, which seems to be the consensus among all my friends. This also means that I'd like to get away with as little work as possible. I've got bigger things on my mind, mainly the fact that I'm about to get thrown out into the real world. I need to find an apartment and I need to find a job. I've got a roommate planned out already, and the crashing Manhattan real estate market has actually made me pretty optimistic about finding a nice (enough) apartment at a decent price. Of course the downside to any recession is finding a job, and that's going to be fun. There's a real possibility that over the next months this blog is going to end up capturing my transition into adulthood, or something like that...

Then the other thing I've been focused on is my writing. Recently my manuscript crossed over a critical point and officially became novel-length. It's getting near the end and I'm pretty excited about it, but for some reason the closer I get the slower I've been writing. There were points when I was writing over 1,000 words a day, but for the past week and a half I've been going pretty slowly. My goal is still to have a first draft complete by the middle of February, and then to spend the rest of the semester working on revising for a second draft - and blowing off the rest of my work. I'll have to see how things turn out.

Ty LeBeouf and Bruno Bond

Dickin' Around (Hot House)
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President Obama

Cowboys

From Ray's Cowboy

Sharpton Gets It Right

Thanks to Scott over at Bill in Exile:

"I am tired of seeing ministers who will preach homophobia by day, and then after they're preaching, when the lights are off they go cruising for trade…We know you're not preaching the Bible, because if you were preaching the Bible we would have heard from you. We would have heard from you when people were starving in California–when they deregulated the economy and crashed Wall Street you had nothing to say. When Madoff made off with the money, you had nothing to say. When Bush took us to war chasing weapons of mass destruction that weren't there you had nothing to say.

But all of a sudden, when Proposition 8 came out, you had so much to say...

...There is something immoral and sick about using all of that power to not end brutality and poverty, but to break into people's bedrooms and claim that God sent you. It amazes me when I looked at California and saw churches that had nothing to say about police brutality, nothing to say when a young black boy was shot while he was wearing police handcuffs, nothing to say when they overturned affirmative action, nothing to say when people were being [relegated] into poverty, yet they were organizing and mobilizing to stop consenting adults from choosing their life partners."

-Rev. Al Sharpton

PageOneQ: Sharpton: Church Uses Money And Power To Persecute Gays But Ignores Poverty

West Point Cadets Recognize Harvey Milk

West Point cadets have award recognizing characters from that year's films who exhibit leadership and character. The names of the nominees are out and surprisingly, Harvey Milk as portrayed in the Gus Van Sant film was one of them.

WEST POINT — Cadets at the U.S. Military Academy Thursday announced the nominees for the 2nd Annual Cadet Choice Award for the movie character that best exemplifies West Point leadership. The nominees are:

• Bruce Wayne in “The Dark Knight”
• Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg in “Valkyrie”
• Dr. Henry Walton “Indiana” Jones, Jr. in “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”
• John Hancock in “Hancock”
• Harvey Milk in “Milk”
• James Bond in “Quantum of Solace”

“West Point is all about producing leaders of character,” said the cadet public affairs officer Cristin Browne. “Leaders influence people to accomplish the mission and improve the organization. A leader of character seeks to discover the truth, decides what is right, and acts accordingly. Furthermore, West Point values are Duty, Honor, Country. That leadership, those values, are what this award celebrates.”

The winner will be announced next month.

USMA.edu
via Awards Daily: West Point Cadets Honor Bond, Batman, Milk

Friday Night Boys

From queerly written

Carioca and Raphael Silver

UK Naked Men
via 100% Gay

High School Boys Feel Each Other Up On Reality TV

In this clip from some dumb looking reality TV show, these two high school boys for their high school principal that they're a lot more comfortable with their sexuality than me or my friends ever were back then. There's no way any of us would have done this kind of thing - though I did have one straight friend who seemed pretty comfortable passing out in bed with me and humping my leg to wake me up...

Queerty: High School Boys Demonstrate Inappropriate Grinding For Their Principal

Change

The latest work by Painter of Pancakes Dan Lacey. You can buy it here.

Gawker: Pic of the Day: Hope

Jail Fuck

Chosen Men

Obama Poster Rip-Offs

This is the coolest fucking site, I can't stop playing with it. Obamicon.me lets you upload your own pictures and put them in the style of the Shepard Fairey poster. Here are some of the posters I've made:


Obamicon.Me

Palin Attacks "Pathetic Bloggers"

Sarah Palin plays up her new status as victim in an interview with Esquire:

"Bored, anonymous, pathetic bloggers who lie annoy me….I'll tell you, yesterday the Anchorage Daily News, they called again to ask — double-, triple-, quadruple-check — who is Trig's real mom,” she said, in an interview to be published in the magazine’s March issue.

Sounds like she's talking about me! There was an update to the article where the Anchorage Daily News criticize her press staff:

Update: In an Anchorage Daily News column published last week, the paper's editor said the only questions reporters there had asked about Trig's birth came when the paper undertook a project to debunk conspiracy theories surrounding the event, but that they had abandoned the effort because of a lack of cooperation from the Palin family.

"I don't believe we have ever published in the newspaper a story, a letter, a column or anything alleging a coverup surrounding your maternity," wrote the editor in an e-mail sent to Palin and reprinted on the paper's blog. "In fact, my integrity and the integrity of the newspaper have been repeatedly attacked in national forums for our complicity in the 'coverup.'

Later, he added: "…So I don’t understand the behavior of the governor’s press office. Did the governor not share my email with the press staff? Did the press staff deliberately ignore what I said in order to have a longer list of press 'outrages'? Or are they just sloppy with details? I don’t know."

CNN Political Ticker: Palin Slams 'Bored, Anonymous, Pathetic Bloggers Who Lie'

Aiden and Sebastian (Damien Crosse)

Circle Jerk Boys: Aiden and Sebastian
via Toni

Flyers Are Up...

One of my fuck buds just sent me this. The (few) readers who've been with me from the beginning will remember that I pretty much started this blog out of anger over not being able to make it to last year's.

The Saint at Large

Patrick Bateman, Max Schutler, Derrek Diamond

Dickin' Around (Hot House)
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Fail

Failblog.org

Twink Kink Parties...

About a year ago, I got an email from a profile made by a certain website, that specializes in college watersports - as if that's something that ever happens in practice. The email said that my profile had been prescreened and I had been deemed hot enough - and young enough - to show up for parties at their "frat house." They gave me the option of accepting their invitation to be put on their permanent guest list and get invites to their parties, which I accepted mainly out curiousity. In fact, one of my early posts on this blog was about this.

So now I get an email about once a week giving info and directions to their next monthly party. The invites always sound pretty sketchy. With a donation when you go in there's free drinks, shots, lube, condoms, showers, drug free but 420-friendly... They basically invite a bunch of young guys over, get em drunk, and follow them around with release forms asking if they wanna shoot a piss movie.

The reason I'm writing about this right now is that I'm currently in the suburbs with family on break still, and I'm so bored that I'm almost thinking about going to the next party, out of sheer curiosity. The thing is, I'm not really that into piss, but more importantly, I'm not into the type of guys they put on their website - twinks. Their site has some the cleanest, skinniest, blondest, underage-looking boys I've seen in any type of kink-related porn, Brent Corrigan-looking kids. If I was gonna do a ws scene and enjoy it, it'd have to be with a rougher guy, more like what you'd see on my website. If I was gonna piss on some twink, it'd just be out of apathy and real disrespect - the kind of thing that some subs might fantasize about but that woudn't actually be hot or interesting in reality.

Another thing that bothers me a little about this all is that I was invited in the first place. Of course by age it makes sense, but what it also kind of brings up is the fact that in spite of my more masculine attitude and personality, I can pass as a twink pretty easily at times - as a consequence of my boyish good looks...

That could make a party like this pretty dangerous. Also, if I was being given free drinks and being followed around by the older guys running it - who I would probably be paying more attention to - with cash offers, telling me I could get paid to go piss on some kid in a bathtub, I'm almost positive that I would do it. If this was a party with guys who were let's say more Corbin Fisher or Sean Cody types, then that would be something. But I can't lower my standards and go with these twinks.

More Boys

KinkPage

Dart

Dart's Domain

The Masc Dude Writer Web Design Contest!

Hey, readers!

Because my graphic design and Photoshop skills are pretty much non-existent, I'm inviting readers to help me out, for the chance that their design could end up as part of the graphic scheme for this website. I'm looking for something hot that reflects the tone and themes of the site. What I need is this:

-A header for the top of the site with title and subtitle
-A horizontal ad banner, probably 468x60, or something like that

Any other graphics or advice would be welcome too. Let me know if you're in and send your stuff to me at: MDWTheRemix@gmail.com

Marco da Silva

"Hey Peter Rauhoffer who is one of Americas biggest mixer(he remixed songs from Madonna ,Jennifer Lopez, Britney etc) asked me for permission to represent his Party WORK in January and so i ended up being on his Flyer for his Party. "

Marco da Silva
via Sue

The Recession and the Writing Market, on Craigslist...

A disgruntled writer (like yours truly), frustrated with the lack of real paid writing gigs on Craigslist took it upon himself to get his own listing and bitch Craig out. The post has been taken down since then.

Craig, here's a suggestion about "writing gigs" (Manhattan)

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Reply to: see below
Date: 2009-01-06, 1:20PM EST

I check "writing gigs" every day and mostly I find dumb postings that involve translating something into Swahili ... coming up with a title for someone's poem ... or writing someone's term paper. The vast majority of the gigs are unpaid and those people who post paying gigs are almost always offering some ridiculously meager compensation, like 5 bucks for an article. Sometimes the poster offers lunch or a cup of coffee instead of money!

I know times are tough, but are there really writers out there who will spend their time and energy working under such conditions? I can understand that people don't have a lot of money to pay, but it would cost me more for paper and ink than they are offering!

Craig, here's a suggestion. Have two "gig" sections: one for paying gigs, and one for "other." The latter could include those that are non-paying or that offer some type of compensation other than money.

Location: Manhattan

it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests

Compensation: I would NEVER ask anything to write anything for free!

I have to say I'm on the guy's side. Of course it's pretty rare that a writing gig that pays actually comes up on there. Which reminds me, I need to start getting paid for my writing, so if anyone wants to publish me or hire me out let me know. And no, I won't accept sex as compensation.

Str8cam Holiday Pics

Jeff over at Str8cam sent me these hot Christmas pics of himself:



I've added a link to his site. Check it out for more pics: Str8cam

Ann Coulter Shot Down on CBS

Ann Coulter's appearance on CBS's The Early Show this morning:

Huffington Post: Ann Coulters "Today" Show Appearance Cancelled (UPDATED)

Breaking:

Fox News' Bill O'Reilly was outed this afternoon when several media personalities, Barack Obama, and Britney Spears had their twitter accounts hacked today. This was particularly funny when I saw it get covered on Rick Sanchez's show, which CNN has overloaded with twittering:


Maybe it's time for the Cable News Media to ease up on their Twitter fetish.

Towleroad: FOX News Twitter Hacker Outs Bill O'Reilly

Boys

From Mutiny on the Bounty

Etienne - Subway Savages

Markus Area51su
Thanks to Sue for finding the link!

Updates, Need Links!

So webmasters and bloggers who read this site regularly may notice that I've made some subtle but very significant changes to this site in the last 24 hours. In the process I had to shift a few things around. I've been having a lot of issues with the blogroll, so if anyone notices that their link isn't there anymore, or if any other bloggers just wanna take this time to trade links, hit me up at my new email address:

MDWTheRemix@gmail.com

Happy New Year!
MDW

D'Angelo and Tony Serrano

Not the R&B singer...


Handpacked (Hot House)
Check out the rest of this set at the Club Inferno Dungeon