I think I'd enjoy being poppered up to O mio babbino caro. You should make a note...
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I think I'd enjoy being poppered up to O mio babbino caro. You should make a note...
There's some classical stuff that would be lovely to take poppers too, and soar away with the strings
"collab" just feels to me like sex reduced to marketing.
About as authentic as Kendal Jenner handing a coke to a riot cop.
Apropos of nothing, have just been trawling through my emails to trace the evolution of "Leather Pride Belgium" into "Darklands" over the years.
I'm all aquiver
Is that what I think it is?
I'll take one in each colour!
€4.10? Blimey. I would imagine that there may actually be a fair number of people who, for whatever reason, sometimes need to take medication. Would like to see a few water fountains dotted around.
Finally caught up a bit on sleep last night, after a couple of weeks of insomnia. So glad I don't have to manage the stand at Darklands this weekend.
“Boot blacking has to be the most unique and utilitarian of popular leather fetishes. A symbolic exchange of power and an actual exchange of money that can be legally performed in public. It combines service, history and tradition with the dignity of labor and the sensual feel of grease on leather. Theirs is a restorative art which makes us all look better.”
Interesting thoughts on Boot blacking from Robert Davolt's "Painfully Obvious"
I had my minions send it, as I'm still looking after social media
I would if I were there, but having this year off
That's enough double entry for today.
What you have. What you give.
A photo of a young man wearing glasses in front of a cooker
Sometimes things happen that change your world. As a teenager I was a bit right wing - like many of us at boarding school. Everything flipped 35 years ago today when my twin brother died after "leaving a police van while it was in motion."
So here's a photo of Patrick, who helped make me who I am
What's the difference between a gay moustache and a straight moustache?
The taste.
Three tins of shoe polish - renovating, standard and regimental gloss
Today's care package
I loved that film; that was just at the time I was coming out to myself. Was amazing to see.
But I've got ALL the fonts, in ALL the colours! I simply must use them!
I remember reading the book when I was a baby gay. Title seems to have lodged itself in my brain.
Good to know I'm not just screaming obscure book references into the void
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This is the key thing; all this age-gating and so forth is like saying "OMG! There's shit and broken glass all over the living room floor" and telling the kids to stay in their rooms, while you just crunch and squelch your way through the mess on your way to watch Corrie.
Assuming my scales read roughly the same as the ones in the hospital, I appear to have lost 7kg somehow. I didn't even realise until a neighbour commented in the street.
This must be the effects of the "crippling anxiety" diet. Which, frankly, is not one I recommend.
Great ideas don't have to be BIG ideas Sometimes, all it takes is one ot two people to make something amazing That's how everything starts
Great ideas don't have to be BIG ideas
So take the seeds of your ideas with you to Beyond Darklands. Talk to people. Tell them what you'd like to do, and see who might be interested, who might help, who might bring missing expertise to the table.
Sow your seeds, and let them flourish.
Because that's how we make amazing things.
A blog can start with some words, and someone who knows the technical side.
A club night can start with an idea, and a friendly bar manager.
And this week, in Antwerp, there will be thousands of people. Thousand of ideas, and connections.
Even Darklands was just an idea once.
You don't need to run a club, or win a contest, or have lots of money, to make things happen. All you need is an idea. And to share it.
A leather social can start with two people in a café. Next month, maybe more will turn up.
BLUF's founder started the club, in part, because he wanted to find guys into full leather uniform to play with.
The first IGNITE smoking event in London was six guys with cigars, on the terrace of the Black Cap in Camden.
In 1990, I thought it would be good to have a UK forum for LGBT people on the internet. I shared the idea with a housemate, who had access to the technology, and we created uk-motss, the UK's first internet email list for gay people.
