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In Just 8 More Years I’ll Be Popular In Sunee Plaza

27 Friday Feb 2015

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Huh.
Now that Jabba The Butt has referred to me as “someone who does know what he’s talking about” it’s tempting to go rest on my laurels. I’m just not sure what my laurels are. But I think I strained one of them last night; Dave just picked up a copy of The Gay Kama Sutra and we’ve been working our way through the positions. Sometimes life can be painful. But Jabba broadcasting links to my blog aside, it’s that time of the year once again to reflect upon the fact that I’ve just spent the last 365 days blogging. I told ya sometimes life can be painful. But then I was the one who decided to devote one day of the week to posting pix of twinks. So I only have myself to blame.

So some 2,900 posts later – and yeah I know just another 100 of those twink photos woulda made it an even number – I find myself entering my fifth year of throwing up a daily dose of drivel on the internet. Happy Birthday, Happy Anniversary to me. And apologies to those of you who’ve been reading my blog since its inception. Especially to Boo Hoo, who clicks in daily and is one of my biggest fans. My reader numbers tend to go up, then down, then up again, but there’s always been a steady core group of guys who pop in daily to see what’s been posted. Even if some of them only do so in fear that I may have mentioned them. A lot of the rest are just interested in seeing Joe Manganiello’s penis.

WordPress, who no longer hosts this site but still provides its layout theme and stats, tells me there’s been 10,600 comments posted to my blog over the last four years. And I thank each of you who’ve taken the time to share your thoughts. But I am kinda disappointed in that number too. That’s a lot of input and not a single one of you have yet told me to fuck off. I think Smiles came close once. But I lost interest in trying to follow what he wrote and never finished reading his comment. So that record still stands. I’ll try to do better this next year. I promise.

Which pretty much sums up what you can look forward to over the next year. Lots of abuse. And one week short of a full year’s worth of more weekly Twinky Tuesday posts. Unfortunately. ‘Cuz yeah, I’ve been counting. Carefully. You can also expect another year of me promising myself to go back and fix the broken links from my hosting change, the ones that are now getting to be almost two years old. There’s also a new index/layout with drop-down menus I’ve been working on – but more often ignoring – too. So you can probably expect to not see that this year too. Ditto for updating the ‘About” link; I think I’ll let that one turn three before I do something about it.

The world’s loneliest wombat recently whined about the lack of new Sunday Funnies posts on my blog, and I gotta admit I miss those too. But I can’t do a weekly cartoon of just Jabba being a blowhard. Especially as he is now replacing Boo Hoo as my #1 fan. Those posts rely heavily on forum posters being, well, themselves. Or their uber selves. Which often takes some good trolling. So this one is on y’all. If you want more Sunday Funnies, you need to get busy stirring up the usual suspects on the message boards. It’s not hard to do. Hell, Michael/Scooby will go off on Surfcrest these days even on a thread that has nothing to do with him. So it’s time y’all start channeling your inner Beach Lover. ‘Cuz otherwise the 2016 Olympics are barely a year away, and ya know what that means.

Another year over, another year to look forward to, and since it is award season, another opportunity to thank those who’ve encouraged me to keep blogging either out of appreciation for what I do or just because I know what I do pisses them off. So thanks to each of you who regularly stop by, to the lower number who take time to post a comment, to ChristianPFC for being a human spell checker, to Surfcrest for hosting this blog so that I can post photos that are too risque for the regular blogging sites to handle, to all the hot Asian guys who take the naked selfies that make my Sunday Selfies posts, to Jabba for his tireless efforts in promoting my blog, and to Dave for buying that copy of The Gay Kama Sutra. ‘Cuz man cannot live by blogging alone.

Spam Is Not Just A Hawaiian Treat

01 Wednesday Oct 2014

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Thanks for your comment.

I’m not sure why so many low-brow on-line commercial enterprises attempt to get business out of placing spam adverts in comment areas of blogs and websites, but it’s a popular pastime. I average 100 spam messages a day, 99.9% of which my filter catches and quarantines. I used to skim through them before deleting the day’s catch, just in case a bona fide comment got tangled in the mess. That didn’t happen enough to make it worth my time, so I ignore them now and with a single click empty out my spam folder. But I still occasionally browse through them first, just to see what the current fad in spam is. Knock-off Michael Kors bags are big. And I don’t even know what Michael Kors bags are. Occasionally I run across a spam comment that I really want to reply to for one reason or another and thought I’d share a few of those today – with their web address links deleted – so that I could:

You’ve got a talent for words.
Check out mƴ page :: chubby webcam girl
Thanks – but I’m not a fan of chubby boys and chubby girls’ vaginas look suspiciously like week old tacos. So I’ll pass.

After I originally commented I seem to have clicked the -Notify me when new comments are added- checkbox and from now on every time a comment is added I recieve four emails with the same comment. There has to be a means you are able to remove me from that service? Thanks!
Awwww, you spammed a few hundred blogs and now your email inbox if filling with unwanted messages?
My heart bleeds for you.

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Google Translate is a bitch, ain’ it?

Initially sentenced to only seven years back in 1974, he has spent the previous 36 years in jail, regularly adding to his first sentence due to a variety of offences committed whilst serving time.
Thank you but my past is not up for discussion.

My relatives all the time say that I am wasting my time here at web, however I know I am getting knowledge every day by reading such posts.
Do your relatives all know you’ve been reading a gay blog filled with photos of naked men?
They do now.
Oooops!

You realize, what have written?
Um, yes. That usually happens when you write something. Although obviously you aren’t partial to that talent yourself.

I don’t even know the way I finished up right here, but I believed this
post was once great. I do not understand who you’re however definitely you’re going to a
famous blogger if you are not already. Cheers!
Flattery will get you everywhere. Unfortunately that includes into a deleted spam folder.

I’m really enjoying the design and layout of your website. It’s very easy on the eyes which makes it much more pleasant for me to come here and visit more often.
Thank you! It’s nice to hear from someone who doesn’t object to my use of white text on a black background for a change. You just became my favorite reader.

Today, I went to the beach front with my children. I found a sea shelland gave it to my 4 year old daughter and said “You can hear the ocean if you put this to your ear.” She placed the shell to her ear and screamed. There was a hermit crab inside and it pinched her ear.
She never wants to go back! LoL I know this is completely off topic but I had to tell someone!
And as big of a fan as I am of stories about maimed children I was the perfect person for you to share that tale with. Mahalos!

An impressive share! I have just forwarded this onto a coworker
who had been doing a little homework on this.
And he actually bought me dinner simply brcause I discovered it for him…
lol. So allow me to reword this…. Thanks for the meal!!
But yeah, thanx for spending somme time to talk about this subject here on your site
Um, I’m guessing you and your co-worker are both dudes. And that dinner wasn’t a thanks but an I wanna do you.

12, voulez vivre, alors vous pouvez facilement vivre très facilement, mais si vous voulez vivre fatigué, il sera très fatigué. Si vous vous aimez, alors vous pouvez facilement vivre, si vous commencez à aimer d’autres personnes, la vie va commencer à s’emmêler, les gens fatigués.
Sorry. I only kiss in French.

It looks one women on their staff is enough.
That’s a good rule of thumb for any business.

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P.S. Please Send Money

08 Tuesday Jul 2014

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Driving home from a long weekend away, Phil, who you may remember as one of the two contenders for the title of current love of my life (but who shall now be known as The Bastard) brought up a line I’d just published in a post, noting that I do not pay Noom, my bar boy friend and still current love of my life, for using his story on my blog. Which just goes to show you the rule for road trips lasting eight hours or more should be that the passenger must give the driver head for the duration of the trip. Unfortunately, Phil’s mouth was otherwise unoccupied. And the petty little discussion he started, I’m sure, had nothing to do with having just lost a $500 bet to me on the outcome of the Weidman/Machida fight. Vegas is a great town to experience the 4th of July; the fireworks inside the ring for UFC 175 were even better. But not being able to accept being the loser that he was, he thought he’d came up with the perfect one-two punch combination and went with my lack of

My initial response was that I’m not telling Noom’s story on my blog, I’m telling mine. Noom is just a co-star. Phil set that error straight by noting no one reads my blog because of me, they read it because of Noom. The bastard. So instead I went with the argument that while I’ve never specifically paid Noom for his guest appearances, considering our financial arrangements for his general upkeep, he’s been more than well compensated. That one didn’t fly either. Neither did my blog making him an internet star. And you don’t want to hear Phil’s opinion of my claim that Noom has benefited from the large numbers of guys who have offed him after reading about him here either.

I coulda argued further, but it’s difficult to win a debate whose standard places you in the untenable position of defending a point your heart really isn’t behind. Besides, there were still four hours of travel to go and I was still hoping for the aforementioned blow job while driving. So I conceded the point, told him he was right and that I’d have to do something about it, and then reclined my seat back a notch and unzipped my jeans. But The Bastard wasn’t letting me off that easy. Nor did he take the hint about getting me off either. Instead he began planning Noom’s financial future. And having just spent a few days updating my home page while I was away he decided from the large number of hits this blog gets daily it was time I ‘monetized’ my blog.

Huh. I explained that a) a large number of those visitors are only interested in Joe Manganiello’s penis; b) I hate the use of trendy words and phrases like ‘monetize’; and, c) I enjoy writing this blog and turning it into a profit center would make it more like a job. Phil nodded in agreement with my points, rolled his eyes at at least one of them, and then informed me taking care of Noom was my job. The Bastard. But a wily bastard nonetheless ‘cuz he reached over and began giving my crotch the attention it craved while laying out his plan on making Noom not just famous, but rich too. At some point I must have agreed. Because just before putting his mouth to a better use he said, “Good. I’ll email Noom at tell him.” The Bastard.

See how quickly they turn on you?

So that’s the story behind the Donate button that now appears on my blog pages, as well as a rather messy orgasm I had just outside of Bakersfield. Personally, I woulda waited until I came up with a good name for the fund, or at least a specific purpose and goal. ‘Cuz left to his own devices, Noom would blow whatever cash I raise on his behalf on something frivolous. Like food for his family. Instead, I’m thinking that one of his desires I’ve studiously ignored in the past is a sponsorship for entering the senior division of body-building competitions. That would go a long way to feeding his ego. Which is ravenous. And would require he keep his body in tip-top shape. So I’d benefit too. Plus it would lay a good groundwork for the future argument that the best way he could thank his sponsors would be a steady stream of photos of his body’s progress. Preferably nude ones. Which sounds like a win/win proposition to me.

If you’ve enjoyed reading this blog, have come to lub Noom as much as I have, or have found the information provided here useful or the large amounts of snark mildly humorous, then it’s time to show your lub by sending some cash. I thought of using one of the crowd funding websites for this purpose, but that woulda required some research so I’m instead using an old Paypal account. You do not have to have a Paypal account to donate (despite, I’m sure, Paypal’s suggestion that you open one). Any amount you feel is appropriate is fine (but do keep in mind that Noom has expensive tastes). I think I’ll keep the donations anonymous, but will come up with some graphic to show how much The Bastard’s plan has raised. And while I will no doubt be getting weekly emails from Noom asking how rich he is, I’ll wait until my next visit in November to hand him his sponsorship monies. So show your lub, make me proud, and click the Donate button below. I thank you, Noom thanks you, and undoubtedly The Bastard will thank you too.

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Recently, Recently At Orgies

21 Friday Mar 2014

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I guess you could say I have an oral fixation. Which, as a gay man, ain’t necessarily a bad thing. Come to think of it, that wouldn’t make for a bad t-shirt slogan either. Depending on the crowd. I’m not sure if I’d be man enough to wear that shirt at a lesbian convention. But that’s – partially – my point. My mouth often gets me into trouble. And not always the good kind. Think twice, speak once are wise words. But difficult to put into action when your mouth has already started moving before your brain manages to process that thought. Put a sock in it are wise words too. But then being a gay man, when a foreign object is required to gag oneself, there are better options available than socks. Especially if they’re large enough to engage your gag reflex.

But my oral fixation has more to do with words than foreign objects; it’s about talking story as they say back in the islands. If not, I’d probably be considered a size queen. Instead I’m just jealous of those whose talents are bigger than mine when it comes to the written word. And one of those is Guttersnipe Das, a blogger who I’ve recommended in the past. It’s been far too long since he updated his blog, but he finally got off the pot and did so again. Recently At Orgies is one of his latest offerings. Outside of questioning just who it is that would bring a pair of binoculars to an orgy, with this story as with many of his, I’m never quite sure if he’s writing metaphorically or what. But he always makes me laugh.

For now, I’ll provide his opening paragraph as a teaser; clicking through to the full post is well worth your time.

Recently, At Orgies

Recently at orgies I’ve become one of the peripheral people. One of those ravenous middle-aged lugs straining forward shamelessly to get a scrap of what’s on offer. For years I was one of the dreary stars, grappling with the gods at the center, shoving away hands, amazed and annoyed that, every time I wanted to have sex, a crowd of people showed up. Don’t get me wrong, I was never one of the gods but — I was often slated to position of chief devotee. I had access, understand.

WTF? And The Gay Happy Ending Story

10 Monday Mar 2014

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This could end up a bit messy.

Depending on when and how you accessed my blog today, things may look a bit different than what you are used to. Unless I really screw things up – but then you won’t be seeing this anyway so we’ll just ignore that possibility. In any case, last month I did warn you there were some change coming. And as much as you may have hoped that meant no more black background with white text . . . well you’ve probably been wrong many times before in your life so at least that’s one thing that hasn’t changed.

If I get this right, where you used to see several posts with the newest at the top of the page you’ll now see a static page listing truncated content with links to the full articles listed. Ideally, this will allow you, as well as new visitors, to pick and choose the blog content you are interested in. Or more importantly, skip the stuff that is of no interest to you. There are several other good reasons for this change too. The most important being that I’m bored and want to do something different.

The downside – other than change, which I know some of you hate – is that I’m not really sure how any of this will play out. I thought I did, but have already found (I think) better ways of doing some of the things I wanted to do. Plus stuff I’d not considered. So don’t get too used to whatever happens today ‘cuz by tomorrow that could change too. If you really hate change you may want to just hold off and check back in another week. Who knows, by then I may have gotten bored with making changes, scrapped the entire plan, and gone back to what once was.

Content-wise, while I’m playing with formatting, posts this week may be a bit skimpy. I could takes the easy way out and just post pictorial articles, but despite what you may have heard I’m not easy. So I’ll be a whore instead – which you may also have heard of me – and link to a few other blogs. Today’s is a nice soft-porn entry from The Omniwhore from his visit to Bali, The Gay Happy Ending Story. I just hope that whatever form the new look for my blog takes ends a happily.

Blow Me

25 Tuesday Feb 2014

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2,000+ posts, 10,000+ pix, and 9,000+ comments later, this week marks the anniversary of a decision I made on a lark three years ago to become a blogger. Having already added the title of sex tourist to my belt, that seemed the only available step down left to me. The nice thing is, when you set the bar low enough, it’s easy to succeed.

It’s been a tumultuous year for Thailand. And for the gay Thailand message boards too. You’d think there’d be a connection there, but the country is still spinning along its merry path, even if to the outside it looks to be quite wobbly. Not so the forums. Regardless of the view, wobbly is a compliment these days. Two have folded, leaving three, and none of those is exactly what you could call healthy. Why? I have my own conclusion on that subject but I’ll save them for another day and another post. Because it’ my blog’s birthday and this post is supposed to be all about me. (We’ll just pretend this entire blog isn’t out of respect for the joyous occasion.)

But no man is an island – Boo Hoo’s blog too seems to have finally faded away into an oblivion of its own creation, without anyone noticing, and someone has to pick up the slack for over-using hackneyed cliches – and the sorry state of affairs on the forums does impact this blog. There are just not that many characters left to poke fun at. Which has always been a staple of this blog since its inception. Shame that. But at least I’ll always have homophobes to ridicule.

So expect less character assassination stemming from the message boards in the upcoming year. Unfortunately, for the large part, those left actively posting have no character worth assassinating. Undoubtedly there will be other change too. Though I can’t tell you what they are because this endeavor has never been a well-thought out one. There will be a few in format, I’m still tinkering so I’m not sure if that’ll be in a week or two or some where off in the distant future. And the gods only know what other little things my devious mind will come up with by then too.

More importantly, a big mahalo to those of you who have been clicking in to my little world over the last three years. I never realized how many masochists there are in the world. But I’m grateful that you are, and that you keep coming back for more of my abuse. So thank you. Especially to those of you who take the time to leave the occasional comment. Y’all make doing what I do worth doing. So you only have yourselves to blame.

Blah, Blah, Blog 2014

09 Thursday Jan 2014

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We may be on the cusp of the Golden Age of gay Thailand blogs.

The problem for me when I run across a cool link is that while I know I should save it for my End of the Week post, like a kid waiting for Christmas morning the urge to dive into all of the gaily wrapped presents under the tree is just too great. I have no self-control. And never have had. Greedy little bastard that I was – an admittedly still am – as a child once those gifts started spilling out from the base of our family’s Xmas tree, my brothers and I, quite impressed with what we assumed were our expert-level gift wrapping skills, began opening gifts early, checking what was inside, and then re-wrapping them, to be ‘surprised’ come Christmas morning.

My folks never had a clue. Or so we thought the first year we played that little trick. The next Christmas all the gifts under the tree were absent of names on the gift cards. My folks identified them by numbers instead. So maybe we weren’t quite a sly as we’d thought. And Mom, despite being a fan of Dr. Spock’s approach to child rearing, was never above fucking with the minds of her little darlings. Salted in among those nameless presents were an assortment of WTF? gifts; the odd can of motor oil, an unexplainable Tupperware filled with dry cat food, a bottle of calamine lotion suspiciously wrapped a little too gaily.

Obviously, Mom’s bitch slap didn’t have a lasting effect. Maybe that’s why I prefer hooking up with bar boys in Thailand. You get to see your present unwrapped early. And that helps avoid those WTF? moments too. But I digress. Again. This post was supposed to be about a cool link that I just can’t wait until the end of the week to share. No problemo. Taking a page from my childhood, I’ll re-wrap it and present it again then anyway.

When I started this blog I purposely did not post a blogroll. No fool am I. Sharing the wealth is a communist idea. And the idea of communism has proven to be lacking. When you manage to lure a reader to your blog the last thing you should do is provide them with an easy escape. Well, the last thing you should do is provide them with an entire list of easy escapes. Or so I thought. But then other bloggers began listing my blog on their blogroll – and damn you Dr. Spock once again – I was raised to be polite. I know. But really, I was. So about a year ago I posted my own, noting at the time my primary reason for having not done so before was that too many blogrolls are filled with dead links and adding the task of keeping mine updated had prevented me from having one in the past. I thought that was a pretty good lie.

But all lies – good, bad, or totally unbelievable – come back to haunt you. As do the stupid things you did as a child during Christmases past. I got a bottle of calamine lotion from my mom for Christmas this year. I took her 50 years to get around to bitching about what rotten little children my brothers and I were. Fine. In the spirit of the holidays, I didn’t mention her frequent attempts at child abuse. And since Dr. Spock is dead and I couldn’t drop him an email to belatedly report her offenses, I decided to check my blogroll links instead.

Okay, so it was really about me doing my spring cleaning at the beginning of the year (which works well since then I have an excuse of being too busy to deal with resolutions instead). And it didn’t promise to be much of a chore since I’d just reviewed that lis of sites when I moved my blog from WordPress to the Sawatdee Network. During that move, I also dropped a few listings, primarily blogs that had been defunct for quite some time that, as good as they once were, absent new content didn’t seem to deserve the honor of being one of the places I provide readers to escape from my ramblings. This would be a good place for me to insert a quaint tale about the dangers of impulsive acts and not too well thought out decisions. But I already gave you a charming Christmas story today. And my ability to not act on my impulses is the overarching theme today anyway.

One of those defunct blogs that I dropped I originally included because it was what I always considered the best gay Thailand blog I’d ever read. In fact it was the muse that provided the impulse for me to begin my own blog. Just in case you are looking for someone to blame. In its heyday, it stood out from among the handful of blogs dealing with the gay experience in Thailand, blogs which, sadly, for the most part are no longer with us. Among others, Shamelessmac once provided an exceptionally detailed look at massage parlors and saunas, The Bitch of Bangkok once afforded us a personal glimpsed into the life of a young, gay farang and his experience in The Land of Smiles. And Bangkok of the Mind told the story of a farang, his Thai boyfriend, and the never-ending roster of young local boys said farang fell in lust and in love with.

Beyond the grumblings of the disenfranchised posting to the gay message boards, those blogs along with a small smattering of others provided an almost daily touchstone for those of us missing Thailand greatly while we planned our next trip. It was, one could say, the golden age of gay Thailand blogs with ample sources that both educated and entertained. And as each dropped by the wayside, they left a black hole in the landscape, and a yearning within me for gay-related content set in Thailand that wasn’t just about how cheaply you could score a young moneyboy in Pattaya. Or how greedy bar owners in Bangkok are for daring to charge $9 for a beer.

One of the remaining television broadcast channels just summed up 2013 with a presentation of the last twelve months as The Year of the Gay. Granted, gay rights took a huge step forward in 2013. But I hate to think we’re only worthy of a ‘The Year’ honor. I’m hoping we’re more in line for The Golden Age of Gay. Blog-wise, and Thailand specifically, as much as I miss the days of those great gay Thailand blogs, we may well be on the cusp of a new Golden Age of gay Thailand blogs. This last year, and even more importantly over just the last few months, several blogs that show great promise have popped up. And with Boo Hoo only posting twice a month, and regurgitating prior content at that – and yes, it’s a shame that as with Dr. Spock Dr. Kevorkian’s passed away too – things are looking quite rosy. None of which, other than as links in my End of The Week posts, was enough to get me too excited. Or to take the time to update my blogroll. Until I got that bottle of calamine lotion for Christmas. Which eventually led me to discovering that Bkkdreamer has begun posting to his Bangkok of the Mind blog once again. So without further ado – because a page and a half of ado is probably already more than enough – here’s an update to my blogroll and why each new listing has earned a spot thereon:

Bangkok of the Mind (http://bangkokofthemind.blogspot.com/) should not be my favorite gay Thailand blog. Most of the pix posted are twinky guys. But the pacing of the stories Bkkdreamer tells is hypnotic and the tales themselves captivating. For some odd reason. Not a lot happens in those stories, there is seldom a point to be made. And yet, good luck trying to tear yourself away. Occasionally there is a post about some young twinkish local celebrity, seldom anyone I’ve ever heard of. Never are there stories about attractions visitors to Thailand might be interested in. Nor is a word ever written about the usual gay hangouts in Bangkok and Pattaya. What there is is the on-going tale of the blogger’s unrequited lust for a series of young, local, and often dirt poor lads he befriends. Which still don’t sound like much. But give it a try and you’ll probably become as addicted as I am.

If you are familiar with Christian PFC’s postings on the gay Thailand message boards, you may think you’d do better to just skip ChristianPFC – Adventures in Thailand (http://www.christianpfc.blogspot.com/). But fortunately, at least to date, he has not included long lists of his daily expenditures. He does, however, continue to tell of his saga in trying to find the perfect boy (at a perfect price, which in his case is below the 300 baht mark). I know many in the message board community are weary of hearing about that facet of Christian’s stay in Thailand too, but those tales are filled with bits of information and observations you won’t find elsewhere. The real plus to his blog are his reports on places in Thailand he’s visited that are off the beaten path. And while I’m still not sure what to make of his recent somewhat scholarly post covering the intricacies of canine sex (but did get a laugh from the mental picture of Christian out trying to pick up Thai guys while busy taking photos of dogs fucking), I did enjoy his pictorial post of Christmas trees he’d run across in Bangkok. His blog is still somewhat new, but the mix of subject matter holds great promise. And should hold your attention too.

I’m told by MrE he’s gonna be updating 50 Shady Gays (http://50shadygays.wordpress.com/) more often in 2014 now that he’s finished writing his book. I hope he does. To date his posts are limited in number but are filled with observations that are gems, even if they are presented with an attitude somewhat less than sparkling. Consider this one:

The good thing about the passive aggressive Thai class system, is that anyone who doesn’t fit the desired aesthetic – i.e. Asian, white skinned, fake European plastic nose – is considered “low,” and therefore unattractive. This means you can have great fun fucking genuinely beautiful Thai people, who are considered to be ugly by their own people.

It’s a non-PC, no bullshit, rude, but honestly refreshing look at life in Thailand that’ll have many of the prissy queens who call The Land of Smiles home foaming at the mouth. But then the truth often hurts, now doesn’t it?

Having learned my lesson from dropping Bangkok of the Mind from my blogroll due it its lack of new content, I’m including a link to Thai Gay, I Am (http://thaiqueer.blogspot.com/) in hopes that it too will be soon resurrected. Written by a local gay boy who has a thing for farang, it’s a refreshing viewpoint from the other cultural side that we seldom get to see. Written from the perspective of a local, and for Thai gays, he provides an unique viewpoint of Westerners that can help you discover just why Thais do what they do. Which is often thanks to their misconception of farang. Kinda like our common misconceptions of Thais.

These four blogs each offer their own perspective on the Thailand experience for gay men. Other than Thailand as a subject matter, they share few things in common. As entertaining as they are, some might not share in your perspective of what Thailand is either. I know they don’t mine. What they do share, as different as each is, is a basic honesty in writing; opinionated as some of them may be, there is no attempt to deceive, there is no attempt to color what they share to make the blogger appear to be anything other than what he is. And in the anonymous world of the internet, that’s unique. There’s personal knowledge passed on in these blogs too, a familiarity with the subject that is difficult to fake. As some other bloggers who shall remain fameless- you’d think – would have come to realize themselves by now. Combined, they provide a well-rounded view of a place many of us have come to love, and in a manner that goes beyond what you can find posted on the message boards. I hope you’ll give them a try, and come to appreciate the work of these four bloggers as much as I do.

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04 Monday Nov 2013

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Huh. Well this isn’t how I intended to celebrate my 2,000th post . . .

A week ago on Monday, WordPress, my blog’s host, suspended my account without warning. I found out about it the same way many of you did: when I tried visiting the site I got a message from WordPress saying the blog had been suspended for violating the company’s Terms of Service.

Much like when I was a child being scolded over some unknown infraction and my parents would say, “You know what you did!” as an explanation, WordPress was less than forthcoming about why my blog had been suspended. Several emails later I was told it was due to my having posted pornographic content. Since my blog was marked as mature to allow for nudity – and that was a regular feature on my blog for the last 2+ years – I questioned the decision and finally was told it was due to my last Stay In Bed Sunday post where the photo of a hottie’s penis exceeded WordPress’ limit on cock size.

Unlike Supreme Court Justice Stewart who said pornography is hard to define but, “I know it when I see it,” WordPress relies on a mathematical formula to know what is and is not pornographic. In WordPress’ world if the genitalia shown is 65% or greater than the immediately surrounding area it is deemed to be porn. I can only guess that someone with a small penis must have come up with that rule. But then 65% is an odd number even as a percentage. So that had to be a decision made by committee. A committee of men with small penises.

No problemo. Okay, small problemo. In suspending my blog WordPress also made it impossible for me to export my image files to a new home. Several more emails later I managed to convince a tech that part of that 65% no-no was foreskin and shouldn’t really count. I think he appreciated my argument that that was a discriminatory policy against uncut men. Or it could have been I lucked out and reached the one tech at WordPress who didn’t have a small penis. In any case, he agreed to unsuspend my blog for a few days to allow me the time to export my blog’s content to its new home. If you managed to click through to my blog during the later part of the week and got a striped down version, that’s why.

I don’t think the powers that be at WordPress are homophobic; I’m sure their love affair with small genitalia extends to vagina too. Not that I want to find out. But I will note that prohibiting a gay man from blogging on Halloween probably should qualify as a hate crime. While I may disagree with their opinion of what is and isn’t pornographic, I can’t fault a company who holds true to its corporate moral compass. When for $1 per month they are willing to take you by the hand and lead you to where you can see said pornography, their pillar of morality gets a bit crumbly. WordPress couldn’t handle what they considered a prodigious piece of manhood on their server, but for $13 was more than happy to redirect all of my blog’s old links to their new home. So any bookmarks you may have still will work. A least for a year. Though you may want to update those before next November.

I no longer believe in cosmic brownie points. As an official pornographer – and I am having business cards printed – the universe should condemn me. Instead, the angels descended and gave my blog a new home. I’d barely discovered my blog had been suspended before I received an email from Surfcrest, the new owner of Sawatdee Gay Thailand, offering me room on their server to host my blog. And Elephantspike jumped right in and handled all of the tech stuff, proving not only is he a nice guy but a geek extraordinaire. I’m sure I will be thanking them appropriately in the not too distant future with some incredibly snarky comment. Spike did 99.95% of the work in getting my blog back up and running again. Not to mention a lot of hand-holding through the process. It’s been a busy week. For him. Still, I really thought I’d use the blog being down as an excuse for a vacation from blogging for a while and thanks to his proficiency, I’m back already. So okay, maybe that karma thing really does work.

On the plus side, no longer being hosted by WordPress is a good thing. In the past they’ve deleted links I published in my End of the Week posts, content they disapproved of. And they prohibit even the simplest java scripts from running on blogs they host, which means bloggers can not use the millions of widgets and plug-ins available to everyone outside of the WordPress family. Design and layout-wise, things I’ve wanted to do with the blog in the past have not been possible. Now that’s no longer a problem. So expect some cool bells and whistles (but not annoying ones) to pop up over the next month or two. And lots of pornographic content too, of course.

What at first appeared to be a major blow to my blog’s future turned out to be a blessing in disguise. So for those of you who have dropped me a note pointing out that WordPress’ actions had to have stemmed from a complaint – possibly made by my ‘competition’ – at worst then I owe that person a big thanks. I’m pleased to have my blog’s new hosting home and to be the first blogger in SGT’s new family. And now I gotta go work on the aforementioned snarky post about Surfcrest and Elephantspike ‘cuz in my book it’s not enough to just be a pornographer, you need to be an asshole too.

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