Their selling point, the focus for their new campaign...

As regular readers know, I've not had too many good things to say about John McCain. But in this post, at least, that will change.

I'm not sure if you've heard about this or not, but Republicans in North Carolina had made a TV ad resorting to tried and true Republican tactics: trying to say Obama's not a good candidate or a good American using clips of the Rev. Wright.

John McCain, or someone in his campaign, sent a letter to the state party and asked them not to run the ad. I didn't get the actual reasons listed in the request, but perhaps John McCain wants to have an election based on issues and ideas and not propoganda and made-up side tangents that don't mean a damn thing. Perhaps, he was wants to have an elections that deals with the difference in the candidates positions and not in distractions.

I don't know why he wrote it, but it demonstrates quite clearly why I always said he was the least objectionable of the Republican candidates. Course, when you're running against Rudy "911911911911911" Guiliani, Mitt "The Iraq War is so important, I'm keeping my sons here at home to run my presidential campaign instead of sending them in to fight it" Romeny and Mike "Just slightly to the right of Jerry Falwell" Huckabee, it's not difficult to be the least objectionable of that bunch. And it shows why, had he gotten the nomination against Gore in 2000, I would have voted for McCain.

We'll have to see if he and his campaign maintain this kind of issues-oriented election going, or if they resort to the typical Rovian, Republican tactics once the generel election starts. I sincerely hope it's the former.

POLT Listening to "In Your Eyes" by Peter Gabriel

I like the idea of people running for office. There's a positive effect when you run for office. Maybe some will run for office and say, vote for me, I look forward to blowing up America. I don't know, I don't know if that will be their platform or not. But it's - I don't think so. - George W. Bush

Some boys kiss me, some boys hug me (Part 129)...

Frenching Fridays

POLT Listening to "Where Do I Begin" by the Chemical Brothers

"Go brush your teeth. Your mouth tastes like ass." "Yeah, but it's my mouth." "Yeah, and it's MY ass." - Freddie

Keep your numbers mounting (Part 23)...

55 Fiction Fridays

Blue skies, crisp and clear.
Green grass, pungent, freshly cut.
Yellow sun, hot, shining down.
Orange fruits, pulpy and juicy.
Red strawberries, sweet and delicious.
Purple mountains, oh their majesty.
White clouds, in blue skies.
Brown earth, muddy when wet.
Tan skin, before the sunburn.
Black hearts, in evil men.

Oh, the colors of nature.

POLT Listening to "Gold Digga" by Kanye West Oil: 118.91 (+3.01); Gas: 3.64 (+.02)

Did you just wet your pants? I can't say I'd blame you, we're really quite terrifying. - Joker, JLA Wedding Special #1

Then read it in the headlines, watch it on TV....

I do have to laugh at the media covering the election.

"Hillary closes the gap" - she netted three more delegates than Obama, with three total left to find out who get them. Even if it all goes her way, a 6 delegate increase, out of 158 eligible and with him having a lead of roughly 130 or so delegeates now, is not really something to be crowing about.

"Hillary wins BIG!" - With a 55-45 percent win, a 10 point sounds big...until you recall that 6 weeks ago, her lead was by 26 points. THAT would have been a BIG win. A ten point margin, well, how many of those has Obama had?

"Hillary gets avalanche of money with PA win" - The figure I saw tonight was that in the two days since her win, she has gotten 1 million dollars. Okay, sounds good. On that pace, she'll make 15 million in a month, which sounds good too...until you realize in March Obama raised 40 million. In March, Hillary herself raised about 21 million. In addition, looking at the finances right now, Obama's campaign has 42million on hand. Hillary's campaign has 9 million on hand, and is 10 million in debt. So this 1 million over the last two days will get her breaking even, which is decidedly good. But remember, Obama's STILL got that 42 million on hand. Were these recent contributions really an 'avalanche'?

I do have to laugh. I don't know if it's because the media prefers Hillary to Obama, or just wants to make a bigger story than there really is. I believe it's the latter.

But with just a handful of primaries left (NC, IND, KEN, WV, OR, MON, SD, PR), and some of these states Obama is way ahead in, is there any way she can realistically win? How can she get her delegates, popular votes, or number of states won to even equal Obama's, much less surpass him?

Yes, mathematically, she still has a chance. But the real question is, realistically, how much of a chance does she have?

POLT Listening to "Vogue" by Madonna

Best bring those muscles too in case your brains or charm fail you. - Max, Metrosexuality

You can make it better, better, better....

I dont know what to think of this really.

korean baby singing hey jude


Should I be amused, surprised, jealous, fearful??? I'm at a loss.

POLT Listening to the Korean Baby singing Hey Jude Oil: 115.90 (-2.40); Gas: 3.62 (+.03)

You don't HEAR the batplane. It's like a bat! - Gaucho, Batman #667

Undress me, will I look like a fool (Part 106)...

Once more, it's time for....


This past Tuesday was the primary election in Pennsylvania. Uncle Polt ALWAYS votes. I've been eligible to vote since the spring of 1986, and I've only ever missed one, an off year primary election. And this was the first PA primary in my memory that actually meant something, that the nominee wasn't already decided before we voted.

At any rate, when I voted, I snuck my camera in with me for this week's HNT:


Yep, that's Uncle Polt casting his vote for Barack Obama. Not sure if the camera in the voting booth is entirely legal, but eh, whatever. I'm a rebel like that. That's how I roll.

To see what other people did for HNT, click HERE.

POLT Listening to "Everything" by Alanis Morisette

I live beneath the sea. I rule and live in a kingdom surrounded by pressures beyond any human ability to measure. What chance did you EVER have against me? - Aquaman, Justice #12

Think of you again, someone was wearing your cologne...

On one of my first trips to Toronto, I met an adorable 19 year old named Baker (or at least that's what he TOLD me his name was). He was half Hispanic, half Italian. Small, tight twinkie boy body, with dyed blonde hair cut short on the sides, but long on the top, so it could hand down, or be pulled back into a ponytail (I saw it both ways). He had a chipped front tooth that he got a few years back by falling off a skateboard. He was going to university for communications. He wore a pair of small round glasses, not because he needed them, but because he thought they made him look smarter. He was making an attempt at a goatee, but he was naturally non-hairy, so it wasn't a very good attempt, but endearing nonetheless. He was bi-sexual, had had boyfriends in the past, currently had a girlfriend who was bisexual too. They both fooled around with members of their own sex occasionally.

I spoke to him on two consecutive days, making out with him both times, but never getting to go any further. He was wearing the same cologne both times. When asked he said he was wearing "Le Male, by Jean-Paul Gautier". The next day, I went to the Eaton Centre and bought myself a bottle. I have since gone through two more bottles and am nearly through the fourth one.


And strangely, when I wear it, I don't feel like either Baker or the guy in the ad. And I fail to attract guys like Baker or the guy in the ad. Must not work as well on me as it did on Baker.

POLT Listening to "Hallelujah" by Jeff Buckley

We don't take sides, we don't endorse deoderant on TV and we do NOT get involved in politics! - Superman, Justice League Unlimited

Let me make an indecent proposal, let me take you to the back....

Bushie's, and the Far Right, Conservative Christian, Right Wing, religious wingnuts, proposal for marriage.


Nuff said.

POLT Listening to "Sex On Wheelz" by The Thrill Kill Kult

There's only one person who hugs the mothers and the widows, the wives and the kids upon the death of their loved one. Others hug, but having committed the troops, I've got an additional responsiblity to hug and that's me and I know what it's like. - George W. Bush (notice, if you will, how his inherent homophobia won't allow him to mention the fathers, widowers, and husbands he may be required to hug as well?)

I'll always feel like a winner it's true...

Hillary won the PA primary. Just what I expected, although the only question I had was by how much would she win, and I've not yet read anything about that.


I noticed how several talking heads were saying that only McCain is the winner because of all the damage the Democrats are doing to each other. Bearing in mind that the Republicans really had nothing to come out and vote for, and the Democrats had everything to come out and vote for, I found it interesting that the totals were approximately 2.25 million votes cast for Democrats and less than 800,000 votes cast for Republicans. Over 1.4 million more votes cast for a Democrat than for a Republican does not bode well for McCain in the fall.

POLT Listening to "Dancing Queen" by ABBA

"Smell that?" "Tighty-whiteys?" "What? No, ew! Food!" - Bloo, Fosters Home For Imaginary Friends

Cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots (Part 41)...

Wife Beater Wednesdays

POLT Listening to "Funkytown" by Lipps Inc. Oil: 118.30 (+.09); gas: 3.59 (+.03)

No, Miss Langford, what I don't have that's required to work with you is patience. Because, quite frankly, I find you rude, lazy, horny and dumb. - Julia, Designing Women

Only saw my mother's hand, the things i've earned...

I was just going through all my photos in my computer here, and I discovered these. Most are from last year, October and November I think. I meant to post about them then, but, well....I lost the photos in all the porn I have here. (oh don't judge...like YOU never look at porn online)

Anyway, here they are now, half a year later.

One day in October, before dad died, mom and I went to a local apple orchard to pick out some apples. She wanted to make some pies, or some such junk, I don't know. All I remember is she got two bushels of one kind and one bushel of another kind. Come to think of it, that's quite a few apple pies there, so it was probably just a supply for the winter. At any rate, the orchard had them set out in these big huge crates. Mom went picking through them looking for ones she wanted. Some of the crates were kinda empty, and she had to like hang herself over the side to reach them. i thought for sure she'd fall in, but she didn't. These are those crates.



And these are some of the apples we took home.



After dad died, mom got rid of the TV he had wanted a large screen monstrosity. She wanted "one of those new flat screen or plasma screen or whatever they're called". So she saw Wal-Mart had one on sale, and one Sunday, we went there and she bought one. This is her new falt screen tv.



And one day, right before Thanksgiving, mom was baking (like she does ALL the time), she made this huge sugar cookie. I think it was for some Church function or the other. but it was HUGE!


And I didn't even get to taste any of it.

POLT Listening to the PA primary results

It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life. - George W. Bush

There watchin' tv, with a dry wall hanger named shorty...

Hmm, interesting place to hand your boxers.....

Or your baseball cap.

Guess it IS as they say, "Where ever you hang your hat, is your home."

....and they both can hang their hats, or whatever they WANT to hang, in my home anytime they desire!

POLT Listening to "Let Forever Be" by The Chemical Brothers

"I'm not going to marry." "How will you have children?" "I'll buy them." - Sebastian, Shakespeare's Sonnets

Losing control, primary resistance at a critical low...

Today is the primary election in Pennsylvania, and it's somewhat bittersweet for me. Starting in 1989, until last year, I worked the polls each and every election. Twice a year for 18 years. 15 of those years as Judge Of Elections for my precinct. But last fall, I decided I had had enough, and I resigned the post. It was just time. I was tired getting up at 6:00 am, not getting back from the courthouse until after 11:00pm or so. I was tired of getting home and having the elections already decided and not getting to watch any returns come in. So I resigned. And I'm glad I did.

Although, now that it's here. I miss it. I think I miss the thought of doing it rather than actually missing it. But whatever, they've got a new Judge and moved on and so shall I.

**********************************

After work, I went to my grandmother's house. I was taking her to her election place to vote. I got her registered in 1992 so she could vote for Bill Clinton. And she's voted in every presidential election since then. But this year, at the age of 85, she was going to vote in her very first primary election.

See, Pennsylvania's primary is always so late that by the time ours rolls around, the candidates have always been decided (kinda like McCain this year). This is the first year, in my memory, where the Pennsylvania primary still mattered. And its the first one she's wanted to vote in.

So as we were driving there, she said, "Polt, I've never voted in a primary, I'm not sure what to do." I told her all she had to do was just color in the circle for who she wanted for president. And then for the other offices, she'd just color in as many as she was allowed to under-. And that's when she cut me off. "Well I don't have to vote for any of the other people do I? I just want to vote for the president." And I told her that was fine.

She's got arthritis, so she can't hold a pen terribly well, but she did to sign in and to vote. And she gets out of breath going stairs, but we took the stairs to get in to the voting place, stopping halfway for her to get her breath and laugh a bit and being out of breath. (We didn't see the ramp on the other side until we were leaving. We left that way, and that was much better).

She came out and handed her ballot to the lady there, but they dropped it. I picked it up for them (neither were terribly spry) and as I handed it to the lady, I saw grandma had voted for Hillary. I smiled. I figured she would.

As we were walking to the car, she said, "Well, I bet pap's watching me and smiling." I told her i bet he was too. Pap died in December 1998. As I was driving her home, she chuckled and said, "The first time I voted, it was for Bill Clinton. The first time I voted in a primary, it was for Hillary Clinton. I wonder if I'll be around to vote for that daughter of thiers." And we both laughed, God bless her soul.

POLT Listening to "Don't Tell Me To Stop" by Madonna

How anyone can sleep with a man, I'll never know. They smell like dogs bathed in Brut. - Doris, Metrosexuality

An utterance, information, don't mince words (Part 93)....

TMI TUESDAYS

1. Pancakes or waffles? With or without toppings? Pancakes, definitely! With heaps of butter and maple syrup!
2. They say, "Way to a man's heart is through his stomach." What is the way to your heart? Well, food is a good way to get there. That or a scapel to my chest, that would get to my heart too.
3. Have you ever gone to a topless/clothing optional beach? If yes, did you participate? I sat on the boardwalk watching one when I was in Nice, France in 1984. But no I've never gone onto one.
4. What song reminds you of a previous relationship (for good or bad)? "Take Me To The River" by The Talking Heads. And that's enough about that.
5. When, where and with who was your best kiss ever? 1998 at my Fairy Godfather's house. An 18 year old kid named Patrick, with a pierced tongue. Might not have been THE best, but it was damn fine, and left quite an impression on me.
Bonus (as in optional): Does anyone not currently in a relationship with you have pictures of you or your body part(s) that you would prefer that other people not see? I don't think anyone has photos of me, but I have photos of about a half dozen people I'm not in a relationship with that they probably wouldn't want to get out. And all taken at their requests. Surprising how many straight, and not-so-straight, guys will ask a gay man take compromising photos of them.

POLT Listening to "Boogie Shoes" by KC and The Sunshine Band Oil: 118.21 (+2.18); Gas: 3.56 (+.05)

Don't lecture me, you...you...you flying iPod! - Speedy, Justice League Unlimited #30

You're wantin my body, I don't mind (Part 143)...

MONDAY'S HOT SHIRTLESS GUY PHOTOS

This week's theme: Saggers, showing the tops of their undies over thier jeans or shorts.











POLT Listening to the silence in my apartment Oil: 116.03 (-.42); Gas: 3.51 (+.02)

the best place for the facts to be done is somebody who's spending time investigating it. - George W. Bush

You made my day, you came my way...

This morning, I managed to get up in time to wash my dishes, remove a lot of the unnessecary reading material stacked in the bathroom, shower and dress in time for the cleaning lady to get here. It was good I didn't dawdle, as the cleaning lady (whom I'll hereon out call Lisa because 1. it's shorter than typing 'cleaning lady' all the time, and 2. it's her name) got here a half hour early.

I showed her the kitchen and bathroom. She said it was no big deal, wouldn't be difficult at all. All she wanted was $45 for both rooms total! No way was that enough. She wouldn't let me give her anything more than $50 though. So that's what I paid her.

We headed out to the Dollar Store to buy some bleach and other cleaning stuff, which I of course paid for. Then, as it was lunchtime, I drove through Burger King for a meal. I offered to buy her something too, but she declined.

We got back here slightly after noon, and she started cleaning right away. I stayed out of her way, at first eating in the dining room, then getting on the computer in the living room. She kept asking me all kinds of stuff, yelling it out of the kitchen. Things like: why i had this or that thing? Why I had all my mugs on the counter? Why I had some glasses in a drawer? How I burnt a paper plate in the microwave? And why was it still in the microwave? And what had exploded inside the mircowave? Or what several things had exploded inside? And did I know because of all the dust behind my fridge, there was a burn mark on the floor that could have led to a fire possibly? Why did I keep a vacuum cleaner in my pantry if it didn't work and I had a new one still in the box in the truck of my car? And why was it STILL in the trunk of my car? And why did I have two mops in the pantry when i told her I didn't think I had ANY mops? Yeah, she was just packed full of questions.

At one point, I laid on the couch and read a book, but I nodded off. I woke up as she was on he way through the living room, back to the kitchen from using the bathroom. And she was giggling. I probably was snoring. I just laughed and told her it was exhausting watching her work.

But my GOD did she do an outstanding job! I mean, I just expected her to clean, but in addition, she reorganized things, and moved some stuff around. Not really my cabinets, but I had things on plastic shelves, and on the microwave stand, and in the pantry and atop the fridge that all were just kinda....there. And she reorganized things...now I have a very organized pantry and shelves and everything. I had no idea it could even LOOK like that! About 2:10 or so, she started on the bathroom. I just stayed entirely out of her way.

Then, at 3:00, Danny showed up. I had really thought she would be done by then, but oh well. We sat on the couch, well out of her way, and cuddled and talked. He laid his head back onto my chest and laid on the couch while I sat behing him and we had ours arms entwined. We kissed occasionally, but not as she was walking through the living room. I mean, she knows I'm gay, I don't care that she sees me with Danny. But I thought it would be...disrespectful for us to be making out all over each other while she's here. I mean it would be the same if she and her boyfriend (my friend AJ) were macking all over each other while I was at their place ya know? She did walk through once and giggle and say, "You guys are so cute."

She finished up and left about 3:40. I think she was rushing, but really, she wasn't intruding on anything. Well, she was, but it wasn't anything that couldn't wait. Nonetheless, I introduced them quickly before she left, and then she was out the door! And the making out and stuff commenced.

It's not a bit after 9:00pm, and I've just walked though my house; through the kitchen I barely recognize; through the bathroom that's not been cleaner probably since I moved in. Smell waft about me: bleach; another cleaner she used; Danny's cologne; our sweat; the scented candles I have burning. Outside it is dark, and raining lightly, as it's been all day.

(oh, almost forgot, while she was cleaning, Danny and I both talked about how we like rainy days, and we both like thunder if we're with someone to hold, and right after Lisa left, I locked the door, went right back to the couch, kinda straddled him as he lay there and leaned in to kiss him...and there was a burst of thunder...the first I'd heard since he got here. We both laughed. Then kissed)

All the sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and touches I have had today have made for quite a very interesting batch of memories, that I'll not soon forget. And a damn good day all around.

POLT Listening to "La Vie Boheme" form the Rent Soundtrack

You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight. - Barry Goldwater

And you say that you only feel bitterness, when you know it's a lie...

Stolen part and parcel from Scott over at http://billinexile.blogspot.com:

"Referring to voters who America has left behind economically as "bitter" isn't an insult. In fact, it's a compliment, acknowledging that they're smart enough to understand what's happening to them. The hopeful, now those are some idiots. So let's separate the bitter - my people - from the idiots. If you think the Democrats are going to take away your Bible, you're an idiot. If you think they're going to take away your gun, you're an armed idiot. And if you think they're going to take away your gun and give it to a Mexican to kill your God, you're Bill O'Reilly." -Bill Maher

Amen! You tell it, brother man!

POLT Listening to the cleaning of my apartment

When I walk to the far end of the surgical bay, my legs disappear. - The Doctor, Star Trek Voyager

Let's get unconscious, honey (Part 96)...

Unconscious Mutterings

These come from http://subliminal.lunanina.com/

I say ... and you think ... ?

Questioning :: Authority
Immunity :: Flu shot
Online dating :: Rejection
Calcium :: Bones
Dressing :: Clothes
Bucket :: Water
Stain :: Remover
Advanced :: Algebra
Dramatic :: Pause
Self-medication :: Alcohol

POLT Listening to the cleaning lady clean my kitchen Oil: 116.45 (+.29); Gas: 3.49 (-)

To be a good Republican, you have to believe that God hates homosexuals but loves the death penalty. - Ann Richards

Those words, whispered in your ear (Part 24)...

WORD OF THE DAY

These come from http://www.urbandictionary.com

Williams

1) Money. Derives from the word "bills" used to describe paper currency.

Just picked up some fresh williams from the bank.
Dude I can't go to a strip club tonight, I'm running low on williams.
My wallet is bursting with some serious williams.

POLT Listening to "Flounders Mashups" on DC101 Online

So, even if we do, on this particular day, seem to have our head temporarily stuck in a fence, we are not gonna take any crap off some two-bit, low-level, bureaucratic usherette! - Suzanne, Designing Women

A desktop globe, exit wound in a foreign nation...

Just finished watching the second season finale of Torchwood. In case there's anyone out there who may have TIVOed or taped it and haven't watched it yet, I just have three things to say about it.

1. Oh.
2. My.
and 3. God.

Okay, well I have two other things to say:

1. I had tears in my eyes as the show ended.
2. Jack's brother Gray is QUITE the hottie!

Oh, and one more thing I suppose:

1. I can not WAIT to see new episodes!!!!!!!

POLT Listening to "Like A Prayer" by Madonna

Neither in French nor in English nor in Mexican. - George W. Bush, declining to answer questions in any of those languages.

We took a highway full of black top roadkill...

As I drove home from work today I noticed in four seperate places, rabbit roadkill. Poor little bunnies had been hit by vehicles and were now nothing more than carrior. I don't recall seeing any rabbits as roadkill so far this year, and then today, I saw four in one trip home?

This just seemed to big a coincidence to me. So I thought about it, and pondered it, and then it came to me. Rabbits, cute, sweet, naive lil' bunny rabbits, and very suceptible to manipulation, and, because they're stupid, lovely and cuddly, but stupid nonetheless, they can easily be persuaded to do things. Things like run out in front of a vehicle for the amusement of others.

But who could be so dastardly, so evil, so uncaring as to convince innocent little bunny rabbits to get themselves killed? Isn't is obvious?

It's the squirrels! We ALL know what they're like. And if you need further proof of their devious, satanic demeanors, check HERE and HERE. That oughtta be all the proof you need. Damn squirrels.

POLT Listening to "Where's Your Head At?" by Basement Jaxx

If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator. - George W. Bush

My baby's got a secret (Part 71)...

Secret Saturdays

POLT Listening to Dr. Who on TV Oil: 116.16 (-.81); Gas: 3.49 (+.02)

"I'm not really sure of this whole dead car on the table thing." "He can't knock it off anyway. For once." - Hilly, Metrosexuality

I'm just a typical american boy, from a typical american town,

Typical. It is SO typical.

Freddie and I break up around Thanksgiving. For the next three months, I got nothing. Which really is okay, cause I've spent more of my life outside of a relationship than in one. Then I meet Don. Things are pretty good. I really like the guy. Of course there's complexity, involved his situation with Jim. But I'm willing to wait, because Don really is a great guy. But due to various reasons, Don and I haven't seen or talked to each other much in the last three week.

Then, last week, a guy I knew about 15-17 years ago and I ran into each other. We decide to get together in a few days to catch up. Back then, we had hooked up a few times, but were basically friends. And we haven't really spoken much over the last ten years. So we just want to catch up on our lives. I suggest a restaurant, or I can go to his place or he can come here. he says he'll come here. Wednesday evening he did. And we caught up. It was fun seeing what he's done with his life and telling him about mine. And, yes....wait for it...(like you don't already see where this is going), we hooked up again. Only this time, it wasn't just a hookup. It wasn't purely physical, I found myself feeling things for him. And he says he did too. And the further complication is that he's in a ten year relationship with this other guy. But he stills wants to pursue this with me despite the relationship. At least at this point. Although, it sounds like the relationship might be on its last legs anyway, I don't know.

And then tonight, Don calls me again. And so I'm kinda pulled back towards him. But it's not like I actually HAVE either one, ya know?

Typical. So fucking typical!

Why is it when I'm not involved with anyone, I couldn't PAY someone to date me, but when I meet some guy i really like, and would like to pursue, then suddenly guys are popping out of the woodwork! (okay, well one guy is not really 'guys popping out of the woodwork'...but that's a nice visual anyway...a man's gotta be able to dream, right?) And I really like Danny (the new guy) a lot too. *SIGH*

And typicalness point two: why can't I find an complicated relationship???? I mean, Don has Jim, and Danny has his guy? What the hell is up with this? Are there no single gay guys in this area? ......um, who would be interested in an old, fat, hairy, comic-book obsessed, somewhat immature and selfish single gay guy????

Ya know, I just re-read this and it sounds like something written in to Dear Abby by some indecisive little twenty-something co-ed who's having affairs with two older married guys. Which, except for her age, and sex and the fact gays can't be married, does kinda sound like my case.

But that's not the way it is. Not with me. Really, it isn't. I'm not indecisive, and I'm not innocent and naive and Don and Danny are not manipulating me. This is just all confusing.

ya know when I was younger, this wouldn't even BE an issue. I'd just fuck Don's brains out and then fuck Danny's brains out the next night, and then repeat the process until my penis fell off from overuse. Feelings? Emotions? Pfffft, who needed them????

Geez, could my life GET anymore like a soap opera? A gay soap opera? A not particularly interersting gay soap opera, granted, but still?

Look, yesterday and today at work sucked! They were physically tiring and extremely emotionally draining, so if I seem a bit....maudlin, or whiney, deal with it. It's how I feel now. I'm sure I'll be better soon....like on Monday, when I'm looking through my photos to post for Monday's Hot Shirtless Guy Photos. THAT always cheers me up.

POLT Listening to "Lemon" by U2

I had one letter from a vicar in England saying would I please not put a Christmas tree at Hogwarts as it was clearly a pagan society. Meanwhile, I'm having death threats when I'm on tour in America. - J.K.Rowling, on criticism of the Harry Potter books by Christians

Some boys kiss me, some boys hug me (Part 128)...

Frenching Fridays

POLT Listening to "Teenagers" by My Chemical Romance Oil: 116.97 (+1.93); Gas: 3.47 (+.03)

"The crickets were chirping." "Cricket, I hate 'em. Crickets, mimes, clowns, and gnomes. Hate 'em!" - D. Moore

Keep your numbers mounting (Part 22)...

55 Fiction Fridays

Bedsheets fresh from the dryer;
a clean baby's smell;
Swedish fish;
ice cold Pepsi;
Dallas Cowboys wins;
Mama Polt's Christmas dinner;
Asian twinkies with hairthings;
Hot shirtless guys;
Democratic presidential victories;
Madonna's music;
Blogging;
Free, high speed, high quality, gay Internet porn;
Toronto;
Comic books;
chocolate covered caramels;

Just a few of my favorite things.

POLT Listening to "Makin' Whoopee" by Nikki Loney

God loves you, and I love you. And you can count on both of us a powerful message that people who wonder about their future can hear. - George W. Bush

Hey! there's no need to debate, it's time to designate...

I did not watch the debate last night, I already know who I'm voting for. If Obama states he likes to rip the heads off newborns and suck their blood, or if Jesus Christ himself comes back and puts his arm around Hillary and says he's voting for her and I should too, then I might reconsider my vote. Short of that, I'm voting for Obama Tuesday.

But I saw highlights and read about it. I heard a lot about lapel pins, the candidates' pastors, and bitter remarks. Strangely, I heard very little, if nothing about Iraq, Iran, the crisis with the airlines, torture, waterboarding, and nothing of that sort.

Now, please people, before you go vote, both on Tuesday for Pennsylvanians and in November for everyone, think about what matters to you more, think about what will matter to you more in two years, think about what matters to you more when you think of your kids in 15 years. What will be a bigger concern in November, two years from now, and for your kids in 15 years: Lapel pins, pastors and bitter remarks or an invasion in Iraq, threats to Iran, major US industries failing, and Americans torturing.

And vote accordingly, please.

POLT Listening to nothing Oil: 115.04 (+.19); Gas: 3.44 (+.05)

The bigger they are, the bigger their nerve clusters. - Robin, Robin #165

Undress me, will I look like a fool (Part 105)...

Its time once more for....



Kids, one day last week, Friday i think, the temps actually reached 80 degrees! Personally, I hate heat. Anything over 80, and its too much for me. I'd prefer it never get higher than 80...and then only in the middle of August.

But the nice thing about heat is that all the cute boys take advantage of it, and wear shorts and take off their shirts, walking around flashing their hot sexy chests, usually, because of the heat, they're hot and sweaty....and most of them muscular and riped....with abs for days...

Okay..., sorry, I'm back. At any rate, it was warm this particular day, so I for the first time this year, broke out the shorts and worn them outside. I was showing off my pale-as-the-belly-of-a--whale legs.


I just wish there was standing beside me, a young man, with his shirt off, displaying his hot, sweaty, muscular chest............

POLT Listening to the silence in my apartment

"You started without me." "I finished without you. You were late." - Lt. Torres, Star Trek Voyager

Cut their hair short, wear shorts, and boots (Part 40)...

Wife Beater Wednesday

Guys in mesh Wife-beaters...and only wife-beaters:




POLT Listening to Hardball With Chris Matthews

We can't talk about values in America without valuing all Americans. - Melissa Etheridge

You're either standing in the shoes, of a genius or a fool...

You have a Sexual IQ of 160

When it comes to sex, you are a super genius. You have had a lot of experience, and sex interests you so you know a lot about it. You pride yourself on being a source of information and guidance to all of your friends.

'What is your Sexual IQ?' at QuizUniverse.com
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Found this on http://stephenrader.blogspot.com/. I don't know what the scale is, but 160 points, and being called a super genius of sex is all I need to hear.

Yes, I AM da man!

POLT Listening to Countdown With Keith Olberman

Spongebob Squarepants will start airing in China in December, so millions of factory workers can finally know what the hell they are making. - Tina Fey, Weekend Update, SNL

I'm the cleaning woman, i'm here...mess...

Last night, I cleaned my toilet and my sink. With the scrubbing bubbles, and gloves one, and glass cleaner (for the mirror), and a general cleaner. And I was going to try the tub…until I actually looked at the tub. And then I gave up on that idea. It’s beyond me. It would probably be easier to buy and install a new tub than it would be to clean this one. At least for me.

Then I remembered something. I was at the house of a buddy of mine, AJ, a few weeks ago. I was talking to his girlfriend and she mentioned that she cleans this apartment for this old guy, who has a cat and the guy can’t bend over and the cat shits everywhere and he can’t clean it up so it sits there and so on and so forth. The story really has nothing to do with my story. My point here is that, in addition to her regular job, she cleans someone’s apartment! Just what I need!

It so happened that AJ called me last night before I could call him. After he and I talked a bit, I explained what I wanted and he had me talk to his girlfriend, Lisa. So this is the deal: this Sunday at noon, she’s gonna show up here. I only want her to clean my kitchen and bathroom. She’s gonna look at them, figure out how much she wants to clean them. Then we’ll go, and I’ll buy, all the stuff she needs to clean them that I don’t have. And then, she’ll clean my kitchen and bathroom! And, assuming it goes well, I’m gonna have her clean it every other week, just the kitchen and bathroom. Obviously, the initial time I expect to pay her a lot for the mess, but once she starts, and if she keeps up with it, then I shouldn’t have to pay her as much every other week.

She made a fuss about only cleaning the kitchen and bathroom, why didn’t I want her to clean to whole apartment? Why walk out of a clean kitchen into a scrungy living room, she asked.

I told her in my apartment you walk out of the kitchen into the dining room, but in addition, I can deal with clutter and dustiness. My concern is fungus and other things that may be growing in both the kitchen and the bathroom. So I’m gonna have her clean them.

And not only do I get a clean, bathroom and kitchen, but she gets a little extra cash, which I like helping them cause AJ and Lisa have two kids and they just moved into their own place and things are a bit tight for them right now. Every little bit will help.

It’s a win/win situation!

POLT Listening to the quiet of my office Oil: 114.83 (+.94); Gas: 3.39 (+.02)

To be upset about what you don't have is to waste what you do have. - Ken Reyes, JR

Two people, red and flustered, we just kissed and that's about it...

Today at work, I was talking with a friend of mine. He's a good guy, a cool guy, fun to be around. He's also about 24 or so, and I think he's cute, but that's really neither here nor there.

At any rate, we were sitting around talking and he said he had this video game I'd love to play. I told him I didn't play video games. He says, "You don't play video games? Really?" I replied really. And he says, "Polt, you suck."

Without missing a beat I said, "Why yes I do. And quite well I'm told." then I laughed and asked what the video game was. He just sat in the chair and looked at the floor, and got red, and kinda sputtered a bit. He laughed nervously and said, "I don't really know what to say after that." And then we both laughed.

I've said things like that to him before, and he gets all flustered each and every time. And it's so funny. And cute. He really was flustered. I had to ask him three times what the game was, and, actually, I still don't know what the name was.

He's okay with me being gay. But I don't think he's known anyone gay before and he's not used to hearing someone say those things. He certainly isn't used to hearing ME say them. I don't have many opportunities to say things like that, we're rarely alone. but when we are, and when i can work them into conversation, I love doing it, just to watch his reactions.

POLT Listening to "What Do I Get" by The Buzzcocks

Men have two emotions: Hungry and Horny. If you see him without an erection, make him a sandwich.

An utterance, information, don't mince words (Part 92)....

TMI TUESDAYS

These come from http://tmituesday.blogspot.com.

1. Did you have to pay or did you get money back? State taxes came out even, as always. I'm getting $1100 back from the fed.
2. What was your biggest financial mistake? Using my Credit Card like it was a debit card and running up$7000 in debt over a few years time. I have since paid it off, but damn, that made things tough for a while.
3. Are you a screamer? Only when I'm angry. In bed, it's more of a moaner, dirty talker.
4. What part of your body, other than your genitals, do you love to have touched? What part of a partner's body, other than their genitals, do you love to touch? Holding hands has always been quite a turn on. I love running my fingers through my partner's hair, if it's long. Any place anyone wants to touch me is good for me, except for the bottom of my feet. Too ticklish.
5. What commercial catch phrase best describes your life? He who dies with the most fun, wins. It was some kinda Lottery promotion thing.
Bonus (as in optional): What was the last thing you took without permission? What was the last thing taken from you without your permission? I dont know honesntly. Some people at work wasted my time on something stupid that I shouldn't have even been involved with, I think they took my time without permission.

POLT Listening to "Sexyback" by Justin Timberlake Oil: 113.88 (+3.12); gas: 3.37 (+.02)

"If this is a trick, I swear I'll kill you." "I'm already dead." "I'll kill you again." "I don't think you can do-" "Shut up." - Pied Piper, Countdown #19

With adventures for the stout of heart...

My adventures with Mama Polt.

This past Saturday, when I was at work, I got a call from Mom. She said her car's battery was dead. It left her sit at some store. She wanted me to drop by the house after work so we could deal with this. I had misunderstood her a bit, but what I said above was what she meant. What we needed to do was to go get a new set of jumper cables as her's were no good. So I took het to Advanced Auto and she got a set. For my troubles, I was rewarded with a home cooked meal of baked ham, baked potatos and peas. Yummy,

Sunday, I went over for lunch. And we decided to go to the Outlets in Gettysburg so I could a few things at the Fat Man's Store (known elsewhere as Casual Male Big & Tall) and look for some shoes. And that's what we did. I got a pair of jeans, a pair of shorts and two shirts. I was only in the store for like ten minutes, cause I just wasnt feeling it. I have to be in the mood for shopping. When I am, I can go mad in a Fat Man's Store. But when Im not, eh...nothing.

I looked in a couple shoe stores there, but I refuse to pay $50 or more for a pair of shoes. I can get TWO pair at Payless for that price. I can't justify spending that much on shoes when I can get shoes that are just fine, cheaper, elsewhere. Course, as mom pointed out to me, I'll spend $55 on four action figures, and $30-s0me dollars a week on comic books, but not $50 on shoes. And yes, its true. And that all makes perfect sense to me, so shut up about it.

So then, after helping ourselves to a soft pretzel at Aunt Annies, we drove through Gettysburg and to the Chambersburg Mall, where I got a pair of brown work shoes and a pair of sneakers for the grand total of $44 and some odd cents.

After this we returned to her house. Once more, I misudnerstood what she had said. I thought I was going to jump her car and then follow her out to the mechanic's place that works on Volkswagens that night. Then she's call him first thing Monday morning about fixing it. So when we got to her place, I hung out there. Later, she fried up some hamburgers, which were delicious, of course. And i hung around there for a bit longer, watching something about WW2 on TV...which she and I both napped through. After that, i said I guess I was ready to go home, did we want to go take the VW out now? And that's when she told me she wanted to do that Monday morning, AFTER she called him. Okay...well, that made a bit more sense, I suppose. She said she'd call me in the morning. Only then did she realize she didn't have a car to take her to church Sunday night. So I left mine there, and she just used it, and she kept it there overnight.

Monday morning, then, at 8:15, she called and woke me up and told me she would take my car down and jump hers and I could just meet her there. 8:15...on a Monday morning, my day to sleep in....grumble grumble. But I got up, threw on some clothes, and walked over. When i got there, she was trying to jump the car, but her battery was too dead. I mean it was dead dead. Deader than a doornail. The volkswagen was going nowhere.

She called the mechanic, who said he'd be in when he got everything there organized. An hour later, there was no sign of him. She asked if I had had any breakfast yet, and I told her no. So she said she'd make me some, and he'd come while she was doing it. She was almost finished frying the eggs when she saw him pull up to the garage. So off she went. I finished the eggs and ate them.

Her car fixed, she went off to work. I came home, got online, napped shortly, then showered and prepared to actually start my day.

It's always an adventure with Mama Polt.

POLT Listening to "Nothing In My Way" by Keane

I'm a do-it-yourself-er. Usually two or three times a day. - Thom, Queer Eye For The Straight Guy