Joey Logano

Youth Culture

A funny thing happened to me last weekend. I was watching Nascar with my son during a late lunch. There is a new, super cute, young driver named Joey Logano. My son got a kick over my lusting, but I later discovered that this guy is the same age as my son!

I was flabbergasted. This had never happened before, that I was attracted to a guy that my son would call a peer! And I was completely embarrassed. More so than the situation deserved, I discovered. My son could have cared less. He was thoroughly amused at my distress.

But, later, we talked about why older dudes find the young ones more appealing than "folks" their own age. And why younger "peeps" find older folks gross, creepy, or just downright disgusting. And in particular, why I, myself found younger guys more appealing.

A little introspection, now and then is a good thing. A very good thing.

This is embarrassing to post, but you could call me the "40 Year Old" gay virgin. Not to state my exact age, but I am in this decade of my life, and I have never participated in the one act that epitomizes "gay sex" (if you catch what I am pitching here).

And I had to confront my own internalized stereotyping: that all adult gay males are hopeless sluts! Now don't get me wrong, I'm not an idiot. I knew intellectually that this was not the case. But matters of attraction don't stop in the cranium, bounce around, and compute after all. And it doesn't help me that the gay adults in my life tell stories that would put penthouse letters in the category of Children's Lit. !!!!

On a purely Id level, I discovered that I was attracted to younger guys, who I perceived as pure somehow. Innocent of the depravities of my gay male adult acquaintances. Young men who hadn't had time yet to rack up a score card. But most important to my sensibilities, I discovered that I was equating youthful inexperience with a more sensitive, romantic soul. And, I was equating mature gay men with being cold, horny beasts.

Well, I shouldn't have to tell you, that I found this personal incite very enlightening. And, it has obvious parallels to our youth obsessed culture.

A reason to get up in the morning:

Blues

Just about everyone I know today are out of work or barely scraping by. Myself included! Last October, my income was cut in half.

Now I do a dance each month, trying to make it through, just one more week.

Kinda reminds me of growing up in the 70's. Factories were closing all over. Areas of the country were even called "Rust Belts" because closed factories were left to rot. The new HBO series Hung shows some of that in Detroit. My father was one of those factory workers. We had the farm, but his factory job brought home the bacon. Somehow he managed to keep his job through that turbulent time, only to see it all go up when the plant closed just months away from his retirement! Poof! His pension that he slaved all those years for gone.

That was the 90's. This is today.

Small wonder that one of the bright spots to my day are sites like "Royal Republic" and "Telstar"

Parenting and Naked Kids

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In today's charged climate, I was interested in what they would have to say on this. Most was as to be expected: watch out for pedo's and don't scare your uptight grandma.

What really disapointed me was the implication that after 4yrs old, it's time to wrap up the baby. There was no mention of nudism as a healthy choice. The underlying message was keep it in the home and only as long as it's cute. But it can't be cute or innocent for long.

J Lang, 2007 album pic

Still cute! He's about 28 yrs old now. Maybe as he ages, he'll come back to his senses.

a talented young man turns to god????

I was mellowing with some blues music and was reminded of Jonny Lang. He was a jr powerhouse at 16. He has played with B.B. King and appeared on the second Blues Bros movie. Just a mature, powerful voice and superb guitarist.

For anyone who follows this stuff, it's old news. His newest album, that I know of, is Xtian!

WTF!!!

So I decided to find out. I found an interview he did on beliefnet where he describes getting hooked on drugs and then having an epiphany after the death of his girlfriends father.

Aye, yi yi. Trading one crutch for another. The second, however, being far more socially accepted.

Jonny Lang "Lie to Me" video

Get De-Baptized

I was trying to search blogger's rolls. I think that's impossible, actually, so I turned to good old Google to try to see if anyone else using blogger posts Atheist content.

Well, here's a quirky post, on someone else's service btw:

If you really wanna get back at them Xtians, or feel even more free of it than a conscious descision to "unbelieve", you can have yourself "un-baptized"! Or even ex-communicated. As a former catholic, that is a little tempting. Especially in the face of "father-feel-me-up". To bad he would never know.

But could be liberating anyway. I could throw a party!

And now Telstar

For stated personal reasons, Telstar has closed his blog. Eeeek!

Does this mean that I now have to get a life?

sums up how I feel

The Root

Late nights wax me philosophically so wtf, why not.

Is there a elemental, root cause for our fkps as a species?

Buddhist, at least I don't think, don't believe in evil. However, they state that the ROOT of all human suffering is DESIRE. That we want, demand or seek more than we should.

On the other hand, Xtians go even further. According to them, we should not only surrender our desires, but our entire essence as well. They say "die unto yourself" and basically live as a foot or arm attached to the body of JC, devoid of any personal motivation other than to remain attached. Again, it seems, xtians claim the root of evil is being selfish.

So, at humanity's most basic level it fears Independence, free-thought, etc. And, more deeply, people fear desire. And out of that fear, does some pretty fkp stuff that could only make sense in Greek tragedy. They try to suppress, control, and steer it at every turn only to wonder why it doesn't lay down and die. And worse, they wonder at the deformed creature their own oppression helped to create.

Here is a little snippet I often reffer to that points out just how unadvanced humanity is. On the surface, it may not seem to relate to this post, but it sums up a lot.

Physicians, in terms of modern medical practice, have to poison the body to cure cancer. Kind of reminds one of leeches, don't it?

Axed again!!!!!!!!!!

Royal Republic got it again! !@#$@!!!!

I was just there, and joined blogger so I didn't have to comment "annonymous" anymore.
Please, guys if you see this, come back from the dead (yet again).

to link or not

I sometimes wonder if the bashers hiding in the web don't use link lists on sites they hate to attempt to shut them all down? I thought of that before listing blogger sites that I enjoy reading.