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-RE: Opera (2)
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Gee,
If I come to the UK, is that a promise??
Edward
Your education is sadly lacking,you need to be put over this Daddy's knee
and be educated.
Riloletto is one of Verdi's finest
Subject: Re: Opera
Well, Edward, Leslie has already told you
all you need to know about your opera
tomorrow night. Enjoy Rigoletto. It's lively,
the music is rich and melodic and very
unboring. The costumes are great, and
the sets. It's a whole new world for you.
Enjoy every minute. The nice thing about
opera is if you like it, there's plenty more
where that came from, especially in New
York! Never turn down an invitation to any
opera by Verdi or Puccini. Every minute is
a treat. At the old Met (before Lincoln
Center) gay bottoms used to split the seat of their
pants and buy SRO tickets (standing-room-
only) in the gallery (way up high at the back)
and lean forward against the chest-high wall
behind the last tier of seats. Tops would crowd
in behind them and give them all the action
they wanted. The loud music and the emotional
singing onstage provided perfect cover for
the soft grunts and groans of butt fucking in
the gallery. I knew a queen who thrived on
opera and was a fine singer as well. We
studied opera with the same voice coach in
Manhattan and became buddies although we
were not interested in each other sexually.
He took me to the Met with him one night
wearing his split pants and turned three
tricks during a performance of Verdi's
La Traviata, which is one of my favorites.
His performance was as good as anything
onstage. He sang along softly with the Italian
diva who played the leading role. I was
laughing so hard and wiggling with the
laughter that I got a guy off behind me
who was pressed against me with his
hard-on (still in his pants and I had no
split in mine). There was my buddy
beside me, fucking like a piston and
singing the arias, and nobody noticed!
Haha! Only in New York! When I was
a music critic for an international daily
newspaper many years ago, I used to
hang around opera houses wherever I
was.
Subject: Work Accident
From: "luvhog"
Subject: Fred Rogers to quite production.
Just came across this news item about Mr. Rogers.
from AdCritic Mon, Nov 13 @ 12:40 PM
Subject: Coretta Scott King's Speech
Ben Boxer notes: Ms King could not
have foreseen the circumstances of
the election when she made this
speech last week, but it does not
weaken the impact of her ideas. If
anything, we need them now more
than before.
Headline:
(The Advocate, 11/13/00)
Text:
"I think we all need a few days to
recuperate from the stress-filled
election we have just experienced,
but not much more, because we have
a lot more work to do in our common
struggle against bigotry and
discrimination.
"I say 'common struggle' because I
believe very strongly that all forms
of bigotry and discrimination are
equally wrong and should be opposed
by right-thinking Americans
everywhere. Freedom from
discrimination based on sexual
orientation is surely a fundamental
human right in any great democracy,
as much as freedom from racial,
religious, gender, or ethnic
discrimination.
"My husband, Martin Luther King Jr.,
once said, 'We are all tied together
in a single garment of destiny, an
inescapable network of mutuality.' I can never be what I ought to be
until you are allowed to be what you
ought to be. Therefore, I appeal to
everyone who believes in Martin
Luther King Jr.'s dream to make
room at the table of brotherhood and
sisterhood for lesbian and gay
people.
"In addition to this fundamental moral
principle, there is a very practical
reason why people involved in human
rights should support each other and
work together. And that reason is
that the whole of us united makes us
stronger than the sum of our parts.
This principle of synergy is
eloquently summed up in the
equation 'One plus one equals
three.' In other words, there are
things we achieve together that we
can't achieve separately.
"In a way, we have just had an object
lesson in the power of coalition unity.
And I think we have just seen the
future of American democracy flash
before our eyes last Tuesday. The
coalition that gave Al Gore a popular
majority can surely be as powerful as
the New Deal coalition that
transformed America in an earlier
era.
"So what comes next for the NGLTF,
the King Center, and indeed all
organizations working for human
rights and social justice must be a
new emphasis on working together in
coalitions. With this commitment, we
can pass comprehensive hate crimes
legislation and the Employment
Non-Discrimination Act and secure
full funding for AIDS research,
prevention, and treatment. We can
defend affirmative action and
support a broad range of common
legislative and policy priorities.
"It is encouraging that we have seen
more gay and lesbian candidates
elected to political office. It is
important for lesbian and gay
officeholders and their constituencies
to achieve greater visibility as
supporters of laws that benefit the
entire community. I think this will
help educate the American public
that lesbian and gay people seek the
same goals of quality education for
young people, cleaner air and water,
safe streets and better health care
that straight people want. We have
to work harder for the broader vision
of the compassionate and caring
society that demands decent living
standards for all citizens.
"Now that the election is finally
behind us, we must turn our full
attention to building a tightly knit
coalition of human rights groups that
can act swiftly and effectively for
needed policy reforms. Let's make
this first decade of the 21st century
an era of unprecedented expansion in
freedom and democracy.
"And as we work for needed reforms,
we must also look ahead to the next
elections, mindful that we need more
people of color in America's federal,
state, and local political institutions.
And we also need more women and
more lesbian and gay officeholders
as well. This is how we make our
political institutions reflect the
diversity of the American people.
"In closing, my friends, I just want to
say that I'm proud to stand with you
today as we build a great new
American coalition for freedom and
human rights for all people. Despite
the formidable challenges we face, I
believe that we will succeed in
creating a more compassionate and
just society.
"I'll conclude my remarks tonight with
a few words spoken by Martin
Luther King Jr. at the National Press
Club in July of 1962. The 38 years
that have come and gone since then
have done nothing to diminish the
relevance of his remarks. Indeed,
they seem particularly appropriate to
the challenge we face today.
"'We are simply seeking,' said
Martin, 'to bring into full realization
the American dream, a dream yet
unfulfilled. A dream of equality of
opportunity, of privilege and
property widely distributed; a dream
of a land where men no longer argue
that the color of a man's skin
determines the content of his
character; the dream of a land where
everyone will respect the dignity and
worth of the human personality. This
is the dream. When it is realized, the
jangling discords of our nation will be
transformed into a beautiful
symphony of brotherhood, and men
everywhere will know that America
is truly the land of the free and the
home of the brave.'
"With this faith, sisters and brothers,
let us work together with renewed
passion and commitment to create
the beloved community of Martin
Luther King Jr.'s dream, where all
people can live together in a spirit of
trust and understanding, harmony,
love, and peace.
Subject: Re: Getting rid of the Navidad Virus
http://www.bigfoot.com/~pontille/en/index.htm#list
Look for NoNavidad
1) You're likely to survive any battle in any war unless you show someone a
photo of your sweetheart back home.
2) Should you wish to pass yourself off as a German officer, it will not be
necessary to speak the language. A German accent will do.
3) The Eiffel tower can be seen from any window in Paris.
4) A man will show no pain while taking a ferocious beating but will wince
when a woman tries to clean his wounds.
5) When paying for a taxi, don't look at your wallet as you pull out a
bill - just grab one at random and hand it over. It will always be the exact
fare.
6) If staying in a haunted house, women should investigate strange noises in
their most revealing underware.
7) A single match will be sufficient to light up a room the size of Wembley
Stadium.
8) Mediaeval peasants had perfect teeth.
9) All bombs have timing devices with large red read-outs, so you know
exactly when they're going to go off.
10) It does not matter if you are heavily outnumbered in a fight involving
martial arts - your ennemies will only attack you one by one, dancing around
in a threatening manner until you have knocked out their predecessors.
11) When they are alone, all foreigners prefer to speak English to each
other.
12) Any lock can be picked in seconds with a credit card or a paper clip
unless it's the door to a burning building with a child trapped inside.
13) All beds have special L-shaped cover sheets which reach up to the
armpits on a woman but only up to the waist of the man lying beside her.
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The Paris Opera was very grand
and very gay. There was a huge, high-
ceilinged bar for drinks between the
acts which was always jammed. I once
saw a famous Austrian film actor
named Paul Henreid (also in American
films) giving the eye to a hot number
close at hand. A couple of winks at
each other, and they vanished through
a door at the back of the bar which the
bartender unlocked for them. God knows
where they went, but I know what
they did because only a few minutes later,
just as the bell rang for the end of the
intermission, they came back through the same
door red-faced and obviously coming down
from a sexual high. Paul Henreid (originally
Paul von Hernreid, son of a Viennese banker)
was a gorgeous man. He was in "Casablanca,"
"Goodbye, Mr. Chips" (the first one) and
also in one of my favorite movies (which I watch
from time to time), "Now, Voyager" (with
Bette Davis at her best, in which he lit two
cigarettes in his mouth and gave one to
her, the first time ever in films and considered
shocking at the time). I had fantasies
about him and the Paris Opera incident
for years.
Looks like 'Mister Rogers' is going out of production. Its like an end of an
era. Luckily, he won't be disappearing into retirement. Read more... It's a
sad day in the neighborhood. Longtime
children's TV host Fred Rogers plans to introduce his last new
neighbor next year, his production company announced Saturday. The
71-year-old host and creator of "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" will
shoot the final episode of the show in 2001, but he won't be hanging
up his cardigan just yet. After 50 years in television and 33 years
as the show's host, Rogers is turning his attention to his Web sites,
publications and special museum programs. And he'll still provide
gentle advice in reruns. "Fred is not retiring," said his production
company, Family Communications. Rogers has produced almost 1,000
programs and averaged about 10 new episodes in each of the last few
years.