Hooked On Bravo

I admit I'm hooked on Bravo.   The Real Housewives of Orange County, New Jersey, Tabitha Takes Over, Shahs of Sunset, Million Dollar Listing, Jeff Lewis Designs....I love them all.   (Excluding Millon Dollar Matchmakers Patti Stanger and Tardy For the Party Kim Zolciak...those bitches are dead to me)   My current obsesion is the Bravo promos for this season and they are fun!  Featuring a surreal vibe, over the top acting and a fun song by Will-I-Am & Mylie Cyrus.... Andy Cohen is showing an aweseome chest and abs (I think he's adorable), Heather (RHOOC) is delightful w/the coconut, then there's  Jenni and Jeff and ZOILA!!!!  Who knew Zoila could 'get down'!  All of them are so much fun!!!  Whenever the promo music comes on, I rush to the TV.  No lie.   These promos are definitely like crack to me...or even more potent like chocolate!  I am most definitely a Bravo fan!

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Photograph of Zen

Sometimes a picture comes your way across the vast span of the internet that is so wonderful, so moving, so insanely perfect and thrilling you just have to put it up on your desk top and look at it for awhile.  Examine it.  Soak it all in.  Revel in the composition, the colors, the subject and format.   Such a picture deserves an introspective spirit and effort to relish the story of it's inception, it's journey and it's future.  It covers all the senses, touching the mind and the soul at the same time.  Yes it's a rare zen moment frozen in time..... This, is just such a picture.

 

This masterpiece is an OMG pic from the 80s.....it's just......so oddly insane.  Mohammed Ali, Hulk Hogan, Cyndi Lauper, Liber-freakin-ace and some chick named Wendy Richter.  It's 1980's 'camp' at it's very best in my view.  

According to a friend of mine, It's a promo shot from an early Wrestlemania. Hulk Hogan was champ, Richter was women's champ, Lauper was involved (Capt Lou Albano was dad in Girls Just Wanna Have Fun vid) and may have been managing a wrestler at the time, and Ali and Liberace both performed at the event.

Does it get any better than this???  Lib looks halfway butch w/that pose (fur and diamond rings notwithstanding).

I LOVE it!

 

source: James St James on worldofwonder.net

 

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Happy Birthday Harvey!

Happy Birthday to one of the most incredible talents in our lifetime.   Playwright, Actor, Activist....the one and only Harvey Fierstein turns 61!  Check out these vids of a ground breaking interview from 1983 with Barbara Walters, and present day with Thomas Roberts & w/Cyndi Lauper talking Kinkyboots!

 

 

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Time Travel Thursday

 Time Travel Thursday 6/6/2013

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New Camera

The camera I was gifted for my birthday came today and of course the first pics and vids were of my pugs.  Introducing Parker 8 months, and Mugsy 14years.

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Lord, It's Me Again....Geoff

Please excuse the mess as I move back in. 

 It's been over six months since my last post, and I sort of took a little 'vay-cay' from life after my mom passed, but I'm excited to blog again. 

If you're a returning blog buddy, thanks for checking back!   If you're a new potential blog buddy or even a lurker, forgive me if a few links are messed up a bit this first week.   Either way, thank you again for stopping by!

Geoff

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OUR Artist of the Week: George Quaintance

 

George Quaintance was born in Page County Virginia, June 3, 1902.   He was a gay American artist, famous for his "idealized, strongly homoerotic" depictions of men in mid-20th-century physique magazines. Using historical settings to justify the nudity or distance the subjects from modern society, his art featured idealized muscular, semi-nude or nude male figures; Wild West settings were a common motif. His artwork helped establish the stereotype of the "macho stud" who was also homosexual.He was an influence on many later homoerotic artists, such as Tom of Finland. 

He was raised on a farm and as a young man displyed a talent for art, and though closeted he was described as "obviously and actively homosexual".   Quaintance studied at the ARt Students League where he threw himself into multiple disciplines including painting, drawing and dance.  After a brief marriage and stint as a hairstylist in the 1930s, his first art assignments were anonymous advertising contract work.  By 1934 he had begun to sell freelance cover illustrations to a variety of 'spicy' pulp magazines with names including Gay French Life, Ginger, Movie Humor, Movie Merry Go-Round, Snappy Detective Mysteries, Snappy Stories, Stolen Sweets, and Tempting Tales. These were sold at burlesque halls as well as under-the-counter at discreet newsstands.

 

 

In 1938, he returned home with his companion Victor Garcia, described as Quaintance's "model, life partner, and business associate", who was the subject of many of Quaintance's photographs in the 1940s.

 In 1951, Quaintance's art was used for the first cover of Physique Pictorial, edited by Bob Mizer of the Athletic Model Guild. In the early 1950s, Quaintance and Garcia moved to Rancho Siesta, which became the home of Studio Quaintance, a business venture based around Quaintance's artworks.

George Quaintance died of a heart attack on November 8, 1957



source material: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Quaintance
http://www.georgequaintance.com/
http://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/sex/all/05065/facts.quaintance.htm

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I've Lost My Mom

I've mentioned my mom before on this blog, and taken care of her for many years.   The truth is she took care of me too.   It hasn't always been easy, in fact at times it's been a nightmare, but through it all she was my mom. 

This morning I found her in the bathroom between 3 and 4 AM, and she was gone.   My heart is broken and I feel so lost.   Rest in peace Mom.  I love you with all my heart.

Beverly Joan --

July 1931 -October 2012

 

(photo taken May of 1985)

 

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Can't Make Someone Love You

It's no secret I wear my heart on my sleeve.  I feel things deeply, often too deep.    I haven't posted in what...a month almost (?) because a lot's been going on. There's the consistent "drama with my mama"...I don't think will ever change until she passes on-- and while that's painful and draining it's nothing compared to the end of a relationship.   

D and I broke up a few weeks ago, only to come back together and agree to try again.   I didn't handle it well at all....I felt so many things.  Abandoned, alone, a chump.... mournful of the loss of my best friend and of course a whole lot more.  I think he agreed to 'try' because he was worried about me...(I'm a crier, sue me), and that adds another layer of hurt ...and embarrassment.   

 

Right now, communication has dwindled (his choice),  and I'm just waiting for the hammer to fall on his end.     The truth is, it's pretty much fallen on my end too, but there's that small albeit desperate part of me that holds on to the hope that it will work out (which I know it wont).

 

You can't make someone love you.

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