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fistzilla, 22
Las Vegas

what happens in Vegas or HardOn stays in Vegas/HardOn

Guestbook of fistzilla

turtlesky – Mar 11, 2023
Just left his place. The big takeaway for me was how basic an ass is inside. Just a greasy purple pocket. Like something you’d see if you were snorkelling.

penispenispenislol – Mar 8, 2023
i boxed his guts all to hell, that horny, scum, uncompromising rapist enraging pussy, damn, and at the end he was able to empty his balls, and OMG he absolutely explodes sperm.

Curval – Mar 5, 2023
astounding ass, an orchid in a desert, more unique than anything else, nothing like what one normally finds here… had it twice, still as beautiful, as tough, warm and fresh, and like a good book, you cannot put it down, and more you know it the more interesting it is!

Dry247 – Mar 3, 2023
Thank you for letting me mine your cave. You calmed me down for a moment.

Justyouraverage – Mar 2, 2023
Chilly, bored, emotionally dead, and more importantly amazing ass. Just a total blank. Licked his feet and rimmed him then put Keta in the hole and rammed it through.

Body Type Average
Ethnicity Caucasian
Body Hair Not very hairy
Smoker Yes
Tattoos Yes
Piercings Yes
Languages German, English
Position Bottom only
Dick L – Uncut
S&M Yes
Dirty Ask
Kissing No
PNP Yes
Hourly Rate 100$
Overnight Rate On request

 

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Youneverknowme, 19
Lisbon

I would not make sex with an ugly old man for less than €1000 an hour. So thanks the guys who are willing to pay it.

Guestbook of Youneverknowme

Youneverknowme (Owner) – Mar 4, 2023
Pay attention to me!

Youneverknowme (Owner) – Mar 1, 2023
I don’t “objectify” myself completely but I do think I can say I’m very cute.

Youneverknowme (Owner) – Feb 29, 2023
🏄🏼‍♂️

Youneverknowme (Owner) – Feb 24, 2023
I want to be the princess that can feel the pea.

Body Type Athletic
Ethnicity Caucasian
Body Hair Smooth
Smoker No
Tattoos No
Piercings No
Languages Spanish, Danish, English
Position Versatile
Dick L – Uncut
S&M Soft
Dirty No
Kissing Yes
PNP Yes
Hourly Rate On request
Overnight Rate On request

 

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cumdumpboyhusband, 19
Zagreb

Just a guy and his young blond, skinny, hairless “son” lookin’ to “hangout” w/ guys.
Love a good drink, wine, beer, 420, all of it!
Let’s see where things take us. We do prefer to meet up to check vibes 1st. (mostly)
Taps are fine. We tap U, then U us, then we know agree. Kink friendly.
We plan to Italy, France, England, Germany, Spain, Sweden and Poland… I don’t know the exact order yet… 🙂

Guestbook of cumdumpboyhusband

ThatOnlineGuy – Mar 5, 2023
He bills his so-called “son” as versatile, but if that kid can even top his own hand I’d be shocked.

cumdumpboyhusband (Owner) – Mar 2, 2023
We do not speak Croatian.

Zonks – Feb 26, 2023
Oh hell fucking yeah!

Lookatme – Feb 22, 2023
Only if you have a fetish for ultra skinny anorexic illegal looking legal boys.

Body Type Slim
Ethnicity Asian
Body Hair Little
Smoker Yes
Tattoos Yes
Piercings No
Languages English
Position Versatile
Dick S – Cut
S&M Yes
Dirty Yes
Kissing Yes
PNP Yes
Hourly Rate 200€
Overnight Rate 900€

 

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PressureReliefExpert, 19
Dallas

Young subject looking for offers to spank me (hand and instruments). Visible traces fine because in a relationship (straight) but she doesn’t give a shit about my ass. Anal sex only once the deed is done.

Guestbook of PressureReliefExpert

donkeymeat – Mar 7, 2023
I loved hurting his buttocks and shooting huge quantities of male reproductive liquids in his boy vagina.

Fuckbitxh – Mar 4, 2023
Your ass is suspiciously fresh looking.

Body Type Slim
Ethnicity Latino
Body Hair Smooth
Smoker Socially
Tattoos No
Piercings No
Languages Spanish, English
Position More bottom
Dick M – Uncut
S&M Yes
Dirty No
Kissing No
PNP Yes
Hourly Rate 2$
Overnight Rate 2$

 

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burn-it-down, 23
Boston

PARTISAN, ANARCHIST, ANTI-FASCIST!!!

me:
voluminous mind
activist for animal rights
huge personality
crazy
squatter
veggie
hard too handle
body modification
illigal sex
HARDCORE
TERROR
tekno
punk
get wasted
after partys
no preferences between fucking, getting wasted, getting fucked hard, argue, fight or the revolution

Guestbook of burn-it-down

catch92 – Mar 10, 2023
What would you do if I told you I loved you?

Body Type Average
Ethnicity Caucasian
Body Hair Not very hairy
Smoker Yes
Tattoos No
Piercings No
Languages English
Position Versatile
Dick XL – Cut
S&M Yes
Dirty Yes
Kissing Yes
PNP Yes
Hourly Rate 150$
Overnight Rate 500$

 

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YoungStupidKid, 19
Raffles City

Im from Indonesia looking for someone to take me abroad to the eras tour

Im open to being raped or whatever it’s called

Guestbook of YoungStupidKid

VictorE – Mar 9, 2023
pretty but dumb, and pretty dumb

Body Type Slim
Ethnicity Asian
Body Hair Smooth
Smoker No
Tattoos No
Piercings No
Languages Malay, Chinese, English
Position More bottom
Dick M – Cut
S&M Soft
Dirty WS only
Kissing Yes
PNP Ask
Hourly Rate On request
Overnight Rate On request

 

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spectacularbuddy, 19
Den Haag

Well.. I am a 19 year old FTM lad originally from the Warrington area, UK. I’m a two hole bottom! Always have been and always will be. I am very experienced and have been a bottom for many many years.. This is the first time I’ve been single in 4 years so really wanting to catch up.

Guestbook of spectacularbuddy

hermeticism – Mar 3, 2023
I’m a very hung (10″) straight guy, dyed in the wool, but I hired “him” because hot women almost never let me fuck them in the ass. He on the other hand loved my hyper focus on his back hole and immediately became super wet in his vagina. I pawed that juice down to his asshole then shoved it in. The hottest thing was that I discovered that when I had my cock deep in his ass, I could reach my hand inside his vagina and masturbate my cock with my fingers. After I came in his ass after 1.5 hours of intense fucking, he took out a huge dildo, handed it to me and I fucked his ass with it intensely and ate his vagina and clit like a hound dog as he had multiple orgasms in my mouth. It was crazy.

spectacularbuddy (Owner) – Feb 28, 2023
Thanks for the overwhelming amount of customers, guys. Den Haag is very boring, so thanks for helping me out! My upcoming calendar is now really full. Because of that, I will now only accept dates with VERY HUNG men. Just broke up with my boyfriend, he was 9 inches, and I won’t go for less. And yes, macho XXXXL fuckers, I can handle you.

MikeMad – Feb 25, 2023
Hired them with a straight friend. He saw the girl, I saw the boy. His cock rocked the pussy, mine rocked the ass. He power kissed the girl and I power kissed the boy, and those three holes drained the daylights out of us multiple times.

xjock – Feb 17, 2023
My first time with a ftm. I wasn’t sure until the clothes came off and realised he’s just a boy whose ass has two entrances. I sat the more extravagant of them on my face and used my tongue to tour the voluminous backstage area of his ass deeply with my tongue. I guess he enjoyed it because his pussy got wetter and wetter. It was more exciting than sucking a cock. And that’s saying something!

Body Type Slim
Ethnicity Caucasian
Body Hair Shaved
Smoker Yes
Tattoos Yes
Piercings No
Languages English
Position Bottom only
Dick No answer
S&M Soft
Dirty No
Kissing Yes
PNP Yes
Hourly Rate 90€
Overnight Rate 550€

 

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downthemiddle, 24
Redlands

I live a straight life, and have no experience with men sexually, but have been playing with my ass for years now, and finally decided to give in to my curiosity and earn a little along the way.

Ideally I would like to get high (to help with the nerves), and see how far we could go. I would be bottom, no hugging, just would like to see how it would feel to have my hole used by a guy.

No interest in kissing. (You do you, just not for me).

Guestbook of downthemiddle

DoubleWideElbowDeep – Mar 11, 2023
Tonight Michael you’re going to be a fucking shape.

PleasureActivist – Mar 9, 2023
Wow Wow…first a few sucks of the pipe and popper hits to rid him of his tough guy swagger, the pants came down, he was happy to have his butt moulded into what I thought it could be, and soon came the miracles… I came like a crazy person.

analassasin – Mar 6, 2023
Closeted gay bottoms are a dime a dozen. But this dime is shiny enough.

Trencher70 – Mar 3, 2023
Dying marriage. Pig looking to explore all the cute boys – spread your ass cheeks I’m hungry. Fuck you.

Body Type Athletic
Ethnicity Latino
Body Hair Shaved
Smoker Yes
Tattoos Yes
Piercings No
Languages English, Spanish
Position Bottom only
Dick L – Uncut
S&M Yes
Dirty Ask
Kissing Consent
PNP Yes
Hourly Rate 55$
Overnight Rate 540$

 

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Unauthorized, 19
San Bernardino

I wish you accept my poor life and ugly face 🥹🫣

Guestbook of Unauthorized

Almost11inchtop – Feb 29, 2023
He can ride you till you have to pick him up to get him off you.

MayAsWellBeStraight – Feb 27, 2023
i know him hes jakob fag son of a homeless guy i hire to do construction hed be good to relocate and rape into a girly faggot hes 5’11 and 155lbs 19 years old and could be taken go ANYWHERE and abused and trafficked dont be scared to threaten him🤭🤭

Unauthorized (Owner) – Feb 27, 2023
I am not a drug addict. Alcohol – yes, but it is not addictive.

Delivery – Feb 21, 2023
A couple of cheap spit in the hole cunt!

Body Type Slim
Ethnicity Mixed
Body Hair Not very hairy
Smoker Yes
Tattoos No
Piercings No
Languages English
Position Versatile
Dick M – Uncut
S&M Yes
Dirty Yes
Kissing Yes
PNP Yes
Hourly Rate 80$
Overnight Rate 100$

 

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theyloveme, 20
Potsdam

Young Ukrainian escapee trying to make ends meet.
You can fuck my mouth and cum on my face for two hundred euro bills.
A face fuck is NOT the same as me sucking you!
I just offer my 👄 as a 🍑.
My normal job is getting people drunk for a living, and I do enjoy doing that.
I can do one other thing but hand me three hundred euro bills to know what.

Guestbook of theyloveme

redred – Mar 8, 2023
He’s so cute I made him show me his ID just to be sure he wasn’t a figment of Ritalin-psychosis.

intrepidrelative – Mar 1, 2023
Second time in my life that I’ve fucked a mouth, it confirms to me that it’s very cool to do. Delighted to have been able to train beforehand with a previous mouth and learn to take my time and ask for feedback.
Once we had started, he offered to let me lick my fingers after they had scrounged inside his mouth, which was super cool, and something I wouldn’t have asked for, which really pleased me.
After I spent quite a while fucking his mouth, he offered to poop in my mouth for an extra hundred, it wasn’t a sexual fantasy of mine, but I decided to try.
I was surprised, the first time in my life that I’ve cum with poop in my mouth.
I have to say that hearing him moan as the poop slid in my mouth was super exciting and helped me cum. I admit that given the moans, I hoped that I too would succeed in making him cum, but that was me being stupid.
Afterwards we talked a little, and he seems very nice, from that point of view.

Body Type Athletic
Ethnicity Caucasian
Body Hair Shaved
Smoker No
Tattoos No
Piercings No
Languages Ukrainian, Russian, English
Position Versatile
Dick XL – Uncut
S&M Soft
Dirty No
Kissing Yes
PNP Yes
Hourly Rate 120€
Overnight Rate On request

 

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melancholyslut, 22
Prague

i accept bets because of negative reviews and reports written by agressive competitive children

liars, fake accounts, photo, frauds

other prague escorts like robert and his drunk friends

broke 34 years old ex-porn actors who dont like that i like being a beautiful stupid slut

hate from the mysterious five cigarettes payer

and owners of strip clubs which i refused to work at

who will win? choose ur bottom!
1. if u seem rude i’ll block u
2. don’t care if u are a billionaire or whatever i’ll block ur rude ass
XOXO

Guestbook of melancholyslut

VersatileBreeder – Mar 9, 2023
truck stop bathroom attendant

melancholyslut (Owner) – Mar 9, 2023
does anyone know of which jobs or type of jobs would align well with my cumdump lifestyle
i mean beyond sex work i mean jobs that would make it easier to take more loads, during breaks or after work
i really want to integrate my cumdump lifestyle into all aspects of my life, and i dread going to work because i’m always thinking it could be time i could be taking loads.
does anyone currently work somewhere that is convenient for a cumdump lifestyle
i really would appreciate anyone’s insights

RemyJackson – Mar 9, 2023
He’s even more disheveled and baggy eyed than in those photos. But the really really important thing you need to know is that he is nonetheless perfect because he possesses a stunning, deep sexy innie navel. Sublime.

Willing – Mar 5, 2023
This twink’s ass is loose but putting my hand over his mouth and nose unexpectedly so he hadn’t got time to take a deep breath before and his lungs were empty and keeping it there for 90 seconds produced a wonderful panic that tightened his sphincter nicely.

Body Type Slim
Ethnicity Mixed
Body Hair Not very hairy
Smoker Yes
Tattoos No
Piercings Yes
Languages Czech, German, English
Position Bottom only
Dick L – Uncut
S&M Yes
Dirty Yes
Kissing Yes
PNP Yes
Hourly Rate 200€
Overnight Rate 1000€

 

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cuteasiandeafboy, 23
Graz

People say I have a cute smile. But I would like to turn that smile upside-down 💦💦💦💦

Guestbook of cuteasiandeafboy

Morbid1980 – Mar 9, 2023
if you want my 120 euros message me if not block me dont care about the bullshit of this app if I am too old to fuck you block me if your head is so far up your own ass fuck off block me looking for deaf asian to fuck unlikely i suppose too many fake on here

Klaus – Mar 8, 2023
It’s upside down.

monodread – Mar 3, 2023
I’d love to matt your hair dirty hippie style like this pic. Let me know what you think.

Body Type Slim
Ethnicity Asian
Body Hair Smooth
Smoker Yes
Tattoos No
Piercings No
Languages German, English
Position Versatile
Dick M – Cut
S&M Soft
Dirty WS only
Kissing Consent
PNP 420 only
Hourly Rate 120€
Overnight Rate 600€

 

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PaidTeenBoyfriend, 19
Mumbai

Hi, This is Sparsh, hygienic, slim, cute teen for Paid Boyfriend Experience in Mumbai/Thane & Pune.
He has a good reputation and would never trade his reputation for anything in this world.

Guestbook of PaidTeenBoyfriend

ASimpleThing – Mar 7, 2023
I can confirm that he is the most reluctant bottom you can imagine, not just in Mumbai but pretty much anywhere in the world.

HotSince72 – Mar 7, 2023
I’ve heard he is very reluctant to bottom.

ASimpleThing – Mar 7, 2023
He’s an Emergency Traveling Room Surgery Doctor’s Assistant.

teddyburr – Mar 7, 2023
What does he do for a living?

ASimpleThing – Mar 7, 2023
I’ve had sex with him 18 times. Ask me what you want to know.

Body Type Slim
Ethnicity Hindu
Body Hair Smooth
Smoker No
Tattoos No
Piercings No
Languages Marathi, English
Position Versatile
Dick L – Uncut
S&M No
Dirty No
Kissing Consent
PNP No
Hourly Rate 2500INR
Overnight Rate 10000INR

 

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Pitbull, 18
Amsterdam

hookups, already ready

Guestbook of Pitbull

WadiOn – Feb 17, 2023
Does anyone else really enjoy the fact that there is now basically no market for condom escorts? It’s been so exciting to watch the boy whores fall like dominos into 100% bareback insemination, to the point where now it’s just expected as a bare minimum. It honestly turns me on so much to know that boys growing up will only ever get bareback fucks and they will see it as completely normal.

texasguy – Feb 16, 2023
He once charged me 20Euros to tongue and eat out his coked up nostrils in the back seat of a rented limo.

wintergarden – Feb 16, 2023
His dick is big small

Pitbull (Owner) – Feb 13, 2023
I like 55 plus moustache chubby friends.

gingerDad55 – Feb 13, 2023
Longtime veteran of cheap faux pedo sex. His ass is slowly wearing out but still retains the soft, tender teen flesh. But buy the boy now while it’s still somewhat edible. Unfortunately his buttocks give in far too quickly. Used to be tighter.

Body Type Average
Ethnicity Mixed
Body Hair Smooth
Smoker Yes
Tattoos No
Piercings Yes
Languages Dutch, English
Position More bottom
Dick M – Uncut
S&M Yes
Dirty Yes
Kissing Yes
PNP Yes
Hourly Rate 40€
Overnight Rate On request

 

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AvocadoToast, 19
Strasbourg

As a phenomenal god level worldwide beauty, I pride myself on delivering a luxury high class anal experience like no other. When you step onto my body’s rollercoaster, be prepared to be taken on a journey that will leave you thinking it’s all just a dream. With my bottoming techniques and skills, i can guarantee a phenomenal experience that will put you in a trance and stay in your memory forever. You can compare fucking me with Cirque Du Soleil. It’s extremely sensual experience… Once you fuck me, it’s GAME OVER, because I’m BEYOND PERFECT.

Guestbook of AvocadoToast

Thetrustedblond – Mar 11, 2023
Very high-breed buttocks akin to Apollo’s. An asshole of gold and fire. A long, deep branching anal passage sensitive like a harp. A soft, warm and welcoming rectum. Sphincter like a Magician’s instrument. Patient, ardent, tireless, a dream to pound, cum, re-harden, pound, cum, faint from delirium under his agile and caressing anal membranes. Only for the great ass connoisseur artists!!!

Solelyforyou – Mar 13, 2023
He is not asking you to find him special, he only expects you to appreciate the special “package” his ass is offering. His “god level” in anal artistry is not that of God Almighty, but of a humble Eros who is always striving to perfect his technique to provide you with the best fuck possible. He has a perfectly classic teenage ass. It is remarkable that he actually lets it be what it is, and not hit the gym and merely “expanded” it like a soufflé.

Gyspy860 – Mar 11, 2023
The fuck was like no other fuck I have had. It was at times hypnotic and it felt like my cock was being made love to by his ass. I was confused by his “Cirque du Soleil” reference, but the way he moved his hole vibrated around my cock REALLY did have that feel to it. He appeared to be in like a trance or dancing–or casting a spell–with how fluidly his ass moved around my cock, in sometimes almost a frenetic but very thoughtful way.

wanna_do – Mar 9, 2023
He has more than outdone himself today. i’m blown away to heaven. (is that possible? yes it is!!) What an insane experience today. It was as if his ass was composing a symphony using my cock as his orchestra. i will take this memory with me forever.

N7788 – Mar 6, 2023
Amazing, mind blowing, exquisite, a nirvana,… His ass gives the term masterpiece a totally new meaning. A better fuck that any other fuck in this dimension of existence. You will have the wildest ejaculation, a huge firework in his guts.

AestheticDude – Mar 2, 2023
How do I even begin writing this amazing experience?.. hands down to this boy’s ass.. mad respect for achieving so much with such a simple form. Having only seen his photos where his ass was nowhere to be seen I was shocked of how captivating it was the first time I laid my eyes on it. He let me lick its humble expanse a bit to settle my nervousness.. then … A-M-A-Z-I-N-G is not even enough to describe fucking it. It was the best 90 minutes of my life.

Argonauts – Feb 28, 2023
I doubt I’ll be able to describe this experience as it was since I’m afraid my vocabulary is not good enough. Nevertheless, I’ll try hard. How to start? Where to start? It was an epiphany, a trip to heaven, an unimaginable flight to unheard of hights of wonder and pleasure. I have already experienced excellent bottoms in the past, but none like him. He is not just a slut. He is an artist, a musician. Like a talented virtuoso plays the piano, his ass played my penis. It was his instrument and, together, his ass and it performed a sublime music.

Avalon – Feb 25, 2023
Silently I sneak out of my thoughts and find myself in the mystery garden of the present. Are you the golden light without warmth? Are you the pure source out of nothing? Your ass is beautiful, that is obvious. A beauty that I once encountered when I knew friendship. Oblivion is imprisoned in the dungeon of the past, guarded by the twins of memory. I fuck you, passion ignites my being, for the dream, has fled across the ocean of time, across an uncertain future. Should I keep setting sail? Silently I sneak out of my thoughts and the present is as present as it was at the beginning. I am dreaming! Your ass is with me and it divides in a million ways until my cock and it are fused into one whole. The tears of time fall to the ground like pearls of a torn chain. Only now I understand it, the beautiful ass of Avalon.

Body Type Athletic
Ethnicity Caucasian
Body Hair Shaved
Smoker No
Tattoos No
Piercings No
Languages Swedish, French, English
Position Versatile
Dick XL – Uncut
S&M Soft
Dirty No
Kissing Consent
PNP No
Hourly Rate 500€
Overnight Rate 850€

 

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DirtyThingForYou, 18
Kansas City

I like worshipping dick
Not a size queen
I like dad belly’s
Play with my hole, get me ready and breed me
Love plaid boxers
Kissing++
Need to be verbal I want to hear you the whole time

Guestbook of DirtyThingForYou

flyingbarista – Mar 10, 2023
Well since I’m writing this on the app and not my computer, I’ll keep it brief. He’s in the process of slowly quitting drinking. While he still drinks, he’s trying to cut back on it. He was born with HIV. His mother was a drug addict and passed it on to him. He won’t enema his ass, so if you start screaming like a hysterical little woman if you find a half centimeter streak of shit, visible only under a microscope, on your cock stay away. I have more to say but I don’t want to ramble.

DirtyThingForYou (Owner) – Mar 10, 2023
It’s easy to spread love for me, after few hours of sex I kinda wouldn’t mind being someone’s boyfriend rly but i mean 🤭

RotgutWhiskey – Mar 9, 2023
He’s a high strung boy who’s overly excited to be played with.

DirtyThingForYou (Owner) – Mar 7, 2023
Yes I am weird friendless annoying but therefore have ample availability unlike most here

aguy9988 – Mar 7, 2023
dude, you’re hot, but when you opened our meeting with that barrage of blahdiblah, the experience became contrived and stultified. just my 2¢.

Body Type Average
Ethnicity Caucasian
Body Hair Little
Smoker Socially
Tattoos No
Piercings No
Languages English
Position More bottom
Dick M – Cut
S&M Yes
Dirty WS only
Kissing Yes
PNP Yes
Hourly Rate 50$
Overnight Rate 120$

 

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Two2Pop, 21
Vienna

Ever dreamed of having two twink cuties just for you? We´re a very submissive and obedient femboy couple, up to do very kinky things with you.

✅On prep, we love to get bred 😈

We are happy in our relationship, however we are open to becoming a Throuple.

Guestbook of Two2Pop

AllFun6972 – Mar 6, 2023
we know what 69 is and 72 is 69 with 3 fingers up the butt

Trout – Mar 6, 2023
That makes no sense.

Two2Pop (Owner) – Mar 6, 2023
If life is like a box of chocolates, then we’re definitely the kids who pick out all the chocolate ones first.

Ethnicity Mixed
Body Type Slim
Body Hair Shaved
Smoker Yes
Tattoos No
Piercings Yes
Languages English, Spanish, French
Position Bottom only
Dick S – Uncut
Dirty Yes
Fisting Passive
S&M Yes
Kissing Yes
PNP Yes
Hourly Rate 300€
Overnight Rate 3000€

 

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Lolita, 23
London

I am currently 23 years, sleeping on a friend’s couch in central London, and just finished my MBA. I do drugs, I drink socially, I speak three languages, and I can’t wait to meet someone that meets my financial needs as I happen to be ready for a romance.

Guestbook of Lolita

Beefyhairy – Mar 8, 2023
Background noise is key.

Lolita (Owner) – Mar 5, 2023
Oh I forgot, I ABSOLUTELY LOVE wearing my girlfriend’s tiny thong, it makes me feel sexy and I masturbate constantly, she has no idea and will never have.

Anonymous – Mar 2, 2023
This is an unprofessional profile.

Body Type Slim
Ethnicity Caucasian
Body Hair Smooth
Smoker Socially
Tattoos No
Piercings No
Languages English
Position More bottom
Dick XL – Uncut
S&M Soft
Dirty Ask
Kissing Consent
PNP Yes
Hourly Rate On request
Overnight Rate On request

 

 

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p.s. Hey. ** James Bennett, Hi, James! Thanks a lot. I have read John Hawkes, yes, but not for a long time. I should do a spotlight post on one of his books, actually. I will. In my memory, my favorites of his were ‘The Lime Twig’ and ‘Blood Oranges’. Do you have a favorite or more of his you can recommend? I’m so happy you like McCourt. There’s another vastly undervalued great writer right there. I’ve met him a few times, and he is super funny and really nice. Slow advancement is a solid plus, or as a fellow snail pacer, at least in my own head, I like to think so. I look forward to reading what results. Vibe my cheerleading. Really good to see you, and love from over here. ** Dominik, Hi!!! As ever, my great pleasure. I have a little stretch of free-ish time to work on the fiction collection right, so I’ll see how far I can take it, thanks. It was really fucking scary: the kidnapping. Briefly, I picked up this hitchhiking guy. I was with a friend. My friend was creeped out by the guy and fled the car at a stop light. As soon as he had, the guy pulled a gun on me. He made me drive him around for about 10 hours while he scored drugs and picked up friends of his and stuff. Finally, he got out of the car to use a toilet, and one his friends, who was very stoned and kind of oblivious like they all were, asked me how long I’d been friends with the guy. I told him I wasn’t his friend, he was kidnapping me. He was surprised and said they would let me go if I gave them rides home, so I did, and the last guy I dropped off told me the guy who’d kidnapped me would kill me if he ever saw me again. Luckily he didn’t. But, yeah, I thought I was a goner there for a while. I have just whispered in love’s ear to do your bookcases next, and he seemed agreeable. You can compare fucking love with Cirque Du Soleil, G. ** Misanthrope, No, I have never thought about smoking a pipe and wearing an ascot, and I never will, but thank you for the tip. Maybe better to tattoo The Weeknd’s face on the head of your cock? ** _Black_Acrylic, Horse racing, huh, okay, that’s interesting. I might just dip into that book. Don’t let briefly losing the thread thwart you. I lose my threads all the time, but they usually magically appear. I hope in your case, as soon as today. ** Allegra, Hi! I never watch TV at all except sometimes when I’m visiting LA, so I don’t know any of the shows, realty or otherwise, except by reputation. However, if someone suggested something, as you have ‘Vanderpump Rules’, I do try to find some way to see it, which is often rather difficult, being over here in France and everything. And that show does sound rather extremely interesting for a number of reasons. So I’ll find it. Huh, thank you. I hope you got some sleep. What’s keeping you awake? Narcotic hugs. ** David, Hi. Oh, thank you so much, David. You seem pretty likeable too. Obviously come back and visit or hang out anytime please. xo. ** Bzzt, Hi. Oh, yeah, no big, I’ll just buy it and support his cause. Incremental is a manifestation of truth perhaps. Or something. I hear the tides are moving fondly in your direction. ** Darby🦛🦏, I was thinking and hoping you’d flatten in the midsection. Three missed answers is enough to disqualify you? I’m absolutely sure you’ll get it aced next time. And so are you. Oh, no, I read ‘Black Sunlight’ a while ago, and I just dipped back in and read some of it, but not the totality ‘cos I want to read new stuff. I did a spotlight post on that book years ago, which is here, if you’re curious. There’s one kind of wiggly vein in one of my palms I like to look at. Sometimes it’s deep and barely visible, and sometimes it’s sleeping just under the skin like a sea serpent. I’ll see if I can see my the great saphenous. I think I can see my calf in detail if I find the right pose. You should do that post. Um, there aren’t really any prerequisites for a post. I mean, you see them, they’re pretty various. Not too, too short, I guess? You’ll actually make me a Soy Chorizo taco, like, with your own hands? Counting the days then. Thank you. I’m conceptually busting already. I must admit I did see the sodomising intent in the rhino first thing. I don’t know why that says about me. ** Steve, Oh, great, about the interview. 25 minutes is really short. That’s tough. Nice you managed to max them mostly out. ** Uday, Hi. Oh, okay, but it’s not Metcalf’s fault, at least? And he’s certainly less egregious than his fellow Melville-name-dropping Melville descendent Moby. I have yet to allow myself to fall into the Vexillography hole. I think I will today. I’m trying not to distract myself from some writing I’m in the middle of. I do look forward to that descent. Favorite flag … The Sicilian flag is pretty good. And Swaziland’s is kind of stylin’. ** Corey Heiferman, Howdy. One of Metcalf’s novels was translated into French, but I have no idea if it works well in French or not. Heads up if you launch the newsletter/blog, needless to say. My memory of Dennis Hopper in person was that he seemed really tense and his body language was very tight and coiled but that he was quite pleasant in his conversing. You should watch ‘Out of the Blue’ if you haven’t maybe. ** Okay. Those of you who wait impatiently for the 15th of each month when the new parade of escorts happens, this is your day. See you tomorrow.

 

‘Genoa: A Telling of Wonders invites us to pass our minds down a new but ancient track, to become, ourselves, both fact and fiction, and to discover something true about the geography of time.’ — William H. Gass

‘My excitement and pleasure is such that I would like to emphasize here my very great respect for Paul Metcalf’s writing and the unique significance of its publication….Much like his great-grandfather, Herman Melville, Paul Metcalf brings an extraordinary diversity of materials into the complex patterns of analogy and metaphor, to affect a common term altogether brilliant in its imagination.’ — Robert Creeley

‘Like a medieval chronicler with the eye of a poet and the heart of a taleteller, he fits together radiant fragments into a wholly new kind of construct.’ — Guy Davenport

 

‘It is extremely rare, these days, to encounter something that feels completely new. That is, most literary artifacts are pretty easy to slot into one format or the other.What a gift then, what a rare, beautiful turn of events when you stumble on a book that seems to come from some spot entirely its own. What a gift, the moment in which you must summon all your readerly resources to grasp the enormity of what you are encountering, to see the pages as they are. I can count these reading experiences on one hand, and in each case I was somehow improved,made better as a reader (Nightwood, by Djuna Barnes; Sanitorium under the Sign of the Hourglass, by Bruno Schulz; The Recognitions, by William Gaddis; The Rings of Saturn, by W. G. Sebald; The Beetle Leg, by John Hawkes). Often the reason we read is in the hope of having these experiences of the truly, unmistakably original.

‘Paul Metcalf is one of these original writers. A writer who had to follow his own path, at significant cost to himself, over many decades, without a large following. A writer who took the forms that were at hand and shook them up, recast them, repurposed them, so that a traditional approach, after beholding his model, seems almost ludicrously simplistic. A writer of the new, the surprising, the arresting.

‘Genoa was first published in 1965 by the Jargon Society, a small press associated with the Black Mountain school of American poetics. Its story, to the extent that it has one, is not hard to relate: a certain clubfooted, nonpracticing MD, Michael Mills, ponders his relationship with his murderous and broken sibling, Carl. In the process, he burnishes their lives and upbringing in a field of exploratory quotation, not limited to extensive quotation from the complete works of Herman Melville, a mulch of Christopher Columbus’s diaries, and even a brief stopover in the literary confines of L. Ron Hubbard’s Dianetics. …

‘How do you read it then? Like all the books that have changed me as a reader and made me think otherwise about the book as a vessel for language, Genoa can be read in ways that are like unto the novel, in which you start at the beginning and move page by page to the end. But you can also read Genoa as a particularly rich act of Melvillean scholarship by a person with abundant feeling for the work of his great-grandfather. You can read it, too, as a work of scholarship about American exploration narratives, a kind of Anatomy of Melancholy in which all is the lesson of the classics. And you can read it as a work of repetition compulsion about what lineage is. Each of these readings is coincident with the others, and each is available at any time. In a way, Genoa requires that you don’t start at the beginning on one of your perusals of its chapters, but rather that you start in the middle and let the languorous semiosis of compulsive quotation be your guide.And it also requires that you read only for Columbus, and that you skip the quotations entirely. It permits you license as a reader, and judges you not at all.

‘And so Genoa is also a work about the act of reading. As the beginning, the transition, into Metcalf ’s subsequent vanishing into quotation and poetry, this makes sense, that the work should be about reading, that it should locate the old debunked theory that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny in the stratum of citation, in which all novels consist of a history of literature, each with its influence.

‘So much happening in such an abbreviated space, a mere couple hundred pages! More the length of a poem than the length of a novel. And happening well before the period in which fiction this innovative (I’m thinking of the period between, for instance, Snow White, by Donald Barthelme, and The Age of Wire and String, by Ben Marcus) would have found a success d’estime simply for being new and unpredictable. But that is exactly why this reissue gives us a chance for an overdue reevaluation, and gives you the opportunity to have the experience with this book that I was so happy to have, the experience in which the history of literature, again, seems populated by eruptions of a kind you never knew to expect, eruptions of the unpredictable and new.’ — Rick Moody

 

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Further

Paul Metcalf @ Wikipedia
Paul Metcalf @ goodreads
No Wooden Horse
The Unyielding Sea: Genoa by Paul Metcalf
Book Review: Genoa
Genoa – Paul Metcalf
Paul Metcalf @ BIBLIOMANIAC
Paul Metcalf on Craft, Heritage & Selection
We understand the New by comparing it with the Old
PAUL METCALF (1917-1999): A EULOGY
Paul Metcalf / Guy Davenport
Rick Moody Considers the Poetic Collage & Novelistic Pleasures of Paul Metcalf’s Genoa
Paul Metcalf, 81; Wrote Experimental Tales
Buy ‘Genoa: A Telling of Wonders’

 

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Extras

Paul Metcalf (1917-1999)

Paul Metcalf – Genoa – Book Review

Paul Metcalf’s limits as a writer

 

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Interview

 

John O’Brien: What have been the influences of modern poetic techniques on your conception of prose? I should point out two things: first, the poets I have in mind are Pound, Williams, and Olson; second, I am purposely avoiding the word “fiction,” though you are usually thought of as a novelist.

Paul Metcalf: The poets, it seem to me, have offered us an opportunity to “particularize”—i.e., to break a narrative into its particular parts, and rearrange them according to an original pattern. There is a significant connection between the images from the world of electromagnetics, images used in one case by Pound, and the other by Olson. Pound speaks of the poem as the “rose in the steel dust,” and Olson describes the poem as a thing among things, that must “stand on its own feet as, a force, in, the fields of force which surround everyone of us. . .” Both these images suggest particles in a state of chaos, drawn into shape through an act of imagination, but retaining their character as particles, distinct from one another.

The American dynamic (in their example, the historical dynamic) is the separation and exposure of the particles, spread out and shaping, all in one difficult process, seemingly contradictory but not so, and not to be easily congealed in the European manner—particularly in Olson’s and Williams’ view—not brought together, but spreading and shaping in one gesture, as in the “big bang” theory of the origin of the universe, spreading and shaping.

The poet Clark Coolidge works with even smaller particles—individual words and syllables—and in correspondence with me he has used these phrases: “just what are words & what do they do?”—”manipulation of language particles”—”words surrounded by spaces”—and “particles are interesting.”

Compared to all this, the conventional novel, with its sequential flow of events, seems less “original,” or, more simply, less appropriate to the character and quality of American life today.

A careful reading of Moby-Dick, by the way, will show how modern it is, how much in line it is with what I am talking about here, After a conventional novelistic opening, Melville quickly particularizes, interjecting (between narrative sequences) particles of cetology, the practice of whaling, etc.—”the ballast of the book,” as Van Wyck Brooks put it. Has anyone ever made a comparative study of Moby-Dick and Paterson?

Is Moby-Dick a poem written in prose?

(Clark Coolidge once tried seriously to find any reference to Melville in Williams’ writings. The closest he could come was in a letter Williams wrote to someone: “Flossie is now reading Moby Dick.” No more.)

(And when Olson published Call Me Ishmael, he gave a copy to Pound, and asked him to send it on to Eliot, to see if Eliot could arrange for an English edition. . . .Pound obliged, with a note to Eliot: “I recommend that you publish it, it’s a labor-saving device-you don’t have to read Melville.”)

But this is another matter, that I will get into later: the artificial separation of 19th and 20th centuries. Pound and Williams were evidently so aware of themselves as innovators that they were not altogether conscious of their heritage.

JOB: When you eliminate so many of the conventions of the traditional novel (i.e., plot, and sometimes even characters), what becomes the principle of unity? How do you move from point A to point B?

PM: The principle of unity is “the rose in the steel dust,” and I can be no more specific than to say that this is something inside me, and that effecting its transfer, from inside my skin to outside it, is the reason for writing (as well as the process). The pattern may be clear in its details—or nebulous, only vaguely intuited—but the pursuit, the delineation of its outlines dictates every step—or at least dictates what is point A and what is point B. Then—how to get from A to B—this is best done abruptly. I learned long ago, from a very wise man, that “the only real work in creative endeavor is keeping things from falling together too soon.” A corollary to that notion would be that, having held the structural elements apart as long as possible, when they do come together, let them really clang. And this is not work, it is only the courage to move abruptly. Nothing softens and muddies a piece of writing so much as what used to be taught in writing classes as “transitions.” Let the relation of your particles be implicit, discoverable by the reader. When you have accomplished this, you will have a quality that Guy Davenport has used in describing my writing: tensegrity (which, as near as I can make out, is one of Bucky Fuller’s neologisms, meaning that when you erect a structure, if all the lines holding it are taut or tense, it will stay up. Tension=integrity.).

It might be worth adding that one doesn’t always travel from point A to point B. It might be from A to point L, for example—with points B through K inferred.

JOB: To continue with these connections. Genoa, I think, is a tightly written book, each of whose pages seems to reverberate with echoes of other pages. I can see the smile on your face as you came across a passage in Columbus about feet or a line in Melville about heads: connections, Did you have to keep charts, listing such references, when you were writing Genoa? Did you consciously seek out material that would set up these echoes?

PM: I am flattered that you consider Genoa a tightly written book—this is as I would want it to be. And I humbly (proudly?) confess to the many smiles that crossed my face, as the rhymes and reflections emerged. No, I didn’t have to keep charts; my notes, although lengthy and complex, never exploded beyond 8-1/2×11 (almost entirely handwritten) . In developing the thing, I functioned pretty much according to the premise I outlined for Carl and Michael. I “intuited” the Columbus-Melville connection, by which I mean that a body of knowledge about them, of which I was only dimly aware, may have existed somewhere within me, and when I began to open it (i.e. , research the lives and writings of the two men), the revelations came as a series of confirming surprises.

I draw the line, however, at your last suggestion. I did not consciously seek out these echoes. I didn’t have to. They were all there. All I had to do was find them. And having found them, I then followed the dictum of Mr. Edgar Allan Poe: “There is no greater mistake than the supposition that a true originality is a mere matter of impulse or inspiration. To originate is carefully, patiently, and understandingly to combine.”

JOB: One of your methods for “combining” is juxtaposition, which you do not use as a substitute for clumsy metaphors but rather as a way of focusing sharply on the “particles.”

PM: I am much happier, and always have been, with the word juxtaposition than I am with metaphor. Another term I have used is mosaic, and my friend Don Byrd speaks of immense rhymes: “you pick up these unlikely chunks, and they do slip together, like a perfect tenon mortise joint.” And, yes, this is a constant in my work, this approach.

I think there’s a reason why Don uses the word “immense.” I’m not doing anything much different from a good poet, putting two words or two phrases together in an original way—or a good colorist in painting, Joseph Albers for example, looking for the chemistry of this yellow against this lavender, etc.; the difference is simply the size and proportion of the units I use: instead of words or phrases, I use whole lives, concepts, episodes or epochs.

JOB: In The Savage Mind Claude Levi-Strauss talks about the attention that primitive people gave to naming objects, which they then would put to magical uses, such as curing illnesses or freeing themselves from curses. He says that such naming and use of objects is of no “scientific” value but that these activities meet “intellectual requirements rather than or instead of satisfying needs. The real question is not whether the touch of a woodpecker’s beak does in fact cure toothache. It is rather whether there is a point of view from which a woodpecker’s beak and a man’s tooth can be seen as ‘going together’ . . . and whether “some initial order can be introduced into the universe by means of these groupings” (emphasis added). I want to ask whether your juxtapositions do not serve the same purpose—to group objects in order to create an order.

PM: I’ve thought a lot about this lately—the magic of simply naming things, and then the virtues (homeopathic, among others) of associating, perhaps in a new way, the named and/or described objects, episodes, histories, landscapes, etc. There is certainly a parallel here, between what I try to do and what Levi-Strauss describes among primitive peoples. In my books, it can be found in its simplest form in Zip Odes, which is nothing but names, regrouped; it is this philosophical thrust, I think, that gives a serious tone to what is otherwise a flippant book. It exists at a more sophisticated level, of course, in the other books, where rather than simply a single place, I am dealing with complex entities, histories, cultures, geographies, etc.

This is nothing that I ever set out to do consciously: to be “primitive.” It’s just that I’m sure there was an instinctive feeling, when I was younger, that the old European groupings, the associations and premises of Western civilization that we Americans inherited, were worn out, and that a new grouping and shaping, a new “rose in the steel dust,” based on a renaming and redescribing, was called for.

It’s interesting to see, among readers, whether this works or not. For Guy Davenport, it obviously does: speaking of the three major themes in Genoa, he says that I make “them touch just when they can speak in concert, disclosing ironies, deepening the intuitive evidence that there is a plot to American history.” For Robert Von Hallberg (writing in Parnassus, Fall/ Winter, 1978), the method obviously does not work: “Genoa is a mad book . . .this paranoid modernist view . . . Michael’s contrivances are hilarious . . .this outrageous book.”

There is, I suppose, a certain fatuous aspect—at least one exposes himself to ridicule—in trying to be primitive in a sophisticated world. But it is an important question you raise, and the answer is, yes, all my books must be understood, if they are to be understood at all, in terms of something very close to what Levi-Strauss is talking about. For someone like Von Hallberg, who apparently doesn’t share my mistrust of the old groupings, an attempt to restructure must appear “hilarious” and “outrageous.”

 

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Book

Paul Metcalf Genoa: A Telling of Wonders
Coffee House Press

‘First published in 1966, Genoa is Metcalf’s purging of the burden of his relationship to his great-grandfather Herman Melville. In his signature polyphonic style, the life of Melville, Melville’s use and conversion of the Columbus myth, and the story of the Mills brothers—one, an M.D. who refuses to practice, the other an executed murderer—vibrate and sing a quintessentially American song.

‘Paul Metcalf (1917–1999) was an American writer and the great-grandson of Herman Melville. His three volume Collected Works were published by Coffee House Press in 1996.’ — Coffee House Press

 

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Snippets

Item: a Post-mortem: to understand my brother Carl

and

Item: for the living, myself and others, to discover what it is to heal, and why, as a doctor, I will not.

*

In Lisbon, — rank with bodega, wine in the wood, salt fish, tar, tallow, musk, and cinnamon — the sailors talk

of monsters in the western ocean, of gorgons and demons, succubi and succubae, maleficent spirits and unclean devils, unspeakable things that command the ocean currents—of cuttlefish and sea serpents, of lobsters the tips of whose claws are fathoms asunder, of sirens and bishop-fish, the Margyzr and Marmennil of the north, goblins who visit the ship at night, singe hair, tie knots in ropes, tear sails to shreds—of witches who raise tempests and gigantic waterspouts that suck ships into the sky—of dragon, crocodile, griffin, hippogriff, Cerberus, and Ammit.

*

In summer, too, Canute-like: sitting here, one is often reminded of the sea. For not only do long ground-swells roll the slanting grain, and little wavelets of the grass ripple over up on the low piazza, as their beach, and the blown down of dandelions is wafted like the spray, and the purple of the mountains is just the purple of the billows, and a still August noon broods up on the deep meadows, as a calm upon the Line; but the vastness and the lonesomeness are so oceanic, and the silence and the sameness, too, that the first peep of a strange house, rising beyond the trees, is for all the world like spying, on the Barbary coast, an unknown sail.

*

Threading its way out from among his gray hairs, and continuing right down his tawny scorched face and neck, till it disappeared in his clothing, you saw a slender rod-like mark, lividly whitish. It resembled that perpendicular seam sometimes made in the straight lofty trunk of a great tree, when the upper lightning tearingly darts down it, and without wrenching a single twig, peels and grooves out the bark from top to bottom, ere running off into the soil, leaving the tree still greenly alive, but branded. Whether that mark was born with him, or whether it was the scar left by some desperate wound, no one could certainly say.

*

Now, from this peculiar sideways position of the whale’s eyes, it is plain that he can never see an object which is exactly ahead, no more than he can one exactly astern. In a word, the position of the whale’s eyes corresponds to that of a man’s ears; and you may fancy, for yourself, how it would fare with you, did you sideways survey objects through your ears…you would have two backs, so to speak; but, at the same time, also, two fronts (side fronts): for what is it that makes the front of a man—what, indeed, but his eyes?

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I step back from the desk, gaining my sea-legs. I am braced, with one hand on the chimney. The house arches and shudders — an inverted hull, with kelson aloft against the weather. and the human sperm enters a reservoir, low in oxygen — an thence to the vas deferens, in the lowest, coolest scrotal area…

*

There being division, I am able to observe myself, to be at once within and without, and an exploration occurs, inwardly derived, over the surfaces, the topography of face and head, and downward over my body, I gain the sense of being different, of causing this difference in myself, of altering the outwardness of myself. I discover that flesh and muscle, perhaps even bone, and certainly cartilage, are potentially alterable, according as the plan is laid down. And the plan itself may shift and change: I may be this Michael or that, Stonecipher or Mills—Western Man or Indian, sea-dog or lubber, large-headed or small, living then or now; and even such outrageous fables as that of Ulysses’ men into swine become not unreasonable, when we understand that the men must have experienced some swinish designs within themselves, to which Circe had access . . .

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You must have plenty of sea-room to tell the Truth in; especially when it seems to have an aspect of newness, as America did in 1492, though it was then just as old, and perhaps older than Asia, only those sagacious philosophers, the common sailors, had never seen it before, swearing it was all water and moonshine there.

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…for Melville, space and time are one. Later, he writes: Fusing with the amnion, becoming the amnion, turning all to gray and white, I am no longer Michael, but everyone — a particle in an explosion — all time and space — and therefore nothing.

 

 

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p.s. Hey. ** Old Glory, Hello there. First I was going to say, how was that a nightmare, and then I thought more about it, and I got it. Thanks to your depths for including me. ** Dominik, Hi!!! Right, using their teeth, that was the part I was forgetting. I will see if I can find some these lesser current variations. We have to trust the producer, I guess. And I guess we’ll find out. Yes, I’m working on the short fiction collection. At the moment it’s looking very promising, knock on wood, etc., thank you. Oops. I hope love’s okay. I got kidnapped by a hitchhiker when I was a teen, but obviously he wasn’t love. Love enlarging my bookcases, G. ** Bzzt, Hi, pal! Greetings to Brooklyn. Life sounds good: yours. Much deserved. I’m okay. The film is basically all that’s going on, so the only newnesses are incremental moves towards its completion, but that’s okay. I haven’t read Diarmuid’s new book. I think I thought he would send me a copy, but he didn’t, and I guess it’s time to go buy it, which I will do. Cool that you met him. Yes, he can be very cheerful and spunky. It’s really nice to see you and get to confer. Enjoy Florida, or at least your mom, and keep me up, man. xo. ** Misanthrope, Gosh, thanks. Even Bernard is not 100% self-sufficient. Well, turning him on has to be one your goals in life now, man, so … I have seen some mulleted young people here. Mostly soccer/football dudes so far. ** _Black_Acrylic, It rules the roost, yes. Congrats to Kathryn Scanlan. ‘Kick the Latch’ as in the latch on a door? I think I only know the word latch as a word associated with doors. And why kick it? I’ll have to read the book and find out. How’s your writing going? ** Kay Gabriel, Oh, hi! How cool to have you here. I’m a big admirer of your writings. I saw your email before I had enough coffee in me to open it with any hope of comprehending its contents, but I’m fine now, and I’ll open it and get back to you today. Thanks! I hope all is great with you. ** Steve, You probably saw, but I guess TV is the manager at IFC. Very cool about Radu Jude. How did the interview go? ** Allegra, Warmest greetings, Allegra. That flag dude sounds plenty scary. I hope the post didn’t reinstitute any trauma. Thank you for the vivid attempt to picture him that I am currently experiencing. ** Justin, Hi. Yeah, we’ll see, it really is a very long shot. As I have to keep telling myself. Thanks for starting ‘SiH’. I think there’s some kind of fun stuff in there, here and there at least. Hugs from the self-styled city of love. ** Даrву📺, I’m totally kosher with mullets, no worries. Bring ’em on. Great you got the papers. What’s next? Will it be pretty easy from here on, or … ? My hands … let me look … don’t appear to be particularly veiny. They’re there, but they’re fairly camouflaged. Veins are cool. It’s interesting to know where they are. I’m good. No, I’m working on the book, but it’ll still be a while it if ends up working out. Good progress though. Thanks. Yum re: those tacos. I really like soy Chorizo. You can’t get it here, no surprise, since Mexican cuisine is still considered quirky here. Damn, now I miss Mexican food again, but I guess I always do. I hope your stomach has beautified. ** Cori, Hi. Thanks very much about the post. Yeah, I’m not a fan of the ‘Frisk’ movie, but maybe the restoration will somehow magically make it a lot better. On searching for indie publishers, I guess it’s kind of word of mouth or eye? If I find a book I like, I investigate the press, and I follow a lot of presses on social media and newer writers too, and you just start accumulating names and presses and things that way? But, yeah, I think hooking yourself up with the presses and writers on social media is probably the easiest way, and then paying attention to their posts? I’ve gotten into a routine where I just check for new writers and presses all the time. But I don’t know of a central source for the indie presses. There should be. Maybe there is one that I don’t know about. ** Uday, Hey. That’s a good aphorism. I think I’m going to dive into a Vexillography hole and see where I end up. That does sound like a nightmare. But I guess there’s no choice? That sucks. But keep on ‘cos you most certainly deserve the possible rewards. ** oliver jude, Hi, oliver! I like ‘Out of the Blue’ a lot. I actually went to an advanced screening of it before it was released where Hopper and Linda Manz were there and talked and stuff. I think it’s Hopper’s best work as a director by far. I keep meaning to try ‘Last Movie’ again, which seemed like a disaster back in the day, but who knows. ** Right. If someone were ask me who I think is the most undervalued and under-read great American fiction writer, I’m pretty sure I would say Paul Metcalf. He writes like no one else, a completely distinctive writer, difficult but so incredible. The novel up above is his most well known book. My personal favorite is ‘Waters of Potowmack’, which is very hard to find these days. Anyway, today I share my enthusiasm for his work and for a really great novel. See what you think. See you tomorrow.