August 15, 2008
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But the most powerful secrets that live on Manhunt aren’t the ones we keep from the outside world. The most powerful secrets on Manhunt are the ones we keep from ourselves. Practically every gay man has his own version of this secret, which we learned to keep while growing up in the closet: the secret fear that, if we were truly known, we would never be loved.

If you were asked to design the perfect weapon to exploit this vulnerability as it manifests itself in attractive, urban gay men, you’d want something that would intensify our isolation, exaggerate our propensity to objectify each other, and persuade us to objectify ourselves — by encouraging us to believe that our purpose is to look good and have lots of sex.

-M.J. Gross, “Has Manhunt Destroyed Gay Culture?” OUT Magazine

via Gay Men’s Social Crisis

August 11, 2008
forwhenifeellikesharing: annicka: hiiamblair: tylercoates: windycity: Let’s make it happen. Hrm, maybe. Maybe…I vote for Berlin in Lakeview instead. I’m all about either (but am also naturally biased towards logan). We have a Chicago group I’ve been trying to get people involved with. (Comment with an email and I’ll send you an invite.) But sorry, there’s no way I’m going out to Logan’s Square after work. Whooo! Small Bar is so close to my apartment.

forwhenifeellikesharing:

annicka:

hiiamblair:

tylercoates:

windycity:

Let’s make it happen.

Hrm, maybe.

Maybe…I vote for Berlin in Lakeview instead.

I’m all about either (but am also naturally biased towards logan).

We have a Chicago group I’ve been trying to get people involved with. (Comment with an email and I’ll send you an invite.)

But sorry, there’s no way I’m going out to Logan’s Square after work.

Whooo! Small Bar is so close to my apartment.

August 9, 2008

TRUTHS ABOUT CHICAGO

britticisms:

forwhenifeellikesharing:

The Northside and the Westside are very much rivals.

The Northsiders never go to the bars on Chicago and North Avenue.

Not because we’re snobs.

But because we don’t do coke.

Westsiders think we ain’t cool and wish they lived in New York or California depending on if they are coke-heads or just struggling artists.

Seriously? Just move there already. We’ll pitch in for the plane tix.

And it’s sad so many non-coke-doers go to those bars.

Because we Northsiders would love to be your friends.

And we would love to hang out at those bars.

They all blow our music selection out of Lake Michigan.

BUT! We are also too proud to stand in line for the sake of making the bars look cool.

We are t-shirt wearers.

We are cover charge avoiders.

And there is no way in God’s Green Earth we are going to be so far away from the Lake, which because it is elemental in nature, is our anchor of normalcy.

Here we might have to put up with Cubbie fans, but we have late-night hole-in-the-walls.

Seriously? What the fuck is it about the west side that ONLY allows for pretentious diners and no burger joints? You whores already wasted your money on coke. Why do you want an $8 crepe and not a $3 double cheeseburger?

Fuck that.

Life goes on without the West.

And should there ever be a nuclear/zombie holocaust, you bitches will come running for our fresh water supply.

Emphasis my own, but Barrett makes a declaration I can get behind. There are certainly some really great bars on the Near West and Northwest Side of Chicago but a certain level of pretension and insecurity goes along with them and that is something that I can only take in small doses.

Oooh scathing indictment. I live on the West side because I would rather surround myself with hipsters and coastal-style “pretentious” art frauds (who at least pretend to care about culture) than drunk, shouting frat-boy sports fans, homosexuals who still shop at abercrombie and fitch after their bi-weekly tanning sessions, and high-school-style social hierachies from pretentious Lincoln Park yuppies.

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August 6, 2008
Gawker points out that I can like Paris Hilton again, and I fall for it immediately.
Also, I watched both of her music videos in the comments. I am NOT ashamed!
August 5, 2008
forwhenifeellikesharing: This needs a warning label saying: “May contain rocket fuel.” 2 glasses on a full stomach and I was gone. So… Sorry for blogging under the influence. I know it drove off at least one follower. I usually finish a bottle before I even think about blogging! No one really follows me/read what I write anyway so it works out. 

forwhenifeellikesharing:

This needs a warning label saying: “May contain rocket fuel.” 2 glasses on a full stomach and I was gone. So… Sorry for blogging under the influence. I know it drove off at least one follower.

I usually finish a bottle before I even think about blogging! No one really follows me/read what I write anyway so it works out. 

You know, I waited under the blue line for over an hour before the bus finally came in my direction. I wouldn’t be surprised if the delay was due to massive trees in the roads because the weather is SERIOUS tonight. 
You know, I waited under the blue line for over an hour before the bus finally came in my direction. I wouldn’t be surprised if the delay was due to massive trees in the roads because the weather is SERIOUS tonight. 
Reflections in the street
Reflections in the street
Trying to capture the intense lightning we have today while waiting for the bus. It’s still going, 2 hours later. I’m actually sitting by my window and watching, waiting for the rain to let up so I can run out to my car to grab something. 
Trying to capture the intense lightning we have today while waiting for the bus. It’s still going, 2 hours later. I’m actually sitting by my window and watching, waiting for the rain to let up so I can run out to my car to grab something. 

Question

forwhenifeellikesharing:

Does anyone else think the Tumblr Radar has been pretty boring lately?

Answer: yes

August 4, 2008

47.

whatwoulddondraperdo:

Don’t fight. Say whatever she thinks you should.
August 3, 2008

I'm watching Mad Men...

and I wish I had some scotch. and a job in advertising.
pretty, right?
pretty, right?

Tyler Coates Mania extended....

bg5000:

pocketnovel:

Also, having Tyler Coates follow me on Tumblr is basically my goal in life so if one of you three could work on that it would be greeeeeat.

Meh, it’s not all that it’s cracked up to be, trust me.

I always half expect to see Tyler Coates in a crowded bar or on the el or walking in Lakeview ever since I started following him (on tumblr not in real life). He seems like someone I would actually know, in a roundabout way. I mean, based on all the stuff he writes online. Hi Tyler! Keep up the good work!