Now Streaming On My TV

None of the English language sites that discuss and stream South Korean television shows can decide what to call  최고의 한방. Choices include: The Best Hit,  Hit The Top, The Big Blow,  several others.  Everybody agrees, however, that the 20-year-old beauty pictured above is 김민재, a name which anglicizes into Kim Min Jae. I approve.

Today In Reality TV

Michael Brambila is one of the contestants on the currently airing season of Project Runway.

Wearing White After Labor Day

What's Going On Here?

This photo I posted of model Kline Barfield has gotten almost 1500 notes on Tumblr. On an extraordinary day I'll get three comments on Blogger.

I'm going to be honest, for the past year or so it has been very difficult for me to work up much enthusiasm toward running this blog. The effort to reward ratio has been very low. Readership numbers are low. Feedback, aside from a small number of devoted readers (you know who you are), is practically non-existent.  The tiny amount of financial reward I used to get from running ads has disappeared. Mostly, Blogger used to seem like a community to me, and now it seems more like shouting into the void.  In contrast, a Tumblr page that I devote almost no effort to has thousands of followers, and immediate feedback from people hitting the "like" button.

So the question is, will I continue to post to this blog? Well, probably. It's hard for me to give up on something that has been a part of my life for almost ten years. But, also, as you can see from my recent posting history, it's pretty easy to just not post, Put it this way: If it's a choice between working on my blog and an evening of Netflix and Postmates, Netflix and Postmates will almost always win.

The Lad's A Dad

Nobody blinked an eye last year when Lucky Blue Smith, who was still 18 years old, and his 26-year-old girlfriend, Stormi Brie,  announced that they were expecting their first child together. They seemed happy about it, the press covered it as joyous news, and Lucky Blue went back to living his life as usual, touring with his family band, modeling, and going to the beach.  The couple's social media feeds became so divorced from each other that people were openly speculating that they had cut ties, and certain outrage junkies, armed with no information what-so-ever, tried to publically shame the 18-year-old for abandoning the 26-year-old. Yesterday the child was born, a girl they have named Gravity Blue Smith, because of course they did.

Thirst Traps For Beginners

If you don't know who Caleb Burton is, join the club.  He is one of those completely unremarkable-seeming boys that somehow comes out of nowhere and makes a respectable splash in social media.  In this case the 17-year-old's growing cachet seems to be rooted in the fact that he is friends with mega-successful 19-year-old "influencer" (ugh) Brent Rivera, who had eight million Vine subscribers, and now has over five million Instagram followers and nearly three million Youtube subscribers. Caleb's numbers aren't nearly as impressive, but he has about a hundred and sixty-three thousand more Instagram followers than I do, and that ain't nothing.  In Brett's Instagram videos, Caleb seems gangly, and goofy-cute, not what I'd call sexy,  but he seems to have learned an important lesson from Brett: It's good to be funny, but if you really want to rope in the subscribers you have to steam it up on occasion.  If that means being photographed in the shower (in your underwear, because don't everyone?) so be it. 

If you want to know how Brent does it, see below. Oh, guess what? Same shower.  

Independence

Happy 4th of July to those who celebrate, and even to those who don't .  To be honest, I don't think there's anything particularly patriotic about wrapping yourself in an American flag (patriotism being the most misused word in the English language) but sometimes the cutest boys do it.

Meet Oliver

I've been telling all my friends, and I think you should know, that this fellow, 17-year-old Oliver Sonne from Denmark, is about to be my new obsession. He has just signed at the whimsically named London agency The Unsigned Group, and hasn't had any real jobs yet, but it's only a matter of time. Before he was a model he starred as a 15-year-old soccer player in a Danish TV series, so maybe we'll even get to see him as an actor someday.

 

Beach Boy

Summer is in full swing and that means that all the Instaboys are headed to the beach. Woo hoo! Here are some recent photos of  Instagram cutey Sebastian Doyle,  who lives in Australia, where it is the beginning of Winter. Go figure. 

 

Birthday Boy

My beloved Andrei Dobrin celebrated his 17th birthday this week and ws photographed  by Attilio Cusani for Fucking Young! Magazine. I imagine that Andrei is too skinny for some people's tastes, but to me he's perfectly lovely.

Work Of Art

If Michelangelo's sculpture of David were to suddenly spring to life, put on some pants, and sit down on a chair, I imagine he would look exactly like this.

Asian Boys In Speedos

 

When I encountered this image on Tumblr it was captioned simply "Asian boys in Speedos." Can't beat that for conciseness. 

I'd Rather Be Sailing

And this fellow can be my first mate.

The Long Lost Zombie Sunday Roundup

It happens occasionally that for some reason or other I start working on a post and for one reason or another I abandon it or lose track of it, or simply forget about it for one reason or another. The other day I was sorting through my discarded drafts and discovered not one, but two abandoned Sunday Roundup posts. So here they are, Frankensteined together, and risen from the dead. A few familiar faces show up. As Sunday Roundups go, it's on the small side, but I hope you can enjoy it anyway.

More after the break.

Another Ancient Hottie

The last time I dared post about a long-dead hottie I was taken to task from some quarters for wasting people's time on someone who they would not be able to fuck right this minute. While I understand their frustration (not really) I can't help thinking that if I were to limit the pictures on this blog to pictures of boys I might actually be able to have, this would be a very quiet site indeed. 

So who do we have here?  This is Glen Halik, who in the first decades of the 20th Century traveled around America with his sisters Lois and Elsa giving recitals of music and dramatic readings. What kind of effect must he  have had on the young girls (and boys) who saw him play in church halls and Chautauqua tents in those days before radio and television? I can only imagine that it was devastating.

Glen would go on to a long career as a teacher, not just of the violin, but engineering drawing, surveying and descriptive geometry. He was also concertmaster of the Traverse City, Michigan, Symphony Orchestra for many years. He lived to be 95 years old.