A DIspatch From The Land Of The Super-Twink

This is Sota Fukushi ( 福士蒼汰 )a 22-year-old actor from Japan.  You can thank me later. 

Tummy Tuesday

Soaked Sunday

Can anyone tell me who the name of the photographer who took this photo? I searched and searched, and I've seen this image on dozens of blogs, Tumblrs, forums, and Pinterest pages, but never with any credit for the photographer, and I think he deserves some. Also, selfishly, I would like to see more of his work.

Saturday Speedo

Congratulations to whoever took this photo, the boy wearing it, and to that lucky, lucky Speedo. (Although technically it seems to be a Nike, but why quibble?)

Random Shirtless Guy

I don't have any idea who this handsome young man is, but there are several people who use this picture as their profile picture on social media. I am pretty sure that none of them are him. 

Sexual Icons Of My Youth: Leif Garrett

He may have been many people's teen idol of choice in the late 1970s, but I confess that I never exactly went insane over Leif Garrett. He was awfully pretty and all, and goodness knows that he was never afraid to put himself on display, but he was missing something, some vital pop that would have put him in the top tier of boys I lusted over.

 Put it this way: he is in The Outsiders, a movie that I watched practically daily for a six month period, and I never minded much when his character was killed at the end of the first act, and not just because he was good at portraying asshat soc Bob, but because, meh, who cares about Leif Garrett when you've got the likes of Rob Lowe, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, and my ultimate 80s dreamboat C. Thomas Howell?  But, as I said before, he was super pretty, and if his music, acting, and personality never set my soul on fire, if I happened to see a picture of him on the cover of a magazine wearing nothing but teeny running shorts, there was a good chance that I might hold that image in my mind for quiet time later that evening.   I certainly paid attention when he spent nearly all of Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion with his blousy shirt unbuttoned to the naval. 

Hot Ginger Alert

Random Shirtless Guy

Blast From The Past

Summer 1992.  Ryan Phillippe in his first professional role, plays Billy Douglas, the first gay teenager in an American soap opera on ABC's One Life To Live.  Your Auntie Vera was riveted. Watch below as Billy comes out to Father Andrew Carpenter (Andrew Krimmer) while devious Marty (Susan Haskell) eavesdrops.

Lest We Forget...

Modern Hair Styling is a professional art!  (Forward-combed Booggie for me!)

The August 2007 Sunday Roundup

A few days ago I was just going through some old DVDs in hopes of finding things to throw away, when I discovered a DVD labeled "August 2007." Back in the days before THE CLOUD was viable, I used to make room on my hard drive by putting everything I had downloaded in the course of the previous month on a DVD.  In August of 2007, almost a year before this blog made its debut I burned several thousand images onto a disc and promptly forgot all about them. So here's a sample of what I was looking at  eight years ago. Hope you enjoy.

 Much more, after the break: