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The Naked Civil Servant
The life and times of Quentin Crisp, an outrageous and flamboyant homosexual, coming of age and growing into old age in conservative England.

Shelter

When his college dreams are sidelined by family obligations, a young man finds comfort in surfing with his best friend's brother.

Is It Just Me?
Frustrated by his ongoing failure to meet Mr. Right, Blaine stumbles upon what might be his perfect match in an online chat room-Xander...

KickOff
What happens when the hardest team in the Sunday Soccer league comes up against a gay team (pun intended) and finds they've finally met their match?

Il Compleanno
A group of friends rent a magnificent house by the sea to spend the summer together.

Le Fil
Malik has a lot on this place when he returns home to Tunisia after living in France. But all of Malik's problems seem to fade away when he falls for Bilal, the dreamy houseboy at his mother's bourgeois estate

Juste Une Question D'Amour
After his gay cousin dies from hepatitis, young Laurent, who lives with his best friend Carole, falls in love with Cedric, a plant scientist. He's afraid to inform his conservative parents that he is gay.

Hmmm... I found this map of the air quality of Amsterdam Centre. (Green = OK, purple = very Bad.) It turns out that on my runs (to the west part of Amsterdam) I have to cross some pretty nasty areas...
Maybe I just have to run faster?

Jag upptäckte Lill Lindfors och hennes album Du är den ende från 1967 med fina bossanovalåtar och samba. Hon sjunger fortfarande och sin sista album kom ut i 2009.

OK - it is official, Eddie has counted them all and I reached a 100 pairs of sneakers... :-)
The latest ones I couldn't resist are Nike Air Classic BW all white.

The 49-course last supper menu in full:

1) Dry martini
2) Mojito-caipirinha
3) Mojito and apple baguette
4) Gin fizz
5) Spherical olives
6) Mimetic peanuts
7) Pistachip ravioli
8) Parmesan cheese porra
9) Parmesan cheese macaron
10) Gorgonzola balloon
11) Olive oil chip
12) Flower in nectar
13) Flowers paper
14) Tender almonds
15) Pa amb tomaquet
16) Golden egg
17) Clam meringue
18) Liquid croqueta
19) Smoked mousse
20) Squid and coconut ravioli
21) Soy cristal
22) Nori ravioli with lemon
23) Soy matches
24)Salmon niguiri
25) Boiled shrimp
26) Two cooking prawn
27) Roses with ham wonton and melon water
28) Ham and ginger canape
29) Cheese bread
30) Icy quinoa of duck fois-gras
31) Ajo blanco
32) Veal bone marrow with caviar
33) Pinenuts shabu-shabu
34) Liquid hazelnut porra
35) Curry chicken
36) Lobster ceviche
37) Oaxaca taco
38) Gazpacho and ajo blanco
39) Sea cucumber
40) Hare fritter
41) Game meat cappucino
42) Blackberry risotto with game & meat sauce
43) Hare loin with its own blood
44) Spice plat
45) 'Bones' of iced tea shavings with sugared mint
46) Raspberry infusion
47) Melba cornet
48) Fondue melba
49) Box

Pfft!... and a couple of Aka-seltzers...

OK - I know that Queen Beatrix doesn't like The Internet en social media, but it seems that on her holidays she is still using an old fashioned analogue photo camera... :-| ?

Last night I saw a DVD which I had bought months ago, but didn't bother to watch - how wrong I was... It was "An Englishman in New York" starring John Hurt as Quintin Crisp. Quintin (born as Dennis) became world famous in 1975 when his autobiography as a nude male model The Naked Civil Servant was broadcast on British and U.S. television (with John Hurt as Crisp). Quintin moved to New York and was the new Oscar Wilde, witty, sharp and honest. Preforming in one-man shows and on TV. Until he caused controversy and confusion in the homosexual community by jokingly calling AIDS "a fad" - after that he was despised. The movie shows the last 20 years or so of Crisp - He was already in his 70's when he moved to NY... A great performance from John Hurt and it made me want to see "The Naked Civil Servant" once again. O, and yes you guessed it right: Stings' song is about Crisp :-)

These rainy days it's challenging to keep running - not just because my shoes are soaked (do Nike make Goretex running shoes?) but because of the hard winds - which are really not very nice... ;-(

Alan Hollinghurst's elegant and erudite novel about the life and legacy of a gay war poet is his first after the brilliant The Line Of Beauty. Cannot wait for Amazon to deliver the book and start reading...

The new issue of Coitus

I don't know how he did it - but its for real: Wesley got his motorcycle driving license!. Time to celebrate and hand over the keys of my Z1000 for a quick spin round the block.

At the Amsterdam Fashion Week show of Dennis Diem.

A really nice book about the history of Paris which let you see Paris through the "eyes" of the Metro Stations. Now also in an (French) illustrated version. It has all kinds of great walking routes, which let's you relive the past. I cannot wait to go back to Paris and wander around with this book.

I am back home and was happy to see that all the guys were (still) waiting for me...

Vädret var bra för en trevligt dag på havet i Stockholms Skärgård. Vi åkte boten till Sandhamn, den sista stoppet från skärlinjen. Totalt fem timmar på vatten och en snabb lunch i Sandhamn - skitbra.

Här en fint foto från universitet i Uppsala. Idag Eddie och jag har tittat runt som turister och det var mycket trevligt. Uppsala är lite så det finns inte så många highlights, men staden är väldigt gammal så det finns absolut intressante grejer. Botanist trägård och Linneas gård t.e.

Efter två veckor här i Uppsala Eddie kom hit att få mig tillbaka till hem. Vi ska åka till Stockholm kanske och kurs titta rund i Uppsala - jag har sett ingenting, bara skolan...

Idag hade jag min examen. Det var Svenska nivå B1 och... Jag gjorde det! Nu är jag verkligen någon som talar svenska (lite) Nästa: nivå C - flytande Svensk!

Jessica

Poja

Oscar

Jag är mycket nöjd med mina lärare. Jag har tre: Jessica för Rivstart böcker, Poja för grammatik och Oscar för Uttal och konversation. Lektioner är intensiv och av en hög nivå, men det är ju bra - jag tror jag lär mig snabbt svenska med en total nedsänkning...

En av de finare sakerna här i Uppsala är att jag är mitt i Natur. Springer man om ett minut kommer man i sko. Jag springer bredvid ön och lyssnar på fåglar, tittar på skogen och idag måste jag fly om en huggorm på väg... :-)

Det finns många restauranger i Uppsala . Ja McDonalds, Burgerking, Max.... nej seriös också bra restauranger, men inte så på min smak. För mycket salt, för mycket husmanskost tror jag. En bra undantag är Hamberg, en fiskrestaurang. Jag brukar ska äta i Asiatiska restauranger som Amazing Thai eller Indiskt Oriental.

Skokloster är en fin barock slott bredvid en stor ö. Idag hade vi en utflykt med en visning och det var mycket trevligt. vädret var bra och slottet intressant.

Eleverna kommer från 50 länder och också i min klass finns olika nationaliteter: Holland, Tyskland, Polen, Storbritannien, Ukraina, Frankrike, Schweiz, Libyen och även Japan!
Vår språk? Svensk!

I skolan använder vi olika sorts böcker: Rivstart B, Svensk Grammatik på Svenska och en övningsbok i svensk grammatik. När jag slutade läxor, jag brukar läsa andra böcker: Uli vår Hage och Fantomen, det är toppen! :-))

På kvällen vi har en föreläsning eller tittar vi på en film. Idag var det Ondskan på boken av Jan Guillou.
Andreas Wilson är Erik Pontus och är mycket olycklig som en eleven på en Internat skola. Jag hade fruktansvärt synd om honom :-)

Uppsala har en stor Domkyrka. Det är störst kyrka från Norden. I kyrkan finns grav från kung Vasa och mycket andra intressante saker.

Jag bor i Clarion Hotel Gillet mitt i Uppsala stan. Uppsala är en lite stad. Där finns allt kända shops och även en bio - men jag tror att jag ska ha lite tid för att go till bio. Skolan är på

Nu är jag i Uppsala och ska go förbereder mig för två veckor intensiv utbildning på svenska. Människor från mer än 50 länder har inskrivet sig på UISS (Uppsala International Summer Session). Jag ska studera av nivå B1, vad betyder att jag måste talar och förstår mycket bra svenska i slutet ... :-)
Jag ser verkligen fram emot att vad som kommer och är mycket motiverat.

What is the plus of Google+? Why would anybody switch from Facebook to this platform? Google+ is a little bit of twitter, a bit tumblr, digg and a (lot) of Facebook. Even the so hyped "circles" is a variation of the Facebook groups, that nobody uses, though nicely animated. The idea of the introduction of circles, sparks, hangouts and huddle all at once - makes its rather complicated and confusion. The lack of facebook, blogger and comprehensive twitter integration is just plain stupid...
But ok it's another Google Beta project, so who knows what's still to come / improved... But then again we already had Google disasters like Orku, Buzz and Wave. It doesn't help that it is by invitation only - which makes it no real alternative for Facebook yet. I think that the Google invitation strategy is nice when you have an open system like Gmail and such, but not for a walled concept as plus is. There are too few people to interact with.
Also for businesses no Google plus pages - so how can they interact with their fans?
For now I will be very reluctant to add Google plus content and if a lot of people are just as reluctant it will be Google Zero...
PS: Couldn't resist to make a Circle of Jerks :-)

Isn't it funny that it was just two years ago that a bill to legalize gay marriage was defeated in New York's then Democrat-controlled legislature and now with a GOP senate four Republicans joined all but one of the state's Democrats to pass the bill in Albany 33 to 29...
So it took a while, but mainly thanks to the rallying of Andrew Cuomo it finally came through.

- Posted using Mobypicture.com
Unfortunately: I have really no idea who she is... ;-)

For years I was a fan of mymuesli.de, but couldn't order because they did not ship internationally. But now they do (thanks to the Dutch Muesli guys (Bas & Jasper). This is my Morning Wake up Mix - try it out!

It looks really pretty - but running MeeGo makes it uterly useless...

He's not looking happy/gay now at all...more bitter

In the good gay old time... :-) (Mikey on the left)

A very well written piece by Benoit Denizet-Lewis today in the NYT Magazine.
It's about his old Michael Glatze you used to be an activist at XY magazine, used to be his friend and...uh?!..USED to be gay.
In a country where 92% of the people say they believe in god it's no wonder that there is still debate about gay people - which is very hard to believe when living in Amsterdam. Anyway Michael completely lost it and is now living in a bible school in (Broke Back Mountain) Wyoming... Poor guy. I hope he will return quickly to the happy and cute(!) guy he used to be.
PS: very interesting comments on this piece too.

16k - wow! (by the way: now also as an app)

The new architecture series of Lego is real fun - look at this beautiful Falling Waters model - I really would like to build it. (If I would have/make the time)
Other buildings in the series are:
Farnsworth House™

Burj Khalifa

Empire State Building

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum®

White House
Have a look for your self.

Not sure what is going on but slowly all kinds of apps are creeping back into my life. I thought that I had everything "browserized" - but the contary seems to be the truth...
There are some pretty neat apps out there for the mac and I now have a couple of them running permanently (@space 2). These apps give a far better user experience and look beautiful. Also they remind you of your familiar iphone/ipad apps - so you are already used to them.
These I use most: sparrow (mail), reeder (rss reader), twitter (uh... twitter) and evernote (notes).
With launchpad in Lion I think a whole new wave of apps will come to us - is this the end of the browser then? (and of Google?)

The 49-course last supper menu in full:

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