June 14th Pornstar Birthdays - Picture of the Day

Today is the second day of Portland Gay Pride and Parade Day.

Cameron Daniels, Lee Casey, Mikey Diaz, Mason Walker

June 13th Pornstar Birthdays - Picture of the Day

Today is the first day of Portland Gay Pride. Tonight I will be going to Steam for some fun hopefully.

Zak Anders, the late Winston Love, Romario, Steve Sax, Randy White

LIVE FROM PORTLAND

This is a brief note while waiting for Michael to get out of the shower. I have enjoyed being back up here in Portland. Tonight we are going to go out for a drink at Scandals. Tomorrow, if it does not rain, we will be attending Gay Pride.

June 12th Pornstar Birthdays - Picture of the Day

As of this time I should have pulled out of the driveway on my way to Portland. I have to be there by 9am as I am treating a friend of mine to breakfast.

Pierce Coppola, Brian Dean, Rocco DiNiro, Zackary Pierce, York Powers, Tommy Saxx FAV, Josh Stone FAV, Jonathan West, Csaba Zsiros [Marko Pacyna, Avery Sebes, Attila Szabo]

June 11th Pornstar Birthdays - Picture of the Day

200th Post

Hours till I leave for Portland to see Michael and attend Gay Pride - 24

Bobby Benson, Mark Kroner, Nigel, Zackary Pierce, the late Johnny Rahm, Johnny Thrust, Brett Williams, Tommy Wraith

June 10th Pornstar Birthdays - Picture of the Day

Hours till I leave for Portland to see Michael and attend Gay Pride - 48

Billy Boyd, Alex Ford, Juan Jiminez, Cody Matthews, Jay Raven, Roberto Vista

June 9th Pornstar Birthdays - Picture of the Day

Hours till I leave for Portland to see Michael and attend Gay Pride - 72

Carlos Cruz, Carl Erik, Donavin Fitch FAV, Kristof Kasper [Pavel Luknar], Paul Morgan, Anthony Okamoto, Daxx Reed

June 8th Pornstar Birthdays - Picture of the Day

Hours till I leave for Portland to see Michael and attend Gay Pride - 96

Adam Dexter, Kenny Kash, Leslie Manzel [David Bathory, Mark Bloom, Steve Gulyas, Martin Hubai, David Salieri, Istvan Szabo], Lex Milan, Joe Raven, Samuel Rodrigues, Andrew Rubio

Gay Pride June 13-14 in Portland

On the advice of a very dear friend of mine I have decided to offer more than just porn on a regular basis. I have done non-porn posts before (Prop 8, bill in the Oregon Legislature, NCIS, Star Trek and two friends birthdays) but not that often. I wish to thank my friend, Sam, for the suggestion.

Today's Topic is Portland Gay Pride. I will be attending my 7th Pride weekend this year. The first time I went to one was back in 2003, about two months before I moved to Portland. A lot has changed since that first weekend. Some things for the good and some for the bad. I have survived and that is the main thing (with the help of many friends including Sam).

I look forward to this year's Pride as it will allow to get out of Southern Oregon for 4 days. I will also be able to see some friends of mine that I have not seen for a while.

The plan for the weekend is to head up around 5:30 am on Friday the 12th. I am hoping, if things work out, to see my friend Deborah. I have not seen her since last September. If she is not able to meet up then I will probably not leave till around 8 am. I also plan to treat my friend Andrew to lunch that day if he can get away from work. I did get the opportunity to see him last month when I was in Portland for Star Trek.

Later on that night my dinner plans are Italian at the Olive Garden in Gresham. My friend, Michael, will be joining me. Afterwards we are going for a drink at Scandals (my favorite Gay Bar in Portland). I am looking forward to that as one of their cocktail waiters is HOT and one I have known for about 3 years, Patrick. He remembers what I like to drink and I truly appreciate that.

Saturday is Pride Festival time. I will be there most of the time that it is open. I am hoping that Andrew will be able to join me for part of the day. Saturday night I will be going to Steam Portland, the gay men's bathhouse out on Sandy. This will be the first year that I will have a car while going there so I will not be forced to stay there till Tri-Met bus line 12 starts up in the AM. :)

Sunday is the Pride Parade. It starts at 11:30 am though we all know that us Gays have OUR OWN TIME and nothing EVER starts when it should. Last year was the first year that none of the Bible protester showed up. We missed you guys. Hopefully they will be back this year with all of the talk of Gay Marriage around the country.

On Monday I return to Southern Oregon :(. I am not looking forward to that. I so want to be back in Portland. I will blog all about how the weekend turned out the Tuesday after. I have also added to the top of the Pornstar Birthdays/Picture of the Day post a countdown till when I leave for Portland. The countdown begins Monday morning.

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SPOILERS AHEAD FOR STAR TREK.. 

PROCEED WITH CAUTION

I am in shock as to the events of Star Trek. J.J. Abrams did indeed do a reboot of the franchise. I really enjoyed the movie. Now for the spoilers... Vulcan has been destroyed, Amanda (Spock's mother) was killed and according to Scotty, Porthos (Capt Jonathan Archer's beagle) is missing. 

As for the actors, I thought that they did a great job. The actors playing George Kirk, his son James T Kirk and Pavel Chekov are HOT!!!

I highly recommend seeing the movie. I wish to thank my friend Michael Manwell for going with me to the movie. He is not a Star Trek fan but went because of my invitation. You are a true friend Michael.

I also now own all four of the Star Trek glasses that are being offered by Burger King.

TODAY I AM IN PORTLAND FOR... STAR TREK

Tonight at 9:55 pm I will be in an IMAX theatre at Bridgeport Plaza ready to watch the latest Star Trek movie. My friend Michael will be with me. On Saturday, we are going to bar hopping throughout the bars in Portland. I am so excited to be able to see Michael as the last time was back on New Years Eve and New Years Day.

I just hope that the movie is a good one. On Sunday I will post a review of the movie.

There will be blog posts uploaded while I am in Portland, especially tomorrow.

Take care my friends,
Bill

ONE WEEK TILL STAR TREK WITH MICHAEL IN PORTLAND

Well the Entertainment Weekly’s Star Trek Cover article has hit the net! It reveals the plot line and a few other little tidbits you may find interesting. I pulled a few things out of the article that I found interesting for you to read but you can read the full article RIGHT HERE. J.J. Abrams does most of the talking here.

”I don’t think people even understand what Star Trek means anymore,” Abrams watched the first Star Trek film in 1979 with his father, veteran TV-movie producer Gerald Abrams, at a theater on the Paramount lot. But he feels no warm-fuzzy nostalgia about it. In fact, Abrams can sum up his regard for Trek in two words: Galaxy Quest, the 1999 hit starring Tim Allen that satirized Trek with painful precision. ”It’s so ridiculous, so accurate, so sophisticated, it spoils the Star Trek universe,” he says.

Galaxy Quest was such a great movie. I think a lot of hard core Star Trek fans aren’t going to like what Abrams says.

”All my smart friends liked Star Trek,” he says. ”I preferred a more visceral experience.” Which is exactly why he accepted Paramount’s offer in 2005 to develop a new Trek flick; creatively, he was engaged by the possibility of a Star Trek movie ”that grabbed me the way Star Wars did.” That meant a bigger budget and better special effects than any previous Trek film, plus freedom to reinvent the mythos as needed. ”We have worldwide aspirations and we need to broaden [Trek’s] appeal,” says Weston. ”Doing the half-assed version of this thing wasn’t going to work.”

So did that statement bother you? I love Star trek myself but I am not hardcore so it doesn’t affect me much. I am all about seeing an incredible bad ass Star Trek upgrade!

Abrams made his perspective clear: ”We weren’t making a movie for fans of Star Trek,” he said. ”We were making a movie for fans of movies.” From there, the team hashed out the specifics. Exact plot details are top secret, but there are a few things EW can tell you.

And I am a movie fan which is why I have loved everything I have seen for this film so far. Now I am going to warn you the below is the Plot Summary so it is considered a SPOILER. If you don’t want to know don’t read ahead.

Star Trek’s time-travel plot is set in motion when a Federation starship, the USS Kelvin, is attacked by a vicious Romulan (Eric Bana) desperately seeking one of the film’s heroes. From there, the film then brings Kirk and Spock center stage and tracks the origins of their friendship and how they became officers aboard the Enterprise. In fact, the movie shows how the whole original series crew came together: McCoy (Karl Urban), Uhura (Zoë Saldana), Scotty (Simon Pegg), Sulu (John Cho), and Chekov (Anton Yelchin). The adventure stretches from Earth to Vulcan, and yes, it does find a way to have Nimoy appearing in scenes with at least one of the actors on our cover - and maybe both. The storytelling is newbie-friendly, but it slyly assimilates a wide range of Trek arcana, from doomed Captain Pike (Bruce Greenwood) to Sulu’s swordsmanship to classic lines like, ”I have been, and always shall be, your friend.” More ambitiously, the movie subversively plays with Trek lore - and those who know it. The opening sequence, for example, is an emotionally wrenching passage that culminates with a mythic climax sure to leave zealots howling ”Heresy!” But revisionism anxiety is the point. ”The movie,” Lindelof says, ”is about the act of changing what you know.”

This just sounds fantastic to me and I can’t wait to see this flick! I have no problems with this, but honestly what will the hardcore Star Trek fans think. As a fan of many things I know what it is like when someone fucks up your most favorite thing in the world. I just hope they end up being happy with the end result.

Abrams did feel Trek’s design aesthetic - which for him is largely defined by the lo-fi original series - needed a dramatic upgrade if the drama was going to be taken seriously. Case in point: The Enterprise still has a saucer front section and pronged rear engines, but now comes tricked out with credibility-enhancing details. During turbulence, the crew can now grab handrails to keep from falling. And Abrams has given the blah cardboard bridge a makeover. It still has the oval shape, the captain’s chair, the giant view screen - but it’s now blazingly white and glistening with light and glass. Apple Store, anyone? ”People would joke, ‘Where’s the Genius Bar?”’ says Abrams, somewhat defensively. ”To me, the bridge is so cool, it makes the Apple Store look uncool.”

You know I thought the same thing when I saw those pictures. I totally love the Apple Store though ,so of course I dig the new design for the Enterprise Bridge.

One other essential element in Team Abrams’ conception of the new Trek:Eric Bana getting the old Spock. Abrams felt Nimoy’s Obi-Wan-ish presence was so crucial, he told the studio he wouldn’t move forward without him. ”I thought Spock was behind me. I had no unfulfilled wishes,” Nimoy says. But Abrams was persuasive. ”I felt J.J. and his writers had a very strong sense of who the characters were and how they should work. To find a team that was interested in putting it all back together was very exciting.” Trekkers will be excited too. Nimoy’s first scene in the film, screened for EW, is goose-bumpingly cool.

This whole article is one big ass tease! I wish to hell this movie was coming out this year like originally planned damn it! But now we have to wait till next summer. I’m noy the only one that feels this way though.

”My only regret is that the movie can’t come out sooner,” Nimoy says. ”I think the world could use it. Don’t you?”

Yes. Yes, I do.