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Porn and my 88-year-old Grandmother

Posted on January 8, 2010 | 4 comments

I’ve been going through a tough time since the break-up. But, I’m getting better. Frankly, I just haven’t felt like writing or being creative. I’ve been drinking too much and watching too much TV, not to mention watching too much porn. I’ve been very lazy. Over the last several weeks, however, I feel like I finally have turned the corner and am on a new and much improved street.

But let’s get back to what I’m sure caught your attention in the first paragraph. Porn. Now, I realize that I have a rather diverse, yet small, group of readers. And I’m sure that all of you have strong feelings about this topic. Some of you may be “disgusted” by it. Some of you may be “confused” by it. Some of you may have numerous online subscriptions to various porn websites. Whatever. There is room in this world for all of you. And I’m not here to discuss the benefits or detriments of porn. So please don’t turn my blog’s comment section into a porn discussion board. Different strokes for different folks. eh hm.

Anyway, in the interest of full disclosure, here’s my perspective. After all, it is my blog. I like porn, I like nudity, I like sex. I always have. And I treat it like I try to treat anything else in my life: Moderation in all things.

Here’s a little history of me and porn. It all started in 1985 when I was in 5th grade. A friend of mine named Bret invited me to his house to show off his stash. Evidently he had been slowly stealing Hustler magazines from his dad’s collection. As I entered his bedroom that special day, I had no idea what awaited me. But, I was lucky, Bret was already a porn “pro” and was able to explain to me what all the parts were and what they did. Honestly, 24 years later, I still haven’t thanked Bret for what would be my initial lesson in sex education. My parents were not what I would call communicative. We did not discuss problems or even really have any kind of discussions at all. Especially when it came to sex. So I was clearly on my own. Until Bret stepped up to the plate. Thanks, Bret, I owe you one.

Without getting too graphic, let’s just say I learned on that very special afternoon a lot about human anatomy. Honestly, I don’t remember much about the woman in the picture. But I can still describe to you in full detail the man (including his feathered, bleach blond hair and 80s porn ‘stache). It was enough to fully pique my interest. And from that moment on, I was incredibly curious about men’s anatomy. My imagination went wild. Which is why I loved my new best friend…the JC Penney Catalog. You see, the JC Penny catalog had like a 5 or 6 page spread of men in their underwear. It was like the holy grail of soft porn. And when my Grandma would receive her quarterly catalog, I was in underwear heaven. It was like being allowed to visit a guy’s locker room–without the teasing and shame and threats of swirlies.

I think this model (on left) is actually Ashton Kutcher's dad...

Well, my history with porn strangely came full circle this past summer when I was home visiting my grandma. While sitting next to my grandmother showing her pictures that I had taken at the Iowa State Fair, I inadvertently entered into a very special and very private section of pictures in iPhoto. Shit. Yes, that’s right. I accidentally showed my 88-year-old grandmother gay porn. Full on, hard penis, legs spread, gay porn. And this was G-ma’s response to seeing some random dude in all his glory: “Ohhhhhhh.” Immediately my fingers fumbled across the keyboard, in an effort to close iPhoto, only to forward through several more naked photos. Finally, flustered and unable to stop the peep show, I just slammed the laptop shut. I took a deep breath, feeling my face burning red, and slowly slid away from G-ma. After several minutes of painful and complete silence I simply said, “I’m kind of tired, Grandma, I think I’ll go to bed.” And that was that.

My family has mastered the art of not talking about things, at least directly. So I called my sister the next day and told her. It’s just how we communicate. I’m fairly confident Grandma and I will never talk about it. Just like we never talked about why the men’s underwear section of her JC Penney’s Catalog was always missing or left tattered.

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Posted in Family, Gay, Humor, My Life, Pictures, The Early Years, Uncategorized

Tagged Grandma, Porn

Stinky

Posted on July 21, 2009 | 3 comments

I must have mentioned before that my least favorite part of my job is not dealing with difficult passengers. It’s dealing with difficult flight attendants. The passengers come and go, but when I work with someone that is difficult, I’m stuck with them for 3 days.

Usually the problem is laziness. It’s like pulling teeth to get certain co-workers off their asses to do anything. They just want to sit and read. Or worse, stand in the galley and talk about themselves. They’ll make sarcastic comments like, “Oooo, look at the super stew.” This is the response I get for answering a call button immediately instead of letting the passenger sit and wait and re-ring it several times. To their credit, they are so tuned-out that they didn’t even hear the call button. But, this wasn’t the problem with a male flight attendant who shall be known as Stinky.

Stinky falls into the category of flight attendants who have personal hygiene issues. Stinky is a nice guy. He really is. I have flown with him before and enjoyed it. Clearly, for Stinky, things have changed. On my way to the gate, I saw Stinky and didn’t even recognize him. His hair is grown out and rather unkempt. He has a beard. And the uniform… Oy. Ill-fitting and dirty. He was wearing slip-on athletic shoes that his roommate left behind, “They looked fine to me, so I took ’em. They did have an odd smell though…(chuckle, chuckle)”

And did they ever. Stinky was wearing what I can only assume were decades-old, white socks. I’m not sure if the smell was coming from the socks or the dirty brown shoes. But, he was completely unfazed by them. He insisted on crossing his leg with his foot pointing directed at me. Despite my vigorous fanning with a safety information card, he never seemed to get the clue. I like this guy, actually, and I just didn’t have the heart to practice my recent decision to be more direct. I tried. I just couldn’t tell him. What can I say, I’m a work in progress. That’s why I blog.

On top of the shoes, Stinky used an old-school brown hanky to blow his nose into and then stuff back into his pocket. He did this several times a flight. That is something my grandpa would do. I thought it was gross then, and now it just seems downright unsanitary. Although, considering that he picked his nose on the jump-seat and hocked loogies into the trash while he was pouring drinks, I don’t know why I didn’t expect him to also reuse the same hanky for three days. I mean, it only makes sense.

I totally forgot the best part about stinky. He cross-dresses. Talk about an interesting mix. He is an über-dude with a mountain-man beard, unkempt hair, poor hygiene, who likes to duct-tape his man-breasts together to make some cleavage and put on a fabulous pair of pumps. eh-hem. Nobody puts baby in a corner… or a box. Stereotypes be damned! Maybe this is why I like the guy. He just is. Take him or leave him. Although, that doesn’t mean he has chosen an appropriate career path.

My airline is in the process of changing our uniforms a bit. They are making the futile attempt of making the flight attendants look nicer. One of the changes is that we can no longer wear brown dress shoes, only black. Stinky informed me that he had a nice pair of combat boots at home that he probably was going to wear. They were black after all. Oh Stinky, he’s trying.

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Tagged Flight Attendant, poor hygiene, stinky

Shit, Fuck, Asshole, and Other Various Stress Relievers

Posted on July 13, 2009 | Leave a comment

Shit, Fuck, Asshole, and Other Various Stress Relievers. That was my first attempt at titling this post. I immediately rethought my choice of words. Not because I have a problem with putting swear words in the title of a post, hell no. It just seemed a little, eh-hem, how to do I put it nicely…well, gay sexual. Obviously, I don’t have a problem with gay sex. But, I didn’t want to mislead readers into thinking that I was writing about how sex can relieve stress. I’ll save that for later.

I’m once again writing about swearing. I found a very interesting article online. It discusses the reasoning behind our swearing. Check it out. In case you don’t care to read it, let me break it down for you: Swearing helps relieve pain and stress; the benefits decrease if you do it too much. There you have it. FUCK!

I sure do feel better.

I should perhaps refer you to one of my earlier posts on swearing entitled, @$%#! It’s one of my all-time favorite posts. And, it gives you a little history of me and swearing. SHIT! Sorry, I was feeling a little tense all of a sudden.

I think that swearing is one of the biggest guilty pleasures of most Christians. Many won’t admit to it. But, it is an amazing stress reliever. When I was in Bible College, my friends and I would throw out a “shit” or a “bitch,” possibly an “asshole” every now and then. You know, behind closed doors. It was a guaranteed laugh. There was something just wonderfully inappropriate about it. Oh yeah, another great stress reliever that many Christians will not admit to enjoying is porn, soft and hardcore. But that really should be saved for another post. 🙂 I can’t wait to see if anyone is brave enough to admit to that one in my comment section. And not in a “I used to struggle with porn” sort of way, but a “yeah, I like porn” sort of way. I doubt it.

Now that I’ve officially offended, pissed off, or lost half of my readers, I can safely say this, “Congratulations, fuckers, you made to the end of my post.” Don’t hold in that nice and juicy expletive that has been building up for days. Get creative with it. It very well may be the remedy for what ails you. SHITFUCK, ASSHAT, BITCHY BITCHERSON!

And, no, thank you very much, I do not have Tourette’s.

p.s. I decided to leave the title as is. It just gave me too much joy. Which, in turn, is another great stress reliever.

Jesus vs. Pope

Posted on April 9, 2009 | 1 comment

Here’s just a little somethin somethin to brighten your day.

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Posted in Current Events, Humor, Video, YouTube Clips

Tagged Jesus, Pope, Video

Odd Jobs

Posted on January 22, 2009 | 6 comments

I’ve had my fair share of odd jobs. In fact, in some ways I don’t know that I’ve ever really had a normal job. Of course, for some reason when I think of normal jobs I think of being an accountant. I guess any job that involves cubicles and numbers is normal. I realize my thinking is a little warped. But accountants just seem so incessantly normal.

My first job, other than being the official “channel changer” for my family, was working in a strawberry field. That’s right, I was a field worker. The pay was awful and it involved crawling across a strawberry field searching for ripe strawberries. Needless to say, I didn’t last long. Manual labor and I never have mixed well.

It wasn’t long after that when I became an illegal worker at a fast food restaurant. I was 15 when the manager, who I’m sure has been on “To Catch a Predator” twice, hired me. He lied to the company about my age and allowed me to work in the back for about 8 months. Neither my parents nor I knew that you had to be at least 16 to legally work at a restaurant in the state of Iowa. So about a week before my 16th birthday the assistant manager called me and told me not to come back to work until I turned 16, which is when I was told what had gone down. On an interesting side note, my predator was sent to jail on an unrelated (to me anyway) offense involving alcohol, minors, and sex. In retrospect I’m a little offended that I was not offered either alcohol or sex. (oh please…don’t act so shocked…)

Since customer service is my gig, it’s understandable that I quickly rose to the top. Once I was of legal working age they took me off of the bun-toaster and shoved to the front line, where I was able to present my awkward smile to every mentally-ill veteran who happened to walk through the front door. There were several that would occasionally get confused and wander through the service door and it was their loss. The restaurant was located close to a VA hospital that I seem to remember had a special outpatient mental health ward. Nice. That didn’t stop my Hardee’s “Served with Pride” award-winning attitude. Oh yes, did I mention that the name of the “restaurant” was Hardee’s? Umm. Yeah. I don’t mean to brag, but I was employee of the month twice during my stint as a front-line worker. I know what you are thinking. And it’s true. I have “front-line worker” written all over me. Thank you.

I had some really interesting friends from Hardee’s. There was Gail, her daughter Tracy, and son-in-law Bill. Gail made cakes on the side and once brought a cake to work in the shape of a penis at full attention with all the graphic detail you can imagine. I don’t remember much about Tracy, except that she was married to Bill. Interestingly, Bill was the truly odd one of the family. He was responsible for cleaning the parking lot and performing other random duties, like chasing the confused patrons out of the service entrance. He liked to invite people to come see his house. I don’t think he had anything funny in mind. He just simply enjoyed showing people his and Tracy’s fully undecorated home. I only took the tour once.

In hindsight, I’m not really sure why I was invited over to so many of my co-workers’ places. No one ever tried to give me drugs or alcohol. No one ever tried to touch me. Nothing. It must have just been my sparkling personality and award-winning smile that people could not resist. Even several of the managers had me over to their places. I know that you are probably thinking how lucky I was–those situations were dangerous. And, you could be right. But, these people actually were my friends, even if they were adults. In some ways, they were educating me on the real world. Perhaps they were just trying to show me what life would be like if I stayed at Hardee’s, instead of going to college. I chose college.

I do love a good list, so here’s a serious list of 5 things I actually learned from working at Hardee’s:

1) Smile at everybody. Even those who seem a little crazy.

2) Show up on time. If you are late, someone else has to wait.

3) Smoking is a nasty habit. Being exposed to secondhand smoke and seeing the effects of a lifetime-long smoking habit on a mentally-ill person is a great deterrent.

4) If you masturbate you will grow hair on the palms of your hands. I fell for this joke countless times.

5) Go to college. If you stay and work at a fast food restaurant in rural Iowa, you will end up living in a van down by the river. (In further hindsight, I would say that if you don’t choose to go to college then you should at least travel and expand your worldview.)

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