Bear Central

As if there wern't enough already here comes yet another Bear Site. Now I admit that I am a totally joiner. I see the sites and feel like I have to find out what is going on and so far Bear Central seems easy to navigate and it is pretty to look at. When I joined this morning there were only about 152 members but I can see that word is spreading fast. Just a few hours later there are 232 members. I would say that so far this is better than most. Armistead Maupin's husband, Chris Turner is the man in charge of site development. Kudos Chris!

About Bear Central

Bear Central is based in San Francisco, California. The team running the site is made up of Chris Turner, Walter Smith and Scott McGillivray. They have all been very active members of the bear community for many years; attending numerous bear gatherings, helping fund-raising efforts at bear charities, founding bear websites, running bear magazines… you name it. It’s been their dream to launch a social-site for their community for a few years now — so here we finally have it!

Business Strip (part 1) by Gregg Homme Underwear

Thank you Gregg Homme!

SASSY GAY FRIEND: FOUL LANGUAGE

FOUL! What does that mean? Your Sassy Gay Friend found out when he took to the streets to learn about basketball. Who knew he was such a baller? You customized your bracket this month, and now you can customize your drink with MiO. Just Flip It, Tip It and Sip It like our friend here, on the court or off, wherever, whenever you want! Check out MiO on Facebook at http://www.Facebook.com/MiO

The Best Thing You Can Do With $10...

STEVE HAYES: Tired Old Queen at the Movies - #71

Currently Watching - Silkwood

The story of Karen Silkwood, a metallurgy worker at a plutonium processing plant who was purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing blatant worker safety violations at the plant.

This movie is ok...amazing acting from Meryl Streep, but we expect that. They did not use Cher nearly enough. But, the true star of the show is Kurt Russell...well, truly the star is whoever told Kurt to go shirtless for most of this movie. He was a hot piece of ass! 

Westboro To Picket Liz Taylor's Funeral

MY GOD! I HATE WESTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH!!!They get the FUCKING FUCKERS award!

Spring Blooms in the Big D

Spring Blooms in the Big D

Monday, March 21st, 2011 | Armando R. Gonzalez

The weather in Dallas is beautiful and why waste it indoors? This year marks the 27th anniversary of Dallas Arboretum’s major floral festival Dallas Blooms. The festival currently runs through April 10 with special events along the way.
Last year, MSN noted that the Dallas Arboretum was “One of the Top 14 Places in the World to See Spring Flowers.” With that in mind, the Dallas Arboretum knew they definitely had to make this year’s festival even better!
Dallas Blooms features 500,000 spring-blooming bulbs including tulips, daffodils, Dutch Iris and hyacinths, in addition to 100,000 pansies, violas, poppies and thousands of other spring-blooming annuals and perennials. The finale of this spring celebration is the mass flowering of the garden’s collection of 3,000 azaleas that bloom through the end of April.
As a part of Dallas Blooms, ‘It’s A Fairy Tale World’, The Dallas Arboretum also launches its Fairy Tale Castles exhibit sponsored by Lambert’s and Moore Tree Care. Seven area architects were selected by a jury to build castles based on classic children fairy tales. The exhibit will open to the public during Dallas Blooms and will run through December 31, 2011.
“Each winning entry will be placed throughout the garden in exclusive spots handpicked by the Dallas Arboretum horticulture department. The Fairy Tale Castles will each be sited in the landscaped area that best captures the theme of the story throughout the changing seasons,” said Dave Forehand, vice president of gardens at the Dallas Arboretum.
For those looking for discounts to Dallas Blooms, there will be $1 off admission tickets available at all are Tom Thumb stores. Capital One Bank’s “Buy One Get One Free Tuesdays” will offer coupons available at any Capital One Bank location.
The Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Gardens is located on the southeastern shore of White Rock Lake. The Arboretum is open daily from 9 a.m. through 5 p.m. General admission is $12 for adults, $10 for seniors 65 and older, $8 for children 3-12 and free for Arboretum members and children two and under. On-site parking is $7. The Arboretum is wheelchair accessible and tram service is available for the mobility impaired.
For more information and to plan your visit, head on over to www.dallasarboretum.org

Via Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau

RIP Elizabeth Taylor

Elizabeth Taylor died Wednesday at 79. But suppose she had died in 1960? She could have. You could look it up. She was suffering from pneumonia that year, after starting filming on "Cleopatra." It was serious enough for her to have been declared dead.

Those who remember hearing the news -- my mother and her friends among them -- swear that the whole world stopped at that moment. That's how dominant, how unavoidable Taylor had become. And she wasn't yet 30 years old.

By 1960, Taylor was as pervasive a presence in American culture as President Eisenhower, Mickey Mantle, Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe, who that same year -- though no one knew it at the time -- would make her last movie, "The Misfits," before her own death two years later.

Almost 50 years have passed since then, and they're still publishing cover stories about Monroe. If it hadn't been for the emergency tracheotomy that saved Taylor's life, the same would have been true for her.

Those articles would have chronicled in melancholic and rhapsodic tones how Taylor first came to prominence as the most beautiful child actress in motion-picture history. Watch her breakthrough role, at age 12, in 1944's "National Velvet," and maybe you'll understand why even such grown film critics as The Nation's James Agee fawned over her "with the peculiar sort of adoration I might have felt if we were both in the same grade of primary school."

Her rise from MGM ingénue to an actress of such caliber that she'd been nominated for the best actress Oscar in 1957 ("Raintree County"), 1958 ("Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"), and 1959 ("Suddenly, Last Summer") would have been framed in the context of great promise on the precipice of fulfillment.

Inevitably, those eulogies would have given as much space to her star-crossed, some might say "untidy," romantic life. She had four marriages up till 1960, the last to her "BUtterfield 8" co-star Eddie Fisher who, tabloid gossips contended, was "stolen" by the dark-haired widow of producer Mike Todd from a happy marriage to golden gal Debbie Reynolds. The mythologists would have had quite a time sifting for meaning in all that mess.

For the full story click here.

Religion may become extinct in nine nations, study says

I find this very interesting. Most of the countries listed are well developed and have better education and a higher standard of living.

A study using census data from nine countries shows that religion there is set for extinction, say researchers.

The study found a steady rise in those claiming no religious affiliation.
The team's mathematical model attempts to account for the interplay between the number of religious respondents and the social motives behind being one.
The result, reported at the American Physical Society meeting in Dallas, US, indicates that religion will all but die out altogether in those countries.
The team took census data stretching back as far as a century from countries in which the census queried religious affiliation: Australia, Austria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Switzerland.
Nonlinear dynamics is invoked to explain a wide range of physical phenomena in which a number of factors play a part.

For the full story go to BBC News

KAZAKY at ANOUKI BICHOLLA Fall/Winter 2011/12

I am fairly certain that if you look up FIERCE in the dictionary this is what you would see. I don't understand it but I love it!!!

Kudos to David Dust for posting this!

Happy TBRU Weekend to all the bears and lovers of bears.

Squirrel Attacks in Vermont - Lez Get Real

A vicious rogue gray squirrel has been terrorizing a neighborhood in the quiet Ivy League town of Bennington, Vermont. The Bennington Banner reports that one man, Kevin McDonald was ambushed while shoveling snow and one woman is being treated for possible rabies exposure. The Vermont Public Health service, through veterinarian Robert Johnson says there has never been a report of rabies being transmitted by squirrel in Vermont.

The squirrel reportedly stalks its victims, launching itself repeatedly at innocent people going about their normal business. Johnson has speculated that the squirrel was raised as a pet and therefore is unafraid of people. Gray squirrels are territorial and will chase off other squirrels for violating tree-rights. They are also remarkably intelligent, with long-term memory capabilities akin to dolphins. Though squirrel-proof bird feeders are a large market among wildlife lovers, there really is no such thing as a feeder a squirrel can’t get at. There have also been reports of squirrels becoming dangerous when cornered while trying to defend their “ownership” of toilets.

Our neighborhood alpha-male is named Leonardo, for his habit of climbing on our garage roof, standing on his hind haunches and surveying his domain while raising his front paws in a perfect imitation of “I’m King of the World!” Thinking of squirrels as cute little rodents is naive. They are fully capable of bringing a 300-pound man to tears. My Dad never recovered from that one.

Via - Lez Get Real

Guilty!

COME ON! This is just too cute!My Rose is the same way. She knows exactly when she has done something wrong and does the guilty dog trick.

Dog Survives Japan Tsunami, Leads Rescuers to Friend

I saw this last night and it really just broke my heart but there is good news. Both dogs have been taken to a vet and are receiving care. Please remember that there are anamials in need of help as well as people. Go to globalanimal.org  to see how you can help.