Saturday, January 14, 2012

Sunday Morning Questions: Roundabout Story Edition

Some of my readers have poked up their heads to ask about the audio recording I promised of one of my entries, late last year. Valid question!

By way of answering it, let me explain a little something about my life right now.

When I moved to the east coast, last summer, I moved into a temporary residence. I packed up my family's three-bedroom, hundred-year-old Craftsman-style home (pardon me while I choke back my sobs) and into a very tiny, very compact apartment with only a portion of the bedrooms and space and at a much high rent than my mortgage used to be.

Something had to give. As a consequence, more than eighty percent of my possessions are still in storage, believe it or not. I have about half of my kitchen equipment unpacked (and if you think it's been fun to have only one cookie sheet for seven months, you're wrong). We have all of our clothes and computer equipment. My piano sits in my dining room. And that's really about all I've got unpacked—the rest is sitting either in boxes in the basement, or in a storage unit across town.

Now, if it's one of the boxes I packed myself, I can generally remember in what size box something is, and how it might be marked. When I really needed a reference book a couple of weeks ago, I knew it was in a medium-sized box labelled Bedroom Books. I ventured into the basement, banged my head on the water pipes, and managed to find it in one go.

If it's a box that the movers packed, though, god knows where it is. They just shoved things into cardboard, wrote Household on it, and called it day. I could go through the several score Household boxes and unwrap every object from the three miles of brown paper they used as padding. I spent an entire day doing that when I discovered they'd individually-wrapped every small jar of spice from my kitchen cupboard, early in the summer, and lost my taste not only for unwrapping things in general, but for Christmas presents as well.

My point—I really do have one!—is that my headphones with the microphone that plugs into my notebook's USB port is packed in some box somewhere. God knows where. Once I figure it out, you'll get that audio recording. I've picked out the essay I'll be reading, and I've had some ideas of how I'll do it. So give me a little more time and you'll get it, I promise.

Let's get to some questions from formspring.me. Thanks to those of you who sent in new questions this week—I always appreciate them.


Are any specific types of questions that you delete or ignore?

Absolutely. I tend not to answer any questions about my family members or my loved ones. I skip over questions I've been asked a million times before or which are of the mundane "what kind of sex do you like" variety.

And I definitely ignore questions that aren't really questions at all, but barely-disguised verbal traps that someone has constructed with the intent of putting me in my place, or pointing out how depraved I am.

What is the most you've ever spent on a meal in a restaurant?

$170 for two—for a dinner and two drinks.

I told my father and he fainted.

Do you think you would enjoy being tricked onto SyFy's Scare Tactics?

Fuck no. I don't like being tricked into anything, I don't like surprises, and I don't like being scared. I can't imagine a more miserable way to spend my time.

When you were a teenage boy had you ever been caught masturbating by your mother or other part of the family? What happened next?

No, I was never caught masturbating.

If I had been, in my household it wouldn't have been a cause for either shock, alarm, or even much notice. Proto-hippies that they were, my parents would have l-o-v-e-d the opportunity to be laid back and cool about it, and would've taken undisguised masturbation as an indication that their parenting techniques were as relaxed and hip and up-to-date as they thought they were.

Naturally, as a stubborn kid, I wasn't going to give them that satisfaction.

How many pillow and blankets do you use when you sleep?

I use one of each, and I sleep in the nude.

I never really heard of anyone using more than one pillow to sleep until I met Spencer last year. I had to round up every pillow in the household to satisfy him, on the many occasions he spent the night.

What does your latest text message from someone else say?

At the time of this question, it was, It's a good thing you made a big batch of those apple bars.

Have you ever used another guys cum as lube to fuck someone?

Often.

Which US city has the hottest guys to fuck?

Atlanta, Chicago, and Washington, D.C., in my experience. Columbus, Ohio is another surprising little pig town, as is Dallas.

L.A. and NYC have a lot of beautiful men, but in L.A. especially, the men seem so worried that they'll miss out on something better if they agree to meet, that they postpone hooking up for hours on end.

Do you only have sex bareback?

I prefer it.

I see you read Big Shoe Diaries -- how much do you wanna bang Colby Keller?

Colby Keller—@colbykeller on Twitter— is one of the top sexiest porn actors it's my pleasure to watch, from time to time. He has a lot of qualities that really make me extremely attracted to him aside from his height and his amazing good looks. He's a talented artist and a good writer, has an admirable intellect, and seems like a genuinely good and pleasant guy.

So yes, he totally makes me want to do dirty things to him.

19 comments:

  1. """""but in L.A. especially, the men seem so worried that they'll miss out on something better if they agree to meet, that they postpone hooking up for hours on end."""""

    After having liked in LA for so many years, that is so true. At least in West Hollywood.

    I also was wondering what happen to the recording you were going to do. Thanks for letting us know what happen.

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  2. I know what you mean about the boxes. Both my mom and I moved to our own apartments and my mom said something along the lines of, "If you don't want me to throw it away, take it with you." So I have enough boxes that piles of them can act as makeshift furniture if I ever have more people over than my couch and two chairs can hold. And when you live in a temporary place, you don't want to unpack the things that you don't absolutely need, because then you just have to pack them up again when you finally find the right place. You have my sympathy, and I will defend to the death your right to take your time with the recording. I do hope your family finds a bigger place soon, though. I liked the size of your old house a lot (not to rub it in).

    -Ace

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    1. Ace,

      You're right—we could conceivably unpack everything, but when it's all going into boxes again in another few months, what's the point? Moving is awful enough as it is, even when you pay someone else to do it for you.

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    2. No need to make more work for yourself when you can just as easily view your current residence as a staging area for the final move. Plenty of people take a while to find the right spot, and it isn't like you've been in the area that long yet. But yeah, moving is pretty awful. I'm not really looking forward to doing it again, even though I have to soon.

      -Ace

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  3. Thanks. I look forward to your audio post.

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  4. Rob, why don't you get a "real job" so your family doesn't need to lkive in such confined space?
    Just wondering?

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    1. Anonymous (and it always is the Anonymouses of the world who ask this kind of shit),

      Ooo, burn. Feel better now, that you got that little stinger in? You're a big man now, huh? Good for you!

      What makes you think that my earning power has anything to do with where we've chosen to settle temporarily? It doesn't. We've made this choice because we want to find the exact right place to live, without having to settle for something we'll discover we'll regret later on.

      I don't have a 'real job' in the sense of a nine-to-five office job that consists of drudgery and dissatisfaction. I have a real career that brings me a lot of happiness and is something that many people would kill to do for a living. It brings in real money. It doesn't involve me getting up at the same time every day and wearing Dockers to a cubicle—but thank god for that. Why don't you have a job you love just as much? Just wondering?

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    2. Although you would look hot in khakis or suit......

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    3. something tells me Anonymous has probably not moved cities. When I moved, I started paying twice the rent for an apartment the same size cos I moved up to a bigger metropolis.

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  5. Really 1 pillow? Christ I use 4- 2 for my head and one on each side of me to hold onto. Columbus is fun....Cincinnati not so much lol. What's your favorite song to play on the piano? Wellll I've got to get packed for tomorrow....wish me luck...

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    1. Good luck for tomorrow, my friend. I hope it goes well.

      Spencer used to use two for his head, then he'd surround himself with a fortress of pillows all around him, until it looked like he was in some kind of WWI trench.

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  6. $170. that's all?!? LOL. I once spent $500 on dinner for two at Gramercy Tavern in NYC. The best meal of my life.

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    1. I'd be uncomfortable spending much more than that, to be honest. Add to that the fact that I rarely drink, and it keeps my tabs manageable.

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    2. It was also a gift from some of my co-workers for a job well done. They gave me the bonus, I figured I'd spend it on something I would never be able to do again. Extravagance comes once in a lifetime, but I wouldn't do it on my paycheck. GAH!

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  7. Sorry you have to deal with dumbfucks, that being said i loved the Colby question and i loved your answer even more!!!

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    1. We love Colby, right? The dumbfucks, not so much.

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  8. I use one pillow for my head and cuddle with the other one though its rare that I cuddle with a guy the same way all night. Then again my pillows dont popper me up at 4 am and fuck me while im half asleep.

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