New Story: I'm very happy to announce that cicero has allowed me to post his latest story on my site. Read The Pitcher's New Mound.

Stories I'm reading:

• Competitive Edge
• Laws of Nature (coll)
• Making the Band
• The One Who Thought He Was Immune
• Power Outage

"Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me"--I admit it. I scoffed at Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl even before watching it because the notion of basing a movie on a theme park ride, a Disney one at that, was just too ridiculous. Well, shiver me timbers and call me Davy, not did Pirates turn out to be a wonderfully fun flick, it's probably one of the best I've seen in a long while thanks much in part to the juicy Johnny Depp and jolly ol' Geoffrey Rush. Now I'm raring to go and be the first in line for Disney's next theme-ride movie, The Haunted Mansion.

Did a little bit of spring cleaning (even though it's almost autumn) over the week, and I:

• updated the Links section where I created a separate category for Straight sites
• pointed all Chooseyourchange.com links to the site's new address, CYOC.net, and
• re-linked most of the password-protected ASSGM.com stories in my archive and favorite stories to either Google Groups or YahooGroup's ASSGM-List

But I still have miles to go before I sleep... or is it no rest for the wicked? In any case, I've been working on something that will hopefully make maintaining this site a little bit easier. Stay tuned.

Stories I'm reading: Fallen asleep

• Breakfast in Bed
• The Sleeper Awakes
• Troy, Vogt and Me

Bill O'Reilly Wants You To Shut Up

Stories I'm reading:

• Down Stairs Bathroom
• Mesmerized (tt oral)
• My Homeroom Hunk
• Seducing the Seducer (mt hs)
• Straight Aussie Boys on School Excursion (tt anal)

"They can dish it out, but they can't take it"--Al Franken speaks out Salon

Chris Beckman--Read about Real World Chicago's Chris here, here and here.

Stories I'm reading:

• Gay Delivery Guy (bi oral anal)
• The Jogger
• New Guy Gets a Medical
• The Straight Mechanic
• Summer Construction

Fox News loses attempt to block satirist's book--Thanks to the Fucks News Channel ("We Distort. You Comply."), I know what's next on my reading list.

Lenny Bruce died for our sins Salon

Stories I'm reading: Dexx Jones

• Randall Penitentiary: Splish Splash in the Guppy Tank
• Randall Penitentiary Book 2: Red Block/Blue Block and Lost At Sea
• Randall Penitentiary Book 3: Undertow

When Good Pets Go Bad--Things get rather beastly in Animal Farm when Fabletown mayor Snow White and her estranged sister Rose Red come over for a visit. This second collection of the Eisner-award winning Fables looks at what life is like down at the Farm where all the nonhuman fairytale creatures have been put to pasture, and one thing you'll learn is just how precious little there is of what separates Man from the Animals.

A Little Song, a Little Dance, a Little Bratwurst in Your Pants and It's "Hasta La Vista" Democracy! by Maureen Farrell

Stories I'm reading: Today is Body Swap Day! Come join in the fun.

• Another Bad Penny... Oh Puck!
• Bad Pennies
• Best Friends Share Everything
• Changing Trains
• Just Desserts

Solis's List of 25 Amazing Men

Stories I'm reading: Autocratic Doc

• Hot Summer Night at the Beach: 4 | 5 YahooGroup
• Runaway on the Streets
• St. Patrick's Day Shower

Play Ball Salon

Stories I'm reading:

• Alphabet Lovers
• Father Greg
• My Birthday Gift
• Steve and Joe's Car Valeting Service
• Wife Turns Me Around (bi)

Sinfully Bad?--More of annoyingly mediocre. Considering the star power (Oh, Brad!) and impressive character designs and visuals (gotta love those creatures of myth), Sinbad could have and should have turned out to be so much better. The source material, IMO, deserved a treatment more epic in scope (something Disney's Nadia... whoops, I meant Atlantis also failed to do), but noooo... they had to make it all hokeyly human.

Forgive Me. I Voted for George W. Bush by James C. Moore, co-author of "Bush's Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential"

Stories I'm reading:

• California Tenderloin
• The Mechanic Service
• Monster Cock
• The Shocker
• White Briefs

Faking out Friendster Salon

Stories I'm reading:

• Alt World
• Better than Perfect
• Big is Better
• Muscleman Jeff
• Switch

Franky G.--Gee Franky, what big arms you have!

Stories I'm reading:

• Bewitching Muscles
• Books of Prophecy
• Harry's Boys
• Surprise
• Tony the Tiger

Doug Lang--College bodybuilder

MuscleFX.com--Bodybuilder photography gallery

Stories I'm reading:

• Bodybuilder Slave Boy
• Jason matures, finally (ap musc)
• Electric Growth
• The Mirror
• Small to Big to Bigger (musc)

Cruising for Muscle--"With Over 50 Metric Tons of Muscle"

Stories I'm reading:

• The Big-and-Tall
• Muscle Visitor
• Picture of Dorian Gays
• Superboy Gets Drained (celeb)
• The Recruit

Robert Marting--Mens sana in corpore sano; a beautiful mind, a beautiful body. Check out his fitness/weight training DVD and YahooGroup.

Junior Muscle International--Hard, raw, hot showmuscle

Stories I'm reading:

• All Day I Had Been Feeling Strange YahooGroup
• Down on the Farm
• Muscles and Old Lace
• The Old Valley Road Hotel
• U4IA Gym

PenguinArt.com--Homoerotic muscle art in 3D

Stories I'm reading:

• Drug Test
• Growing for the Team
• Mama's Little Darlings Go To Computer Camp
• Tad the Teen Bodybuilder
• Teen Cousins

Chris Rademacher--Boy, has this guy grown or what?

Muscle Hunks--Collection of bodybuilder pics

Stories I'm reading: Corwin

• A.I.
• Atomic Muscle
• The Cyclist
• The Trade
• Twins

Home of Muscle--Bodybuilders get even bigger

Al Gore's remarks to MoveOn.org

Stories I'm reading:

• Behold, the Power of Words
• Doctor Muscle
• Leatherpants
• Rick
• Twelve Steps Back

Clark Bartram--He's Batman!

Stories I'm reading: Sleeping it off

• Oral Rape YahooGroup
• Six Foot Eleven
• Night Dreams

Kellogg's Signs of Masturbation--"Apparently old Mr. Cornflakes had a real problem with the self-love. Find out how HE spotted a masturbator." [c/o Fark.com]

Stories I'm reading:

• Betrayed By My Body: 1 | 2 | 3
• My First Gay Experience With My Female Friend's Little Bro
• My Nightclub Fuck Buddy: 1 | 2 | 3
• One Hot Fantasy Come True
• Eighteen Goes Into Thirty Six Twice

The Kennel--A slash site of fiction and artwork

Stories I'm reading: All in the family

• Blowjob Brothers: 1 | 2
• Marine Quandry
• A Room with a View: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 (mm+ voy)
• The Route
• Scent of a Man

Weapons of Mass Deception--A Buzzflash interview with Sheldon Rampton

Stories I'm reading: A woman's touch...

• Attempted Takeover (fd hypno)
• CAT (fd hypno)
• Frankenstripper: She's Alive! (fd asfr hypno)
• The Seven (fd inc hypno)
• Speed Trap (fd hypno)

Rodrigo Santoro--Charlie's Angel (Heaven, I'm in heaven... )

Stories I'm reading: Sleep, perchance to dream

• Hot Summer Night at the Beach: 1 | 2 | 3 YahooGroup
• How I Became a Fag II
• Learning About Sex

Conceptual Guerilla's Strategies and Tactics--A progressive political website with interesting articles like Beat the Right in Three Minutes and The Big Picture

Stories I'm reading: Friends indeed

• Knowing Dave
• Obsessed with Gay Roommate
• Straight Buddy Ray: Three's Cum-pany
• The Wetsuit
• We Were Drunk

A First at Bride's Magazine: A Report on Same-Sex Unions NYT