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A New Day

Posted by danrambles on January 21, 2009

After non-stop coverage of Barack Obama’s inaugaration today on multiple channels, there’s nothing I can say right now that could not have possibly already been stated by someone else. With my sincere attempt to not regurgitate anyone else’s opinions or commentary, I’d like to just take a minute to share my opinion on the day’s events.

I had a job interview that went really well, spoke with my parents about the difficult options I’m faced with right now in my recent and troubling financial situation, and went to work for the one day a week that I have a job. All the while, I watched on television or listened on the radio to Barack Obama’s inagauration festivities. It’s been such an amazing event to have constantly fill my day. I’m so excited and happy and hopeful and overwhelmed today. I’m one of those crazy people most make fun of on the news for considering President Obama to be the ‘great messiah.’ One of the nutjobs that expects him to change everything and make all of our/my woes disappear. I’m him. I stop what I’m doing everytime he’s on the t.v. and listen intently to every word he speaks. Suddenly tonight I’m crying over watching two people dance together, though I’ve seen them dance countless times already throughout the evening as the attend each ball.

For me, it’s not so much Barack Obama the person. As a person, I believe he’s fantastic. His ideas seem perfect, persona seems to be something to idolize, and ability to overcome the impossible something to give everyone a new hope to believe in in each person’s own life. I feel as though he is very obtainable… like if I really wanted to I could find a way to call him directly or email him and get a personal response. It’s not like former presidents I’ve seen, or major celebrities, or the pope. Those people I know I’ll never come into contact with no matter what. But Obama…. it’s different somehow.
But regardless, it’s not Obama, the man. It’s everything he represents. And not just the racial aspects, though that in itself is of course monumental. I always have believed, regardless of how much I’d love to pretend otherwise, that racism is much more of a problem than most recognize. But sooo many people..white people… went out and voted for Obama, regardless of his race. It’s fantastic. But also, the whole cliche (at this point) ‘change’ platform. He absolutely represents change to me. Times have sucked for a lot of people the last few years. Times have sucked for me over the past few months. Suddenly I feel like things are going to start to turn around, for the country and for myself. Maybe not because of him directly, but I suddenly have a new fire lit under my ass. I feel like I can go out tomorrow and make life get a little better than it has been. I’m excite in this dorky, possibly unrealistic way. Regardless of whether or not my excitement and hope is actually founded on anything, I would love to thank President Obama for the hope he’s given me. And honestly, I feel like with our new president, I’d actually have a chance at thanking him in person one day… or at least sending him an email that he’ll actually read.

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Finally something lower than my bank account!

Posted by danrambles on January 15, 2009

When I start writing about the weather… that shows how boring I’ve been recently..

The next couple nights are supposed to be the coldest we’ve had in Cincinnati thus far. I’m not sure actually if the temperatures are going to break any records (I suppose I could’ve looked that up before typing, but ehhh, apathy). Tomorrow is supposed to be negative four for a low.. that doesn’t even make sense to me. I’m worried when I take my dog out that night that he’s going to have pissicles hanging from his dick as he goes.

Speaking of the dog, if anyone has any creative ideas to get the dog some exercise during the next couple months that he’s going to be stuck indoors, please share them. This is my first Winter with a dog, and I feel bad that he can’t go to the park or anywhere else (because there’s no way I’m going to stand outside for an hour while he runs around). I try to play fetch and whatnot inside sometimes, but a small two bedroom apartment doesn’t allow for much running on his part. I heard people talk about an indoor dog park-type place in downtown Cincy like a year ago, but I haven’t been able to find anything about it online. Suggestions, anyone? And he’s terrified of treadmills…I’ve tried and tried, honestly.

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2 Day Hangover Award!

Posted by danrambles on January 14, 2009

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No Sex in the Hotel Room

Posted by danrambles on October 11, 2008

I finally got a new job… with different rules than I’m used to.

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A Fairy Tale Romance..that i have no interest in

Posted by danrambles on September 26, 2008

I don’t want a boyfriend… I really dislike relationships. I’ve been in plenty of relationships in the past, some with amazing guys, and no matter what I feel trapped each time, like I’m going to suffocate unless me and whoever the other person is break up. Countless times I’ve broken things off with people for this reason or that, when the true motive behind it is that I just don’t want to be with somone. Regardless of how terrific they are.

So why is it that almost every time I leave my apartment, I hope to meet someone in some sort of fairy tale way? I walk the dog and half-expect a guy to come up and ‘woo’ me with his banter. When I go to the grocery store I think that someone at any moment is going to walk up and make a joke about my produce selection before asking me to have coffee. And not only do I hope to meet some great person at some random location, but I also hope for him to fight to win me over. He’ll quickly realize that I don’t like relationships, and therefore will try over and over to convince me that we’d be great together.

It makes no sense! I’ve seriously stopped talking to people before that I’ve dated only because I feel like it could turn into something, and so end things before it does. I have people around right now that are fantastic and want to be in a relationship with me, and I continue to turn down the option. So then why am I hoping to find something with a stranger that I already have or have had with certain people very close to me? I’m not sure if I’m demented, or if fairy tale romances just get burned into our brains when we’re kids.. and even though we know it doesn’t exist or work, we still look for it everyday.

*sorry that this posting is random and unfunny. I normally try to be a little more upbeat and fun, but this is what’s on my mind tonight..

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Straight Bars.. the NEW gay bar

Posted by danrambles on September 18, 2008

Over the last few years I’ve come across more and more people that, upon finding out I bartend at a gay bar (and now club), respond with “Oh, I don’t go to gay bars.” It gets on my nerves every time. Gay bars can be a blast. A great place to meet new friends, new fucks, and new over-priced liquors. But with more and more gay bars closing up, it seems many people have the same idea that gay bars are…umm… gay.

There are different articles online that predict gay bars to be extinct over the next ten years. Entrepreneur.com lists them along with record stores, pay phones, and camera film manufacturing places. I can’t believe any of those three still exist today! When was the last time anyone used a pay phone?? The idea that boy bars are no longer needed definitely makes sense. Just in the last six years that I’ve been going out, things have changed drastically. Society has become much more accepting of homosexuality. Five years ago I would cringe at the thought of going with friends to straight bars, and would be hesitant to even hold hands with a guy. Now I don’t think twice about such things. Two nights ago, I made out with three different guys in a crowded straight bar, and only two of which I knew (maybe thats a topic for a seperate blog). The point is no one yelled ‘queer’ at us or even batted an eye.

Since Cincinnati seems to have lost the majority of the gay bars worth going to over the last five years (Carols, Union, Hamburger Marys/Universal Grille, Pipeline, even Vertigo and Oscars with their once-a-week nights), I think people are being forced to wander out into straight-land. And it turns out, it’s a blast! I swear I see more gays out at those types of bars than I ever see at the gay bars that still remain. And not only guys, but guys I’ve not seen before. There’s this whole world of gay boys that are either smart enough to hang out at straight bars, which is great, or this whole other group that only have straight friends and think that they’re alone in the world. (“I thought I was alone, too! I’m so scared that I’m gay… we should hang out tonight and talk about this!… totally easy to pick these guys up)

There are, of course, certain things missing from the straight scene. I’ve been to many different bars, and never have I been offered a bump. I’ve not yet had a chick come up to me and ask if I know who the dealer in the room is. And everytime I go to the men’s room, there are people actually going to the bathroom. Never are two guys making out or fooling around in a stall. Now, all of this may be a hard thing to adjust to.. but I promise eventually you won’t even miss it. And actually, dare I say, I think it’s even better without any of that activity. (But no matter what, if you’re at the same bar as me, there’ll probably be at least two people in the bathroom still fooling around.)

I’m thinking dance clubs will stick around a while. A gay night club is a different entity than a small bar. Drag shows and afterhours dancing can’t be integrated into the straight bars, so I’m sure these places will continue to have a market. Maybe that’s just high hopes for my own job security. What are your thoughts? When you go out with your friends, is it to mainly gay establishments? Or are you frequenting the straight scene more often than not?

Here’s the link to the article I mentioned.. http://www.entrepreneur.com/extinction/index.html

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One Night in Bangkok..or Bangkok in Me

Posted by danrambles on September 12, 2008

Last weekend I hosted a party at my house in lieu of going to the bars. Many more people came over than I’d anticipated, but the night seemed to go smoothly, with little dramatics (for once). By the night’s end, two guys, one a friend and the other an ex’s Indian ex, were left in my living room. They were flirting and I thought into one another, and eventually I felt like a third wheel in my own house. I said my good-nights, closed my bedroom door, and went to sleep… assuming that they were going to be crashing on my couch.The following morning (okay, afternoon, who am I kidding) I woke up to an empty apartment and the front door unlocked. Obviously they’d left before I had woken up. A text message on my phone from the Indian kid simply said, ‘thanks for letting me crash there last night, even though I didn’t ask.’

Three days later, I talked to my friend for the first time since the party. He immediately asked me if I had screwed the Indian that night. I told him of course not, and that I thought they had hooked up. “No, I went to sleep on the couch and he went into your bedroom.” I was so confused… and the next morning called Turbin to see if it were true. Indian said he had gone into my room, couldn’t get me to wake up, and eventually went to sleep. The next morning he again tried to wake me, with no luck, and left.

What happened during that ‘eventually?’ I’m so bothered about this.. even a week later. I’ve always been a heavy sleeper. My cell phone can ring all night and I’ll never hear it, and I have to set multiple clock alarms at full volume for me to get up on time in the morning. One time I literally had sex with a boyfriend while asleep, and awoke to cumming while at the same time yelling out, “what the hell’s happening?!?” My ex, the possible rapist, thought that I was playing and trying to be sexy by pretending to be asleep as he started to fool around with me. Who the hell pretends to be asleep to be sexy? I had a boner in my sleep and apparently moaned a little and he thought that I was totally awake and proceeded to ride me. Waking up to getting off is about the most confusing way to wake up ever, second only to a parakeet crawling up your butt. (I’ve never had a parakeet crawl up my ass… but I’m guessing it’d be pretty alarming to wake up to)

The point is I have no idea what ‘we’ did that night. I know I slept naked, and don’t own a bed that’s thirty feet wide, so at some point we had to have at least brushed one another. I really wonder if he tried cuddling with me (hurl)… or worse yet screwed me. I know (from experience) that Indians aren’t the most hung of the races, and that I probably wouldn’t feel much even if I were awake. So I definitely wouldn’t have woken up to that. For all I know I could be expecting right now, and should be sewing little baby-sized turbins and looking up recipes for curry rather than typing this blog. I checked the mirror since and don’t have a rhinestone on my forehead, or anywhere else, at least. That’s a good sign.

I have parties and after-parties at my house fairly often, and still have no locks on any of my doors. Now I’m going to be worried everytime, and wonder what else may have happened at past parties that I don’t know about. Obviously, I would have had no idea that he was in there had my friend not informed me days later. I guess I’m going to have to be like “Home Alone” now and scatter about my bedroom floor broken christmas tree ornaments and bells.

Oh… and in case you’re wondering, my projective due date is June 2009…. I’ll be registered at the Kwik-E-Mart.

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Is anyone actually getting laid by using gay.com??

Posted by danrambles on September 10, 2008

Since becoming single a couple of months ago, I’ve been able to do things that I haven’t been able to do for a while… besides the obvious (like fucking strangers). I suddenly find myself at bars that I typically wouldn’t go to, or checking out websites that I forgot had even existed. Reading the posts on craigslist.com’s ‘missed connections’ section has become part of my daily ritual. Oftentimes, I hope to see something written about me from some random place I was at the day before, like the laundromat or gas station, if for no other reason that for an ego boost. Since I’ve only ever seen one posting about me, and that was over a year ago, I at least get entertainment from the ridiculous postings of others. “I saw you from across the food court at the mall. You didn’t notice me or see me, but if you’re interested in meeting, write me back. Would love to suck you off like you were sucking on that slushie.” That could’ve gone without the quotes, since I made it up… but they really are just as ridiculous. Does saying shit like that on a web posting actually get anyone laid? The worst site for this is gay.com’s chat rooms. I haven’t been on that site for over two years, but the last couple of weeks have checked it out. I truley had no intentions of hooking up or anything by going on the site… I just really wanted to see if it had changed at all since I had been on years before. Everything about the chat room was absolutely the same… and many of the people’s images I remembered from my last sign in during ‘06. The things people come up with to say in there are so amazing. A simple ‘horny?’ somehow replaces ‘hello’ as a greeting. ‘You looking?’ is said more often than ‘the’ is used. Is anyone on this site actually getting laid from these lines? I can’t imagine being so filled with horniness that I’d sign into a chat room and drive to meet the first person asking me if i’m randy. Well…maybe if he used the word randy I would, simply because it’s way more fun to say.

I’ve never heard of a friend talking about meeting some great guy from gay.com… nor have I heard someone talk about the hot sex he had with someone whose cock size was known from a screen name before his real name was said. Maybe I’m blind to the gay.com world, and in reality people are getting laid daily from the site. I’m sure the hookers that sign on are doing well. I think from my short-lived experience I’ll stick with giving flirty looks to guys at bars or stores… the craigslist and chat room thing are just a little too bizarre… even for me. If anyone has a great story of hooking up from one of these sites though… please fill this apparently old-fashioned boy in…

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The Wait is Over! DanRambles finally premieres! an intro

Posted by danrambles on September 9, 2008

After months of millions of people anxiously awaiting the first blog (or, more specifically, a handful of friends that I’ve mentioned this to over the past week)… DanRambles is finally here! What is DanRambles you may be wondering? Hopefully, it’s the opposite of most every other homo’s blog/vlog. The best way to define what something is often is to define what it is not.

I don’t plan on ranting about gay rights… god love people that work for that type of thing, it really helps me out when they accomplish shit. However, I’m not one that’s gonna be at the rallys or emailing my state representative. I may sign a petition though if you’re hot and catch me out somewhere.

I have no plans on covering my blog with half-naked or naked men. Not trying to get anyone’s attention with porn. If you’re looking for porn, there are plenty of sites out there… and you’ll probably have a lot more fun looking at them than looking at this blog. I sure as fuck would. Porns awesome. I’m sure random porns that I see, however, will be mentioned on occasion.. as it is a daily part of my life and sometimes I come across some weirdass shit. (I swear if I see one more twink get a metal rod shoved into his dickhole I’m going to vomit on my laptop.)

I’m not going to use this blog as a ‘dear diary.’ If i did that, then the second this thing gets noticed by anyone I’ll surely have the cops at my door. I have some nutty thoughts sometimes and wild encounters… and if I talked about all of that on here I’d be in trouble. (Seventeen is still underage, right? ….fuck.) I’ve kept a journal for the last thirteen years (gay gay, I know)… and that’ll be where those thoughts will be kept. It makes me hurl everytime I see someone on myspace post a blog about how he met a guy and is so into him and therefore totally over his ex… as if the blog is a place for private thoughts or something…knowing/hoping that the ex is going to read it and get jealous or whatever. Grow up. I’m not posting anything like that.

I’m not going to get political too often nor talk about celebrity-gossip. I couldn’t care less about celebrities, besides wanting to be one… and I sound like a fucktard when I talk about politics. Here and there I’m sure topics will come up, but by no means will it be a regular subject.

So what WILL this site be about…

By the title of the page, I’m sure one can deduce…but it will be dan rambling! Which I do a lot of. Rambling about the events of the day/night.. rambling about one night stands and drunken events… about guys I meet (and often find a way to ditch)… about the gay scene in Cincinnati and the other cities I go to (I try to travel as often as possible).. and about anything else that pops up. i love the idea of living by ‘no regrets, no apologies’… and typically live that way at night. The problem I have is the morning afters, when I’m filled with regrets and have a list of people to call to apologize to.

Hopefully, the easiest way to explain what this blog will be is.. a place to go for a laugh, either with me or at me. You can also watch me on youtube, at youtube.com/danrambles .. or find me at myspace.com/danrambles . Thanks for reading… I’ll be posting my first actual blog later this evening, so check back! … Extra thanks to Barry for his advice and kind words. (Barry’s blog can be found at queercincinnati.com .. i’ve been checking it out for a while now.. its a great place to see what’s going on in Cincy!)

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