Comments on: On Hot Gay Statues: With Remarkable Nonchalance, Stockholm Obliterates All Challengers http://thegayrecluse.com/2009/01/05/on-hot-gay-statues-with-remarkable-nonchalance-stockholm-obliterates-all-challengers/ The Gay Recluse: Observation, philosophy and other notes on the beauty and dissonance of life in the city Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:57:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: orinink http://thegayrecluse.com/2009/01/05/on-hot-gay-statues-with-remarkable-nonchalance-stockholm-obliterates-all-challengers/#comment-2533 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:25:18 +0000 http://thegayrecluse.com/?p=2802#comment-2533 By far the hottest you guys have posted,uhm ,i have to collect myself.great post-gym body(really pre-i guess?).contemplating why i am so attracted to bearded guys lately.damn hmmm….

]]> By: The Gay Recluse http://thegayrecluse.com/2009/01/05/on-hot-gay-statues-with-remarkable-nonchalance-stockholm-obliterates-all-challengers/#comment-2509 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:58:32 +0000 http://thegayrecluse.com/?p=2802#comment-2509 Thanks, C — that sums it up nicely, indeed!

]]> By: c. http://thegayrecluse.com/2009/01/05/on-hot-gay-statues-with-remarkable-nonchalance-stockholm-obliterates-all-challengers/#comment-2503 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:30:51 +0000 http://thegayrecluse.com/?p=2802#comment-2503 “…because we’ve yet to wrap our mind around what we witnessed abroad, much less the obsessive documentation we brought back with us, as if to prove to ourselves that such things really do exist after they have faded from our memory.”

This was always my experience, post-Europe. There is a sense of expansion, after visiting, but also an anxiety that “home” might be someplace without a soul; or that Europe might go away (it has had some close calls); or, that my last visit will turn out to be my last visit. Which makes it all the more compulsively important to pore over one’s travel photos and journal essays.

Fortunately, you at least return to NY, which has its own soul, as well as its own place in the universe.

I’ve seen a good sampling of hot statues, but the Drottningholm dad’s rippling, come-hither nonchalance is the stuff of Pygmalion-esque dreams. Oh, those nutty Swedes, with their gay marriage, top-1% living standards, and whatnot.

c.

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