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    welcome to the hole

    Once upon a time, I kept a LiveJournal account, gryphons_hole, a deep, dark, comfy little hole in my brain where I kept notes on my life and queerness.

    This is the archive to that account, mostly password protected, adult, queer content, stripped of photo content after the site restructured its photo hosting feature. I hope to restore that content as well.

    If I know you, ask for the password. If I don’t, hope for a generous mood.

    08.18.24 I have realized a need to continue in this space. A kink reawaking if you will, with content that may range into inappropriate for my other blog spaces.

  • hibearnation arrives

    I am guessing this is the last post until I get back from Hibearnation some time on Monday… Who knows, but I am not expecting access to a computer or the net.

    There should be at least a story or two coming back with me though…

    Later, folks. Have a great weekend. I plan to do so.

  • the approaching weekend

    Countdown to Hibearnation: 2 days

    I received an email from <kumazuki> saying that he decided to take all of Thursday off from work, meaning that we will get to St Louis for Hibearnation even earlier than first planned. Nice.

    I have been resizing and reformatting many of my note cards. I am worn out!

    At first I didn’t think I had to do too many, but then I got into it… Oy!
    I will only missing a few images when I leave for the weekend. I am okay with that. Most of images I had to rescan from photo prints and I am not having the best of luck with the image clean-up. No big loss. I can refinish those when I get back…

    I have a lot of fucking images. Well, okay, only a few of them are actually images of fucking, but you get the point.

    I got two 60-card spinning racks. I only have one dozen empty spaces on them – combined. I think that might be a hell of a lot of drawing in only eight years… especially considering how much time I have taken off from actual production and the pile of roughs I have done that don’t yet have finished inks… I could add another couple of dozen of those, I think.

    The last on the list to go with me are the hawkman images. I had to rescan all those, ten images in the set. They were my third series, done through 1999 and 2000. I have thought about retiring the card images, but now having worked with them again after seven years, I don’t think I could. This set was a narrative. I did the images for an erotic fiction I wrote. It was awful and didn’t get to far. It was the prove I needed to know I was a better poet than I writer. I use to many words. I need to explain too much of the details.

    Going through the images again, I think I might try again. Instead of giving all the background and building up everything I needed to create of the hawkmen’s tribe, I might just try to take it from my viewpoint, relating each chapter as a series of dreams. Then I could unveil some at a time, instead of having all that back-story to shove in all at once.

    There is a human character in the original story. I could easily take his role and write it from that viewpoint. I do like the idea and the notion of the story is still worth something. It also tells a story of transformation and enlightenment without involving the celebration of darkness. That is my obsession lately…

    I will think on that, let me add it to the growing heap of shit to do…

  • The Local Shortbus

    Yesterday was an incredible day. Very incredible. And really for little reason, which I kinda enjoy.

    I had a great mood all day. If I were a Disney character, my own little happy ray of sunshine would have been following me around all day. And I am not even medicated.

    A friend had a gallery opening on the trashing edge of the cross-roads. I liked the show. A couple pieces captivated me the entire time. The focus was on the Leather Underground. She write a show statement detailing her viewpoint and history. The photos were a view into the leather experience before the internet, before digital effects made everything perfect. The places and people were anonymous. I hope it was well received.

    While there I ran into some artists from my building, from my floor actually. They were heading back to another gallery and they invited me along. Very glad I went. The man is a touch crazy, but the place is way cool. Initial response…? He wants to talk about me joining an erotic show in the Spring. Yeah.

    (But, just to say, my ray of sunshine was bopping along well before this tidbit.)

    The upper floor of the place, which doubles as his office and home, was sooooooooo close to the feel and energy of Shortbus.

    Honest.

    Well, it was missing the nudity and the sex, but I don’t think any of the gathered crowd would have minded if it knocked on the door.

    Almost the entire crowd drinks more than I do on my heaviest day. I will have to watch that. Some drama turned ugly at the end and I just quietly slipped out the door. I did not wish to associate myself or my image in someones head with the rising tone.

    My studio neighbor swears he will love – and move – my stuff. Living in KCMO, I do not think I will have the option to wait for the sane, sober art dealer that handles big veiny penises…

    I think it might be time to start moving and shaking.

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  • The Somewhat Nekkid Party

    Last night was a great time!

    The costumes were fun or sexy or clever. Some managed all three. Friends Doug and Wayne took it all, but I don’t even know if I can explain it at all. Think intergalactic space officer and escaped convict. Think silver and pink knee-high patent leather go-go fuck-me boots. Think pink fishnets. Think electric blue lightning print body suit with metallic silver lightning bolt KISS-esque accessories. Think an olive green with hot pink sequined striped military mini-skirt and top reminiscent of Bette Midler. Think big frickin’ helmet hair in electric blue and neon lime green. Think giant dick shaped sippy cups and toy guns and LED lights turned into space laser weapons. Yeah. They so won!

    Oh, yeah, think two of the biggest penises I have ever had rub up against me…

    The jello shots were a hit. My cooler was empty for the drive home. Ric, had been at BITO both times I have brought them along. He has a very amusing schtick developed at this point. It makes me laugh every time. He loves my jello shots. I mean loves my jello shots. At night. This past year at BITO each and every night, I was his best friend, his jello pimp, his bosom buddy. Each morning afterward, he hated my guts. It was a very entertaining cycle…

    Okay, last point of the party: The best party tray – EVAH!

    Todd is a wicked genius freak! I love him!

    He brought a deli tray stacked up high with tons of mini tubs of Play-doh! How frickin’ ingenious is that? At first, one of the hosts was all WTF? Why did you bring Play-doh to my party? But it was the bomb. Of course the first thing I made was a penis. Hot pink and yellow striped with lime green balls and a blue helmet. The spurts of cum were white. You need some sort of realism to balance the whack! Todd and I even built a plate of breakfast food: two eggs, sunny side up; a slice of toast with a pat of butter; two slices of bacon, with squiggly lines of red and brown; and a bloody mary with a celery stick. I think that was the best Play-doh presentation of the night…

    Unless you count the goofs. We goofed on two folks and it was hilarious. One hilarious funny and one bordering on hilarious mean. The mean was accidental…

    The first, a friend was drinking martinis. He order another and kept shouting, “Dirty, dirty, dirty! I want it nasty dirty.” So, he got dirty. As someone made the drink, I made the garnish. We serve his dirty, dirty, dirty martini with a garnish of brown Play-doh turd hanging on the rim of the glass. Turd humor is just so much fun. Fake turd humor is just fantastic!

    The second… Someone brought these great homemade truffles, dipped with toothpicks in each one. Three of us were in on the goof. Todd, myself and the dirty martini guy, Wayne. (He was also the one in the blue and silver space get-up.) Wayne ate a truffle and wet himself a bit, but Todd asked for the toothpick. We all started giggling. Todd rolled a ball of brown Play-doh and smashed it down flat a bit on the bottom. He dropped it in the tub of truffles and Wayne stuck in the toothpick.

    Even having watched them did it, I could hardly tell which one was fake. Uncanny. It was left off to the corner all by itself. I soon forgot about it. Damned jello shots…

    Later in the evening, Todd came up to me all excited. “It’s gone!” I didn’t register what he meant at first… “The Play-doh truffle, it’s gone!”

    No. It couldn’t. They didn’t…
    Todd over heard someone else say, “The truffles aren’t that good. I had one and it tasted like dough…”

    I wanted to be all sweet and caring and say we should have removed it. I wanted to be compassionate and kind and apologetic to the man that got the Play-doh truffle. We should have stopped it…

    Instead I started laughing so hard I couldn’t breathe and I almost fell over. That’s like the perfect Halloween prank stuff! Come on!

    Play-doh on a deli tray! I am telling you, pure genius!
    (Todd told me Costco has 80 count packs of the mini tubs for about ten bucks…)

  • tonight’s festivities…

    Tonight is a costume party.
    One of the hosts was the event coordinator for this past BITO. They are both fun guys. It should be a great time. It’s kind of a pot luck set-up. I was sensible in my suggestion.

    I am bringing jello shots. Duh!

    Approximately 150 shots in two flavors: Swamp Ooze and Sweet Blood

    Swamp Ooze is an alteration of the cocktail Swamp Water. Pineapple and peach jello with vodka and melon liquor. Because jello isn’t cloudy like juice, they don’t have that great pea soup look like the drink would, but they are tasty and still end up with a not so jello-ish dirty amber color.

    Sweet Blood is a variant of a jello shot I designed on my own… Black cherry jello with vodka, amaretto and blackberry liquor. Tasty yum!

    I should have asked the hosts how gay the party would be, meaning how nekkid I can be in my costume… I don’t really know what kind of crowd will be there, so I will aim for the middle. I am adding my leather pants, but will stay shirtless with just the cloak and harness under it.

    Next week, I know I can plan to get as nekkid as I like as the evening progresses…

    I should add that this round of jello was a real experiment. Last time, I borrowed David’s kitchen and frig. This time I made them here in the studio. I have no refrigerator space. So, I made the shots and stacked them in the cooler I will take to the party. I then placed the entire cooler into my chest freezer. Once they set up enough, I replaced the cooler lid to keep them from freezing…

    Worked out beautifully…

  • I Wanna Ride the Shortbus

    I went to the Tivoli Theatre tonight with the trio known as bearshunting and Todd and two other non-LJ types…

    I saw Shortbus.

    O.M.G.

    I am awestruck.

    And it proves I point I have pondered for over a decade now… Porn can have thought, provocation, hot sexy men with big fat penises, a well conceived story/concept and actually have good acting!

    Wow!

    EDIT: I find I can’t really offer critque in the sense of factual analysis, I am this impacted by the film. I cannot yet step back from it and look with scrutiny. And I don’t think I want to do so.

    As the credits rolled, my body was trembling, much like after I orgasm. A couple in the row behind me stood and left, brushing the stubble on the back of my head as they passed. I almost moaned aloud. My senses were that stimulated and opened by the visuals and emotions of the movie…