Gay of A Certain Age - The Falcon and the Go Man

Happy new Decade, Folks!!

I know many of you are anxiously waiting to find out if I got a calendar without dead porn stars in it, so here's the news... I flipped every page of my HOT HOUSE 2019 Calendar without seeing one dead porn star!  I was very excited.  I was also slightly disappointed that Austin Wolf's month photo was a rear view, with most of his delicious frontage turned away from my craving eyes.  Sure, he’s got a nice tush, but I would so enjoy a 30 day gander at his furry pecs.

 (Sure, he was on the cover, but that’s mightily inconvenient to flip every day to for just a loving glance.)

I am pleased to announce that my favorite of the year was Mr. December, Sean Maygers, of whom I had never heard.

  I checked out a bit of his reel and, based on the photo, was pleasantly surprised by his luscious deep voice.  I also enjoyed his hard work. Thank you HOT HOUSE!

So, here’s to another year, hoping to happily flip through the months without being struck by the boner killing face of a recycled dead porn star. (Like I saw consistently in COLT MEN Calendars)

This year I went with THE MEN OF FALCON based on the cover photo, their great history and the fact that I had only 4 or 5 choices!
It’s getting crazy hard to find a nice porn star boner calendar these days!  A lot of the fun bookstores have closed down and Barnes & Noble must have them hidden somewhere away from the

Don’t Fuck With Cats, Dog Shaming  and those gross exploitative SPORTS ILLUSTRATED girlie calendars.

It’s not easy choosing these from Amazon, which is what I did, because they give you very little to go on and it makes me so reluctant to try a brand I’m not familiar with. I need a little bit of a sample to make sure the images are clear, well lit and tasteful.  And real classy, you know?
'Cause, as a Gay of A Certain Age, if you gotta watch time fly by, it might as well be with classy  view of a porn star's boner!

Speaking of classy, I also posed for the BEST IN DRAG SHOW 2020 Calendar

and if you like your porn stars tastefully (and strategically) posed with some drag on the side, you should definitely get your Calendar HERE.

Tell 'em Reba Areba Sent you!

Gay of A Certain Age - Something To Look Forward To This Year

For those of you who were concerned about my monthly drama, you know, the fear of flipping the page of my hot nekked man calendar and seeing a dead porn star, (as experienced many a time with Colt Men calendars, ) I have mostly good news!  I am happy to report that all through 2018 I flipped 12 months and not one dead porn star!!  In that aspect, Raging Stallion did not let me down.  Where I have a quibble with Raging Stallion is that along with the large picture of the hot nekked man, the days of the month are listed at the bottom of the page, vertically, like little strips of paper on a flyer nailed to a utility post on the sidewalk advertising guitar lessons from Ramon.  Call me crazy, but in a calendar, the days should be featured a little bit more.  As you can see here in my favorite month of 2018, March, featuring Bruno Bernal, there along the bottom are the days that in no way help me determine how many Fridays there are in a month with just a glance. especially when my glance is distracted by his seahorse.

Bruno Bernal

Here's where part of this is my own fault, I don't like to preview.  I prefer to flip the page not knowing who's going to be on the page for the month.  It's an exciting little mystery that makes the passage of time a little less like a stab in the heart.  Because I do that, I can't look at the calendar page to see if the days are presented in a grid or in little phone number slips on the bottom.  So, hoping for a grid, I left Raging Stallion and moved to Hot House.  As you can see from the top photo, Austin Wolf is on the cover of the calendar... He's both one of my favorites and alive, so we're off to a good start. 

Unfortunately, as you can see from the January page, it's a Call Ramon For Lessons situation.

Arad Winwin

I'll deal with it.  It helps that Mr. January is another current favorite, Arad Winwin!  While I may not be able to determine what day it is right away, this month will always remind me of the day I got to actually cozy up wth Arad...

Me (Reba Areba), Arad Winwin

Speaking of calendars, the last time I got to touch this nice hottie, we were shooting the 

Best In Drag Show 2019 Pin up Calendar!

I told you about Best In Drag Show, right?

Anyway, I got to hang around these hotties for hours, creating the visions that people would be seeing for months at a time in 2019.

Alam Wernik, Arad Winwin,  me, Remy Cruz

Arad Winwin, Alam Wernik, Remy Cruz

Me (Reba Areba), Alam Wernik

My month partner was Alam Wernik and I think we did our month proud!

If you've neglected to get your 2019 Calendar and the men of Hot House are too racy with their cocks out, but seeing cute man tushy is as naughty as you wanna get, you can get your BIDS 2019 Pin up Calendar HERE

Physical calendars may seem obsolete, what with fancy computers and their Outlook programs and such, but as a Gay of A Certain Age, I know that a friendly face & cock along with a daily confirmation can make the days passing a more pleasant reminder that we're one day closer to death.

Gay of A Certain Age - From Colt To Stallion

I finally did it!!  I broke free from Colt Men calendars!!

Why would I do that you ask?

As you may recall, I posted a little while back HERE, about being shocked and depressed when I flip a calendar page and the new monthly model is a sweet, handsome, DEAD porn star.  It's happened more than a few times and these are calendars that are printed years after the poor guys have passed, so I find it unforgivable... mainly because I know they do it, just so they don't have to pay a living model a living wage.  Don't get me wrong, I love the men of Colt...

Why, here I am telling Carlo Masi and Adam Champ just how much I enjoy their work

I've just decided that 2017 was going to be the last year that I let Colt bring me down first thing in the month!

This year I went with Raging Stallion!

(not my photo)

Once the calendar was delivered, I immediately had a few issues with it.

(Let's establish that I don't preview my calendars because I like to be surprised each month, so I really don't know what I'm getting until I unwrap the plastic wrap and see that January looks like.)

I know it's hard to get used to something new, but I had hoped for a smoother transition.  

First, it is about 5 inches longer than a typical calendar.  Granted, this thing hangs in my closet, behind clothes sometimes, but still it's a bit unwieldy. (What, Queen, you're complaining about 5 extra inches? Whaaaaat?)  Next, if you look to the pic up top, you'll see that the dates are all smooshed down at the bottom, vertically in a long horizontal strip.  I know, I know,  but sometimes I actually do look at the days and I really prefer them in their usual grid.  If I wanted to just hang posters of neked hotties each month, I wouldn't waste space on days and numbers! I mean, is this a calendar or not? 

Next, while the January man is quite a visual treat, I'm disappointed that his name is Brogan Reed.  Really?  Brogan Reed?? They aren't even trying with names anymore!  This sounds like a name high schoolers come up with when making a porn parody.  

"What's my character's name?"|

"Who's your favorite porn star?"
"I don't know, but my dad's is Logan Reed..."

"That's it! Your characters name is Brogan Reed!"

"That's kinda cheap."

"Yeah, but were in high school, who's gonna care?"

For those of you who are Gays of a Less Than Certain Age, Logan Reed was a popular porn star about 20 years ago...

(Not my photo, totally swiped from Here)

If you're going to use an obviously made up name, why not really go for it?  How about Manuel Hung, Dixon Ashe, Clutch Morgan or Hugh J'Bohner?

Maybe I'm being a little picky, but come on!  Is it too much to want to wake up on the first of the month and see a hot, living guy with a creative/original name greeting me with a smile and boner saying, "Pay your rent, fucker"?

As a Gay of A Certain Age, I'm finding that hot & sexy are coming in second to order, creativity and respect for the dead!

Single Perks - Date With a Colt- UPDATED

I haven't received many concerned letters, so I'll tell you...
The last day of use is coming for my Colt Hairy Men 2015 Calendar!
I checked Amazon.com and they were out of stock with a promise to send one as soon as they were back in stock. That is UNACCEPTABLE!!  I must confess I got in quite a panic.  What am I supposed to do, take down this calendar on Thursday night and then start 2016 with no imaginary boyfriend???  Do they have razor blades & cyanide pills in stock?  They might as well just send those, instead! .  Why did I wait so long to order my new imaginary boyfriends?  Who else is buying these calendars?  You (all?) will be glad to learn that I did a little extra clicking and found another Colt Calendar that will be delivered today or tomorrow, via the magic of Amazon Prime.  Yes, thanks to my flexible tastes, 2016 will be a year's worth of imaginary dates with men in Leather.

Yeah, since I don't like to preview and be surprised every month, I'll have to assume the entire calendar is in black & white.  I prefer color, but don't be a pussy!  Take those grey tones!  Yeah, you like that chiaroscuro effect, don't you?  Yeah.  Hot!

Because I'm single, I can keep a calendar of leather clad/naked men in my closet without having somebody get jealous of paper rivals.  I don't have some insecure whiny puss saying, "Why do you have to look at them? Aren't I enough?"  I'd have to respond, "Frankly, unless your body & face morph every first day of the month, then, no.  No, you are not enough. However, your lack of shape-shifting ability is not the turn off, it's your inability to separate fantasy from reality.  Just because I oggle a photograph of a guy ( a photograph that is probably of someone that existed ten years ago and majorly touched up) doesn't mean I want to drop everything and be with him.  Who is standing next to me? Who am I living with?  If that's not what I wanted, it wouldn't be this calendar that drove me away from you."  Because I am single, I don't have to deal with that and I can enjoy my calendar, porn, movies, television, magazines, photos, walks outside and my unconscious dreams without having to deal with any of that.  Them's the perks!

UPDATE!

Got it!

This Is Why I Am Single - October Man

I have a silly game I play with my porno Colt Men calendar, which I keep in my closet, because really, where is an appropriate place in a gay man's apartment for ANY calendar?  Anyway, every first day of the month I excitedly flip the page to see what naked hunk I get to see for four weeks!  I'm not terribly picky, but once in a while, I'm slightly disappointed because the guy either looks too skanky or just plain boring, no matter how naked he is.  Since October is my birth month, I pretend that HE is the special man who is my imaginary boyfriend ALL MONTH LONG!  We go on pretend dates, eat pretend meals together, pretend snuggle and have pretend very satisfying sex together, but mostly he just helps me pick out a shirt to wear. Well, this morning I was very pleased that my boyfriend for a month is the delicious Brad Kalvo! (or some earlier version of him, I swear this photo is 10 years old or more, but it's all fanatsy anyway, right?  He's more daddylicious, now.)

This Is Why I Am Single, I keep a naked man calendar in my closet and pretend the models are my boyfriends... and I'm not ashamed!  Now, if you'll excuse us, Brad and I are off to a pretend iced pumpkin spice latte and scones date.

Gay of a Certain Age - Lot of Day Goes By

Some people think I'm pretty good, but actually, I'M THE WORST!
I'm the worst at double booking and missing events!
Not only am I too busy for love, but, apparently, I'm too busy for my own life!
Even though I have certain set appointments the same days each month,
I sometimes forget they exist and in excitement of an invitation I say, "Yes!",
then a day or so later I have to say, "No", with an audible saddy face.

Why, just this weekend, I missed two events that I was very much looking forward to.
One was a fundraiser pool party, full of men I know & would like to hang around with.
I missed it because I got excited about an invite to see PITCH PERFECT 2 in the morning,
after which I started fretting and preparing for an event that actually took place the night before!
So I missed one event because I was focused on another that I had already missed.
(I had to fret & prepare because I was expected to be dressed formally, and I wasn't sure which of two nearly formal outfits I would feel least uncomfortable in.  Also, I was very excited because it was a fundraiser that included totally nude hunky servers- Anything for Charity, I say!)

As a Gay of a Certain Age, it has become apparent that I have to start using a calendar daily.  I mean I have to actually stop myself and look at the goddam thing before I start my day.  I think my memory is still pretty much in tact, it's just that I get so excited that anyone thought to invite me to anything that my mind drops one event for another, like a dog would do with a tennis ball for a Snausage.  Or maybe my mind is going and I just can't remember dates or names, (unless they are soap opera related because I can still remember that Michael Weiss started playing the role of Mike Horton on Days of Our Lives on August 18, 1985. He debuted shirtless.)

I know, most people have used a calendar daily almost all their lives, but this is new to me.  It's a habit I never got in to. When I was younger, I never really had much going on and I proudly lived off the cuff and spontaneously.  Not anymore.
I think I can get used to it, though.  Just be patient with me.  I'll get the hang of it.  I'm content knowing that needing a calendar is a normal thing and while I may have to start scheduling free time,  if I ever have to start scheduling my ALONE time to remember to do it, just shoot me.