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November 30, 2007

Awww Sookie Sookie Now...

As you all know. I got my new Blackberry last week and now I think I'm hot shit. LOL I love this phone, me and my best friend even have a name for it. We call my phone "Miss Berry". LOL ("Did you get my email from Miss Berry this morning?")

I just got into the fact that TypePad, the service I run my blog through, allows blog owners to post to their blogs via email, cell phone, or PDA. You know it's a wrap now because this new technology will make it easier and faster for me to post. So you all will be hearing from me even more often than you already do. These cell phone posts are gonna be of more of a casual, day to day goings on fashion than my normal essay style posts. I'll put them in their own category.

Fellow Crackberry addicts email me your pin numbers so we can chat via Blackberry Messenger. I need friends on there and a few of you can probably teach me a few tricks on this thing.

This week I have been crazy busy. Besides working on the new website ABenjaminIrby.com (check it out if you haven't done so already), I went out to 2 party/club functions last night and the night before and I'll give u the full report on that. I may be doing something tonight, I'm not sure what though. Hopefully it involves some sex cuz I'm very single and very horny at the moment.

Right now I'm off to meet Nathan "7" Scott to shoot more footage for the mini-series. How are u guys enjoying that? I'm getting good feedback but you can never be too sure, ya know? I'm running late right now and "7" hates it when I'm late and I kinda have a reputation now for showing up to everything fashionably late. I'm tryna get better with that.

Anyway let me run out of here so I can run back home and do some dayum writing.

I appreciate ALL of the love.

-Adam

Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile

Check Out The All New ABenjaminIrby.com!!!

Abipromo

Hey Everybody,

Check out the website I've been laboring so hard over all week. I want to take this time to apologize to anyone I may have been snippy or short with this past week due to the fact that I was working so hard.

Some of you may not know this but besides the blog I've always had my own website. In fact the blog started off as an extension of my website until it took on a life of it's own.

The website features my "Flawless" video which was banned from YouTube (damn censorship) so if you've never seen it you can check it out. My photos and my new bio are there and I even outline some of my plans to write my first book.

So check out the website and sign the guest book so I can know that you stopped by.

-Adam

Click here to check out the website

PS: There are three songs that play on the website, not just one.

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Playing In The Background...
"Heart Beat Rock"
by Kylie Minogue
from the album "X"
and
"Nite Runner"
by Duran Duran
from the album "Red Carpet Massacre"
and
"No Touchin'"
by Mya
from the album "Liberation"
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November 29, 2007

adam. the mini-series: Episode 3

Adam Benjamin Irby

Hot on the heels of "The Flawless Video" we collaborated on a while back, producer, Nathan "Seven" Scott came to me with an idea, a spinoff of sorts, a series of weekly one man shows starring me. He wanted to title it "adam. the mini-series". Even though I was flattered by the idea I was also a little apprehensive as I never thought I would be interesting enough to pull this sort thing off.

We persevered, we brainstormed, we filmed and after some prodding by Nathan we actually got some good stuff. Upon seeing the final product I was really excited. The best way to describe the mini-series would be to say that it's an audible, ocular extension of the blog. Talking about my life and experiences on film comes off in a different way than it does on paper. I'm not rehashing the things that I've shared here but rather telling new stories, and in many ways going deeper inside myself than I've ever gone before. I'm also gonna be tackling some social issues as well. Some of the things you'll see me share in the next couple of weeks I'd almost rather have not said, but once its out there it's out there. So sit back, relax and enjoy the ride. I sure did.

-Adam

Last week's video was a little on the serious tip but still fun. I revealed a lot on that one. If you haven't seen it I suggest you check it out. This week's video is a little more light and fluffy. I'm talking about getting drunk, my favorite part of the male anatomy, my nose, and more.

Also check out the trailer for the new Maurice Jamal film "Dirty Laundry" starring Rockmond Dunbar, Loretta Devine, Jenifer Lewis, Terri J. Vaughn and Sommore at the end of the video. In theatres in New York and Los Angeles, December 7th and in Atlanta, Baltimore, and Washington DC on December 28th.

Also check out a preview of December 2007's Flawless model.

And remember:
WORLD AIDS DAY
Saturday, December 1st
Be safe. Go out and get tested and vaccinated!

Be sure to comment on the video and let me know what you think.

Just in case you have a problem playing the embedded video here here's the YouTube direct link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Twx4uHB_br0

For more Nathan "Seven" Scott produced videos check out his YouTube channels:
The & Show
The Nathan "Seven" Scott Experience

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Playing In The Background...
"Breakin' Dishes"
by Rihanna
from the album "Good Girl Gone Bad"
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November 28, 2007

Am I A Heterophobe? Are We Hetero-Phobic?

Being born in New York, the gayest city in America and quite possibly the world and living in Manhattan, the gayest borough in the gayest city in America and quite possibly the world, I have become extremely comfortable with my gayness and the gayness of others. Sure there were the awkward teenage years and the prying inquiries of family and straight friends as to why I didn't have a girlfriend or when I was gonna get me some pussy, etc., but I'm a grown-up now and all that shit is ancient history. Living here makes me feel like I'm in some sort of gay security bubble. The gays kiss and hold hands and shop and dine all over Manhattan with virtually no fear of bashing or being hurt. Most people here don't even look at gays funny anymore or even make snide remarks, it's no big deal for the most part.

As black gay people in New York we have our own scene. It's a microcosm of the general New York gay scene, but a scene nevertheless. It belongs to all of us although some of us try to claim larger portions of it than others. Most of us have a love/hate relationship with it and as much as some of us try to distance ourselves from it we all have our dealings with it one way or another. There are even jobs and livelihoods in the scene, there are people who get their bread and butter and pay their bills solely off of the black gay scene (some of them are even black, but I digress). The scene here envelops people and at times makes a city of over eight million people seem like a small town and like citizens of a small town a good portion of our interactions are between each other.

I've noticed that in the years that I've been out and on the scene, so to speak, that I've cut off many of my straight friends. It's not something I did on purpose or even consciously, it just kinda happened. I guess it's one of those situations where the friends of my youth and I have just grown apart. I'm a grown-up now and I'm gay and out and I write a blog about gay life, dating, and relationships. Me talking about the last dude I fucked or the last dude that broke my heart makes straight people, especially male straight people, uncomfortable and I understand that totally. Because I am out about my sexuality and realize that it's not something I can just pick up and put down, their uncomfortability (I just made up a word) with it is going to keep them from a large portion of my life, thus, giving us less time to spend together, thus, giving us less to talk about, thus, giving us less in common, thus, we grow apart.

The event that prompted this blog post was receiving an invite to a friend's birthday party, a fellow homosexual. He has done some work in the entertainment industry and knows quite a few people so I figured that it would be a pretty cool party. I got an email invite sent to my Blackberry and without reading it I texted him back and told him that I would be there (even though he didn't come to my birthday party back in July). Upon further inspection of the invite I saw this line:

"DUDES I ENCOURAGE YOU STRONGLY TO HAVE FEMALES WITHIN YOUR ENTOURAGE AS THIS WILL MAKE THE ADMISSION PROCESS EASY BREEZY!!!"

What the fuck? Is this, is this a straight party? Oh hayell no! And not only is is a straight party, it's one of those straight parties that treats men like second class citizens unless they have a group of half naked women on their arm. And then I read:

"SEXY LADIES FREE BEFORE 1 ( IF U GET THERE LATER THAN THAT AND YOUR SEXY YOU MOST LIKELY WILL GET IN FREE )

MY DUDES: REDUCED ADMISSION BEFORE 12 = $15 AFTER 12 = $20"

Oh nooooooo, it's one of those parties where only the guys pay in an effort to fill the club up with ladies. You know what that means... sausage fest and it ain't the brand that I buy. I'm good.

For me to go a straight party is like being a dog in a butcher shop with your jaw wired shut, it's just not fair. At a straight party you know there are gonna be good looking guys there, good looking guys you don't normally see in your small town of gay-opolis (and probably a few you have seen). You wanna look at them, but you can't look at them, you can't flirt with them or give them the eye because they're straight. And no self-respecting homo wants to be the desperate fag that's always running behind a straight guy. That is beyond lame and tired. So you go to the foreign butcher shop, get yourself all riled up and hungry and still go home with an empty stomach and to an empty bed and it cost you twenty dollars.

On top of all that straight parties make me uncomfortable. I don't feel like I belong there and in a sense I don't. There's no one there for me to dance with so I'll have to stand on the wall and fend off the advances of females all night ("No. I'm sorry, I'm gay. Uh huh, yeah, gay. Yeah, gay, gay. For real. Nice shoes though...") It's like the junior high school and high school prom all over again, that's why I didn't go to that shit. The only times I ever attend a quote-unquote "straight" or "non-gay" party is if it's a family function or an industry/networking event. The social aspect is thrown out of the window there as I'm there strictly for business. I guess I feel the same way about straight parties and heterosexuality as straight people feel about homosexuality. Am I a heterophobe?

No disrespect to my friend, but I can think of much better ways to spend a Friday night. Maybe we can go to dinner or something another time. I'm not sweating too hard because like I said he didn't exactly make it to my birthday party either. Needless to say I'mma sit this one out, we'll get together another time.

This situation made me think about the homos who attempt to validate themselves by saying things like "I don't go to gay parties." or "Most of my friends are straight." like that's supposed to make them special or something. It's your choice to not go to gay parties or not have gay friends and nothing is wrong with that but it certainly doesn't make one person any better than another. All statements like that made in such a self-loathing way do is show how insecure that person is with themselves and their own sexuality.

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Playing In The Background...
"Dog In Heat" feat. Redman & Method Man
by Missy Elliott
from the album "Miss E... So Addictive"
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What I'm Doing Tonight: "The New S Party"

Phpulroiuam_2 I initially posted about the inaugural bash of this party series two weeks ago and I'm going again tonight. It's "The S Party", now at the Mocca Lounge in TriBeCa, put together by Dwight O'Neal and "Christopher Street TV". On top of it being a club party, tonight it's also a birthday celebration for a good friend of mine. So if you are free tonight stop on by. The party starts at 9p but you know I won't be there until around 11:30p - midnight. But there is free admission and food for all the early birds who arrive before 11p.

Here's The Info:
"The S Party"

@ Mocca Lounge
78 Reade Street @ Church Street, TriBeCa
Admission: Free before 11p, $5 after

November 26, 2007

I'm Gonna Be On Enrique Cruz's Website...

Yes I'm gonna be on Enrique Cruz's website... but it's not what you think. I'm actually more naked here than I probably will ever be there. I've been picked as the newest writer for Enrique Cruz's GaySexReport.com, a veritable how to, how not to, and have you ever tried to, of gay sex.

Cruz, best known for being an urban gay porn magnate also has a background in writing and publishing. I along with Enrique Cruz and some others will be writing and posting articles there daily. These articles will of course be sprinkled with much eye candy. My writing there will be much more of a graphic sexual nature that what I post here (yes, it's possible). So viewer discretion is always advised.

Check it out: GaySexReport.com

And if you aren't familiar with Enrique Cruz's work, check out his website: EnriqueCruz.com

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Playing In The Background...
"Dip It Low"
by Christina Milian
from the album "It's About Time"
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November 25, 2007

Come And Sign The New Guest Book!

Hello All,

I have been feverishly working on the new ABenjaminIrby.com website. So much so that I was unable to go out last night, but hey, business first. Hopefully I can put the all new website up by tomorrow.

In the meantime I have acquired a new guest book for this blog and for the website. Many of you have complained to me that the current guest book is full. This new guest book accepts unlimited entries so there's room enough for everyone to sign.

If you enjoy the blog I urge you to drop me a line in the guest book and be the first to leave make your permanent mark on the website. My guest book accepts HTML so fellow bloggers and webmasters feel free to post your links/images, etc.

Click here to sign the new Adam's Web Log/ABenjaminIrby.com Guest Book

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Playing In The Background...
"Sign Your Name"
by Terence Trent D'Arby
from the album "Sign Your Name: The Best Of Terence Trent D'Arby"
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PS: The guest book link in the column on the left has been updated as well.

November 24, 2007

How Adam Got His Groove Back...

In the last post I talked about how I was gonna start giving some of those guys that hit me up on MySpace a second look. Well I have, two of them actually. I had a date with the second one last night. Much like Angela Bassett in the movie and Terry McMillan in real life my Winston was a little younger than me and West Indian. He's exotic looking (not exotic ugly either), light caramel complexion, about 5'7 with a slim build and light eyes. We had a good time last night. He seems to really be into me, something that's become almost a foreign concept given the parade of aloof dudes I've been dating as of late. I don't know what to think of him yet seeing that it was only the first date but we'll see.

Stay tuned.

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Playing In The Background...
"Luv Me, Luv Me" feat. Janet Jackson
by Shaggy
from the album "How Stella Got Her Groove Back Original Soundtrack"
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PS: This is all pretty hilarious seeing that I met Jonathan Plummer, the real life Winston, two weeks ago (check out that post and the pics here). Oprah would call this a full circle moment.

The Theory Of Evolution. aka I Found Jesus. A Dating Update.

What a paradox, I'm a creationist that's steadily evolving. As you know I have been making changes in my life, namely learning to value myself when it comes to relationships and who I deal with and becoming less of a whore as chronicled by this blog. Letting out all of my fears, anger and frustration here has been more than therapeutic and I thank you all for all of your comments and emails. I've been super busy lately and on my grind lately as far as my writing is concerned so I figure it's about time for a dating update.

Mr. Man, my ex-boyfriend and I have been working together on some projects lately. It's actually been really good for our relationship. Even though we're all broken up I still love him and he loves me, but it's not in that weird we-can't-be-alone-together-without-ripping-each-other's-clothes-off kinda way or that equally weird every-time-we-see-each-other-we-have-to-stroll-down-memory-lane way either, oh, it's definitely over between us. Granted, we have our uncomfortable moments every now and then but our dynamic now is that of close friends, the way it should have always been, but I don't regret anything.

In other paradoxical news, I bought myself a Blackberry Curve on Wednesday before I left for Virginia for Thanksgiving and it is indeed the sexiest phone I've ever had, I can jerk off looking at this phone (iPhone who?). Anyway, I had to call T-Mobile to change my plan and I decided to add their Fave 5 program to my cell phone plan. Basically with this plan I would be able to talk to the five people I talk to the most for free. The customer service lady on the phone was telling me the numbers I call and receive calls from the most: number one, Mr. Man's cellphone, number two, Mr. Man's house phone, now ain't that some shit? As for as his thoughts on my saunter down Damascus Road and I quote:

"It's like since we broke up this ho found Jesus or something..."

CancelCancel and I have grown closer since he's been back in my life but not in the way you'd think. We've only had one romantic encounter and that was a month and a half ago. He works a few blocks away from me so sometimes we'll ride the train uptown together, but those meetings are non-romantic and rather tepid. Lately our conversations have shifted toward the other people he's been dating (I don't talk to him about who I'm dating. He reads it on the blog like everyone else.) and it has no adverse effect on me. It's almost unbelievable that this is the same guy I was ready to get into a fight over two months ago. It's kinda weird but, a lot of that romantic "zsa zsa zu" as Carrie Bradshaw would call it is gone. Our evolution though has been a subtle one. I didn't really catch on to it until we had text on Wednesday afternoon.

A: "U goin 2 the parade tomorrow?"

CC: "Yeah, this dude wants me to go but I might back out of it... me and my big mouth."

A: "LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL Y u no likey him... lol"

CC: "LOL I actually do like him but I didn't think he was gonna take me seriously..."

A: "Dayum CancelCancel, what have we evolved into?"

CC: "U mean u and me or just men in general?"

A: "Me and u, are we like just friends now?"

While most mere mortals would have just assumed that we were just friends now, given our recent actions. I'm a Leo. Leos must know exactly what's going on at all times, what their status is and what the limits are so that we can act accordingly.

CC: "Well, seeing [that] I'm much more comfortable with you, I think we should be friends. I know u don't see me romantically after all my frontin' and bullshittin' and I don't blame u. I also know you like the other guy a lot better than u like me soooo I stumbled on someone who I like just as much as he likes me. I really do value ur friendship and I like what we have now."

A: "We can be friends, that's fine... But why would u say I like somebody better than I like you?"

CC: "I don't know. I just get that vibe that ur way more interested in him than me and thats cool. I'd rather be friends with u and keep what we have and focus on this dude."

A: "Him? Who's him? At this point I'm not talkin' to nobody actually..."

I was being somewhat facetious, well with the first part. He's obviously talking about Pubby. As far as that second part, if he only knew... but we'll get to that in a moment.

CC: "The dude I'm seeing, don't wanna make the same mistakes with him that I did with u. What happened to the other guy?"

A: "Oh thanks, u fuck me over and NOW u wanna get it right w next dude. Ain't that some shit! ROFL"

Looks like I'm not the only one who found Jesus on Damascus Road. CancelCancel I would like to take this time to officially welcome you to Girlfriendville, population: you. It's a wonderful place, ask Friend #1 and Friend #2. And like Saul in the Bible who after he met Jesus on Damascus Road changed his name to Paul, I in turn must change CancelCancel's nickname. Seeing that he never liked being referred to as CancelCancel anyway I guess I'll change it to... ummm... ummmm... I got it! We'll call him: The Date Formerly Known As CancelCancel or TDFKA CancelCancel for short. I was gonna into Illustrator and design him a symbol but I decided against it.

Our friend, The Date Formerly Known As CancelCancel asked a good question: "What happened to the other guy?" I'm taking the large step of finally admitting to myself and you all today that more than likely nothing romantic will ever come of my relationship with Pubby. If anything we'll just be good friends. I've ripped the bandage off and exposed the wound to you all. Now I'm gonna put some Neosporin on that bitch and call it a day. I haven't had a romantic encounter with him in over a month and we hardly talk on the phone or text each other. Normally this would be the time I'd put on my Adidas runners and run a marathon after this dude but I've grown past that.

The best thing about all of this is that I'm totally okay with every thing and I wish all three of them the best. I guess now that I'm totally unattached from anyone mentally and emotionally I should give all those guys who hit me up on MySpace a second look. What I won't do though is look for a quick rebound thing. I'm taking my time with relationships now and I'm sure not gonna let it slow down my writing grind. I'm sure one day Mr. Right will come along until then it's Me and Jesus.

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Playing In The Background...
"I Found Myself"
by Ciara
from the album "The Evolution"
and
"I Found Someone"
by Natalie Wilson & the SOP Choral
from the album "Girl Director"
and
"Jesus Is All"
by Fred Hammond & Radical For Christ
from the album "Pages Of Life: Chapters 1 & 2"
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PS: If you're new to the blog and are confused as to who the people are that I'm talking about in theis post, be sure to check out the dating section to get caught up.

November 22, 2007

adam. the mini-series: Episode 2

Adam Benjamin Irby

Hot on the heels of "The Flawless Video" we collaborated on a while back, producer, Nathan "Seven" Scott came to me with an idea, a spinoff of sorts, a series of weekly one man shows starring me. He wanted to title it "adam. the mini-series". Even though I was flattered by the idea I was also a little apprehensive as I never thought I would be interesting enough to pull this sort thing off.

We persevered, we brainstormed, we filmed and after some prodding by Nathan we actually got some good stuff. Upon seeing the final product I was really excited. The best way to describe the mini-series would be to say that it's an audible, ocular extension of the blog. Talking about my life and experiences on film comes off in a different way than it does on paper. I'm not rehashing the things that I've shared here but rather telling new stories, and in many ways going deeper inside myself than I've ever gone before. I'm also gonna be tackling some social issues as well. Some of the things you'll see me share in the next couple of weeks I'd almost rather have not said, but once its out there it's out there. So sit back, relax and enjoy the ride. I sure did.

-Adam

Last week's video was a little on the serious tip but still fun. I revealed a lot on that one. If you haven't seen in I suggest you check it out. This week's video is a little more light and fluffy. I'm talking about getting drunk, my favorite part of the male anatomy, my nose, and more.

Also check out the trailer for the new Maurice Jamal film "Dirty Laundry" starring Rockmond Dunbar, Loretta Devine, Jenifer Lewis, Terri J. Vaughn and Sommore at the end of the video. In theatres in New York and Los Angeles, December 7th and in Atlanta, Baltimore, and Washington DC on December 28th.

And remember:
WORLD AIDS DAY
Saturday, December 1st
Be safe. Go out and get tested and vaccinated!

Be sure to comment on the video and let me know what you think.

Just in case you have a problem playing the embedded video here here's the YouTube direct link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGHEKCzUTQo

For more Nathan "Seven" Scott produced videos check out his YouTube channels:
The & Show
The Nathan "Seven" Scott Experience

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Playing In The Background...
"Breakin' Dishes"
by Rihanna
from the album "Good Girl Gone Bad"
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November 21, 2007

Have Y'all Ever Noticed...

Have y'all ever noticed that my blog is work safe?

Many times at work we're unable to visit gay-friendly websites, even if they're not porn sites themselves, because they have all these pictures of naked men in sexually suggestive poses all over them in ads and what not. Now I realize that some of my pictures here are shirtless but I think they're still tasteful (I mean, I look at it at work with no problems) and anything that could be considered a little racy is always in thumbnail form. It's not something you have to look at.

I keep this in mind because I started writing this blog as something for me to do to occupy my slow times at work and for you to read during the slow times at your jobs.

I just thought thought I'd let y'all know that Adam's always thinking of you.

-Adam

PS: If you still think the blog is still to racy for work you can always join the mailing list and have the posts emailed to your computer or cell phone/PDA.

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Playing In The Background...
"Sittin' On The Job"
by Tamia
from the album "Between Friends"
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If A Picture Says A Thousand Words...

Soldiers_in_love

If a picture says a thousand words, what does this one say to you?
I know what it said to me. Be sure to leave a comment and let us know your thoughts.

I have lovingly lifted this picture off of one of my favorite blogs, Wandering Caravan. Unlike any other blog I've ever seen Wandering Caravan features articles and images of black queer history. Just like any other sect of society, we too have a rich history. You didn't think you were the first homo did you?

This is actually the second blog post I've done praising the work of this blog. The first one I wrote after finding stills from a black gay porn movie dated back to 1959 there. This blog is amazing.

Click here to check it out

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Playing In The Background...
"1,000 Words"
by L. Michele
from the EP "L. Michele"
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So I'm Doing Websites Again... (One More Thing You May Not Have Known About Me)

Hey Everybody.

Most of you know me from my writing here. But when I'm not blogging, or doing my day job I'm also a freelance web/graphic designer. I designed this blog as well as my official website ABenjaminIrby.com (which needs a total overhaul).

My web design company is called One Hundred Dollar Web Design (OHDWD.com) as some of you know it was featured on BET back in July. The video of my segment is available on the website. That website and my whole company is getting an overhaul soon. I'm changing the name and everything. Stay tuned.

Mr. Man, my ex-boyfriend got me hooked up with doing some of the club websites here in New York. Here's some of my most recent work:

- BonafidePartyNYC.com
- MenAreFromMars.net

Both of those club websites are current and throw parties regularly. Check them out whenever you're in the NYC area.

Since the BET thing I get A LOT of emails from people requesting my services. I'm only one person so there's no way I could possibly do all of that stuff. Because I consider myself an artist in a lot of ways I don't take on any projects that I don't have a good feeling about or a connection to. To work on something that you have no connection to is just that, work. It becomes a chore, a job, ugh. I'm good, I already have a job, I only design for fun and extra spending money. So for that reason I have to be really selective about what projects I take on.

Lately I haven't been taking on anything because I've poured all of my energy into my writing. Writing comes first for me. But some new projects have come along that are making me reconsider the sabbatical I've been on for the past few months and the extra money would come in handy. Like I said in this post, I'm using my jobs to finance my passion. May the force NOT be with you.

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Playing In The Background...
"World Wide Woman"
by Beyonce
from the album "B-Day (Deluxe Edition)"
and
"Can't Knock The Hustle (medley)" feat. Mary J. Blige
by Jay-Z
from the album "MTV Unplugged"
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November 19, 2007

Check Out My New Interview...

Hey Everybody,

I was recently interviewed by Ra Shawn Chisholm of the Vibing Through Writing blog. I must say that this is one of the best interviews I've done so far. He asked me in depth about what I do here on this blog and what my process is. No one has really gotten that deep with me yet. You could tell that from his line of questioning that he did a good amount of research before he interviewed me.

Click here to check out the interview

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Playing In The Background...
"Questions"
by Tamia
from the album "More"
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November 18, 2007

This Gay Man's New Biggest Fear... aka On My Motha Effin' Grind! aka It's Good To Be Adam...

Adam Benjamin Irby ==========
Is one of these how you found out about this blog?
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A while back, I wrote a blog entry called "THE SUM OF ALL GAY MEN'S FEARS" it received a lot of attention, Darian Aaron and Andre J Allen III reposted it on their blogs, people emailed it to their friends and it's probably the reason why a lot of you have discovered me. That one blog post did for me like what the "Control" album did for Janet Jackson back in the day, it blew me the fuck up! LOL The gist of the post was that my biggest fear and in my opinion the biggest fear of all gay men was to end up old and alone. In the past few weeks though my fear has shifted. While I don't want to end up old and alone, yadda, yadda, yadda, I've put that whole thing on the back burner. I'm not old yet so I'll cross that bridge when I get to it. My biggest fear now is of living a mediocre life. To live my life working for the man every night and day, punching a clock, living paycheck to paycheck. I don't need to be filthy rich but I'll be damned if I don't live my life, the gift that the almighty God personally gave to me on my own terms. In my individual case the most important of those terms being that I don't have to wake up in the morning and go to work for anybody but me! Your own terms may be different from mine mine but you should live your life by them as well. I touched on that concept in this post and with each passing day, realizing that I ain't getting any younger is making that whole concept all too real.

While I can't necessarily depend on some guy to love me or do me right or be by my side forever I need to be able to depend on myself to reach my goals. I'm looking at things this way, once I do what I need to do as far as my goals are concerned then I can invest energy into finding a partner or letting a partner find me or whatever. I get mad every time I think about all the time and energy I've wasted running after this guy and that guy and trying to be with this one and please that one. If I had invested half of that energy into my goals I would have been so far ahead of the game right now. I'm sure that you can conjure up a few things you could have accomplished if you weren't so busy playing games with so and so and such and such.

And looking at celebrities and people on TV does not help, the shit can be downright discouraging. Oprah had this girl on her show who was only 15 and running her own hair products company that was getting distributed by Wal-Mart, fucking Wal-Mart, home girl is paid. And look at all these young entertainers like Rihanna, who's 19, Miley Cyrus, who's 14, Chris Brown, who's 18, and have more money than they know what to do with, or at least more than I have. That makes me think, damn, what the fuck was I doing with my teenage years? I'm all crying and suicidal trying to deal with my sexuality and letting religion and people hold me down when I shoulda been on my motherfuckin' grind. I'm 24, bitches are retiring at 24 now. I have a lot of catching up to do. My black ass always been writing, since I was seven years old. I just never thought to do anything with it until now. While I'm not gonna beat myself up over it it's one hell of a wakeup call. Ding, ding, ding, get up mothafucka!

While I don't regret anything that's happened in my life and while many of those bad experiences have shaped the wonderful person I am, and yours, the lovely person that you are today, I can't sit here and not acknowledge that my time, ideally could have been better spent. Fortunately for what I do as a writer I've made my hardships work for me. But if I were trying to be a race car driver or an astrophysicist I might be a little tight right now.

For the past few weeks I have been on my grind like crazy as far as this blog and my writing in general is concerned. I've come out of my shell, I've been going to events, talking to people, speaking up, networking my ass off, handing out my promo cards (pictured above) like it's going out of style. Believe it or not at times I can be a little shy. Back in the day whenever I used to do something I always felt like I was piggybacking on someone else and their contacts. When I was a kid I was known as Lydia's son or Sister Irby's son, and even more recently in my relationship with my ex, Mr. Man I was always referred to as Mr. Man's boyfriend. While I love them both, my mom and my ex and all they ever tried to do was help me out, I have to say that it feels really good to stand on my own two and be Adam, making a name for myself and doing for myself, making my own contacts. I feel like I'm in control of my destiny and it's a great feeling.

To sit back and watch my blog, something that was my idea and my vision, that I started lass than nine months ago grow the way it has as quickly as it has is the best feeling ever. The feeling of having doors fling wide open for you and people you admire and respect like James Earl Hardy and Enrique Cruz giving you props on your passion is amazing. It's better that sex. In fact fuck sex, fuck fucking and fuck mother fuckin' sex. That shit has kept me off my grind for so fuckin' long. It's weird, but lately as horny as I have been I haven't really been pressed to do much about it, besides masturbation and I don't even have the time for that that I used to. And dating, it comes when it comes. I'm not even pressed about dudes any more either. Sure I have my lonely nights and days but I just write a blog post about that shit and I'm over it.

So many wonderful things are happening to me right now, many I'm not even at liberty to tell y'all yet and I feel absolutely great about it. I'm not wasting any more time. All that shit people say about not looking for someone to complete you and that everything that you really need is inside, sounds like bullshit but I'm learning that it is so true. As nice as it would be to have a partner cheering me on throughout this stage of my life, I've finally realized, without any jaded cynicism or hard feelings, that that will come when it comes, right now it's just good to finally be Adam.

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Playing in The Background...
"Selfish"
by Vivian Green
from the album "Vivian"
and
"Life Will Pass You By"
by Faith Evans
from the album "Keep The Faith"
and
"Grindin'"
by The Clipse
from the album "Lord Willin'"
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November 17, 2007

"...Just Don't Wanna Be Lonely"

It's Saturday morning and much like last Saturday morning I'm extremely horny. I didn't masturbate... yet. I went out last night. I went to Shelter and even though clubs were never really my thing it doesn't hurt to go out and let the kids see your face sometime. You don't want people to start a rumor that you're dead or anything.

I arrived to the club at the fashionable time of 2:30a. By that time you have to pay the full, after hours price to get in, which in a way kinda sucks because you're gonna actually be at the party for less time than the people who came early and paid less. But I understand it being that my ex, Mr. Man is a club promoter and it's hustle like any other hustle. I look at things this way: Getting to the club at 2:30-3 o'clock, making your rounds, saying your "Hi's" and leaving in an hour, $20. Not having to stand around for four or five hours listening to that ear blistering, awful, homophobic, reggae/dancehall shit or watching grown ass men go off to "Freakum Dress" for the 642nd time, priceless. Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with clubs, I think they're great, but as you know I hardly drink, I dance like a white boy, I don't like most rap or reggae music and if I hear another song from the "B-Day" album I'm gonna go on a murderous rampage. So while great for most of the kids my age clubs are just really not my particular scene.

I arrived to the club alone, I was meeting some friends who came from Brooklyn. That of course meant that when we left that we were going in different directions, them to BK and myself back up to Harlem. Coming to the club by myself I don't really mind, but for some reason I hate taking the ride back home alone. I met someone at the club though, actually it wasn't our first meeting, he's a friend of a friend. He's from Harlem, a few blocks down from me. We'd first met a while back. When I ran into him last  night he was a little tipsy, half naked and a little touchy feely. I kinda picked up a little bit of a flirty, sexual vibe from him last time I saw him, but tonight it was on full tilt, sponsored by Grey Goose Vodka and underwritten by Hennessy.

Once my Brooklyn friends left I made my way through the crowd to find my new friend. Don't even ask me what his name was 'cuz I couldn't remember for the life of me. I'm sure he probably couldn't remember my name either. On the train ride home he kept dropping hints that he wanted me to come home with him. I kinda laughed it off at first like I always do in situations like this, but he persisted. So I was gonna have to actually make a decision here. He was attractive, but I wasn't particularly attracted to him as he wasn't my type. I never really looked at him that way, you know? He was just a cool guy.

I can't lie though, I was horny as shit last night and being in a club did not help. On the other hand though, this dude's friend is someone who I have a lot of respect for and I don't wanna have any weirdness between us. If this were a year ago or even a few months ago I wouldn't have given fucking this dude a second thought. I'm horny, he wants it, what's to think about? But I'm learning that sex isn't everything and that I need to consider other people's feelings besides my own sometimes. I'm sure me randomly fucking my friends best friend after a night at Shelter would probably put some type of strain on their relationship. All types of things could develop from this, was it really worth it? Then again on the opposing side of all that logic I really, really, really wanted to get my dick sucked last night. Decisions... decisions. All this pondering was making me tired. We both fell asleep like drunkards on the train.

Awakening just in time, we arrived at our train stop and as we left the train station he asked me again whether I was gonna come home with him. My decision was pretty much made by then. I had slept on it and decided that I needed to go home, jerk off and not create any unnecessary drama for myself. I looked at him as he asked that last time and I saw that there was a certain loneliness and a vulnerable quality in his eyes that really resonated with me. I could see that it was more than just about sex, or a quick hook up. Much like me he just didn't wanna spend another night alone. I totally felt him on that.

In that nanosecond I was reconsidering my decision. Maybe he really did just want company? He lives alone, I live alone. I know what coming home to an empty house after a night a club feels like, it sucks. The fact that I was still only half awake and still tired as shit had also become major factors in my reconsideration process and once the cold night air hit me the decision was made. Fuck it, I'ma go upstairs with this dude because it's 5am, I'm cold, I'm tired and I really don't feel like making the additional eight block trek to my house. I figured I'd stay for a few hours, get a little bit of sleep, we're both adults, nothing has to happen and neither one of us wants to be alone tonight. This is kinda like that episode of "Sex In The City" where Carrie asks the question "Is it sometimes better to fake it than to be alone?" Although we hardly knew each other's names (I figured out what his name was on the train, by the way) we were pretending that we we're whatever we needed last night.

I laid in bed with him and I noticed that his bed was comfortable as hell, I mean hotel comfortable. I really need to step my sheet and bed linens game up. Anyway, we laid there, we spooned, we felt each other up a little bit. You know, outta pure curiosity. The funniest moment was when he grabbed for my boxers and said in the sweetest, most innocent, half drunken voice:

"Has anyone ever told you that you have a big dick?"

Like, how the fuck do you answer a question like that? I didn't wanna say yes, but I'd be lying if I said no. I replied with a hesitant "...yeah" and we both laughed. Of course the question of actually fucking came up. I know I could have beat if I would have pressed the issue, and he did kinda want me to but I didn't want to feel like I was taking advantage. We mutually decided against it, it was for the best. We were pretending and actually fucking would make things all too real. So we spooned and fell asleep. I woke up at around ten and continued my journey home, proud that I hadn't succumb to my hormones.

I got what I really needed last night without the drama and repercussions of actually having hooked up with a friend of a friend. No weird post-hookup phone calls, no awkward look, look away stares whenever I see him again, no expectations of anything. I didn't even have to walk my eight blocks in shame this morning. Walking away from it all is so much easier when it's just make believe.

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Playing In The Background...
"Just Don't Want To Be Lonely"
by The Main Ingredient
from the album "Everybody Plays The Fool: The Best Of The Main Ingredient"
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November 16, 2007

Velvet Rage Lesson #3: When You Have A Problem With Someone, Speak With Him/Her About It First (Instead Of Everyone Else) (aka Interview With The Vampire)

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This book, "The Velvet Rage" as you know has changed my life and I recommend that every gay man read it (I wrote a review of it in this post). In the book, the author Dr. Alan Downs, Ph.D. gives "10 Lessons On Being An Authentic Gay Man" (authentic as in truthful and living a life of integrity). I am taking those 10 lessons, some of which hit me very hard and am illustrating how they apply to my life in this "The Velvet Rage" category of posts.
Wish me luck.
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Velvet Rage Lesson #3:
When You Have A Problem With Someone, Speak With Him/Her About It First (Instead Of Everyone Else)
(aka Interview With The Vampire)

"The more critical you are of others, the more difficult is is for you to reveal your true self to the world around you. When you have not allowed others to be less than perfect, does it not only follow that you cannot be less than perfect? And since you know that you are not perfect, how can you possibly reveal yourself? Creating an environment for authenticity requires that we give other people the space to be authentic as well."
-page 172-173

This is one of those blog posts that has been sitting around for a long time. I wrote it, and rewrote it, and rewrote it but it never quite came together the way I wanted to, that is until now.

Dr. Downs says that we as gays, a lot of the times, when we argue or have a disagreement with someone, especially in the context of a relationship, we tend not to go directly to that person with how we feel. Instead we fortify our defense by telling our friends and associates how bad that person is or how they did us wrong, usually in an effort to validate our own feelings. In doing so we not only express our individual distaste for that person or their actions but we also gather others against that person. Those people out of their love for us will create for themselves an enemy out of the person solely out of our dislike of the person in question without any direct cause and possibly not even out of fact. And if you and the person ever patch things up you will also have to perform the humiliating task of justifying your patching things up with that person to everyone you badmouthed them to.

In my quest to be a better person, an authentic gay man if you will, I'm trying to be less judgmental, especially with the character of others. If I take the drastic step of not liking somebody and deeming a person unsocializeable (you won't find that one in the dictionary, it's an Adam-ism lol) I definitely want that judgment to be based on solid fact and not in inferences and hearsay.

I had a meeting with someone recently, a pretty visible member of black gay and lesbian society here in New York, who I've characterized as "The Vampire" in the title of this post. To simply say that I'd never heard too many good things about him would be an understatement. The mere mention of her name is usually followed by the sucking of teeth, the rolling of eyes, the turning up of faces, the hard nasal exhale of distaste, and the rhetorical question of "Oh, that asshole?" Rumors swirl around him like the rings of Saturn, gossip like the moons of Jupiter.

I have to admit that because a lot of the things I've heard about her were from sources close to me that I took on my associates distaste for The Vampire without ever having had a formal conversation with him, not more than a "Hi" in passing. I reveled in the vilification of this person without any evidence. In the past few weeks circumstances have played out in such a way that The Vampire and I are directly working on a project together. I would have to be in direct communication with this person that I so disliked. Given this information I almost backed out of the project, one that could look very good on my resume and get some money in my pocket. Then I thought, why exactly do I dislike The Vampire, again? I really couldn't formulate a solid answer. This question is one we all need to ask ourselves regarding the people we say we don't like. If you don't know or can't remember it's probably time to let the grudge go.

With that I thought 'Fuck it. What have I got to lose? If The Vampire is as horrible as people say they are then I just won't do the project.' So at our first meeting I literally conducted an interview with The Vampire. If I was going to work successfully with The Vampire I needed the air to be clear. I needed to be able to work freely with no unanswered questions or unresolved issues looming above us, causing tension and drama.

I entered the meeting personable, professional, friendly, but guarded, my walls were definitely up. Due to The Vampire's reputation I had no idea what to expect. As things went on though, I was pleasantly surprised, not completely sold, but surprised buy The Vampires demeanor. The Vampire wasn't half the terrible person she was made out to be. After a while our rapport was so good that I had to put my machine gun and bullets down. It's like The Vampire became a real person and not just the product of everything I've ever been told. We had a few drinks, I was sipping on cranberry vodka (my new favorite drink for the once in a blue moon I ever drink) and The Vampire sipped on, you guessed it, red wine. After we got past the the core business part of our meeting I, partially fueled by the vodka, was ballsy enough to ask:

"Vampire, you seem like a decent person, at least from what I'm seeing today. Why do so many people not like you?"

The Vampire looked at me surprised and surprisingly slightly concerned. The asshole that people described The Vampire as would surely not be the least bit concerned with being disliked by others. "Who doesn't like me?" The Vampire asked, motioning to make sure the door was closed. Oh hell no, I was not getting rope-a-doped into that shit. I'm way too smart to mention names and situations. This research was for my purposes only. I didn't explain myself any further. I figured that as much as I've heard, that she must know what I'm talking about.

They described situations in which he figured could probably explain certain people's distaste for him. Some of them were familiar to me but I chose for the sake of peace not to confirm or deny any of them. Because at the end of the day this wasn't about them, it was about me and The Vampire. I needed to hear The Vampire's side of the story so I could make an informed judgment of character.

Surprisingly, I was satisfied with the answers and I got and was able to compare and see my associates' and The Vampire's point of view on the situations aforementioned, nobody's perfect. I actually felt bad having harbored the unwarranted feelings I felt toward The Vampire. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not a new convert to the Church of The Vampire and I'm not gonna walk around wearing vampire t-shirts and baseball caps and shit. I'm nobody's fool, trust, I was sippin' on vodka, not Kool-Aid that night. While I'm not blindly gonna just up and wholeheartedly trust The Vampire, at least from this day forward whatever relationship I have with The Vampire will be based on my sole interaction with and sound judgment of her without the input of others.

Once the difficult part of the evening was over we continued having regular conversation over dinner and figured out that we actually have a lot in common, which in some ways is scary. Maybe someone who doesn't even know me is sitting at home feeling the same ways about me as I did toward The Vampire. I also found out that the Vampire is even a supporter of my work here on this blog. Upon even further conversation I have found that there's actually a few things that I can learn from The Vampire. But more than that this experience has taught me about myself.

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Playing In The Background...
"I See You In A Different Light" feat. JoJo Hailey
by Chante Moore
from the album "This Moment is Mine"
and
"Free Xone"
by Janet Jackson
from the album "The Velvet Rope"
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November 15, 2007

adam. the mini-series: Episode 1

Adam Benjamin Irby

Hot on the heels of "The Flawless Video" we collaborated on a while back, producer, Nathan "Seven" Scott came to me with an idea, a spinoff of sorts, a series of weekly one man shows starring me. He wanted to title it "adam. the mini-series". Even though I was flattered by the idea I was also a little apprehensive as I never thought I would be interesting enough to pull this sort thing off.

We persevered, we brainstormed, we filmed and after some prodding by Nathan we actually got some good stuff. Upon seeing the final product I was really excited. The best way to describe the mini-series would be to say that it's an audible, ocular extension of the blog. Talking about my life and experiences on film comes off in a different way than it does on paper. I'm not rehashing the things that I've shared here but rather telling new stories, and in many ways going deeper inside myself than I've ever gone before. I'm also gonna be tackling some social issues as well. Some of the things you'll see me share in the next couple of weeks I'd almost rather have not said, but once its out there it's out there. So sit back, relax and enjoy the ride. I sure did.

-Adam

Be sure to comment on the video and let me know what you think.

Just in case you have a problem playing the embedded video here here's the YouTube direct link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdNfmJYKlUg

For more Nathan "Seven" Scott produced videos check out his YouTube channels:
The & Show
The Nathan "Seven" Scott Experience

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Playing In The Background...
"Breakin' Dishes"
by Rihanna
from the album "Good Girl Gone Bad"
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I'm So Damn Horny Right Now, I'm Dangerous...

I just woke up about 15 minutes ago sprawled out across my bed, with my wifebeater, jeans and timbs still on, dick hard as nails. It's just one of those mornings. I went out briefly last night. I took a shower and the feeling of my naked body turned me on. I wanted to jerk off like I usually do but I was in a hurry. Fuck it. A part of me really wanted to take someone home last night, no such luck. It's not as though I was putting any effort toward making it happen though. Remember, I'm trying to change my ho-ish ways in an effort to discover what makes you Puritanical, self-denying bitches tick. Truthfully, as nice as the self-denial thing is and in many ways I'm sure a better look for me, I still don't quite get all of what's so wonderful about it, especially now when I'm horny as shit and when half of y'all don't believe my black ass is changing anyway.

Last night was definitely one of those nights I would have been online. I got home after 1 and it was a Wednesday night so I would have had to settle for whatever random piece of ass I could get in a twenty block radius as decent people have jobs and wouldn't be awake and online looking for sex at 1am on a Wednesday night. It would have probably been some fugly dude that I would never walk the streets and claim but you know even that's never stopped me before. Dimmer lights and a vivid imagination are the simplest cure for that. I heard they got some new website now called "Thug 4 Thug" or something like that and they have a cam chat feature. Damn, that sounds like fun. I had just gotten in from an event so I was definitely ready for my close up. But I'm not fucking with the online shit anymore.

I feel like my skin is on fire, everything is so warm and sensitive to the touch. Yeah I could jerk off, and I will as soon as I finish typing this post but I really want someone to touch me. I want to touch someone and engulf them in my flame. I just wanna bury my dick deep inside someone and send shockwaves of passion throughout their body, a sensation at which they would moan and say my name. I just wanna watch my dick go in and out. I just wanna shoot my nutt all over someone, is that too much to ask? Fuck. This is what totally sucks about being single. I wish I had a boyfriend but I'm not gonna whine about that shit this morning.

So it's settled, I'm just gonna jerk off. Hopefully I can leave it at that, hopefully.

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Playing In The Background...
"Take Care"
by Janet Jackson
from the album "20 Y.O."
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November 14, 2007

My First "Love" Part 1

You'd think that with all the stuff I've shared with y'all I would have told this story eons ago, but this morning when I was brushing my teeth, looking in the mirror I realized that I never shared this with y'all.

Due to my numerous sex-ploits most people who meet me think that I must have been fuckin' since I was ten. Actually, it's quite the contrary my friends. I did not have sex, any kind of sex, oral, anal, penetration, with a guy or girl until I was twenty years old, only four and a half years ago. I didn't even kiss a guy until I was 20. Yeah, let's just say that I've made up for a lot of lost time in the past few years. While a lot of you homos kissed, bumped, grinded, and fucked your way through your teenage years, in many ways cultivating your confidence as a gay man, I was too busy crying to God so that he could take this "gay demon" out of me that everyone convinced me I had and when I wasn't doing that I was contemplating suicide.

One major part of me snapping out of that whole self hatred thing was meeting my first love. In retrospect I guess I couldn't say that we quote-unquote "loved" each other but the feelings between us were very strong. He was my first kiss, with a guy, the first time I had sex, period (I've never had sex with a female, and never really wanted to, like hello, I'm gay). He was my everything and I'll never forget him. By a total fluke we ended up connecting with each other again via MySpace back in July. I'm in Harlem now and he's still in Brooklyn. We haven't seen each other in four and a half years but he's doing well.  He knew that he was my first even though he still doesn't quite believe me. It was good talking to him though, reflecting on old times. He's one of the people that helped make me the person I am today. Depending on who you ask that can be considered a good or a bad thing. But I digress. In this series of blog posts, "My First "Love"", I will tell the story of him and I.

One night I was at home on my computer, logged into BGC (BlackGayChat/BGCLive, a dating, friendship, sex hookup website). I can't quite remember how I found out about BGC but I managed to get an account there. BGC was cool to me because even though I was a virgin, I knew I was gay, but I didn't actually know any other gay people. BGC gave me a chance to see other gay men in their natural habitat. The profiles with the naked pictures didn't hurt either. At that point in my life I'd never seen another man naked, outside of porn. So seeing real guys my age showing themselves off was really hot. I even had some dick pics on my profile. And even now that I'm offline, four and a half years later I'm sure that my old BGC dick pics are still floating around somewhere in cyberspace (I'd know that head anywhere). At that time I wouldn't dare put my face on BGC. I actually only started doing that shit like a year and a half ago. And even with that you'll never find a fully nude picture of me, with my face showing on the internet. Kiddies take this piece of advice from a retired internet hook up professional: Your dick/ass/vagina should NEVER, I repeat NEVER be in the same picture as your face. Face pics and pics of private parts should ALWAYS be two separate entities. You never know, one day you may run for president or something and that shit will come back to haunt you, but at least if there's no face attached you can always deny, deny, deny. I digress.

So I was in the chat room on BGC one night and there was this guy there, let's call him Tony, who was making fun of everybody's pics on their profile. He was being really cruel too and even though I was laughing at his jokes I was scared that he was gonna come for me next so I quietly slipped out of the chat session. A few minutes later he hit me up on AIM and told me who he was and started talking to me. I was kinda shocked by it all and wondering why he had this sudden interest in me. So we chatted back and forth on the internet and eventually ended up exchanging numbers. That night we ended up having phone sex. It wasn't the first time I ever masturbated with someone over the phone but it was the first time that I took control of it and explicitly told the other person what I wanted to do to them. I've always had a really vivid imagination so I was a natural at phone sex. It's funny because even then I was the top.

I know, It's weird for a lot of people, but for me, coming into gay sex, even doing it for the first time I always knew where I belonged. I'm a top. I was the top, Tony was the bottom. He knew that, all of my dates know that (except for this one). It's not even something that has to be asked. I guess it's just a certain vibe I give off and the vibe that I'm attracted to. An ex boyfriend once told me that he did not believe that there was a such thing as a quote-unquote "real" top until he met me. Out of curiosity I even tried the bottom thing before, nah, it's just not for me. I'm digressing again.

For the next few weeks this phone sex became our nightly, before going to bed ritual, that along with our talking on the phone for four to five hours at a time, sometimes breaking daylight. We talked about everything, from our families, to our jobs, to our dreams, and even a future with one another (oh, to be that innocent again). We even had, and had make up phone sex, after our first argument. At that time Tony and I had never met it was as though I knew him and he knew me, like we were together, like boyfriend and girlfriend, or boyfriend and boyfriend, or lovers, or whatever it was supposed to be. And even though to actually be with Tony the way we planned over the phone, I knew we'd have to face insurmountable odds but none of that mattered those endless nights on the phone with him. Talking with him I slipped into a place where I was finally free, free to be myself and share my real self with someone else. Talking to Tony, I floated high above the pain and the stress of my mediocre, quotidian existence. He was the first person to ever experience the romantic side of me.

The more and more we talked, the closer and closer we got, it was killing me to not be able to see him. We'd let trivial circumstances and insignificant obligations stand in our way for far too long. One Saturday night I'd had enough and I demanded to see him. He obliged. So I slipped away from my group of friends, giving them some bullshit excuse about a friend from school needing homework help and I went to see him, Tony, my destiny.

He actually didn't live too far from me. We both lived in Brooklyn at the time and he was only about 20 minutes away by bus. When I got off the bus to meet him I remember the night being warm and him being taller than I thought, like two inches taller than me. We met, we gave our salutations and exchanged our pleasantries. During our phone conversations I learned that Tony was a huge Brandy fan. The night we met I gave him my autographed "Full Moon" CD that I stood for hours in the cold for on the day it was released. He accepted it and thanked me and we sat on a park bench in awkward silence.

It was so crazy because we'd been so expressive during our countless hours of phone conversation. We talked about our hopes, our dreams, our future, our fantasies, we busted nutts together and now we meet and there's, there's... silence, like what the fuck? So in an attempt to break the ice I suggest that we go to a local diner. We get there, we sit down, I ask Tony if he wants anything, he says no. I order a slice of strawberry shortcake (my all time favorite dessert) and we sit there, in silence. Now I'm nervous. Does he like me? Is he not feeling me? Just then, in the middle of one of my feeble attempts at small talk I reach over and knock my complimentary glass of ice water all over myself. How embarrassing? Here I am on my first date with a guy and I'm totally fucking it up.

We walk out of the diner and it starts pouring down raining, can this fuckin' evening get any fuckin' worse? Sensing that this date is basically over and the last few weeks had been a total waste of time, I made my way toward the bus stop. Tony walks over with me and stands there with me. We stood huddled together in silence under his small umbrella on the south east corner of that busy intersection, watching people run for shelter from the sudden rain, in silence. As I looked up and into his eyes I wanted to kiss him. But back then I didn't have the balls to do some shit like that, even though in retrospect, we coulda got away with it. It wasn't like there was anyone out there anyway. The bus came and as I entered I noticed that he was right behind me. Alrighty, I wasn't sure what to think of this. So I guess he did like me since he was gonna ride with me home and everything. We sat across from each other on the bus, damp, still in silence, but exchanging smiles every so often.

We get off the bus at my stop and walk toward my building. I'm not sure why exactly he was still tagging along as there was no way he was gonna meet Lydia (my mother and Jesus' unofficial cousin twice removed) that night, oh hayell nah! As cool as Tony was, he "looked" gay. And I was not secure enough in myself or my sexuality at that time to face the scrutiny that would come along with me being seen with him. He was in my hood now. It was kinda late so I wasn't so worried about being caught with him but I thought for sure that he was about to cross the street and take the bus back to his house. Isn't it funny how over the phone, dreams and speculations have you floating on air, light as a feather, but in person, reality is about as light as a ton of bricks?

We got to my building, he walked in behind me. Alrighty, we were now at the elevator, in silence. I pressed the up button as a swarm of butterflies fluttered violently through my stomach. I felt as though if I uttered a single word one would come flying out. We step into the elevator. As he stood in the back right corner, the tension mounted. Instead of pressing the button for my parents' third floor apartment I pressed next to the number 17. This was it. I'd been waiting for this all day, all night, all my life, and I was tired of playing it safe, tired of trying to please mama and daddy and everyone else. This was my life and I'll be damned if don't start living it. I didn't know what was gonna happen from that point on, whether the stars would fall from the sky or whether the Earth would swallow me whole and I'd fall into the pits of hell, but at that point I really didn't care, fuck it. I kissed him.

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Playing In The Background...
"Kissing You"
by Faith Evans
from the "Waiting To Exhale Movie Soundtrack"
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What I'm Doing Tonight: "The S Party"

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With this post I'm inaugurating a new category to the blog, the "What I'm Doing Tonight..." category. From now on if I decide to go to an event, on the day of I will post info for it so if by chance you aren't busy you could come out to support as well. I'm actually involved in some projects with some of the party promoters here in New York and I know how difficult it can be to get the word out at times so I'm just doing my part to help out. And if you see me at one of these events feel free to come and say "Hi!" or "Hey!" or "Whaddup?" or whatever it is that you say.
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Spart_front Sparty_back

Tonight I'm going to The S Party at Secret Lounge. It's a bash being thrown by Dwight O'Neal & the people behind "Christopher Street TV". The doors open at 9p. Dwight told me that the party would be going on until about 3 or 4a. Usually I would never arrive to any club/lounge night party thing before the fashionable time of 1:30-2am but since this thing is starting at 9p and it's a Wednesday night, I'll adjust my arrival time down to let's say around 11:30p-12a. That's just me though. If you're coming out feel free to arrive anytime past 9p or 10p. Here's that info again:

The S Party
@ Secret Lounge
525 W. 29th Street
bet 10th & 11th Avenues
Doors open @ 9p
$3 Gen Admission
Free w/ Password

Hopefully I'll see you there.

November 13, 2007

I'm Featured On Enrique Cruz's Website...

Yes it's true. I'm featured on Enrique Cruz's website, but it's not what you think. He reposted my "Flawless" video (produced by Nathan "Seven" Scott) and did a write up about meeting us this weekend on his blog. He's the coolest guy. I'm so honored.

Check out the article on Enrique Cruz' Blog

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Playing In The Background...
"Porno Star"
by Joe Budden
from the album "Joe Budden"
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My Bloggerific Weekend...

Enrique Cruz (left), Adam Benjamin Irby (right) Dsc00794_2 Adam Benjamin Irby (left), Jonathan Plummer (right) Dsc00812 Dsc00815

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Pictures (from top to bottom):
- Enrique Cruz and Me.
- Me, Trent Jackson, DJ Baker, Shorty Roc, & Dwight O'Neal.
- Me & Jonathan Plummer
- Me, Trent Jackson, & Darian Aaron.
- Me & Trent Jackson.
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This past weekend was absolutely wonderful. I met so many of my brothers out here in the urban gay blogosphere and in the world at large. It was great to finally put faces to all the names.

It all started on Saturday afternoon as when I met Trent Jackson for the first time at a Starbucks in the village. As I was talking to Trent a gentleman stopped me:

"Are you Adam?"

"Yes."

"I read your blog..."

It's so cool when that happens. To have your words touch people you don't even know is such an amazing thing. The guy who stopped me seemed to be in a hurry so I never got a chance to catch his name. But I just wanted to take the time to shout him out. Thanks for all the support.

From there Trent and I made out way to Cosi for his appearance on "Da Doo-Dirty Radio Show" hosted by my new big bro, DJ Baker. On the way I showed Trent the historic Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street. This was his first trip to New York and I was his tour guide so I wanted to make sure that we soaked in all the historic sites. Once we arrived to Cosi we walked in on the middle of DJ's interview with legendary urban gay porn kingpin Enrique Cruz. Do you know how many of this man's movies I have jerked off to? I jokingly told Trent that "Enrique Cruz is half the reason why I'm gay today". After Enrique's interview with DJ I met him and took a picture with him. He is the nicest guy. As we posed for the pictures he rubbed his hand across my chest and said:

"You're gonna have on all these clothes for the picture?"

I just got molested by Enrique Cruz, how cool is that? We exchanged cards and he stopped by the blog. We exchanged links as well. Just in case you didn't know, Enrique is a blogger himself, so be sure to check out his blog sometime.

I stuck around Cosi chit chatting and networking as DJ interviewed more movers and shakers in the LGBT community such as Nathan "Seven" Scott, hip-hop artist Shorty Roc, the cast of the film "Finding Me", Trent Jackson, "Christopher Street TV" star Dwight O'Neal and more. I even participated in a roundtable discussion and plugged my upcoming project "adam: The Miniseries" (which will be released Thursday, I just saw it and I'm so excited).

From there me, Trent, Shorty Roc, Dwight and his business partner Jimmy Grant headed out to the Chocolate Bar in Brooklyn for a Q&A with Jonathan Plummer (ex husband of writer, Terry McMillan "How Stella Got Her Groove Back" etc., etc., if you want more info on all that Google it) who was signing copies of his new book "Balancing Act". I had a short meeting with him, he's really tall, and we posed for a photo together. The event was hosted by Derrick L. Briggs, another fellow blogger. While we were there I met with ShawnQT of the "Dreams In A Fitted" blog and Jay of the "Jay's Distorted World" blog.

It was time to eat and I wanted to give Trent a real taste of New York, literally. So we, all five of us headed down to Downtown Brooklyn's world famous original Junior's Restaurant (the one Diddy made the members of DaBand walk to), home of the world's best cheesecake. I'm more of a strawberry shortcake man myself so I had that for dessert.

And of course no visit to New York is complete without hitting a club. It was Saturday night and Secret on 29th street was our only option. We arrived there and of course there was a line, as usual. Dwight had a convo with the owner and he said that the club was "at capacity". That meant waiting in line for people to come out so that we could go in. It was way too cold for that. As we were standing there deciding what to do next DJ and Trio Entertainment CEO, Soul Gee walk out of the club. So that was it for us, all of our people were outside so there definitely was no reason for us to stick around. So we all headed home.

Sunday morning, I had to work as Trent was preparing for his big day. The New York release party/signing for his newest novel "Full Circle" was later that afternoon. That morning was also when we got wind of the rumor that had been floating around about us. After work I headed up to Billie's Black, the swank, restaurant & lounge (shout out to Adrian & Marie) where Trent's event was held. When I got into the door the first face I saw was that of Darian Aaron, the Atlanta-based blogger extraordinare, who featured my piece "THE SUM OF ALL GAY MEN'S FEARS" on his blog a few months back (shout out to all the readers here who discovered me through Darian's blog). I also got a chance to meet Ken Alston, star of the hit off-broadway show "Three Mo' Tenors". And of course I got my autographed copy of "Full Circle", now I have to start reading it.

Monday afternoon I met back up with Trent, Darian, and his boyfriend Trey. Unfortunately because they had to rush off to the airport Darian and Trey couldn't join Trent and I for lunch at Spanky's BBQ after which Trent had to rush off to the airport for a flight that he ended up missing (Darian told you you was gon' miss that flight Trent! lol). After I said goodbye to Trent I was off to work to begin another week. I can't wait to see what adventures next weekend brings.

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Playing In The Background...
"Weekend Thing"
by Koffee Brown
from the album "Mars/Venus"
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November 12, 2007

I Slept With Trent Jackson... Well, At Least That's What They Say... aka Baby's First Rumor

Just when I thought I was safe in my self-erected cocoon of pseudo-anonymity, it shattered, falling to the ground underneath a tree in the shady meadow that is black gay society, carried by the swift wind of a rumor. As you know this past weekend was a busy one for me as I was promoting and going to events all over the place, following and leading around Trent Jackson, the L.A. based host of the popular internet radio show "In The Mix With Trent". He's also a fellow blogger, and author of two books, 2006's "At This Moment" and his newest book "Full Circle", which he was doing the New York launch and signing for this past weekend.

He's been a reader of my blog for the past few months now and we're also MySpace friends. He hit me up a few weeks ago to let me know that he was coming to New York. We exchanged numbers and talked, clicking almost immediately. He informed me that this was his first trip to New York and asked if I would show him around. In turn I asked him if I could pick his brain about the book publishing process, we both agreed to each other's terms. Needless to say we'd been hanging out all weekend, going to all the events.

I got a call from Trent on Sunday morning about the rumor, that was the first I'd heard of it. Then came all the other calls, inquiries and mentions of it all day yesterday and today. I wasn't so much shocked by the rumor, given the circumstances and I mean, we're talking about me here, you read this blog don'cha? This little thing was nothing. I'm very aware of the reputation that precedes me. I'd been in far more scandalous situations with far less obvious bedfellows that people don't even know about (I can't blog about everything). What shocked though me was how fast it traveled (it only took only about 7 hours, hours of which most people should have been asleep) and the mouths from which the rumors we're allegedly coming from. I didn't even know these people knew lil' ol' me or give a damn who the fuck I was fucking. Well, I guess I was wrong.

It seems as though every time I proclaim something on this blog (I am not a celebrity, I'm done with CancelCancel, etc.) life always finds a funny way to make me eat my words. So you know what, I'm tired of words, they don't taste very good, they're loaded with carbs and they're fucking up my developing six pack. So from now on I'm just gonna with the flow. Say what you will about me, call me a celebrity, call me a whore, fuck it. I may address it on my blog, then again I may not, who's to say? I've always been a believer that no publicity is bad publicity anyway. So keep on talkin', it's all good. :)

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Playing In The Background...
"Rumors"
by Lindsay Lohan
from the album "Speak"
and
"Secret (Take You Home)"
by Kylie Minogue
from the album "Body Language"
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Tomorrow I will give you all the lowdown on all the events I attended this past weekend with pictures and everything.

November 11, 2007

Sunday Morning.

GOOD MORNING EVERYONE! I'm at work this morning after having had about 90 minutes of sleep last night and I feel absolutely great. I know I've been a little on the melancholy tip for the past few days and some of you, my lovely readers have expressed concern for me (always appreciated of course) but I just wanted to let you know that I'm fine. Life is good, God is good, everything's good. Like Chante Moore said "You gotta let it out exactly how you feel it..." (I will PayPal 50 cents to whoever can tell me what song that line is from! LOL)

I'm in the midst of a weekend that I can only describe as bloggerlicious. I have been meeting and hanging out with other bloggers and interesting people, networking, going to events, doing some promotion and most importantly, meeting some of you. Being at work today is only a speed bump in my otherwise fast paced, sleep deprived weekend. As soon as work is over I'm changing my clothes and I'm gonna be off to hit the streets again. So I'm not gonna give out any details now but I'll give you the highlights of the weekend with pictures and all on Monday or Tuesday.

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Playing In The Background...
"Feelin' So Good"
by Jennifer Lopez
from the album "On The 6"
and
"Grindin'"
by The Clipse
from the album "Lord Willin'"
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November 10, 2007

Saturday Morning.

I woke up this morning and masturbated like I do most mornings. Lately, instead of thinking about the normal things I think about when I masturbate, you know, two horny bottoms having me take tag team them, that straight guy I know I can't have, the straight guy I probably could have, a friend's boyfriend, the gay guy I wanna have again, that top I've always wanted to turn out, the top I did turn out, or any other track on my record of greatest sexual hits, I've been masturbating thinking about the one.

Yes, the one, the one who I'm gonna spend the rest of my life with in our top floor condo in Downtown Brooklyn overlooking the New York skyline. I think about us making love in our bed of 1500 thread count Egyptian cotton sheets with the sun shining through our floor to ceiling windows. He'll be riding me as I look up to see the sunlight reflect off of his angelic face, which is always somehow obscured so I can never quite see it. We'll climax and he'll fall into my arms. As we lay there catching our breath almost falling back asleep we'll be greeted by the rambunctious pitter-patter of little feet. The furry little feet of my cat, Keisha and his dog. As we awaken to go into the kitchen to prepare breakfast and start our day, planning our rooftop pool party that we have invited all of our friends to later that evening, I'll grab him by his waist and lead him outside to our balcony. We'd be standing out there with the sun warming our nude bodies as he leans his head back onto my chest. We'd both take in a deep breath as we take in the sounds of the vibrant city below. We'd both smile, thankful that we have each other.

So I guess now my dick and a fat ass in a tawdry sex situation just isn't gonna do it anymore. It's gonna take prime real estate to make me bust a nutt now. And after I bust that nutt I'll open my eyes and realize that I'm still here and that things are still the same, and that I spent another Friday night in the house, alone, and that I woke up on another Saturday morning, alone, except now I have all this sticky whitish shit to clean up. I hate Saturday mornings. I'm going back to bed.

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Playing In The Background...
"Rescue Me"
by Teedra Moses
from the album "Complex Simplicity"
and
"Saturday"
by Lil' Mo
from the album "Based On A True Story"
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November 09, 2007

So, I'm Trying To Reconcile My New Found Notoriety With Everything I Believe In And I Keep Coming Up Short...

About five months ago a good friend of mine and I were having lunch. He was telling me about how he started to hear people talk about my blog and how it was increasing in popularity and playfully said to me that I was becoming a "celebrity" and I was mortified. The New York black gay community is the breeding ground of the "black gay mini-celebrity". That is a person who is doing something that causes them to get a little more attention in our community than the average person and because of that attention they feel as though or act as though they have attained "some type of plastic, pseudo-celebrity status." It's actually quite sickening to watch. I even wrote a blog post about it. Because this sort of thing is everything I despise about the black gay community here in New York I try my best not to fall into it as it is a very subtle thing. On Wednesday, me and that same friend (who actually would be the most valid example of a black gay mini-celebrity, but without the big head) were talking via IM and he hit me with that celebrity shit again and I replied to him "TAKE IT BACK!" playfully, of course.

Things have been changing for me since I started this blog, especially within the last month or so. I've been doing interviews for some online outlets and even for print publications, doing some photo shoots, filming some stuff (for YouTube, Spielberg hasn't called yet lol), and going to some events. Yeah, a few more people recognize me than they did before, a few more dudes try to holla now than they did before (that's cool) but at the end of the day I'm still me. I don't feel any different, I'm not acting any different. And I damn sure don't feel like anybody's celebrity. Maybe once my black ass doesn't have to get up at the crack of dawn and go to work anymore we'll talk about celebrity.

AIso on Wednesday I was talking to Pubby and I told him about how I was adjusting to things lately. I'm really loving that people are getting into the blog. I've said many times before that it warms my heart when people like you read this blog and send me comments and emails about it, especially if you tell me that it has helped you or that you can relate to it in any way. I absolutely love that, that's what makes this all worthwhile. On the other hand, because I have done a provocative photoshoot here and there I have gotten some correspondence that's been more of an overt sexual nature. I'm kind of astonished at myself for saying this but I'm not really feeling that so much. I mean, yeah, you can compliment me on my photos. That's all well and good and I will thank you. But some of these messages are just straight up nasty and surprisingly as much as y'all know I love sex I'm just not feeling that. If somebody wants to ask me on a date, feel free, step up to the plate, kick your game, all I can say is yes or no. But don't think 'cuz I have a few photos with my shirt off and tell an explicit story (that relates to the point of the post) here and there that I'm running an escort service here. I know that I have been promiscuous in the past but I'm trying to leave it there.

Even with all that and as much as some of these advances have annoyed the hell out of me I guess they're somewhat understandable as well and go with the territory. It is what it is. When you put yourself out there you never know what you're gonna get back. All I can do is just be me.

I basically said all of this to Pubby on Wednesday and he told me that I was "full of shit" and that I love every minute of the attention, good and bad, which I felt totally discounted everything I said. When he told me that it kinda stung me. I can't say I was fully hurt by that statement but it was a swift kick in the nuts. I was really trying to pour my heart out to him and I just wanted him to listen. Instead, that's what I got. When he said that I was literally speechless. I had to take a moment to gather myself. It was like a sucker punch to the abdomen. Instead of Pubby I need to start calling him porcupine. He's so cute and you just want to hold him but every time you try to get close he stings you.

I went to an event on Wednesday night and I got a chance to talk to and network with a few people, honestly that's just about the only reason I even go out these days. In the midst of that someone who I didn't know by name but that I had seen around before came up to me and said "Hi Adam!" I was actually a little shocked as they were so just warm, and smiley, and gracious, gushing so hard I had to wipe off my boots. I smiled back and diplomatically returned the graciousness even though I knew that it was rooted in total bull shit. Now that person has seen my black ass in the clubs and around town numerous times before and been all up in my face and never said shit. Now all of a sudden they wanna say "Hi Adam", and gush harder than the Buckingham Fountain... please. Just because I write a blog and ten more people know my name than this week than they did last week now I'm all of a sudden good enough to talk to... whatever. Now I would never come off as nasty or jaded or have a chip on my shoulder because of it. I already know how fake people are so it's just funny to me. All I will ever do is smile and be the pleasant person I always have been. At at the end of the day I'm just glad that someone else is getting into the blog. No hard feelings.

Now I'm not stupid or naive and I realize that because the internet is a worldwide forum of course some form of notoriety is going to come along with doing what I do, especially because it's about my life. Intellectual notoriety though is what I embrace. Be a supporter of the blog, enjoy the writing, tell your friends about it, please, I beg of you, if you see me in the street say "Hi", all of that's great. And if you're attracted to me, ask me on a date, that's all well and good too. It's the notion of this pseudo-celebrity status that I don't like. The idea of me having "fans", and people just wanting to be around me because of how I look or because people know who I am is what disgusts me. Especially because so many so-called mini-celebrities don't even the a body of work to show for their status. They just get so caught up in the by products of the work that the actual work begins to suffer or people forget what hell the work was to begin with. And it's not that I'm so perfect and that I'm above getting get caught up in the hype, sure I can. I'm just making a conscious effort not to, in spite of people who say that I'm gonna change.

What's craziest about the whole mini-celebrity thing is that most of the time it only holds weight inside our immediate community. Outside the black gay community, after the club closes and when the function is over don't nobody know who the hell these people are. They hold regular jobs and live like the average person. How are you a celebrity when you don't even have the money to back the shit up? I personally equate celebrity status with dollars and cents. So let me start making some money and then we'll talk about celebrity. For right now, let's just read the blog and learn from each other like we've been doing, okay?

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Playing In The Background...
"Same Ol' G"
by Ginuwine
from the album "100% Ginuwine"
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November 07, 2007

One More For The Road aka Let's Just F*** And Say Goodbye...

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You know how when you quit a job you'll still get checks from things like, unpaid hours, sick day hours etc., even weeks after you've left. This is something like that. As you know I have given up all of my online dating/hookup accounts a while ago. This is the story of the last person I met and hooked up with from there. It's the end of an era.

Enjoy.
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There was this guy I met online, on A4A actually, we'll call him Kyle. We started exchanging messages one Friday night at about 2am. We exchanged numbers and arranged a meeting for the even more wee hours of that morning. When we hung up from our conversation he told me that he'd be on his way. I was already tired and I fell asleep waiting for him. I woke up about four hours later, the sun was coming up and obviously he never showed. I hate it when that shit happens. He called with some flimsy ass bull shit excuse. From then on I dismissed him as just another one of those online fags who doesn't keep appointments. I didn't even bother saving his number in my phone. He wanted to reschedule but I didn't take him seriously, he'd already flaked out on me. He disappointed me when I was horny and vulnerable and I was done with him.

Throughout the next few weeks as you know I gave up the online thing and was dating and going about my life, learning to be without it. He would call, so much so that I knew from the first three numbers of his unsaved phone number that it was him. If I decided to answer the phone I'd keep it really brief. One night when he called, I was home alone and extra horny so I entertained him. I playfully and flirtatiously told him how much he'd "hurt" me and that "I cried" because he never showed up that morning. You know, spitting my proverbial "G". We ended up having phone sex that night. His moans sounded real good over the phone so I finally decided to saved his number, you know, just in case. I later found out that that number was a house number. Deal breaker! I refuse to mess around with a guy who does not have a cell phone, that's ridiculous. This is 2007. I am not tryna call and have to speak to ya mama, ya daddy, ya little sister and ya Aunt Esther before I speak to you. Nah, I'm good. Once I figured that out I told him that I was not going to be calling him.

After a few more calls from that house number, some I answered, some I didn't, I got a call from a number I didn't recognize. It was Kyle, he called to tell me that he'd just gotten a cell phone. After I congratulated him for stepping into the new millennium he asked:

"So when am I gonna see you?"

Taken aback, yet pleased by his straightforwardness we set up a meeting at my house for that evening.

Late that night he came by. I was ready for him. In my boxers and wearing a wifebeater to cover my newly oiled body, I was horny and ready to fuck. When he showed up that night I noticed that he didn't look so much like his pictures, he wasn't ugly, but he wasn't fine either. He was definitely fuckable though, a six and a half, but at that point he could have looked like the Loch Ness Monster for all I cared. I wasn't fucking his face anyway (well, then again, you never know where the night could take us), that's what doggy style is for.

As he took off his shoes and laid down in my bed next to me, in an attempt to get comfortable, we stumbled through uncomfortable, awkward small talk, making comments about what was on TV, I guess in an attempt to rid ourselves of any traces of nervousness (even a damn near professional like me still gets nervous at times) and to somehow convince ourselves that this was something more than just a hookup, but deep down inside we both knew much better. Once we ran out of stuff to say Kyle turned over onto his left side slightly poking his ass in my direction. That was my cue to grind my dick up on him and kiss his neck. I obliged. He moaned and I felt his body start to relax.

Once I was fully erect I flipped him down on his back and positioned myself on top of him, between his legs. He unbuckled his belt and I slid his pants off, and then his underwear off, and then my underwear off. My hard dick flopped out, standing straight up like an obelisk. I lowered my body down onto his, my dick nestled between his ass cheeks and my tongue in his ear, he moaned louder. I love a moaner. I sucked his neck, sucked his nipples, nibbled at his sides, kissed around and down to his inner thighs, purposely bypassing his hardened dick 'cuz y'all know I don't give head like that. It's not like that was what he wanted anyway.

I slid my palms underneath his ass cheeks, lifted him up and ate him out, wagging my tongue around nice and slow, randomly darting in and out (of course you know I checked it out first). The moans got louder as I wrapped my arms around his thighs, pulling him into closer to me. The room echoes with his moans of:

"Damn, nigga damn, damn daddy damn..."

At that moment he made me feel invincible, like I could do anything. Just then I flipped onto my my back and nodded my head southward, giving the international sign for suck my dick. He took my dick into his mouth, sucking it ravenously, he even deep throated me (any 'ol body can't just up and do that) and that made my toes curl with enjoyment. I lifted his head from my crotch and laid him back down on his back.  I hadn't had my fill of tonguing him out yet. After a few moments on his back I withdrew my tongue from him and flipped him over. He got on his knees and spread his legs wide, pushing his ass up in the air, assuming a position I'm sure was all too familiar for him as I did what came as second nature to me. I spread his ass cheeks apart and continued to feast.

I ran my tongue up from the crack of his ass right down the center of his back and right up to his neck. As I pressed my body onto his, my weight flattening his limbs and pushing him down onto my bed I grinded my dick, so hard now that it was ready to burst between his ass checks and positioned the head right outside his moistened, throbbing hole. I whispered in his ear and asked:

"Are you ready for this dick?"

He responded and I reached to my left into the nightstand for my lube and 2 condoms. I lubed him and as my finger explored him it felt like it was drowning in a warm ocean, the warm sensation shot straight down to my awaiting dick, so hard that it was throbbing as I slid the condom on. I lowered my pelvis and hovered over him, he lifted his legs up and his eyes rolled back as I entered him. He felt so good wrapped all around me as I stroked in back and forth.

As the fucking got more intense he started moan and talk to me get louder and louder. Things got a little more aggressive and he started to moan and I talked back:

"Yeah daddy, hit this ass daddy... Damn that dick is good..."

"Yeah you like that? What's my name?"

"Adam..."

"Say my name baby..."

"Adam..."

"Who's ass is this?"

"It's all yours daddy, stroke this pussy daddy..."

Damn, Kyle stroked my ego just as much as I was strokin' that ass of his. He asked me to ride on top so we repositioned ourselves accordingly. As he slid down on top of my dick I held him by his waist in mid air so I could thrust in and out of him. As I thrusted he jerked his dick and threw his head back in ecstasy. A few moments later he came all over my stomach. As he laid down to catch his breath I repositioned myself over him and asked:

"Where you want this nutt at?"

I ripped off the condom and jerked my dick until it exploded everywhere, like a fire hose all over his stomach, chest and neck (don't sleep on those Kegel exercises). We cleaned off and caught our respective breaths, basking in the post-coital glow, while returning to our normal selves. He went to my bathroom and upon his return he asked me for a post-coital snack. Understandably so, as we'd both worked up an appetite.

He wanted junk food but unfortunately for him I don't keep that kinda stuff in the house. I made myself a quick spinach green and sliced turkey salad with a light vinaigrette, sprinkled with Bacos. I offered him some but he declined. I quickly devoured my salad and laid next to him in my bed. He turned his back to me and we laid there naked in the dim light of the television, spooning, with him falling asleep in my arms like we'd known each other all our lives.

A few hours that seemed more like a few moments later my alarm clock rang and it was time for me to get ready for work. Kyle hardly flinched as I reluctantly rose from the warmth of my bed into the cold morning air. I got ready for work going through my morning ritual, not missing a beat. When I stepped out of the bathroom to put on my clothes I saw that Kyle was awake and dressed. He went in the bathroom right behind me. As I stepped into my clothes I cut off the lights and the television. I turned on the radio as I always leave something on whenever I leave the house, a habit I picked up from my mother. Oddly enough, the song that was playing on the jazz station was Joan Osborne's cover of The Manhattans "Kiss And Say Goodbye".

The song continued to play as we readied ourselves to leave. He walked out first and I walked out behind him, locking the door. We walked down the stairs, together yet apart, in total silence. We exited my building and walked through the small courtyard out to the street. We greeted each other, almost simultaneously with a rather antiseptic "Later." Then we walked off in our separate directions. I never heard from him again.

That morning I said goodbye to Kyle but the real good bye was to the internet. This was literally the last time I fucked with it, or rather through it. I fucked and said goodbye. Sure I deleted my accounts 56 days ago today and I'm fine with it, not even tempted to go back, but that morning was the real end. No more random hooking up for me. Wow. it was much easier to let go than I thought. I remember a while back someone had mentioned the concept to me and my heart immediately filled with fear, my stomach rumbled with the flutter of a million butterflies. How was I to live without something I had never lived without? I was always online, I met my first online, and my second, and my third and just about everyone else who came along subsequently. What was I to do when I needed a quick, no strings, sexual pick-me-up, or when I was lonely or when my ego needed a good stroking? The idea terrified me then, but it doesn't now. I guess that's growth for ya.

Even though the sex with Kyle was great, he sucked dick like I like, he moaned like I like, he took dick like I like. But what I can't wrap my mind around anymore is how Kyle and I could do all the freaky stuff we did and just walk away. All of that moaning and talking and fucking was so fake, it was all an act. I wasn't his "daddy" and he damn sure wasn't my "baby". Sure our bodies enjoyed it and participated in it but our hearts sat out for the performance. I mean, hey, you know shit happens, I'm not saying that we should get married just because we had sex but we should at least know each other's last names. Kyle doesn't know a damn thing about me. He doesn't even know about this blog. he doesn't even know that he was the last person I met off the internet.

To read my thoughts back from earlier in this post:

  "...but at that point he could have looked like the Loch Ness Monster for all I cared, I wasn't fucking his face, that's what doggy style is for."

Damn. Look at what the fuck I've become, and what's crazy is how the shit so subtle. I never really saw what a monster I could be until now. Now that I think about all the dudes I've fucked all in the name of being horny, some I know good and damn well I would never be seen with out in the public. Shit, Kyle wasn't bad looking, at least I let him stay the night. What about all the ones I sent packing right after the sex or all the ones who tried to kiss me during sex and I turned my head away. Moral rule of thumb: If you refuse to kiss the person then you know damn well you shouldn't be fucking them. Well this is it. The last hoorah, my once more for the road, my goodbye kiss to the internet hook up. The nutt was good, the butt was good, but at the end of the day it's empty and in turn I'm left empty.

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Playing In The Background...
"Kiss And Say Goodbye"
by Joan Osborne
from the album "Breakfast In Bed"
and
"One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)"
by Etta James
from the album "The Essential Etta James"
and
"One More For The Road"
by Lil' Mo
from the album "Pain & Paper"
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November 06, 2007

"Baby, It's Cold Outside..."

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Do you realize that there are only 16 more days until Thanksgiving and 49 more days until Christmas? Yeah, I know, and I still don't have a boyfriend. Ain't that some shit? I know that I said in yesterday's post that I wasn't "so worried" about finding Mr. Right and that "I'm just working on my passion right now and being the best Adam I can be, everything else will fall into place" which is true but it sure woulda been nice to have someone to cuddle up to last night. Therefore, until I find him I will masturbate and find the most eloquent ways to rant about it to you all.

Enjoy.
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It's November in the Northern Hemisphere and we're smack dab in the middle of fall. Around New York everybody is wearing coats and I even see a scarf here and there. The incessant heat that plagues us every summer in the subway system is starting to wear off as we're all trying to figure out whose house we're going to for Thanksgiving and counting the paychecks until Christmas. The sun scurries away before 5pm leaving the nights longer and daytime even more precious. This time of year, lying alone in my bed at night seems just a bit more lonely than usual.

It really sucks being single this time of year, I mean yeah I date, but shit, they're dating too. That's the damn problem, everybody wants to date and play the field. And it's not like you can depend on them to  really be there when you need them or anything. As nice as it is to be able to snuggle up next to a date whenever schedules permit, you can snuggle a little closer knowing that you're the only one they're snuggling with, feel me? But I'm not gonna let my temporary lack of serious companionship bring me down. I still believe in love and in the meantime I have a lot of good stuff going for me, this blog for one and all the wonderful things happening as far as it's concerned. I even have a pretty good day gig and I have my apartment, which isn't the Taj Mahal but I'm happy with it. I actually have a lot to be thankful for. Actress, Sarah Jessica Parker in the person of "Carrie Bradshaw" on "Sex And The City" once said that "In New York, it seems like you can only have two of these three things, a great job, a great apartment and a great boyfriend, but never all three at the same time". She also asked "Why is it when you have two of these things do you want the other so badly?" Homegirl is definitely right. I have a great job, and a lovely apartment, small, but lovely but I don't have a boyfriend. On the other hand when I was trying to find an apartment, damn near homeless, I had a great boyfriend who even let Keisha (my cat) stay with him a few days in the midst of the transition and he even helped me move. A few weeks after I moved in to my apartment, we broke up. Eventually though, I know everything will turn out good in the end, even for "Carrie Bradshaw". You know her and "Mr. Big" are getting married in the "Sex And The City" movie, right? They've been filming it all around town so it's kinda impossible to keep it a secret. Sorry if I spoiled it for ya.

The thing is I just don't wanna spend this winter hooking up like I did most of last winter. Actually I can't really hook up so much this year even if I wanted to because I deleted my BGC, A4A, & M4N accounts a while back and it's not like I'm gonna be all up in the clubs or anything, it's gonna be way too cold for that shit. So that just leaves me home alone, laying across my bed, staring at my laptop (that I've effectively learned how to control using only my left hand) with a tub of Vaseline watching the Flavaworks Channel on XTube. They post the good shit there too, full scenes, not just trailers, you just gotta look. (Uh huh, I know I just made somebody's day. Thank me later, just don't shake my hand.) Them damn videos and some of them bottoms are so hot it almost makes me want to rethink taking them up on their offer for me to model for them... almost.

Anyway, I'd just be nice to have a boo around the holidays. I've never had one this time of year before. Well there was that dude I fucked on Thanksgiving a few years ago, he was an ex boo (I mention him in this blog post). I remember that day. I told my mother I that was leaving early that morning to go to the Thanksgiving parade... bull shit. He really rode my float that morning though... Anyway, I wanna make an intimate cornish hen dinner for someone (I'm not so into turkey). I wanna buy presents for someone, and have them buy presents for me. And I wanna have a Christmas tree, well there's no room in my apartment for a Christmas tree but maybe a Christmas wreath, yeah, with lights on it, whatever. You get the point. Even though I'm venting right now I'm still not so worried about it all. Love will come when it comes (hopefully in the next few weeks though). But whenever true love finally does knock on my door I'm gonna invite it in, cook it dinner, spend time with it, talk to it, ask it where it's been all my life, lay it down, kiss it all over and fuck the hell out of it all night long and then handcuff it to the bed to make sure it can't leave, at least not until February 15th. Happy holidays.

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Playing In The Background...
"Baby It's Cold Outside" feat. Nick Lachey
by Jessica Simpson
from the album "Re-Joyce: The Christmas Album"
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You do know I'm kidding about the handcuff thing right... right? Don't look at me like that.

This Is How You Know You Are/Were A Ho...

You all know I had/have a reputation as a whore. I'm working to change that, but in the minds of certain people, namely the few whom my promiscuous ways have hurt, I know it will probably never change. The damage has been done and any good public relations person will tell you that image and perception is everything. Fortunately I don't care so much about what strangers think about me. What sucks though is when your own friends don't believe that you're changing, but even that doesn't stress me as much as I thought. Fortunately the changes I'm making are for me and the nonbelievers will get in where they fit in, I guess.

What's really messed up though is whenever your friends like, or want to date, or are getting serious with someone they make sure to run the person's name past you so that you can cross reference your extensive database of sexual partners to see whether you fucked them before or not. As you may have guessed there have been a few matches. Now my friends are never mad about this or anything, I mean, that's just the way the life is, people fuck around, they fuck each other, some more than others, again that's just how it is. While I don't judge myself, or regret anything I've done, even in my whoriest of whoredom, I would be lying to myself if I didn't acknowledge that the fact that I've fucked a few of my friend's boyfriends back in the day isn't exactly the most ideal of circumstances. A lot of my friends though aren't exactly castrati choir boys themselves and they have laid their fair share of pipe sans-foundation as well. Upon finding a match in my database depending on the seriousness of the relationship they'll ask anything from "Was the ass good?" to "Is he crazy?" But knowing before hand is much better than actually meeting the person again and having to suffer through the awkward look, look away, look, look away game. I hate it when that happens.

I've fucked in my own bed, now I must lay in the wet spot.

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Playing In The Background...
"Nothin' At All"
by Mya
from the album "Liberation"
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If you liked this post I'm sure you'll like this one too.

November 05, 2007

Well If My Mama And Daddy Can Do It So Can I... And I'm Gonna Do It Too. You'll See. You'll See. You All Will See!

Today, November 5th, 2007 is my parent's 30th wedding anniversary. Of course I'ma call them and send them some money since I can't be down south with them today. Their milestone got me to thinking: "Damn, thirty years is a long ass time to be looking at the same person every day. I know y'all gotta get tired of each other." Well, as a person whose witnessed twenty-four of those thirty years I can truthfully say, hell yeah they got tired of each other, they would argue, things weren't always perfect. They even separated for a year and a half or so when I was around seven or eight years old. That whole period is kinda fuzzy and oddly I can't remember everything but it wasn't all peachy keen. But through it all they manged to remain and are still together today. Not many people can say that about their parents.

Having this example, even though my mother would wince at having their holy union of matrimony be compared to a salacious, lustful, abominable, abdominal (lol I couldn't help myself) affair between two men, makes me more hopeful than the average homo about the prospect of spending the rest of my life happily with another man. in spite of all I've been through even this, that, and even that I still manage to believe in love. My parents met in May of '77 and married six months later in November 0f '77, so on top of that I don't believe that true love has to take ten years to develop either.

It's so sad when I hear my fellow homo brethren or sistren (depending on who I'm talking to) say things like "the gay life is a lonely life" and that they are just gonna "give up and be alone forever". We've all been burned before. Lord knows my heart has been burned, roasted, fricasseed, fried, steamed, poached, scrambled and cut into julienne fries but I'm still not giving up on love. I'm learning the more I write this blog and let all my past shit go and the more I read the stuff y'all comment on and email to me (yes I read all of it) that the key is loving myself and making myself better so I'll be ready for Mr. Right whenever we bump into each other. Now some of you lonely bitches may say "Well Adam, long term relationships are only for straight people." Not so, remember Mr. President from this post? Well, him and his lover are still together and they just past the 30 year mark in June. So it's possible. It ain't easy but it's possible. So I'm not worried about it, well I'm not so worried about it. I just don't let it consume me anymore. I'm just working on my passion right now and being the best Adam I can be, everything else will fall into place.

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Playing In The Background...
"Never Gonna Give Up"
by Jennifer Lopez
from the album "Brave"
and
"Love's Still Alright"
by Chante Moore
from the album "Exposed"
and
"Solid"
by Ashford & Simpson
from the album "The Very Best Of Ashford & Simpson"
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Album Review: Mya "Liberation"

51kkbkqr5zl_ss500_ Mýa
"Liberation"

2007 Universal/Motown Records
4/5

Let's see, earlier this year there was Amerie and now we can pretty much add Mya to the list of R&B chanteuses with 2007 album releases that due to label politics and other music industry bullshit will probably never see the light of day, at least on this side of the globe. Amerie's third album "Because I Love It" and this Mya's fourth album have both been released in Japan (Mya's only on digital download) with no official US release date confirmed. Seeing "Liberation" listed on Amazon.com with a release date of December 31st, 2020, a little over thirteen years from now, when Mya will be forty-two years old doesn't exactly mean good news for Mya fans who haven't gotten a new release from her since 2003's "Moodring". There is hope though as some outlets have listed a release date of January 29th, 2008. If that's so I'm sure that the album will probably be repackaged and will have a few new tracks added by then.

Label politics aside, "Liberation" is a really solid album. Originally, titled "Control Freak" Mya has described the album's concept as one about "learning how to gain control of a situation yourself, gaining control in order to be [a] free and beautiful person in life." [source]. The album features production by J.R. Rotem, Bryan Michael Cox, Scott Storch, Tricky Stewart, Kwame and others. One of the things that most people don't get into and that I love most about Mya is the fact that even though she sings about love and relationships in context of the seven things basically every R&B song is about (either "I'm in love", "I'm out of love", "let's party", "I miss you", "he/she cheated/stole my man/woman", "let's have sex" or the "inspirational" song) that she tackles them in different ways and even introduces new and uncommonly covered subject matter to R&B in songs such as "Late" 2003's "Moodring" and "How You' Gonna Tell Me" from 2000's "Fear Of Flying". She was also the first R&B artist to reference the black gay ballroom scene in her music (before Christina Milian and Beyonce) in 2003's "Whatever Bitch". During performances of this song she would dip and vogue right along with her dancers, unlike Beyonce. Because of Mya's history of groundbreaking work I was anxious to hear the latest that she had to offer and fortunately I was not disappointed.

The album starts off with the hard hitting track, "I Am" featuring labelmate and St. Louis native, Penelope Jones, produced by Kwame. Where Mya declares that she's:

"...That freak, that wife.
That ride or die chick,
Ya know I'll hold you down.
(I Am)
Not shy, hook you up when you drive.
Have you feelin' like you just got high..."

Jones on that note also declares:

"Ain't no chick like Penelope Jones.
That'll go from measuring O's,
To givin' head to ya toes..."

and also that:

"My intellect is effectively,
Tight as a rectum be..."

Okay, so that track is a little raw. But not to worry, that's the most overtly sexual the album gets. Then there's the Middle Eastern tinged "Walka Not A Talka" featuring Snoop Dogg, produced by J.R. Rotem in which she declares that "I'm back wit' a passion" and that she's a "bitch that got a plan" "shakin' these haters off, straight finna take charge". On "Still A Woman" Mya basically declares that even though she can do anything a man can do that it's nice to be vulnerable sometimes. Think Jill Scott's "The Fact Is (I Need You)" set to a club beat.

Then the album slows down to the midtempo, sexy, hypnotic, "No Touchin'". A song about longing to be with only that one special person is a mixture of hard beats layered with synthesized strings and guitar with a repeated chorus that will put you into a trance:

"No touchin', ain't not touchin',
If I cannot touch on you...
No layin' ain't no layin',
If I cannot lay wit'chu..."

The album continues into the albums first single "Lock U Down" featuring Lil Wayne, produced by Scott Storch, which is moderate, plain, formulaic, R&B girl + rapper = first single fare. It's not a bad song but it's nothing really interesting either. There are so many better songs on this album that this one. Why this was chosen to be the album's lead single is beyond me.

The next track "Lights Go Off" is not just a song. It's a song attached to beginning and ending interludes that for the ease of the listener should have been separated into their own separate tracks. For the interludes think "No Sleep Tonight", and for the actual song think "Anatomy 10n1" both from "Moodring". The first interlude starts off with Mya's boyfriend calling and getting her voice mail. He seems a bit frustrated that he didn't get her and out of that he says "I know you're probably in the studio, doing whatever it is you do..." This hints to her career making her a bit neglectful as far as her spending time with him at least as far as he's concerned and even to unfaithfulness on her part. The actual song is a beautiful, reassuring pledge of her faithfulness with light touches of piano in the choruses. The ending interlude is her returning his call and getting a female voice on the other end. She thinks that she's made a mistake and dials her man's cell phone number again, she hears the same female voice. After an exchange of queries of each other's identity the unnamed woman hangs up on Mya. Mya calls back and the phone goes straight to voicemail. She then leaves the studio and proceeds to go "ridin, ridin past that bitches' house", a sentiment she shares in the next track and the second single from the album, the steamy, midtempo "Ridin", another of my favorites.

Next is a "Switch It Up" a midtempo breakup track. Then there's the crunk "Give A Chick A Hand", a song in which Mya actually congratulates the woman who stole her man from her in these lyrics:

"Turned around, took my man,
I gotta give this chick a hand.
I'ma give a chick a hand,
Walk up to her, shake her hand.
I'ma be a good sport,
Walk up to her, shake her hand.
I'ma give a chick a hand,
Walk up to her, shake her hand.
She took my man she did.
She took my man she did.
I don't know how she did.
Cuz I'm a bad chick..."

But in true paradoxical and ironic form she didn't need said man anyway and says so in the bridge:

"...Can I get a few tips from you?
Do you show him some attention after workin' all day?
Do you clean up after him like he ain't house trained?
Do you let him walk all over you and love him anyway?
If that's what it takes then you can have him any day..."

I have to say that this is one of the first songs I've hard where a woman so graciously addresses the other woman. On "Life Is Too Short" Mya describes the ballad as an "anthem", which I have to say is a little lofty of an expectation but understandable due to this song's message of letting bygones be bygones. At this point I noticed that the songs on the album have been sequenced ever since "Lights Go Off" to tell the story of a breakup behind Mya and the boyfriend she talks to on the interlude before that song. A smart idea that could very well be a coincidence though. The last track on the album is the inspirational, reflective ballad "Nothin' At All".

Like I said, a very solid piece of work that hopefully will see the light of day on US store shelves sometime before 2020.

If you must download, download: "I Am", "No Touchin'", "Lights Go Off", "Ridin", "Give A Chick A Hand"

ALBUM IN STORES TUESDAY, JANUARY 29th, 2008... HOPEFULLY.

Buy the digital download from HMV Japan here.

Website: MyaMya.com

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Playing In The Background...
"Ridin"
by Mya
from the album "Liberation"
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November 04, 2007

10 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Adam That Have Absolutely Nothing To Do With Sex:

There's been a lot of sex talk around here lately. As great as sex is I wouldn't want anyone to think for a second that that's what I'm all about. This particular post is what inspired me to do this. Even though I make no apologies for having a quote-unquote "sexual" image as nerve racking as it may be at times and even for my pictures, but I just wanted to let everyone know that there are many layers to Adam, I'm like an onion I tell ya. So with this post I'm gonna put everyone on to 10 quirky little tidbits that most people probably wouldn't know about me unless they got to know me a little better. Hopefully I don't totally bore you to death.

Enjoy.

01. I'm a nerd.
I am a total nerd. I love computers. I'm a Mac snob though, I hate PCs. I also love to read. I'm not a big reader of fiction though. I love to read the encyclopedia. If I hear a famous person's name or hear about a certain phenomenon that I'm not familiar with I'll write it down and look it up on Wikipedia whenever I get a chance. One of my short term goals is to get an entry on Wikpedia on myself. That means you have officially arrived. Another facet of my nerd-dom is the fact that I'm a road geek. A road geek is someone into highway maps, atlases, and things like that. There are websites for people like us such as Kurumi.com, NYCRoads.com, Interstate-Guide.com, AARoads.com, and many more where one can study the beginnings, ends (termini), and exits of highways with photo galleries of highway signs and all. This type of thing excites me, it really does. I've been into highways roads and maps since I was a kid. I was even a contestant on the PBS kids game show "Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?" when I was eleven. I won too (not the trip though). I remember navigating our family road trips from New York all the way down to South Carolina also as a child. Even now my parents will call me from Virginia and ask me for directions. Okay, I'll stop here, I know I'm weird and I'm already freaking you out and we've only just begun.

02. I love gospel music.
I was raised in church so gospel music is a part of me. I remember being a little kid and wanting to be a choir director. Although I'm not particularly religious today I still believe in God and I still love gospel music. I love the look on dates faces when they come to my apartment, look on my shelf and see my 200+ gospel CDs right next to my secular CDs. It's priceless. I'm not just into contemporary stuff by artists like Kirk Franklin, Yolanda Adams, and Mary Mary either. I like a lot of the more traditional stuff by James Cleveland (I'm not even going there), Walter Hawkins, Shirley Caesar and people like that. Actually, I'm really not into a lot of this contemporary, more R&B-ish sounding Gospel music. In a lot of ways it seems like that's the direction that the whole genre is going to and I really don't like it. Gospel music has fallen off a lot since around 2001. I'm a big choral music person. My favorite choirs are Richard Smallwood's, Ricky Dillard's, James Hall's and I love Youthful Praise. My favorite male vocalist of all music, gospel and otherwise is Daryl Coley. He's up there with Luther Vandross. If you don't know about him you need to find out. Look him up on YouTube.

03. I've never smoked anything in my life and I hardly ever drink.
Smoking cigarettes and weed, I just don't understand it. Even the people who do it, especially the cigarette smokers, say it's a nasty habit and that it's good that I don't do it. To me it's a waste of money, it's messing up your lungs, and causing cancer. Yes weed causes cancer too, look it up. As far as drinking is concerned I do it very sparingly, like on my birthday. I just don't like the taste of liquor. It tastes like cough syrup. I don't judge drinkers or smokers, all of my friends do one or the other. I personally don't need to be drunk, high, tipsy or "nice" to have a good time, but that's me.

04. I cannot dance to save my life.
Unfortunately as much as I wish I could I cannot dance. I don't have much rhythm and I move like a white boy on the dance floor. I'm much better than I used to be though. I still can't do the electric slide, but I have perfected the two step though. This is another reason why I'm not so into clubbing. Exes have asked me "How is it that you can fuck but you can't dance?" I really don't know. I guess I've got rhythm where it really counts. But really how much dancing do I need to do? I'm only getting grinded up on on the dance floor anyway.

05. I'm from Brooklyn and damn proud of it.
I was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York and like most native Brooklynites I have a strong, almost to the point of obsessive, sense of civic pride. I'm warning you, for your own safety do not badmouth Brooklyn in front of a native Brooklynite. You will catch the wrath! I remember this one time that Mr. Man and I were at a banquet in Washington DC and we were sitting at a table next to this woman who was talking shit about my hometown. I went off on that lady and shut her ass down (in the most respectful way possible of course). I've even had an ongoing argument with my best friend Russell, a Bronxite, for years over which borough is best, Brooklyn or The Bronx. Like, is this dude serious? The Bronx cannot touch Brooklyn with a 10 foot pole! Russell and I aren't the only ones though. It's common knowledge that there is an age old subtle rivalry between Brooklynites and Bronxites.

Naturally, I'm a big Brooklyn history buff. I even make periodic visits to the Brooklyn Visitors Center located inside Borough Hall (formerly Brooklyn's City Hall) in lovely Downtown Brooklyn, New York to read up on Brooklyn and buy official Brooklyn merchandise. Here's a little info on Brooklyn. Brooklyn is the most populous borough of New York City (with about 2.5 million people) and if it were still it's own city (Brooklyn joined New York City 1898) it would be the fourth largest city in the United States behind New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago. It is home to tourist attractions such as Coney Island, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Prospect Park (which it's designers Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux liked better than their previous project, Manhattan's Central Park) and such cultural institutions as the Brooklyn Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Academy of Music and to educational institutions such as Brooklyn College (voted America's most beautiful college campus by The Princeton Review in 2003), Long Island University, and the Pratt Institute.

Brooklyn is also a haven of African American history and culture. It is home to Bedford-Stuyvesant (Bed-Stuy), the largest African American community in the country (yes, even larger than Harlem) and to Historic Weeksville (which today is a part of Bed-Stuy), the second largest known independent African American community in pre-Civil War America. A portion of the site has been preserved and is open for visitors. There are also stops on the Underground Railroad found in Brooklyn.

Brooklyn also has it's own 60 branch library system (The fifth largest in the US, The Bronx doesn't have it's own library system.), it's own minor league baseball team, the Brooklyn Cyclones (even though Yankee Stadium is in the Bronx, the New York Yankees belong to the whole city) and the largest central business district in the city, outside of Manhattan, Downtown Brooklyn, complete with it's own skyline. Not to mention the celebrities that call Brooklyn home like Chris Rock, director Spike Lee, Rosie Perez, multi-platinum, Grammy winning songstress Norah Jones, "Brokeback Mountain" stars Heath Ledger & Michelle Williams (even though after the divorce I'm not sure who lives where anymore) and more. Okay, I'm gonna stop here because I can talk Brooklyn all day. Even though I currently live in Manhattan, my lease is up next summer and I plan to move back home. My ultimate goal though is to own a condo downtown by the time I'm 30.

06. I don't exactly live alone.
I share my apartment with someone, my cat Keisha. Most people are usually taken aback at her name and wonder why I would give my cat a person's name. They don't understand that Keisha is like a person, just a hairy, short, cat-person. She's my daughter. When Mr. Man and I broke up he wanted joint custody and I would only give him visitation rights. What's funny is that when we're alone sometimes I talk to Keisha about who I'm dating and she listens in her own cat way. What's funny is that she likes some people I've dated better than others. Some people have come into my life and Keisha purrs and rubs up against their leg when she sees them, others she just rolls her eyes at. She never scratches or hisses though, she's way too shady and unbothered for that. Years ago my cousin described Keisha's personality as that of "a fierce gay man" and I would have to agree with that assessment.

07. I love to cook.
I've told dates that I do my best work in two rooms of the house. The kitchen and the bedroom. I love to cook. I live alone (well with Keisha, but she doesn't eat human food) so there's no reason to cook much anymore but when I used to live with my family I was the main person who cooked after my mother declared once we got grown that she was retired from cooking, except for Thanksgiving and Christmas. I can cook just about anything but my favorites are Italian, seafood, and healthy stuff. I love to cook for the family (every time I go down south they make sure I cook lasagna and a peach cobbler before I leave), friends and gatherings at my place and especially for dates and boyfriends. Cooking for your romantic interest is a great way to be romantic and is a great way to seal the deal (wink, wink). If you can cook him up a good meal you're so in there. I'm speaking from experience. So fellas get yourself a cookbook!

08. I can't play any sports.
I know, I know, I know we've all heard it time and time again, another homo who's to sissy to play any sports. The reason why I can't play any sports has nothing to do with my sexuality. It has more to do with the fact that I'm a total nerd and while most kids were in gym learning how to play baseball and basketball and improving their hand eye coordination I would sit on the sidelines reading books. In high school gym we could pick our gym classes. I would always choose weightlifting, that's why I'm pretty comfortable at the gym today. I actually don't hate sports though. I like basketball and even consider myself a Knicks fan. That will all change once the Nets move to Brooklyn though.

09. I'm afraid to drive.
New York, more than any other American city is extremely pedestrian friendly. 75% of us (about 6 million people) don't drive and use public transportation and taxis to get around as opposed to Los Angeles where their subway system is hardly used and there are three times more cars than people a (read the blog post about my trip to Los Angeles here). Living in New York there's really no reason for me to have to drive so my fear doesn't cause me to have any problems here. I actually have a valid driver's license and I used to have a car. I got a car, an SUV actually as an early 21st birthday present to myself and on my 21st birthday, July 28th, 2004 a little before 8am, I got into a car accident. Some people hit my car and sent me spinning almost crashing into a house. I was okay and everything but my fear doesn't stem from the danger of being hurt in another car accident (God forbid). My fear comes from all that money I had to pay to rectify things. Yeah, yeah, yeah I had insurance and all that. I don't wanna go into detail or anything but that whole situation was a mess and took me two years to get out of. Two years of misery, depression and money woes. Yet another reason why I was so promiscuous back then. I promised myself that I wouldn't drive again until I was rich enough to throw a briefcase full of money at the problem and keep it moving.

10. I have a GED.
I stated a while back in this post that I am a proud GED recipient. Due to the fact that I totally screwed up my last year of high school due to the fact that I just didn't care anymore and I never went to gym, I have a GED (Me, Bill Cosby, Michael J. Fox, Chris Rock, Peter Jennings, and more. Click here for a list of famous GED recipients). That's something a lot of people would be ashamed of, but it never bothered me. I'm actually proud of it. And contrary to popular belief it never kept me from any school I wanted to go to or any job I wanted. I got the second highest score in the history of the GED program I was in, it was almost perfect. With the scores I had I could get into any school I wanted with no remedial classes. There are five portions of the test, I got a perfect score on the writing section. I want to use my life as an example to other GED recipients out there to let them know that just because they don't have a high school diploma that a GED is just as good and that they are just as able to achieve their dreams as anyone else. Of course I don't advocate anyone dropping out of school but depending on an individual's circumstances a GED may be the best and sometimes the only feasible way for them and that's nothing to be ashamed of.

Bonus: My secret fantasy. I've always wanted to be a singer.
I've never told anybody this. This is so embarrassing, but yes, my secret fantasy is to be a singer/performer/R&B-pop star. Kinda like Usher, I guess. I can't dance, I can't really sing. Actually I can sing a little bit. I can hold a tune. I used to sing when I was a little kid. We had a little family singing group called Joyful Noise (I can't believe I'm telling y'all this) where I used to sing lead. I was such a ham. I always wanted to be in the mic. We weren't the Winans family or nothin' but we were pretty decent. Around the time I was thirteen or so puberty had set in and I learned to be shy and eventually stopped singing. If I had kept on who knows where I'd be right now? Sometimes though when I'm alone, I mean all alone, I'll turn on Faith Evans "Faithfully" CD and sing along with every song. That is my all time favorite sing along album. Me and Faith actually don't sound too bad together but I'm still too shy to sing in front of people.

So that's it for right now everybody. Hopefully reading this has made you see how interesting or rather how boring I really am. Talking about stuff like this should humanize me a little and show you facets of my life outside of love, relationships, and hooking up. Hey you never know maybe we have something in common?

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Playing In The Background...
"About Me"
by Utada Hikaru
from the album "Exodus"
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November 02, 2007

///There Is A Temporary Access Problem With The Blog///

Hey Everybody,

You may have tried to access the blog today using: http://www.adamsweblog.com and it didn't work for ya.

I'm aware of the problem and I called Yahoo! this morning about to go off!

They say that the situation should be remedied in 24-72 hours.

It works fine though when you access it without the www. and just use: http://adamsweblog.com

So everyone change your bookmarks and links to: http://adamsweblog.com

And when all else fails you can always come in the back way at: http://abenjaminirby.typepad.com.

You miss the cover photo that way but if you've seen it once I guess you get the point.

Thanks,
-Adam

You Think You Know But You Have NO Idea...

A reader of the blog emailed me yesterday. The reader said something to the effect of me liking sex, possibly to the point of excess. I emailed back. This was our exchange:

Adam:
"...Thanks so much for reading and enjoying the blog. :)
And who told u I liked sex?
LIES, I TELL YOU, LIES! LOLOLOLOLOL"

Reader:
"Nigga you told the world u like sex. U love sitting back gettin' head and u love a good piece of ass! I read that and I could tell that when I first saw the picture of you.

(This looks like the kinda nigga that [has] good dudes wanting to [do] anything just to see his meat. U know he gettin' ass on the regular)

And u know u slaying these dumb dudes left and right, so don't act like ur not getting any action becuz ur blog alone has so many dudes dreaming and fantasizing about [you]. I'm one of them so I can only imagine what all ur hardcore fans are doing."

Adam:
"And what u mean u could tell when u saw the first pic of me?"

Reader:
"The first pic I ever saw of u was the pic of you in ur boxers that Nathan took and from that picture, the face, the demeanor, the body, the boxers, the everything. [I] was like "Yeah, he can get it, but I'll pass because I know he's giving it to everyone else..."

Adam:
"I'm telling u you'd be very shocked... u read the blog? U know I've had my hard broken 456,724 times and that I have issues. I'm actually really sensitive inside."

Reader:
"How can ur heart be broken that many times? Sensitive how? Ur grown and too damn on point! Do you know how many men would kill to find someone like you? Lets be real....TONS!"

Adam:
"Well shyt, where the fuck they at?"

So this is what people think of me, huh? Ya take a couple of pictures in some swimming trunks and all of a sudden you're Don Juan DeMarco. The way he's talking you'd think I'm sitting here with a harem of bottoms in tight draws feeding me grapes and shit. This couldn't be further from the truth.

I think people fail to realize that when I write about my sex-capades and rendezvous most of these are prefaced with "Two years ago...", "A while back...", etc. I don't get anything close to that much action now. My calming down is by choice, yes. I gave up the internet sex sites by choice, yes. And while I don't regret those choices and I don't want to get back on those sites, it doesn't mean that I don't get a little lonely sometimes, shit, a lot of the time. The only reason why I did all that sleeping around was because I had low self esteem and a quote-unquote "big" dick. Fucking, because it was something I was good at and seemed to make people like me was the only thing at the time that made me feel like I mattered, like I was important, like I was special. Half of the times I fucked I wasn't even that horny. I just wanted to be close to someone. I just wanted someone to compliment me because I sure as hell wasn't esteeming myself.

A lot of people look at pictures and create a whole image of you that's just not true. A lot of people have said to me "Oh, Adam, you're so cute, handsome, smart, etc., how come you're still single?" Hell if I know. Shit, if I knew that I wouldn't be single now. So please don't let pictures fool you. In fact, the day I did that photo shoot I left there, did a couple of things, and returned home to my bed, alone and very sad. That was actually not a good day and the culmination of a bad week for me emotionally. Don't believe me? Read the blog post I wrote about it.

As far as fans go, that word has been tossed around me a few times in the past few weeks. I honestly don't believe I have any "fans". I know there are people who support the blog and appreciate it and like to read it, some even on the daily. And I appreciate them so much, especially the ones that comment. But as far as someone being a fan of Adam, I honestly don't believe that. I'm not looking for fans. If anything, be a supporter, comment on the blog posts here, drop me a line to encourage me to keep doing what I'm doing. Tell your friends about the blog, I love it when people do that. As I've said before, my real joy comes from someone being able to get something out of the things I write, not someone wanting to follow me around just because they think I'm cute, or I'm sexy, or whatever.

An email like that, though lovely, and very flattering, makes me wonder "What in the hell blog is this guy reading? It can't be mine." If you've been reading you would know that for the most part I've gotten fucked over by the people I've dated more than anything. Don't get me wrong, I'm no charity case, there are no violins playing, I still do believe in love and I don't let things keep me down but so long but it is what it is. I'm definitely not the player this reader is painting me to be. Shit, I wish I was, the life he's painting for me sounds nice.

Either way, I do appreciate this email exchange so much though and reading that someone in the world who is hundreds of miles away that I don't even know can feel that way about be helps me to better appraise my worth and will help me to make better decisions regarding how I let people treat me. So thank you, Reader. You've officially made my day.

And if you consider yourself an Adam Benjamin Irby fan. Please email me. We must talk about this. I have to know why.

And if you fantasize about me, please email me as well.

And if you fit into any one of those categories, and are single, and cute with pictures to prove it, and live in the New York Metropolitan Area, call: 718...

Nah lemme stop...

An email will suffice. LOL

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Playing In The Background...
"Lucky"
by Britney Spears
from the album "...Oops I Did It Again"
and
"Just Like You"
by Keyshia Cole
from the album "Just Like You"
and
"Letter From My #1 Fan"
by Lil' Mo
from the album "Meet The Girl Next Door"
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November 01, 2007

My "Flawless" Feature Is Now Online...

Flawlesscenterfoldadam_2 Whaddup,

I'm not tryna beat y'all over the head with the "Flawless" thing. I swear I'm not.

You already saw the video, and you've seen the pictures. Now here is the last piece, the interview.

Click here to read my interview at The7Magazine.com

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Playing In The Background...
"Lady Marmalade"
by All Saints
from the album: "All Saints"
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