{"id":99,"date":"2001-11-08T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-11-08T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timcurran.com\/blog\/?p=99"},"modified":"2001-11-08T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-11-08T10:00:00","slug":"my-own-private-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/2001\/11\/08\/my-own-private-california\/","title":{"rendered":"My Own Private California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few more words about the recital: It was wonderful, I did cry. It was also a little surreal. I couldn&#8217;t shake the feeling that Bob was playing at his own wake. Which I guess is not a bad thing. More people should have the chance to experience how much their friends and family love them <i>before<\/i> they die. And there was certainly a deep river of love running through that room. During the final ovation, it looked to me as though Bob&#8217;s great friend and collaborator Noah was about to lose it, though he did not.<\/p>\n<p>One other note: The guy previously mentioned who I met at the new Green Lantern was a hot, black muscle guy, mid-thirties, who I&#8217;ve seen around, named Kevin Senn. We talked for a good bit (he&#8217;s an FDA drug investigator), then when back to my place for some hot sex. I topped him, which was a lot of fun. The only reservation I had about the experience was that he&#8217;s HIV-negative, and yet was willing and eager for me to fuck him, and it didn&#8217;t seem to matter whether that was with protection or without. Although was briefly in him without a condom, I pulled out well before coming. Still, I didn&#8217;t like to be entirely responsible for his safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few more words about the recital: It was wonderful, I did cry. It was also a little surreal. I couldn&#8217;t shake the feeling that Bob was playing at his own wake. Which I guess is not a bad thing. More people should have the chance to experience how much their friends and family love them before they die. And there was certainly a deep river of love running through that room. During the final ovation, it looked to me as though Bob&#8217;s great friend and collaborator Noah was about to lose it, though he did not. One other note: The guy previously mentioned who I met at the new Green Lantern was a hot, black muscle guy, mid-thirties, who I&#8217;ve seen around, named Kevin Senn. We talked for a good bit (he&#8217;s an FDA drug investigator), then when back to my place for some hot sex. I topped him, which was a lot of fun. The only reservation I had about the experience was that he&#8217;s HIV-negative, and yet was willing and eager for me to fuck him, and it didn&#8217;t seem to matter whether that was with protection or without. Although was briefly in him without a condom, I pulled out well before coming. 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