Isometric Crossdressing!

I was chatting with one of my best gal pals Bat a little while ago and sharing with her how shitty I've been feeling lately due to a recently compressed dick in my upper back lately and as we chatted she came up with the term Isometric Crossdressing as a Homeopathic therapy for treating the issue... Pull against the pantyhose! Push against the pantyhose! Wearing extra heavy breast forms to help strengthen upper back muscles! that sorta thing.



I thought it was funny.

Lately...

Check out the Bolero youtube at the top. Give it it's 8 Minutes. I Met Jorge Donn in '81. He was a sweet guy and kind as they come and saw him perform this live for the first time at City Center in New York when I was dancing at the Met. He was a tore the roof off the place the night I saw it. Had dinner with him afterwards. We talked nothing but dance. Good memory! Thanks Jorge!

Hope God appreciates you!

Another friend died last month Phil Petrone. My best friend growing up Best friend

Started theater together when we heard music coming out of the side door one day riding by on our bikes after coming home from Jr. High in Largo "Fucking Florida!". Stuck our heads in the door and got sucked in! Next thing you know we are performing bit parts in Shakespear's "Twelfth Night" . He moved on to Boston to work on the stage there eventually and becoming an on air personality on a classic music station in Bean town. Died last month of throat cancer. Left a wife and beautiful daughter named Betsey. After my Mom!

My friend Darcy is having exploritory surgery tuesday because she has throat cancer too! A carcinoma at the back of her throat. She'll be getting the full chemo with the radiation on the side as per these thing's.

Me.. I'm as healthy as a fucking fire horse! Can't even kill myself. Gee if only I could fly!

That'd be something.

My only super power is dressing like a girl! A hot girl yes... All in all I'd say I'm ahead of the game!

Wish my friend luck!

Hugs from yours truely

N~

Everyone is turning 40!

In May I've been invited to a spate of birthday parties. I'm going to Seattle on the 23rd to celebrate my Friend Chris's 40th b'day. And today a very dear old friend who live's here in the city but whom I had lost touch with, Monique is crossing over on the 10th and dug me up and told me to slip on my party dress. Well if you have to ask of course!

She asked me to catch her up on what I've been up to lately. I thought it would be fun to share here too. I think most of it is true...

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As to catching up… Well still living up in Twin Peaks in the same Apartment. ALONE! (Me hate alone!) Rent control. (Like that a lot!) I’m embarrassed to tell you what I pay. Moved in ‘94.

I still do some Web stuff on the side but my real Job for the past several years has been with CIBT. Don’t ask what it means. It induces uncontrollable sleep I’m a Liaison Agent expediting Visa’s for passports for businesses. I had a great assignment till recently specializing in the Russian Embassy. The Egyptian Consulate. Vietnam. South Korea and Germany. Mostly anyone we had a war with. I had to be at the Russian Embassy in Pacific heights every morning at 9am to meet with their officers to push through our clients Visa’s. Got along with them great!

The block of flats across the street from the Russian front gate is owned by the FBI and has these old fashioned blinds that are always turned open in the middle and behind them you can see a camera and someone snapping pictures of everyone coming and going in and out of the embassy. I have an FBI file! Do you believe that shit!?

I wonder if they know my dress size. Never mind… :-/

Vietnam I’d do around 10:00am or so and conduct business under a huge picture of Ho Chi Min. His eyes would follow you anywhere in the room. Creepy. Pre Photoshop very tacky looking.

The German Embassy before 11:00 behind Danielle Steele’s Mansion on Jackson Street 3 doors up from Eric Krolls old Photo studio.

Then a Trolley ride down California almost everyday and a brisk walk through Chinatown back to the office to process the paperwork.

I loved that job!

That was until last week.

Until that is, I got a small promotion.

Now I just process all of the passports we handle for the State Department Passport office.

It’s like jail without all of the glamour or Fashion sense!

I’m told it’s because they need someone they can trust and who knows the system.

My first response was, and my voice trembled, “But what about my Cable Car ride?”. I like my Cable Car ride! The bell goes ding, ding! The little children go Weeee!

I would tell questionable stories to the tourists regarding a San Francisco that half the time I would just make up! Or steal from Armistead Maupin. Parents would tell their children, “Thank the nice man for taking the time to explain how the cult was recently busted for eating human body parts in the attic at Grace Cathedral”

Life was sweet!

My Plea fell on deaf ears.

I now feel like one of the workers in the old Fritz Lang German Flick “Metropolis”, trudging to work every morning with my lunch pale in lock step with my common co workers.

Ain’t nothing pretty about it!

Anyway… Gotta go to bed. Tell you more later!

Are we glad we made it to the 40’s?

I’d give you a big kiss but you’d punch me!

Take a hug.

Nina

Japan's 'geisha guys' the latest accessory

(I read this today. Cute! )

TOKYO, Japan (CNN) -- At first glance, the man and woman at the nightclub look like any other couple on a date. He flirts and pours champagne. She looks at him and laughs.


Businesswomen in Japan pay up to $50,000 a night for male companionship from "hosts" like Yunosuke.

This isn't a date, though. It's business.

The woman, a successful executive, has joined a growing number of professional women in Japan in forking out from $1,000 to $50,000 a night for male companionship.

They meet their "hosts" in hundreds of clubs that have sprung up around Tokyo - the industry says only compliments are exchanged. The women pay for a man to lavish them with undivided attention.

"There's nothing wrong with a woman paying to be entertained by a man," one female client says. "It's just another step in equality."

It's a dizzying reversal of traditional gender roles in a country long known for geishas pampering male clients with conversation, singing and dancing. Now a new breed of entertainer has cropped up -- think of them as male geishas.

"I give women things that men normally don't do, like complimenting their appearance," says one host, 24-year-old Yunosuke, who only goes by his single host name. "I make women happy."

And they make him happy: Yunosuke says he earned more than $200,000 last year, enough to let him visit a salon once a day to have his hair dyed and blow-dried.

"Women see us as one of their accessories," he says. "They like to wear nice things, so I try to look prettier for them all the time."

What drives the business boom is an increase in the earning power of Japanese women, according to Air Group, a company that owns a chain of "host" clubs.

"Japanese women are now working hard and making more money," says Yuko Takeyama, a woman in her early 30s who manages Air Group. "The see this as a way to de-stress."

Women love being treated well without the pressures that come with dating, she says.

Yunosuke's customer from the nightclub agrees.

"This is a gift for myself," she says. "It's the same as spending money on a trip or buying

Eckhart Tolle

Why do so few seekers become finders?

Nina on Net Cafe!

Wow what a blast from the past! A friend of mine pointed this out from an Archive sight. an interview for Divaweb on Net cafe. Midori is on here also close to the beginning. My interview is near the end. Check it out for a bit of fun!

www.archive.org/details/nc...ing_romance

One of the early drivers in the growth of the internet was the topic of dating and romance. This episode of Net Cafe looks at some early examples of sites devoted to love, in various forms. Sites reviewed include globalmatch.com; divaweb.com and its famous advice columnist Midori; Bianca's smut shack at bianca.com; divanet.com, a site offering sexy online shopping and style advice from Nina Rage; the CyberFetish UberMall, and urge2merge.com. This show also includes a look at several safe kid sites to make sure your children don't accidentally wander into some of these sites. Included are cyberpatrol.com, netnanny.com, ratedpg.com, and sheperd.net. Hosts are Jane Wither, Andrew deVries, and Stewart Cheifet. Shot on location at the CyberSmith internet cafe in Palo Alto, California.

Here's a blurb about the series.


Net Cafe was the world's most widely distributed television series covering the Internet revolution during the height of the dot com boom. The series was broadcast throughout the United States and in more than one hundred other countries for six years, from 1996 through 2002. It was hosted by Stewart Cheifet, Jane Wither, and Andrew deVries. The weekly program went behind the scenes of the World Wide Web to meet the people and explore the culture of the new "wired" generation. The series featured Internet tips, a guide to the best web sites, a preview of internet startups, and interviews with the movers and shakers behind the Internet phenomenon. It introduced many new web sites to the public which are now household names such as Yahoo!, Google, and eBay.

The Blahs

I’ve been sick with this chest cold bug for nearly a month now and am really sick of it. I had to take Friday off and just stay in bed for the weekend and try to sleep it out.

Blah!

Pulled myself together to get glamorized on Saturday but ended up just being sleeping beauty for the full 3 days. Oh well at least I looked cute sick for the weekend. If anyone is reading this I’m sure you’re wondering, what’s the Fing point. Drop me a line and I’ll draw you a road map! My friend Darcy came over on Sunday and we cooked Lentils and sausage for the afternoon and eat well as we watched the Academy Awards.

Yawwwn!

Watched “No Country for old Men” after. Good but not quite Lawrence of Arabia.

I’ve got “Michael Clayton” and “There will be blood”. Hope to catch them this week sometime.

Need to get my web resume for Craigslist back up. Am needing some extra income now that Uncle Sam is taking a bigger bite.

Sorry for the dullness. Life.

Hugs.

N~

Enrico's!

Splurged this last Saturday and went out to North Beach with my friends Darcy and Bree Cocktailing. Started out at Bix's which is old school resturant and Bar. Lot's of atmosphere with the high prices to show for it. Chatted with some really nice people from the Portrero area.

Moved on to Enrico's. Famous haunt for Woody Allen Barbara Streisand, Bill Cosby and more. Also made famous in a scene from "Bullitt" With Steve McQueen. I'm such a shameless Starfucker! My Friend Damon Was Spinning as DJ and the whole place still has the "Atmosphere". It was nice. Way to much on Cabs for the evening though. Hate that shit. Their Photographer came up and took some shots of us. I snagged one and will try to scan it and get it up soon. Finished up at Sparky's around 3am. Best place for an Omlette at the time of the morning.

Had fun!

Hugs.

N~

Sunday was all about sleep!

Long week!

Ohhh... This week is nothing but working and meetings dealing with work situations and crappy supervisors. Blahh! I have just enough energy to get home to eat and sleep. Real basic fare is about all I can pull together.

I get a 3 day weekend coming up this weekend and am looking forward to some quality Nina time with some friends. Maybe generate some good creative energy. I would love do some girl stuff shopping. My friend Darcy want's to go to Madame "S" . Wouldn't that be nice! Maybe just the Haight. A little feminine retail therapy might just out pace the Blahhs.

Took some photos from Saturday and will get one or two up when I get them back Had a great time at Club Gossip.

Hope to be chattier later this week.

Hugs!

N~

:-)

I'm Alive!

Hugs!

N~