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Today is the last day of Dry July and it actually wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be at all. I had a golden ticket (night off) a couple of weeks ago to have a night out with some friends visiting town and I’ll be having one tonight as my boyfriend is putting on a big party.

Thanks to friends and readers I will have raised over $600 for adults with cancer which I’m very happy with. Thank you for the support guys. It’s not too late to donate at all. Click here to donate.

Hiram is one of our favourite straight boys here on Aussielicious. He’s contributed to the Self Portrait challenge a while back and last year took part in the AussieBum fitness challenge. Yesterday he emailed me with an update on what he’s been up to, including getting married and going to Hawaii with his lovely bride for their honeymoon. Congratulations Hiram.

Hiram also sent in this new self portrait. It’s lovely isn’t it? This blog is always open to contributions like this from readers but keep it nice boys. No hard ons, no sex, just great photos!

Yesterday a report went rampaging across the internet saying that Burning Man 2011 was going to be the last because it was becoming over run with scalpers and commercial ventures running tours. It wasn’t long before the folks who run Burning Man debunked that story as a fake.

It does beg the question “How long can Burning Man survive?” What started as a couple of hundred people coming together on a beach in San Francisco has grown to a sell out crowd of 50,000 people in the desert with art cars, dj’s, sculptures and partying aplenty. I’m sure some people are using it as a commercial venture by organising tour groups to the festival which fundamentally goes against the ideology.

The phrase “all good things come to an end” surely has to ring true for Burning Man as well. It would be a shame for everyone wanting to see it and those devoted to it.

Jack Vidgen went viral with his audition this year for Australia’s Got Talent when he busted out a Whitney song like he was a soul diva from the South of about 40 years old. Instead he’s a 14 year old white kid from Australia.

He’s sung songs from Whitney, Adele and Jennifer Hudson in the auditions and other rounds. Last night in the Grand Final performance show he did one of his own songs. Now when I heard that was happening I was thinking it was all over. I thought we’d have a little bit of Beiber bashed around the head with a depressed Rebecca Black, but no.

Jack’s song was stunning and he’s proven that there really is an old soul diva possessing his body and inspiring amazing things from this kid. Here’s hoping he goes a very long way.

My upcoming trip to the US will be an interesting one. Apart from ticking off a few things that have been on my to-do list for some time I’ll also be meeting several people I’ve chatted to for a long time on this trip. I’ve been chatting to the Scenic Boys for a few years now and Fairview Sue who I’ll be catching up with in NYC.

I’m really interested to see if we all get on as well in person as we do online. We all know the virtual world is very different to face to face interaction. People are more honest, rude, blunt and possibly interesting online than they are when they interact one on one. Clearly I’m looking forward to meeting them all and getting to know them but it makes you wonder, if we don’t click as well, where does that leave us? Do we still read each other’s blogs? Who knows. It’s all part of the big adventure.

It’s the tail end of a party, or at least a good part of the way in and it happens, someone decides to streak the party or just calmly remove their clothing and wander through as if nothing were different. A couple of my friends have done it many times.

Some people would be surprised to know that I am NEVER that person. Granted I may have coerced someone to be that person first at a drunken pool party so I could follow suit shortly after, but I will never be the first one nude. I’m quite happy to leave it to people like this guy. Tall and hot and completely nude. Sadly not quite drunk enough to let go of all his modesty.

 

I get quite a few emails through this blog from people asking for advice, saying hello, offering criticism and just reaching out. I had an email a few days ago from someone with quite an interesting history asking for a bit of advice.

It was his second email, a reply to my reply, that I thought something was a bit off. There are a certain breed of people on the internet that seem to do things for their own amusement and nothing more. Not the hackers trying to bring down governments or people writing hateful messages on memorial facebook pages. No, this kid/person/whoever decided to make up a back story. Sadly he didn’t do it very well because it came crashing down in the second email.

Significant facts just contradicted themselves from the first to the second email. Now I just don’t know why someone would do that at all? Was the advice he was seeking really needed or was it just a way to contact me?

My flatmate has started watching the new Teen Wolf series and tonight pointed out some of the eye candy the show has to offer. We have both agreed that the lead young guy is hot but too young. Tyler Hoechlin on the other hand, is dreamy werewolf hotness. Talk about sexy.

I have nothing intellectual or important to say on this one but hey, that’s not what you all come here for is it?

Andy has appeared on the pages of Aussielicious several times over the years. I’ve shot him a number of times and he’s one of the easiest guys to shoot. He’ll try anything and he’s clearly not shy. He’s doing some stripping again after a bit of a hiatus and needed some shots to send to agents. So I had him on the roof of my building over looking a very busy main road, naked as the day he was born. Love it.

Did you know that a lot of famous jazz songs were written by men for the male lovers? Neither did I but Steven Gallavin did. He’s a new gay jazz singer in a realm that isn’t very gay friendly. Thankfully for all of us, he’s sticking to his guns and singing the classic jazz songs, as they were written, by a man for a man.

Now I know some of my readers will get a bit annoyed that Steven has used drag queens in the video but to me it makes perfect sense. The songs were all written by men hiding their true identity. Who does that better than the often shy men discovering their confidence in a wig and heels?

Peter and Pedro are two Berlin based artists trying get an art project off the ground called Postpone Procrastination. The two artists have quite different styles but they both compliment each other quite well. They are raising money for the project but their work is worth a look even if you can’t afford to donate.

As a fledgling baby-gay embarks on his first tentative steps into the sparkly wide world that is the gay scene, it’s important to remain true to oneself and assert your own individuality. This does come with rules however.

If one is a bearish type, feel free to be your own man, but that almost certainly must include a neatly trimmed beard and a furry belly. By all means stamp one’s individuality on your body with a tattoo, as long as it’s a bear paw print, preferably one on each side of your chest.

As a baby gay one will want to show one’s flamboyant side and that’s fantastic as long as you do that by pooling your pocket money together with your baby gay school friends to buy your eyeliner in bulk and a communal set of hair straighteners. That way you can all express your individuality together as a collective consciousness at a fraction of the price.

Now, the muscle boys and A-Gay jocks are harder to pick. They really do like to be individuals. The rules for them however making sure they conform (individually expressed of course) to this week’s shade of t-shirt, polo shirt or perfectly shrunk skinny jeans.

It’s been a while since I’ve done a poll on what grooming is going on out there and sadly the gym I’ve been going to for the last year or so is not giving me any indication at all since most guys are very shy there.

Surfing the internet of late you could almost be forgiven for thinking that straight boys don’t have any pubic hair to start with. It seems that there is a lot of grooming going on. I’m a fan of the close grooming but I realise that everyone has their own tastes. To check yours, look at the guy in the middle of the photos above. In one, he’s furry, the other, smooth. Which appeals more?

Now… what grooming are you doing?

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Every year images do the rounds of twenty and thirty-somethings competing in a nude race set up in Roskilde Music Festival. The race I believe is sponsored by a radio station and certainly gets some media coverage. Well now it seems that the nudity is expanding. They are now having naked fun boxing matches with enormous novelty boxing gloves. It looks like these guys are taking it pretty seriously despite the huge gloves and the public nudity, but that’s testosterone for you. Men tend to get competitive at this kind of thing. I wonder how much other nudity there is at Roskilde?

I love the idea of exhibitionism, but I’m not very brave. This guy, apparently is very brave. This video is over six minutes of him stripping in the street, standing on a public bench, jumping up and down and oiling up his smooth nude muscled body. Then he takes his oiled up hotness for a walk through the streets. Love it.