Every now and then this blog surprises me with comments from straight guys or some unexpected person. It got me wondering if any celebrities read Aussielicious. Most of the time I’m suprised anyone reads my ramblings but it would be quite bizarre to think that someone famous would bother. I’ve got no evidence that any superstars do, but would get a kick out of it if they did.
Craig is a brave man, an exhibitionist and has a high pain threshold. Craig for years growing up was self conscious of his foreskin in a country and generation (the U.S.) where the number of circumcised men far outweighs those who are not. It would appear that Craig has gotten over that.
He started taking photos of his cock in various states, hard, soft, pissing, cumming, in a condom and out saying hello to the world. What does one do with dozens of photos of their own cock? Start a blog of course. In this day and age of instant communication and, some would say, over sharing, everyone can have a blog even if blogger does seem to deem it adult.
Craig has stuck his cock in a vice, a piece of squid, condoms and in a doughnut as well as a myriad of other places. Head on over to High Contrast Cock and show the man some love because he’s certainly earned it.
I had several emails over the last couple of weeks asking about the demise of The Gayest Straight Guy’s blog. Well he’s risen, like the phoenix from the ashes to blog another day! His new incarnation is called Straight Jock Talking and there are all sorts of his favourite hot naked men, stories and discussions to have a look at. So go show him some love, or a bloody good helping of lust!
Sorry for the delay in posting. I got home from a really good first class back for term last night to find there were problems with the host server or something and I couldn’t log in to the blog to post. I’ve just finished a 13 hour day at work so tonight’s posts, as you can see, are cheating by posting videos.
Now I want to address a comment I got through on the post “Good People, Good Times.” A reader, Josh commented “Just thought I’d let you know how awesomely puritanical about your comments you are. Thanks[?] for deleting my comment.” I’d just like to clarify. In the past I have deleted a few comments, the ones that have been particularly hurtful and intentionally malicious towards me, but I’ve learned that just inflames the commenter. I can only assume that Josh’s comment wasn’t very complimentary from his accusation of being puritanical, but I can assure you Josh, I haven’t deleted any comments for many many months. Some readers have said comments have been lost or not posted due to technical problems and I guess yours was one of them. So please kindly pull back on that attitude and feel free to post it again, but if it is mean spirited and unnecessary, it might be deleted.
Last week I had an email from Scotty from “The Gayest Straight Guy” saying his blog has been deleted. He’s not sure what’s happened and who is responsible but I think he should take some action. He’s going to be restarting the blog soon maybe at a different URL. Be patient, he will return.
The hits on Aussielicious have been fluctuating relatively dramatically the last few weeks. For a while there they were slowly climbing up again but they’ve dropped again. Why this happens I have no idea, I have been posting what I feel like as I have always done and I don’t believe the content has changed much.
One of my (many) flaws is that I listen to the advice of too many people and people have always been telling me I should be making money off this blog. Firstly I’m not sure I want to turn this blog too commercial, but paid advertising as a bit of a bonus wouldn’t hurt my bank balance that’s for sure. To do that I need to maintain the hits at slightly more than double what they are currently. So I doubt this blog will ever be my career, but it’s a nice thought.
The next question is, if the hits did drop dramatically, would I bother to continue? The answer is yes. I never expected anyone to read Aussielicious in the first place, let alone 3,500 thousand per day roughly. I’ll admit I’ve been blinded by the success and number of hits I’ve had over the years but I love doing the blog and all the interesting people that email me because of it. Keep reading!
Yesterday a fellow blogger posted that he’d just hit 300,000 visitors to his blog which for quite a new blogger is a great result. As time goes on, unless you are making money out of your blog, you stop counting hits and trying to work out what gets them higher. I’ve noted visitor number milestones in the past but not for some time, so today I went and added the hits on the previous and current incarnations of Aussielicious.
In four years and four months roughly I’ve had over 6 million hits. I’m not quite sure how it’s happened to be honest and I’m quite stunned. The public nudity challenge and my photo nude on the steps of the opera house back in the beginning certainly got my blog noticed, especially when Fleshbot linked it.
To everyone who keeps coming back day after day and to everyone that stumbles across the blog from time to time, thank you very much for all the support, comments, constructive feedback and even tough love you’ve shown. Admittedly there have been times when I think, can I keep doing this? Do I want to keep doing this. Well, the answer is yes. I love the interaction it provides. So, stay tuned!
A comment from a reader who emailed me overnight, without realising, tipped me off that I’ve been nominated for a Bloggie Award! This is the oscars of Blogging and I had no idea I’d been nominated. To whoever nominated me in the Best GLBT Blog category, I am very flattered and thrilled!
If any of you feel so inclined, please head over to the Bloggies Site and scroll across til you see the GLBT category and vote for me! Thank you so much!
For some time, a couple of other bloggers I know and myself have had suspicions about the validity of the identity of blogger Kosmo Krator or as I had heard him called, Pete Trippy. Turns out he is really a 44 year old man called John McKeage, not a 20 something Rugby Union loving bit of beef.
It turns out many had fallen prey to McKeage’s scheming, believing his sob stories about being robbed and even sending him money. The photos he’d used were hot, but hadn’t been updated in ages before a new batch arrived, that looked quite different. Tonight a facebook friend, who also had the same suspicions sent me a link to a facebook group devoted to suspicions about his identity. Now surfaces this article telling the whole story. I have never understood identity theft.
On the very smart suggestion of a reader yesterday, I have created an Aussielicious Facebook page so you can all follow the Project365 challenge which will be updated on there. Thanks for the suggestion! I haven’t worked out how best to utilise the facebook page as yet, it’s only 10 am, only one coffee in and I’m sitting here naked wondering what to do with my day. I need to hit the gym and the supermarket, but they will require me to get dressed too.
So it’s now just after 11.30 pm on Monday night and I’m still at work, just gone 15 hours and counting. Still at least a couple more I think. It would seem odd I know, to spend some time blogging when I’m here this late but I have to wait for big posters to print, then trim them so there are lulls in activity which makes it even more tedious. I finally officially organised our internet at home today. It won’t be fully up and running for a little bit. It’s hard to believe that it can take so long but it does. Oh well, in the mean time I’ll do what I can.
We still haven’t decided which internet provider we are going to go with for the new apartment, which is why I haven’t been blogging this week but I turned the computer on this morning and we seem to be able to “borrow” some wireless internet from someone nearby. Yay!
So I apologise for the break in transmission but we are up and running again. The move went really well. Some of my new flatmate’s friends helped us move the furniture last Saturday which meant we had everything in by 1pm and we were pretty much unpacked by 6 that evening, followed by several (read too many) drinks out that evening.
It’s taking some getting used to the new living arrangement. I’d been at the last place for so long that you knew what annoyed other people and you could read their moods and know when to leave them alone. That takes a bit of time but I know I’ll get there with A. He’s a really nice guy and I’m hoping a good influence with my eating habits as he’s very health conscious.
It seems that people (or specifically one person) are making assumptions about the end of my dating with Irishman. I had a comment from someone calling themselves “Irishman 2″ who has jumped to the conclusion that I won’t compromise on a single thing about a partner and that I ended the romance because “The One” didn’t fall into my lap.
“Bullshite
Your always on about not having a BF, you should of made it work, its like everything else in this world, you need to work at it.
You are expecting the “One” to be handed to you on a friggen plate.”
Sure, I think all romantics like myself would love Prince Charming to gallop up on his perfect steed and for it to all be happily ever after, but I am also realistic and know that compromise and discussion are crucial to a relationship. Where your statement falls over “Irishman 2″ is that it wasn’t my decision to stop dating. Irishman has gone through a hell of a time over the past 8 months or so losing a family member to violent crime, a previous relationship crumbling around him due to mental illness (not his) and substance abuse and on top of that he’s trying to maintain a new business and working 7 days a week. So I’d kindly ask you to take your ignorance and leave it at the door.
I’ve watched my parents work very hard to maintain their marriage of 39 years and I’ve watched others work twice as hard and still not be as lucky. So to imply that I “should of made it work” which should read “Should HAVE”, is based on absolutely no knowledge of the situation.
I had a comment on the blog last night from someone that made me realise we all look at things very differently with our own perceptions colouring the way we see the same world in different ways.
The commenter went to great lengths to tell me that even though he’s been reading the blog for some time that he thinks I don’t share much of myself. He knows that I like social nudity and that I do Poll dancing (his spelling mistake not mine) and that was about it. I find it interesting that he can think I don’t share much when many others have told me that I am much more open and revealing than they could ever be. I’ve shared about my aspirations in life, my loneliness about being single, my counselling, dramas with work and money over the last few years and lots of things. I don’t share much about my family because they haven’t made the choice to blog, I have and it’s not fair of me to detail their lives without their consent.
Do you think I share too much or share not enough? I’m curious. It probably won’t influence what I post but I’m intrigued.
One of my favourite bloggers of all time Tony of LargeTony fame has once more taken up the mantle of witty, insightful and beautiful blog writing at his new location West of Mayberry. It’s a fresh and shiny new blog so there’s not a lot there right now but Tony has such a way with words that you’ll enjoy the posts that are already there.
Welcome back Tony! http://mayberry.largetony.com/
