Updated 6/5/2009
All of chapter 3 is now online. You find out what Beef Matson finds in
his search for hidden mobster rooms, you learn all about the "creature"
and much more. There's some interesting color illustrations and a comic
strip version of part of the chapter as well!
The
masculine San Francisco gay detective who sleeps with a teddy bear is
back in a new adventure called "Catch A Falling Star" which
is a prequel to "A Person In A Position Of Trust". This adventure
has a science fiction theme and has our detective hero involved with political
intrigue, mysterious murders and a journey on a luxury trans continental
train.
To
contact Rick Chris regarding your comments, sales, commissioned paintings
or illustrations, advertising, etc., send
your email to: "rickchris 'at' (use the at symbol above the 2 on
your keyboard) rickchris.com"
I
Gets Emails
" just
a note. I'm a big fan of the Beef Matson stories. I like to come
back and read your first story over and over and visit with your characters
again. For me, the stories especially the first one, are like comfort
food for my soul. Your stories are so much like Charles Dickens novels,
but contemporary and I think if Dickens were alive today and gay, he would
write stories very much like yours. Your winding story lines involving
many characters are very much like Dickens as well as your doses of social
satire and the mysterious villains. the happy ending in the first
story is something very much like Dickens would have come up with, only
so much better.
You've worked
in the issues of the day with corrupt corporate managers, crooked mortgage
brokers, right wing extremists. These are things everybody's had experiences
with the past few years unless they've been living under a rock. some
of your characters remind me so much of people I have known you must have
drawn them from real life.
I can't imagine
you're making any money from the Matson stories but I really wish you
would publish more of them. I just love reading new parts of the new story,
but the last time you posted a new chapter was back around Christmas!
Maybe you could get somebody interested in publishing them then you could
afford to spend more time coming up with more of the marvelous Beef Matson
for us.
Keep up the
good work!"
- Ben, Philadelphia
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For
gay friendly framing in the Greater Denver area, Rick Chris recommends:
The
Great Frame Up 1017 East 9th Avenue
Denver, CO 80218
Tel: 303-837-8846 Web
Site
Stable
Kiss
An old rustic stable, a couple of cowboys and a kiss.
Click
on the image at right to go to the Purchase Gallery page and scroll
down to Non-sexual gay images.
Click
on image to go to Purchase Gallery Page.
Jack
Concerned
From Brokeback Mountain, Jack Twist with a look of concern on his
face.
Click
on image to go to Purchase Gallery Page.
Worry
Boxes
Scroll down on the Purchase
Gallery page for a glimpse of some Worry Boxes, clever
little objects to help you deal with today's stress and worry.
Thanks
And A Tip Of The Hat Very appreciative
thanks and a tip of the Rick Chris hat to Dewitt at MANHUNT Daily for
his very kind review of my artwork in "Drawn
To You: Rick Chris". Really enjoyed getting another's
perspective of my work and the feedback - especially when it's positive.
******
Just a note
to let everyone know, my paintings are NOT computer generated images.
I do my paintings the traditional way, by hand and start with a pencil
sketch and work my way to the finished painting. So what you are getting
is a product of my skill and not a software program.
During these rough times
I
know things are kind of rough out there for a lot of folks and the only
magic I have to share with you is through my art and my little web site.
If you are having bumpy day, I'd like to share my Affirmations page with
you. It's one of the oldest pages on rickchris.com. Maybe you can use
that page to build a little magic, gather a little grace and get the strength
to help you through your trials. "Where is the night luster? Past
my trials " Click here.
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Change For The Rick Chris Cookie Jar:
During these tough economic times, your donation would certainly help
keep my little web site going. If you enjoy the various features on rickchris.com,
please help support this web site through a donation. Any amount is helpful.
Many thanks! - Rick Chris
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A
New Feature:
Rick's Disco Devasting Ditty!
A somewhat regular posting of a classic dance track.
February 21, 2010: Gustavo Santaolalla - The Wings (Brokeback Mountain
Theme) - [Finbarr Massi Mix] Remix
The
not yet ready for prime time blog. The blog is something new - see
how long it lasts. Doing a blog also violates one of my primary principles
which is "Keep your mouth shut, Rick!"
March
3 , 2010
To contact Rick Chris, send your email to: "rickchris 'at' (use
the at symbol above the 2 on your keyboard) rickchris.com"
posted
3/3/10 The Sanctity Of Marriage
Ron Romanovsky's first official music video! Ron raises the issue of
preserving the "sanctity" of marriage by outlawing divorce,
so that marriage is no longer merely a heterosexual hobby. Fun video
and the nude nuptials towards the end are certainly well, revealing
about the attitudes some folks have about marriage. This song, or the
album it is from, "Turn Up The Fun", can be purchased at Romanovskyandphillips.com,
iTunes or CDBaby.
posted
2/28/10 Tommy Byrd Is Fabulous (Fabulis)
I usually don't post material that is part of a marketing campaign,
but I couldn't pass this one up. The video is cute and so is this Georgia
boy, Tommy. A quote from Tommy: "I have the most random set of
skills." You go, Mr. Byrd!
posted
1/29/10 Rick Takes You To The Movies
I recently rediscovered this movie, having seen it years ago.
It's the British Godzilla, Gorgo. The movie has excellent
production values, a great score as well as great special effects
for it's time. The monsters are obviously the "guy in rubber
suit" but the glowing red eyes and wiggling ears are still
a bit creepy. Unlike some action movies of today, Gorgo does actually
have a plot and is presented in grand old movie tradition. IMHO,
some of the movies today with continuous explosions and mayhem
eventually come across like boring noise.
The
story is about two handsome deep sea salvagers, Joe Ryan (Bill
Travers) and Sam Slade (William Sylvester) who come across a fearsome
sea monster terrorizing an Irish village after an undersea volcanic
explosion.
Little
do Joe and Sam (and everyone else) realize is that the large creature
that they eventually capture and take to London for exhibition
has a mother who is many times larger and that Mama will come
looking for her offspring when it goes missing. This was one of
the few movies of the time which was sympathetic towards the monsters,
which do not get killed off in the end.
What
struck me about this movie upon viewing it again after so many
years, is that now from an adult standpoint I could see things
in the movie that I didn't see when I saw the movie as a kid.
Primarily what I began to notice was the relationship between
Joe and Sam. Sam worries a lot about Joe, like when Joe takes
too long on a dive, on one occasion, Sam decides to join Joe on
a dive to make sure he comes back up. If you watch carefully,
you see a number of subtle displays of affection throughout the
movie between Joe and Sam. In my own mind, I decided that Joe
and Sam are more than just business partners, at least the movie
works very well on that premise. On top of that, Joe and Sam make
an excellent looking couple.
Joe
and Sam also "adopt" an orphan named Sean who stows
away on their ship. During the rest of the movie, when Joe and
Sam are not looking out for each other, they spend a good part
of the movie keeping little Sean from harm - like two gay daddies.
Watch the movie and you be the judge. In another scene, Sam gets
drunk resulting in an argument between the two while Sean watches.
Finally Joes belts Sam, picks him up and throws him over his shoulder
and carries him back to their trailer.
Another
interesting bit from the movie is that when Mama Gorgo is wading
up the Thames on her way to reclaim her offsprng and stomp on
London, a group of people are watching fearfully from a nearby
bridge. You'll notice on a young male couple off to one side on
the bridge (right side of the screen), and the dark haired man
puts his arm around his blond companion to comfort him.
To
watch the You Tube version in segments, click here.
Or, to purchase the DVD for high quality viewing, look on Amazon.
posted
1/29/10 Soccer Made Interesting
Rick Chris has never been a sports minded kind of guy, but this video
clip might get me interested in soccer. When the opposing team begins
to show their stuff at the end of the game, well, that was a "burn
my clothes, I'm going to heaven" moment for me. Click here.
posted
1/29/10 Some New Catch A Falling Star illustrations
Finally got around to scanning some illustrations I've done for yet
to be published sections of CATCH A FALLING STAR, the Beef Matson mystery/adventure.
Secret
agent Gary gets pissed at Bentley.
Matson
suddenly finds himself in a mysterious neighborhood.
Snizter and Zhourg
The
train.
posted
1/16/10 Queer As Folk Music Video "Some Lovin'" From Season
Three
I just came across this fun video featuring the actors from QAF. Some
may not agree with me, but I think "Mikey" is so damned cute.
posted
1/15/10 Brokeback Mountain Toon by CManart
Check out this artwork by CManart called "Brokeback Mounting".
Click here.
posted
1/15/10
Jackie Beat - "Don't Tell Me You're Gay!" A funny parody of the disco anthem "Don't Leave Me This
Way". (Adult lyrics.)
posted
9/24/09
Larry Kramer's Speech At Dallas Gay Pride, September 20, 2009 Rick Chris considers Larry Kramer to be one of the few worthwhile
and profound gay voices. "We must never forget that everything we have won can very
quickly be taken away from us. We have seen this time and again. Presidents
come and go ignoring us. This president is no different. Once again
he is not doing it for us and once again we are letting him get away
with it. This President is another loser for us and I predict he will
remain this way.
We
must remember that we do not have the freedom to marry, to inherit,
to adopt, to share our health insurance, to learn about our history
in our schools. To learn that our two greatest presidents, Washington
and Lincoln were gay. We do not have the freedom to live as straight
people have the freedom to live. We do not have the freedom to have
our bars not raided by police and officers beating us up with such fury
that we land in hospitals.
We
have not learned to fight back with the same fury with which they fight
us. You do not get more with honey than with vinegar. There are over
one thousand benefits from our government that straight couples get
that we are denied. This is not freedom. This is not equality. America's
Bill of Rights says we are meant to be equal.
You
must know, we must never forget, that every single treatment for hiv/aids
is out there because of gay aids activists, led by ACT UP chapters across
the country and Project Inform in San Francisco. They did not come from
the government. They came because gay people fought like tigers and
screaming banshees to get the system that hates us deliver them to us.
If you want to read how we did it get my book The Tragedy of Today's
Gays. This achievement, the obtaining of these drugs, I believe
to be the single greatest achievement gay people have accomplished in
all of history and we must be remembered for it.
The
lesson should be clear. The lesson should be obvious. It should show
us what we are capable of achieving when we put our minds and hearts
and brains and bodies together and work together all together as brothers
and sisters and one big family. There is not one person here today who
is not capable of being such an activist.
We
get what we fight for. And we are not fighting. Every single one of
us is not fighting. They fight better than we do. There is a concerted
and never ending vein of hate in this country and in this world dedicated
to keeping us in our place. It is evil to force people to be what we
are not - free. We are not free.
I
love being gay.
I love gay people.
How can I say this without offending everyone else, I think we're better
than other people.
I think we are smarter.
I think we are more talented.
I think we are more aware.
I think we make better friends.
I think we make better lovers.
I think we're more tuned in to what's happening, tuned into the moment,
tuned into our emotions, and other people's emotions.
Yes, I think that gay people are better than other people.
I think the only thing we are not so good at is fighting back.
I
hear talk of the new generation of gays and the old generation of gays,
and how different we are. That is not true. We are all one generation.
We are all related. We are all each other's brothers and sisters. We
are all one family, the gay family.
And
I passionately and desperately want all my brothers and sisters to stay
alive and well and on this earth, with total equality with every straight
person.
Being
gay is the most important thing in my life.
I
love being gay. I hope you do, too."
******
Putting the spotlight on those who add value to
the gay community through their creativity, talent and achievement.
The Shout Out column is open to any gay creative type, performer, writer,
artist, etc. I know how challenging it can be for gay creative types,
so this is my small way of trying to lend a helping hand by offering
a little publicity. Just send an email (rickchris@rickchris.com) about
yourself or someone you would like to be spotlighted. The cost? You
only have to promise that you're going to try to be rich, famous and
successful. I also accept news releases for shows, benefits and events.
Note:
if you send in information about an event or individual I will be glad
to list it for you free of charge - however, in your email, please state
that you are requesting a listing under the Shout Out banner and I would
also like to know who is making the request (the name of a contact person)
so I know the information about the person or event is "authorized".
*******
Danny
Boy Studio If
you enjoy artistic images of men who could be classified as bears, daddies
or maybe full-figured, you may enjoy a visit to dannyboystudio. If you
feel the genre of bearish art is overlooked, you'll find it's very well
represented by Miami artist Danny. Click on the image below to be directed
to his studio site.
Out
Radio
Out
Radio is a production of JD Doyle. You can find links on the Out
Radio site to his other radio shows as well as an email link to
JD. www.outradio.com
JD
Doyle writes:
"I'm
very pleased to announce that I've started a new radio show, called
OutRadio. This is a companion show to Queer Music Heritage, and
like QMH it will be a monthly multi-part show, but it will focus
on new and recent music by GLBT artists. There is just so much
new music I want to share and this will be my way to do that.
It starts at www.OutRadio.com."
Queer
Music Heritage and Out Radio host, JD Doyle
JD
Doyle's March Out Radio show is a salute to Canadian GLBT Artists.
It's an over five-hour program covering many, many genres and
a whopping 76 different artists and 85 songs spanning the last
48 years!
Out
Radio is a new show produced by JD Doyle in addition to his Queer
Music Heritage shows.
QUEER
MUSIC HERITAGE
JD
Doyle writes: "This month's show is called "Queer Nation:
The Music & The Politics - Then & Now," and Part 1 includes
interviews with members of the band Queer Conscience, which was
very much inspired by the politics of Queer Nation; Ray Hill,
Houston's pioneering gay activist; and the very political and
talented artist, Scott Free. Part 2 brings things up to date with
transwoman musician Michelle Garcia; and lesbian singer/songwriter
Melissa Li and transman slam poet Kit Yan of the band Good Asian
Drivers. I think it's the most "political" music show
I've ever done, honoring an important area of our history."
Co-producer
of Audiofile, the monthly radio review of CDs of interest to the
GLBT communities, airing on over 175 stations around the world
on This Way Out.
The Audiofile site is at www.Audiofile.org and all past Audiofile
segments are archived at http://www.queermusicheritage.com/af.html
Also co-host of Queer Voices on KPFT, Monday nights from 9-11
pm, www.kpft.org and at MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/jddoyle
Rick
Chris very much recommends the Queer Music Heritage web
site. If you are at all into music and would like to see how much
gay performers have contributed to the music scene over the years,
this site is a MUST SEE. For those of us who love music, JD
Doyle has catalogued an incredible amount of information on
gay artists and albums including some incredible rare stuff. A
fun site to visit and JD has done a great service for the gay
community by preserving the history and memory of these artists
and recordings. QMH is also a radio show on KPFT radio
in Houston, Texas and is also netcast. JD writes:
"Queer
Music Heritage" is both a radio show and a website, and the goal
of both is to preserve and share the music of our culture, because I
just don't think gay & lesbian music of the past should be forgotten.
I also believe our music culture is a visual as well as an audial experience,
so I try to share the images of this music photos of the artists
and recordings, and to pack in as much information as possible, while
still trying to entertain.
There
are also many extra sections, such as a page of Gay Marriage Songs (with
free downloads), a page of songs about Matthew Shepard, a section on
Gay Musicals, lots of info about drag artists, a page listing songs
about AIDS, etc, etc."
Rainbow
Depot Last
minute gifts? Try Rainbow Depot, the Internet's LARGEST SELECTION for
your gay pride shopping and gay shopping and lesbian shopping! We are
gay owned and operated. Rainbow
Depot, provides superior service, competitive pricing,
and quality merchandise for all your gay and lesbian shopping needs.
*******
To
contact Rick Chris, send your email to: "rickchris 'at' (use the
at symbol above the 2 on your keyboard) rickchris.com"
Inthe
meantime, take good care of yourself. You've got to, because you're
the only one of you we've got. They just ain't making anymore just like
you.
If
you would like to leave a tip in the Rick Chris cookie jar:
PEOPLE
CARE ABOUT YOU!
National
Suicide Hotline
1-800-suicide (784-2433)
Rick
Chris says: "Take
care of yourself. You've got to, because you're the only one of you we've
got. They just ain't making anymore just like you."
The
Trevor Helpline
An around-the-clock (24/7) crisis and suicide prevention helpline for
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth. 1-866-488-7386
Do
we have a gay saint watching out for us? If you have an issue, it wouldn't
hurt to send a prayer his way and see what happens. Click here.
"The
great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have
to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later."
- Harvey Fierstein
"Never
place a period where God has placed a comma." - Gracie Allen
Zane
Maxwell Gay erotic art paintings,
drawings and illustrations for sexy men and male nude in watercolors.
His artwork is simple, unique, and provocative to stimulate intellect
and humor.
Buff's
Tufftalk
Exploring man to man relationships from a top man's perspective.For top
men who care about their relationships. Setting a responsible example
while pursuing our gay identity.
LGBT
Minute
Newsy commentary about the latest community issues by a delightful, positive
soul named Bonnie.
The
Male Vagabondage Italiano.
Un viaggio attraverso una cultura tutta al maschile nel tentativo di scoprire
e riscoprire nuovi e vecchi orizzonti artistici. L'obiettivo primario
di questo blog é quello di analizzare, principalmente attraverso
le immagini, l'eros maschile in tutte le sue possibili espressioni artistiche.
Andrew
Sullivan
Web site and blog of writer, columnist, essayist Andrew Sullivan. Author
of Virtually Normal - An Argument About Homosexuality and other
books.
Classic Top Forty rock and roll radio by the
master.
Queer
Music Heritage An internet music museum site and
radio show devoted to GLBT music hosted by the cognoscenti of gay music,
JD Doyle.
Below
are some of Rick Chris's favorite Live365 radio stations. The following
listed stations can also be accessed through the Live365 widget below.
WGAY
365
Fun and upbeat original Classic Disco and Dance
with extended plays and special mixes plus lounge tunes including Streisand,
Garland and Minelli. Stereo, 32
kbps.
Mark's
Dance Party
The most eclectic dance station on Live365. Wide variety of tracks from
60's to present. You won't get bored. Low band width! 16kbps.
Easy
Boy Friend Home of the future ex-boyfriend of the week.
Gay
Heroes Singer Jay Spear's totally excellent
site highlighting gay historical figures.
HomoRodeo Interested in gay cowboys and gay rodeo
events? This site's for you, a matrix of information for gay rodeo fans.
JoeHerzenberg.org
- a site devoted to the life of the first openly
gay elected official in the former Confederacy.
Miracomovan
En
Español. Hombres para Hombres.
Dibujos y Pinturas de hombres de todas las épocas del arte. Site
contains images of nude and homoerotic art.
Not
Kansas
A personal memoir and reflections on gay history and popular culture from
the post-World War II years to the early Nineties. An alternative to politically
correct history.
Beau
To Beau Publishing The writings of BK Wright. "All persons
are entitled to unconditional acceptance." These fictional stories
of romance (with happy endings) help to convey the message that gay men
can find a significant other with whom to share their lives.
"I
place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent
to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the
old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit."
- Fran Lebowitz
Fulfilling
your dreams is more therapeutic than analyzing them. - Barbara Sher
Our
first teacher is our heart - Cheyenne proverb
I
am what I am - Popeye
Art
is not what you see but what you make others see.
"You're
never too old to become younger." - Mae West
"You're
never too old to have a happy childhood" - George Bernard Shaw
"I
was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. If a plant
cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man." - Henry
David Thoreau
Seen
on a bumper sticker: "I do whatever my Rice Krispies tell me to do."
"Too
much stress and strain on the brain makes you go insane."
"Understand
that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privillege. Use it.
Dwell in possibility." - Oprah Winfrey
"Gay
is the feeling you get when all of the straight people leave the room."
"There
is a major difference between a friend (in office) and a gay person in
office. It's not enough just to have friends represent us, no matter how
good those friends may be. We must give people the chance to judge us
by our own leaders, and our own legislators." - Harvey Milk
"It
has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."
- President Abraham Lincoln
"Never
be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept
no one's definition of your life; define yourself." - Harvey Fierstein
"The
test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those
who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too
little." - President Franklin D. Roosevelt"
It's
a funny old world a man's lucky if he gets out of it alive." - W.C.
Fields
"According
to you, everything I like is either immoral, illegal or fattening." -
W.C. Fields
"If
a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door."
- Harvey Milk "
" but
personally I thank God for gay men, 'cause if it was not for them, us
fat women would have nobody to dance with." - Rosanne
"The
only thing necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing."
- Edmond Burke
"The
statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering
from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If
they are okay, then it's you." - Rita Mae Brown
"Only
until your high enough on the mountain, will the real purpose of the valley
come into view." - Cowboy Dave
"The
early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese" - Steven
Wright
"The
great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have
to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later."
- Harvey Fierstein
"Never
place a period where God has placed a comma." - Gracie Allen
"Men
never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious
conviction." - Blaise Pascal
"You
should take a husky man who will always be at your side." - Sherlock Holmes
to Sir Henry in Hound of the Baskervilles.
"Marriage
hasn't been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out." - Ben Affleck
"Deciding
on a husband is like picking a diamond, you don't want to choose one that's
obviously flawed." - Jerry Hall
"The
bias of the media is not liberal. It's lazy and sensationalist." - Jon
Stewart
"The
moment you see something wrong and don't say anything, is the moment you
start to die," - Dr. Jocelyn Elders, Former Surgeon General of the United
States
"Worry
is like paying interest on debts you haven't incurred yet" - anonymous
"Better
to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not" -
anonymous
"A
free society is where it is safe to be unpopular." - anonymous
"They
who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve
neither liberty or security." - from Historical Review of Pennsylvania
[c.1759] by Benjamin Franklin [1706-1790]
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