Michael's Musings

Love Profusion
Michael Shinafelt

"You make me feel, You make me shine, you make me feel" - Love Profusion, Madonna

Being that it's June 17th, it's still Pride Month. So let's spread and feel the love Minions! Have you got any other plans for those Good Vibes? I thought not, thus let's enjoy the ride known as Pride. "Yes" I made a rhyme and now it's time for another one. I do declare I'll stop right there and move right on, pinky swear!!!

Fun Fact: You may fascinate a woman by giving her a piece of cheese - the more you know...

The Berenstain Bears seem like such a happy family

I'm gonna vacation in a Van Gogh, later

Wonder Twin Powers activate! Shape of a Preppy Leprechaun!

I like it, it's got shiny knobs

Hope you are having a groovy Pride. I hope one day the world loves bisexual women as much as heterosexual couples with failing marriages do.

Don't be afraid to get on top

Trifling in Hoeness is the new black 

Woman Crush of the Week - The eternal Marilyn Monroe, nothing more needs to be said.

AI will never be a bigger threat to humanity than natural stupidity

The heat tide keeps rising

Does anyone other than me find this season of RHONY exhausting yet boring???

Cruel Summer's season finale was perfection, there I said it

Indecision is a decision

Let me school you here:

https://www.instagram.com/michaelshinafelt/?hl=en

https://twitter.com/MShinafelt  

Hump Day & Chill

All The Colors Of The Rainbow...
Sergey

"This is my life, gonna hold my head high, Gonna live it with pride, till the day that I die" I Got My Pride, Barry Harris 

"Yes" Minions we are continuing our Hump Day & Chill Pride Month Edition, since well, tis the season and all that jazz 😎

Some of us celebrate with our usual flair, others venture out into uncharted territory. Sergey on the other hand dips himself in rainbow color glitter and nothing else, while being photographed on the beach.

It's like your very own unicorn, or perhaps Power Ranger. I'll leave that for you to decide, as that is all a matter of your own Private Idaho.

Me? I find Sergey's exuberance infectious, not to mention unique. 

Hey, that's one of the things Pride is all about, you doing you.

Hump Day & Chill with Sergey by hitting the link below, celebrate your Pride!!!

https://favoritehunks.blogspot.com/2019/07/a-matter-of-pride-sergey-by-richard.html?zx=18c1cc290cfc0f53   

Shade

The Future's So Bright...
Bella Thorne

Shade Slang Meaning - Shade is a subtle, sneering expression of contempt for or disgust with someone—sometimes verbal, and sometimes not.

Tis the season, summer that is, for shade. "Yes" it's the most sunglasses time of the year, Yay! However shade is also a slang term as illustrated above for the unfamiliar. OK, seriously who doesn't know it's alternate meaning other than the standard one: comparative darkness and coolness caused by shelter from direct sunlight.

Here we have one Ms. Bella Throne leaving the Beverly Hills Hotel illustrating both types of shade from my perspective. 

That's correct Minions see Bella shelter herself from direct sunlight whilst  giving off what appears to be a subtle expression of contempt. 

So that's the story, if you ask me...

Bella on IG -

https://www.instagram.com/bellathorne/?hl=en

Monday Motivation

Squat Like A Boss!
Bruce Springsteen 

In the midst of all this Pride Month hoopla one thing still remains and is constant. I am currently working on shedding my Pandemic Pounds and it's a process. Thus I seek inspiration, like everyone else, from time to time. 

Today's Monday Motivation comes in the form of 71 year old, "Yes" you read that correctly, 71 year old Bruce Springsteen!

Seriously how does he rock a better body and even look more handsome then he did in say his 40's? I ask you, OK, yeah I was actually joking about asking you "As If" you know the answer.

Well I know how he keeps that body at least judging by the deep squat he is doing, and I am sure he has a healthy well balanced diet to accompany it.

Therein lies the rub with Moi, it ain't the exercise part that is the issue at present it's getting myself back to eating well, everyday of the week (that's what I have to do for a few weeks out of the gate, after those few weeks then, and only then can I add a cheat day.) 

As I embark on this week, I am off to a good start wish me well. With Bruce as my inspiration Monday Motivation is indeed Born in the USA.

Shred it like "The Boss!"

Bruce on IG -

https://www.instagram.com/springsteen/?hl=en

Who's Your Zaddy?

Thirsty???
Christopher Meloni
Photo:
Clifton Mooney

As Pride Month keeps turning I thought I'd offer something up for the boys. Well actually everyone! Here is a delicious image of one Christopher Meloni recently featured in Interview Magazine.

Let's face it every human being with a pulse has lust in their heart for Chris, this being said, gay men in partik REALLY have that lust in spades.

Seriously who do you think that thirst trap opening on Law & Order: Organized Crime with a shirtless Meloni doing push-ups was for? It was obviously a valentine to his gay fans, and we'll take it, gladly!

Zaddy - is a uniquely modern twist on "daddy" meaning a dude with swagger or style

Sounds like Chris, no? He is called this a lot (no surprise) and here is what he had to say about that in his chat with the magazine...

“I’ve been called that a lot, and who am I to argue with it? Sure, I’m a zaddy."

Oh, Zaddy!

Happy Pride Month!!!

Meloni on Instagram -

https://www.instagram.com/chris_meloni/?hl=en   

Love Is In The Air

OK, we all know June is officially Pride Month, but did you know today, June 12th is National Loving Day? How wonderfully appropriate that this day falls in the thick of a celebration that encourages people to be proud of, and love who they are!

Thus I have posted a montage of gay celebrity power couples to celebrate today in the way one should, with Pride.

What's that you say? I left some high profile gay celebrity couples out? Hey, one can only do so much and this was a nice cross section of couples I found on the WWW - if one of your fave power couples isn't in this, Google them.

Here to celebrate National Loving Day/Pride with us today going clockwise from the upper left are: Bill Porter & Adam Smith, Ellen DeGeners & Portia de Rossi, Sarah Paulson & Holland Taylor and last, but certainly not least Ricky Martin & Jwan Yosef. 

Season of love indeed...

National Loving Day on Wikipedia -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_Day   

Film Buff Friday: Dead & Buried

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