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SELLC · CERTIFIED POST WHORE

Tried to lurk the Zoom Web Crawlers live broadcast last night!

SELLC · CERTIFIED POST WHORE

Yeah so, trying to figure out these Hollywood types has got me coming up short... in more ways than one!

But relax, there is nothing STATIC about Hollywood! In fact, we are witnessing one of the biggest transitions since the Golden Age of film... and that's not to say it's a good or bad thing! Time will tell, and as always -- it will work itself out.

Two or three years from now the DYNAMICS could change completely!

Ask yourself this, where were you seven years ago?

I was right here X3! Ooohe!

SELLC · CERTIFIED POST WHORE

ho-ho-ho

SELLC · CERTIFIED POST WHORE

I can remember back when I first heard that Easy E Christmas song that I posted above... at the time, a Tween IIRC -- it was a righteous tune. Just what every growing boy needed! Really can't help it that a few times during the Holiday Season, I like to spin it.

Having made it thru Christmas 2023 without totally going off the rails I feel pretty good, and it was a most Merry Christmas 2023 here in Plymouth, Michigan! I hope everyone in this thread had a Merry Christmas regardless if they are religiously affiliated with the Holiday or not! There is nothing wrong with getting time off to be with family, or working and getting paid tripple time! Of course, not everyone celebrates Christmas -- and nobody does it like I do! lol

That being said, I was most pleased to see Rachel with her dude Brenden at Christmas time -- it's really a relief for me. I thought she was going off the deep end there for awhile, but it appears she has had a course correction along the way and went to play with friends in NYC for the Holidays. I didn't see much in the ways of Melissa this Christmas, and I can only assume everything is going good over there... just a shame she won't let me play in any of her reindeer games on Twitter, and she has been pretty quiet on Instagram -- I suppose I should start following her again, and maybe check in on them Web Crawlers to see if they are doing okay! After all, we're only 10 months away from Halloween and I have been thinning out my monthly subscriptions... It's still winter here, getting dark at 5:30PM, however they say each passing day will be longer from here on out -- but can't say I have noticed any difference yet myself. What I can tell you is that since Christmas has passed my guts seem to be feeling a lot better! I don't know what it is about Christmas, but it has a physical element of worry that comes along with it... did I buy enough gifts for family? Did I decorate enough? Will Christmas day be a good one? Truth is you'll never know until it's over, like many other things in life I suppose.

Now that Christmas is over, and we are barreling towards New Years 2024 like a locomotive on ice, at full speed, with no brakes -- I don't feel like there is anything I want to change! And I hope that deep down, everyone else feels that way too! Sure, I'd like to make more money, love longer and harder, and be as healthy as possible! But I also want to enjoy life and think back fondly on my memories -- good or bad. Nothing wrong with taking the New Year to look back on life and make course corrections to start off the New Year! Sometimes change is a long complicated process, and sometimes it's just not possible to change overnight... or in my case, even after 48 years!

This thread has always been about my personal exposure to all that is LA and Hollywood. My fascination with it leaves me feeling like there are many ways you can get caught up in it... Probably the best way is to be born into it! Followed closely by being married to it... but that's not to say you can't break into it! Hollywood has a very good eye for talent, and if you're too good -- Hollywood / California life will find you... but we're talking lottery odds on the latter!

What am I doing? Me? I'm just hanging around! lol

And then there is Eden... she got me the same thing I got her this year for Christmas -- which was absolutly NOTHING! biggrin

Nothing from nothing leaves -- nothing! Pleased to announce that this year for Christmas I just nipped on a bottle of Baileys Irish Cream, just so I wouldn't get shitfaced and shit on anyones Christmas. It worked! Made it thru without getting too carried away.

New Years might be another story! I'm getting what writers call a "writers block"... maybe I'll start nosing around to see what's out there for New Years and report back!

Shawnee_B · FAR BEYOND DRIVEN

Did you get coal?

SELLC · CERTIFIED POST WHORE

No Shawnee... I did not get coal! LOL

What I did get was a break from what has long since ailed me... all but one of the women who star in this thread!

I say that because I have cut off all financial ties with all of them... I did this because in 2024 I plan on working on myself! Perhaps in this many of years I have come to realize that there was a reason that MySpace and chat forums before that used "handles"... and that was so that you could just "move on" without really knowing who you were talking with -- unless you met up IRL.

Since I never met up any of the dozen prudes who star in this thread it pretty much means were at a new point in the internet... Do you really expect us to believe your name is Shawnee? And if it is, what is your last name?

At a loss for words? Well that means you just got coal! Because you're really not playing at the same level as I, or any of the thirteen women in this thread... all of us are using REAL names! That is something different that I seen with Twitter (Now X)... People are not hiding behind handles, and they don't want to be forgotten! I doub't I'll ever forget about anyone in this thread so long as I live! You included, except I don't even really know who the fu@k you are IRL! LOL, same goes for PowerStroker, Rastus, Stoma, and many of the other people in this forum!

These people in this thread were using real names -- putting themselves out there! That is what drew me to them! I got a LOT of respect for that, and it's the MAIN reason that I have followed and wrote about them over the years!

Of course, as of tonight -- Eden Dranger and I have officially parted ways. That's not to say we have ever held hands on any trail or anything, rather I have exausted EVERYTHING that I can offer on her with no reciprocation. I cannot deny that she is screwed in her ways, in ways that I could only explain to her by way of photos on Twitter tonight -- but even still... I'm sure she's a good person for someone, but no doubt that other person must be a Jew for her. She gives off mixed signals the likes of the sea! I cannot traverse her unstill waters any longer. The distraction for me has been immense over the past year! One only needs to look at the past years worth of post to figure out that dispite the fact she had no real interest in me -- she was more than willing to play the "fool" and reap whatever crumbs befell her. I found it very ODD how the rolls had reversed from what was traditionally.

So whatever!

It matters not that I tried to repopulate the earth with a few women on this thread... one of which I was lucky enough to +2!

Even Melissa was able to pull off a +1 with modern medicine -- although I'd argue I could have gotten it done naturally!

I dunno... it's 2024, loyalty to the group is still there -- but from here on out, if they are doing fine I'm just going to leave them alone! Maybe I'll catch up with the Web Crawlers (aka Melissa Stetten) later in the year... but I have always wished for nothing but the best for everyone in this thread, and even the entire forum! Stoma included! Just because I'm at a point in my life where things have changed drastically doesn't mean that I wish any ill will on anyone in here! It has been an honor to share their stories and experiences here because at least the 13 women in this thread -- ALL of them have stood on their own name! I got respect for that! And that is why I write about them, that is why I follow them (even if I'm not following them)...

This is my life! This is their life! This is what we do!

And until the end, I'd just say, (even though this tune has appeared in this thread before) -

SELLC · CERTIFIED POST WHORE

Well it's been almost 24 hours since my last post in here... and I don't know if you realized it or not, but I was a little liquored up last night. LOL -- just a little bit. Sometimes after a few drinks you get to feeling in ways that are difficult to express in words without coming off as a "dick"... I'm good at this even when I've not been drinking -- or so I am told... but it's amplified on liquor.

The unsavory propoganda photo above, and my mention of "roll reversals" was my attempts to convey that in my attempts to woo Eden, I had started to feel like the guy in the photo trying to buy a girls affection. Hince my whole "roll reversal" statement. The feeling was clear in my mind at the time, but my efforts to concisely convey that were washed away in the alcohol. I'm not angry with Eden, nor do I hate her... I guess in many ways I've always known how she really felt, which could best be discribed as "not interested" -- but she seems to enjoy the attention, and clearly I enjoyed the chase. I think we both know that it was inevitable that from time to time all this one way passion would boil over... and it has several times over the past year as I tried harder and harder.

So I'm taking my own "course correcting" advice above. The fact we are at the start of a New Year may have contributed to this because in that moment of drunkeness I asked myself, do I want to look back in another year and feel like this? Because that is what I did yesterday morning after having went back a year in this thread. Do I enjoy getting on the internet and engaging with people? Maybe a little too much! We can go back DECADES and see that being online has been one of my most favorite things to do for entertainment! I like being online, I like conversing with people. I feel bad that I roughed up Shawnee, PowerStroker, Rastus and everyone else for keeping their classic "handles" of anonymity -- I only lost it because I lost mine long before Twitter... Sure, I use a handle in here too! But this place is like Cheers where everybody knows your name.

I have even seen that this New Year has brought forth some new clairty for Melissa, who had a most excellent Instagram post recently that I enjoyed reading... you can clearly tell she had found her "Mom Power" and it made me feel quite happy things worked out for her. I also appoligize for anything I might have joked around about, because honestly as you all know I had the SERIOUS hots for her, for quite some many years! You'd have to go back SIX pages and you'd realize for how long... and while I have been on and off again with being obsessed with the ladies in this thread I have come to the conclusion that these are my people... even if some of them would rather not be. The idea of meeting any other new "peeps" outside the circle is scary. It's been safe in here, and while I complain about them from time to time it's only been out of frustration. It's hard to be friends with someone of the opposite sex for heterosexual people! VERY HARD! Even more so IRL! Back before the internet it was all too easy to sleep with your married friend of the opposite sex! Before computers and cell phones you could just find yourself alone with a friend and before you know it you're sucking face and trying to get their pants off! I'm not saying it doesn't happen in todays day and age, but the internet really is an outlet where 2,000 miles of distance can often times keep you relatively safe from anything impulsive... but I wonder if that only makes you feel crazy at times?

Anyway, that's about all I've got for tonight... I'll leave you with this tune to enjoy!

Rastus · UNSTOPPABLE!

ROTFLMAO....

Virtual reality Stellar, hook line & sinker...

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qt." I also apoligize for anything I might have joked around about, because honestly as you all know I had the SERIOUS hots for her, ( Melissa ), for quite some many years! You'd have to go back SIX pages and you'd realize for how long... And while I have been on and off again with being obsessed with the ladies in this thread, I have come to the conclusion that these are my people... Even if some of them would rather not be. The idea of meeting any other new "peeps" outside the circle is scary.

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You are suffering Stellar from a slightly different version of Trumpdt-syndrome, called "Virtual reality syndrome"...

There are many solutions, though they generally depend on current life-circumstance, that meaning change it !!! The boys are grown-up, your marriage clearly hasn't existed for a number of years, so pack-your-bags & head-off into the West, which is where you seem to want to be...

1. You'll be happy again.

2. Your family will be likely even happier, as they'll be free too.

3. You will change virtual-reality into reality.

Go for it ! We need more happy people living-the-life !!! (Not people wishing they were living another one).

SELLC · CERTIFIED POST WHORE

I'm at a loss for words, Rastus... Are you telling me everything you think I wanna hear? Or are you just being cheeky?

I reckon anything on the internet involves a bit of VR, no? It's not for everyone but look how far we have come since the days of BBS systems, dial up and AOL! Just about EVERYONE who is ANYONE is online now!

That having been said, you're no better than I in this regard, my VR friend! lol

Although you did give me something to knaw on the past few days... and having thought about it a great deal I have come to this conclusion,

"Hollywood is a FUCKED UP PLACE!" And I don't mean that in a good or bad way! I mean that as to say that crazy shit happens there! It's almost like they make magic and pump it all over the world. It's the land of show-biz -- and we all know there is no business like show business, no business I know!

Looking back to my earliest days when I became "aware" of Hollywood I was in my teens... Beverly Hills 90210! LOL! But were talking the late 1990's here! It was good stuff! Way more wholesome than that smut on Melrose Place, but I digress -- I did like Moonlighting back then too! (even if I didn't really understand anything in the show but how hot Cybill Shepherd was) IIRC, Moonlighting was out well before 90210 -- but anyway, 90210 is when I became "aware" Hollywood wasn't just some magical place owned by Walt Disney and Bugs Bunny. At that time in my life, I gave SERIOUS thought to moving to California! NGL, I came very close! But back then when I was in my Senior year I had the youth, the looks, the car -- and of course the girls! I had my own Hollywood unfolding before my very own eyes IRL! So I stayed in Michigan.

It wouldn't be until my trip out West with Brandee in the Corvette, crusing the Hollywood Hills on a warm clear night with the top down driving under the Hollywood sign that the "magic" feeling of "Hollywood" crept into my veins once more. Us being alone in them Hills under the Hollywood sign felt AMAZING! It was everything it ever was on TV! Very powerful!

I don't think it had the same impression on Brandee... even though she loves TV and film. She was more of a Melrose Place and Friends kind of fan... She didn't care for NYC when I took her there either... so don't feel bad Hollywood! LOL, and to be honest -- NYC was always too bougie for even my taste! So a lot of my inspiration to visit Hollywood from that point on came from the women in the first two pages of this thread. At that time (2017) in the Hills of Hollywood balling out top down in the Corvette, I really didn't know how much of an effect it was going to have on me -- and I think most of my desires to return there were from reading about Melissa (read: https://prettybored.com/ ) uprooting her life and just moving there -- just like I had planed to do back in the 90210 days -- and just like Rastus has mentioned above.

But I have always suffered from being homesick, no matter where I go it's just a matter of time before I want to go back home -- and you know what else they say "There is no place like home!"

Hollywood is like a network of sorts, when you're with people IRL you can connect with them by quoting a movie, sometimes just to see if they are "aware" of the VR magic (movie scene) that sparked an emotion in you. Most often times when they do recognize and elaborate it's like an immediate connection. And that is what Hollywood is all about! A connection, or magic if you will.

My problem is that I have assosiated 2023 California with Eden... and she's just a writer! LOL, I need to shake that!

SELLC · CERTIFIED POST WHORE

Rastus wrote:

There are many solutions, though they generally depend on current life-circumstance, that meaning change it !!! The boys are grown-up, your marriage clearly hasn't existed for a number of years, so pack-your-bags & head-off into the West, which is where you seem to want to be...

1. You'll be happy again.

2. Your family will be likely even happier, as they'll be free too.

3. You will change virtual-reality into reality.

Go for it ! We need more happy people living-the-life !!! (Not people wishing they were living another one).

Oh, and FYI... My marriage very much exist -- for going on 23 years now! I've told Brandee about Melissa and Eden! I wouldn't say we have an "open" marriage, but I'm open with her about how I feel. This is a public thread you know!

1. I am happy -- I just wanna have fun.

2. As you said, my oldest has moved out and my youngest is in college. Their happiness is 100% on them now! And it's fair to say if Brandee wasn't happy she wouldn't be here either! We are family, regardless if we're all apart -- or all togehter. You can pick your friends, but you can't pick your family!

3. Maybe you need to flip back a few pages to see that I have actually BEEN to Hollywood IRL -- multiple times! All them photos weren't AI generated you know! lol

Go for it? LOL, funny thing about that saying... back when I was maybe five or six years old my Mom had gotten a new Ford Escort and my Dad and I were following her home in his XKE Jaguar... at the light he looked over at me and said, "Do you think I can catch up to your Mom?" and I said to him "GO FOR IT!"... when the light turned green he revved it up side-stepped the clutch, however the clutch blew up -- throwing insulation and leather all about the cabin. The metal shrapnel also messed up his leg too! Thankfully the XKE spared me, and just left me covered in dust -- but from that moment on I have always been a little gun shy whenever someone says "Go for it!"... odd thing is, the street that the clutch blew up on my Dad's 1966 XKE just happens to be two doors down from where I live now! So it's really odd that you use that term.

All that being said, I'd much rather stick with the people in this thread than to meet new people -- at least online! And while it's true that none of us can pick our family, I'm trying to make friends -- even if it's just VR.

It's literally below zero temps here for the next week in Michigan... I won't lie I've been tempted to get away for 48 hours, maybe rent a Lamborghini or something new to review the next time I'm out there... It sure would be nice to have some friends to meet up with, but I guess I'll just have to settle for VR until they give me the okay -- which may be never! But I'm okay with that! I'm happy with the scraps!

Rastus · UNSTOPPABLE!

LOL !

Live-it-up Stellar !!!

This tune always reminds me of you guys State-side...Enjoy, & play at maximum volume !

SELLC · CERTIFIED POST WHORE

Rastus wrote:
Stellar, my friend, you really are a 1st-class idiot beyond description...

It really is a wonder that you've survived for so long as you do, living the life that you have.

You're lucky that people like PowerStroker ( & even myself ) somehow try to understand your dilemma, & even stick-up & help you, even after you chew-our-heads-off, with no valid claim. ( Remember the house renovations & asbestos that you breathed in you fool) !

Anyhow, I pretty-much think that your imaginary " autotrend.activeboard.com/t67354885/tried-to-lurk-the-zoom-web-crawlers-live-broadcast-last-nigh/" thread speaks volumes about your state-of-mind.

Rather than help, you rather self-validate your own claimed superiority, to little or no avail...This indicates a really poor self-esteem, as witnessed by your fantasy thread above...

But still, we'll try to help you out !

The pressure is on, & pretty-soon it seems reality will bite everyone on the ass that isn't aware of, or prepared for the shyte to come...But all the information you need to be prepared is within this site, so look around. Simply follow Shawnees advice if you don't understand what I offer. ( Facts not fiction ).

As for your reply above, WTF are you talking about ???...

No clues.

(quote above from https://autotrend.activeboard.com/t68223611/electric-power-tools-any-suggestions/)

Oh, thank you so much Rastus! That really means a lot coming from you... The power tools were to make Eden jealous -- not you, you big jug head! LOL

I'd like clarification on that whole "really wondering how I managed to survive as long as I have, living the lifestyle that I do" statement... What exactly do you mean by that?

You guys love your heads chewed off! What can I say? You keep coming back for more! LOL

This thread is a mix of fantasy and reality... eventually one of these chicks will cave!

At least you're trying to drum up traffic to this thread by linking it in other parts of the forum where otherwise "normal" people might happen across it... even if you claimed all the women in this thread were lesbians!

I'll quote the other part of your out-of-order rantings in the power tools thread later -- but really... do you consider this thread and it's stars to be some kind of shame? Because I'm not ashamed of anyone in this thread! These are my people -- these are my dreams!

You don't appreciate that passion, Rastus?

Tracy Chapman - Fast Car

P.S. This thread wasn't moved because of you... but Pandora's Box is wide open -- and ain't but ONE thread currently in that taboo forum.

Rastus · UNSTOPPABLE!

Hmmm...^^^^^^^^^^^^

I have no idea what they're putting in "E"'s these days, but the results speak for themselves...

If nothing else, you might just have some of this below LOL !

Play at maximum volume for best results :) !

SELLC · CERTIFIED POST WHORE

Recently tried my hand at PhotoShop.. what do you guys think?

SELLC · CERTIFIED POST WHORE

It's been awhile since I have posted on this thread, but as you can probably still imagine -- I'm still VERY MUCH hung up on Eden... I know it's not exactly conventional thinking, but it's my one little thing that keeps me going on them really tough days. I'm almost positive she has some sort of feelings for me, even if they might be similar to the feelings a dog develops when you feed them... in other words, she knows I enjoy her company enough to give her the occasional few bucks -- but is hessantant to allow me to explore just how far down her rabbit hole goes... in other words, she still either doesn't trust me, or herself enough to meet... maybe a little bit of both.

No doubt, I'd like to meet ANY of the 12 women in this thread -- some of whom have fallen off the face of social media! Others just have me blocked because it's just easier for them not to have the drama or distraction... it's cool though, I still admire them and I'll be here should they ever change their minds! That said, I have recently re-instated our membership on the Web Crawlers with a most handsom pledge to make up for the holiday months when I got all bent out of shape about Melissa's charitable donation choices. To be completly honest, at that time I simpily could not keep up with all the content they were rolling out, plus it did bother me they were basiclly giving all the money away to charities that I couldn't get behind... having been in poltics long enough I realize that people have different ideas and feelings -- it became clear that I was really just looking for a reason to take a break. But that's over now, and I feel somewhat obligated to support their pod because when you get right down to it, Melissa and her crew are responsible for a majority of our Hollywood exposure... I say "our" because I share everything in here whenever I go out there.

Recently I no-showed another trip out to Hollywood whereas I had gotten REALLY good prices on pre-purchase airline tickets way in advance. I was supposed to depart Detroit DTW airport on Feb 27th 2024 bound for LAX with a few hour lay-over in Dallas, where I would have FINALLY been able to enjoy our AMEX Centerion lounge perk -- as you know I have tried many times to enjoy this perk, only to get denied for various reasons. But this time, while in Dallas -- I would have been laid over in waiting for my connecting flight with LAX so I would have qualified for admittance. I could have spent several hours there drinking and eating for free! Then I would have caught my connection to LAX and that adventure would have been -- well, we will never really know because again -- I no showed... I no showed because I could not get a confermation from Eden, whom I wanted to meet while I was out there. Since I could not get that confermation I figured I'd just no show the very inexpensive tickets, rather than rock the boat. Everything happens for a reason I guess, and on the return trip home from that trip I would have flown out of LAX to Houston (IAH airport) to spend a few days with my Son before I flew home to Detroit.

None of it happened, and honestly the tickets were so cheap buying them way in advance that it felt like I'd be saving $1,000's by taking a $180 loss in not going. And lets face it, airfare from Detroit to Dallas for 4 hours, then to LAX for five days and then from LAX to Houston and then back for $180 was a SMOKING DEAL! But I have come to learn that you cannot pre-plan a tryst... EVER! Such things must be done in the passion of the moment with an almost "stand-by" urgency where there is just no turning back! I have learned my lesson and Hollywood is now a destination where I will ONLY book and fly out in the passion of the moment or not at all... Since Brandee hates California so much and refuses to go, it's not something where I could go there without rocking said boat. I don't know why she hates California so much, she watches TV all day and night -- seems there always has to be a TV going, even if she's not watching it or even if she's sleeping! I know I have mentioned this in the past, but I still find it to be one of her interesting quarks, and the irony that she don't even like California? *Cheff's Kiss* -- drives me crazy! I should also mention, as with Melissa -- Brandee already knows about Eden... So this thread has a level of satire, fantasy with a few bits of reality mixed in...

All that said though, this Eden situation extracts a very large amount of passion from me that would otherwise be focused on automotive and or home improvements. I'm not complaining, but at the same time I'm not getting any traction and thus just spinning my wheels... and while I love a good burn out as much as the next guy, at some points you're bound to have the tires blow out! I dunno... I guess there could be far worse things to be strung out on -- but I can't discount this having some sort of cosmic energy surrounding it. It's really sort of up and down, round and round like a roller coster. She must be filthy rich or something -- I can't seem to figure her out... she can't be that hard up for attention! But who knows, like I'm on to talk! LOL

Anyway, I'm still dabbling with my photoshop skills and using her as my muse...

I dunno... if you ask me this new version of Photoshop is pretty good! Photoshop is one of them things you just have to keep practicing in order to get used to all of the different methods of photo editing, clipping, pasting -- etc.

It's not any easier to use Photoshop, than it is to crush on Eden... both are pretty complex and hard to get the hang of... I tend to be most creative Photoshopping in the still of the night