Rusty's on the Blogging Bandwagon

Rusty got on the blogging bandwagon - check out http://reallyrusty.blogspot.com and see what celebrity sighting, he had at the gas station tonight.
I won't steal his thunder...

Caffeine Infused Vodka

So when I was in New York this last trip I got some vodka that I can't seem to find many more places other than the Big Apple.

THE P.I.N.K website (www.perfectpartyspirit.com) describes the product with:

PINK VODKA: p.i.n.k. vodka is the first super-premium vodka infused with caffeine and guarana. p.i.n.k.'s flavorless caffeine and guarana formula provides the intensity without the need for popular energy drinks. p.i.n.k is made with the finest vodka from Holland and infused with caffeine and guarana. caffeine & guarana infused * vodka with caffeine and natural flavor *

...that means that a Red Bull and this vodka drink could possible induce a heart attack with all that caffeine. *wink* I'd be hopped up for a week. *wink*
It's funny 'cause when I did a Google search for 'Red Bull and Vodka' the bottle image came up.

Growing Up Gotti - Ski Week Episode

I went into my office this morning to catch up on a few "little things" and ended up leaving about two hours later.

I stopped by 7-11 and got Rusty and I "Slurpees" that were 'Coke' flavored and 'Mountain Dew' flavored together. YUM!

I came home and Rusty was watching "Growing Up Gotti" about the daughter of the late mafia man John Gotti. ...that show is hilarious. It cracks me up.
This episode was about when Victoria wants to get away and ends up at 'Gay Ski Week' in Aspen. *hehe* CLICK HERE to read more about the episode on A&E TV's website.

Boy of the Moment - "Testing the Bat Pole"

The artist formerly known as Andy Kirra sent this to me today.

January 'Cocktails with the Stars' Lineup

More Gay Erotic Expo Photos from Vicky

HERE are some more photos from the Gay Erotic Expo that Vicky took, (...she's amazing!)

http://digitalrailroad.net/Viktoriya/gpgs.aspx?pgid=6932281&e=0&p=0

Have a Safe Flight?

Marshall said something that I totally agree with:

I just don't understand why people say "have a nice, good, safe flight". We can't control how our plane ride is going to be. It can only be a normal good get to your destination flight or flying and then free falling in to the earth flight. The more people say it to me, the more I get sick to my tummy.

Boys of the Moment - BRandom HOT Boys

Boy of the Moment

Someone passed these onto me from a Yahoo! Group.

Robin's Signal

Broken China

This was the wall of a place called, "The Coffee Shop" in Union Square.
I think its so cool that it's made up of broken china. ...my wall would be like this if I smashed something everytime I got mad. I could make my wall as big as the "Wall of China." and make it OF china.
The wait to eat lunch was like 20 minutes and by no means does that qualify enough time for us to eat lunch before we made it to the airport.
What happened to a "New York Minute?"

Brandon Baker Sitting on Jason Hawke's Face

I have always wanted to sit on Jason Hawke's face. *wink*

He's so hot! He needs to stop his hotness right now!

Angel's Cold Shoulder

This is one of my favorite photos from the Gay Erotic Expo in New York.
It's of Angel Benton in the freezer in one of the back rooms of the expo.
Now you know what we do in the backrooms. *wink*

I've heard of the cold shoulder, but Angel, com'on. *hehe*

AdultWhosWho.com Year in Review

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PartyWithBrandon in Cybersocket Blog Story

It's not out yet, but the next issue of Cybersocket Magazine features Perez Hilton and I in an article about "blogging."
It will be available all over the US on January 1 and largely available in Las Vegas during the conventions next month.

The headline reads, "Perez Hilton, Party With Brandon and Large Tony are the "IT" blogs"
That means alot to be in a category with those bitches. *wink*

They seemed to focus on the fact that I don't make money from my blog. At this point, I still think that I make my money elsewhere, I want people to enjoy a commercial free site. I used to get so pissed when I thought I found free porn on the interenet and then I was directed to a "JOIN NOW!" page. Who knows what the future holds, I have had a few people offer me something, but it still is in my ability to say, "Thanks but not right now." so I have decided against advertising on my site. Plus, then I HAVE to do it, at this point, I still choose to do it.

I will post a link to the online version when it's up.

New PartyWithBrandon Wine Image

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Sucking Up

Rusty got me this crazy high powered vacuum for the apartment for Christmas.
(He's not stupid, he know's it's best for him too! *wink*)
I put on my high heels and vacuumed up the floor this morning.
He grabbed my camera and took some photos of me sucking up. *wink*

Santa Claus vs. Easter Bunny

I think the Easter bunny has an easier role in the holidays.
He does not have to make any moral judgments.
...this whole naughty or nice thing has got to be stressful.

"No Whey!"

Scott has this lemonade nutrition drink stuff that pretty awful tasting. I tried it. Lemonade my ass - it tastes about as much like lemonade as my ass does. (...everybody knows my ass tastes like strawberries. *wink*)

It works with whey in workout and muscle building. When he asked if I wanted some after tasting it to be silly, I said, "No whey!"

While you won't find any of that stuff on my desk or in my glass, you can look forward Scott, who is the host of the weekly "Cocktails with the Stars" show to be bulking up.

...speaking of bulking up, tonight's "Cocktails with the Stars" show features Eddie Stone. (www.FabScout.com).
Tonight you can win a HustlaBall ticket too at the event held at Micky's in West Hollywood. I gave the "Cocktails" host a HustlaBall ticket each week to give away. It will help promote awareness of the event.

Dirt on Angel

I sent flowers to Angel 'cause we were on the fritz.
(...really it was so that he had something pretty to hold the dirt he has on me. *wink*)

I mean, I know flowers can't make everything better, but I thought, "I am so bad with speech, but I can usually write what I want to say so I'd try this time too."

I sent this arrangement at the right with a "GET WELL" card that said,

"Not ill huh? ...after dealing with me, you are gonna need more 'Get Well' cards. Life isn't always flowers, but I am glad to share dirt with you. Hang in there. -Brandon Baker"

I had them delivered on Christmas day so that it would be extra special.

Instant Snow

I am back from New Orleans and Christmas in the Big Easy.
I will blog about that in a little bit.

This morning, Rusty said, "Let's make snow." and I thought, "Uh-oh!" I don't know what that means, but I bet it means trouble.
I was in the bathroom and I heard him say, "...just add water." and I thought, "Oh shit, Rusty's gone off the deep end."

I came out and he had a pan out on the counter.
He showed me this package he got from his mom for Christmas. It said, "INSTA-SNOW" and it too said, "ADD WATER".
Now come on, how are you gonna make snow when you "just add water", H-E-L-L-O, you can't fool me, I know snow IS water. *wink*

What his mom got him was this cool chemical product that when you do add water, kinda "explodes" into this snow. It like hydrates it or something. It's really one of the more interesting things I have seen in my little lifetime.
...and it's cold to the touch.

I of course wanted to find out more and how this friggin' thing really worked, 'cause it was so neat.
It said, "NON-TOXIC" but I was a little worried that any chemical reaction like that in my kitchen can't be that healthy, so I went online to find out more.
The most helpful thing I found was HERE.
Now I see that I was not that far off and that it's a super absorbent polymer that expands when you add the water.

WOW! Now I can put off Vail. I can go skiiing in my apartment if I covered one corner with it, that's hot. No, wait, that's cool. Well, you know what I mean.

If you want to find out more about it, CLICK HERE or check out the link at the bottom of this entry.

http://www.giftblisssales.com/instantsnowtogo.html
http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/00000137

Traffic and Travel - T2

I missed a couple of flights today. I know big shocker, huh?

The first missed flight was out of LAX this morning.
I was going to fly standby until from LAX to LAS on one of the 7 flights before 6:50pm when I had to leave LAS to go to New Orleans.
Last night when I looked at the flight availbility online and they were only overbooked by like 6 or so and had under 5 standbys, so I had a fairly good chance of getting on one of them.
However, once I walked into the airport, no I take that back, once the shuttle bus pulled up in front of the airport and I saw the lines that we outside the building down the sidewalk and around the corner, I headed right to the departures to get back on the rental car shuttle bus. There was no way I was going to get on anything with that amount of people waiting for re-booking due to weather conditions all over the US like Miami and Denver. I heard one guy saw he has been bumped from 6 flights already. YIKE!
I figured missing flights at one airport was not going to be enough, I was going to see if I could do it at TWO. *wink*

I got back to the car rental place and considering the fact that National Car Rental hardly ever gets my billing correct and this morning when I returned the Chrysler 300 with a Hemi (...that was hard to part with.) I was over it that I had to go back and talk to someone. I don't get along well with the staff at the LAX location. However, when I went to the frequent renters booth, the same car I had was washed, glistening and at the front of the lot waiting for it's next renter. I walked over to the guy at the booth and said, "I just returned that car. Can I have it back? It's not due until 10:00pm anyway. I want to return it to the Las Vegas location now." He said, "...THAT car, sir?" I said, "...that very one." He fiddled with the keys on his computer and handed me the keys and said, "Drive carefully."
I headed to Las Vegas to see if I could catch the 6:55pm departure that way. I had about 6 hours of time at that point.

Traffic was not on my side today.
...wait, actually, traffic WAS on my side. ...of the highway that is. , the entire way of my trip traffic was on my side, in front and behind me too. *wink*
This of this portion of the blog sponsored by traffic. It may as well get a plug somehow at this point. In the daylight and in the nightlight, it was backed up, stopped, slow.

I told Rusty, "I missed the flight. I am two exits and a day away from New Orleans now."
I could see the airport two exits ahead of me. However, I was fine with it when I called the airline and said, "Please roll me over to the next flight, I just missed the one I was sheduled for." I figured at the worst, I would get a full refund and I would find something on the 24th, the flights were less full after about 4:00pm on Christmas Eve. She found me one seat on the early departure from LAS to MSY through PHX leaving at 8:00am. The helpful lady told me, "...even if you have to go standby, the best time to make a standby flight is the first one of the day when people don't show up." (Keep that in mind my traveling friends, if you are ever in that sitiation.)

I called my mom and dad and my mom said, "Don't bother coming home anyway." in tears.
I guess she and my brother got in a fight over my new sister-in-law or something, I still don't know the whole story. I don't think I even want to.
As I hung up with her in total frustration now, my caller ID flashed with my brother's name. He told me, "Do what you have to do, the drama is still going to be here, even if you are not. You have to decide if you want to put yourself in it."
He didn't want to drive to my parents house 3 hours away. I can respect that. I mean, I am only spending a small fortune on flights and going halfway across the country to see them all so we can all be together.
...but I don't fault him. I don't fault my mom either. My brother usually remains pretty objective and my mom is just very emotional.
My mom said, "Tradition is to come here." My brother said, "Traditions change." I hear them both loud and clear. Frankly, I don't need to agree with either. ...but I do need to respect what they say. I just don't want him trying to force his opinion on me and I don't want her trying to force her opinion down my throat.
I turned up the radio and thought, "This is not what I thought I would be doing on my birthday, sitting in traffic on the way to Sin City dealing with this."
*blows out candles in head*
I am still trying to sift through this Angel Benton mess in my head too, so now I was clouded in the head AND stuck in traffic. ...but the traffic was in my head now with thoughts piling up one on top of each other.
About an hour later, I guess my mom bit the bullet and seceded like the Confederacy and plans were back on to go to Lafayette. I knew that's what would happen. I can only wait to see how exciting this is going to be.
I however, will have to meet them there since I don't get into New Orleans until mid-afternoon now.
I am sick of telling my dad, "Poor planning on my part now constitutes an emergency on your part."

*END RANTING HERE*

I am staying at my Las Vegas apartment tonight.
I went through all my mail here, (...it builds up fast.) and look to the right photo to see what "Marlboro" brand cigarettes sent me for my birthday. It's a compact glass ashtray. I have never even smoked a cigarette. ...that made me laugh. If I smoked, I would be happy. I think they must have my address from this time I gave it to this guy at a nightclub with a hot Zippo lighter promotion. Now I get a advertisement from them about each month. I won't lie, I look forward to it. They spend ALOT on them and I love to see what's next. They are usually pretty creative and grab my attention.

Lisa put up the tree in Las Vegas too. I chucked when I saw the ornaments that were a Vodka bottle and a martini shaker. She bought those last year for Sky (...now known as Andy Kirra.) when he was hanging around me. Those are cute ornaments. I think the Skyy bottle was for him. (I resisted the slight whim to smash it to smitherines, stomp on it, spit on it and throw it out the window.) (JUST KIDDING!) I am more in the Christmas spirit now.

I am a year older today. I don't know about a year wiser, but one out of two isn't bad. (...and it's better than my number of catching flights to missing them is.)

Lisa asked me what I wanted for my birthday dinner and I said, "Burger King" and pecked out a few lines in my blog before I thank God for letting me cruise through life.
Even if I have a bit of bumper-to-bumper traffic here and there, delays from irresponsibility, honking from behind, and close calls - it's a good life on a well-built highway with some pretty cool drivers on the road with me. *wink*

Diva by Definition

The technical definition of diva is very different from what I hear it used as today, especially in the gay club culture.

The definition of the word DIVA is described by Wikipedia is:

diva

A diva is a female opera singer, but now the term also refers to a popular female performer of non-operatic works. The term was originally used to describe a woman of rare, outstanding talent. The term derives from an ancient Italian word meaning "goddess", which, in turn derives from the feminine form of a Latin word divus, meaning "divine one."

The term sometimes carries a comical or negative connotation, implying that a pop star who labels herself a "diva" is arrogant, difficult to work with, high-maintenance, or demanding. In slang jargon, a woman may be referred to as a "diva", suggesting that she thinks highly of herself, is demanding, or is especially dramatic. The term can also be used positively, however, to comment a woman's talent, performance style, or stage presence, likening it to that of a famous and successful diva.

TIME magazine observed in its October 21, 2002, issue: "By definition, a diva was originally used for great female opera singers, almost always sopranos." Often today "diva" is used to describe any extremely independent and talented woman; however, the term still applies to the classical arts.

However, as the online information bank pointed out as well, it seems to be used more with a connotation of cockiness or poised confidence when I hear it nowadays. ...that's not really a diva then, huh?

I think the most correct place I have seen the definition played was in "The Fifth Element" movie. The blue character mocked yet still held true to the definition ...what a brilliant creation and point to the society's portrayal.
(Speaking of brilliant, I was so pissed when I was looking for this image online and could not find it. I kept thinking, I know that she was a true diva and how cool that that they created that character in the movie. I realized I could not find her because I was searching using the word blue, diva and Sixth Sense. I was a number off. It was "The Fifth Element" the diva was in, not "The Sixth Sense." DUH, Brandon!)

I wanted to say that character's like Glenn Close in "Stepford Wives", Meryl Streep in "The Devil Wears Prada", but that would be a incorrect based on the dictionary definition. I will just stick with the fact that they were FABULOUS!

Nip/Tuck Season 4 Wrap-Up

I just watched all the rest of the Nip/Tuck's tonight with Lisa.

I found this YouTube clip with all the previews that are usually at the end of each episode rolled into one. It's kinda hot, but does not do it justice.

The end of the episode and show has everyone singing this song with each singing where the lines they sing apply to the character the most. The song did not do it for me, but that took some serious planning. If you want to check it out CLICK HERE or visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGsdtLjOa7Y.

The best thing is that MCNAMARA/TROY is moving to Hollywood. I am so excited that they are coming near me. (I know it's not real, but indulge me.) In fact, The LA Times did a story on it. HOT! HOT! and HOTTER! I can't wait. http://www.calendarlive.com/printedition/calendar/cl-et-niptuck13dec13,0,2167605.story

I won't ruin it for you, but of course, the last episode was packed with surprises, I figured some out, and some I did not.

I friggin' LOVED the 'Galla Gallardo' character in the last episode, she was FABULOUS! What a grand role.

I am so sorry to see James go, her character was neat. She was so devious and so aristocratic, but so troubled. Seeming to be at the top of her game, she was at the end of her turmoil.

Rosie O'Donnel's character this season was a great addition. I hope she comes back. I feel like I would sit next to her character on the next Southwest flight. (Oh wait, that's in a few hours, I just may end up sitting next to someone like her character.) I read that she may even have a spin off with that character.

I can't wait to see how Michelle and Christian fare. I want it to work out.

Superficiality is all over my world. That's why I think I identify with this show so much. Just like what I do in real life, they push the limits and are just perverse, twisted and diabolical - it's wonderful.

Here are some of the links I use for the other Nip/Tuck crazies out there who want to find out more information.

• Nip/Tuck on FX
• Nip/Tuck on TV.com
• niptuckfans.com
• Perfect Lie - A Nip/Tuck Fansite & Fan Listing
• Nip/Tuck Fanatic
• "Nip/Tuck"

Sweet & Blow

I seriously didn't know how I was going to blog this because I don't want to freak people out, but I like the way the way the photo came out that I had to find a way to include it in my blog. (I now have a better understanding of the entertainment value versus the truth to our blogs in the industry so I don't think it's that out of line. Get it? Line? Oh jeeesh...)

I tried to take the photo below at the level of the table and was so glad with the way it came out. I would have put this up if it were dirt, Kool-Aid or any other powder. It just so conveniently looks like cocaine.

...and H-E-L-L-O, I am not THAT dumb that I would put photos that were incriminating on my own blog. I would so put those on Jason Sechrest's MySpace or maybe the amazing Benjamin Nicholas on MySpace. *wink*


Seriously, that is 'Sweet and Low'. I was trying to figure out how I could blog this this week in my office and one of the girls said, "Call it 'Sweet and Blow'" and hence this entry was born. She even commented on my MySpace before I put this up.

A few of us thought it would be cute to have fun with the waitress who loved it. We were actually able to catch my boss Tom as he came back from the bathroom and saw it on the table.