Outrageous Beauty

We bid adieu to 2012 with this Parisian fellow named Augustin Marlot, possessor of the kind of beauty that makes life worth living.  Not much info about this guy.  I'm not even sure that he's a professional model. Hope so.

2012 was a pretty crap year for me, if you want the truth, but at least I will never have to utter the words "President Romney", so there's that, and there are always beautiful boys like this to remind me why I should get out of bed in the morning.   As the year comes to a close I have been contemplating the future of this blog.  There doesn't seem to be lot of  interest being shown for it lately. Page views are down, and aside from a very tiny group of stalwarts, I never get comments, and even then...

So please enjoy Augustin, and I'll see you in 2013, maybe.

Your Basic Prayer

PLEASE, help me find food and keep me warm and safe.
I'll always be good and kind...

Even if people consider themselves too sophisticated to say this, or maybe even allow themselves to think it, this is what is deep in their hearts or subconscious.

However, according to St. Theresa of Avila, it's stupid to pray for anything that is material.  God doesn't hear prayers that ask for material objects like money.  We should have it so ingrained in our consciousness and subconsciousness to know that God will provide our basic needs that we wouldn't feel the need to pray for substance.  We only pray for things that we feel we don't have.  We thank God for those things we have.

Hear us not when we ask Thee for honours, endowments, money, or anything that has to do with the world; but why shouldst Thou not hear us, Eternal Father, when we ask only for the honour of Thy Son, when we would forfeit a thousand honours and a thousand lives for Thy sake?  Not for ourselves, Lord, for we do not deserve to be heard, but for the blood of Thy Son and for His merits.

...St. Theresa of Avila

And Happy Boxing Day!

I'm not sure this is the kind of boxing they mean.

Merry, Merry

I was scrolling through Facebook today, when what to my wondering eyes did appear, but this image from the folks at Coitus Magazine.  I can but repeat the sentiment.  Merry Christmas everyone!

The Holly Jolly Christmas Eve Roundup

 

It's coming on Christmas,  as Joni Mitchell once said, and I'm off to my home town for a few days of making merry.  Before I go, here's my little Christmas gift to you.  Most of the boys in this collection are dressed for Christmas in Australia, not North America, but I didn't think you would mind.

Many more after the jump.