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I'm waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay past 21 ... OBVIOUSLY!

With nearly five THOUSAND people who have fairly recently made at least one of my sites a contact, I've, alas, given up trying to check them out. So if you wish to make me a contact and hope for reciprocation, please please please send me a flickr email and, if you have a moment, tell me a little bit (or a lot!) about yourself. That would be a big help and perhaps serve to introduce me to people I might otherwise overlook. Thank you!

3-6-09: At the bottom of the page is a sweet testimonial from Shelton Blue, who, as some of you may already know, died in early 2009. His loved ones were devastated and to this day I remain in a sort of dull shock. At the time i placed announcements in a couple of the groups that he and I shared and exchanged a few emails with his dear friend Johnny, whom I believe subsequently left flickr, probably unable to come here after the great shock of Shelton's death.

For anyone who would like to read some of my writing that will be included in the memoir I plan to publish, please check out my group "Ron's Journal And Other Writing" or ask me for an invitation to it. I've pretty much abandoned it lately, but there are still some lively pieces that cover some of my life from my childhood to decades later.

What is it about guys born in 1969? Shelton was born in 1969, as were the last 3 men I've had romances with, such as the two men you can find on my site, Joe McF and Richie. And while I'm not sure what happened to MY 1969 babes, all three of them had problems with drugs and seemed headed towards self-destruction if not annihilation. Of course Shelton was unlike them, so in touch with reality, in touch with his feelings and his love for his family and friends. Excuse me, but I realize that more than a year later I'm still reeling over Shelton's death and am starting to babble....




I have a myriad of interests -- recently began re-reading Michael Holroyd's wonderful biography of Lytton Strachey from the Bloomsbury group in Britain from the first third of the 20th century.

While I appreciate that most notes are left on pictures as compliments, I happen to find them distracting and would much prefer that such things be placed, instead, in comments left UNDER pics. Thanks!!!!!

Now back to my profile......

I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaaack!!!!!!!!!!! And you'll find NO net pics on this site ... EVER!!!!!!!!!! (For my profile, I asked to borrow the First Family pic from another member.) Any pics with full frontal nudity will be posted as restricted and visible only to flickr friends and/or members of the groups I post them..








Ron's journal and other writing




My sister Sue and I a FEW years ago. Each year from February 13th until March 21st she and I are, birthday-wise, twins.

%#'x*%$@#X!!! . T H E R E . A R E . N O . W E B . P I C S . O N . T H I S . S I T E !!! There's a little nudity here, but more can be found by friends at my Ron H again site.



As already pointed out, I'm well over 21 ... times THREE. And like Dennis Poz and Matthew Broderick and Johann Sebastian Bach and, god forbid, Rosie O'Donnell, born on March 21st.

I want to apologize for the many discussions I've posted in so many of my groups about the dangers of posting web pics, but I felt that I should share my grim experiences with members of those groups. I don't want others who have paid $24.95 for a pro site, who may misunderstand the dangers of posting net pics, to suffer the same annoying (and perhaps devastating) experience that I did. So a word to the wise: Try to avoid posting net pics, especially to a PRO account!

And here's some good advice about the safety settings on your pics:

www.flickr.com/groups/unsafe/

www.flickr.com/groups/unsafe/discuss/72157603807508732/


This is the new primary site for Ron Hard C , which is no longer active on Flickr, a victim of naively posting a handful of net pics.

Here's a link on changing the settings on pics: www.flickr.com/groups/unsafe/discuss/72157603807508732/

***Update: I finally broke down and posted a few nudes here, as RESTRICTED, of course, and visible only to flickr friends or to members of the groups I've sent them. Plus I've sent others to my Ron H again backup site. You can get there by simply clicking the following link or photo: www.flickr.com/photos/ron-hard-again/



By clicking the above pic, you can see my other profile and the outrageously long list of groups that I run. Or click one of these:

Photostream: www.flickr.com/photos/ron-hard-again/
Profile: www.flickr.com/people/ron-hard-again/




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I just sent this email to a kind gentleman who had made me one of his flickr friends:

Subject: You seem like a very nice person, but....

....but whenever anyone makes me a contact and I go to their pics and the first thing I see is their asshole opened for the world to see, I usually remove myself as that person's contact. Or if he has several pics of pissing. You seemed to have both.

I'm NOT saying that I'm any better than you .... I'm NOT!!!! But I have a small list of things that I'd prefer not to have shoved in my face, and in my previous site I had lots of info in my profile asking people to NOT make me one of their contacts if they had x y and z among their pics. YOU had both x and y!

Here's my philosophy, and I spelled it out in detail in my now deleted profile from my Ron Hard C site. I made the suggestion that people make anything at all kinky 100% private and restricted .... visible to NO one except to those in the groups they send it. That way a new contact won't innocently click their photos and suddenly have things thrown in their faces. I feel the same way about trannies .... what I used to refer to as chicks-with-tits-and-dicks, and I count them in the category of being carried as 100% private and ONLY visible when someone voluntarily joins a group to see such things. Pissing, or at least LOTS of pissing, would also qualify. You're still going to be able to share all that material with everyone who wants to see it, but it's not going to suddenly shock someone. You could add something in your profile like "To my new contacts who want to see closeups of my asshole or my new piss shots, please ask to join 'Assholes Up Close And Personal' and 'Yellow River.' Thanks!!!!" That way they can voluntarily choose to see those shots.

I've taken this time because you trusted me by making me a contact and I certainly appreciate your trust. But I wanted to pass along my own philosophy when it comes to how we present ourselves to the unsuspecting, and I would say that a new contact falls into the category of the "unsuspecting." Right?

Take care my friend, and best of luck to you!

There are simply things that turn some of us on that I believe should be kept as 100% private .... uploaded to flickr as private and restricted with neither friends nor family checked off. So ANYONE going to their site won't see them, but they can be seen by everyone who goes to the groups where they choose to post them. I think that the unsuspecting who DON'T choose to see certain things should be respected. How do others feel about this?

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I had just turned 18 and was in my first week of marine boot camp in San Diego:



And here I am 45 long years later:



After my beloved Ron Hard C pro site was suddenly deleted, it was hard for me to recapture the wonderful (and very long) profile I had on that site, and now, over a year later, I've yet to fill in all the blanks for favorite music and movies and books ... you can find all of that information on Ron Hard C ... oh wait ... Ron Hard C is history. Well, I love all kinds of BEAUTIFUL music, including romantic classical and popular singers like Linda Eder and Barbra Streisand and Sarah Brightman. I love very melodic opera from composers like Puccini and Bizet. I love theatre music and have been collecting original cast recordings for nearly 50 years, some on the unsuccessful format of SACD. I used to be a freelance writer and wrote music reviews for national publications. Did I mention that I'm a huge fan of instrumental soundtracks for films? Have lately become obsessed with the lovely (and sometimes thunderous) music of Carter Burwell. Check out the original "Twilight" and "In Bruges."

I'm a peripatetic reader and always have newspapers and magazines in hand, although I rarely seem to read books anymore ... when I DID I was a big fan of Harper Lee's TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, biographies like the amazing one that Michael Holroyd wrote about British writer Lytton Strachey or the biography that Quentin Bell did of his aunt, the writer Virginia Woolf. I could go on and on.....

I love good movies and count "Shakespeare In Love" as my all time favorite. I own 4,000 DVDs, but since I began to rent through Netflix have saved thousands of dollars. Got into Blu-ray last year, but keep trying NOT to re-buy all my favorite movies in the new format ... enough already! Besides, many standard DVDs look wonderful on my new 55" HD tv. But I've already bought over a hundred Blu-rays, so, despite good intentions, I keep getting drawn back into the planned obsolescence trap!

For those who have any interest, my nude favorites can be found on my Ron H again site (I don't favorite full frontal at THIS site). You can find and click him (me) as one of my contacts or as my co-admin of all my groups..

Emma is such a loving dog and we just adore her.





Don Bachardy and I in his living room in Santa Monica where his companion Christopher Isherwood wrote many of his books. Don sent this flyer to me for the documentary about his life with Chris ("Chris & Don, a love story") when it was about to be released to theatres .





Here is a letter I had printed in the Los Angeles Times several years ago when controversy erupted over Don's bold painting of former governor Jerry Brown:

BROWN PORTRAIT

Artist Don Bachardy's bold painting of former Gov. Jerry Brown seems to be the center of a maelstrom of controversy. Like all of Bachardy's paintings, it simply cannot be truly appreciated when seen in drab newspaper grays. It is awash and alive with color. Anyone who saw Bachardy's remarkable show last fall in Barnsdall Park will realize why the newspaper reproduction doesn't do it justice.

Many people who do not understand any art that goes beyond attempts at exact reproduction feel that expressionistic artists paint that way because they don't have the skills to do otherwise. That is an unfortunate misconception, especially in Bachardy's case, because those familiar with his detailed pencil drawings know the artist to be an astute craftsman. While his pencil drawings capture the physical person, his bold paintings often capture the spirit and the very essence of the individual. Anyone who has sat for him, as I have on more than one occasion, knows that he can be exact and honest to the point of offense. Often his subject will wince in pain -- and recognition!

Art certainly can mirror life, but it must not BE a mirror to be art, must not BE a mirror to mirror.


11-13-11: In answer to a flickr member who sent me a nice email about my friendship with Don Bachardy, I wrote the following, which I told him I would post here and in my writing group:

I have known Don Bachardy since about 1974 or early 1975. At the time I was working out at this little boutique of a gym on Little Santa Monica Blvd in Westwood about 4 blocks from the fabulous rustic cottage where I lived (for 14 years). I just knew them as Don and Chris, until one of my fellow gymnsters said to me something like "Ron, don' t you know who they are? That's Don Bachardy and Christopher Isherwood!" Don kept asking me to let him draw me until I finally agreed, and I had hoped that he would just come over to my nearby cottage, but he preferred for me to come to their house on Adelaide, hanging over the hill in Santa Monica Canyon and facing the Pacific Ocean and Malibu, which I finally did. The construction crew was in the process of finishing the construction of this wonderful studio with a tall wall of windows facing northwest towards Malibu, and he drew me -- which was before I grew the beard in early 1976 that I would keep probably the rest of my life. I was there a couple of hours and would often chat with Don and Chris at the beach, where they would set up camp down near the water's edge -- and Chris was always immensely entertaining with his stories,. One day Don invited me to a lecture that Chris was giving at UCLA, with the students asking him several questions afterwards. Someone asked why he moved from England to Berlin in the 1930s and he said, rather gleefully, that he moved there "For the boys!," and everyone laughed. Then he was asked why he left Germany and moved to the United States. He thought about it for a few seconds and said that if you had a fly buzzing around your home and you were swatting at it with a folded newspaper, coming close to hitting it, until it flew out of your window, and that if someone later had asked that fly why it had left its home and moved elsewhere, it would say something like "I was quite happy living there, until I sensed danger, at which time I chose to emigrate." Well, I sensed danger and chose to emigrate! Around that time he and Don spent some time in New York preparing a production of play based on one of his novels (no, NOT "Cabaret"). While they were there, Chris went on Dick Cavett's always interesting tv show, and when I watched it, what I saw was the same charming Chris that I would chat with at home and on the beach in Santa Monica. I would be drawn by Don 3 or 4 times, once nude, and as I wrote in my letter to the L.A. Times, he always began with the eyes, staring intently into mine until they would get red and sometimes even well up with tears -- in shows of his that I would go to in galleries in such places as Venice and Barnsdall Park and the Huntington in San Marino, as well as drawings in his wonderful book, I would see that same pained look in the eyes of other (often very famous) people he had drawn over the years. I would have loved to have been drawn by him WITHOUT that look on my face!


Rh Negative has now left the building!!!!!