Athens is an enigma for the South, actually, as most university towns are in agricultural states of the union. But it is indeed a fun city with progressive culture.

Publishing short stories doesn't qualify you to diagnose mental illness. You insulted the South for no good reason and perpetuated a historical bigotry that pretends things are backwards here but not up there. Your creative commentor feels this is a serious handicap for anyone who aspires to being a good writer. He also notes that he has lived in Chicago, Atlanta & Alabama and thinks Chicago is the greatest city on earth, defying all stereotypes. Lighten up and take in all cultures, as you did in Athens, and elevate your mind.

Meanwhile, all 18 of our personalities think you are a hideous cad for advocating unsafe casual sex and this is worse to us than having once owned people as if they were farm animals. For this reason alone we'd like to burn all your books and prevent you from having any influence whatsoever on gay youth. As it is, we'll just have to settle for annoying you on your self-celebrating blog. But we will think of you without kindness when we read of the continued increase of HIV infected youth all over the world.

OMG Athens is an enima?!

anyone reading this want to bareback?!

How conVEEENient for you that you can go from fuck-the-south (or fuck whatever in the south will have me) to redemption, all within 48 hours.

In the south we call this SCHIZOPHRENIA, and when an individual displays symptoms we send them to Boston.

Seriously?

First, the many variations of my anonymous commentator inferred several things from my post that a rational person simply can't infer...that this Suez character was an illegal alien, that he was 'the help,' that he was a rent boy, that in making a joke about my own Yankee-ness in which 'the south' for me begins just beyond Chicago and that collard greens confuse me somehow is equatable with broad racial stereotypes and a general sense of superiority to anything 'southern.' Ridiculous.

Furthermore, you accuse me of bigotry and of practicing unsafe sex. Shame on you!

We could have a gentlemanly debate about the pros and cons between grits and hotdish, and I would certainly listen patiently to anyone who tried to make the case for whatever 'culture' they think can be found in downtown Atlanta (none indeed can be found unless you consider Hooters and Jalapeno Charlie's and Pitty Pat's Porch to be 'culture'). But I simply will not let a bunch of strangers spread rumors about my bigotry and promiscuity on the Internets. No wait, I totally will. Because this is a self-serving blog (just like they all are), and I fucking LOVE the attention!

Jason is correct about downtown Atlanta. The culture there is utterly shallow in order to continuou$ly entertain folk$ from Minnesota. After we lost that damned war, we got pretty smart down here.

I don't care what anyone says in these gay versions of the Penthouse Magazine Forums called their blog, you do not meet a solid, stable regular guy named Suez in a downtown Atlanta hotel, fuck him without a condom, and bring him to your blog as if he were a solid, stable, regular gay guy who just happened to be hanging out in a cultureless hotel district wanting (dying?) to be fucked without a condom. It's called fiction, or possibly harmless fantasy, but it ain't fittin', it just ain't fittin. Momma wants to know who paid for dinner & the drinks --and her money AIN'T on Suez.

If you would care to renounce anonymous barebacking in your FUCKING ATTENTION blog, you'd be doing the whole world a favor, and the South may indeed forgive you and welcome your tourism in the future.
We challenge you: Use your influence as an elder and a writer among gay peoples everywhere to condemn it in the very next sentence you write...

Ummm, where does Jason say he barebacked anyone??

Hell hath no fury like a liquored-up Southerner on a comment bender. LOL - for once in my life I've got a shred of sympathy for you Jason. Never give in to the Confederates you Yankee!!!!

My favorite part is where he calls you "an elder."

Apparently there is no such thing as consensual anonymous sex in the South. There is only unprotected sex with male prostitutes.

Well, Marc, there did used to be, but things have changed since air conditioning and Strom Thurmond changed parties.

By the way, in the South you pronounce it CRAAY-gug's List.

"Use your influence as an elder and a writer among gay peoples everywhere to condemn it in the very next sentence you write..."

I feel like Ratzinger...

Barebacking in the South is F*Ckin' HOT!! Except once in a while you have SANTORUM!

Well, because he's gay, the author obviously he had unprotected sex...pfft.

/kidding, of course.