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Just Slip Out The Back Jack: 4 Ways to Clear Your Mind & Stimulate Creativity!

"My brain is full," a colleague said to me the other day as he massaged his head in his hands. "I've got a million things to do, but I can't focus anymore." I could relate. We've all experienced that sense of frustration. It reminded me of... well, me.

Take A Break?

We all fight taking a break. It seems illogical to take a break when we're already way behind, but in reality it's very effective. Not relaxing will eventually lead to decreased productivity and burnout. Why? Because our minds need to recharge or they will shut down and turn off, whether we like it or not. Maybe, like me... you feel guilty taking breaks. Don't! Taking breaks is part of work. Whether it's 15 minutes, a few hours or a few days, you deserve time off to recharge your brain. Shut down the computer, walk away from the Crackberry and stop worrying. Take it Paul Simon...

"You just slip out the back, Jack. Make a new plan, Stan. You don't need to be coy, Roy. Just get yourself free. Hop on the bus, Gus. You don't need to discuss much. Just drop off the key, Lee. And get yourself free."

4 Ways to Clear Your Mind & Stimulate Creativity!

Just slip out the back, Jack! - The world is your oyster... I mean office. Get away from the fluorescent lights, same old walls and experiment with locations. With a laptop, you can work anywhere from coffee shops to the park. Don't have a laptop? Try it old-school with a notebook and pen. A change in atmosphere will help you awaken new ideas lying dormant in your brain. Stimulate your senses and generate new ideas faster than ever. Make a new plan, Stan! - Try something new. Do something outside your comfort zone. Write with your opposite hand. Draw your ideas. Buy a kid's colouring book. Go bowling. Walk down a new street. Enter a store you've never been to. Newness snaps you out of zombie-mode. Force yourself to look at the world, your problems, and your work with eyes wide-open. Hop on the bus, Gus! - Unless you're prone to road rage, hop in the car or get on the bus and go for a ride. Why? Movement is relaxing. Turn up your radio or ipod. Your mind will travel to new places. Get yourself free! - Take the pressure off. Stress often shuts down creativity. It's important to give yourself permission to breathe, relax and the ideas will come to you. Trust me, they will. The more you relax, the smarter you become. Do what makes you happy, even if that means watching mindless TV for awhile. credit: Andrea Noble - Creative Copywriter

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So You Say You Like Muscle Men? Meet Trevor Adams

Trevor is originally from Spring, Texas (just north of Houston) & now lives in a downtown loft in Houston. Trevor is 5’11” and a Capricorn, being born on January 2. At 220lbs. of ripped muscle; he is the proud daddy of Nellie, a boxer pitbill mix. Aside from being a bit too good-looking (is that possible) He has a great personality. He started modeling at age 20. Initially he was told to lose 20lbs, Trevor did not buy into this thought and as he had worked so hard to achieve the physique he had, he was not about to change it on the whim of a former bartender turned talent agent in Florida. Trevor says diet is 80% of staying in shape. When it comes to fitness, Trevor is one of the tops in the industry.

About Trevor:

Heritage: German/Italian Ethnicity: Anglo-Saxon with a side of sexy Skin color: Dark tan w/ no tan lines in case you were writing a book about me. Height: 5'11 With heels: 6'2 Weight: 210 lbs (photo shoot weight)  230 lbs (off-season) Waist: 32" - (sucked in) Arms: 19" Legs: 28" Chest: Double DD Penis: Yes I have one but you can't see it. Hair/eyes: Blond/blue Age: shame on you...lol....28 Shoe size: 12 = you know what that means means - I have big socks. When is your Birthday: January 2nd, Whats your favorite color? blue and orange and red/white/blue Whats your favorite dinner food? crab cakes and stuffed shrimp Whats on a perfect pizza? pepperoni / thin crust Favorite candy? M & M's / protein bars Whats your favorite number? lucky no. 7 What would your rapper name be? Ummm, 69 cent. Boxers or briefs? definitely briefs Favorite Car: Dodge Viper and Hummer H2 Favorite animal: Dogs - German Sheppards & Great Danes, my beautiful mut is named, "Will." Who does your hair and M/U for shoots? Usually me, why you don't like it? What do you do for fun? Generally I like to stay productive and busy but never at the same time.   Squeezing some fun in between these two things is very important.  I am not a big partier but I am not a Nun either. Ever been arrested? Yes, I was arrested a couple of times. Really?  I am all ears. I was arrested in 98' for Felony Jay-walking and in 2003 for driving under the influence of sexiness.  The Jay-walking charges have been dropped but I am still on probation for the driving offenses. Do you think we are living in a better society concerning hate, war, human rights, sexual behaviors, etc? Yes and No.  Its interesting that Civil Rights have pretty much been "equalized" and women's rights isn't as big an issue as it use to be yet there is the concern for gay marriage.  The Constitution states all men are created equal, (learned that in the 3rd grade).  Eventually Politicians will interpret it that way and establish equality throughout the human race, regardless of gender, race, religion, sexual pref, immigrant status, financial status or the number of tatoos you have where the sun doesn't shine. Although I won't get married, I don't see that depriving others of that right for unethical reasons is fair. When 2 people decide to get married, then they share a special bond for one another and that has to be one of the best feelings in the world. Now regardless of whether people are gay, straight, or even side-ways, they should be able to validate their feelings for one another on a marriage certificate, without outside interference from anyone.

Trevor has a new website, which we're sharing with you today. Please check Trevor out: http://www.trevoradamsgym.com

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Enter the Drone - New Drug Hits The Gay Party Circuit

This month's edition of Details magazine describes it as meow meow, sunshine, drone, and bubble, the newest designer dust combines the rush of coke with the sensory bliss of Ecstasy.

WTF is this shit?

It’s the credit crunch don't you know this already?  It’s ok to be a scumbag, fashionable to shred your tights, massacre your hair and roll around on the floor at hardcore shows even if you couldn’t give a shit about music.

Down with sun-kissed tans, cocaine, up with bad tattoos.

Economy drug experimentation is reaching a new socially acceptable high.

Enter the Drone… Mephedrone… the new semi-legal quasi coke/mdma drug that ‘all the gay folks were onto months ago’, rearing its head at a bar near you soon.  So –before some dickhead offers you this shit at a party, or even worse you buy some coke that’s suspiciously fluffy and sore on the nose check out the highs and lows of a night out on the Drone as described by our resident club kid/10 time rehab reject/former employee/professional social guinea pig:

UP

• It’s cheaper then cocaine, mdma, booze, poppers, ketamin etc etc.  In fact the only thing that’s possibly cheaper then it is speed.  And Super.  Both of which are shit.  (Super’s great actually). • You don't really want to eat for a good while after taking it's good for fashion week/wearing spandex or fitting into clothes from the boys department of the Goodwill Store. • You can easily buy it online.  No need for cryptic texting, weird phone calls and meetings with strange men called Rocky. • It does make you happy, awake, warm and fuzzy, a bit like a cokey, mellow mdma hug.  You can stay out with douche bags, being a douche bag all night long yourself. • Drooooooonnnnnnnnne – is a great word to say when your fucked/hung over. • It could destroy the coke economy and make coke cheaper.

DOWN

• Snorting it feels similar to jumping into a swimming pool whilst inhaling through your nostrils. It hurts/causes possible mild brain bleed. • It’s legal which instantly makes it less fun. Also you know that the online guy you bought it off is probably sitting at home in front of his computer wearing a novelty festival hat and yellow sunglasses listening to the Nine Inch Nails "remix" on his portable DVD player. • People talk about it a lot on virtual forums.- Drone makes you chronically compelled to give it out to everyone around you whilst declaring it’s ‘the best drug in the world’.  This may make you look like an asshole / get you thrown out of clubs/temporarily arrested. • There have been reports of nasty side effects such as extreme insomnia, asphyxiation, bits-of-mouth-falling-off syndrome, paranoia, anxiety-ridden comedowns. • It could destroy the coke economy and make the credit crunch worse.

4-Methylmethcathinone is unscheduled in the United States but has been made illegal in North Dakota. Those selling the drug for human consumption may however, be prosecuted under the Federal Analog Act due to its similarity to Methcathinone.

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Gays Smoke Way To Much More Than Others "Smoking Out A Deadly Threat"

The American Lung Association's latest health disparity report, Smoking Out a Deadly Threat: Tobacco Use in the LGBT Community, examines the trend of higher tobacco use among the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community and the need for additional research specific to this community. Most state and national health surveys do not collect information on sexual orientation and gender identity; however, there are current data indicating the LGBT population smokes at a higher rate than the general public. Key facts regarding this disparity include the following:

• Gay, bisexual and transgender men are 2.0 to 2.5 times more likely to smoke than heterosexual men.
• Lesbian, bisexual and transgender women are 1.5 to 2.0 times more likely to smoke than heterosexual women.
• Bisexual boys and girls have some of the highest smoking rates when compared with both their heterosexual and homosexual peers.

"The American Lung Association issued Smoking Out a Deadly Threat: Tobacco Use in the LGBT Community to raise awareness of this health disparity and address the need for additional research specific to the LGBT community and tobacco use," said Charles D. Connor, American Lung Association President and CEO.  "Like other groups disproportionately affected by tobacco use, including African Americans and Native Americans, the LGBT population needs targeted efforts to reduce smoking rates, which will ultimately save lives." The Lung Association's report presents a compilation of research that examines possible contributing factors to the LGBT smoking rate including stress and discrimination related to homophobia, the tobacco industry's targeted marketing to LGBT consumers, and lack of access to culturally appropriate tobacco treatment programs.

"The Lung Association is committed to preventing tobacco use and reducing smoking rates among the LGBT community," Connor continued. "Understanding and eliminating this disparity will take a concerted group effort from the healthcare industry, governments, LGBT advocacy organizations and individuals."

The American Lung Association is calling on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and all state Departments of Health to include sexual orientation and gender identity questions in public health surveys.  State and local tobacco control programs should work to ensure prevention and cessation programs, materials and staff are culturally competent and inclusive of the LGBT community. LGBT advocacy organizations should advocate for policies to promote tobacco prevention and cessation programs, and identify alternative funding sources to tobacco industry sponsorship. The Smoking Out a Deadly Threat: Tobacco Use in the LGBT Community report is the American Lung Association's second report in a series taking an in-depth look at lung health disparities in specific populations.  This report builds on the American Lung Association's long-standing commitment to saving lives and improving lung health for all Americans. For a compendium of information about lung disease in various populations, see the recently released State of Lung Disease in Diverse Communities: 2010 and Too Many Cases, Too Many Deaths: Lung Cancer in African Americans, available at www.LungUSA.org. The American Lung Association has several programs that help tens of thousands of smokers take the big step of quitting each year. Freedom From Smoking® provides a personalized step-by-step quit plan and is offered online (www.ffsonline.org) or as a group clinic to help smokers work through the problems and process of quitting. The Lung HelpLine, 1-800-LUNG-USA, provides smoking cessation counseling and one-on-one support from registered nurses and respiratory therapists.  Smoking cessation support, lung cancer treatment information and additional resources are available at www.LungUSA.org.

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Gay Men Ban From Donating Blood Upheld

A federal committee recommends maintaining the policy preventing gay men from donating blood in the United States, provoking disappointment and anger from gay activist groups. The Federal Advisory Committee on Blood Safety and Availability voted 9 to 6 against lifting the ban Friday. This committee makes recommendations to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Current FDA rules dictate that any man who has had sex with another man since 1977, even once, cannot donate blood. This rule has been in place since the early 1980s, when there were no tests in existence for identifying HIV-positive blood. Concerns about HIV tainting the blood supply prompted this policy, viewed as a safety measure. Although the committee recommended keeping this policy, the group also called the rule "suboptimal" and suggested using criteria based on individual behavior instead of broad characteristics, such as men who have had sex with other men. A report from the Williams Institute for Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law finds that about 219,000 more pints of blood could be available each year if the FDA lifted the ban. The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force cited this figure in its response to Friday's decision. "The committee's decision today not only leaves a discriminatory practice in place, it also puts lives at risk," said Rea Carey, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, in a statement. The American Red Cross also expressed disappointment about the decision, stating that "while the Red Cross is obligated by law to follow the guidelines set forth by the FDA, we also strongly support the use of rational, scientifically-based deferral periods that are applied fairly and consistently among donors who engage in similar risk activities." Read more about this issue here.

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You Can Change The World

Every 10 minutes, someone in the United States is infected with HIV. A preventive vaccine against HIV offers the best long-term hope to end this worldwide epidemic. Finding a safe and effective HIV vaccine that will protect people is a huge task. We cannot do it without your help.

• Hope Takes Action is currently seeking 1350 men who have sex with men to participate in a vaccine trial.
• You cannot become infected with HIV from the vaccines
• The study will take place in several cities in the United States.

Safety is a primary goal of the vaccine trial. This is a Phase II study, designed to yield limited information on the effectiveness of the vaccine. The research vaccines have been found to be safe in animals and hundreds of humans in previous trials. One of the vaccines is made from an inactivated cold virus known as an adenovirus. The vaccines do NOT contain the HIV virus, and CANNOT cause HIV infection. Since these vaccines are still being researched, we urge all of our participants to practice safe sex. The HIV vaccine trial is a collaboration between the HIV Vaccine Trials Network, the Division of AIDS, NIAID and the Vaccine Research Center, NIAID.

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Chris Porter Should Smile More

Newbie Chris Porter Does Smile!

See More Of Chris Porter and more hot boys on set for Boys Pissing in Palm Springs

HOW TO DEVELOP YOUR SMILE

"Frown and you frown alone, but smile and the whole world smiles with you."  The whole world?  Not just any smile will do, though. Here's how to develop a genuine, infectious smile that can make a bad date turn good, seal a business deal, and help you make friends wherever you go. 1. Practice good hygiene. If you've got bits of food stuck in your teeth people might point it out to you and you might get embarrassed. People may indeed say you have an infectious smile, but they might be talking about actual infections. It should go without saying, but regularly brushing your teeth and making sure your breath is fresh and teeth are unstained is a good idea. Visit the dentist for a polishing or use a whitening product, and take care of your lips to prevent chapping. When you smile people will inevitably look at your mouth, so following these considerations will help you make a better impression, and, more importantly, a healthy mouth will make you feel more confident about smiling. 2. Get comfortable with smiling. Many people are a little nervous about smiling. They don't think their smile looks good, or they think that smiling makes them look unprofessional or vulnerable. It's true that a smile does show a little vulnerability, but that's part of what makes it so powerful. No matter how professional, intelligent, or in control you think a serious face (or worse, a frown) makes you appear, people almost always respond better to a smile. 3. Smile with your eyes. When we think of smiling, we think of the mouth, but the eyes may actually be more essential to a warm, genuine smile. Smiling with your eyes is difficult to describe--in general your cheekbones lift slightly and your eyebrows dip a little--but when you see it, you know it: it's that look of your eyes "lighting up" or "twinkling." To get a feel for how to make your eyes smile, get in front of a mirror and practice smiling, but concentrate only on your eyes. You may find it helpful to cover the lower part of your face with a piece of paper. Play around with it a bit, and you'll find that you can make your mouth smile when your eyes aren't smiling, and you can also smile only with your eyes. When your eyes do smile, remember how it feels, which muscles are working and how. With practice, you'll be able to smile with your eyes at will. 4. Develop your smile. Don't particularly care for your smile? It's a common complaint, and while it's true that any smile is better than a frown, it's also true that some smiles look better than others. What's your best smile? One way to find out is to look through pictures of yourself. Many people who consider themselves not photogenic are plagued by bad smiles in front of the camera, but just about everybody has at least one picture in which they just look great, with a perfectly natural, contagious smile. Find that picture and focus on what your face is doing. Then practice in front of a mirror until you get it just right. Keep practicing, and pay attention to how that great smile feels, so that you'll be able to replicate it without looking in a mirror. Soon it will become second nature, and you'll likely find that you'll look more photogenic in your next batch of pictures WARNING - A fake smile can make you look phony, nervous, or even dangerous, so don't just try to put on a smile without first practicing or putting yourself in a happy state of mind. (A fake smile is one where the corners of the mouth aren't turned up) Photo Credits: Landon Mycles - Jet Set Men, Luke Hamil/Josh - Bel Ami Studios, Brent Corrigan - Mick Hicks Photography, Chris Porter - Phillip Ashton's Blog Follow Chris Porter on Twitter How To Smile: wikiHow.com - Story

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Study: Gays In California More Likely Have Domestic Violence Than Hetros

Lesbians, gays and bisexuals in California are almost twice as likely to experience intimate partner violence as heterosexuals, researchers said. Elaine Zahnd, a sociologist at the Public Health Institute, partnered with the University of California, LA, Center for Health Policy Research in conducting the California Health Interview Survey, which found almost 4 million adults in California reported being a victim of physical or sexual violence from an intimate partner. One-quarter of the 4 million report being forced by their intimate partner to have sex, the researchers said. Almost 28 percent of lesbian or gay adults in California report intimate partner violence during their adult lives, 40.6 percent of bisexuals report intimate partner violence and 16.7 percent of heterosexual adults report intimate partner violence, the study said.

"These findings should cause us to reconsider our assumptions about the root causes of violence, even as we redouble our efforts to eradicate it," Zahnd said in a statement.

Women are almost twice as likely to be victims of adult physical violence as men and are eight times as likely to report being the victim of sexual violence since age 18, the study said. STORY UPI

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Brent Corrigan's How to Use a Condom Video

So you think you know it all? well do yourself a favor and review the steps again. practice makes perfect! Brent Corrigan will help you! 1) Make sure you plan ahead. The time to think about safer sex isn't after you've had a few drinks! If you think there's even a remote possibility of f*cking, have a condom and lube with you. Have it in your big head AND your little head that you're going to put on a condom before you f*ck. 2) Check the date on your condom to make sure it has not expired. 3) Carefully open the condom package... NOT with your teeth or with scissors! 4) Pinch the reservoir tip between your thumb and finger (to get the air out) and put the condom on the head of your hard penis. While holding on to the tip of the condom, with your other hand roll the condom all the way down the shaft of your penis as far as it will go. 5) Pour LOTS of condom safe lube on your penis. Condom safe means water based or silicone only. If you use lotions or oils, the condom will break! 6) FUCK! 7) If things are going for a long time, check every once and awhile to make sure the condom is where it should be. If it going for a really long time, take a break and put carefully put on a new condom. 8.) After you cum, while you are still hard, pull out while hanging onto the condom. For extra safety, don't come inside your partner or anywhere near his asshole. 9) Wrap the condom in tissue paper and throw it in the trash. 10) Wash your hands and your dick! STOP HIV. PLEASE FUCK RESPONSIBLY. www.DCfukit.org

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HOT NEW WEBSITE: Gaysurfers website

A new site called Gaysurfers.net is hoping to attract the attention of the world’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender surfers. Surfing is often seen as a macho sport where many fear rejection for being gay. In the past, some professionals who came out lost their sponsorships. So, to provide more solidarity among LGBT surfers worldwide, gaysurfers.net came to be. Membership is anonymous, free, and secure. Among the site’s offerings are gay surfing articles, lists of LGBT friendly surf spots, and a list of films inspired by “gay” and “surf” themes. If you like charging the waves (and you’re gay) then reach for your mouse and point it to Gaysurfers.net.