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Both pictures are just too good to choose! Humanitarian Clay or Sexay Clay???? Decisions, decisions! For some reason this morning, long, tall, scruffy, but suited Clay won! S.W.O.O.N!!!

KAndre... BWAH!!! So you were unique even as a child. Ultra cool dad, by the way!! What is your creative outlet these days??? merrieeee.... oh, thanks! He looks so good and relaxed. 3 more weeks till we see him again performing. Thank Goodness! It's been a llloooonnnggg time since DF in Vegas. My middle DGD, when 3 yrs old, drew in the corner of her brother's bedroom on the carpet. While my son was cleaning it up (water-based pens), she went downstairs and emptied everything out of the freezer that she could reach. Challenging child!

Lotus... that was a long article, but I loved reading every word. It gives me hope. As hard as it is to believe sometimes, young kids are much more accepting of alternate sexuality than ever and I believe that trend will continue. keeping... O.M.G. That article is both a hoot and scary as h.e.l.l. Women, we've come a long way, baby!!!! FromClaygary, Canfly... I felt much the same when Clay came out. Plus, I was mad about all the crap I had taken when defending him... BUT, I am glad to say that has changed totally. I believe the man is happier than he undoubtedly ever thought he would be when he wrestled with this as a teenager. I get all new-puppy happy when I think about him being in a loving relationship. I know he will still have to cope with idiots, but mostly he must feel so free. He can now openly feel sorry for those who give him a hard time! I am so happy for him that he knows who he is and has accepted himself and is looking forward to the future, rather than at the past. How many people can truly say that, gay or straight?

Went with #1. Love #2, but I sure wouldn't want it to win the big prize since it is of an emotional moment in the fandom and the picture is associated with that emotion. I want a pure picture of Clay. Does anyone else besides me understand that???

I love both these pictures, dang it! Sometimes there's no contest for me, but sometimes it pains me not to be able to vote for both of them. BooHoo #2 cause he is just sublime in that picture.

ldyj... it's always picture play time around here!!! aikim... is it your birthday??? I thought you had one recently? If it is... Happy Birthday!

muski... you said it, sistah! LOL #1 for me all the way... I was there and it was fantastic to witness his re-emergence!!!

Clayzy... awesome. I, too, am a ATDW lover. There are only one or two that I skip and that's just because I want to get to the next song, not because I hate them. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Everything I Have and Broken Wings and the ballady Here I Come Again. I like RHW, but I have to tell you Clay's slower version at last year's Gala tears me up everytime so I don't listen to the CD version anymore.

This contest is getting harder and harder and the pictures are getting yummier and yummier!!! #2 for me, tho I love #1. I'll echo muski... Loved the hair, loved the suit, loved the smile, loved the eyes.

ncgurrl... thanks for sharing! I'll try not to drool all over it! My oldest grandson is ADD. He just started college. He was in a special program thru grade school, but he didn't want to be in HS, so he struggled. We were so proud of him cause as a senior, he got a C average. The three years prior he always flunked classes cause he didn't do the homework, tho he got Bs on the tests. It's a tough road for these kids and their families, that's for sure.

This is crewl and unusual punishment!!! Both of these make my tongue hang down... I went with #2 simply cause there's pants to pant over.

I don't hate the snowflake pictures... there are a couple I really like. This isn't one of them. #1 for me!

ldyj... Happy Birthday to you!!! aikim.... awwww. What a great story! Happy Anniversary!!! :04: :fest30: muski.... BWAH!!! So you say!!! wanda... thanks for the info! I have a grandson that I wouldn't be surprised if he is gay. I'd like to also increase my understanding of the gay issues better to help him if I can.

Tuff one today! They are both wonderful in different ways. I'm going with #1 cause it is a more artsy picture. The lighting is mag!

penquin... I'm guessing he came in second. That's not bad for someone from season 2 vs the latest season. In fact, that's great! I'm so glad the fandom was positive about this for the most part. That bodes well for the future, I think. Caro... Kai is a real cutie!!! I can't wait to get home to read your blog. Work won't let me. Clay can't have gained that much weight from the Decca picture. He just must have looked bigger than the person imagined he would. He was a tiny thing next to Ruben and if that's what most people remember, then, yah, he's gained weight. Twitter should require that anyone who joins them have a cell phone with a camera!

ldyj... good luck. Maybe half a day. I have a rule at my office. If you're contagious and come in... you're going right back out that door. Now, the recovery stage when you're just feeling like crap but are no longer contagious, your call. Half day's are encouraged in that stage. JMHO Talk about bad PR... all that about Fantasia being a diva when she was on Color Purple. All they had to do was let people know about her throat and she would have gotten kudos for sticking it out instead of crucified for being out so much. Geesh!

Yesterday's was hard... today's is harder yet! Both gorgeous pictures... both great memories. However, that profile is just very hard to beat, even by the jeans of yum!

justclay... thanks for bringing this over. I am jellus of Tyra being able to hang with Clay and get made fun of... I'd let Clay make fun of me anytime.... oh, wait.... I think he has made fun of me... just not from close range. Dang!

This is the hardest one for me. #2 is SUCH a good picture of him. I LOVED everything about that AI performance, but that particular picture is not the best of those moments for me, but still... the moment was the best!!! Decisions, decisions... dang!!!

muski... you made me schmoopie! #1 all the way for me... that slight smile, the highlights in his hair, the gorgeousness fo the man. It's interesting to me, tho, that the expression is very similar in the two pictures. But... #1 is just sooooo yummy!!!

This is not even fair.... the UNICEF with kids pictures shouldn't have been allowed in the competition... Clay and kids???? I couldn't, tho I love #1.

jmh... Thank you. Some of those pictures were amazing. I'm glad to remember the horror and the heroism of that day again.

I just changed my avatar to one of my favorite Permaswooned pictures and I had to see it... FromClaygary... I agree with you. It does seem like he's (or his label) are getting his ducks in a row. I like duckies.... especially when they're Clay's duckies and they are in a row. LOL Ohhhh... he looks so good over there. He looks good any and everywhere!!!

annabear... thanks!

Ditto and I add "orange shirt" Thud!!!