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  1. Oh yeah...this year's was MUCH better!

    *hands cigarette to KAndre*

    Loved the recap...love that snark, done with love!

    Bwah!!! Ya'll have brought me out of lurkdom with your funny recaps!!! I was there and all I can say is "DITTO".

    Well except for this part ** and did me up again the side of the theater, again the wall, on the table, bent over a chair, slapped my ass and asked "Who's your daddy?" That was good. :cryingwlaughter:

  2. Can I look through the windows? I'll be peepingfaith tonight, 'kay?

    Sure but there's one problem....my apartment is on the second floor!

    Nevermind. I don't know who's stuff you're fondling, but I just received an email from Clay that HIS package is on the way to ME. And you, a married woman, caressing a new large package on the first night! You've been around me too long, I see.

    You're all a leeetle late ladies. I've been fondling Clay's awesome package since last week. It's a wonderful package - so big & all, full of well hid surprises. Not sure what I think of Clay anymore allowing just anybody to caress his package. He's really taken "whoring hisself out" to a new level. :cryingwlaughter:

  3. Is anyone else feeling kind of hung over this morning from drowning oneself in day in the life of Clay goodness?? :flirtysmile3:

    Bring on the hair that bit!

    I'm way hung over on all the awesome pics- I can hardly pick a fav. This gal has to be a fan to capture how WE see Clay. Hubba Hubba!! :flirtysmile3:

    PS It was good to meet you " jmh123" ( and friend) at the Marriot before the show Mon.

  4. Couchie, there's no tragic death in my story, but I can relate to your feelings about the changing landscape of the area where you grew up. Most of you probably don't know that I went to junior high school in downtown Raleigh. Since I moved back to the area I've been to a couple of Clay's galas and even a high school reunion downtown, and never had a moment of recognition because the area has changed so much. Even the streets have changed, same names in most cases, but there's been expansion and rerouting and so on. The Memorial Auditorium has a lot of memories for me, as I used to go see a lot of groups perform there when I was a teenager--Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, the Four Tops, the Platters, the Drifters, etc., but I didn't really remember anything, if that makes sense. The exterior is, of course, instantly recognizable, but the interior and everything around it has changed. The additions to the sides, with the other theatres, weren't there, and of course the Marriott, the Convention Center, the Sheraton, none of that was there. I was walking downtown to the Courthouse with my brother just a few weeks ago to file some papers related to my mother's estate, reminiscing about the places we used to go as kids, all of which are gone--Hudson Belk, Woolworth's 5 and dime, the S&W cafeteria, and so on. But nothing in the way of a real memory has hit me until I was lurking at CV last week obsessively looking for recaps of the concert and saw this photo taken by Canuck:

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    OMG, this is my friend Nicky Dombalis's restaurant! We'd occasionally walk there after school to hang out and his mom would feed us something. I really didn't even think of it as a restaurant; it was Nicky's house, so to speak, it was the place to go after school when you were hanging out with him. So, after all this time and all the occasions I've been back to downtown, I finally had a memory!

    Ldyjocelyn went with me after the Gala breakfast in October to see this:

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    It's all that's left of my old junior high. It was in the block where I've drawn the purple box, very near Tir Na Og.

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    Sometimes I would walk to and from a bus stop by the state capital building, which is still there, and sometimes I would walk home, which was not far, maybe a mile. If I saved the dime from the bus, I could stop by Krispy Kreme and get a donut and a cherry coke on the way home. :cryingwlaughter: So there are places that are still there, but most of downtown has changed so drastically it is barely recognizable, and might never have been for me if Canuck hadn't posted a picture of the Mecca.

    ETA: I tried to tell my non-fan friend about all this the other night on the phone and he was like, "and your point is?" I have a feeling others are thinking the same thing. The point is, I guess, that Raleigh has changed so much and so much time has passed, that when I go to Raleigh, even when I go downtown, I don't really think of it as the place where I grew up. My junior high was torn down not long after I went there and something else was built on that spot, and even the road it was on was drastically altered at that time. My family moved to a different part of Raleigh halfway through my senior year of high school (and a lot of bad things happened for me and the nation that year), and then I went off to college. So the house my mom lived in never seemed like "home" to me when I went back to visit; it was just the house where she lived. Any memories I did have weren't good, because we moved more or less to get away from some bad stuff, and then I got mono on top of that. And even when I moved back and the Clay fandom brought me back to downtown, it didn't really resonate. I remember that before the first event I went to down there, the first gala in Raleigh, I pulled up a google map and looked up my old house and the route I used to walk, and tried to figure out where my school had been, but when I got downtown it was all pretty alien to me, everything had changed so much. When I was a little kid, we went downtown all the time, it was really a city center, but after that, Raleigh just kept expanding and expanding and expanding, and people went to shopping centers and malls, not to downtown. This event is the first time that I've really started to feel any kind of connection to downtown Raleigh or to growing up in Raleigh. And I guess that's my point.

    I feel the same way. I too grew up in Raleigh. Lived there til I was 12. It is completely unrecognizable to me now.

    The place has grown and expanded so much since I lived there that nothing looks the same. There were no beltline's or malls. But I lived there until 1960 so have been gone a long time. I don't feel any connection when I visit. Kinda sad.

  5. Still trying to recover from the Gala. I don't do losing sleep well, and we didn't get to bed until almost 3 AM after the Gala. Hung out in the bar area with other fans living in the afterglow of the awesome evening. Loved seeing FEAROFH2O and georgiesbybaby and others from here ( who's names I can't remember). It was such a fun evening and seeing how far Clay's dream has come was so inspiring. The NIP just epitomizes class and professionalism. I was so impressed!!

  6. Sending good thoughts to Archie, claylove. Cute dog.

    That's a lot of meds for a pup. When my cat was dying of cancer year before last, my friend did Raku on her weekly. Although I'm not a believer, she would tell me what the cat was thinking. I'm sure she wasn't telling me the bad things though.She didn't ever seem to be in pain fortunately.

    Speaking of Raku, as a RN I was SO not a believer in this, and called it hoki, poki, BUT when my husband was ill & developed some complications that the Dr's couldn't seem to put their finger on the source, his sister ( who does Raku) called and said she needed to come over and do it because she had a bad VIBE about him. So, she did it & told me to get him to the ER right away as he had

    a problem and she showed me actually where on his abdomen the problem was. I listened & took him to the Dr. insisting on a CT zeroing in on the exact spot. Would you believe they found an abcess !! Needless to say he was treated & recovered. Now I am SO a believer in RAKU ( if done by the right person of course). It literally saved my husbands life!!

  7. Thanks for the banner-love, ladies. :bighug: I do love doing things like that, but am never sure about using them, lol. Glad you like it!

    I, too, admired Clay's response about Prop 8. Too bad that people are dishonoring the spirit of the OFC, but not surprising. I'm sure as considered and fair-minded as his answer was, they'll find a way to beat him up over it.

    The only good side to Clay's response to Prop, 8 being distributed to the blogosphere is that it really shows just how articulate, intelligent & thoughtful he is, and I think far too few people see this side of Clay, they only see the crap!! Of course our favorite asshole is taking credit for lifting the blog & sending it to PH's shit site, & he lifted the Adam blog as well & sent it to Gawker .com. He has bragged for quite a while that he is a member of the OFC under an alias. Too bad the OFC doesn't have a way they can track it to him & ban his sorry ass. But, if he didn't lift it one of the other wacko's over there would. Clay we need some news, Baaaaad!!!

  8. I love Adam, but that doesn't mean that Clay needs to love him too--and if all he had to judge by was Ring of Fire (OMG, that WAS awful), then I can see why he wasn't impressed. LOL. Clay is entitled to his opinion, just like everyone else.

    Glad to hear he's out of the country.

    I don't understand the fans saying " but you need to listen to another song, you didn't give him a chance"". I do the same thing. I'll hear a song & if I don't like it ,the singer doesn't get a second listen from me. He says he doesn't read any board but the OFC but if I was him and had been reading on some Clay boards to see all the slobbering over AL I'd likely be a tad pissed. Who knows, maybe it doesn't bother him a bit. I don't think a Clay fan can't like other singers but the tongue bath AL has received on some boards, even his own has really bothered me. We wanted him to blog & hurray he starts blogging but now some are pissed because he states his opinion. Some people are never satisfied. Sigh

  9. I'm hoooome from my wonderful week-end visiting with Clay friends and seeing my HAWT or as Toni says f*cking gorgeous boyfriend. I won't mention any names of all the wonderful ladies I ate with, talked to, Eeeeeed with as I might forget someone as I don't have a memory for sh*t anymore. But, I do remember how awesome Clay looked & sang. The hair. OMG!! It was perfection. This color looks soooo GOOD on him, probably because it is close to his natural hair color. His singing was - there just are no words. He looked so comfortable up there. I basically enjoyed the whole show. I would have loved to have had more Clay but I knew it wasn't a Clay show from the get go so I wasn't too disappointed. I could have done without the opera lady but overall it was really good. I would do it again in a heart beat. I thought Cher looked reeaaaly good for a lady her age. I would kill for a body like that!!!

    When they did the finale song Clay started out singing alone, briefly, then the others came in but I could still hear his voice harmony part most of the way through the whole song. His tone was beautiful. The one thought that crossed my mind afterwards was I had heard so many good voices from the Canadian Tenors to Donny Osmond and I still love Clay's the best. No other voice out there no matter how good affects me the way his does.

    No, it's not technically perfect, or trained, but I love the tone, even the way he pronounces his R'rrrrs sort of hard, and the southern thing he does of dropping the er and making it an a in some words. His voice is just so distinctive. Hearing him sing just made me want a tour more!! I'm ready for a road trip ya'll. Gotta run, work calls just want to thank ymarie & eleid, & demeter for doing all you did to make it a wonderful fun time with Clay friends !!

    Did I say he looked f*cking gorgeous!!

  10. couchie, aikim & djs, soooo was I the only one who looked forward to watching John Derek (as Joshua) on the Ten Commandments year after year?

    Scarlett - first, so glad you are doing well!!!!!!!!!

    Second - the oily chests and the costumes on everybody made me laugh too much, so I just couldn't watch.

    But John Derek was nice to watch. Is he still married to Bo Derek, or has he moved on to the next young blonde wife? Heeee....I guess he can be referred to as a recycled husband, so he is a Green Day participant :-)

    Going to drive me crazy trying to think of the name of that Easter show we watched - the boy gets bitten by a scorpion or a spider, and speaks with Jesus on the cross. The boy dies at the end and we all cried, every year.

    Don't think John Derek is chasing the next your blonde- He died in 1998.

  11. I thought he was just adorable last night!! His thoughts & opinions of the girls appeared to be spot on. I think Clay is a pretty good judge of character & it really showed last night. He looked really good ( love the sideburns ). Couldn't you just eat him with a spoon!! :hubbahubba:

    I watched with my 9 year old GS & told him to try to be quiet so I could watch my boyfriend. He watched very closely for a while & looked at me & said" Nani, isn't that what they call cradle robbing?? :cryingwlaughter:

  12. KAndre rubs her hands together gleefully (having totally forgotten she had such awesome admin/mod/dominatrix powers but we won't mention that)....her finger hovers over the "prune spider log" toggle...realizes if she toggles the damn thing, it'll probably take two years for anyone to notice (unless actual spider infested logs are sent to random members) and by then even she won't remember what the hell she did. Never mind.

    Gala looks interesting....

    For anyone who has not been to this Gala, it is fantabulous!! I am so skeeered we are not going to get a tour this year so I'm going with bells on!! ( that is if I can get a ticket) It was packed last year!

    Such fun & wonderful memories! He looked so good that night!! :hubbahubba:

  13. I was there too. All has been said, but it was a wonderful moment. I love the song, just as a performance, as well.

    I was there also!! I remember tearing up when the scroll around came on saying " We celebrate you home". I was sitting a few rows behind & to the side of "papa" & could hear him shout out to Clay. There's a wonderful video somewhere ( I know I saved it somewhere) of what appears to be Clay tearing up when he hears his papa shout out to him. I took 4 friends with me to the show who were casual fans & they all loved it!! Good memories!!

    ETA- Found it, for those interested!! Clack Unlimited- Concerts- JNT 05- 051222- Raleigh-Star of Bethlehem- jojoct.

    Listen at around 1:23 & you can hear papa & Clay's response to hearing him!!

  14. Maybe it's just me, but saying BMW place and then not saying what kind of car for safety's sake seems kinda funny!

    Unless they sell other makes.

    Well, amongst you and I it's just you! :lol: Have you ever known a car place that didn't??

    FromClaygary: Do we know when the picture was taken. I know the blog date is today. Just curious. If in the last few days, he is home & not in NYC. He looks good. Anybody know what the R on the hoodie stands for??

    This post is by questions r us

  15. Never watched the 1st season of Idol & didn't watch 2nd season til Wildcard night. Hubby hollered to come see this skinny kid from Raleigh ( my birth town) sing. I was a goner. I cried when he lost. Hubby was a computer geek & found a site I think called Neurox?? He downloaded all the shows ( Clay's part) for me & found the Clayboard. I've been a messageboard mostly lurking fool ever since!

    Went to the IT in Winston-Salem, NAT in Charlotte. Have been to at least one of each tour ( except JNT 07 ) & for many of the tours we tour hopped to as many as we could!! Good times!! I've loved every minute of my Clay time & the special people I've met as a result. My job running my husband's company is stressful so Clay is my "peaceful" ( well, except when the angst is out the roof).

    I'm patiently waiting for him to be done "recollecting" & be my HAWT SINGER MAN once again!!

    :yahoo:

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