Gratuitous Spring Break: Dudes On Display

The opening contest of the day was for male hardbodies, which took a while to get underway. The key problem in these things is getting guys to participate, given the unspoken understanding of all involved that it’s just a pro forma act of affirmation to make things seem a touch more palatable to the sensitivities of the sensitive.

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Naturally, the clever hunters at La Vela know how to snare their afternoon’s worth of exhibitionistic gentlemen… all ya need is the right bait.

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As the trap was set, so was it sprung, capturing hardy souls such as this and compelling them to demonstrate the full extent of their funk.

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There was a rumor going around that this was a wardrobe malfunction, rather than a disgusting and perverse display of man-nipple. Whatever the truth, I’m calling the FCC. Or Congress. Or Pizza Hut… I get hungry when I’m self-righteously inflamed.

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I thought for a moment that the assembled ladies would run in fear at the sight of this fellow, what with his horribly disfigured body. The pitiable young man seemed to suffer from elephantitus pectoralis or some other form of illness that caused all those unsightly bulges. Poor bastard. Good for him, though, getting out and trying to live a normal life!

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Here, a participant seeks to explain some sort of complex agricultural concept to the audience. I couldn’t make out all of it, but I believe it had to do with poultry or horses or something. I’m sure he mentioned something about “driving fence posts”, if that makes any sense.

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“And when my mommy was carrying me in her tummy, it was this big!”

Overall, it was a hard-fought battle. But among La Vela hardbodies as among Highlanders, there can be only one. They called him Tripod, perhaps alluding to his major in photojournalism. He wasn’t the most formidable individual, nor were his features chiseled from the stones of Mt. Olympus… yet he stole both the ladies’ hearts and the day with his charm, wit, and low-to-the-ground aerodynamics.

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Well, that and whatever it is he was showing them right here.

CSI: Panama City Beach

This is a tale of sex, sun, and forensic photography.

For those of you not-so-well-versed in the realms of adult entertainment (not that *I* am, of course), there’s this porn star named Gauge. According to her Wikipedia entry, she had a fairly busy career from 2002-05 before semi-retiring to her home state of Arkansas. That’s where I’m from, so I know these things. I’m all about the homegirls, see.

Don’t look at me like that.

Anyway, folks from Arkansas and Alabama were dominating the beach scene from Saturday through Friday. And as I sat there poolside, snapping photos, I could swear that one girl looked awfully familiar. Not familiar in the sense that I’ve seen her work. No, no, no. The other kind of familiar, the kind that doesn’t make me look like a perv.

Things got interesting when she and her girlfriends trotted up to the stage for an impromptu dancefest, announcing that they were from Arkansas. Say what now? I filed this info away, and upon returning home, developed a theory that this young woman:

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…was this young woman:

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For about fifteen minutes, I thought I might have stumbled across a semi-celebrity sighting, entirely by accident.

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Unfortunately (?), upon reviewing Gauge’s Wikipedia entry, I noted a discrepancy. The La Vela girl was tattoo-free on the small of her back, unlike the early retiree in question. So either I was witness to the results of some fantastic laser-tatt-removal surgery, or it was all in my head.

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Now, a lesser man would look at this situation and declare himself a dumbass. Not I. Instead, I opt to view this as a mystery solved, a conundrum explored. The fact that I created said mysterious conundrum is wholly incidental and irrelevant.

Falling In Love With A Stranger

Our eyes met across a crowded pool, and there was magic in the air. Well, technically, I’m not sure our eyes met as much as bumped into each other, muttered a quick “excuse me”, and moved on. And the “magic in the air” may have just been the scent of suntan lotion mixed with Axe body spray and beer belches… but this is my memory, and I’ll cherish it as I please.

Her smile was a radiant thing, an incandescent display of lips and teeth that could burn the shadows from the darkest corners of a really dark place. A bolt of lightning that made the air around her crackle like a Doritos package in a quiet library.

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She moved her body with serpentine grace, her hips and shoulders seeming to operate independent of her other interesting bits. Her movements transcended the relative cacophony of the speaker system to write a music of their own, a sensual symphony complete with Parental Advisory sticker.

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Oh, and she had a sweet, sweet ass. Seriously, look at the thing. Damn.

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Alas, our moment was never meant to be more that that. We parted without the barbarity of words to trample the gentle field of our grace-borne passion, instead choosing to preserve this sliver of eternity in the frame of a camera’s quiet gaze.

Farewell, my precious. My dove.

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(This entry brought to you by the James Blunt School of Obsessive Hyper-Romanticism.)