Comments by EastCoaster (page 4)

Welcome to TUSCL, Splurbysade. Nice first review -- well-written and informative. I look forward to more from you.

Great review, Bybon -- well-written, informative, and entertaining. I initially debated reading it because of the length, but it was well worth my time to do so. I see you joined TUSCL in 2019 and this is your first review. Please don't wait another five years before posting again.

@misterorange: I just returned to my computer because I realized that you may be living in a common building -- and I see that you are. Yes, my neighborhood is all individual houses, and the owners are responsible for all the costs of maintaining their own houses. That's certainly a huge difference! My HOA fees are dirt cheap. I pay very little and get very little in return! My apologies for not realizing that difference sooner. You were right in asking me for the clarification.

@londonguy -- HOA is the Home Owners Association for a local neighborhood subdivision. The fee covers various things, as described in posts above. @misterorange -- For $233 a year I get the basics you described -- minus the snowplowing, which is almost never needed in the state where I live. When it *does* snow, it's every man for himself -- until the next day or so when the snow inevitably melts and disappears.

I have just a few members on Mute/Ignore. FWIW I still see their original posts but I can't see any of their follow-up comments or any comments they make on others' posts -- which is fine with me. The less I see from them, the more I enjoy TUSCL. Thanks, founder, for allowing each of us to tailor how we experience the site.

My HOA fees went down this year, from $240 to $233 -- for the whole year, not per month. No explanation was given for the decrease, and I didn't bother to ask why.

Welcome to TUSCL, @The TD. Excellent first review – well-written and informative. Thanks for taking the time to submit this. One question: Sorry if I missed it, but I read your review twice and didn't see how much regular lap dances are here (other than the one-time $20 charge for the wristband).

^^^^^ @jascoi, you intentionally withdrew $9090 and forgot about it for "a few years"?? An amusing story, to be sure, and nice that you had a good use for it when you found it, but what was the purpose for your original withdrawal of what many might consider to be a large and oddly exact amount? Curious minds want to know...

Outstanding review – well-written, informative, and very helpful. Thanks for taking the time to submit this.

North Carolina did the same thing. https://www.wunc.org/news/2024-01-02/pornhub-north-carolina-blocked-cherie-deville-pave-act-rustin-xvideo

^ Thanks for bringing up Jr. Walker, a great sax player. Muddy mentioned Foreigner's "Urgent" in his original post and said it was Mark Rivera on sax. I know that Rivera played with Foreigner, but I always thought it was Jr. Walker on that cut. Here's the story I remember hearing, copied and pasted from saxontheweb.net: Junior Walker Urgent Story Mick Jones was another englishman who had grown up revering Jr. Walker from afar. "Junior was very highly respected in music circles. A lot of guitar players would steal his sax riffs. You can ask Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, any of those people. They'd happily admit to being inspired by Junior's sax playing." By 1981, Jones' British-American band Foreigner was a multi-platinum monster. During sessions in New York for their fourth album, they had recorded a track they agreed might benefit by a saxophone part "like Jr. Walker might play it." Flipping through the pages of the Village Voices, Jones was shocked to discover that Walker was in town to play the Lone Star Cafe that very evening. "It was just a wild hunch," Jones says now. "I went down and sat through three sets, something I would have done with great pleasure in any event. Then I went backstage--downstairs, actually--to meet him. "Junior walks in and says, 'I hear somebody wants to cut a record.' And I kind of lost it. The real fan in me comes out, and I start stutterin 'ah ah ah...you don't know how much your music has meant to me....' I just completely lost it. His son is standing behind me making signs like, 'Dad! This guy's in a big group,' because Junior had no idea who we were. That first meeting was very comical. "He came down to the studio to listen to the track, and said, 'Where's the band?' At first, he felt a bit strange about overdubbing. I guess in his heyday, he'd almost always cut live. "He was sitting down out there in the studio all by himself, looking quite forlorn. We ran the track down several times, and he was playing in a very mellow style. But in my head, I'm hearing the high, screaming, blasting notes. He said, 'Man, I don't do that any more. I'm in a new bag now.' Finally at the end, he stood up and ripped through a couple of incredible takes will all the old stuff in there. "We knew we had a great performance in there somewhere. It took producer Matt Lange and I about two days of constant editing and splicing little things together to make the classic, spectacular Jr. Walker solo that we wanted to hear. It's all him playing, but it's from multiple performances." The classic Jr. Walker solo they grafted onto "Urgent" made the song a runaway hit, and helped Foreigner achieve their first #1 album. "The funny thing is that when he played a few dates with us--Chicago, Madison Square Garden in New York--he walked out on stage and played the solo note for note. Like he'd heard it on the record or the radio and learned it from there. He played our edits note for note! We were floored. "He's a wonderful guy, and we had a lot of fun. I hope we'll be able to reunite somewhere along the line."

Great review. Well-written, informative, and entertaining.

Excellent compendium of info by schmoe31415, above. I loved it when he said "Dollies is in a dump in a shitty part of town." This is accurate, of course, but the thing that made me laugh is that East Saint Louis (which, for the uninitiated, is across the Mississippi River in Illinois) is a small shitty town, period. In the last 30 years, the population has dropped from 40,000 to 18,000. If it weren't for the strip clubs, there would be no reason to visit.

From the Texas Tribune: "[The law requires] pornography websites to impose age-verification measures and display health warnings that said pornography is proven to harm brain development." Really? All I can say is thhb's a bsnb-faned klshgu. Covfefe!

Nice write-up, PepsiMan. Congrats on your 100th posted review.

Rolling Stones saxophonist Bobby Keys: 5 great solos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFa4YaHuEMU

I just logged in (on my laptop) without any problems, but I don't see the options I used to see at the top -- notably notifications regarding Alerts or Messages. In fact, I don't see how to get to messages at all right now. All in good time, I guess. On the plus side, I see that the Ignore function has been re-implemented and the site seems to have remembered which assholes I had previously put on my Ignore list. Not a long list, really, but still... Thanks, founder!

Excellent review – well-written and informative. Thanks for taking the time to submit this.

Excellent review – well-written and informative. Thanks for taking the time to submit this.

...and with every post, VE continues to provide examples of why people here feel the way they do toward him. smh

I thought Electronman’s comments above were spot on, especially on how VE comes across. I totally agree with “3. the reviews and comments are disrespectful and misogynistic. As a result, he comes across as cheap, entitled and angry.” I love this hobby. I enjoy interacting with women and, except for the occasional ROB, believe they should be treated with respect. It’s more fun that way. EV regularly refers to them as dumb broads, bitches, and hoes – three terms used just in his most recent review – which is proof of Electronman’s comment above. I love the fact that women join TUSCL and contribute to our discussions. I like getting their perspective, whether they are dancers or fellow mongers. But guys like EV, who make gratuitous negative comments about them, are more likely to drive them away than encourage their continued participation. I’ve been lobbying for the return of the Ignore function, because that’s exactly how I deal with flaming assholes like this. But that doesn’t totally solve the problem. When newbies first join TUSCL, whether they are men or women, it is highly unlikely they will even know that an Ignore function exists (and it currently doesn’t). I believe that the assholes and trolls do more to drive people away than anything else. I responded to founder’s original question, which was whether EV adds value here, but I have not said he should be booted from TUSCL. Not my site, not my rules, and not my decision. But while I’m eager for the return of the Ignore function, I believe problems may still exist, so I present this as food for thought. I believe I’m not alone in thinking TUSCL is better without San Jose Guy and Arizona Turd Blossom (desert scrub), and I think it would be better without EV.

Thanks for asking, founder. I vote no, he does not add any value here -- he subtracts from it. I just read his comments on a number of dancers' posted photos. All are negative and totally uncalled for. Same with his nasty and combative comments on reviews. Absolutely no value added. He will drive people away from this site.

^ RonJax2 said, "I endeavored to keep the fun going by handing each dancer a $20 every couple of songs. In the midst of all this, a manager came by an introduced himself and told me to 'feel free to make it rain.' This, to me, was the silliest suggestion I've ever heard from a club's management." I totally agree with RonJax2, but I sort of get where the manager was coming from on this. I suspect he thinks "making it rain" creates good visuals in the club. I would disagree with that. To me, the PL doing it just looks stupid -- and (as was said above) the dancer is probably annoyed having to crawl around on all fours picking it up. Solamente mi dos centavos...

OP, I *definitely* agree that Eva Longoria is off-the-charts hot. I see her in commercials on TV, and I'm like, wow... And I agree with Muddy that there are lots of MILFs out there in real life where I, too, am like, damn. One of the perks of getting to play live music on a regular basis is that I get to watch people on the dance floor right in front of me. Some of the "older" women I see not only look fantastic, but the way they move vertically can be pretty suggestive of how they'd move when they're horizontal. Of course, the young ones can be attractive, too, but if a woman takes good care of herself, her beauty can last a surprisingly long time. Now, if I can just get Eva Longoria to come to one of my gigs...

^ "When trolls are calling out other trolls the shit's getting out of hand lol." Amen to that, brother. SMH