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Here's a beautiful meld of scenes from Call Me By Your Name and Troye Sivan's song about losing his virginity Seventeen.

Wow! The Warsaw Guitar Orchestra is great! And what a great idea..... Mike

And I thought I was the one with eyesight problems! 😃

and............from back in 2015:

Oh... same here!

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At this time of year when those of us in the USA celebrate the things for which we are thankful, I’d like to express my own appreciation to all of you for your support of AwesomeDude.com. Next April 3rd, we’ll be celebrating the fifteenth anniversary of our founding. Thanks to our authors for their excellent stories and the hundreds of hours they dedicate to writing them. Thanks to our readers who come back week after week and who recommend our site, stories and authors to their friends. And special thanks to those of you who contribute to the upkeep of the AwesomeDude site. Paying the hosting fees, domain registrations, forums fees, photo royalties and many other items could put quite a dent in my meager Social Security income, without your help. So even though it might not be a holiday where you live… Happy Thanksgiving! Mike

This lad just keeps getting better and better!

He? That video should have triggered a string of about 50 videos of mostly young artists (mix) which you can view if you keep your finger on the SKIP AD button, like I do. Unfortunately, YouTube.com has over the period of a couple years raised their no-ad service by twenty percent and now costs $11.99/month. Any way, each time you log into this thread you should get a different video starting it. Depends on which browser you are using. Anyway I assume you are referring to Andrew Muccitelli and I agree with you he is something great. Mike

Lovely lady! ?

Meow! ?

Yep, we haven't made a big deal of it this year or last but Halloween will always have stories. For once, the holiday falls on a posting day, so the three Halloween stories in hand will be posted on Wednesday, October 31st. They are all good!

Thanks Oliver and Colin. I'm fine. And thanks for your comments. I believe I will post the next story all at once, as that's the way I like to read them.  Arrghhhhhhh For the first time, Alan posted-at his request- a novel serially. We fast tracked it like we do with most stories these days at two chapters a week (one each on Wednesdays and Saturdays. At eight chapters it only took four weeks. But you guys complained. Now you guys go and talk him into posting all at once... a practice we seldom use anymore at AD. That means that his story is likely to be overlooked by readers who do a quick scan of the Current Serial Novels on the homepage. Grrrrr ?

oooooookay... loved it.... Now we're on Mozart and The Magic Flute.... let me introduce you to a 14 year old Norwegian lad named Aksel Rykkvin who, up until this time last year, was arguable one of the most accomplished boy sopranos. Then his voice changed and he's decided to dedicate his young life to opera... as a baritone. This clip is from Norwegian television where he performs - with a young lady the same age - Papageno from The Magic Flute. Following this clip will be a couple of his notable performances as a soprano. Enjoy!

This touched me too! Kudos to this lad and to Adam Rippon for being 'out there' and being themselves! Mike

Kewl Dad's excellent story has been received and hopefully will be posted at AwesomeDude in the near future. Mike

I have been following this thread with interest and - admittedly with some concern - since it was started. I think the message that guns are dangerous became pretty clear to the boys in this story, its readers and to young people in general. I don't believe - however - that a young author, who devotes a goodly percentage of his busy waking hours to providing an upbeat website and reading material for gay and questioning young people, should try to take on every aspect of every social issue in every story. Colin presents a story in a frame of reference in which kids perceive life. His own youth and personal experience provide a lot of insight into what is important to young people and that is what makes his stories credible with young readers. Colin is an excellent writer. I don't think he should be goaded into writing a 'sequel' to stress a message that parents, educators, and media should have made quite clear. The good sense of today's young people should not be underestimated, and what young person - gay or straight - wants to be preached to in the reading material he seeks as entertainment? In short, I totally agree with Cole's summation above. Mike

Wayne's stories Guarded and Camp Refuge are excellent. Wayne and I are in contact and we're working on bringing him and his stories to AwesomeDude. Mike

New Authors Ivor Slipper, Greg Denton and Marin Giustinian all submitted their first stories to AwesomeDude this month. As they are single stories and all in the Newest Short Stories category, they will get AwesomeDude Author Page creations when they submit their second stories. I will, however, when posting the mid-week updates to the site on Wednesday, put their names on the Author's List and link their current single story. Clueless, however, about the reference of a link to Cynus ... ? Mike

Here's another web collaboration with Alexandru (Norway) this time with Beamer from Canada. It's a cover of One Direction's Story of My Life.