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Saturday, March 21, 2009

The following is from Bearracuda (website - articles - profile): "For the first time ever, we're having dueling parties tonight, Saturday, March 21st! While the guys in San Francisco are shaking their furry asses, there will be a few hundred guys doing the same thing in Seattle. In San Francisco ~ resident DJ Pete 'Jester' Savas is flying in from Salt Lake City to spin for our guys all night! At the moment, Pete is in the top 5 of the Gay Days Orlando Contest. Vote and give positive feedback for Pete here to better his chances of winning. The lucky DJ who wins will spin their very own Gay Days 2009 pool party in June. In Seattle: Even through the snow, the last Bearracuda Seattle was a huge hit!  This Saturday, we're expecting 'no' snow and an even better crowd. DJ Boyshapedbox and Fifty Pound Note are flying up from San Francisco to spin for the Northwest crowd".

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Monday, October 20, 2008

I found some over 50 Eito (aka Orlando) pics that I thought I had lost. Check them out here (view all of his galleries here). It's a great set of Eito with a black background. Unfortunately they are only 640x480 or so and I remember when Eito sent them to me they were a lot larger (resolution wise), however I cannot find the original .zip file that he sent, but I'm at least glad I found the smaller versions of them, so I decided to share.

I have spoken a bit about Eito ever since he past away (articles - I also had a section that I dedicated to him on BearFoot but the section is no longer online), mentioning that he was truly an unique guy with a great attitude; that he was a lot of fun to work with when we got together for a photo shoot for Bear-Pics, and truly ~ he was as cute in real person as he is in the photos.

This is definitely the last set of photos that I have of him. I have posted all the other photos of him, guaranteed. Now if I ever do find that .zip file with the original sized photos from this set, I will post them, else this is gonna be the last time I add photos of Eito (unless, of course, someone else has a photo set of him that I don't know about and wishes to share).

Hugz Eito - we miss you...

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Thursday, September 18, 2008

Willkommen! is how you are greeted on the Bear Bust website as they welcome you to their upcoming OctoBearBust which will be taking place in Orlando, FL from October 16th thru the 19th.

"The Bears of Central Florida’s Bear Bust Committee has been working hard to make this another great celebration of Bears and their Admirers! This is the 17th year that our event has been held. We have done our best to listen to all of the great suggestions that have been sent to us and hope we have made the improvements needed for everyone to have as much fun as possible! This year's theme of 'OctoBearBust' has given us the opportunity to think in new ways about what we wanted to do with the weekend. We hope to surprise, delight and entertain everyone who participates".

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Monday, August 25, 2008

Bubba of Bubbaclicks is informing us that his newest 'Bear Men 2009 Calendar' (cover) is now available. You can grab yourself a copy at Amazon (here) or at 10percent (here with photo examples of the models) and at Amazon (here). It is also available at some other smaller websites and in local gay retailers.

Bubba is already working on his 2010 calendar (this guy is way organized... I need to pay him just for some organizational skills). From Bubba: "I am in the process of shooting my 2010 calendar right now and also working on a cub calendar too. I will be at Bear Bust this year in Orlando.... anyone coming to Fort Lauderdale and looking for pictures or possibly being in a calendar or magazine, should hit me up".

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Wednesday, May 7, 2008

[Members click here - become a member - previews here] If you've ever visited the bear-pics website I used to run before I closed it down, you just might recall of a shoot I had with Orlando aka Eito. Orlando was very popular and had a lot of online fans. He came up to my place from New York in September 2002 for a weekend and we had a great time, we took a lot of pics and I have a lot of fond memories of getting to know this handsome man. Once the weekend was over, we promised to keep in touch a lot and we even spoke about doing another shoot in the future. However... once he left, we really didn't keep in touch at all. I sent him the occasional email seeing how he was doing and how life was going, and his emails to me were just as scarce. The last email I got from him was March 2003 and he wrote "Hello Forrest, I never forget about you. Here for you" and with it he attached a set of photos he took so I could add to the site.

Exactly 3 years after that shoot we had, in September 2005, I get an email from a friend of his saying that Orlando is very sick and that he's in the hospital. I emailed this friend back asking if there was anyway to contact Orlando. I got a reply with a phone number. Unfortunately, I never called him, and 20 days after his friend initially emailed me, well he sent me another email, this time saying that Orlando had passed away. He was 42 years old.

At the time, I posted an article about Orlando on BearFoot (which at the time was a message board for guys into Bear feet), and holy smokes did I ever get a ton of email replies of guys sending in their condolences. It was really only then that I realized just how many people that Orlando had touched. He was truly a fantasy Bear for many many men.

Also at the time, I was torn - do I take his pics down out of respect or do I keep them up online...? I asked a few friends about this and they all said the same thing: Orlando is cute, he took great pics, he's turned on a lot of men so let him keep turning them on. What they said made sense, so I kept Orlando's pics alive.

However, I have a ton of pics Orlando sent me, and with his permission he told me to post these online. I kind of forgot about all of them (around 240 pics), but going through my archives I came across them and I decided to post these as well. So head on over to Orlando's gallery and check out the last 4 photo sets.

It's still sad to think that he's gone. Just like his pics, he was truly all what a Bear should be - nice on the outside and nice on the inside.

Click here to see some previews - there's some pics from the sets I added today plus there's a few pics that Orlando sent of when he was a younger Bear... and there's 3 quick pics of Orlando in handcuffs. Wish there was more but that's all that I got from him.

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Friday, May 25, 2007

When I moved over all the galleries from bear-pics over to PlanetBears, I didn't add all the galleries, and one of them was that of Orlando's, aka Eito. One of the reasons why I didn't add it is because Orlando had passed away in 2005. I met Orlando in the fall of 2002 and we spent a weekend together working on a photo shoot and getting to know each other. We had a great time, Orlando was an excellent guy, and I'm not just saying that because he's past away now; he was a genuinely sweet guy, fun to be with, laughed a ton and smiled even more. He was easy to work with and of course, he was cute as candy and had a great Bearish body.

I thought maybe not to put them up out of respect and all that, but then a friend of mine said this would be a great way for people to remember him by. I thought about it and ya, it's true, this way he'll always be young and good looking and remembered.

There's over 400 pics in this update so just head on over to the galleries to view them - and here's some previews.

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Sunday, January 7, 2007

There's Gay Day and there is also Gay Days at Disney World - all of this taking place in Orlando, FL at the beginning of June. Gay Day and Gay Days? I'm confused. However, during all this gay confusion, one of the events that will be taking place is called the Tidal Wave Party for Bears, Cubs, Chubs & Admirers at the Wet 'n Wild on June 1st.

From their site: "Be there as Wet 'n Wild opens it's doors to a sea of Bears, Chubs and their Admirers. Your ticket entitles you to an exclusive evening-hour party filled with music, dancing and lights along with Wet & Wild's water slides and wave pool".