Eric Dane struts his stuff in the sun. I don't even walk around shirtless inside my home.

Prove it!

As of midnight last night, it was exactly six years since my first post. It's been a tough thing to keep up with a dayjob and outside activities, and just when I think I might walk away, a valuable connection or interesting opportunity or a kind word comes my way. Thank you all for reading me.

Of whom are you more jealous?

Here are my favorite 100+ posts out of nearly 11,000. Please take some time to read (or re-read!) a couple and tweet or Facebook any you like.

xoxo Matt

The pocket pool championships were intense this year

BOY CULTURE

Boy-crazy

FROM BOY TO MAN: BC B.C. (2007): The entire history of my novell and novel Boy Culture as well as the movie version; might be my ultimate post.

Jonathon Trent & Derek Magyar make an Allan Brocka sandwich

BOY ON FILM (2006): An account of the NYC launch party for Boy Culture as it played the TriBeCa Film Fest.

I was left "Reeling" by the experience

FRIENDS AND "FAMILY" (2006): The movie version of Boy Culture hits Chicago.

No one would've mistaken me for Taylor Lautner

RAPT PUPIL (2006): The final night of Outfest with Boy Culture; I was fat but on the other hand got to meet Bryan Singer.

 

MY ART

 

Construction worker (shot this week) vs. James Dean

GUYDAR (since at least January 17, 2008) & ENDS OF THE WORLD (since at least January 13, 2008): Attractive men of the world—I got your backs. Your fronts, too.

i-i-i (phone)

Not totally built

Unaltered iPhone image that still blows me away

"Your pictures suck" (2008): An art critic attacks me, but not without sustaining some hits in return.

Let's call it a draw

DRAWN TOGETHER (2008): How my desire to draw related to my secret desire. One of my absolute favorite posts.

The shirtless one

LOST ANGELES (2009): My favorite photographic travelogue of L.A.

Even then, New Yorkers feared 9/11 was the beginning of the end

ART IMITATES LIFE (2006): My 9/11 and my distaste for grief tourism.

ME

Death of the party—Jeff in high school, already halfway through his life

BURNING MAN (2007): Tribute to my late high school friend and first romance.

Signed, sealed (eventually) delivered

LOST BOY FOUND (2011): There is a book in here somewhere.

Be Italian

CIAO HOUNDS: OUR TRIP TO ITALY (2011): Finally got José to Europe.

Death becomes here

ILLINOIS DEATH TRIP (2007): Ruminations on death while revisiting a past home, and the past.

Life is short...and meaningful

PASSING BY (2008): Mourning the loss of a person I only met once.

Lots more...

Above, OK! (September 19, 2011) says "fuck it!" and just goes ahead and includes everyone who looks good shirtless on one page, including Kellan Lutz, Mario Lopez, Zac Efron, Kris Humphries and Matthew McConaughey. Below, Eric "McSteamy" Dane is still a handsome devil (as seen in Life & Style's September 19, 2011 issue), but is it me or is he wasting away?:

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The Vampire Diaries has a good thing in star Paul Wesley, who lets some of it hang out in Vanity Fair (October 2010), above. Also, I'm tempted to see that potentially crappy movie The Winning Season just for mustachioed Sam Rockwell:

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Us (June 7, 2010) offers two pages of the hottest hunks in Hollywood because...well, why not? They include Bradley Cooper, Jake Gyllenhaal, Matthew Morrison, Ryan Phillippe, Eric Dane, Gavin Rossdale, Mehcad Brooks and Matthew McConaugey. Below, an extra dose of Phillippe from In Touch (June 7, 2010):  

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Globe (May 31, 2010) shows off Eric Dane's tight shorts (above), while Italian Vanity Fair (19 Maggio 2010) offers up a sleek Shia LaBeouf: 

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Above: Us Weekly (May 17, 2010) shows off Eric Dane and Rebecca Gayheart's baby...but I focused on the baby-daddy. Meanwhile, he doesn't have his shirt on because you just know that's a nudist situation. Below: The equally hot Simon Baker covers TV Guide (May 10—16, 2010):

Above, Gerard Butler redeems himself after some unflattering candids seemed to suggest he was out of shape. From In Touch (February 22, 2010). Below, Star (February 22, 2010) offers Kellan Lutz and Olympians J.R. Celski and Louie Vito:

The only redeeming facets of the atrocious new movie Valentine's Day (which is a bad Love American Style in quality, execution and mindset) are seeing Eric Dane and Topher Grace (below) shirtless:

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Us (February 15, 2010) has the ultimate "A-List Abs Quiz" with guts (or lack thereof) belonging to everyone from  Taylor Lautner to Bruce Springsteen. I'm not sure what it says about the printing that Will Smith's torso is not instantly identifiable, but it's fun looking at anyway. 

Us Weekly (December 14, 2009) offers up Hollywood's hottest hunks flashing their pecs.