Rod Garetto photographed by Bob Mizer for AMG

I found that someone found his way to this blog by searching for Rod Garetto at AMG; so I thought it would be a good idea to actually construct a post to satisfy this searcher’s need (and because it serves my pleasure.)
 

I won’t go further into the various rumors I’ve heard of late concerning the sad circumstances of Rodney’s more recent post-porn careers.  In a way all careers are bad choices.  Still, it saddens me to hear some of this stuff because I genuinely like the guy. The couple of times I ran into him, we never really spoke, but there was a great deal exchanged that had nothing to do with money.  He had an intriguing presence far beyond his sexual allure.  Just the same, I’m hopeful.  I assume he retains all the qualities I valued in him and it’s hard to believe anything that you hear in Hollywood.

Here I am, Come and Take me

Here I am, Come and Take me
Al Green on Soul Train, 1974
Today is Al Green’s sixty eighth birthday, which means he was twenty eight when this show was recorded, and that I was sixteen when I first watched it on a Saturday afternoon.  Al’s arm is in a sling during this particular performance because some overzealous fans (according to him some thirty admirers) at an earlier event were trying to keep him from leaving before they had their fill of him, grabbed him and fractured it.

At the end he just said: I'm going to go now.

DINO, el TORO PASIVO de MICHOACÁN

Dino has appeared more than once on these pages, though the second time only in passing.  He bears a fuller viewing.  I mean to exhaust my store of images of him here and then delete his picture file to clear up storage space.  It isn't a sign of any lesser regard for these pictures or the model depicted (the very opposite, in fact.)  This is the most images I've ever presented in a single post.  I mean it as a reflection of my admiration for his great beauty.

Here, below, is part of the record of the first of his encounters on camera with another guy, su Compadre, Compa (or maybe Jorge, if the tattoo on his left arm is any clue to his identity.)  I'm assuming that they truly know each other because of the passion and composure with which they approach their coupling.  In a later video recording their roles are reversed, and then some: Dino fucks the heftier Compa while another guy watches and assists.  I rather prefer it this way, where it's just the two of them, and the smaller and more perfectly toned one plays pasivo (at least between these two.)  However, I should be clear in saying that I would gladly take them, singly or in tandem, in whatever way they allowed themselves to be presented, and that includes in the flesh.