Favorite Pic of the Day (2) for November 9th

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Franco Lo Presti for Huf Magazine

 

Boarding Pass

12 Days: Franco Lo Presti in Winter Wonderlanes 🎳

'Is she ready to walk away from Wonderlanes – or finally put down roots where her heart truly belongs.'

This isn't the first time I've seen Franco Lo Presti in a Hallmark movie, but it's the first time since his turn as hockey stud Cliff in Heated Rivalry.   Most of the cast has been working steadily since the show became a phenomenon last winter. Lo Presti is not only continuing with Hallmark holiday films, he also is appearing on the series Crossroad Springs, and recently began appearing on Days of our Lives.

Given Days shoots so far in advance, I'm guessing Lo Presti secured his role as Dante Vitali about the time Heated Rivalry came out.  Dante is the finance of Sami Brady, the currently off-screen character played by Alison Sweeney.   I featured the Canadian born actor when I first saw him in Heated Rivalry, (HERE:)  and although we don't get a lot of Cliff, Lo Presti still made an impact. 

In Winter Wonderlanes, Audrey (Ashley Newbrough) is a globe-trotting pop-up restaurateur who returns home for Thanksgiving to the news that her late grandfather's beloved bowling alley, Wonderlanes, will be sold. Audrey agrees to stay for one last festive season at Wonderlanes and decides to revive its iconic Winter Wonderlanes youth bowling tournament. To drum up publicity for the event, she reluctantly partners with Jason Miller (Lo Presti), a local news reporter and her high school boyfriend. 

Days caps from Daveid

Franco for HUF Magazine

Photography by Alkan Emin

Skins Vs Skins

'Wanna Ruck?'

We all remember in Jr. High when the gym teacher would pick teams and yell that it was shirts vs skins.  I never minded being on either team, but was always a little nervous of getting red or that my nipples would get hard.  It was hard enough going through puberty while still in the closet, it was harder when aroused while in gym class.  Usually I kept it together, but the stress of being 'found out' still haunts me.  Why I wasted all that time.

Not sure what I would have done if the teacher had yelled skins vs skins, and I had to strip off every piece of clothing, but don't think I would have made it through to the bell ring.  In Dunedin, NZ however, that's exactly what happened to a team back in 2002.  The All-Blacks Rugby Team was a  national treasure in NZ, which is why the Nude Blacks took on their name.

It began as almost a joke during a backpackers festival.  A group of students from Otago University challenged visiting backpackers to a match on the beach.  The twist, they'd play nude. The matches soon became an unofficial, cold-weather curtain-raiser held in Dunedin ahead of major international rugby events.  It may have began as a joke, but became incredibly popular. 

The team even use the visibility to raise money for charity, this year helping a 6-year-old girl with leukemia. Their popularity is a sign of how relaxed other parts of the world are about nudity.  The Nude Blacks also travel, and are playing England in the clip included in this piece.

FaVorite Clicks

Usually I label this post, favorite clicks of the week, but some of these are a little older.  I began this post before Halloween, but then my focus turned to wizards and witches.  Now that the spooky season is over, it was time to finish.    I like to think I'm pretty good at detecting AI, but I'm not sure with these shots of Benito, (Bad Bunny) I saw them on Twitter last week, and they were new to me.  Hopefully they're authentic!

Sean Ford

Sticking with Twitter, Sean Ford was, and is a beautiful guy.  I was going to call him the Dorian Gray of gay porn, but he's actually not that old.  It feels like Ford has been around for decades, but I think it was around 2017 when he hit big during his time at Helix.  It feels like he should be older, but Ford is still only 30.  Given how porn swallow up, and spits out so many so quickly, it's a testament to Ford he's still so popular close to a decade into his career. 

I'm not sure where I found the video below, but have had it for a bit.  I think it's really hot.  The guys are waiting for a friend to show up to surprise them on his birthday. They decide part of the surprise will be him finding them all in a full moon. Happy Birthday! 🎈

Dreamcap

Thanks to the posters at Dreamcap, we get caps, and a video of actor Jonathan Lipnicki from Primetime.  I'm not a huge Robert Pattinson fan, but I do like Lipnicki, and love actor Skyler Gisondo, so will most likely check it out.

Purgatory

Also from Dreamcap, we get a great view of Canadian actor Karl Farah from 2023's Le Purgatoire des Intimes. (Purgatory)  Farah could be the poster boy for beefcake.