Big Muscle Summer Splash Party - Palm Springs!

BIG MUSCLE
Summer Splash Party Palm Springs

July 2 - 5, 2010

The DGTG has teamed up with Bill and Andy from BIGMUSCLE.com to create our first-ever BIG MUSCLE Summer Splash event, and the Triangle Inn Palm Springs is one of the Host hotels! Join us over the Fourth of July weekend for sun, fun and BIG Muscles!

Schedule of Events:

Thursday, July 1st - Happy Hour Welcome Party @ Streetbar - Appetizers, T-shirt giveaways and drink specials for early arrivals and local BigMuscle members with wristbands.

Friday night, July 2nd - Tool Shed Muscle Party- Happy hour pricing on well drinks and domestic beers, from 10pm till midnight for all the guys with wristbands. Shot Specials for shirtless BigMuscle guys!

Saturday, July 3rd - CCBC - Noon to 5pm. 4TH OF JULY WEEKEND BBQ & PNN RADIO T-DANCE. MR YANKEE DOODLE DANDY CONTEST, at 3PM. $5 off admission to guys with wristbands.

Saturday Night, July 3rd - Club W - Fourth of July Cook-out: Free hotdogs, Happy Hour Prices, Drink Specials - 5pm - 8pm.

Sunday July 4 from 11am until ??? - Georgie’s ALIBI - $4 Bloody Mary specials $3 Mimosa specials, and Happy Hour Drink Prices.

Sunday Afternoon Pool Parties - Host Hotels - Check them out!

Monday – Departures.

Summertime is Coming!

The days are getting longer, the Roadrunners are getting friskier, and the nights are getting warmer. In Palm Springs, that can only mean one thing: Summertime is coming!

For Palm Springs visitors, Summer is considered the “value” season. That means it’s a good time to get great deals, and enjoy a relaxing sunny vacation. But in recent years, our “value” season has become filled with almost as many great events as “high” season.

Take a gander at some of our Summer Fare:

Restaurant Week 2010: Starting Friday, June 4th, and continuing through Sunday, June 13th (Michael’s birthday), restaurant week is a culinary celebration featuring restaurants from the entire Valley -  Palm Springs to Indio!

Participating restaurants offer three-course menus at the fixed price of either $24 or $36 per person (tax, beverages and gratuity are not included).

Don't miss this exciting opportunity to experience some of the best restaurants the desert has to offer.

Restaurant Week is the perfect time to visit your favorite restaurant or try something new, as chefs prepare delicious three-course meals for your dining pleasure at a fixed price. Want to know more? Visit http://www.palmspringsrestaurantweek.com/

2010 Palm Springs Int'l ShortFest: Be in Palm Springs from June 22nd through the 28th, to see the best selection of short films and the most exciting lineup of seminars, special presentations and receptions at the largest event of its kind in the country!

The Palm Springs International ShortFest is renowned worldwide for the extraordinary community of filmmakers it attracts, and for the quality and scope of its programming.

ShortFest 2010 will present more than 300 short films from over 40 countries. Discover more at: http://www.psfilmfest.org/

Palm Springs Summer Splash: Starting June 1st, and continuing until September 30th, Palm Springs Summer Splash is a Summer-long Promotion sponsored by the LGBT tourism community. The 2010 Edition of Palm Springs Summer Splash promises to be the best ever! We’ve even made a deal with American Airlines and Alaska Air for special discounts on airfare this Summer, and a deal with Enterprise Rent-a-Car for special rates on rental cars!

Sponsored by the Desert Gay Tourism Guild, Summer Splash brings Greater Palm Springs area hotels, restaurants, bars, retailers, promoters and entertainment venues together to create a vibrant and varied line-up of special offers and special events.

So come on! Jump in and join the Fun! 

And don’t forget to ask for your FREE SPLASH PASS - a FREE Discount Card that offers discounts and savings at bars, shops, restaurants and attractions all over Palm Springs and other desert cities.

For more information, visit http://www.palmspringssummersplash.com

Spring TING V Bids a NAKED Bon Voyage to Shann Carr and her crew!

The men from TING have had a special pace in their hearts for comedian Shann Carr ever since she made a surprise appearance at Fall TING, and performed her stand-up act in front of a crowd of over fifty naked gay men!



So once we realized that TING V’s dates coincided with the launch of Shann’s Summer Land Cruise, we just had to do a special naked bon voyage for Shann and her crew! Photos are attached!



About Out For Laughs: The Land Cruise.



Shann Carr’s Out For Laughs: The Land Cruise is currently motoring through cities across the US from May to mid-August, sprinkling fun-loving gay comedy out onto the landscape of gay (and not-so-gay) America.

Shann and her sidekick, aspiring comedian, Ken Cypert, a self proclaimed hillbilly from Arkansas, now residing in NYC, are performing at gay events, large and small, including pride celebrations, summer festivals and various truck stops and dive bars along the way. They're frolicking with other gay & lesbian performers and interacting with the locals they cross paths with - all the while capturing everything on film. And when they’re done, all of it goes 'in the can' to create a comedy/reality series called "Out For Laughs: The Land Cruise."



Want to know more? Visit www.shanncarr.com and follow the adventures of the BIG pink RV!

Shoots...of all kinds!

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Wildflower Watch in Southern California: Anza-Borrego State Park and the Salton Sea

I promise that I am not obsessed with the whole wildflower thing. Well, ok, maybe a little. But I enjoy Spring in general, and I particularly enjoy it here in Southern California when the wildflowers are in bloom. 

Lots of people are convinced that we don't really think we get seasons in Southern California, but I can promise you that we do. They're just a bit different from the seasons in other parts of the world....

A couple of days ago, I drive down to the Anza-Borrego State Park with our friends (and soon to be neighbors) Larry and Ed Sogolow. Anza-Borrego Desert State Park is the largest state park in California. Five-hundred miles of dirt roads, 12 wilderness areas and miles of hiking trails provide visitors with an unparalleled opportunity to experience the wonders of the California Desert.

The park is named after Spanish explorer Juan Bautista de Anza and the Spanish name borrego, or bighorn sheep. It's located just about an hour+ south of Palm Springs in San Diego County.

The park features washes, wildflowers, palm groves, cacti, badlands, and sweeping vistas. It also runs almost right up to the Salton Sea - yet another of Southern California's interesting micro climates. But that's another story.

This Winter was rainy, which generally means a good wildflower season. And starting last week, the weather really warmed up, and that brings the blooms out.

I've included some of the pictures I took on our recent trip, and have uploaded many more of them on an album you can view at your leisure. If you want to come out, there's still time. Wildflower are peaking in the next couple of weeks in the lower elevations but will continue to flood the desert with color all the way up to the high desert and Joshua Tree for at least another month.

Yellow flowers that you'll see include (but are not limited to) creosote bush, brittlebush, palo verde, desert sunflowers, dune sunflowers, barrel cactus, desert dandelions, century plants and bladder pods.

Pink and purple flowers include Arizona Lupine (which are featured in several good shots), sand verbena, desert aster, chia and monkey flowers.

The Ocotillo were also in full bloom while we were in Anza-Borrego, and we got quite a few shots of them as well.

We also took some time to explore the badlands that are part of, and adjacent to the park. They always remind me of the old westerns I used to watch as a kid.

Some of the box canyons will definitely look familiar to you if you love that genre of movie and/or remember shows like the Virginian. I had a major crush on actor Doug McClure (RIP) who played Trampas on that show! Actor James Drury wasn't bad either! But I digress...

Finally we took a detour and went down to the Salton Sea. If you want to see a surreal world, you need look no further. Block upon block of infrastructure, but with no buildings. Entryways marking planned communities that never got built.

Block after block of empty and/or abandoned buildings. Abandoned docks, boats left to rot in the mud, some rather interesting churches, homes and a million birds!

And despite it all, there is a tragic beauty to the Salton Sea. To see the Salton Sea sitting in the middle of the California Desert is quite an experience!

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St. Patrick's Day!

In Honor of St. Patrick’s Day (and fair haired men, whether they be Irish or not)!

As many of you know, Stephen and I just returned from Detroit, and from his induction into the St. Andrew’s Society - a heritage and service organization for people of Scottish ancestry.

Quite an honor for him, especially considering that he is the third generation of his family to be inducted into the St. Andrews Society.

Stephen is descended from a long line of Scots on both sides of his family, and carries the Boyd surname - well-known among Scots.

But his heritage is not just Scottish. Rather, like most Americans of Western European descent, he is descended from a diverse melting pot of people from Scotland, England, Northern Ireland, France and Ireland.

I share a similar background, although my own mix is a made up of people from England, Germany, Scotland, Northern Ireland, the Netherlands and Ireland.

With that in mind, I felt it was entirely appropriate for us to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day and our mutual Irish heritage with a special tribute to fair haired men, no matter what their particular lineage.

There are a dozen or so hotties of exactly that type included here in our blog. And if you like them here, you're going to want to see more of them.

Good news! They also appear uncensored in a new photo album I’ve created on our Social Network:

www.triangleinnpalmsprings.com

I hope everyone enjoys the eye candy and joins us in a virtual toast in honor of St. Patrick’s Day (and fair-haired men)!

After all, there’s an old saying that everyone’s Irish on St. Patrick’s Day!

And finally, for those of you who are members of our social network, take a minute to visit the new photo album (and add a photo or two if your own favorite fair-haired hottie)!

I know you have them.

Some of you even fit the description!

Come on. You know who you are. :)

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Michael