Made reservations for the cruise...pray for dry weather ....looks like it might be ok.

Wish I could be there for PULSE....ice show  awaits.

TONS of Physique athletes coming to the cruise now...should be a major party!

 

Nabbed the silver in my competition Physique (age 50-59)...felt great

 

now after having devoted FOUR MONTHS of my life to this, I am ready to PARTY DOWN!

 

After the show, a gal reporter (a cutie...looked like a CUTE Hillary C)) interviewed me about competing and living with HIV and may be in DVD they are compiling about it to be released sometime this year! Steve Perkins was sitting there and I pulled him in and he too was included in this!

 

I mentioned your web site, RJ, and also found yet another athlete competing with HIV during this event. That makes I believe SIX of us! This will grow as word of this spreads.

 

Ann Sathers for breakfast...will INJECT their cinnamon buns intravenously into my arms!!

If you guys don't know about this place...YOU MUST visit this before you return to your home state.

 

Gay owned and operated...the best down-home food you've ever tasted...Belmont...right near the El train brown or red line.

2 minute walk from there. Worth the trip by all means.

 

5 of us went out for deep dish pizza and acted like drug addicts needing a fix! GIVE US PIZZA!!!! wow...

 

Steve Perkins also got the silver...has a hearing problem, so when he got his medal he didn't even know it was a SILVER till I TOLD him after the event!!

So cute...59 Steve....you go. He was in my weight and age category but got a SEPARATE medal for being on steroids.

 

Ripped a tendon yesterday during the final pose-off....I felt it go 'twang' like a rubber band breaking....thank god it happened AFTER the mandatory poses and my routine, so the evening was just about a presentation for friends. With the help of my dear friend David Scamardo (did PHANTOM together) we re-worked it for that event and came up with ( I felt anyway) a maybe even BETTER version....just without the extension that really sets me apart from the rest of the guys....to have a standing split at age 50!

 

It gave me some GREAT ideas about the future with all this, gang. I saw that there is a real need for their routines to be actually choreographed much like a dance number. Several judges came up to me after and said they was impressed by how unique it was and how I successsfully combined dance with bodybuilding poses. They said they wished more competitors did that, as most of them put on the music and just WALKED to the next pose, hitting them on the beats, and nothing else....yawn. I know from having judged scores of dance competitions that it is the unique ones that catch my eye.

 

 So when I return next week I will submit a proposal to the owner of GOLDS GYM about all this, and hit up all the new competitor friends there I have now made and who are very interested in not only getting into modeling and show business (both of which I can help them with), but in using my choreographic talents to create that same "edge" for them! This could be VERY lucrative for me, and is a no-brainer to do! And what fun huh?

 

stay in touch friends....Black Tie Ball on Friday....had my mom ship in an outfit I wore for the opening night of PHANTOM that is sitting in my closet ready to wear! But that jacket will come off when it's TIME TO DANCE!!

 

this thing is taking off rapidly....don't let thsi slide...stay connected folks. let's help each other.

DOUG GRAHAM.

RJ....can you compile a list of Emails  and info of those who are currently aboard this site? That way we can send personal messages to each other without having to go through this forum....

mine:

917 860 8231

10 Independence Hall

Newark, DE  19711