Alex from Target

[mikeyank]

Ambi posted this on the "funny you tube videos" thread, but I thought it deserved a thread of it's own.

Hmmm -

This isn't so much a funny Internet video, as a funny Internet MEME. A bunch of teenage girls got together, and made Alex, a teenage bag-boy from Target ("Alex from Target") world-famous. http://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/alex-from-target

Now, no rude or inappropriate comments, please! Alex is just 16. But he seems like a very nice guy, with a very nice smile. And now he has half a million followers on 'Twitter'. Poor guy! (At least he isn't gonna have trouble getting a date to the PROM!)

Kind of a cute and sweet story, anyway.

"A" XOXOXOXOXOXOXO

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P.S. Here is "Alex from Target", on Ellen. . . .

 

[mikeyank]

And today johnny said that Alex appeared on the Today show. I haven't found that on you tube yet, but this is him from "Extra" where he talks about his sudden fame, and being compared to Justin Bieber.

 

[johnny]

Sorry mike..He was not on the show. They were talking about it. Showing pictures. He now needs protection at school.
At his house and Target is getting him Protection when he comes back to work.The girls are lining up at the store.
Waiting lol. He has not been back to work yet but they are getting ready. Beautiful Kid..8oo thousand followers on Twitter
Love to see him in a scene with....Are you ready?...Paul...lol
Oh .. And stowes Butt Boy. OMG....

 

[mikeyank]

Sorry mike..He was not on the show. They were talking about it. Showing pictures. He now needs protection at school.
At his house and Target is getting him Protection when he comes back to work.The girls are lining up at the store.
Waiting lol. He has not been back to work yet but they are getting ready. Beautiful Kid..8oo thousand followers on Twitter
Love to see him in a scene with....Are you ready?...Paul...lol
Oh .. And stowes Butt Boy. OMG....

Okay, I will stop searching for another Alex interview. I would hope that he can cash in on his popularity, with endorsements or even commercials for Target. It's nice to have millions of followers, but having millions of dollars is even better.

 

[tampa24]

He's adorable. Something tells me he might play for our team. haha

 

[nsreed]

Alex is very cute. He is going to do nothing but get better as he gets older! Great personality that I hope he uses his 15 minutes of fame to land some Hollywood or modeling action and make some good money! He is supposed to be 100% straight but???? He does trip the gaydar meter quite a bit!

 

[johnny]

He is Straight he say's he has a girlfriend. hahahaha Nice day everyone.xo

 

[tampa24]

He is supposed to be 100% straight but???? He does trip the gaydar meter quite a bit!

I know. Right Nsreed? haha He has a girlfriend and so on. But he trips my gaydar big time with his long eyelashes, beautiful pretty eyes and the speech pattern. Even his teeth and smile are amazing. He may not even know that he's gay or bi yet, but I'm not convinced he's totally straight. lol

 

[joninliverton]

Leave the boy alone you set of perves. lol

 

[mikeyank]

I know. Right Nsreed? haha He has a girlfriend and so on. But he trips my gaydar big time with his long eyelashes, beautiful pretty eyes and the speech pattern. Even his teeth and smile are amazing. He may not even know that he's gay or bi yet, but I'm not convinced he's totally straight. lol

So you think in two years when he is 18, he might show up one day in Denver on a futon, or at the man cave or whatever set they are using in 2016 and be saying, "My name is Alex and I'm a Broke Straight Boys"?????

 

[tampa24]

So you think in two years when he is 18, he might show up one day in Denver on a futon, or at the man cave or whatever set they are using in 2016 and be saying, "My name is Alex and I'm a Broke Straight Boys"?????

Once he turns 18...who knows? haha

I do hope he can turn this 15 seconds of fame into some kind of modeling or advertising career that will pay him positive dividends in the long term. Whether it be money for college, a nest egg for the future or just an education in becoming more worldly and wise, I wish him the best.

 

[lpdude86]

I saw him on Ellen. He seems like a real nice kid. Too bad he doesn't know he is gay yet.

 

[johnny]

I saw him on Ellen. He seems like a real nice kid. Too bad he doesn't know he is gay yet.

Gay or not Gay he sure is a Beautiful Little Boy. Hope he uses his beauty towards his advantage.That's a million dollar face.

 

[Ambivalent]

So you think in two years when he is 18, he might show up one day in Denver on a futon, or at the man cave or whatever set they are using in 2016 and be saying, "My name is Alex and I'm a Broke Straight Boys"?????

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. . . Or, on a floodlit stage, somewhere, in eyeliner and high heels, singing, "Quizas, quizas, quizas" ;-)

"A" XOXOXOXOXOXOXO

 

[joninliverton]

I am glad that Alex doesn't read some of the comments on here. Jeez some of you should be locked up.

 

[Ambivalent]

I am glad that Alex doesn't read some of the comments on here. Jeez some of you should be locked up.

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But, with whom, Jon ~ that's the question!!! ;-)))

"A"

P.S. Of course, Jon, all mischief aside - there is a baleful trend in the gay community (though, as Quentin Crisp once said, there "really is no such happy confederacy"): to indulge in wishful thinking. With quite some frequency, anyone who is pretty enough to attract notice is ASSUMED to be gay, on a purely fanciful basis.

Within the confines of a gay precinct such as this one, that's HUMOUR. In the wider world, it would count as CALUMNY. However, I don't think that Alex is about to be reading or replying to any of the comments here. He is more than likely straight, just as he says he is.

Gay erotic sites are, as you know, the "Alice-in-Wonderland" funhouse mirrors in which gay men hope EITHER (mostly in America) that gay men are straight, but possibly about to turn gay; or which (mostly in Europe) gay men hope that straight men are REALLY GAY, but with enough straight proclivities to make things SPICY. (It is a fascinating difference in cultures, occasioned largely by the longer-lasting homophobia which persisted in North America, I think: and the more well-established libertinism in certain European capitals, which gives certain queers, false HOPE.)

Nonetheless, I think we should all respect and love people for who they are, emotionally and constitutionally. (Because, contra B.F. Skinner, it is never the overt acts or experimentation that make the man, but the emotional and spiritual inclinations.)

Alex seems like a nice chap; and, all kidding aside (and there has been much kidding): I am happy to leave it, at that.

"A" XOXOXOXO

 

[Ambivalent]

P.S. Jon ~

One of the greatest of the "gay imagineers" of all time was our old friend, Sir Noel Coward who - despite a genius for devilishly brilliant patter, and a supremely cosmopolitan attitude, and a great love, for the GREAT LOVE of his life, the one-time famed boy soprano Graham Payn (*ahem*) - Coward was renowned for his inclination to make a pass at everything cute, that MOVED.

After the premiere of Lawrence of Arabia, he was overheard to remark to Peter O'Toole (who was more-or-less HETEROSEXUAL, you see): "My dear boy ~ had you been any prettier, in this feature, it should have been entitled, FLORENCE, of Arabia." A lovely jest, Jon, but not really good form. Exactly.

You know, I was (for a time, upon another site) acquainted in a friendly way with a bisexual man - very nice, very civilized - whose KNEE was once clasped, in the course of a dinner-party, by a wine-suffused Gore Vidal. No witticisms remain, from the dregs of that encounter ~ because Mr. Vidal wasn't really funny. . . he was simply, a lecher, with delusions of brilliance.

"A" XOXOXOXOXOXO

* Gore Vidal's (pretty much mostly straight) high-school crush, Jimmy Trimble, a blond baseball star who consorted with Vidal once, in a high-school washroom, but who fell head-over-heels in love with a girl, wrote to her constantly during W.W.II, and was bayoneted by the Japanese at Iwo Jima. Vidal later recalled, that his "sweat smelled like honey."





*Peter O'Toole, who loved women, and said about women, "They are looking for US. They decide. Just turn up." And who said about heaven, "My idea of heaven, is moving from one smoke-filled room, to another."

 

[joninliverton]

P.S. Jon ~

One of the greatest of the "gay imagineers" of all time was our old friend, Sir Noel Coward who - despite a genius for devilishly brilliant patter, and a supremely cosmopolitan attitude, and a great love, for the GREAT LOVE of his life, the one-time famed boy soprano Graham Payn (*ahem*) - Coward was renowned for his inclination to make a pass at everything cute, that MOVED.

After the premiere of Lawrence of Arabia, he was overheard to remark to Peter O'Toole (who was more-or-less HETEROSEXUAL, you see): "My dear boy ~ had you been any prettier, in this feature, it should have been entitled, FLORENCE, of Arabia." A lovely jest, Jon, but not really good form. Exactly.

You know, I was (for a time, upon another site) acquainted in a friendly way with a bisexual man - very nice, very civilized - whose KNEE was once clasped, in the course of a dinner-party, by a wine-suffused Gore Vidal. No witticisms remain, from the dregs of that encounter ~ because Mr. Vidal wasn't really funny. . . he was simply, a lecher, with delusions of brilliance.

"A" XOXOXOXOXOXO

* Gore Vidal's (pretty much mostly straight) high-school crush, Jimmy Trimble, a blond baseball star who consorted with Vidal once, in a high-school washroom, but who fell head-over-heels in love with a girl, wrote to her constantly during W.W.II, and was bayoneted by the Japanese at Iwo Jima. Vidal later recalled, that his "sweat smelled like honey."

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*Peter O'Toole, who loved women, and said about women, "They are looking for US. They decide. Just turn up." And who said about heaven, "My idea of heaven, is moving from one smoke-filled room, to another."

You are too fabulous Ambi my dear. I think you're turning me gay ha ha xxx

 

[Ambivalent]

You are too fabulous Ambi my dear. I think you're turning me gay ha ha xxx

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Jon,

Likewise, I am sure! If you keep this up, I shall have to leave you all my Liberace albums, too. . . .

"A" XOXOXOXOXOXO



*"You made me love you (I didn't wanna do it!)" ~ Liberace at the Royal Command Performance for Her Majesty the Queen, the London Palladium, 1960.

 

[joninliverton]

Those are albums my dear dad never left me.