RIP Mike Robbins

[aladinsane73]

thanks for the kind words

Aladisane73,
As one who also suffers from this disease I knew what Mike was going through but I didn't have enough courage to say it on this forum. Many thanks to you for bringing it to the attention of all the people who read this thread. I hope that perhaps it might just help them to remember if they come across it in someone else.

prettypolly...........I hope you are doing well and finding some healing right now, I know this has probably been a very difficult time for you, with Mike having the same health issue as yourself...........try to remember that there are good people on this site that really loved Mike and wanted only the best for him, but he allowed his illness to control him, and it just got to be to much for one person to handle..but knowing is half the battle, and you sound like a fighter who will not let this get you down, keep it up kid........your doing great..

 

[deeteedub]

Absolutely ridiculous, there is no cover-up and you know as much as I do. We protect our models privacy as much as possible and you are wrong when you say they have unlimited privacy. Most porn sites don't even have contact with any of the models so you are lucky he even posted on here. It isn't everyone's right to know what happened and I don't even think it is my right. This thread was started to remember the good things about Mike. Why not just let Mike rest in peace.

I was one of the first ones to post my respectful condolences for Mike at the news of his passing.

Now, I know that his videos and photos will forever be floating through cyberspace, but here's something that I just saw that has me kind of baffled: on the new website that David left to begin, in the listings of their models, there is a photo of Mike. How can that be? I see Diesal, that's understandable ... but Mike?

Here's the link: Removed - violation TOS

 

[slimvintage]

I was one of the first ones to post my respectful condolences for Mike at the news of his passing.

Now, I know that his videos and photos will forever be floating through cyberspace, but here's something that I just saw that has me kind of baffled: on the new website that David left to begin, in the listings of their models, there is a photo of Mike. How can that be? I see Diesal, that's understandable ... but Mike?

Here's the link:Removed - violation TOS http://www.straightrentboys.com/gay-for-pay/models.html?

All the models who appeared on BSB1.0. (while David produced the content) were contracted by David, and some were even on exclusive contract to him like, if I'm not mistaken, Diesal

MikeR worked for him in two phases I think, with a disagreement in between. Apparently they patched things up and he was invited back from the midwest to D&E in Florida, midsummer 2010, to appear in some more videos, both for Broke Straight Boys and College Boy Physicals, and also, by the looks of it, for David's new venture (above). David knew that MikeR was well liked by the customers, and the two (actually three) of them (especially Eddie) were terrific friends. It isn't surprising that this material with MikeR in it is now appearing, just as that shot for Broke Straight Boys occupied several slots recently, just before the changeover to "Matthew".

 

[prettypolly]

prettypolly...........I hope you are doing well and finding some healing right now, I know this has probably been a very difficult time for you, with Mike having the same health issue as yourself...........try to remember that there are good people on this site that really loved Mike and wanted only the best for him, but he allowed his illness to control him, and it just got to be to much for one person to handle..but knowing is half the battle, and you sound like a fighter who will not let this get you down, keep it up kid........your doing great..

Many thanks for your kind thoughts. I have good days and bad days but I feel in good company as Katherine Zeta Jones wife of Michael Douglas has also come out and said that she suffers the same illness.

 

[juanjo]

1st of all Mike Robbins was more than just an entertainer to alot of us here at Broke Straight Boys.HE was a valued friend that we loved dearly, just read his posts on his thread, he had a very close relationship with many of us ...


Due to the fact that these same circumstances happen to thousands of people all over this country, it would be like trying to find a "needle in a haystake"....IMPOSSIBLE..so that excuse is weak to say the least.....

and to go so far as to tell his friends to "get over it" or "grow the f#*k up" is heartless and downright mean spirited....

Obviously you have some issues.

First of all I greatly enjoyed Mike's performance as well as his comments here. I felt a deep loss upon his most untimely death. My beef is with the person who has been insisting on a non-existent right to know all the details because Mike was a performer here. There is no such right and this poster's persistent posting insisting on this right as well as ascribing all sorts of nefarious motives to the refusal to post the facts is tiring at best and macabre and sick at worst.

Second, if Mike was such a dear friend of yours, then you would know his real name, place of residence and already have all the details. The fact is you do not. He was an acquaintance you had over a chat line and through videos posted on a porn site. The fact he chose not toi share that type of personal information with you is answer enough to your claims of such a close personal relationship.

Third, as for the ability to track down someone through information, I have done this either personally or through investigators on a regular basis in cases I was involved with over the past 30 years of my law practice. So I know it can be done and that it is not such an impossible task to a person who has the requisite knowledge and desire or willing to spend money to acquire the expertise of someone who has it. The management decided to withhold specifics to protect the family and I applaud them for doing so.

Fourth, as for saying I speak like a lawyer, well I do and I am not ashamed of that at all. I am not some silly little thing insisting on exercisong a nonexistent right and then having a hissy fit when I do not get my way which has been done here. The topic header was to be a memorial to the good memories that people had about Mike Robbins and instead we have had to endure nonsense from dull witted, queenas insisting on knowing things they had no right to know. I certainly can understand people asking but an adult when told that information is not going to be released, respects that decision and moves on to grieve in a respectful manner.

So I think it is entirely appropriate to tell people who will not let the matter go to get over it and move on.

 

[aladinsane73]

so much for appealing to the human heart

Obviously you have some issues.

First of all I greatly enjoyed Mike's performance as well as his comments here. I felt a deep loss upon his most untimely death. My beef is with the person who has been insisting on a non-existent right to know all the details because Mike was a performer here. There is no such right and this poster's persistent posting insisting on this right as well as ascribing all sorts of nefarious motives to the refusal to post the facts is tiring at best and macabre and sick at worst.

Second, if Mike was such a dear friend of yours, then you would know his real name, place of residence and already have all the details. The fact is you do not. He was an acquaintance you had over a chat line and through videos posted on a porn site. The fact he chose not toi share that type of personal information with you is answer enough to your claims of such a close personal relationship.

Third, as for the ability to track down someone through information, I have done this either personally or through investigators on a regular basis in cases I was involved with over the past 30 years of my law practice. So I know it can be done and that it is not such an impossible task to a person who has the requisite knowledge and desire or willing to spend money to acquire the expertise of someone who has it. The management decided to withhold specifics to protect the family and I applaud them for doing so.

Fourth, as for saying I speak like a lawyer, well I do and I am not ashamed of that at all. I am not some silly little thing insisting on exercisong a nonexistent right and then having a hissy fit when I do not get my way which has been done here. The topic header was to be a memorial to the good memories that people had about Mike Robbins and instead we have had to endure nonsense from dull witted, queenas insisting on knowing things they had no right to know. I certainly can understand people asking but an adult when told that information is not going to be released, respects that decision and moves on to grieve in a respectful manner.

So I think it is entirely appropriate to tell people who will not let the matter go to get over it and move on.

WOW.........now a lawyer has taken it upon himself to attack me, and my motives as well as my character, I don't know if I should consider it a complement or just the fact that somebody is getting pretty uncomfortable right now, that doesn't happen unless a nerve has been hit, if you don't like my "hissy fits" then don't read them, as you have already stated "get over it" and "move on" your a big boy and know the law, I have a right to my opinion and the right to express it, this whole issue will not go away queitly, even if a lawyer tries a few scare tactics and intimidation, I understand you think I have issues, look in the mirror, if your a human being you have them too. I am not a queen, or a person who looks for fights with "lawyers", if my post to you was an offence, then I am truly sorry..I have been just trying to appeal to peoples better natures, I also understand about privacy, it was a mandate in the kind of career I had for over 20yrs..You may have a point about finding "Michael R" and his identity, their are some on this site that know it already, which is fine with me, and I am moving on as well. I'm sorry you feel it needful to be so abrupt with me, your words are very much like a lawyer, ...but such is life, I'm not trying to judge just looking at the cold hard truth, "Mike" was a tragic soul who got in over his head, he also was an adult and made his decisions, refusing to take his meds for his bipolar disorder and drinking hard booze everyday and getting drunk on the weekends, as well as getting stoned everyday, it was only a matter of time before he ended up dead, sad but true..as I've wrote before you can't mix these things with an untreated mental illness and not reap what comes down the road at you..I just wish I had known earlier what he was doing to himself on a daily basis, I could have warned him of the dangers he was putting himself in, but to little to late I guess, there were others that knew his lifestyle and didn't see the warning signs. Sadly I've seen it to many times, and I've been told by someone who did know the real "Mike" that he was found dead in his home alone, and with his health history and substance abuse, I believe we all can figure out how his tragic death occured. This whole sad affair is the reason some of us were in a state of disbelief, and acted out in very emotional ways, but death does that to people sometimes..I for some reason took it very hard, I know he was just a porn model on this site, and he fucked other men for money, but for some unknown reason he stood out for me, not because he had a "big dick" or a "nice body", but there was something other than that. He tried damn hard to actually reach out to the members in a more personal way, see his thread, you might understand what I'm saying, and then maybe not, I don't know..I guess if anybody really wanted to know the real story about "Mike" they could just take his likeness off this very site, get a P.I. and in a matter of time find out everything they want to know. In todays internet world it can be done , like you said, if someone has the time and money...I'm sure that it's probably happening right now, this whole mystery has got to be solved for some people, not by me though, but this is something I was very concerned about when this whole issue got started, you dangle a mystery in front of some and they'll take your challenge, if for no other reason than they don't like being told "NO". So happy hunting I guess, till next time friends................

 

[Smiley]

I understand this board is loosely moderated. I like that a bunch and what to see it continued.

But would somebody please lock this thread? It long ago lost its purpose of celebrating Mike R and instead has become one of turmoil.

The Mike on screen was a happy, sexy, guy. I wouldn't recognize him from these posts. This thread has become an injustice to his legacy.

With this last post, we have devolved down to gossip on the way Mike died. Can this thread sink much lower?

I can't see how keeping this thread open any longer serves a purpose.

 

[aladinsane73]

Truce anybody?

I think it's time to lay down our swords and begin to live our lives again, LET IT GO FOLKS...........THEY'RE NOT TALKING!!!! Sooooooooooo, I for one am ready to "move on". Mike is gone, nothing we say or do, no matter how emotional we get or feel can do anything about that fact..And like I said "THEY'RE NOT TALKING". If you want answers, your not going to find them here!! You'll have to look elsewhere for that....And like my "LAWYER" friend said if you got the time and the know how, plus a little money, you can find out anything on the internet, so, HAPPY HUNTING....

 

[BrokeStraightBoys]

Ok this thread from now on is to remember Mike and nothing else. If anything else is posted that is argumentative it will be removed.

 

[aladinsane73]

no problem

Ok this thread from now on is to remember Mike and nothing else. If anything else is posted that is argumentative it will be removed.

I hear you loud and clear. I remember the 1st time I saw mike with josh, OMG was it ever hot, and the comment about being even better friends now that they've fucked one another was really something.....those two really seemed to get off on each other. that's what I liked about my friend mike, he always made it personal, in a good way, GOD DO I MISS HIM!!

 

[qscott86]

Obviously you have some issues.

First of all I greatly enjoyed Mike's performance as well as his comments here. I felt a deep loss upon his most untimely death. My beef is with the person who has been insisting on a non-existent right to know all the details because Mike was a performer here. There is no such right and this poster's persistent posting insisting on this right as well as ascribing all sorts of nefarious motives to the refusal to post the facts is tiring at best and macabre and sick at worst.

Second, if Mike was such a dear friend of yours, then you would know his real name, place of residence and already have all the details. The fact is you do not. He was an acquaintance you had over a chat line and through videos posted on a porn site. The fact he chose not toi share that type of personal information with you is answer enough to your claims of such a close personal relationship.

Third, as for the ability to track down someone through information, I have done this either personally or through investigators on a regular basis in cases I was involved with over the past 30 years of my law practice. So I know it can be done and that it is not such an impossible task to a person who has the requisite knowledge and desire or willing to spend money to acquire the expertise of someone who has it. The management decided to withhold specifics to protect the family and I applaud them for doing so.

Fourth, as for saying I speak like a lawyer, well I do and I am not ashamed of that at all. I am not some silly little thing insisting on exercisong a nonexistent right and then having a hissy fit when I do not get my way which has been done here. The topic header was to be a memorial to the good memories that people had about Mike Robbins and instead we have had to endure nonsense from dull witted, queenas insisting on knowing things they had no right to know. I certainly can understand people asking but an adult when told that information is not going to be released, respects that decision and moves on to grieve in a respectful manner.

So I think it is entirely appropriate to tell people who will not let the matter go to get over it and move on.

It's almost as lame to insist that those that want to know PUBLIC INFORMATION are "macabre" as it is for you to make up that you're a lawyer. There is a perfectly valid and existent right to know the information.. you are just a bitter person that is helping cover up the truth surrounding his death. This topic has hardly been a memorial and that's the fault of those who have insisted on keeping everyone wondering when there was no valid reason for doing so. How dare you attack the motives of others... you have no right.

 

[raysvq]

*sigh*

 

[tampa24]

 

[lesit78]

It saddens us greatly here at BluMedia and D&E Productions to have to announce that Mike Robbins passed away in late January. We had to wait to post until all of the details from the family were given; we respect their privacy first and foremost.

The worst thing about losing someone, especially a man like Mike, is that they no longer have the chance to do everything that made them who they are. Like put a smile on your face with the least effort possible, or carry on worthless conversations that never ended just so we could enjoy him just a little bit further. Mike came to us as a curious boy and through his many life adventures left the world as a developed, caring young man.

His memory will stay with us through his videos, as we get to see Mike as a happy-go-lucky, free-spirited young man. He has been immortalized on this site. We can go back and read through his extensive posts and watch his fun videos. He is gone, but certainly never forgotten.

This space is to be used to share your positive memories about Mike. We kindly ask that you respect his memory by granting him the privacy he deserves. We request that you keep any unkind words to yourself. Many on this forum got to know Mike much further than his porn career, and he counted many of the people on these very boards to be his friends.

R.I.P. Mike Robbins. You will be missed.

I remember Mike coming to Broke Straight Boys seeming very innocent and wholesome, his blond hair reminded me of myself when I was a kid. I remember noticing that as he got a little older, his hair started getting a little darker.

I remember seeing him sitting on the College Boy Physicals exam table being interviewed by David when Eddie was putting makeup on him for a shoot, and they were explaining how they had to put make up on him to hide the remnants of acne he still had from his youth.

He seemed so friendly, and not at all intimidating in spite of all those damn tattoos. I guess one look at the lawn mower one should have told me that Mike wouldn't intentionally hurt a fly.

I remember his crooked smile, and that he did it often.

I do vaguely remember him posting on here, and remember thinking that was nice of him to do. It was also funny how Mark reminded him he needed to contact them first before setting up a profile on here and posting to everyone like any member would.

As time progressed and his hair grew darker, so didn't his appearance. Of course many of us didn't probably realize anything was up, and maybe it wasn't. It was probably just the signs of him growing out of adolescence and into adulthood and manhood. Mike will ALWAYS remain youthful, and adolescent through the ages.

As Mark reminds us above, Mike is immortalized on this site.

I think Michael Landon's epitath says it nicely:

"Remember me with smiles and laughter,
for that's how I'll remember you.
If you can only remember me with tears,
Then don't remember me at all."

Abe

 

[jwglass]

It's almost as lame to insist that those that want to know PUBLIC INFORMATION are "macabre" as it is for you to make up that you're a lawyer. There is a perfectly valid and existent right to know the information.. you are just a bitter person that is helping cover up the truth surrounding his death. This topic has hardly been a memorial and that's the fault of those who have insisted on keeping everyone wondering when there was no valid reason for doing so. How dare you attack the motives of others... you have no right.

heed marks words, and stfu about this whole thing. if you have something good to say about mike then do so, if you dont, then get the fuck off this thread.

there is nothing greater than remember this man, the night after i found out about him i had vivid dreams about him, and he told me he is okay, and happy. lets just say the details of that dream were very much so what paradise would be like for our crazy little buddy.

 

[juanjo]

It's almost as lame to insist that those that want to know PUBLIC INFORMATION are "macabre" as it is for you to make up that you're a lawyer. There is a perfectly valid and existent right to know the information.. you are just a bitter person that is helping cover up the truth surrounding his death. This topic has hardly been a memorial and that's the fault of those who have insisted on keeping everyone wondering when there was no valid reason for doing so. How dare you attack the motives of others... you have no right.

I am going to follow the requests of some other people that the theme of this thread return to memorial about Mike and their positive memories of him. Your comments are incorrect as they have been from the beginning.

 

[qscott86]

It's almost as lame to insist that those that want to know PUBLIC INFORMATION are "macabre" as it is for you to make up that you're a lawyer. There is a perfectly valid and existent right to know the information.. you are just a bitter person that is helping cover up the truth surrounding his death. This topic has hardly been a memorial and that's the fault of those who have insisted on keeping everyone wondering when there was no valid reason for doing so. How dare you attack the motives of others... you have no right.

I am going to follow the requests of some other people that the theme of this thread return to memorial about Mike and their positive memories of him. Your comments are incorrect as they have been from the beginning.

Yes I agree we should let it go.. I don't think I'm the incorrect one, but I also think the arguing in this thread has defeated its purpose.

 

[jwglass]

Yes I agree we should let it go.. I don't think I'm the incorrect one, but I also think the arguing in this thread has defeated its purpose.

 

[Tome]

Hate to be blunt on this but I have to get it off my chest. It is extremely likely that Mike did not die of natural causes or we would have heard. It is not very likely he died in an accident because it would have been public record.. It is extremely probable especially since he was said to be Bi Polar that the cause of death was either suicide or overdose. I think most of the reason we are still discussing it and I know I feel this way is that I feel a little responsible. I love watching good looking young men having sex but I am sure many of the models do what they do because they are supporting a drug habit. I need to separate any personal feelings that I may fantasize about any of the models from them just beautiful male bodies on film. I hope I have not offended anyone but after keeping up with all the comments I needed to get it off my chest. No one is right or wrong in this discussion.

 

[aladinsane73]

regrets.........I have a few

Hate to be blunt on this but I have to get it off my chest. It is extremely likely that Mike did not die of natural causes or we would have heard. It is not very likely he died in an accident because it would have been public record.. It is extremely probable especially since he was said to be Bi Polar that the cause of death was either suicide or overdose. I think most of the reason we are still discussing it and I know I feel this way is that I feel a little responsible. I love watching good looking young men having sex but I am sure many of the models do what they do because they are supporting a drug habit. I need to separate any personal feelings that I may fantasize about any of the models from them just beautiful male bodies on film. I hope I have not offended anyone but after keeping up with all the comments I needed to get it off my chest. No one is right or wrong in this discussion.

my last comment.....................I was a member last spring 2010 and my regret is that I didn't take the time or show enough interest in the forums to log on to any of the forum sites. If I had, I would have read Michaels thread. And with my work background I would have seen the warning signs before it was to late.... But I didn't, and now I'm haunted by "what ifs", this young man honestly admitted to us all his health history, and his daily abuse of substances...I know we like to only remember the good times. But we all would do his memory a disservice if that's all we chose to remember. We must for his sake and the sake of others who suffer as he did, learn from his tragic life. I in no way wish to defame or cast a bad light on Michaels memory, but we are all adults, and sometimes we need to look reality in the face, these young men are more than just porn models, they are sons, brothers, fathers, and friends to many in their life. It would do us all good to remember they are more than their videos...I know their was a huge part of Michaels personality in his videos, but even he admitted in his thread that most of the videos were just an act, a fantasy if you will. I know now that alot of what I was going through was guilt and regret. "If only" plays in my head alot, but that is not what he would want from any of us, so I am remembering Michael with good thoughts and good feelings, along with the understanding that we can only do so much, but even then I'm going to give it my all. I can thank Michael for that, and pray that I always will be there for a friend in need, to make a difference in their lives for the better...Please I beg of you all to forgive me if I in any way offended any of you with any of my comments on this member forum. Sometimes when we speak from a place of sorrow, we don't use wisdom, thank you all for being so patient with me, LIVE LONG AND PROSPER..till next time friends..........