{"id":281,"date":"2009-08-22T18:21:37","date_gmt":"2009-08-22T17:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/?p=281"},"modified":"2009-08-22T18:21:37","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T17:21:37","slug":"anthony-mottram-%e2%80%93-disaster-in-old-malaysian-kitchen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/?p=281","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Mottram \u2013 Disaster in Old Malaysian Kitchen"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Anthony Mottram's well-named hotel room in Penang<\/p><\/div>\n

Friday 21st<\/sup> August 2009<\/p>\n

\u00a0Poor Anthony Mottram! As you know, I cruelly broke the tradition of twenty years. I said: No, Anthony, no holiday threesome this year, no you and me, however baggy and comfortable after 40 years together, no to your twenty-three-year-old boyfriend, in this case Vladimir from the Ukraine. I fucked off with the Multis to Tuscany, doubly cruel because Mottram loves Tuscany; it is ours. Seven times we have been here.<\/p>\n

\u00a0What were my reasons? Was it spite? Was it principle? Taking a principled stand might be dangerous, could turn out to be nothing of the kind. We have always holidayed as a three, the role of the third, younger Mottram boyfriend (we have got older, they have stayed the same age) being taken by a range of Eastern European young men. Why not carry on the same? Why make a fuss?<\/p>\n

\u00a0I feel guilty. If only he could have been here, in Tuscany. In Malaysia, he visited a fly farm. It rained. It was terribly hot. Especially in The Old Kitchen. This is the name of a hotel room. Do look at the pictures. Look at all those pots and pans heaped up in the bedroom! No TV, no air-con, no mini-bar, but still a vastly expensive Old Kitchen.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Mottram himself wonders if this is the ultimate gay holiday experience \u2013 a hotel so purified it barely has electricity let alone a mini-bar – and a bedroom which is an old kitchen. And, of course, all at glorious expense.<\/p>\n

\u00a0There is a further peculiarity. Mottram himself is, or imagines himself to be, an Old Kitchen. Let me explain. One of his previous boys was learning English and got \u2018kitchen\u2019 and \u2018chicken\u2019 muddled up. Mottram did not correct him. \u2018Shall we have some kitchen for dinner?\u2019 this young man would say. So \u2018kitchen\u2019 came to mean \u2018chicken\u2019. At some later point, \u2018kitchen\/chicken\u2019 came to stand for the boy himself (as a spring chicken, Easter chick; i.e. young and lovely, small and fondle-able) and, later still, Mottram himself, as a lover of kitchens, took to referring to himself as an old kitchen.<\/p>\n

\u00a0So how right that he should end up in a hotel room named The Old Kitchen in Penang.<\/p>\n

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Mottram's kitchen suite in Penang<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Mottram Old Kitchen suite in Penang<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 Friday 21st August 2009 \u00a0Poor Anthony Mottram! As you know, I cruelly broke the tradition of twenty years. I said: No, Anthony, no holiday threesome this year, no you and me, however baggy and comfortable after 40 years together, no to your twenty-three-year-old boyfriend, in this case Vladimir from the Ukraine. I fucked off […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adrain-edge"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions\/282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}