July 2006

So, my buddies Ian and Stephanie were in town for the long weekend. They’re living in Dayton where he’s working toward a PhD in material science (we keep trying to call him a physicist, but it’s “Material Science” apparently) and she’s working as a medical receptionist to support the household before heading back to grad […]

1) Kameron is only six percent water.2) Kameron is the oldest playable musical instrument in the world.3) Michelangelo finished his great statue of Kameron in 1504, after eighteen months work!4) In Eastern Africa you can buy beer brewed from Kameron!5) Kameron is born white; her pink feathers are caused by pigments in her typical diet

.. was why the hell aren’t we talking about vaccinating girls and boys against HPV (or, rather, the four kinds of HPV that prevent 70% of all cases of cervical cancer). I mean, women aren’t just magically contracting it all by themselves, any more than we reproduce through parthenogenesis. My buddy Ian wondered if anybody

“When Kathleen LeBesco gave a talk at an academic meeting last fall about how, as an overweight professor, she influenced her students’ ideas about body size, there was only one problem: She wasn’t fat.” Well. Fat’s really a relative term, isn’t it? I mean, among a bunch of models and actresses I’d be considered a

I have a fucked up life. Not bad, fucked up, but just kind of fucked up right now. Things are up and down and crazy and full of sadness and hurt and laughter and storytelling and low sugar shaking and dancing in the kitchen and drinking wine and all that bittersweet shit. I’m not a