“Here’s the headline from my morning paper: “HPV Factors in Throat Cancer: Study Could Shift Debate About Vaccine.” You bet it will. Up to now the HPV vaccine—which, again, has proven 100 percent effective against the cancer-causing strains of the virus—could merely prevent 10,000 cases of cervical cancer in American women every year, along with […]
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In my continuing quest for a better workout, I started formulating a new before-bed routine. I already have my morning weights routine down, and increasing the number of exercises in the morning just means I’m less likely to do them because it takes too long: the solution is to break the workout into two 15
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Steph: OMG that movie was awful. Me: I LOVE THAT FUCKING SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Steph: OK, it WAS pretty cool when she killed that guy. Me: THAT WAS THE FUCKING BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Steph: Really, it was horrible. Me: IT WAS THE BEST HYPER-MASCULINITY SHOW EVAH!!!! LOOK AT THE BLOOD!!!! “WE WILL FIGHT IN THE SHADE”!!!! LOOK AT THAT
We let the paste dry overnight, and then it was back to work… using coarse-grained drywall sandpaper for the first pass… And fine-grained paper for the second pass. Tools of the trade Home renovation chic. The reason we were wearing masks. Time to take a break while the dust clears… Then it’s back upstairs to
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I’m forty pages in (and only that through sheer force of will) and I am BORED TO TEARS. Band of young thieves gallavanting around a seedy medieval underworld. And, are there any women in this book? Like, not even POV characters, but, like, secondary characters? “As you know Bob” babes, even, or shit, I’ll take
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According to the definitions sections of Senate Bill 51: The term woman means a female human being who is capable of becoming pregnant, whether or not she has reached the age of majority. I do wonder what this mysterious Third Gender is, tho: what do we call all of those barren, menopausal, and sugically sterile
Barring the Removal of a Certain Piece of Hardware, I Can’t Really Become Pregnant, So…. Read More »
Wear comfy shoes. And put plastic over fucking everything. Invest in a big ole’ bucket o’ paste. Remove crappy tape and apply new tape. If you are unable to remove crappy tape job done by contractors, fucking put new tape over it anyway. Tape tape tape. It is self-adhesive! Begin paste job. Slather paste. Two
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I AM DONE WITH GW EDITS FOREVER. DONE I TELL YOU. FUCKING DONE. FINISHED all line edits today. FINISHED. NO, REALLY. I WILL NOT do any more edits on this book until or unless asked to do so by an editor or agent. IT IS IN THE FUCKING BAG. I HAVE BEEN WORKING ON THIS
I like that Mary can whoop some ass while carrying the baby Jesus. The controls are a little tricky to work with, but the fact that I can play Eve vs. Satan motivates me…