January 2008
60 posts
She & Him - Why Do You Let Me Stay Here ...
Karen Walker in the East Village, yay! →
Seriously? →
I can’t imagine a worse place in NYC to watch the Superbowl than Monkeytown.
Do we dare to dream? →
The Mets need this so bad. He is so my no. 1 draft pick this year.
The candidates on science. →
As told by Science. Very interesting. And I now love the CJR science blog.
“Still working on my poserpoint.”
– Just typed this by accident to my boss. It feels truer than the truth.
The NYT finally admits where the biggest MRSA... →
But only on the blog. And they still don’t take any blame for spreading anti-gay hysteria. Good coverage here and here.
“But at times, in arguments with some of my friends on the left, I would find...”
– Obama on Reagan. He sounds good, right? Very well reasoned. Why doesn’t that reasoning imply currently to Iraq? If he really is that guy, then I would think he would have more delicate, complicated opinions about troop withdrawl, because it is a delicate, complicated situation. I think Obama...
Hitchens knows that Huckabee stinks →
See? The pill = good. →
Lots of people have crappy mood responses to the pill. I did too. But there are many different formulations, lots of different synthetic progesterones (which I believe to be the culprit of most of the nasty). Tell your doctor the pill makes you crazy, and they will try out another one, which you may respond to totally differently. I did, I found one that was awesome, called Estrostep. Some of the...
you down with MHC?
Just read this interesting article in Time Magazine about how romance is linked to smell. We respond to olfactory cues and in fact, smell helps us narrow our choices of potential partners. MHC (the major histocompatibility complex), a set of genes that controls the immune system and influences tissue rejection is especially critical. You jive best with a partner whose MHC is sufficiently...
Not fanatical at all
When I need a break from work, I like to read letters to the editor from my hometown paper, the Fresno Bee. They love to publish extremist rants from foothill folk and angry old men. This is a good one from today: Push to socialism 01/24/08 18:14:03 The article Jan. 20...
Time to freak out way too early! →
This is so cool. And someday, get your PhD in 6 months!
Never forget, he gave in to the intelligent design...
The McCain endorsement is spot on as well. It’s important to be pro-McCain, I can’t bear the thought of four more years of the same depressing action out of the White House. I do love how they don’t let him slide on his attempts at pandering, and his honest real opinions about the gays and the abortions, both of which would keep me from ever being able to vote for him. But I do...
“Hearing her talk about the presidency, her policies and answers for America’s...”
– Times editorial endorsement of Hillary! The thing almost made me cry, it is so right on. This is what I love about her! She knows tons, and she’s intellectually curious, and good at integrating information. This has all been confirmed to me personally by my boss, and I don’t know if...
Best club
Maxwell’s was great last night. Taking the PATH was a little sucky, but not any worse than trying to get home from Southpaw. Perfect sized club, and Yo La Tengo was there, just like you would imagine them to be, and the drinks were only $4. My first roommate said the general, “New York is so cool, am I wasting my time at the event I have picked?” rule is that if Yo La Tengo is...
why are Uggs still in such HIGH demand? →
— mascarah When I was in Fresno over Christmas, everyone was still wearing these. It’s not even cold there, and I know the entire populace did not just come from ballet class. Confession: my mother was wearing clog Uggs over Christmas break. It’s so horrible I could barely type it.
Rules from a Texan Gentleman
by Lyle Lovett, as told to Esquire The first rule of manhood is that they are in charge. Give it up. Realize they’re smarter and better looking. We don’t have a chance. You have to do everything you can to help yourself. A woman comes to a table and you’re supposed to get up. Period. But I don’t always do it. In general, you’re supposed to do it every time. But...
Does this make it better? →
And now the NY Times goes back and pretends it did not participate in the gay-are-super-diseased hysteria. Ugh. “One of the major sore points for some critics was a quote attributed to the report’s lead author, Bien Diep, a researcher who said he was concerned about “a potential spread of this strain into the general population.” And so of course the Times took this statement for its most...
“If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.”
– Florynce R. Kennedy, 1973 Happy Roe day! Abortions for all!
Favorite food blog →
from favorite show. My knowledge of Laos is limited to my grade school knowledge of Hmong kids. I remember learning to curse in Laotian from a friend in Sunday school, I wish I still remembered the phrases.
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The most offensive thing I have heard today →
The day I hire pretend paparazzi to follow me around I promise to kill myself with pure shame-power.
More awesome nerd stories
Science is on fire this week! First, the real origin of syphillis was maybe discovered, although they can’t say for sure, because while a lab at Emory was identifying it as such, the doctors who found the isolated tribe down in South America carrying the strain went ahead and irradicated it, Dang it! But anyway, it turns out it wasn’t an STD until those prudes the Europeans came in...
The Hoosiers were on TV last night after all. They won, but 26 turnovers! Not very easy to watch. But, whatever, 4-0 Big Ten.
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just watched yesterday's Project Runway
I used to think Sweet P was all kinds of suck, but it turns out she’s all kinds of secret awesome. Who’da thunk? This means she’s doomed (by The Reality Law - I am punished for wasting my time on this garbage by never seeing the worthy, or the reality show equivalent of that concept anyway, succeed, and thus I come to the realization that my time was wasted).
Why I would not be a good campaigner
I’m not enough of a strategist to follow the general thinking that as a Democrat I should be hoping for the worst Republican candidate to win the nomination. I am unbelievably happy that Thompson’s campaign is dead, that Rudy’s is about to be, and that Romney isn’t rolling over everyone. I hope McCain gets the thing, even if that means my Hillary is ultimately doomed, and I...
More weekend excitement
I am also still real nervous and excited about the primaries. I am such a Hillary booster. I hate that I have to explain my position so much to everyone, there is so much vitriol in peoples response to her. But it doesn’t make any sense to me. All she wants to do is talk policy if people are willing to listen, and her policies are rational and, dare it be said, hopeful. Hillary’s...
I can't believe Jennifer 8. wants to take this... →
Winter Sports!
I am very excited for this weekend’s upcoming feats of manhood. So much good stuff is happening. First, on Saturday afternoon, the undefeated Tarheels(!) are playing Maryland at home and it’s going to be on TV! It’s on in the middle of the afternoon, so maybe I will actually get a chance to see it. Every year I forget how exciting college BB is, shame on. The Hoosiers are playing...
Way better than Rock of Love 2 →
The Bad Girls Club girls have blogs! This show is too much, last night, out of revenge, a girl took the creamer from the fridge and stuck it up her ass, then replaced it in the fridge. Then three girls put their butts in the kitchen sink at the same time and pissed. I had no idea TV could bring out that level of emotion in me (emotion here being, of course, disgust). Through Real World, I learned...
Not cool
What is up with the New York Times and all their gay fear-mongering stories as of late? By all, I mean two. First, there was this editorial claiming all the gays were about to get AIDS again, and then, mere days later comes this beaut saying oh yeah also they are going to catch flesh eating bacteria in the meantime. I mean, maybe, but is there a little craziness to the tone and the timing? It...
No more Isaac Mizrahi at Target!
This means I am going to have to buy my clothes at actual stores, stores where I cannot purchase $2.50 cereal at the same time. Curses!
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stumbleupon is a colossal waste of time that is not interesting enough
