"I decided that queer politics had gone too far when my friend said he didn't like March of the Penguins because it was too hetero-normative."

GLOW is an endless source of amusement. Everyone is always on their high horse about some principle or other, while behaving abominably: having unsafe sex, trash-talking, fucking other people's boyfriends, making fun of people for being slutty, fat, having crap fashion sense or being stupid. At times homos combine what is worse about women and ( Read more... )

Bleh. I should be writing my essay due tomorrow, but instead I'm sick. I have some kind of cold and a fever, I think. I'm sitting at home in my pyjamas, I've ordered some butter chicken, and I'm going to watch Howl's moving castle under the blankets with my cat -- it's just what the doctor ordered.

Economics-themed porn sites that will never be as popular as twinks for cash:

twinks for controlled inflation
twinks for central banking
twinks for fiat currency
twinks for fiscal responsability
twinks for third-world debt relief

In one word: GOOD ( Read more... )

I'm drinking coffee that was grown by the Thai hilltribes up in the mountains, as part of a crop replacement program to get them to NOT grow opium.

My question is, how long did it take, after the release of Brokeback Mountain, for the gay porn industry to release Bareback Mountain?

My guess is approximately two point five seconds.

(I checked just to make sure, and there is indeed a gay porn movie called Bareback Mountain.)

Whereas Americans attempt to cultivate a self that is unique, most Japanese place greater emphasis on cultivating "a self that can feel human in the company of others," according to David W. Plath. Maturity means both continuing to care about what others are thinking and feeling confident in one's ability to judge and act effectively, acknowledging ( Read more... )

I miss Laos. I especially miss sitting in the Croissant D'or, the best French bakery in Vientiane, and eating pastries and coffee, or perhaps fresh lemonade, while reading the local French paper. The paper had a listing of the prices for rice and other commodities, as well as articles on how people were now raising goats instead of pigs, because ( Read more... )

"If the current scene illustrates how the government is winning the war on drugs, I'd hate to see what losing looks like." -- Jack Shafer http://www.slate.com/id/2123838