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The Oldz had a high old time in DC last few days.
They raged at the president, they plotted against the president, they scoffed at the president, they raged at the president some more, then they raged at the president again, and in case anyone missed it, they raged at the president.
They hated on the uppity women, also on other kinds of folk who could might be described as being uppity, but most of all they hated on the Gays. They hated on the Gays and hated on the Gays. And then in case anyone thought they were gay they hated on the Gays some more.
The kind of Gays they hated were the Gays who won't shut up but keep shoving it down our throats.
The Gays who keep stealing our stuff and shit.
The whole Gay Matthew Shepard fraud.
The whole Gays marrying Gays deconstructs what it means to be human.
Oh and, veering off topic the Frothster declares the contraception mandate to be a descendant of the French revolution and since Jesus, America has been the best thing to happen since Jesus. (I know, I thought it was going to be sliced bread, too). Plus, Obamacare, slavery, yadda yadda yadda. Oh, and we should look out for a massive right wing takeover of the GOP. So pack sandwiches.
A.A.R.P. did landoffice business in the DC Hyatt lobby with its Medicare supplemental insurance plans. I recommend Plan B. Catt suggested it to me as I approached my golden years. He'd found it gave him the protection he needed – Depends, mattress covers, vinyl assless chaps, etc. We all cherish our precious elder gays. Goodness, the journey they've made! I was so proud that Catt could still put his false teeth in by himself to attend the first night of the bus and truck of the Joe Doyle production of Sweeney Todd at the Pasadena Barclaycard Sportdome. He got himself down the highway to the theatre. So let's say woo Catt. It doesn't matter if he managed to stay awake for the show. What matters is that he got there.
7:12 pm • Sunday • October 13, 2013
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10:01 pm • Sunday • October 13, 2013
Why do you want to be The Hairy Dude? At least you waxed your chest. Nonetheless, 'Catt and I do not approve. We like #2.
What we do approve of, however, is Jose that just moved in. I have to figure out if he's younger than my son. That's the rule, right?
#2 is pretty but could not withstand concerted disapproval from his family. He would most likely cave and say Jesus made him straight. And marry Mary Ellen.
The rule is if he's younger than your social security card. As in when it was first issued. I could be wrong. Catt would know better. He was part of the committee drawn up to give the whole nation a socialist communist number that would track them cradle to grave. Not unlike their Facebook account. He could advise you better about the ying yang ratio.
Tommmcatt Can't Believe He Ate The Whole Thing
It's good he knows me so well, I suppose. Gives us something to talk about when I go to see him at the home.
@JNOV: #1 has his charms.
12:04 am • Monday • October 14, 2013
/tru confessions/
Since we're sharing, I recently became addicted to Dante's Cove (it's as if someone put Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The OC, and gay p-o-r-n in a blender) , and I've got it reeeeeeeel bad for Toby, played by out actor Charlie David. Sweet FSM, heez the most beautiful man I've ever seen (swoon!).
Great alt text, btw.
@¡Andrew!: OH!
@Tommmcatt Can't Believe He Ate The Whole Thing: I don't like his pose. Hey! I thought you stopped eating the whole thing last Celebration of the Great Lie, AKA The Indians Should Have Listened to Metallica. \m/
@¡Andrew!: He is seriously fucking hot.
I finally watched the last two episodes of Weeds, and while I haven't gone for blonds in quite some time, I do like Hunter Parrish.
I swear blonds are nothing but trouble.
2:01 pm • Monday • October 14, 2013
@Benedick: Half your age plus seven, darling.
@mellbell: That number passed 30 when I wasn't looking.
That doesn't work for me. Unless I get to round down.
@JNOV: He is a WGIWF, for sure. There's a scene in Weeds where he's naked on his knees with an older woman, um, eating the whole thing.
SAY NO MORE. :-p
@JNOV: He has that he ne sais quoi.
@Tommmcatt Can't Believe He Ate The Whole Thing: The woman with the cheese shop? Yeah. I remember. I also remember Saved by the Bell dude showing up. Er. Yeah.
@Tommmcatt Can't Believe He Ate The Whole Thing: Well you'd better find out what he has avant la chute.
@JNOV: Believe it or not, it's not an issue. Any competent bottom has that covered way ahead if time.
@mellbell: at least mine is barely under 40. :(
Are we back to penises?
@Benedick: We never left penises.
@Benedick: Always penises. Always.
I don't know what shocks me more: that Loki is Prince Hal or that I (might…) understand even like that damn Shakespeare.
Tom Hiddleston's penis.
@Tommmcatt Can't Believe He Ate The Whole Thing: Hey. Speaking of penises (in case Bene in his dotage forgot), I'm the same height as Hunter Parrish. It makes vertical fucking easier, but still. I'm also two years younger than Mary-Louise Parker. Life is unkind.
@JNOV: Didn't stop Greg Brady and Florence Henderson.
@nojo: Heh. I remember that.
BENE, DO YOU REMEMBER THAT?
@nojo: What's funny is that he's Greg Brady, but she's Florence Henderson. I don't remember any of those kids' names. Not even Peter who had a reality show about something. Being Peter Brady?
10:25 pm • Monday • October 14, 2013
@JNOV: I've met Florence Henderson. She's a fan of mine. I didn't ever see that show. And there's no need to shout. One is not deaf.
Henry IV; part ii is one of my favorite plays. It's not often performed. I made my professional debut as Thomas of Clarence. It's possible I'm biased. Did not like Richard II and did not watch much of it.
@Benedick: One is not deaf.
Just checking.
I didn't like Richard II, either. I've only seen part one of Henry IV, but I could *understand what they were saying for god's sake*. I also liked the leather. Lots of leather.
5:48 am • Tuesday • October 15, 2013
I noticed during my basketball-playing days, which are long since over, that guys who looked like the gentlemen in the photo were not necessarily good at putting the ball in the hole, as the actress said etc. It's all about function over form. Consider Dodger Juan Uribe and Tiger Prince Fielder (and his father, Cecil) who appear to train on doughnuts and beer and yet are (or were) playing baseball better than most of the lean, young competition.
12:15 pm • Tuesday • October 15, 2013
@Dodgerblue: My basketball-playing days ended the moment everyone realized height is no guarantee of coordination.
3:26 pm • Tuesday • October 15, 2013
@Dodgerblue: Are we back to penis?
@JNOV: Part I is the play most often produced. Certainly it's the one with the most snap, crackle, and pop. But Part II turns into a beautiful meditation on fathers and sons, duty v responsibility, the new destroying the old. I admire it tremendously. It contains some of his finest writing; Hal and Falstaff; Hal's repudiation of same; Hal attending his dying father; Hal, as the new king, greeting his terrified brothers who think they're about to be executed; the tavern scene in which Falstaff goes too far; Doll Tearsheet; etc, etc. We did both parts in rotation. We had lots of leather too. And armor. And great big swords. We did three performances of both parts together. Curtain went up at 8 and came down at 2 am. I was too young to get tired. I did, however, break my foot. But, as an aspect of extreme youth, I was too dumb to understand and did nothing about it.
Why yes, I should be working. Thank you for your kind enquiry.
At the risk of seeming uncool – I notice we've all been studiously avoiding any mention of it – are we all terrified what Thursday will bring?
@Benedick: I've been dropping Planet of the Apes and Strangelove references on Twitter. Mutual Assured Destruction is back, baby!
@nojo: It didn't last long but I enjoyed having a savings account for my golden years. Oh well. Back to turning tricks.
@Benedick: What can we say? A US default will be like a nuclear bomb to our eCONomy–there'll be a bang so loud that we won't even hear it.
According to the conspiracy theories that I'm starting, the 1% want the US eCONomy to implode as the next act in their coup d'état. They've spent the last 30 years buying and stealing the majority of our nation's assets, and now they want it all. Look what happened in Russia when their financial system collapsed in 1998: The middle class was completely wiped out, and then the plutocrats, oligarchs, and gangsters swept in and seized the last of the country's assets since they were the only ones left with the means and resources.
My gawd, our neofascist kleptocracy is at stake.
Mistress Cynica
@Benedick: Yes. I feel like we're tied up in the trunk of Thelma and Louise's car.
@Mistress Cynica: Without Brad Pitt.
@Mistress Cynica: The original cut included the entire crash.
I'm scared
I spent close to an hour trying to help a service member figure out who he could call to help solve his problem. It went kinda like this: you could call..no, they were sent home. Your PEBLO might be available. Wait. Your PEBLO is a civilian, right? I'm not sure of she's working right now. Wait. You could call…no, actually you can't. It was pretty fucked up.
@Mistress Cynica: and Toonces has taken the wheel.
@Dodgerblue: I had something to say about baseball before Mark McGuire and Bo Jackson, but I'm too upset.
@Benedick: you break your foot a lot.
Yes, I love how he loves his brothers. I don't know what to think about Fallstaff. Did Shakespeare pick these names intentionally?
Oh wait, you're in the real world. My thoughts are with you.
@¡Andrew!: do they realize that China owns us? Could they be Mooselum communists who hate America?
@Benedick: what? About the names? I am a Shakespeare idiot. Seriously. Blame the Quakers.
@Benedick and @¡Andrew!: Is it too late to withdraw all my money in Yen or Euros?
@SanFranLefty: They'll go bust too.
@Benedick: Fuck, I guess that it's all about going back to the gold standard. Good thing I have about 100 bottles of wine stored under my house.
@JNOV: He was a great naming genius who stole liberally from the classics and his sources. I don't know how he got to Sir John Fallstaff. He was supposedly historical but not with that name. Many of the names in the Histories are, if not exactly historical then at least as they appear in Hollinshead. His brief was to bolster the newish Tudor dynasty by tearing apart the Plantagenets. The names are dynastic, based on the uber myth of English royalty climaxed by the War of the Roses that gave us Henry VIII and Elizabeth. The groundwork for which he is preparing through this quartet of plays and which will bloom in Henry VI.
He invented Miranda, and the ravishing names of his commoners; Bottom; Flute; Costard (a variety of apple); Mistress Page; Berowne. But when in the Histories the Earl of Crumbcake arrives with Harry Percy and Lord Cornwall, he's usually right. I mean, the names are heraldic, passed on. No doubt the great-greats were sitting in the expensive seats on the stage come to see the exploits of their elders.
@SanFranLefty: You will never go poor.
@SanFranLefty: It'll be easier to barter wine than gold. You're good.
I have to go to Europe a week from today, and I'd really rather not have to face angry Germans who want to know why the hell we crashed the world economy.
@Benedick: The fairies in Midsummer's Night Dream have the best character names ever.
Mustardseed and Peablossom are the two that stick in my mind. Besides Oberon and Titania. And Puck. Don't forget Puck.
/whoa, my 8th grade English teacher would be so proud of me. I played Hermia in our class performance.
@Mistress Cynica: Then you and Mr. Cyn are sitting pretty with those barrels of wine. Good luck and hope you decide to return and not beg for political asylum while overseas.
@SanFranLefty: Peaseblossom, Mustardseed, Cobweb, Nigel, … no wait, it's Moth.
Here sleeps Titania sometime of the night… Funny thing about that play, the women are wonderful parts: Hermia (kudos), Helena, Titania (hm, all ending in a); the male equivalents are almost unplayable. Oberon has good things to say but why? The lovers, Lysander, Demetrius, are entirely beached by time, belonging to a tradition of looking at human relationships that are meaningless now. It's one of the first romcoms and when it's working it's always joyous. One of his other versions of that play, Love's Labours Lost, is so beautiful because just when it's all going to turn out well it doesn't. Grief cuts across the stage and summer turns to ice. He was It. Funny thing, you know the whole Nine Men's Morris speech of Titania's about the world having gone mad on account of the war in heaven? He stole it almost word for word from Ovid. I was so thrilled when I discovered that. Not like it's entirely news but when you didn't got to school and find it out on your own… (cue violins)
@Mistress Cynica: Don't mention the war.
@SanFranLefty: Puck was a local holdover from the old gods. Robin Goodfellow. An aspect of the devil, or at least an imp. Called Goodfellow so as not to insult him and cause him to make mischief on you. Stratford was still surrounded by an enormous forest and Puck was a childhood sprite; malicious in his intent to burst the vanity of mortals. It's the great masterstroke of the play that he is given its epilogue as he tries to conjure safety for the newlywed couples in a world he doesn't know. The poetry takes on a stilted, declarative quality.
Hey, everyone! Happy global financial collapse!
@Benedick: Yes, I think I saw all of part 2 and fell asleep on Henry V. I know how that one ends. :'-(
And Hiddleston's penis.
@SanFranLefty: I'm either stocking up on toilet paper or moving to Mars. Maybe both.
@Benedick: Earl of Crumbcake? Seriously?
"Plantagenets" <– I know that's real, but it makes me think of sci-fi.
NojoBro, then 7, got to suffer at the hands of Richard III. Nojo, then 17, learned the next best thing to walking a cute dog around cute girls.
@SanFranLefty: I honestly don't think there's anything that we can do. Predicting the after effects of an unprecedented US debt default is impossible since other countries' economies are so closely tied to ours.
@¡Andrew!: Fortunately, I don't have any $$ on the Dodgers.
@¡Andrew!: I would like to think that one consequence is the thorough discrediting of teabaggers and their masters, but I know that's sheer fantasy.
@Benedick: Oh! And The Governor from The Walking Dead was in Richard II. Freaked me out. That bitch from Dowdytown Abbey was Percy's wife in Henry Whatever.
@nojo: Jesus. Which one is that?
Why can't these folks stop recycling names as if marrying your cousin isn't enough? And they get to choose one if they become queen/king, don't they? Who do we have hanging around now? Let's see…(make sure to read The Royal Family Cookie Policy). Whoa. Investitures? What?
Elizabeth Alexandra Mary – okay. I think two is fine. The Mary part is odd.
Edward Antony Richard Louis (he seems normal)
Andrew Albert Christian Edward — Abby Normal
Charles Philip Arthur George — hahahahaha! Dipshit.
Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise (uh)
William Arthur Philip Louis
Henry Charles Albert David
and there's more! But I'm bored.
If I wanted to write the queen, this is what I'd do: [P]eople may write to The Queen with the formal opening 'Madam' and close the letter with the form 'I have the honour to be, Madam, Your Majesty's humble and obedient servant'.
Sycophantic bullshit Just. Like. In. The. Plays.
To put it in nerd terms, the debt default will be bigger than when the Death Star blew up, but smaller than when Kahn detonated the Genesis device.
12:12 am • Wednesday • October 16, 2013
@nojo: The problem always will be that we're just not right-wing, neofascist enough.
@¡Andrew!: Presuming it's more toward the latter, who goes in the coffin?
5:49 am • Wednesday • October 16, 2013
@nojo:
I would have to say Barry. I'm currently sitting here at Pearson International bound for Vancouver (wedding)
1:37 pm • Wednesday • October 16, 2013
@JNOV: They don't choose their names. in H 4, ii after the old king is dead the prince known as Hal presents himself to declare himself the new Henry. But that's his real name all along. Hal is a pet name. The nobles in the histories, and in other plays, are known by their titular name – if that's what it's called. So the Earl of Essex is known as Essex. That's not a family name. Hotspur, another nickname and I think historical, is Henry Percy – that's the family name. And so on. He didn't invent too many of the plots, they were often made up from bits and pieces he found in various sources and he'd bring over the names from them. There was a play before King Lear that he used, same with Hamlet, which is the name he gave his son in the Hamnet version which it seems was an interchangeable spelling.
There weren't all that many names used by the kings; Richard, John, Henry, Nigel. Is it in Richard 3 that he uses this very idea as the three widowed queens lament the death of their husbands; "I had a Richard till a Richard slew him." By 'cousin' they don't mean they're literally related, at least not always. He often used that to mean close friends. Celia calls Rosalind her cousin but they're not related.
Something I recently found out that I found interesting is that Shakes's actors very likely used what are known in the trade as 'sides'. Each actor would only get his part written out. Before each speech would by the last few words of the character before, the cue, and after the speech the first few words of what follows. So no individual actor would have the whole play and they'd only hear it, probably read by the author, at the first rehearsal. The same technique was used here through the 40s and in summer stock till the late 60s. Saves a ton of paper and reproduction costs.
The roils' family name is Windsor. It was originally Battenberg (I think that's right) which was anglicized to Mountbatten and the Louis contingent are named for Louis Lord Mountbatten who was assassinated by the IRA.
@Benedick: yeah. I know Hal, Harry and Henry are the same, but I thought Elizabeth chose her regnage, whatever that is, and said she wanted to be called Liz II. Meh. I'm tired.
@JNOV: That's because of Liz I. Hope you're back to paid employment very soon.
@Benedick: yeah. But I figured since she was asked the question, she had a choice. Like Lola or something.
And thanks. Yeah. We're not working overtime, but we're beat. I guess it's stress. I dreamt something was burning, papers, and it was my fault because I left them somewhere. When you start having anxiety dreams about work…
I hope they do something for us, like give us a vacation when the others return to work.
@Benedick: anglicized to Mountbatten
During the Great War, of course. Hide the Hun!
Yeah. According to The Royal Family Cookie site, they didn't start with the last names until Windsor, which is a castle and not, like, a human, and then Lola I let that racist doofus hyphenate his name and blah.
I'm taking a nap.
12:41 am • Thursday • October 17, 2013
@Benedick: I have read that this fact — that Shakes's actors very likely used what are known in the trade as 'sides' — made the texts of the original printed version of the (entire) plays somewhat suspect.
8:08 am • Thursday • October 17, 2013
@nojo: Saxe Coburg! was that Albert's name or Victoria's? I know it was the original name of the Old Vic theatre. The family were all German. They had to be taught English and I find it all inexpressibly demeaning. It's like having to study in school the Romney family tree.
@JNOV: Windsor is the town not far from London and site of a royal palace which gave its name to a vile soup that came to epitomize bad English cooking. A few years back there was a bad fire which destroyed or damaged many priceless art works belonging to the roil collection (aka us, motherfuckers) because they are all amateurs.
Couldn't watch Henry. If you're not yelling and spitting on everybody it's just not Shakespeare. They cut so much of the text – soooooooooooo much of the text that nothing was left of his structures or resonances. It was all a drone. And Richard Eyre is a fine director who's done this kind of thing before much better. It all seemed so boring! Done well it's really not. And those terrible young actors! Good God, who was that Hal! It was like Bristol rep. I see that RADA is still open for business.
@Dodgerblue: I heard some 'scholar' from Bard (which isn't far from here) yapping on about it – he'd written a book – and was struck the fact that I'd never heard of such a thing suggested before and also that he had no idea that it was the custom here till not that long ago. I've worked with actors who used that system. It seems very bizarre to us now but it worked. It used to be that summer stock theatres could rent the sides for a particular play which would then be returned after rehearsals were over. I think that still goes with musical scores. Pages given to actors for auditions are still called sides even though they now come as PDF files.
I have no idea how his actors learned the words. I don't know what proportion were even literate. It's still not that common today. But learn the words they did. I'm sure they had prompters and all the rest of it but even so. Does 'Speak the speech' really imply that the playwright taught the actors? God. How did he have time? The incredible boredom of spending hours listening to some dolt destroy your work. I've always thought that speech was a send-up to be enjoyed by the company more than something to be taken literally.
Now I shan't sleep till I know.
6:41 pm • Thursday • October 17, 2013
Annnnnnd…were BACK to working MADATORY overtime! I was like, um…can it be voluntary? Are you going to prorate it instead of expecting 20 extra hours before the end of the month? Huh? Please?
They started at 10 hours and changed it to 7. There's been quite a bit of teeth gnashing here.
@Benedick: please tell me you're not talking about Hiddleston's Hal.
I'm going to write HRH a letter and ask her if she likes any of her kids.
Your humble and obedient servant…
6:58 pm • Friday • October 18, 2013
@JNOV: Like her kids? Why would she?
I don't know who that is. I just recognize the Look I'm a Rogue I'm Smiling act.

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There is an animalistic side in all of us that sometimes just wants to get out and go on a rampage. As such, society does not allow us to do that or else we would face dire consequences. If you enjoy games that deal with violence, you can always play them on your computer or console. In this list, we have a list of the top games that deal with killing. If you want to play killing games and have a great time at it, here are some of the choices you can pick out that will surely enthral your senses.
Mr. Madness is a game in which you will absolutely not survive in the end. The question is, how many others will you take with you before you get killed and what methods would you use to dispatch of them? Although the game is simplistic in design and the graphics aren't too grandiose, it makes up for the amount of simulated gore when you kill other characters in the game.
Skull Kid is a game where you play a character which has gone postal and dons a skull mask while going on a rampage inside an office. Armed with a chainsaw and other weapons you can pick out in the game, take out all the workers in the office floor by floor until none of them is left breathing. A very simple side scrolling game to control, Skull Kid is mayhem in an awesome little bundle of joy.
If you are familiar with the classic game Doom, this is somewhat like it. As a first-person shooter type of game, 13 Days in Hell pits you in a character which is tasked in killing the minions of hell that are coming to Earth. Conserve your bullets as you take out a seemingly never-ending onslaught of monsters and demons. If you are after something that is exhilarating and terrifying at the same time, this is the perfect killing game for you.
The highly anticipated sequel to the original Stick Figure game has now arrived and there are more ways you can torture, maim and kill your victims. Although the characters are basically stick figures, the amount of violence and gore is still not for the faint of heart. However, if you enjoy maiming in games, there is no better title than this one right here.
Another sort of stick figure type of game, Clear Vision 2 is the sequel to the original title of the same name and you take the role of a sniper. There is quite a bit of a back story here which will unravel as you progress along with the game. Nevertheless, the amount of brain matter spilled makes Clear Vision 2 an awesome game that deals with killing and simulated violence.
If you hate Bin Laden and have always wanted him to be on the receiving end of your wrath, this is the perfect medium to do that. Osama Sissy Fight is a game in which you are a boxer who can do anything he wants to Osama, his enemy. Jab or land a left hook on his face and make blood spew out, or give him a low blow and give him death to put him out of his misery. It's all entirely up to you.
Based on the popular horror film, "The Hills Have Eyes: Mutant Massacre" is a first-person shooter game in which you need to kill in order to survive. Your character and a friend of yours are trapped in an abandoned mine and the only way out is to shoot through these mutants that seem to have gone straight out from hell. If you have never killed before, you surely will now or else it's your head you will have to pay with.
As one of the classic side-scrolling shooter games, metal Slug Rampage 3 is nothing short of a one-man war machine. Use your gun that has no limits with its ammo as you shoot through anything and everything in sight until you get to the very end. The plot is simple: kill everything that stands in your way.
In this seemingly South Park style of animation, you take the role of Ray, a gun for hire which does all the dirty work. With multiple scenarios and endings, this is choosing your own adventure with so many choices to make. Hunt people down, save the girl and earn some money. The point is, Ray does all the dirty work.
There is no way out for you as the Predator. You will eventually die in this game and there is nothing you can do about that. However, how many of the nasty alien scum will you be able to wipe out before you meet the inevitable? Kill as many aliens as you can before dying as well.


What are these 5 healthy foods doing to your teeth?
National Smile Month launched this week which is the UK's largest and longest-running campaign to promote good oral health.
The hardest of these 3 has got to be cutting down on sugar… which, you'll have noticed, has been in the news a lot recently. The Government have given a strong endorsement of the dangers of consuming too much sugar with their recent announcement that they will be introducing a Sugar Tax in 2017.
Turns out that fat has wrongly been labelled the enemy, and in its place (to make things taste nice) sugar has increasingly crept into our food. So much so, that The World Health Organisation is now recommending no more than 6 teaspoons (9 teaspoons for men) of sugar a day - that's 25g.
So even those cereals that you feel really virtuous eating are actually hiding a ton of sugar. We were surprised recently to see that even Bran Flakes have quite a lot of added sugar. Good cereals to eat are Shredded Wheat and Weetabix as these have no added sugar. Try adding cinnamon to sweeten them.
Better than grabbing a bacon roll on the way to work? Nope. They often contain more sugar. Remember that honey, although natural, is still a sugar too. Added dried fruit also dramatically increases the sugar content as all the fruit's sugars are concentrated in the drying process.
Sorry, it isn't just the more obvious sweet things that can be hiding sugar. Soup can often have added sugar too. Read the list of ingredients when choosing which one to have. The higher up the list of ingredients that you find sugar, the more there is in the product.
A great source of fibre and protein. However, the great British baked bean is hiding over 20g of sugar in one tin, that's almost all of the maximum amount of sugar the WHO recommends.
If you're concerned about the effects of sugar on your teeth and would like to discuss your diet in more detail make an appointment with our Hygienist, Clare. Call 01427628999 to book.


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Aloha to thee. Great news! Our brand new U.S. Senator from Hawai'i Mazie Hirono was just assigned to sit on the Senate Judiciary Committee beginning the first of the new year 2013. That means she will have a say, an influence and a vote when Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy holds his stated hearings on the marijuana issue of fed v. states' rights, etc. Sen. Leahy recently said he wants to change the federal marijuana laws now that states are legalizing it.
We need to get to Ms. Hirono and to her staff people immediately to help influence her decision-making abilities on this subject. We need to presume that she knows nothing and start from the beginning with her Cannabis hemp education. Let's help make her well-informed so she can be proud to be from Hawai'i as she presents the latest, greatest information to the committee and to the nation. Let's give her ideas to help make a new federal law on Cannabis hemp.
1.) What do YOU think a new federal law about 'marijuana' should be? Imagineer our beautiful future with Cannabis hemp freedom. Please tell me/us what you come up with.
2.) Please reply to me and confirm if you are going to help with this issue.
3.) Can one of you please provide me with her new snail mailing office address here in Honolulu? I want to write to her now. Mahalo.


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Trad Ireland and UCC Seeking Traditional Artists in Residence
Deadlines for residency opportunities are 31 May and 6 June.
There are currently two Traditional Artists in Residence opportunities available, one with the new organisation Trad Ireland and one with University College Cork.
The Trad Ireland residency will be based in Sligo and runs from July 2019 to June 2020. It has two strands: to facilitate an artist in their artistic development and also to engage with Sligo communities. Work-space will be made available in Hawk's Well Theatre. The residency comes with a payment of €10,000 and the deadline for applications is 31 May.
Trad Ireland was launched in January by Tristan Rosenstock and Oisín Mac Diarmada. Its first project was to commission research on the career opportunities available to traditional artists in Ireland. Jack Talty was appointed in February to carry out the research. The organisation is also planning a conference on traditional music. For further details on the residency, see here.
The Traditional Artist Residency at UCC will run from 1 September until 31 August 2020. The appointee will advise and mentor emerging traditional artists in the UCC community, offering six contact hours per week in the form of workshops, seminars and consultation during university terms. They will also give two public performances.
Previous traditional artists in residence include Iarla Ó Lionáird, Niall Vallely, Desi Wilkinson, Karan Casey, Colin Dunne and Jack Talty.
The deadline for applications is 6 June.
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Life on a Wing
Ian Bascombe
Singer-songwriter Mike Hanrahan's new book, 'Beautiful Affair: A Journey in Music, Food and Friendship', mixes anecdotes from his musical career, including his time with Stockton's Wing and Ronnie Drew, with his life in cookery. Ian Bascombe reviews.
'I think it's time now for a wider conversation to happen': TradTalk Conference in Dublin This Weekend
Speakers at the inaugural traditional arts conference include Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, Jack Talty, Úna Monaghan, John Carty and Martin Hayes.
Tracing the Influences
Adrian Scahill
Dave Munnelly's album of newly composed music, 'Aonair', has a certain interiority, writes Adrian Scahill, and avoids explicit references to Irish dance forms.


We are a local charity founded in 1999 by parents to offer friendship, support and advice to other parents, families and friends who have, or are involved with, a child with a special need.
Founders Mrs Nikkie Kerr and Mrs Jenny Hooper met at a child assessment centre where they were attending with their children. Nikkie with her son and Jenny with her daughter.


Luxury and BRand new villa for sale! This modern villa comes with 3 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms. It got a maidsroom with an en-suite bathroom. It got a bua of 2578 sq.ft and a plot size off 3476 sq.ft. It has a stunning finishing and a very stylish/modern BRight look. It has a side and back garden with 2 parking spots up front. The view will be facing partial golfcourse and community.


For over two centuries the executive, legislative and executive branches of government have danced a delicate ballet. At times, one branch has intentionally or inadvertently stepped on the ballet shoes of another branch of government (ok...I'll stop the cheesy analogy).
Coming soon to Constitutionland is this whole world dedicated to the balance between the branches of government and the Supreme Court's role in it. To help understand the separate powers between the federal government and the states, enjoy the DORMANT COMMERCE CLAUSE...a lesson on how the mere existence of the Constitution impacted the powers of the states. BAKER v. CARR: POLITICS AS USUAL will examine the Supreme Court's foray into what some, including Justice Felix Frankfurter, consider political questions. Speaking of Justice Frankfurter, you will see him walking around Separation of Powers Land, talking above anyone who doesn't want to listen to him about the direction the Supreme Court has taken in recent years. Also, look for Mr. Check and Balance.
Thrill seekers will enjoy the TIPPING SCALE OF JUSTICE RIDE...a swinging ride aboard a giant scale. Ride the CHECK AND BALANCE BUMPER CARS and be a part of the crashing conflict of the three branches of government. You may like sliding down the JUSTICIABILITY SLIDES where each ride is different, depending on which issue of justifiability you choose.


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Regence unveils value-based payments for Episodes of Care
November 19, 2019 By The Suburban Times
Regence is helping lead a sea change to pay for consumer-centric health care based not on volume but on what matters most: quality and results.
About 40 percent of Regence's total payments across its four-state footprint of Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Utah are now in "value-based" arrangements. Regence and providers collaborate to share data, resources and expertise to drive high-value care that improves cost and quality for Regence's 2.6 million members. Providers are rewarded to look at the full end-to-end continuum of care.
Regence's value-based programs range from an inclusive care management model called Total Care, to value-based networks that create a deeper engagement between the patient and the provider.
Regence is continuing its leadership in value-based care today by announcing a new innovative, member-centered program: Episodes of Care.
Regence will pay participating providers for delivering improved patient outcomes and lower costs over a patient's "episode of care," which covers all the care a patient receives for a procedure or condition over a defined period of time. This could be a knee replacement, for example, or the delivery of a baby.
Regence is partnering with Remedy, a developer of software and services that enable payers, employers and at-risk providers to organize and finance health care delivery around a patient's episode of care.
Episodes of Care is Regence's first value-based program to focus on clinical procedures.
"We are looking holistically at all the care a member needs to treat a procedure or condition," said Kristie Putnam, vice president of provider partnership innovation at Regence. "Think of a knee replacement. Traditionally, each component of care, from diagnostic studies to surgery and rehab, was treated as an isolated event. This often led to fragmented and more costly care. Under Episodes of Care, we reward providers for delivering a coordinated experience of care that leads to improved outcomes, cost and patient experience."
Regence will start Episodes of Care with orthopedics and maternity, with plans to expand to cardiac and gastrointestinal procedures, as well as chronic conditions.
Episodes of Care will launch in Washington early next year, with plans to expand to Oregon, Idaho and Utah.
Regence will employ a broad network strategy for the new program instead of making it available only to providers that specialize in certain procedures or conditions.
Regence's partner in Episodes of Care, Remedy, administers episode-based payments and supports providers and payers to improve episode outcomes around the country, including work with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
"We're honored to support Regence's groundbreaking Episodes of Care program," said Kyle Armbrester, CEO of Remedy. "Remedy's deep expertise in administering episode-based payments will help lead to better care for patients."
Episodes of Care puts Regence at the forefront of innovation in how to pay for health care. CMS has prioritized alternative payment methods, including episode-based payments, as a way to address rising health care costs.
Regence's largest customer in Washington, the state Health Care Authority, is a strong advocate for value-based payments and says it's happy with Episodes of Care.
"We applaud Regence for its commitment to purchasing health care for value, not volume," said Marcia Peterson, benefit strategy and design manager for the Washington State Health Care Authority. "Episodes of Care is a step toward transforming health care in Washington, making it better and more affordable."
Regence's broad network strategy for Episodes of Care will increase the program's impact on the quality and affordability of care.
"Regence has implemented more than 75 value-based agreements with providers across our four states, and we expect that number to only grow," said Dr. Drew Oliveira, senior executive medical director at Regence. "Like our other value-based programs, we want Episodes of Care to cut costs and improve care for as many of our members as possible."
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I Did It For Science: Sex on Drugs
Viagra, Ecstasy, Mushrooms, Cocaine, Cannabis, Sex
by Grant Stoddard
Citation: Grant Stoddard. "I Did It For Science: Sex on Drugs: An Experience with Viagra, Ecstasy, Mushrooms, Cocaine, Cannabis, Sex (exp97541)". Erowid.org. Sep 3, 2012. erowid.org/exp/97541
50 mg oral Pharms - Sildenafil (pill / tablet)
oral Mushrooms (dried)
insufflated Cocaine (powder / crystals)
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1 smoked Cannabis (plant material)
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In honor of Burning Man, an event where sex, drugs, and sex on drugs are all pretty commonplace things, we're taking a look at an old favorite: how a few of the more popular intoxicants on the market affect the oldest drug in the book.
I've never really had sex on drugs, but they've always been linked in my mind. Maybe that's because the guys who did drugs in high school were also getting sucked off by girls. Even today, I'm convinced that a boring, homely acquaintance of mine can truthfully claim an Elle cover model is his girlfriend only because he has an endless supply of Bolivian marching powder on hand.
But this experiment is about sex on drugs, not sex for drugs. Therefore, I plan to conduct the sexual act in its purest, most apolitical form — while being totally off my head. My goal is to find a dependable accessory to sex.
In other words, I want to find My Drug. It's like when you're sixteen, and you rummage around in your parents' liquor cabinet trying to determine which drink will be Your Drink. (Embarrassingly, mine's still Malibu and Coke.) The question I intend to answer: is sex on drugs even better than the real thing, or, like the inclusion of 'Hotter Than Hell (Demo Version)' on the reissue of Motley Crue's Shout at the Devil, just an unnecessary augmentation of the sublime?
Viagra (1, 50 mg)
Ecstasy (1, type: 'Ninja Star')
Cocaine ($40 worth)
Marijuana (1 nugget, strain: 'Juicy Fruit')
I was an impressionable kid, and I was made leery of drugs at a young age. My fourth-grade teacher was an unkempt hippie who wore shirts with yellow pit stains and stored bits of lunch in his formidable beard. Once he told our class how two of his friends tried some magic mushrooms and keeled over right there, in some English meadow. Now, imagine your teacher telling you that when you're nine years old. It was some cold shit, I assure you. I was scared straight before my time. (Note of context: I saw Dark Crystal that same year and soiled my pants right in the theater.)
Adolescence brought me neither sex nor drugs. Since then, I've taken full advantage of everything I missed out on during a little period I like to call 'the 1990s,' but a move to New York only compounded my drug-based anxiety. Namely, I started to equate an old girlfriend's casual cocaine use with infidelity. I resented the way she'd disappear into a tiny scuzz-bar bathroom with her shady hook-up guy, then return to my side with a sly grin and sparkly eyes. Who knows what they were doing in there? Why was some other dude being drafted to make her feel good?
My current girlfriend went through what she calls her 'drug phase' a long time ago. Let me put it this way: if drugs were crayons, Erica started with the sixty-four pack. By the age of twenty-one, she'd done ketamine, meth, opium, whip-its — a maelstrom of substances that'd render her dangerous to cremate. When I requested her assistance with this experiment, she launched into an excruciating monologue about the finer details of being in a K-hole. It left us both slightly nauseated. Reluctantly, she agreed to participate, but only if she could stay clean and serve as a witness.
My editor decreed that the study would involve five substances. Crank, crack, inhalants, and the big H were ruled out at an early stage. We settled on ecstasy, cocaine, marijuana, mushrooms, and Viagra. Each would be evaluated by six criteria: immediate physical effect, tactile response, duration of sex, mental images produced, lab assistant's reaction, and comparison to usage outside the sexual realm.
Getting the drugs wasn't a problem. I had a pretty good idea which friends and co-workers could hook me up with what. I put out the call, and during the next week, nondescript envelopes appeared in discreet areas of my desk like four visits from the drug fairy. Only Bob Dole's little blue friend proved elusive. Online Viagra vendors were too expensive, and borrowing from someone's prescription wasn't an option: because my co-workers are women in the twenty-five to thirty age bracket, they aren't exactly in the prime demographic for erectile dysfunction. I finally turned to Craigslist, an infamous online bulletin board where one can obtain 'a slippery hand job, no questions asked,' from a bored stay-at-home mom as easily as one can acquire a used Thighmaster.
Sure enough, some guy had posted a 'Viagra Available' ad. He had a few pills left at $30 a pop. After a quick email volley, I met 'Mac,' a buff Latino dude, outside his gym in an upscale Brooklyn neighborhood. He invited me to 'take a little walk' with him. As we strolled down a tree-lined residential avenue, every apple-cheeked, stroller-toting family looked like a team of undercover narcs. 'You've done this shit before, right?' Mac asked. I nervously replied that I had not. He assured me that I was going to have 'a real good time.' It was then that I became acutely embarrassed: here I was, talking to a stranger — a drug dealer of sorts — about the award-winning, four-hour erection he was going to help me achieve. 'Half of one of these will be plenty,' Mac said, handing over a little envelope containing the goods. 'You've got four great nights there!' We shook hands, and he asked if I needed anything else. I wasn't sure what he meant. Some Preparation-H, some tough-actin' Tinactin, perchance? The man was like a walking Rite-Aid.
Back in Manhattan, Erica and I were determined to get right down to business. We wanted to keep the experiment pure, minding two very important guidelines:
1. Have sex while as high as possible.
2. Cleanse the palate between drugs. It would be scientifically irresponsible to hoof a baggie of blow while in the throes of a 'moody Tuesday' brought on by Sunday's ecstasy.
Of course, everything went pear-shaped. Typically, Erica and I will get it on wherever, whenever, but for the next several weeks, whenever we were together and horny with a couple of hours to spare, the gear would be sitting in the other person's apartment across town. I started carrying everything with me at all times. For a week, I walked the streets of New York like a living sampler plate of narcotic treats. Still, we couldn't get our shit together: whenever I was free, Erica had to work, and vice versa.
All told, I had two months to plan, execute and deliver the assignment.
I ended up doing all five drugs within seventy-two hours.
As instructed by my dealer-cum-pharmacist, I cut the dime-sized 100mg tablet in half and knocked one back with a glass of water. I knew that Viagra takes twenty-five to forty-five minutes to kick in, so Erica and I sat down to watch American Idol.
Immediate physical reaction
After twenty minutes, I began to feel queasy and flushed, but I attributed this as much to syrupy renditions of '70s ballads as anything else. Glancing in the mirror, I saw that my ears and cheeks were rosy. According to the 'literature' I'd downloaded from Pfizer's website, Viagra's intended effects are noticeable only once you get an erection. Because I live in a state of perma-arousal, within a minute or two I had a woody so hard that a cat couldn't scratch it.
A little background info: a man experiences different types of erections, from 'The Barfly' to 'The Thumper.' Viagra had given me a pulsing, monster Thumper. To say it plain, my dick felt like it was going to explode. Instantly, I was in that sublime zone between being ridiculously aroused and having to think about Al 'Grandpa Munster' Lewis on the crapper to keep from shooting my bolt.
Tactile effect
Other than the, uh, physical changes, the main difference was mental. The inherent disconnect between my genitalia and brain widened exponentially. Penises are often referred to as tools, and that's exactly what mine felt like: a woodlike, dildonic prosthesis that was being ridden with little emotional or physical input from me. The experience was strangely feminizing: for the first time, I was a passive partner during sex, able to fuck without necessarily being turned on or even having my head in the game.
Duration of sex
As expected, intercourse went on for ages. I could have lasted all night, but at just over two-and-a-quarter hours, a chafed, tired and slightly dazed Erica called time. I pulled out and she jerked me off over her boobs. The orgasm was amazing and powerful. I came a lot. A whole lot. Like, something reminiscent of Peter 'Two Quarts' North. Erica and I looked at each other, aghast as a bovine volume of come showered the general vicinity. We started cracking up before I was done. I stopped laughing when the usual refractory period didn't follow — my erection simply wouldn't go away. After twenty minutes, I became concerned. I needed to pee. Badly. Ten minutes later, my erection deflated just enough to allow a painful, wildly imprecise squirt. After that, I returned to a semi-dormant state.
Sensory/mental images
For ten minutes while we were screwing, every time I blinked I'd see large blue dots, about the size of a dinner plate as viewed from three feet away. I would've been alarmed, but I had read about this side effect on the Pfizer website earlier. Apparently, some men have blue-tinted vision for the better part of their experience. On one hand, that's alarming. The upside, I guess, is that you can pretend you're banging Smurfette.
Assistant's reaction
Erica didn't note major differences in my technique or presentation, other than a red complexion and a slight emotional distance.
Comparison to drug use without sex
I'd never actually seen 'shrooms before a small baggie of them appeared on my desk. Everyone told me that they were 'fun' but 'tasted like ass.' Around two o' clock on a Wednesday afternoon, Erica sliced several into a peanut-butter-and-pickle sandwich, which I tried to eat without chewing and almost choked to death. At her behest, we went outside to wait for things to kick in. I was told that's how 'shrooms are best enjoyed — other than at a Dave Matthews gig, of course.
We walked down Avenue A and looked in some stores. I began to feel queasy and in need of air, so we sat down on a bench in Tompkins Square Park. The nausea subsided, and I began to feel super-chilled-out. Whenever Erica said something, I thought about it hard, mulled my response carefully and delivered it several seconds afterward.
Aside from a couple of trees in the foreground, the park looked like a piece of stage scenery. People looked like moving Colorforms that had been stuck on. It was like somebody turned up the color-and-silly-grin dial on the TV set in my mind. I watched a bunch of kids run over to a big, jolly man with a shaved head and an entirely tattooed face. They tried to climb him as if he were a stout oak tree. His laughter and general charisma were Santa-esque. He sat down, and his magnetic effect seemed to work on squirrels and birds. Over his shoulder, a toothless old Latina woman let forth a bloodcurdling, wheezy laugh. She straddled a much younger man on a bench, and they started making out and dry humping. A slow-moving police car would idle past, and the woman would temper her movements accordingly. Shortly thereafter, a pigeon flew into my head and flapped its wings on the side of my face. I began to understand that weird shit happens in Tompkins Square Park on a Wednesday afternoon, whether you're on psychedelic drugs or not. Erica and I retrenched to my apartment.
We undressed and got into bed, and Erica invited me to watch the room breathe. I stared at the walls but couldn't see it, and wondered aloud why the fuck you would want to do that anyway. Erica and I began to kiss and writhe around, but strangely enough, sex was the furthest thing from my mind. The mushrooms I had taken were supposed to be magic, but my penis was looking decidedly shiitake-like.
Erica and I kissed and held each other for fifteen minutes, but I simply had no hydraulic action. Bah! Spooning followed.
In a phrase: shock and awe. For the first time Erica, witnessed my completely disinterested member. It didn't bother her too much; she found it kind of novel to be spooned without getting the 'hot dog in the bun.'
First, know this: I can't smoke anything. A mere drag on a cigarette makes me gag. The only time I really got stoned was when I was eighteen and ingested an insane amount of Moroccan hashish via a cup of 'special hot chocolate.' After I drank one cup and noticed no difference, the chef cooked me up a more potent brew. I spent the next four hours alone, vomiting, shivering and firmly under the assumption that I was a piece of black paper cut into a silhouette of a person with red and yellow LEDs running around the perimeter.
Because of my general ineptitude with pot, I made this a big production number. Weed: check. Bowl: check. Lighter: check. Condoms: check. I guess if smoking were more natural to me, things would have gone more smoothly, but Erica even had to coach me in how to toke. It was embarrassing. As she prepped the bowl and fired up a lighter, I prepared to inhale. I tried to tell myself that I was just being a pussy all those years ago, that I could handle it now. But even the tang of the residue on the glass pipe caused my mouth to water and my lower lip to droop in that special, just-about-to-barf way. I closed my eyes and took a huge drag. Then I started coughing and couldn't stop. Two minutes later, the hacking subsided and I took another hit. I did this four times over an eight-minute period. Erica rolled her eyes and said that with all the huffing and puffing she'd just witnessed, she'd guesstimate I was a six or seven on the Harrelson scale of highness. I relaxed, and a tingly feeling swept over me. I started screaming, 'I feel high, I feel high! Quick, get undressed!' and shoved her into the bedroom.
Bear in mind that this is only the second time I've been stoned. Ever. I felt heavy, like somebody had turned up Earth's gravitational pull a few notches. Erica's skin felt like a soft, warm down comforter, the coziest thing you could imagine. I wanted to wrap her around myself completely. She held me as if I were a small child, and we started making out. The next part is kind of hazy. From what I can remember, as soon as I entered her and we hit a rhythm, my penis felt like a metal rod, pointed north like a compass. Previously, whenever I'd heard the phrase 'time lost its meaning,' I'd laughed at the cliché. But that's exactly how I'd describe the sex we had. Luckily, Erica prompted me to change positions whenever she got bored and/or sore; otherwise I would have kept banging away, blissed-out and stiff as a board, until the break of dawn.
About two minutes after taking a hit, I experienced visions similar to the ones I had in Morocco, i.e. images of mid-'70s children's furniture with Muppets' heads stuck on them. These appeared like a slide show in my mind, each item scrolling from right to left. Between the images was infinite darkness. Occasionally, I'd see British TV personalities from my early childhood, decked out in mid-to-late-'70s fashions and hairdos. Strangely, the size of the hair didn't seem to match the size of the wearer, as if he or she were quivering under the weight of it all. Maybe that's what the '70s were like. I can't really remember.
I'll say it again: time lost its meaning. Erica told me she called time after ninety minutes. My orgasm took a lot of concentration and arrived with a firework finale of obscure memories I'd been unwittingly harboring since I was a toddler. At one point I said to Erica, 'My mind is massive.'
Erica was already sleepy when we started. We had crammed a lot of drugs and sex into the previous twenty-four hours. If I hadn't known better, I'd have guessed she was stoned too. Instead, she was taking a rare opportunity to relax — without me pulling her around, trying to induce dirty talk or folding her in half at the waist, she just chilled out while I embarked on my bizarro sex trip to the Carter Administration. Afterward, she told me that I had seemed 'somewhere else' during the whole thing, my eyes screwed tight, a bemused expression on my face. Although she initially found this amusing, she said that after a while it was like being schtupped by a zombie or Tom Ridge.
Even though it was much milder, the experience was similar to the last time I got stoned some seven-and-a-half years earlier. The same mental imagery and heavy feeling were accompanied by — get this! — a different way of understanding time. I guess I'm just really susceptible to pot. I enjoyed the intensity of the experience, though. If I could take a hit without coughing up my pelvis, I'd do it a whole lot more often.
I've never felt horny when taking E. Like everyone else, I just want to hug, talk utter shit to complete strangers, tell them that I love them and then suck their faces. This time was going to be different: I had an agenda, I wasn't at a party, and I was getting paid to do it. Around three in the afternoon, I popped a pill. Erica and I drew a bath, climbed into the tub facing each other, and waited for me to get all touchy-feely.
About twenty minutes into our soak, I started rolling really hard. I took a huge sigh, and it felt like my first breath. I've never started tripping in the tub before, and part of me ardently believes that, from a health-and-safety perspective, it's a wholly inadvisable thing to do. (Ecstasy tends to make your body temperature fluctuate wildly, and, well, there's the whole drowning thing to consider.) In truth, however, it felt great. So great, in fact, that I forgot about that whole time thing again. I spent the next two hours being more chatty and grindy than I ever have. The batch of E I bought must have had truth serum and a good amount of speed in it, because I spent much time spewing inner feelings Erica had not been a party to. Unfortunately, we had tickets for a play in Midtown and had to leave for the theater by seven. When I stopped yakking for a second and looked at the clock, I was horrified to see that we only had fifty minutes to complete the experiment.
As expected, I didn't really feel much like having sex and just wanted to hug. But being the consummate professional that I am, we dived on the bed and, with Erica watching the clock, started going at it. Or tried to. Even though the idea of sex on E was appealing, the simple act of putting skin on skin was more so.
I was having so much fun kissing Erica, I figured I'd smooch her down below too. While going down on her, I maneuvered her legs so they were propped over my shoulders and I could feel them running down the length of my back. My little soldier was somewhat out of the game although a little happier than when I was on the mushrooms. Forty minutes later, my wang was being wholly uncooperative. Even a helping hand wasn't actually . . . helping.
'Hurry up; we're going to be late. By the way, did I tell you it's actually a three-person musical and not really a play?' If you're going to take ecstasy, please have the werewithal not to come down in an overly air-conditioned repertory theatre watching three drama kids sing songs about popcorn at cranium-splitting pitches. It really sucks. That said, it's an effective antidote to feeling lovey-dovey. I came out of there feeling as mean as cat shit.
I'd heard conflicting reports about sex on coke. Some of my friends who tried it ended up with wieners as stiff as a sock full of porridge. That said, I once read about this German guy who would snort coke to maintain an erection for long periods of time. He then decided to inject his penis with a cocaine solution that would give him an all-day erection. Three days later, his member turned purple, then black, then had to be amputated along with his testicles and all of his fingers and toes.
Other than that, I'd never really thought about what sex on cocaine could entail. I mean, I know what I'm like when I'm on coke: chatty and teeth grind-y. I guess I'd always thought that, in theory at least, doing a line off a girl's ass might be hot.
Feeling a bit James Spaderesque, I chopped out a big line on Erica's tanned, flat stomach, rolled up a dollar bill and snorted away. I was immediately familiar with the drug's bitter taste and subsequent tingle. I did another line and was pleased not to notice the wilting effect that my friends had experienced.
I'd never really done anything remotely physical while on coke, aside from some light dancing and animated chatting with anyone who'd listen. (Incidentally, an ex once told me that she found a line or two handy while motivating herself to go to the gym.) After a little while, I became acutely aware that my heart was pounding fiercely. I did another line off the small of Erica's back and got behind her. I was stiffer than a roll of quarters, and I wanted to fuck hard. My heart pounded faster. I imagined news of my 'pulling an Entwhistle' being delivered to my editor, and his face ... oh, the horror! Hyper-awareness turned to fear. After a few minutes of imagining my heart exploding, I decided to let Erica get on top.
My eyes were as wide open as they would go. A mild tremor ran through my body. I felt the need to anchor myself to Erica. I gripped her waist as tightly as I could and dug my fingertips so far into her ass cheeks I'm surprised I didn't leave permanent indents. I felt kind of nasty, like some awful Wall Street archetype. I tried to push the image of Gordon Gekko out of my mind, to no avail. I barked orders, ground my teeth and spoke with my jaw clamped tight, sounding like Miss Hathaway from Beverly Hillbillies.
Envy and contempt. This was the drug Erica had the most reservations about. Of the potpourri of substances she'd done in the past, coke was her favorite. In fact, she had a little habit. Doing blow in front of her was like handcuffing Betty Ford to a case of Crown Royal.
About twenty minutes. With cardiac arrest imminent and Erica licking her lips ravenously, I decided to quit while I was ahead.
When there are no strangers around to tell you how wonderful your shitty little life is, half of cocaine's appeal goes right out the window. Coke jibes well with me in a social setting, but shagging on it was alarming. I felt disgusted with myself and sorry for putting Erica through it.
On a purely visceral level, many of the sensations I experienced on these substances were amazing — some of them even made me oblivious to the presence of my girl. Sex on weed was really quite mind-expanding. By far, it was the best experience and the one I'd most like to try again. It was infinitely more intense than anything else, which came as a surprise, because it seems less demonized by the media and therefore more benign than coke or ecstasy. The only problem is that doing any drug has the potential to make sex a staged experience. (This is where Erica's ex-boyfriend had the advantage over me. He was a career stoner, so when they got down, chances were he was already baked.)
http://www.nerve.com/love-sex/i-did-it-for-science/i-did-it-for-science-drugs
This experiment made me wonder just what the fuck I was doing all those years, while the other kids were smoking everything but their socks and popping E like Tylenol. At the grand age of twenty-six, I can't help feeling a bit suburban and long-in-the-tooth. My peers are either still using drugs occasionally, or else they got over junk the same summer they got over leather jackets with an eight-ball on the back.
Point being, drugs are something almost all of us have dabbled with, used or abused at some time. In the past, I've done drugs just for the sake of being on something, and that's been enough. But using five different substances to enhance a single activity produced the same result: a heightened sense of self-awareness. When you strip away your preconceptions of a drug is 'for' (i.e. weed for sex, Ecstasy for dancing), you realize that they way they affect our minds and bodies is, to a large extent, contextual. Ultimately, this experiment made me think of drugs not as a 'thrill,' a 'habit' or an 'addiction,' but as a condiment. Like applesauce with pork or, say, the Captain with Tennille, sex and drugs can be ideal companions, or simply a nightmare compounded.
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Albuquerque, NM- A new undercover recording released by Abortion Free New Mexico and Priests for Life exposes an unholy alliance between Southwestern Women's Options late term abortion mill and local clergy. The New Mexico Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice is the organization that is responsible for facilitating contact between clergy and abortion patients.
In this latest recording, an undercover caller states that she is 29 weeks pregnant with a baby that has a fetal anomaly. She exhibits being a little apprehensive about the late term abortion due to her Catholic faith, but is reassured by clinic staff, "believe it or not" there is a priest that will come to the clinic before, after and even during her procedure.
The New Mexico Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice is deceptively using religion to justify and promote abortion (the act of killing another human being) and recently they have published a list of over 70 local clergy that are being used to ease the consciences of women seeking late term abortions. This list includes well known liberal denominations like Unitarian Universalists and also pseudo-Catholic parishes that are not recognized by the Archdiocese of Santa Fe.
Early on when Boyd betrayed true medicine and started providing abortions he knew then that having clergy behind him was important. He still sees the value in this today and is greatly benefiting from his collaboration with the New Mexico Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice.
Boyd has conspired with the New Mexico Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice to, "meet whatever religious criteria" these women need to keep them in the clinic and ensure that they follow through with lucrative late term abortions.The abortion clinic staff even admits that, "We don't know how we'd do [late term abortions] without them." At 29 weeks of pregnancy SWO charges $11,500 and an additional $1,000 each week after that.
Many in this country do not want to believe that abortions are done up to the day of birth, however, in her own words, abortion clinic worker Susan Duda tells the undercover caller that "There are no gestational limits for aborting babies with fetal anomalies," which means that they will provide an abortion through all nine months of pregnancy.
Having children is a lifetime commitment but it's better than living with a lifetime of regret or worse. Operation Rescue reported that a Kansas woman committed suicide last month on the very same day that she had her abortion.


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PROJECT BLOG: Hoxton Hall
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Our featured project this week is Blueprint: Film Foundation's Autumn Term of filmmaking courses at Hoxton Hall. We provide free filmmaking courses to disadvantaged young people, giving them the opportunity to gain new skills and explore creative ideas. In the past we've helped them to create a variety of films including a ghost story and a music video. This term, we gave more of an overview, creating three shorter films that explored the breadth of film possibilities.
The first film we made used documentary techniques and monologues to create a narrative based on multiple true stories. Our participants took it in turns to tell stories to camera; this could be anything, but had to be true. One student recalled his first day at school, another related the soap opera-like drama of his friend's relationship, while another described getting lost in a supermarket as a small child. We found that although these events really happened, in telling them they became dramatic, with a narrative structure and a natural dramatic arc. Each young person was given the opportunity to work with the tech, rotating form using the camera, operating the boom and calling the shots.
For our second film, participants decided to use social media to tell a story of mystery and intrigue. This was tricky to film, as timing the messages is a lot harder than it looks!
Our third and final film was the one that participants chose to screen at the end of term event. This is the chicken cult film we've been talking about on this blog for the last few weeks!
First of all, we examined experimental cinema and the unusual techniques that can be used. We discussed how experimental film, similar to cabaret, subverts narrative expectations in order to reflect the subversion of societal expectations that often forms the topic. Experimental film also provides the freedom to think outside the box without the restraints of conventional narrative form. In this way, it is an excellent genre for young filmmakers as it allows them to literally experiment without the fear of "not making sense".
For this film, we opened up our age limit and welcomed some younger participants to the project. They came up with some great ideas for the film and although shooting took a few weeks, they all worked with efficiency and enthusiasm.
At the screening, we were slightly nervous, as the film had turned out both comedic and weird. We didn't know how the audience would react. However it seems the young people had pitched it just right! Our audience of their peers loved it and were extremely enthusiastic about the film.
If you missed it last week, here is the final film, "Free Range":
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