a bug you don’t want to catch

Very little creeps me out, but this Reuters story is the sort of thing that can. A 13-year-old Indian boy has begun producing winged beetles in his urine after hatching the eggs in his body…. Doctor Chittaranjan Maity, Medical Education Director of West Bengal state where the boy is from, said doctors found the beetles […]

confined to quarters

The past two years have been very disappointing for me in terms of vacation and travel. During the period between October, 2001 and August, 2002, during which I was unemployed, I theoretically had plenty of time to travel, but was reticent to spend the money to do so, to ensure that I continued to be […]

clothes whoremony singing

Even at 40, it’s possible to have truly new experiences. Last night I heard one drag queen sing a love song–in Yiddish–and another perform a paean to herpes, to the tune of The Way We Were: “Can it be that it was herpes simplex then?”, when Jeff and I went to see Winnie, Trixie, Rachel […]

a blast from the past

On Tuesday, I wrote about my thoughts about trying to reconnect with a guy I’d been dating earlier this year. After we stopped dating, he had suggested that we get together sometime for lunch, but we never arranged anything. Since then, we hadn’t been in contact at all. So, right after I posted that entry, […]

the blog is back

Yesterday morning, in the first of a number of incidents that made it a Bad Wish-I’d-Stayed-in-Bed Day, the database files for my MovableType installation were, for some reason, not working. This resulted in being unable to log in; to use the search engine; or to post new entries, comments or trackbacks. Some research in the […]

all over the movie

My TiVo has been recording a lot of gay-themed programming, especially from the Pride Month lineup on Sundance. Last night, for example, I finally saw the gay-themed All Over the Guy, written by and starring Dan Bucatinsky, and also starring Richard Ruccolo (one of the two cute guys from the TV series Two Guys, a […]

now i can’t get the hot fudge out of my mind

On the way home from work today, I stopped by the Safeway across the street to pick up some catfood and Diet Dr. Pepper. As I was checking out, a very cute guy joined the express lane next to mine, carrying only a jar of hot fudge. Another clerk came and opened a new lane, […]

wham bam, thank you spam

As though it weren’t bad enough that easily one-half to two-thirds or more of the email I receive is spam, in the past week some spammer has used one of my email addresses as the alleged sender and reply-to addresses for a couple of series of spam mailings, so my mailbox has been flooded with […]

grandfather clause

Each time I speak with my parents, they invariably ask me to give my maternal grandfather a call sometime, and to try to call him regularly. I’m usually hesitant to do so. Despite my very close relationships with my parents and the rest of my family, that with my grandfather has been far less comfortable […]