One of my errands this afternoon brought me to KMart. I knew they had some stuff on sale, and they have a lower concentration of evil than Walmart or Target. I ended up scoring about $20 of kitchen stuff, and narrowly avoided scoring even more flannel shirts, even though I bought a ton of them at a different sale a few weeks ago. (Can one ever have ( Read more... )

I've been making a real effort to maintain positive framing of things this past year. For example, when making a request I focus on what I do want instead of what I don't want. When describing a situation, I put it in positive terms ("he's very resourceful") instead of negative terms ("he's not helpless"). I've also been doing my best to maintain a ( Read more... )

I got into an interesting conversation this morning while I was helping set up Gay Bingo ( Read more... )

I just have to take a moment from my busy weekend to make an observation ( Read more... )

I just got back from giving a presentation to the Providence Police Academy about HIV, and one of the issues we discussed kind of rings out for me right now ( Read more... )

According to an analysis of 174 different studies, which was published in the March edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes and which collectively followed over 100k people during a 14 year period, HIV interventions that include information on condoms do not inadvertently encourage an earlier sexual debut, more frequent ( Read more... )

I said I might post pics of me clean shaven, since I went and did it. So here they are. Actually, only one pic is of just me. The rest are of me and quillon, since I thought it was a good opportunity to do that. And just we might be acting kinda cute.

Anyway, the pic of just me:


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I was having an AIM conversation with a friend of mine, who will remain anonymous[1], and at some point in the conversation he throws out that he had been masturbating for about ten minutes ( Read more... )

In an earlier episode of The Life And Times Of The Wild roosterbear, I alluded to a funny story out of my dark and mysterious past that was an episode in and of itself. And I'll warn you that this might trip some people's Squick-o-Meter. So, anyway, here it is.

( How I can sometimes hold a poker face, even in seemingly impossible situations. )

After reading about a few of my friends' Thanksgiving meals that turned into bad movie material. as the family got together and pushed buttons and annoyed each other, it made me realize just how thankful I was for my relaxed, sweet, uncomplicated Thanksgiving.

( the yummy details )