spuffyduds and I went to see the Carolina Chocolate Drops on Tuesday, and since she hasn't gotten around to posting about it, I should note that:

1) Last year's show was one of the group's first performances with Hubby Jenkins, who replaced original Drop Justin Robinson after the latter went back to college. Dom Flemons and Rhiannon Giddens still hadn't had ( Read more... )

Actually, it was more like driving ninety minutes each way through light snow, with the roads basically clear, but spuffyduds  and I did have to drive through snow that was actually falling while traveling to and from likeadeuce 's place last night (and we did have an inch or so on the ground this morning). Along with harmonyangel , who was in town for a visit, and a quartet of ( Read more... )

So spuffyduds  is making me (and Thing Two and two of his gay friends, GG and CC)* watch Dante's Cove, claiming it's among the worst things ever committed to film. We'll just see about that... Really, what she's doing is watching the reactions it's producing in me, Thing 2, and GG, none of whom have seen it before. CC has only seen it on the internet, so he' ( Read more... )

Looks like Glamour has been getting all kinds of letters. Why? They ran a photo of a 20-year-old model in her underwear.

And the model is a size 12-14.

If you click the link and take a look, you'll see a photo that can be regarded in one of several ways:

a) "Well, it's about TIME Glamour showed a woman who's happy in her own skin and doesn't look like ( Read more... )

Oh. My. God.

I mean, I'm pretty solidly in the boring, whitebread middle of the sexual bell curve.  Straight, married, kids, etc., with no really unusual diseases or scars obtained in the pursuit of pleasure, no interesting costumes stuffed into hidden closet spaces, and not even an especially noteworthy collection of pron.  Sure, between my ears I' ( Read more... )

...Researchers at the UK's Institute of Psychiatry have discovered a correlation between intelligence and sperm quality:

They found that those who performed better on intelligence tests tended to have more - and more mobile - sperm.
The study, which appears in the journal Intelligence, appears to support the idea that genes underlying intelligence ( Read more... )