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Everybody has a freaky side, but it is a mere shadow of what it truly means to be a freak. A freak will never yield to becoming a lady, and a lady will never yield to becoming a freak. Again, another quote were all familiar with "you cant turn a ho into a housewife," but they both serve a purpose. You can have a housewife act like a ho, but very soon your nights of minage a tois, handcuffs, adult toys, porns, anal sex etc will very quickly be extinguished. You can have a ho act like a housewife, but she wont be cleaning your dishes for very long.

We've, uh, got a long way to go.

Frank Robbins: "Cross-Trainer Season"

Every year around this time, when the days get longer and the weather gets warmer, more and more people get on their bikes and ride around New York. Of them, there is a special subset who try to race me, they are the cross-trainters. The cross-trainers are the guys who have spent the winter in gyms lifting weights, running in place and sweating their asses off racing one another in spinning classes...

They usually have enourmous arms, great tans and expensive bikes. One of these guys will see me in traffic, they'll chase me with a huge burst of energy sprint and will whizz past me. Then I'll follow them for about a block just to see if they have any technique whatsoever. Then I'll pass them.

It's true, biking in the city isn't just about brawn. Yes, you need to be in decent shape and the practice is a good form of physical conditioning, but it's more than that. It's a kenesthetic exercise which requires tracking an environment with thousands of moving parts, and being able to maintain situational awareness while making quick calculations and decisions.

It requires reflexes, intelligence, experience, and more. It is a kind of seeing, a real gestalt.

The Girth TXTs in from Minneapolis, MN: Elissa Fountain is married.

In case you didn't hear, Stephen Colbert did an awesome job at the White House Press Correspondents Club dinner over the weekend. Like something straight out of Shakespeare, we have a jester as the only one who can tell certain truths. The audience was a bit cold, but his performance was totally hot.

See the video and show some love:
http://www.thankyoustephencolbert.org

I'm fleeing Brooklyn for the summer, and the little corner of Park Slope that I just painted yellow and call "home" is up for grabs. It's 2 blocks from the 7th Ave F train, 1 block from Prospect park, and it's already got everything you need to live: a bed, some bookshelves, and little nightstand and lights and stuff.

Really, it's quite nice. If you know anyone who's sane and looking for a furnished summer sublect (available June 1st - September, or some subsection thereof), in the $750 price range, let me know. It would be good to "keep it in the family," in case I want to come back.

On the other hand, if you just want to move in and take over my shit, you could probably do that too. Posessions are fleeting.

This is what I'm talking about trying some of this summer. Should be possible to do.

Mud-wrestling Jefferson Davis on the front lawn of a house made entirely out of prime numbers. Fuckin' a.

Hot. This 2-minute video explains it neatly:

Network Neutrality means freedom to use the bandwidth you pay for to access whatever content you like. It also means anyone can create/publish content (50%+ of teenagers are now "content creators"), and have it be accessible to the world. This is the first amendment at work in the 21st Century.

Loosing this battle will mean the future of the internet will look more like the 1980s: gated communities like Prodigy, Compuserve, AOL, etc plus cable TV.

Save the Internet coalition
Send a letter

Maybe we can look forward to another year of record-breaking profits from the big petroleum companies.

Oil hits $75 a barrel

Crude-oil prices broke through $75 a barrel to hit a new record Friday, fueled by concerns about Iran’s nuclear ambitions and tight U.S. gasoline supplies.

The average price per gallon is now $2.855 nationwide. This has got to be hurting especially bad down south, where most of the truck stops I saw last summer still had the non-removable "1" on their giant signs (for dollar-something gas). My guess is they may have by now gotten up giant 2s, but we're getting to $3 now.

Gonna be a good year to own oil, unless the G-man decides to take it from ya.

Just caught Ralph Nader on Colbert. Total slaughter. Ugly.

Photographic evidence from the 3030 club in Arcata:

Me with the stripey shirt.