Jay Lake wrote:
>It's official, I'm a failure. Just finished listening to one of my high
>school classmates being interviewed on NPR about her new film that she
>wrote and directed, based on her recent successful book.   Do I have a
>film out? No. Do I have a successful book? No? Me, I spent nine months
>this year on the dole. Becky was off in Hollywood.
#1 Those of us who are envious of your success as a writer and artist
might find this a bit hard to understand.
#2 Once, when forced to mix with a wife's associate's [French] husband
who spent most of his time blowing his horn about how he had wined and
dined and hung out with the famous and wonderful, I became
progressively more and more Jethro-like until I was using phrases like
"Heehaw y'all -- you done talked to him!?"  My counterpart never
noticed my evolutionary decline, even as hair sprouted from my
knuckles, my forehead contracted, my eyebrows merged and I started
grunting.  Fortunately, my wife intervened and I was prevented from
doing my Moonwatcher imitation with the chicken bones left from
dinner. Regression is a wonderful curative.
Rickk
no truth to the rumour I scratched my armpit
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On Sun, 8 Sep 2002, CDale wrote:
> I agree w/ ya Tom.  That kind of thinking is SO idiotic.  Sure, gays
So how many of your hetero friends had >3 k lovers?
> are promiscuous, and so are hets, but I betcha gays are more
> AIDSphobic than hets, generally speaking....
The virus load issue is orthogonal to the fact. Bzzt. Switch on your
brain, you both. I was mentioning that a subpopulation outside of the sex
industry is/used to be extremely promiscuous, about two orders of
magnitude higher than average.

URL: http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000217.html
Date: 2002-10-02T22:22:55-08:00
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