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Out(games) of Order

The Outgames have begun.

Gay men are wandering helplessly through the city. It draws attention to the forgotten fact that Montreal pretends to present itself on the standard north-south axis, as New York or Toronto are... whatever human instincts we have left to get our bearings are simply tossed aside....

I drank like a 23 year old last night, which is out of character for me...

And at 9am this morning, I couldn't tell which element of my predicament was more horrific:

- the fact that i was vomiting in a metro station... or...
- the fact that i was vomiting in the metro station in VERDUN.

(to verdun's credit, i'd never been there before, and the station is stunning.)

p.s. - given the likelihood that a potential employer may attempt to google me this week, i'd like to point out that i'm more fond of architecture than i am of alcohol....

Gay or Italian?

I'm out at the office. And presumably because of that, I get to hear way too many stories involving words like "tampon".

It also means that, on occasion, I am called upon to bring out my gaydar and measure up my fellow employees. Of course, my gaydar is broken and my co-workers are quirky, so I assumed they were all gay. Then one turned out not to be, and now I don't know what to think anymore. I gave up guessing and got back to work.

Today I was having dinner in the village, and realized one of my colleagues was there. On a date. With a pastel-shirted male dining companion.

When I explained this discovery to my dinnermate, he sneered. "Of course that guy's gay!"

I'd thought so too at first.... the tan. the hair. the clothes. the gym bag. Then I concluded: He's not gay. He's just Italian.

And it's sort of become a buzz phrase... Gay or Italian?

Need more of either? Check out MBAM's exhibit.

mothers ARE making us gay.

http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20060701/fob1.asp

Birth order may steer some men toward homosexuality in a process that perhaps begins before birth. A new study finds that homosexuality grows more likely with the greater number of biological older brothers—those sharing both father and mother—that a male has.

Men display this tendency toward homosexuality even if they weren't raised with biological older brothers, finds psychologist Anthony F. Bogaert of Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario. No gay connection appears in men raised with half-brothers, stepbrothers, or adoptive brothers, all deemed non-biological by Bogaert.

"The mechanism underlying this fraternal birth-order effect remains unknown," Bogaert says. It's possible that succeeding pregnancies with male fetuses trigger a maternal immune response. A mother's immune system may treat male fetuses as foreign bodies, attacking them with antibodies that alter sex-related brain development, the Canadian psychologist suggests.

Scientists haven't yet looked for any specific immune reaction during pregnancy that targets later-born boys who become homosexual.

Trinity...

i feel badly that i missed trinity's performance last night. i'm publishing her (very well done) poster so you can know you missed it too.

i heard the show was great.

an ad for a diet pill from 1982.

Wrestling.... :-)

ricky martin, bearcub edition

He hasn't scheduled his LazyBear '06 performance yet. I'm sure he'll keep us posted.

Five minutes into conversation w/ my new neighbor...

neighbor: so are you like a metrosexual?
Me: uh... well... no...
neighbor: well, I mean, I like your setup here... it's kinda metrosexual...
Me: well, I'm gay
neighbor: well duh - (Me: ouch) neighbor: but why aren't you a metrosexual
Me: [stammering] you have to be straight to be a metrosexual!

(She's cool... a fibers major. It like totally legitimizes my conception of the new apartment as a "studio" (because i work in it) and a "loft" (because i climb a ladder to sleep), even though it's only like an 20' x 12' space. I'm kind of jealous because she's got an exposed brick wall and two tiny exposed pipes... which, clinical studies shall surely soon show... significantly increase one's creative potential.... She showed me these solid balls of felt she made. I showed her the felt carpet tiles I want to buy.)

We bonded over felt. That felt nice. :-P

Organ Donation

I got my new health card last week... and I keep noticing this on my desk...

Why do I feel like I shouldn't put the sticker on? The fear of AIDS has left me with a sense that, somehow, on some level, I must be toxic.

:-(