Archives: February 2008
Fri Feb 22, 2008
The Dream Inn is Back
The new management company of the old Dream Inn has brought the old name back. I've stayed at a Joie D'Vive motel in San Francisco , the Hotel Del Sol and this makes perfect sense. Joie de Vivre is the perfect company to bring the Dream Inn back--to a state that it only had in our imaginations.
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Thu Feb 07, 2008
The Decent of Lesbian Kissing
Here's an interesting article from SciAm about recent researching into what happens to our bodies when we kiss, romantic kissing especially. There's lots of physiological information, and speculation about whether or human can detect phermones or not. But what about lesbian kissing? Who's doing that research? If romantic, sexual kissing between men and women has an evolutionary purpose in mate selection, then what about lesbian kissing? Either it is a pathology--some kind of mistaken identity--which I won't accept as my hypothesis because it is uninteresting. Or lesbian kissing also has an evolutionary purpose. What would that be? Once can see how it could be selected for.
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Sun Feb 03, 2008
Lifting Belly
Today is Gertrude Stein's birthday. Few people understand her experimental work, but there is no mistaking her long poem about herself, Alice, their sexual life, and how it was lived alongside with the rest of their lives together: "Lifting Belly." More...
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Free Beatles Concerts
Twice now I've had the pleasure of hearing a street musician who sings Beatles' songs with a clear strong, beautiful voice without ruining the melodies with embellishment. More...
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Sat Feb 02, 2008
College Student Unconscious Irony
Also on my walk last week, I came upon this mess in the forest. More...
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Fri Feb 01, 2008
Lunchtime Mushrooms
Wednesday I got my sack lunch and walked into the forest where I know there is a pine grove. I was looking for my beloved amanita muscaria, which I did not find. But I found others, the names I don't know, but I'm learning to know where they live. More...
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