Monday, July 6, 1998

Bike right and keep yer pecker up

Disquieting Homemade Bumper Sticker Spotted in my Neighborhood: "God is with you, so drive safe."

I'm going into rehearsals for a play (about which more later) this week and I'm in the middle of major publication project at work. If I suddenly disappear for a while, that's why.

Uh-Oh! Bicyclists, take note. Because of the design of seats, prolonged riding or certain patterns of activity can lead to impotence. [Bicycling Magazine]

Herb Moses and Rep. Barney Frank are calling it quits, and some gay activists are calling it the end of an era. Maybe. All it really is, though, is the end of a long and, by all accounts, happy relationship. (I wouldn't wish the pressure of being "role models" on anyone.) [Boston Globe]

Got any romantic missteps or my-man-done-done-me-wrong deathless prose to share? Consider rhapsodizing at bittersweets.org.

Charles Taylor says Armageddon is an apocalyptic bore. [Salon]

[Billy Bob] Thornton defends his decision to keep the public in the dark by saying that word of the impending collision would cause "a total breakdown in social services, mass religious hysteria." Try scaring anyone who lived through the Reagan administration with that.