do you like pina coladas?

Is nobody blogging this year? Surely there are more important things to give up for new year?

While the partner in bliss is on a 2-week working holiday in Malaysia I'm unwinding at home, aided by the mind-sapping heat and the boomerang virus I caught from the mother outlaw. The authorities are warning old people (not me) to stay indoors today, because of the heat and humidity. The warning probably applies double to people with viruses. They didn't say anything about tantric masturbation though.

My cross-dressing school friend is in town and coming to stay tomorrow. Must load the fridge with Freedom Ale for a tasting session. Life could be worse.

elections

At last! It's now only a year until the changing of the guard in Washington. Maybe the world can limp along until then without starting any new wars or atrocities.

Obama's success is perhaps encouraging, though I read a more pessimistic interpretation in a newspaper today:

A nation that can vote for Bush in the first place, and then re-elect him with a larger majority after his invasion of Iraq, does not look like a nation yet ready to elect a mixed-race, liberal, Harvard-educated civil rights lawyer, no matter how elegant or articulate.

There was an election here recently, and I had to go to three celebration parties on election night. I've never been to a good party yet. These things are wasted on me. Fortunately the three parties were many miles from each other so I was able to spend most of the evening travelling. I spent an hour at the first place, 20 minutes at the second, and missed the third entirely.

If they had been on three different dates, that would have been three wasted nights instead of just one. How fortunate I was!

a happy new year of the thong

For educational reasons, I am sharing this email I received, on the right and wrong way to wear a thong.

The right way

The wrong way