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Free protection ...

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  ... for Olympic athletes is nothing new, but when the supply runs out  before the first week of the Games, it is bound to make headlines. S upplies in the Olympic Villages were “temporarily depleted due to higher-than-anticipated demand.  Additional supplies are being delivered and will be distributed across all villages. They will be continuously replenished until the end of the Games to ensure continued availability.”  The complimentary condoms distributed inside the Olympic Village in Cortina were gone in three days. 10,000 were made available. There are 2,871 athletes in Italy for the Winter Games. At the Paris Olympics there were a little more than 10,500 athletes competing. Organizers handed out approximately 300,000 condoms.  “Yes, we provide free condoms to athletes in the Olympic village . If this seems strange to some, they’re unaware of the established Olympic practice. It began in Seoul 1988 to raise awareness among athletes and young people about ...
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A friend told me ...

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                                                                                                       couples do Valentines Day                                         singles celebrate                                                      Palm Sunday              
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Oh, boy - he's on my wall, too

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  I n   Quentin Django Unchained , the main character Django, a freed slave, chooses to wear an outfit similar to that worn by Gainsborough's subject in   The Blue Boy . In a 2001 episode of  Who Wants to Be a Millionaire  the exact contents of the painting was the subject of a $500,000 question. It inspired the 1980s  Garbage Pail Kids  "Blue Boy George" (fifth series). In 1985, the picture was referenced in the song  Art is for Your Heart  on the  Muppet Babies  episode "The Muppet Museum of Art", with  Gonzo  wondering about the painting and  Kermit  stating the subject's possible preference for green clothing. The painting is seen in the movie  Die Another Day  (2002), where it hangs in a London fencing club, and is slashed by Gustav Graves while dueling with James Bond. The painting is also seen in the movie  Batman  (1989) as hanging in Gotham museum, and again in the  Joker  ...
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Noctalgia

I remember nights like other lives, coming off a dance floor in a sweat and then the shock of cool dark. I’ve never loved New York more than in the dark, all those electric hearts beating, buildings with lit-up rooms and the rest like knocked-out teeth.  New York was once the city that never sleeps. Now restaurants drop their grates well before midnight. The law still says that bars can let alcohol flow until 4 a.m., but they don’t, whether to be good neighbors or because their patrons are just too tired. Twenty-four-hour coffee shops and diners are dying. The lights are on but everybody’s home, in bed. Some of our minds bloom only after sundown, like those flowers that hold themselves in until the day plants close their petals. 
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Life ...

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  ... as my sister Suzie is wont to proclaim out of the blue.  I've written back and forth with a guy online for quite some time now. pleasantries, mild missives. nothing much.  never spoke to him on the phone. recently we've begun to text. He lives far away and is a very fit  6'9''. 70. For the last few days he has apprised me of his heart surgery - which he told me just moments ago - he's being wheeled into. he just typed ... love ya little guy.  o my. better sweetness thru chemistry. I guess when you're taller than some trees - everybody's puny. I worry he hasn't close family/ peeps. why me? who he hardly knows. I'm stumped - so what's new.
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Panpsychism ...

  ...  is the idea that everything, every particle, the ink on the page, the atoms, all have some infinitesimal degree of consciousness, and somehow this consciousness is combined in some way from our cells and the rest of our bodies to create superconsciousness. Consciousness has become our secular substitute for the soul; we talk about consciousness the way people in the 16th or 17th century talked about souls. Some people’s interest in it is the fact that it floats free of these mortal bodies and maybe gets folded into a collective consciousness after we’re gone.
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If ...

… there isn't a word for it, there should be.  I go to the library and check out Of Mice and Men . I ask the guy at the desk if I can get on a list to get Flesh , a new novel that got rave reviews. I say to him I hear its really good . He says it is and points to the desk where it sits opened. He’s currently reading it. I return a book about Dylan and ask if he needs my card. He says no, you’re Paul, right. I say what’s your name -  Dylan . I asked were you named after him … yes. I tell him the book is very good.  I
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