More Bip Bip Bopping

I'v been slipping and sliding and performing other lube-assisted moves through the sga_kinkmeme/sga_kinkmeme communities. (P.S: easiest way to navigate is via the delicious !filled tags. ( This eventually led to a very silly coffee-art picture. )

On a more serious and funnier side, I'm reading a fabulous book which is about trans* issues. It demonstrates how effective fierce theater and humor can be in service of social justice. Many thanks to bcholmes, who mentioned this fabulous book at WisCon:
Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion & the End of Gender
Riki Anne Wilchins, 1997 Firebrand Books

A little sample from the fabulously tongue-in-cheek Glossary, p226

Intersexuality
(1) A Psychiatric emergency on the parts of doctors and parents that is treated by operating on the genitals of the infant; (2) A condition in which someone is born with technicolor genitals while everyone else's are black and white.

Mis Cellany

Thanks to sophy, a primary care physician meditates on treating people with chronic illnesses in a letter addressed to us. Looking back on 25 years of good-to-awful interactions with doctors, I peg him "wise."

It's been an unlucky week at our house. Lovely Lucy was walking uncomfortably. She didn't show pain when we pushed & poked her legs. Then we had success with subtracting pain with an ice pack (instead of adding pain with our fingers). Isolated to one leg, we shuffled off to the vet. It's not a ruptured cranial cruciate ligament, but a probable tear. So 5 days of as little movement as possible. First day she was in pain from the vet exam, and basically a stuffed doggy. Second day beginning to be bored. Today she's been nosing me a lot. I was the big meanie who had to take away the squeaky toys she loves to squeeze as she zooms around the couch. Dreading tomorrow.

OTOH, MyGuy is going out to see if he can hit a bucket o' balls; first physical exertion since the surgery.

Monday is the 20th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which triggers a stew of emotions. More on Monday, I hope.

Lovely lunch with sasha_feather. I'd looked forward to Salade Niçoise, but the power went out and so did we.