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...Board of Elections. The woman on the other end of the line - who was juggling multiple calls - informed me that while I was a registered voter, they had not yet received my absentee application - and that I should fax another one and mail it as well, just to make sure. I did as told, making it a nightly ritual for a week to call before bedtime to see if they had received my fax. I never got through. (Read about the 7 things that could go wrong on Election...
...truly shirtless, could not have been called clothed in any real sense of the word. The contours of his glowing, symmetrical frame were apparent for all to see. This man, in a linen shirt open nearly to the waist, was stroking Frederick’s sparse tresses with a sure and gentle hand. He made soothing sounds while his other hand traveled regularly between a plate of grapes and Frederick’s open mouth. The stranger dropped grapes, one by one, into the hot dark orifice. When Frederick’s teeth bit down, the grapes tore and popped...
...metabo. “Why, exactly, were you invited to Japan?” I asked the pair before their trip, hoping the answer would clarify the metabo mystery. “To be honest,” McCulla said, “we’re not too sure.” When the two returned a week later, their report was baffling. Metabo had nothing to do with the talk. Apparently the University of Tokyo was interested in the Food Literacy Project only in terms of its ability to foster a community. Professor Yasushi, the sociologist who arranged...
...that no one’s going to have any money pretty soon. As my father says, “Stranger than fiction...”But have faith! Fear no evil, be not in want—seek out wonderful, undiscovered music, and goodness and love will surely follow. Be forewarned: the road to finding new tracks, as you may know, is unavoidably long and fraught with disappointment. I’ve traveled that road, and know that there are disappointments. You don’t always find what you’re looking for, to say the least...
...work for the Cabinet met with a third Democratic governor, Wisconsin's Jim Doyle. The Cabinet has also funded a secretive organization called the Movement Advancement Project (MAP), which a veteran lesbian activist describes as the "Gay IRS." MAP keeps tabs on the major gay organizations to make sure they are operating efficiently. The October 2008 MAP report notes, for example, that the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force fails to meet Better Business Bureau standards for limiting overhead expenses...