“Barry,” my cousin Mike said, “I think it’s time.” It was clear that my brother didn’t feel the same way, but he only shrugged, which Mike took as agreement. “Dave,” he said, giving the words as much gravity as he could muster, “Go get the dictionary.” I was nine years old, and a tag-along. I’d walked in on my brother telling a story about how—during school that morning—a girl he knew got her period in the middle of French class. And I laughed like the dickens. And then they called me on it. After I’d lugged the dictionary down from the spare room, Mike told me to look up the word period and read out the definition. “The end of a cycle, a series of events, or a single action?” “Keep going,” he said. “The full pause with which a sentence closes?” “Not that.” “An interval of geologic—“ “Gimme that!” He yanked the book towards him, read down the page, and pointed me towards the definition he’d found. Menstruation: the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from pu...
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I will list them here, but pimp one at the end...
Dave - Yours, of course.
Kris - Kris - That bright-eyed cutie from DC way.
Jay - Jamie - That other bright-eyed cutie from Chinatown 7.
Cat - A friend I used to work with who has always stayed in touch.
But the pimping, today, goes out to Ian.
Ian is someone who I met on Orkut (A "friend builder" site). Him and I hit it off right away. He's visited T-Dot a few times, and we always have a great time.
He is an excellent writer. You will have a hard time separating fact from fiction on his site. But all of the stories are well crafted.
Kudos to my buddy Ian, who also takes great photos, and holds the secret recipes for Blueberry Grunt.
If you've got a lot of time to waste, all the blogs I currently subscribe to are available on del.icio.us
but I'd have to say that the best all-purpose blog (by someone I don't know, though he's ready to be pimped, ladies) is Growabrain
Hanan "polymath" Levin is my hero!
Terri Schiavo's Blog:
http://durrrrr.blogspot.com/
http://spaces.msn.com/members/errorism/
P.S. - How's the book coming?
Also www.collisiondetection.net
Oh and mostly pre-blog, an online mag that's now sadly over but that you must read the archives of www.openletters.net
http://imcblog.blogspot.com