Interesting opinion article in Huffington Post a couple days ago, discussing incidence of effeminacy (and the coming out thereof) in gay males.

Read and discuss.

Warren Beatty and Annette Bening's 18 year old daughter is now their son, Stephen Ira [click here for story]. Dad is said to be publicly furious.

Stephen now joins Chaz Bono as one of the more famous FtM children of celebrities.

In my opinion, or perhaps just hope, such public transitions of "Inside Hollywood" -type names help to undemonize transgender issues in the public mind.

Discuss.

This link via the English language website of Pravda:

Beauty Contest Hoax

I just logged in to find this:

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All I can say is... Wow! Really? Has it really been that long?

I guess I'd better get to work and at least post another story soon!

Okay, no, I'm not asking the question. Didn't mean to use a flaming headline to attract your attention, either. Sorry. I just wanted to repost something I wrote in response to Dorothy Colleen's now-deleted blog posting.

I look in the mirror on my return home. There are the perfect eyes and lips I painted a few hours before. I'm definitely getting the hang of this makeup business. Pencil eyeliner, four shades of shadow expertly blended, brows trimmed, plucked, combed and secured in the right shape with some pump-type hairspray that I've transferred to an empty clear mascara bottle. The gel that came in it was useless, so I took it apart and washed it out. My lashes are bold and beautiful. The latest two-part mascara I've tried looks to be a big winner. They'll probably discontinue it next month.

You know those stories where nanites rearrange a person's dna? Well, a million of these puppies will fit in a single red blood cell, and they can theoretically do just that:

http://hplusmagazine.com/articles/nano/nanoscale-robot-arm-p...

Okay, here's an odd thing. I found a reference to this in Andrew Sullivan's blog today, but his link didn't work. I poked around a bit and found the original article referenced. It's a .pdf of a scanned page from a medical journal, a bit over 250K, including what appears to be a scary picture of an illusory face inside a scrotum. (At least this is the first illusory face I've seen in a while that wasn't claimed to be Jesus!)

On this eve of Christmas, and a couple days after the winter solstice, let me take this moment to wish you all the happiest of holidays! A very happy and merry Christmas, Idul, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, a belated happy Diwali, or however you celebrate your religious or non-religious mid-winter observances!

Watch this! It will make you happy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7TI-AJi2O8

It's a lip-sync music video made by a high school, using the talents of the entire student body. Everyone. Together. With gusto. Nerds, geeks, jocks, the swim team in speedos, stoners, preppies, goths, cheerleaders, staff. Everyone. It makes me giddy.

Oh, and they did it backwards!

I note with interest the new "Ignore User" button on all posts, blogs and comments.

Frankly, it makes me queasy.

It's not an intellectual reaction, exactly, but more of an emotional one on my part. It seems like some horrid level of overkill. I can't imagine that any adult here is so immature as to be unable to set aside a little irritation now and again and still be able to function without needing a mechanism to turn someone else invisible to them.

The last letter in this week's "Savage Love" sex advice column touches on a TG theme.

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/SavageLove?oid=2763502

N.B.: This week's column is relatively tame as regards language, imagery, and squick factor, compared to other weeks. You probably shouldn't be reading this column from work.

File this somewhere under Deep, Deep Background! Some of it might be useful to authors of TG fiction, but mostly I think it will be of interest to those who have intersex conditions.

There isn't that much real estate for listing the blog posts on the front page. It seems to me, having three sticky posts in that little left-hand column doesn't leave that much room for anyone else's post to survive for very long before scrolling off.

I've come to the conclusion that my prior blog post, "How To Look Like A Slut," was maybe a little too off-topic. We've all seen the how-to videos on applying makeup and developing a look. This was about how to do everything "right" and end up with a low-class look, on purpose. Frankly, I thought it was uncanny, especially knowing how good Paperlilies (her YouTube name) really looks when she's not messing around imitating people, and I thought her act was spot-on and hilarious.