Big Fat Hairy Living

Is there a single bear on LiveJournal who doesn’t list himself as a musician, actor, or artist in his profile?

Big Daddies are soft and chewy!

Right across the ten-lane highway from the warehouse in furthest suburbia where the intern and I are doing our product testing is a gym, and today at lunch they had a free promotion: come in and listen to their sales spiel and get free food. We went for the free food.

A really annoying sales guy gave us a tour, showing us all the equipment, and of course, the locker room. There was a cute cubbish guy with a big floppy dick, and of course I stared blatantly. Not a clue in the world. I have to admit that it surprised me that the showers room consisted of individual stalls — for privacy, according to the sales droid — but that the lockers were arranged in little groups around giant mirrors that allow you see naked guys from almost any angle.

He tried to schmooze us by telling us that he read some study that showed that most guys meet their girlfriends at the gym. As if girlfriends would interest me. Later, he tried to reinforce this message by drawing our attention to all the “great viewing,” right as we were walking by a porky, goateed Middle-Eastern guy flexing his gigantic cantaloupe-sized biceps. Viewing indeed.

I’ve been working out twice a week, but starting this week I’m going to go three times a week. Once I get used to three times a week, I’ll consider going four times a week. Three times would be with Dave, my workout buddy and all-around cool token straight friend, and the other time would be on my own. Even if I only go four times a week only once or twice a month, if I stick with it, I’ll be miles ahead of where I was when I started (and then quit) working out a few years ago.

New York Daily News:

“Stewart’s negative public image is made of small anecdotes - the gardener she mistreated, the neighbor she quarreled with, the fights with her ex-husband, the hollering at her staff. Doubtless she can be imperious and difficult; self-made moguls tend to be. But she also has time for little girls.

The Miami Herald:

Stewart has raised general awareness of good design, elegant living and all-around taste in a way perhaps not seen since William Morris, the father of the Arts and Crafts movement, revolutionized domestic design from the 1860s on … Stewart was an easy target as a purveyor of perfection, but what she actually was selling was the notion that the home is a sanctuary and everyone deserves to venerate it with beauty. This was the credo of Morris too, who famously called on people to have ‘nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.’

We’re a bunch of porn-hating, Andrea Dworkin-reading heterosexists with major issues, and we think porn is bad because of our unhealthy attitudes towards sex.

Anti-sex women like those ones t — and their male collaborators, henpecked, emasculated wimps, no doubt — need to be shipped to a far-away island where no clothes are allowed and the only reading or viewing material is hard-core gang-rape S & M snuff porn.

I certainly can’t complain about my life, because I’ve got a loving mother and sister, great friends, a fabulous boyfriend, and a roof over my head. But sometimes I get really frustrated. I feel like all my anger and depression is molten hot magma contained beneath a thin crust of politeness that’s going to burst at any moment.

Self-control can be really draining. Sometimes it takes a lot of energy not to say what I really think, and it gets really hard to keep up the facade by the end of the week.

I wish my job was to jerk off and eat pastry.

Ms. Magazine:

Imagine a man in Martha Stewart’s position. Would Donald Trump be pre-judged guilty for arrogance and conspicuous consumption? Better still, would Martha Stewart be considered decisive and even charming when she says ‘You’re fired!’ to a reality show contestant vying for her favor? Hardly.

Reason Online:

[Juror Chappell] Hartridge would have been wise to keep his mouth shut. But he couldn’t. He was pissed. He had an ax to grind. While reporters stood on tables and chairs, their pens poised to record his every word, Hartridge rattled off a list of Martha Stewart’s transgressions. Most had little to do with the actual charges.

Ludwig von Mises Institute:

Martha Stewart now faces a lengthy stay in prison because jurors decided that the original activity — the alleged ‘insider trading’ that never occurred — was a ‘bad act’ that triggered their viewpoints about everything else that happened afterward. Moreover, the jurors apparently remained convinced that Stewart had engaged in the ‘crime’ of ‘insider trading,’ or at least something similar, since they believed she was trying to cover up something illegal. They could not have reached their decision otherwise, as it would have been a logical absurdity.