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I have just begun a very familiar transformation, and it's always entertaining to me. Almost every year, I gain a layer of insulation to keep me nice and warm in the winter. About 20 pounds worth of insulation, that is! Then suddenly, usually about this time each year, I start to lose this extra matter. Of course, countless others experience the same cycle involving seasonal cellulite, and different people have different names for it. My favorite is chubification, coined by fellow blogger David! But I feel that this happens to me for a different reason.
Insulation Abatement
I am from the Midwest, and this annual shift from flubber to rubber would happen to me as far back into my childhood as I can remember. It is a learned behavior that probably became a physiological reponse and continues to reassert itself. And here we are once again— I am undergoing insulation abatement whether I like it or not! I could stop working out, eat Kentucky Fried Chickens for two months straight, and I would still be totally ripped by summer (this actually happened in 2003).
Yes, the boys of summer cometh. I thought I'd strike first by tossing in three men I currently lust over, for your own scrutiny. Gay readers, tell me your favorite of the three. Straight readers, try to pick out how many of the three are on the juice! The first is Stephen Kuclo, a fellow troll (which means he's from lower Michigan like me). The second is a mighty fine Mexican, and the last is the hottest Thai stud I've ever seen. If I am forced to choose my favorite, then the answer is immutable: Ricardo the Mexican— ultra-possessive and innately beastly.
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Flaggers-R-Us
For those of you who have a Xanga account, You may have noticed the alert about the proposed Xanga flagging system. The Xanga team invited us to comment on the proposed flagging types. What I saw really disappointed me, particularly since they did a half-baked job at explaining how their flagging mechanism would work. I agree with a few flagging types, but in general I think it's a bad move, and I was definitely vocal about it. I am particularly not excited over how easily any flagging system can be abused. One of the flags covers "Breaking the Law." This is beyond ludicrous, as we all have made posts that in one way or another mention something that we did that was illegal.
We have no clue where this feature came from, and I have no idea whether they checked with their investors before committing to such a task. Launch flagging and lose about 20 percent of your users. Would Xanga's investors invite that kind of exodus? We're on Xanga because we enjoy a sense of community without being muffled and over-regulated. If we wanted to be regulated, we'd pop Ex-Lax every day.
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