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[gwydion]

* I opened an old imp of Banned in Boston (Company says: Obscene, lewd, lascivious, and decidedly objectionable. A filthy, post-coitus scent: sweaty and sweet, laced with laudanum, splashed with booze, and stained by tobacco.), and for a long minute before my perception of the scent rearranged itself, it smelled like stinky old sneakers after some guy had been running around sockless in them all summer. This is what I mean about parsing. sometimes instead of organizing component parts the way a person with normal brain wiring does, I break it down too far. This happens to me more often with accords, where they are trying to approximate a scent they can't distill, like a pointillist paining making a larger picture out of dots. In my case, metaphorically I sometimes only see the dots. Banned in Boston is normally a sexy sweet boozey, musky, leathery scent, deliciously debauched, but for a moment.... Gah! It was weirdly disorienting as my perception rearranged the elements to make the right scent picture. I can't see magic eye pictures, but I bet it's a bit like that.

* Today we had both the kibble decanting ritual and gooshy food. The cats are in heaven.

* "Erotic Roman knife handle takes pride of place at Lincoln museum:" http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/news/Erotic-Roman-knife-handle-takes-pride-place-Lincoln-museum/article-3604931-detail/article.html

* "Huge testicular tumour helps identify subject of 19th century portrait:" http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/may/24/huge-testicular-tumour-portrait

* "To bluff, or not to bluff? That is the question:" http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-05-bluff.html

* More info on that Stirling Castle finbd; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-13569885

* Getting the Story of a Man’s Life Right, at Last: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/23/getting-the-story-of-a-mans-life-right-at-last/

* Mayan find: http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=47753

* "The Origin Of The Word "Syphilis":" http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/201105273

* Memorial cake: http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2011/05/sunday-sweets-in-memory.html

* Jtrom rebuts the "information bubble:" http://jrtom.livejournal.com/302141.html

* Progress in Britain: http://www.sparkindarkness.com/2011/05/ex-gay-therapist-faces-sanction.html

Scary thing? In the US they are seriously considering bringing back "reparative therapy" for LGBT folk as a legitimate therapy. After all, there is no credible scientific evidence it works and plenty that it not only doesn't work but does great harm. Luckily, the Hippocratic oath does not apply to harming LGBT folk, so doing grievous systematic harm to them isn't an ethical problem. They should call it the Hypocritical Oath, really.

I applaud the BPA for this step forward, even though it isn't far enough. Too bad, the US looks to be running the other way.BPAL, cats, history, news, Archeology, cake, Quiltbag