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this past week has basically been a blur.
Corbet Dean's set at Berkeley got me to thinking about my current set of circumstances. i have an uneasy relationship with cops, even though my beloved cousin, J., is one. a false accusation made against J. (by an ex-wife) set off a three year ordeal resulting in a broken spirit, a tarnished reputation, and a clear indication about how flimsy the blue wall is when it wants to be. it was nice to hear Corbet's piece acknowledging that there are some real dicks wearing shields. i have firsthand knowledge that he's right. i wish i could tell one in particular about how his lies have affected me personally.
anyway, this weekend was relatively lowkey. Friday i chilled with Mike and Paradox. lots of talking, writing and planning. Paradox is on a mission, y'all. if you don't know who he is now, i GUARANTEE that you will by August. the three of us have been challenging each other in order to meet specific goals. i write every day, but very little of that actually gets molded into poems. now i'm being pushed. we got Chinese and watched The Ring and Frida. well, they watched Frida. i fell asleep.
i wake up at 8:00 am (i always do, no matter what time i go to bed--it's a curse), and up jumps Paradox. turns the laptop on, and clickety clacks for two and a half hours straight, stopping only to eat the plate of migas Karen-style i shoved under his nose. migas rock. they're worth moving to Austin for. that, and Lamm's Candies. (okay, fat girl--stay on track!)
last night Mike coaxed me into going to the benefit for the Oakland Box with him. i'm glad i did. i did a couple of pieces, so now i can say i've opened for Crown City Rockers and the Coup, who were both tight.
i shook my heinie with Geoff, Shaden and A.J., and then i ran smack into a friend and former co-worker whom i haven't seen in months. this will probably lead to some collaboration, as she edits and publishes Kitchen Sink and owns Mama Buzz Cafe.
so, yeah--i gotta get moving. i have a challenge to meet at Bomb Shelter this week.
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as McGee lies snoring softly on my couch, i realize that the two people i love most in this world (outside of family members) live on opposite coasts.
i've been trying to decide whether or not to stay in California. Oakland has really become a part of me. i love my neighborhood. on my block, patients at the Vietnamese clinic buy half a dozen donut holes at the shop owned by Lena and Sam, the cutest couple. They are Cambodian. he is a social worker who opens the shop at 6 am with Lena, and then returns at 7 pm to close it. Cirelli used to go down there every morning with exact change ($1.35--and if you don't think he'd borrow a dime from me to make sure it was exact, you're kidding yourself) for a large joe.
the Bosnian hiphop heads drink coffee, smoke and rattle windows on the street outside of the beauty supply shop owned by Muhammad. they all flirt with the beautiful Senegalese women who braid hair next door. i feel so plain sometimes.
but ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) lowhumcrush has my heart in a kung fu grip. enough to deal with dirty slush winters and pissfunk humid NY summers.
it's not healthy to love people as much as i do.
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there is a REASON i stopped watching the news and reading the newspaper. so much ill shit. but i HADDA do it:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/aids/story/0,7369,1059068,00.html
Vatican: condoms don't stop Aids
Steve Bradshaw
Thursday October 9, 2003
The Guardian
The Catholic Church is telling people in countries stricken by Aids not to use condoms because they have tiny holes in them through which the HIV virus can pass - potentially exposing thousands of people to risk.
The church is making the claims across four continents despite a widespread scientific consensus that condoms are impermeable to the HIV virus.
A senior Vatican spokesman backs the claims about permeable condoms, despite assurances by the World Health Organisation that they are untrue.
The church's claims are revealed in a BBC1 Panorama programme, Sex and the Holy City, to be broadcast on Sunday. The president of the Vatican's Pontifical Council for the Family, Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, told the programme: "The Aids virus is roughly 450 times smaller than the spermatozoon. The spermatozoon can easily pass through the 'net' that is formed by the condom.
"These margins of uncertainty... should represent an obligation on the part of the health ministries and all these campaigns to act in the same way as they do with regard to cigarettes, which they state to be a danger."
The WHO has condemned the Vatican's views, saying: "These incorrect statements about condoms and HIV are dangerous when we are facing a global pandemic which has already killed more than 20 million people, and currently affects at least 42 million."
The organisation says "consistent and correct" condom use reduces the risk of HIV infection by 90%. There may be breakage or slippage of condoms - but not, the WHO says, holes through which the virus can pass .
Scientific research by a group including the US National Institutes of Health and the WHO found "intact condoms... are essentially impermeable to particles the size of STD pathogens including the smallest sexually transmitted virus... condoms provide a highly effective barrier to transmission of particles of similar size to those of the smallest STD viruses".
The Vatican's Cardinal Trujillo said: "They are wrong about that... this is an easily recognisable fact."
The church opposes any kind of contraception because it claims it breaks the link between sex and procreation - a position Pope John Paul II has fought to defend.
In Kenya - where an estimated 20% of people have the HIV virus - the church condemns condoms for promoting promiscuity and repeats the claim about permeability. The archbishop of Nairobi, Raphael Ndingi Nzeki, said: "Aids... has grown so fast because of the availability of condoms."
Sex and the Holy City includes a Catholic nun advising her HIV-infected choirmaster against using condoms with his wife because "the virus can pass through".
In Lwak, near Lake Victoria, the director of an Aids testing centre says he cannot distribute condoms because of church opposition. Gordon Wambi told the programme: "Some priests have even been saying that condoms are laced with HIV/Aids."
Panorama found the claims about permeable condoms repeated by Catholics as far apart as Asia and Latin America.
? Steve Bradshaw is a correspondent with Panorama. Sex and the Holy City will be broadcast on BBC1 at 10.15pm on Sunday.
Guardian Unlimited ? Guardian Newspapers Limited 2003
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