http://www.shawnandgwenn.com HIV education, AIDS, sexual health, sex education, humor. Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:45:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The best part about being sick for a week was writing.  I blogged every day last week!  So, really, if your reading this and wishing me well, you might have to decide whether your care for my well-being as a human trumps your love for my incredibly witty style of ... http://www.shawnandgwenn.com/read-my-column-in-poz-cute-youtube-video/ Sunday I started feeling better, and it wasn't because I woke up feeling like a winner for picking a winner in Caressa Cameron for Miss Virginia, photographed here by the lovely and talented Julius Tolentino.  (Caitlin Uze, also in my pageant poster, finished at 2nd runner-up, respectively.)I decided that after ... http://www.shawnandgwenn.com/feeling-better-finally/ It's been a full week since I got sick.  Have I been to the doctor?  No, but don't worry, this isn't a Perez Hilton situation.  "God, I'm bleeding!  I should call the police!"  I have a viral infection, not bacterial, which means the only thing I'd get at the hospital ... http://www.shawnandgwenn.com/a-weekend-of-redempshawn/ Tomorrow is National HIV Testing Day.  Don't be an "Unknown"- know your HIV status. TKNO (The Know Now Organization) comes to you and provides discreet HIV testing. Check them out, and follow them on Twitter @TKNO. Positively Yours, Shawn http://www.shawnandgwenn.com/tomorrow-is-national-hiv-testing-day/ I didn't mean for the title of this blog to be misleading.  Michael Jackson did not have AIDS.  But I didn't want to not blog about what everyone will be talking about today.  Yes, today I am a follower. I've always been a consumer of pop culture.  This is, by far, ... http://www.shawnandgwenn.com/michael-jacksons-history-with-aids/ Impassioned response to yesterday's blog about Teen Vogue wasn't limited to humans. Check out what Dab the AIDS Bear had to say about it. "It is unbearable to think with the number of young people testing HIV positive in the United States that Teen Vogue would refuse to run a ... http://www.shawnandgwenn.com/aids-bear-weighs-in-on-teen-vogue/ Moving along from fake scandals (previous blog entry) to real ones.  Just in case you don't know, Just In Case, Inc. is a company that provides cool little discreet condom carrying cases.  "Intimacy Compacts for Women" is how they describe them.Here's what they look like. Great idea, right?Well, Teen Vogue magazine ... http://www.shawnandgwenn.com/teen-vogue-rejects-condom-ad/ Have been feeling a bit under the weather since Saturday.  A little wispy cough finally turned into something, one of those nasal drip deals; bad in the morning because all night long your throat gets coated with snot.Yummy.The hardest part hasn't been having to stay inside, it's been my withdrawals ... http://www.shawnandgwenn.com/deckers-daily-sex-scandal/ I'm very excited to be playing another show with my synthpop duo-now-trio, Synthetic Division.  Not only that, it's a benefit for the AIDS Walk Washington DC, which Gwenn and I will be walking in with Team Supersnack in October.Here's a video I made to promote the July 11 show. If ... http://www.shawnandgwenn.com/synthetic-division-hiv-benefit-show-july-11/ Thank you, Dad. For giving me the athletic genetics that offset hemophilia, thus giving me the ability to crush my opponents.  Here's a pic of my father in the 1970's, doing damage on the bowling lanes. My dad is a pretty humble guy.   What's funny about inheriting his sporting ... http://www.shawnandgwenn.com/happy-fathers-day/