In honor of the 300th episode, I'm mainstreaming my Decker's Daily Flickr Blog to the main blog. Not just a fad, Decker's Daily has earned it's spot. And here's a symbolic toast of the iced mocha to everyone who is fighting for health care reform! One of...
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Depeche Mode’s Violator Turns 20
Today marks the 20-year anniversary of the release (UK) of Depeche Mode's career-defining album, Violator. It's safe to say that no other album has had quite the same impact on my life as this one. I discovered Depeche Mode a year or so before this album's release. I...
T-Cell Champion’s Victory Speech
Charles Oliff, winner of the Labtest Contest, proved that he's not only in tune with my t-cell count, but that he's also in tune with the people. Here's Charles' victory speech- which he admits may have been influenced by his recent viewing of the Oscars. "I would...
The Winner of the Labtest Contest Is…
All of us, really. I was so happy to see so many people take a guess at my t-cells in the Labtest Contest, and it was quite dramatic each time a Poz Comment came in. The ebb and flow was tremendous- so much better than that damn Clottey Pacquiao fight last Saturday....
MTV’s Staying Alive Foundation
No, it's about that Staying Alive... MTV's Staying Alive Foundation is dedicated to HIV prevention and youth-driven messages, giving out grants to young educators determined to prevent the continued- and needless- infection of their peers. Before becoming a...
The Winner Olympics With Lennox Lewis
I had the coolest thing happen on Twitter a couple of weeks. As Gwenn and I were keeping up with the Winter Olympics, I noticed a post by a former Olympic Gold medalist. "Surfing the internet..."It was made by none other than Lennox Lewis, the last...
Snooki Speaks At JMU
It's been ten years since Gwenn and I started speaking at colleges, and we've been fortunate to have been invited to so many diverse campuses across the United States. One of the schools that has been a glaring omission has been James Madison University, where Gwenn...
The Labtest Contest is Here- So Win Something!
When I first started blogging about being HIV positive (those blogs are somewhere, I think) in 1996, one of the ideas I had was The Labtest Contest. I wanted to make getting my routine rounds of blood drawing fun for my new friends in the AIDS community.At the...
Today is International Women’s Day
Think there's no more progress to be made for women now that Kathryn Bigelow cockblocked ex-hubbie James Cameron and became the first female to win Best Director last night at the Oscars? Think again.The most recent issue of Poz explores how women are handling...
Positoid of the Day: Jack Mackenroth
This is the first Positoid of the Day Award. I won't be able to do this every day, just whenever someone with HIV does something inspiring or magical or both. Today's Positoid of the Day is Poz coverboy Jack Mackenroth, who has more than earned the honor with...