My last fake outrage post about the Olympics has been haunting me- especially since I've been watching the Games every night before I go to bed. How can you not cheer for that swimming dude who has inspired a nation to believe? No, not Phelps- I'm referencing the...
Entertainment & Pop Culture
Why I Hate the Olympics
Every four years the greatest athletes of the world gather to compete for gold and glory. The way I see it, they are just rubbing my bleeding disorder in my face. "Hey, look at me! I can do flips and land on my feet- no knee hemorrhages!" "Look at this! I'm launching...
Hemo2Homo Connection: The Happening Review (The Last H2H?)
The Hemo2Homo Connection Movie Review Hemo: He has done it again: my generation's Alfred Hitchcock, Mr. M. Night Shaymalan, has delivered another masterpiece with The Happening. Homo: WHAT??? Are you losing your mind, Hemo? Hitchcock...
Meet the new Miss Virginia
Every year, Gwenn and I travel to Roanoke to witness the crowning of Commonwealth royalty at the Miss Virginia pageant. Miss Virginia is part of the Miss America system. It's a scholarship program. Of course that much is true, but in reality it is a series of...
National HIV Testing Day (and Hulk Hogan)
This Friday is National HIV Testing Day. People should know their status, but every year I fall into the same trap... I wake up, take a shower, and head out for a test, hoping against hope for a negative result. It's kind of like Charlie Brown trying to kick that...
Weekend Movies
OK, so I've been to a few movies recently. Gwenn and I saw Sex & The City, and overall we were happy. Gotta warn ya, halfway through, this thing is pretty depressing. I didn't really fully recover, and knew that something was amiss when I found myself in the...
The Dunkin’ Donuts Scarf Controversy
The big story last week wasn't the deathtoll in China, or the American Idol winner... it was the Dunkin' Donuts controversy. Some right-wingnuts went batty over the following ad campaign, featuring Rachael Ray. Here's a screenshot. The problem wasn't that Rachael's...
TV: High School Confidential
Is anyone else watching this show on WE? Gwenn and I have been- it's a documentary about teens in Kansas, producers followed 12 girls for 4 years of high school. I'm not sure if the show is getting a lot of buzz, but as sex educators even Gwenn and I were shocked...
Ric Flair Complete Interview
Here's the inteview I did with Ric Flair, hope you enjoy! -S Have you done an interview for an HIV/AIDS magazine before? I never have done one, ever. Well, this is an honor to break you into the HIV market. OK. As somebody living with hemophilia I gotta know one...
The Ric Flair Poz Column
Some months ago I posted a fanciful blog in which I challenged Ric and Mike Huckabee to a steel cage match with Dennis Kucinich as my tag-team partner. This was a comical response to Huckabee's early 90's comments on people with HIV (that they should be isolated),...