That's a funny drawing that my friend and Synthetic Division co-conspirator Josh D'Elia did in honor of the Mars rover landing. Hope everyone has a nice weekend. If you're a cat and you're on your ninth life, look both ways wherever you may be roaming. Positively...
Shawn’s Favorite Things
Hemo-Positoid Hero Bikes Across the Country
Yesterday Barry Haarde, a long-time advocate for people living with hemophilia and HIV, completed his cross-country bike ride for Wheels For the World. 50 days and over 3,600 miles: all to raise awareness and money for people with bleeding disorders all around the...
Thursday (4-26) Dining Out For Life HIV/AIDS Fundraiser
Dining Out For Life is an annual fundraiser, in which restaurants from across the country donate a portion of their proceeds to local HIV/AIDS charities and organizations. For you locals, this means that tomorrow night (Thursday), you have the opportunity to help out...
Happy 40th, Pedro Zamora
Pedro Zamora left us all too soon in November of 1994. I got to know him through my television, and boy did he open himself up, appearing on the then socially relevant reality show The Real World. I'd just graduated high school, and had no idea what laid ahead...
For You Fellow Rasslin Fans
Anyone who knows me knows my love of pro wrestling. I paid homage to it in my memoir, My Pet Virus, by dedicating a chapter of the book to Ric Flair. Followers of this blog may remember my final Positoid column for Poz Magazine, which was about my interview with...
Labtest Contest Results and Winner
Drum roll please... my labs are in, and my t-cell count when the blood was drawn last week was 590 (30%), with a less than 48 copy detectable viral load. Which, for those of you who don't understand HIV lab talk, are very good numbers. So I'm doing alright! But enough...
Ryan White Would Have Turned 40 Today
Ryan White, the AIDS educator who rose to prominence after his public battle to attend public school in the 1980's, passed to spirit at age 18 in 1990, years before treatments were successful. Had he lived, he would have turned 40 years old today. We all owe this...
Locals: Orzo HIV/AIDS Benefit Dinner on Monday
I've been back from my Synthetic Division road trip for a bit now, and bid farewell to Josh last weekend as he flew back to California. So great to spend two full weeks with one of my best friends on this mortal journey we're all undertaking. I'd write more about our...
Kid Meets First Gay Couple. Then Plays Ping Pong.
A couple of weeks ago, New York state legalized gay marriage... here's my belated congratulations to humanity! It's so twisted, but whenever I hear good news like that I never get too excited, because I feel like the system is set up so that it could be struck down at...
Happy Godfather’s Day
I'm a proud Godfather to a 2-and-three-quarters year old. Her name is Evie. Her mom, Lauren, is one of my best friends. On the day that Evie was born, I drove at a moderate-to-brisk-pace in front of Lauren and Gwenn with my hazard lights on as we all headed to the...