March 10, 2010
Dog-friendly restaurant patios
1. Bulldog NE
2. Moose & Sadie's
3. Toast
4. Birchwood Cafe
5. Aster Cafe
6. Butter
7. Barbette
8. Gigi's
9. Town Hall Brewery
10. The Nomad
Posted in March 10, 2010
Best songs to stick in your co-workers heads
1. Girlfriend (HEY-HEY YOU-YOU!)
2. Bedrock (Call me Mr. Flinstone, I can make your bed rock)
3. Single Ladies (If you liked it then.. you know)
March 10, 2010
Who's got herpes, can I get a show of hands?
Posted in herpes:
First of all, I was actually a little surprised to see a pre-existing herpes tag.
1 in 6 Americans infected with herpes
WASHINGTON, March 9 (Reuters) - About 16 percent of Americans between the ages of 14 and 49 are infected with genital herpes, making it one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases, U.S. health officials said on Tuesday.
Black women had the highest rate of infection at 48 percent and women were nearly twice likely as men to be infected, according to an analysis by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
About 21 percent of women were infected with genital herpes, compared to only 11.5 percent of men, while 39 percent of blacks were infected compared to about 12 percent for whites, the CDC said.
So that's interesting.
The CDC estimates that more than 80 percent of people with genital herpes do not know they are infected.
So that's frightening. Or is it?
"The message is herpes is quite common. The symptoms can be often very innocuous," Dr. John Douglas of the CDC said in a teleconference.
True. Herpes is quite common. Despite potentially making people with the virus more susceptible to HIV (though this has not 100 percent been proven), herpes is innocuous. So why do we treat it like leprosy? New medications like Valtrex and Zovirax make breakouts manageable and far less frequent.
March 10, 2010
My Favourite Sean Penn Movies are
1. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
2. Milk
3. Mystic River
4. Dead Man Walking
5. Carlito's Way
6. Colors
7. Sweet and Lowdown
8. The Interpreter
9. I Am Sam
March 10, 2010
Corey Haim Dies
Posted in dead:
Former teen idol Corey Haim dies.
Of what, we don't know yet, but I'm sure we can guess. Between the coke and the obesity, that ol' heart of his sure got a workout over the years.
Shockingly, no one had him in the Dead Pool this year.
March 9, 2010
Top Five Things To Miss About Hormel Hot Dogs At Twins Games
1. Hearing people vomit them back up in the restroom.
March 8, 2010
Sex Links: Tits & Tacos Edition
Posted in links:
- Photographer Tony Stamolis has just released his photo book, T & T & A [nsfw]. As in, tacos, tits and ass. Hot girls and delicious tacos in various states of undress.
- If you're too much of a dick to actually call someone and break up with them yourself, you can pay this dude $10 to pick up the phone on your behalf. I hope you can sleep at night.
- It's not easy to beat a cockblocker at his or her own game, but these tips might come in handy. Though some are obvious and unrealistic at the same time, for instance: relegating the "jealous marrieds" to brunch-only status.
March 6, 2010
Glossary of vita.mn terms
1. TimmyBoy - Sprite who magically appears out of nowhere to shower you with party confetti and blowjob stories.
March 5, 2010
What gives you the best "natural high?"
1. Getting 30 minutes of exercise
2. Making out
3. Playing Twilight Zone pinball
4. Eating real chocolate cake/cupcake/brownie
5. Puppies
6. Listening to my favorite songs on high volume
7. organically grown weed
8. screwing
March 3, 2010
Most Anticipated Movies of 2010
1. The System
March 3, 2010
Restaurants that should deliver
1. Chino Latino
2. Buca di Bepo
3. Little T's
4. Quang
5. La Cucaracha
6. King & I Thai
7. Punch
8. Holy Land
9. Solera
10. Manny's Tortas
March 3, 2010
Sex Links: Incredibly Useful Edition
Posted in links:
- 13 sex secrets men don't know about women. My favorite: "Our clothes are complicated, our shoes unforgiving, and our constitutions delicate, so please, valet park."
- 5 moves women love in bed but are too afraid to ask for. Well, some women, anyway.
- Extra small condoms hit the contraceptive market in Switzerland, after government research showed boys age 12-14 were not using sufficient protection during sex.
- British researchers are pretty sure that the higher a man's IQ, the less likely he is to cheat. Gives whole new meaning to mom's advice of "marry smart."
- 26 internationally-based artists and designers come together to create Effing Typeface, an alphabet of naughty letters. (My favorite is F, but only because it's clever. Not because I'm into that. Yeesh.)
March 2, 2010
What to give up for Lent?
1. Catholicism
2. Alexis' mom
March 2, 2010
"Big Lebowski" Porn Parody Wrapped Shooting Today
Posted in big lebowski:
And the film's production company, New Sensations, decided to share some stills from the shoot.
THIS LINK IS NSFW.
I actually plan on watching this movie in its entirety.
[Vita.mn list: Favorite Big Lebowski Quotes]
February 26, 2010
Seemed like a great Karaoke Song until I started singing it...
1. Mary Jane - Rick James
February 25, 2010
Musically Douchetastic
1. Akon
2. Ke$ha
February 25, 2010
Meta.mn (The Best of Shit We Talk About On Vita.mn online)
1. Alexis's mom
2. CityGal's affection for thick, hairy, sweaty men
3. Monkeys, Apes, and non-human Hominids doing unspeakable things
4. Whether or not we miss Circustanz
5. Haiti
February 24, 2010
Are You Local? Vita.mn SXSW Send-off
Who's making the donuts?
February 24, 2010
Sex Links: Sort Of
Posted in links:
- This one's not about sex, more about vanity, but I thought it was interesting: celebrities without their makeup.
- Are you a virgin? Make it official with your very own Certificate of Virginity! Seriously, no one will make fun of you.
- 10 signs you're not over your ex, including the Stacey-in-Wayne's-World-esque "you harbor a not-so-secret fantasy that the two of you still have a future together. Creee-py.
- Asylum conducts a blind sniff test on 7 men's fragrance products to determine which one made their female testers weak in the knees. Dolce & Gabana's Pour Homme was a runaway winner, as well as something called BOD that you can get for $4 at Walmart.
- I think chemical-laden body washes are a waste of money, terrible for your skin and like a million times worse for the environment than bar soap, but I fucking love this Old Spice body wash ad. I've watched it 8 times today.
February 24, 2010
Wrap It Up, People
Posted in protection:
Australian AIDS researchers have concluded that HIV drugs have not changed gay men's risk of contracting the virus through unprotected anal sex.
Despite the drugs' proven effectiveness at sharply reducing the concentration of the virus in the insertive carrier's blood, the receptive sex partner still has a 0.65 (withdrawal) to 1.43 (no withdrawal) percent risk of contracting HIV.
Comparing numbers to a U.S. study done in 1990 where receptive sex partners carried a 0.82 percent risk of contracting the virus (whether or not withdrawal occurred), the study shows that you should still wear a fucking condom, people.
Ladies, Planned Parenthood has just launched My Method, a 90-second multiple choice questionnaire to help determine which birth control method is best for you and your lifestyle.
I answered the questions but, presumably, my contempt for hormonal contraceptives has rendered the thing clueless: "My Method cannot determine which birth control methods may be best for you based on your answers to these questions."
And I even tried to skew them condom!
February 23, 2010
Best actors/actresses
1. Nicole Kidman
2. Denzel Washington
3. Catherine O'Hara
February 18, 2010
Winter Olympics Events I Want To See
1. Car Windshield Scraping
2. Snowball Battles
3. Fort/Tunnel Building
4. Extreme Snowman Building
5. King of the Hill
6. Extreme Snow Angels
7. 100-Meter Ice Run
8. Sled Jumping
9. Synchronized Shrinkage
10. Shoveling (10m, 20m and 30m driveways)
February 17, 2010
10 things to do before you die
1. do it on a plane (lavatory, cabin, cockpit, doesn't matter)
2. do it in VIP in a packed club
3. do it while eating triple chocolate layer cake
4. do it while talking on the phone to your mom
5. do it over the railing of the Hennepin Avenue bridge, at night
6. do it in Target Field (preferably on Target Field)
7. do it at a scenic viewpoint on Mount Rainier
8. do it on the 18th hole at Pebble Beach, at night
9. do it against the Pyramid of Djoser
10. do it in space
February 17, 2010
Used to Love It, Now I Hate It
1. loud music
2. staying up all night
3. scotch (okay, not "hate" but I can't drink it like I used to)
4. shitty indie buzz bands
5. cocaine
February 17, 2010
Worst actors/actresses
1. Michael Douglas
2. Kurt Russel
3. Megan Fox
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