Guess what’s back? Back again? Shotalicious is back. Tell a friend.

The last few months have been cold and dark. Not just in the real world as I’ve mentioned, but also on the series of tubes we’ve come to affectionately call The Internet. Sure, pixiesticks.org has been here to keep you occupied with Very Serious Business like Johnny Weir, the continued attack on gay culture, and random animals found roaming around Atlanta, GA. And the site will continue to be here, just as it has been for the last NINE years.

But PIXIE has decided he really needed to bring sexy/back.

So, with the added bonus of the ease of use that WordPress brings, and the explicit desire to make it more about the delicious art rather than focus on the site as a job or something, shotalicious.org officially reopens today.

Now, it’s technically been back since March 1st. But he wanted to get a head start, kind of surreptitiously posting some things so everyone will have a little bit of stuff to enjoy on day one. So, check your old bookmarks, make sure any links you may have posted places are pointing to the right place, and most importantly make some noise. Because PIXIE is back posting shotalicious boys.

Not only do we have the kissy-kissy picture I posted yesterday causing the stir, you can add to that the following.

Prom in Mississippi school called off when it was found out a lesbian was going to bring her girlfriend.

Virginia politicians first undo then kind of half-assedly redo protections against gay discrimination.

Florida legislators are pondering using tax breaks as a way to mold family-values, making sure to try and exclude gay stuff.

And of course, homophobia abounds in the fall out over the Eric Massa shit.

That’s just a couple days worth of news that I uncovered during my regular looking over things on the interbutts. I didn’t even include things that are happening in other parts of the world.

So what’s the deal? Is it because we got pussy-acting Democrats in control over both houses of Congress and the Presidency that now the other side is all revved up and ready to trample over basic human rights? Because, let me tell you something, if the Bush Years made everyone so goth damned depressed… I have to suggest that maybe we homos should feel even more goth damned depressed now.

Powerful photographs can have lasting impact, and a Post photo of two men kissing is an image that many readers can neither forget nor accept.

The photo, which ran on the Washington Post’s newspaper’s front page and online last week, captured Jeremy Ames and Taka Ariga kissing outside D.C. Superior Court on the day that the District began accepting license applications for same-sex marriages.

Almost immediately, editors began hearing from upset readers. That’s normal when controversial photos appear in The Post. The same thing happened recently when The Post published disturbing images of Haiti earthquake victims. Typically, the complaints quickly subside. With last Thursday’s photo, they continued into Friday, through the weekend and even today. Early this morning, before D.C. Superior Court began issuing licenses to same-sex couples who had applied, a caller phoned to warn that he would cancel his Post subscription “if I see another photo of men lip-locking.”

A few of the readers have engaged in rants, often with anti-gay slurs. One called me to complain about “promoting a faggot lifestyle.” Another complained about the photo in an e-mail to the two Post reporters who wrote Thursday’s story about the licenses: “That kind of stuff makes normal people want to throw up. People have kids who are being exposed to this crap. I will be glad when your rag goes out of business. Real men marry women.”

But most simply said The Post had offended their sensibilities by publishing the photo, especially on the front page.

Ann Witty of Woodbridge wrote to say she had canceled the Post subscription she has held since the 1960s.

“I am 65 years old and I realize that the world is changing rapidly – much more rapidly than I would like it to,” she e-mailed. “While I realize that the Post must report on these changes – even the ones with which I do not agree – I feel that the picture on Thursday morning was an affront to the majority of your readership. It is not something that I want coming into my home. I believe that even your editors know that it would have been better placed in the Metro section and that it would have mitigated its impact to do so.”

Wrote Lee Miller of Columbia: “I would appreciate it if your cover pictures would not be so disturbing where my kids can see it easily on the kitchen table… please don’t shove this “Gay” business in our face. This is something that should have shown up on an inside page or two (without the picture).”

In comments to the ombudsman’s call-in line (202.334.7582), one reader said, “the picture of two guys kissing makes me cringe.” Another called it “ridiculous,” adding: “Put it on page 10 or page four, put it in the paper, but I do not like it right there where I can’t avoid looking at it.”

Many threatened to cancel their Post subscriptions, and more than two dozen did. Post circulation vice president Gregg Fernandes said that late last week 27 subscribers canceled, specifically citing the photo. In contrast, The Post reported only two cancellations immediately after last July’s ethics uproar over its ill-advised plan to sell sponsorships to off-the-record “salon” dinners at the publisher’s residence.

Did the Post go too far? Of course not. The photo deserved to be in newspaper and on its Web site, and it warranted front-page display.

News photos capture reality. And the prominent display reflects the historic significance of what was occurring. The recent D.C. Council decision to approve same-sex marriage was the culmination of a decades-long gay rights fight for equality. Same-sex marriage is now legal in the District. The photo of Ames and Ariga kissing simply showed joy that would be exhibited by any couple planning to wed – especially a couple who previously had been denied the legal right to marry.

There was a time, after court-ordered integration, when readers complained about front-page photos of blacks mixing with whites. Today, photo images of same-sex couples capture the same reality of societal change.

Got my first glimpse of this trailer before Alice in Wonderland. While I’ll save my thoughts on that film until tomorrow when I post them over on Moviesign, I gotta say this 2 minutes and some change was some of the most beautiful animation I think I’ve seen yet. Stellar.

MomoCon, the downright cheap excuse for an anime convention held on the campus of Georgia Tech, is coming very soon. In fact, it’s two weeks away! Now, presale tickets for the exact cost of $0.00 have already been sold out. I say that, because, well, because the previous conventions have been so well attended (even during inclement weather) they have to put a cap on how many can come this year.

That doesn’t mean you still can’t see what all the fuss is about.

If you pony up some cash in a donation by March 7th, then you can get a pass mailed to you. Of course, those who registered for free badges (that will have to pick them up during the convention) you all should bring a few extra bucks to throw at this thing too. It ain’t a huge ass convention, so it needs all the love you can give it.

I’ll be there along with dozens of much more talented folks than I am hocking their anime wares. Come and have a great time with me trying to convert others to shotaluv March 20th and 21st.

For more information, you can visit the MomoCon website.

The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating employees at the Kennedy Airport air-traffic control tower for apparently allowing at least two school-age children to transmit directions to pilots.

CBS 2 has learned on two separate occasions in February, an air traffic controller from Long Island brought a child with him to work at JFK. The first incident occurred on Feb. 16, and the FAA told CBS 2 on Wednesday that a second child was brought into the tower by the controller a day later on Feb. 17.

At least one of the children was said to be 7 years old.

The 7-year-old spoke with several departing flights.

Child: Jet Blue 171 cleared for take-off.
JB 171: Cleared for takeoff, JetBlue 171.
Controller: Aero Mexico 403, Kennedy, 31L position and hold.
AMX 403: Position and hold Aero Mexico 403.
Controller: Here’s what you get, you guys, when the kids are out of school
Child: JetBlue 171 contact departure.
JB 171: Over to departure, JetBlue 171, awesome job

On the tape, the boy speaks only to planes on the ground awaiting takeoff and then clearly at the direction of the adult on duty, but experts say the boy’s mere presence in the control tower represents an inappropriate distraction and a security breach.

At the time though, the pilots and controller seem more amused than alarmed.

Controller: Cactus 14, Kennedy following an RJ, wind 310 at 15, 31 R cleared to land.
Son: Contact departure, adios amigos.
JB 195: Adios amigos, over to departure JetBlue 195.

Even people who are sympathetic with the childcare needs of a working parent are baffled by the judgment of this air controller.

“That’s scary for everybody. You can’t do that. That’s risking a lot of people’s lives,” said JFK air passenger Shamir Ali. .

The child is heard communicating with multiple pilots on an active runway at one of the nation’s busiest airports. Though some of the pilots seem to be impressed, FAA officials are not, saying in a written statement:

“Pending the outcome of our investigation, the employees involved in this incident are not controlling air traffic. This behavior is not acceptable and does not demonstrate the kind of professionalism expected from all FAA employees.”

I got a surprise in the mail today: Another royalty check for my first novel Pixiesticks. Yeah, I know! Now, I believe the last time I got a check was about two years ago from iUniverse. It wasn’t for much, about 25 bucks or so, but it is really nice to know that there are still copies being sold (and hopefully read) out there.

Hopefully those same people will google Jonathan Sexton and figure out that I’ve written two more: Later, Skater and Freakshow.

Oh? Did I say two more? I meant three more! Later, Skater: On Tour is still being edited, but the pieces are starting to really fall into place. I think there is no good reason why it can’t come out mid-April just like the ones before. I’m getting really psyched about it and I hope you are too! More royalty checks from Lulu would be nice. I get those one a month still, so copies are still either being sold or downloaded.

Did you know you can download copies of the books?

Not only is it cheaper,
Not only is it instant gratification,
but you’re actually supporting me more!

So check out the novels page and get ready for another healthy dose of hot boy x boy goodness with Later, Skater: On Tour next month.

Sony’s PlayStation Network is on the fritz. Microsoft’s Xbox Live network has had its problems. And there was that one Wii system software update that was turning consoles into pretty looking paperweights.

It’s times like this, as we dissect failures in digital entertainment technology, when we have to ask the question: Is it too soon to blame digital rights management?

Two console generations ago, problems like this would have been inconceivable, or at least wouldn’t have had the kind of domino effect they do today. The current PlayStation bug (which is believed to be due to the inclusion of trophies in firmware v2.40) affected games, rented movies, and access to both Netflix streaming and the company’s online storefront–all things that continue to work without issue for users of the newer PS3 Slim hardware. You’d simply never get this kind of problem back when the only thing you could use your system for was to play something off a disc or a cartridge.

Though the main problem is less about progress and more about the security countermeasures put into place to keep consoles or users from doing something they shouldn’t. Using digital rights management has become one of the easiest ways to do this, though it can also make things more difficult for the consumer.

And while DRM may not end up being the culprit in Sony’s snafu, the situation is a startling reminder of how little control we have over these little boxes that are sitting in our living rooms. That’s by design though. All three of the big console makers (Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo) use various types of security to make sure people do not run downloadable games or content that they have not purchased.

(CNet has more)

They say that March comes in like a lion, but goes out like a lamb. Well, this year, I’m starting March a couple of days early. Sorry, February, I already know you get the short end of the stick with that 28 days crap. Hell, you even had a movie called “Leap Year” come out and it wasn’t even a Leap Year for you.

But alas, I got bigger fish to fry.

I mean, maybe if I move the calender up a few days, the weather will cooperate. Actually, the Deep South is expecting another snow storm to come blowing through here on Tuesday. WTF!

At least the dance floors here in HOTlanta will be getting an early dose of summertime goodness with DJ Abel tonight spinning a mega party at Jungle.

And speaking of parties, pixiesticks.org is celebrating its 9th Birthday on March 11th, so you know you can expect some surprises then.

And the personal celebrations just keep on coming! March 23rd will see me having quit smoking cigarettes for 1 whole year.

So normally while March is just such a tumultuous month, not to mention those Ides of March you gotta worry about, maybe this year by kind of starting it just a hint early, we can make this one something special.

You’re in luck if you ordered Thin Mints. Or Samoas. Or even the Tagalongs.

But the Lemon Chalet Creme Girl Scout cookies probably won’t taste as good this year, according to the company that makes the popular treats.

Some people have reported an “off taste and smell” from certain packages of the lemon cookies, according to a statement on the Little Brownie Bakers Web site.

The Louisville, Ky., company says the cookies are safe to eat. They’re just not as tasty as they could be.

“The cookies are still edible, but are not recommended for consumption as they are not up to our quality standards,” according to the company’s statement.

The company says certain lots of the lemon cookies contain oils that may be breaking down. No illnesses have been reported.

All of the Girl Scout councils that have received the smelly cookies are being notified, according to the company.

Is it just me or has this winter been especially brutal? I’m talking, of course, about North America, but you know, feel free to tell me I’m right about your neck of the woods too. A lot of the blame, at least in the media I’m seeing, is that the infamous El Nino has reared his ugly head again in the Pacific. Essentially this just disrupts natural jet stream patterns and sends weather systems all over the place where they ordinarily aren’t typically found. This lets places like Vancouver get no snow, but Pensacola enjoys the white stuff.

But you know, I don’t think it’s just the weather that is giving this winter a particularly nasty bite.

Politics are always vicious, but it seems especially contentious here in the United States with Democrats and Republicans infamously slugging it out, while meanwhile a seemingly pretty large portion of the population wants to throw them both out on a rail. Sometimes, I don’t disagree. But if that puts me in the same category as the Tea Party assclowns or big mouth Glenn Beck, I’d rather not.

And then there is the never ending cycle of the Twenty-Four Hour News Media.

They’re there to always constantly remind us that just when you thought there may be a glimmer of light at the end of this dark, dark winter, you’re wrong. Quick to rattle off facts about unemployment, terrorism, or domestic crimes, there isn’t a shred of good news to be found. And yet they are playfully ribbing on each other and the subjects at hand right before a few messages from their sponsor.

Before Conan o’ Brian was unceremoniously kicked off his quick stint on The Tonight Show, he called us kids and told us to not be cynical. He said that it doesn’t help anything. It was easy for him to say considering while he did just lose his life long dream in the hosting gig, he did get paid a shit ton of money to go away. But that’s just me being cynical.

And just like this winter, I think we’re sooo tired of being cynical. We need to find ways to free ourselves from the constant drumbeat of desolation pounded out not just by politics and the media, but by the actual environment around us. Yes, it’s really hard when it’s 23 degrees and you can’t feel your left testicle, but you know, even when here locally I had about two days of near 60 degree weather, I missed my opportunity to briefly change things up a bit.

Maybe you did too.

Spring will come, so at least the weather will change. But don’t count on the rest of the stuff doing it, unless you demand it. Not only from THEM but from yourself. I haven’t really been hibernating, but I certainly haven’t been out in the world behaving like the person I really am. Merely a dark winter’s shadow. Let’s see if that can’t be altered.

A zebra from the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus escaped his handler and led police on a chase through downtown Atlanta on Thursday afternoon.

The black-and-white striped animal was spotted all over town — in the parking lot near the Richard B. Russell Federal Building, near Centennial Olympic Park, CNN and on the Downtown Connector. He was finally captured on the interstate near the Grady curve. According to witnesses, he was galloping between lanes of traffic on the Downtown Connector before his capture.

The 12-year-old zebra, named Lima, was exercising to prepare for Thursday night’s circus performance at Philips Arena when “something spooked him,” Ringling Brothers spokeswoman Crystal Drake told the Associated Press. The zebra broke away from his trainers and bumped up against a fence before wiggling through an opening and running off, she told the AP.

“We’re not sure what it was that startled him, but we’re looking into that,” Drake told the AP.

Daniel Nance saw a westbound zebra zipping down Alabama Street near MARTA’s Five Points station.

“All of a sudden, a freaking zebra comes running down the street like a car. Five or six police cars were in hot pursuit. And a bunch of officers on foot. But then I got scared, thinking … what else is loose?” a laughing Nance said.

Soon after, a man working with police got a hold of the zebra in the parking lot of the Richard B. Russell Federal Building, said Jonathan Harris, a MARTA worker who was outside the Five Points station taking a break. But only for a moment.

“It just started dragging him,” Harris said.

Minutes before, Prapik Jani saw the animal jogging along Baker Street a half mile away next to Centennial Olympic Park. Jani, who manages the Baja Fresh Mexican Grill, said several of his customers gasped. He looked outside and saw an African creature running down the pavement. “It was wild,” Jani said. “I thought I was seeing things.”

Jani said there were “a bunch” of police on bicycles chasing after the zebra.

Using a combination of reports from AJC staffers and eye-witness accounts, here’s the route the zebra took:

4:37 p.m.

An AJC staffer spotted the zebra on Fairlie Street behind the Atlanta Journal-Constitution building. A circus trainer said the zebra had to have gotten through a hole in the gate.

The zebra walked down along a ramp on Spring Street and went up to Marietta Street.

It then ran to Luckie Street and over to Broad Street.

From Broad Street, the zebra ran up through the Five Points area and was near the Five Points MARTA station.

Nance and Harris saw the zebra run along Alabama Street — toward the circus animal holding area, which is across the street from the CNN Center.

5:00 p.m.

The zebra was contained in the parking lot by the Richard B. Russell Federal Building, near the CNN Center and Philips Arena.

Trainers were walking with the zebra when it started to charge, dragging one of the trainers momentarily before it took off again, running across the railroad tracks and through a gate. One of the trainers was holding on to the zebra as it ran through the gate.

The zebra ran through the parking lot and down through the tunnel between Philips Arena and the CNN center.

It then came out onto Baker Street and turned left, running onto Williams Street. It followed the ramp onto the downtown Connector.

The zebra was cornered on the downtown connector just before the Martin Luther King Jr. exit.

Police cruisers blocked off all southbound lanes of Interstate 75 and were able to herd the zebra over to the right shoulder and off an entrance ramp, where his trainer was on hand to capture and soothe him, Drake told the AP.

“He obviously was excited, but he was in good shape,” Drake told the AP. “His handler calmed him down.”

The animal suffered cuts on his hooves from his long run, Drake said. The show’s vet was examining him, but Drake said he would likely perform as scheduled.

This isn’t the first time a zebra has been out on the highway in recent years. A young zebra was found stranded and injured on I-75 in Butts County in April 2008. Then a zebra who usually lives on a farm across from Oxford College’s Newton County campus was zebra-napped and deposited inside the college’s Seney Hall as part of a prank.

Zebras’ stripes stick out on the highway or on campus, but they help them hide among tall grasses in Africa, especially from lions, the color-blind predator.

“Each zebra has an individual stripe pattern, similar to a person, which has its own unique fingerprint, ” Lisa Smith, Zoo Atlanta’s curator of large mammals, told the AJC in 2008.

There was a THIRD zebra story. Also in April of 2008. Apparently we love our zebras here.

“Later, Skater: On Tour” is still being edited. It will be the sequel to my well received novel “Later, Skater” which is available for sale on Lulu.com.

Here’s an excerpt between albino skaterboy Kalki Helaku and his rival David Orchard.

“Whatcha watchin’, some Mickey Mouse rubbish?”

I rolled over onto my side from where I’d been on my belly and regarded him. There’d been a few times since meeting the guy where he’d made fun of me and I wanted to lash out. But didn’t. I wasn’t quite sure if he meant what he said, or it was just part of some hazing ritual I’d have to prove myself worthy of getting past.

“Nah man, it’s Blue Crush. A movie about chick surfers. It was filmed in Hawaii where I’m fr…” I started. But before I could finish, he’d changed the channel.

Flicking through about a dozen of them in rapid succession, he kind of snorted loudly. He horked up a loogie and just spat it to the carpet. Thankfully, it wasn’t toward me.

“Go close the curtain, will ya, Ghost?”

I chewed the inside of my lip, and then begrudgingly got up from my bed. It being about ten, and knowing I had a big day tomorrow, I was already in pajama bottoms. I wasn’t wearing a shirt or socks, so I was careful to walk around where he’d spat.

While I did that, he kept flicking through channels. He paused a moment on one of the sports channels, but it was in Spanish and they were showing soccer.

As I walked back around the small table where all of his things were, I watched as he moved to lay length-wise on his bed. He leaned up against the backboard, before reaching over and turning off the lamp between our beds.

“So, Ghost.”

“Blue Ghost,” I corrected as I returned to my own bed. I didn’t really intend to, but I mimicked the way he lay in his, though my covers were all messed up and his bed was still perfectly made. I wonder if he’d knocked the chocolate the maid left him onto the floor.

“Blue Ghost, how about a porno film?” He turned and looked to me, remote in hand. David looked as if he was pointing it toward me, but then flipped it around which made it look like he was offering it back. My eyes widened, and I’m sure he could see how odd they looked without my contacts in.

I shrugged but didn’t know what to say. I figured ordering a porno would pretty much instantly get me kicked off tour so I wasn’t about to do that.

“Come on, Blue Ghost. There’s shit on the telly, less you wanna watch football.”

“Soccer?”

David sneered at me. “Right, right, of course. Soccer.” He flipped the remote in hand, and aimed it back to the television. Already, he was into the menus trying to find the pay-per-view selections. “You know what your problem is, Blue Ghost?”

“You can call me Kalki if you want David.” I hoped I wasn’t as timid as I sounded. After all, this was the guy I was going to have to beat if I wanted to get to where he was.

He’d found the adult menu, and was paging through movies that had all sorts of dirty names and pictures of disgusting looking, barely covered girls giving fake sexually hungry looks toward the camera.

I tried not to glance at the television.

“You’re tense. I saw you at the promo and you were tense. I mean, I liked your air. What was that? Maybe one good trick?” David laughed, then took his attention off me to make a choice.

Soon enough, the porno had started and it went pretty much immediately to cheesy music and a girl prowling in her lingerie on a huge king sized bed. I was thinking to myself that this really could only end in tragedy.

Well, this was the first time I allowed you to choose more than one option.  That turned out to not be such a great idea since now I have no idea how many people overall voted.  Whoopsie!  Just one of those overlooked side effects.  Still, I can at least give you the results and get on to posting a new question.

We were talking all about Valentine’s Day and how far you go for yours.

11 people voted for I give my valentine a simple love note or text or call. How… boring. Do you also only have sex in the missionary position?

14 people voted for I give my valentine a small gift. Is it smaller than a breadbox?

8 people voted for I give my valentine dinner and a movie. I hope it wasn’t Valentine’s Day. How lame is that title for a movie?

7 people voted for I give my valentine the entire day to do what they want. Enjoy having them go elsewhere for love and attention!

8 people voted for I give my valentine some romance in bed. Dawwww!

6 people voted for I give my valentine some kink in bed. Oooh, are we talking spankings? Candle wax? Titty twisting torture?

6 people voted for I give my valentine it in the pooper. Now THAT’S the spirit. Nothing says love like getting or taking it up the poop chute.

32 people voted for I don’t have a goddamn valentine, go fuck yourself. Oh, I did. Fucking myself was all I could manage since I didn’t have a valentine either. Crying and fapping at the same time, FML.

-ahem- Anyway, new question will be up shortly.

U.S. figure skater Johnny Weir says he received threats from anti-fur activists that made him fear for his safety, causing him to scrub any plans to stay at a hotel while in Vancouver for the Olympics.

“I felt very threatened,” he said Saturday. “I’m not allowed to say how everything got through, but my agent got letters and faxes and e-mails. I got letters at the ice rink, somebody found my phone number.

“All these crazy fur people. Security-wise, to stay in a hotel would be very difficult. There have been threats against me. I didn’t want to get hurt.”

Weir is sharing a suite with U.S. ice dancer Tanith Belbin in the Olympic village. The longtime friends have their own bedrooms and bathrooms.

Belbin won Olympic silver in 2006 with partner Ben Agosto. A three-time national champion, Weir, who finished fifth in Torino, was third at this year’s nationals to gain the final spot on the U.S. team.

The men’s short program is Tuesday with the free skate set for Thursday.

“I’m just an easy person to pick on because I like fur,” he said. “It’s easy to put your case against an athlete who is going to the Olympics. It’s a very good, easy thing for these activists.

“It’s a very scary thing. I’m a figure skater, I’m not some huge politician who gets these things all the time.”

Weir was criticized by animal-rights activists after he donned a costume in nationals with white fox fur on the shoulder. He said after the event that he would wear faux fur in the Games, but has since changed his mind.

“It was not because I was pressured to change it, but because I don’t like faux fur,” Weir explained. “I didn’t change the costume, I’m just switching back to another costume.”

Filmmaker Kevin Smith, fresh from delivering a speech at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco, unleashed his fury on Southwest Airlines after the pilot on Smith’s flight from Oakland to Burbank ejected him for being “too fat to fly” Saturday evening.

“I’m way fat, but I’m not there just yet,” Smith wrote on his Twitter.com account after the incident, adding that he was able to lower both arm rests at his seat. “I broke no regulation.”

Southwest Airlines measures whether a customers too large to fly based on the passenger’s ability to lower both armrests while sitting on the plane. If the passenger cannot lower one or both armrests, the carrier typically requires the passenger to purchase an additional seat or make arrangements on other flights that may accommodate for extra space.

“Wanna tell me I’m too wide for the sky?” Smith inquired on his Twitter account. “Totally cool, but fair warning folks: If you look like me, you may be ejected from Southwest Air.”

The director of Clerks and Chasing Amy, who is also known for playing a character named “Silent Bob” in several films, added that Southwest Airlines did offer him a $100 voucher for his troubles. Additionally, Smith wrote that a female passenger seated next to him was also “chastised for not buying an additional seat.”

A spokesperson for Southwest Airlines wrote an apology on the company’s Twitter account following the Twitter-lashing unleashed by Smith Saturday evening.

Smith is expected to further address the Southwest Airlines issue on his podcast Sunday evening. The director eventually landed in Burbank on another flight.

It’s been snowing here on the south suburbs of Atlanta since about 1pm. About two inches are already on the ground and they expect it to continue snowing for several more hours before ending around 10pm. While it may not be measured in feet like in the northern states, this will certainly be enough to shut the whole place down. Falling temperatures into the mid to lower twenties tonight will make sure of that.

This President’s Day weekend you can take 15% off any order on Lulu.com by using the code: “WASHINGTON” on check out. So head on over to my storefront over there and grab you a copy of “Later, Skater.” You will want to read that before its sequel comes out in the spring. AND you’ll be supporting your favorite webmaster.

A curious snow storm is approaching the offices here at pixiesticks.org. (What, you didn’t know we had an office?) What normally happens in my area is they tease winter weather, but then it only hits the North Georgia Mountains. This time around, it seems that the further south in Georgia you go, the more likely snow will be falling tomorrow.

Currently most of the United States is covered with snow, and the New England area facing record breaking snows. Georgia, however just doesn’t quite get the taste of the white stuff very often so it’s always lovely to see.

I do have to work however, so it won’t be all fun and games. I’ll certainly be careful and judge when its time to stop doing deliveries and make my way home to hibernate with my bread, milk, and Coca-cola products. Just like every good Southerner.

As someone who is starting to feel his opinions change about super-techno conglomerate Google, I certainly was interested in reading all about their new Gmail feature called Buzz. Adding Web2.0 Social Networking to my email sounded like a really bad idea. Turns out? It probably is and you’ll want to make sure to turn it off too.

Check here for more and to turn off your gmail buzz, go to the bottom of the screen and look for the words “Turn off Buzz” (it’s right next to “turn off chat”)

In a move that signifies the end of an era, MTV will no longer include the words “Music Television” under its iconic logo. The Wrap was the first to report on the new logo, which will still feature the monolithic “M” and its dripping “TV,” but no underlying text. The shift seems to confirm what many have suspected for years: Following the cancellation of TRL and the success of Jersey Shore, The Hills and the Real World spin-offs, music is no longer MTV’s main priority.

“The people who watch it today, they don’t refer to MTV as music television. They don’t have the same emotional connection that, say, the people who are writing about [the logo change] do,” MTV’s head of marketing Tina Exarhos told the Los Angeles Times. Exarhos adds that the marketing department had previously toyed with removing “music television” but felt the text was too sacred and that higher-ups wouldn’t approve the idea. Since the network is introducing some new on-air designs, “now felt like the right time” to update the logo, Exarhos said.

It remains to be seen if the logo change will have any further impact on MTV’s scheduling. The network will likely continue to schedule their Video Music Awards and provide ancillary between-commercial coverage to musical figures. However, the removal of “Music Television” makes it harder for critics to point out that MTV’s programming isn’t really dedicated to music. At the 2007 VMAs, Justin Timberlake used MTV’s own stage to chastise the network for its shift away from music. “Play more damn videos. We don’t want to see the Simpsons on reality television,” he said.

There’s a brief history of the MTV logo posted on the Website for Frank Olinsky, one of the designers who created it; according to Olinksy, the logo originally was not accepted by the fledgling network until the words “Music Television” were added underneath. Nearly 30 years later, Olinsky’s original design has returned.

TOKYO, Japan (CNN) — They are young, earn little and spend little, and take a keen interest in fashion and personal appearance — meet the “herbivore men” of Japan.

Author and pop culture columnist Maki Fukasawa coined the term in 2006 in a series of articles on marketing to a younger generation of Japanese men. She used it to describe some men who she said were changing the country’s ideas about just what is — and isn’t — masculine.

“In Japan, sex is translated as ‘relationship in flesh,’” she said, “so I named those boys ‘herbivorous boys’ since they are not interested in flesh.”

Typically, “herbivore men” are in their 20s and 30s, and believe that friendship without sex can exist between men and women, Fukasawa said.

The term has become a buzzword in Japan. Many people in Tokyo’s Harajuku neighborhood were familiar with “herbivore men” — and had opinions about them.

Shigeyuki Nagayama said such men were not eager to find girlfriends and tend to be clumsy in love, and he admitted he seemed to fit the mold himself.

“My father always asks me if I got a girlfriend. He tells me I’m no good because I can’t get a girlfriend.”

Midori Saida, a 24-year-old woman sporting oversized aviators and her dyed brown hair in long ringlets, said “herbivore men” were “flaky and weak.”

“We like manly men,” she said. “We are not interested in those boys — at all.”

Takahito Kaji, 21, said he has been told he is “totally herbivorous.”

“Herbivorous boys are fragile, do not have a stocky body — skinny.”

Fukasawa said Japanese men from the baby boomer generation were typically aggressive and proactive when it came to romance and sex. But as a result of growing up during Japan’s troubled economy in the 1990s, their children’s generation was not as assertive and goal-oriented. Their outlook came, in part, from seeing their fathers’ model of masculinity falter even as Japanese women gained more lifestyle options.

Former CNN intern Junichiro Hori, a self-described herbivore, said the idea goes beyond looks and attitudes toward sex.

“Some guys still try to be manly and try to be like strong and stuff, but you know personally I’m not afraid to show my vulnerability because being vulnerable or being sensitive is not a weakness.”

Older generations of Japanese men are not happy about the changes. At a bar frequented by businessmen after work, one man said: “You need to be carnivorous when you make decisions in your life. You should be proactive, not passive.”

Fukasawa said the group does not care so much about making money — a quality tied to the fact that there are fewer jobs available during the current global economic recession.

Japan’s economy recently saw its largest-ever recorded contraction and has shrunk for four straight quarters. Blue chip companies Sony, Panasonic, Toyota and Nissan all reported losses in May, and most are forecasting the same for the current fiscal year. Though still low by international standards, Japan’s reported 5 percent unemployment is the highest since 2003.

Hori agreed economics has played a role. When he finished university, “a lot of my friends were trying to work for a big company that pays well and I wasn’t interested in that. I am kind of struggling financially and my father is not very happy about it,” he said.

Fukasawa estimated some 20 percent of men are what she would call “herbivorous” and said their attitudes were influencing others. Indeed, she said, it was a return to the norm for Japanese men, rather than a departure.

“It was after World War II and the post-war economic growth that Japanese men gained the reputation as a sex animal through the competition with the West. Looking back beyond that time, older literature talks a lot about men with the kind of character we see in the herbivorous boys.”

Will these men simply grow out of this? Fukasawa said it was anyone’s guess.

Some of them may, but Japan’s image of masculinity is nonetheless changing.

“The men in dark suits are changing, too,” she said. “Today’s young people in dark suits are different from the baby boomers in dark suits. They are evolving, too.”

I can’t remember seeing a movie in recent history 4 times in theaters. I know I saw many twice. I probably saw standard epics like entries of Lord of the Rings or Star Wars a number of times. But four times? If I did, I certainly can’t recall. Today, I saw James Cameron’s “Avatar” for the 4th time.

2 times in Real 3D
1 times in Digital 3D
1 time in fake IMAX 3D. (See this for more information on LieMax)

Now, granted I’ve only actually paid 13 dollars to see it all of those times thanks to various freebie tickets and delightful friends, now that I know just what an amazing motion picture “Avatar” is, I would have paid full price. It just simply is perhaps THE theater experience of my lifetime.

I love every single thing about the movie, but wouldn’t consider myself a big enough fan to join a fan site, post on movie message boards, and participate in some Na’vi role playing or anything. But I certainly am unapologetic about my defending of the film of those who move past expressing their dislike to generating attacks on it. Who doesn’t like a nerdy movie cockfight?

Really, I cannot stress this enough. Even if you have already seen the flick once, I absolutely highly recommend you getting back out there and immersing yourself once again in the beauty and danger that is Pandora. Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland” (another movie I am interested in seeing, mind you) is going to come out March 5th and will almost certainly take the lion’s share of “Avatar’s” 3D screens. For those of you who still have been reluctant to take the plunge, you simply won’t be able to appreciate this at home on DVD. Go! Now!

This week, I get my paycheck and some tax credits from the government. I’ll pay one bill like normal, but what I may be able to do is completely finish paying off my 2005 Ford Focus. As things stand, it has 3 more payments to go, so I could just let it ride. But, I think it’d be much cooler to do it sooner and get it over and done with.

For the first time in about 8 years, provided nothing goes wrong (so I’m knocking on my fake wood desk here) I’ll have a paid for car. And that just makes all sorts of other dominoes fall. I can lower the coverage on the car from full to something more suitable. That will lower those monthly payments. With this extra cash flow, I can seriously attack debts. I can look into getting health care. (Since it’s painfully obvious that our democratic Senators aren’t interested.)

I am very excited, but also very hopeful that this all works to fruition. It will be absolutely amazing that during this down economy, I may be better off than I’ve been in several years. (While everyone else was seeming to do gangbusters.)

Not necessarily money related, work is certainly underway in the editing of “Later, Skater: On Tour.” I’ve worked my way up to this really great scene where [blank] gets to [blank] and due to the fall out of that, [blanks] [blank] which I think is really powerful. These characters developed quite a lot over the entries of the first book. But in giving them a sequel, they practically jump out at you, evolved and matured even more. I can’t wait to share it with you.

I’m looking to try and stay on the April release just like the last two, and of course I’ll continue to try and tempt you leaking more details as I keep editing.

Endeavour’s predawn blastoff Sunday begins the final countdown to retirement of the storied spaceships this year, leaving only a few opportunities left to see a shuttle launch in person.

“I’m trying to motivate as many people as I can right now to go and see one of these last handful of shuttle missions that are left and actually see the glory or more importantly just to feel the kind of palpable excitement that everyone has when they actually see humans launch on a big vehicle like the space shuttle and get into orbit,” says Bob Behnken, the lead spacewalker on Endeavour’s crew.

Witnessing the spectacle of a space shuttle launch, its Earth-shaking departure from the Florida spaceport on seven million pounds of thrust, is truly an awe-inspiring sight to behold.

The technological marvel that is the space shuttle, the most complicated machine man has ever produced, leaves the planet with humans strapped inside on the power generated from the controlled explosion of rocket fuels, accelerating from zero to 17,500 miles per hour in less than nine minutes time.

“It’s a different feeling when you watch people launch into space than it is when you watch a Delta or an Atlas rocket take off,” Behnken said.

“So I think that aspect for anybody who’s actually been to a human launch is something that’s always going to be memorable for them. We all watch differently, I think, even if it’s just on the television when we know there are people at the pointy end of that rocketship, that folks are doing something hard and it’s really critical that everything goes smoothly.”

Sunday morning’s planned 4:39 a.m. EST liftoff of Endeavour could be the last shuttle launch to occur at night. If the projected schedule for the four remaining flights later this year remains unchanged, those missions will have morning and afternoon launch times.

Night launches are special treats, lighting up the dark with a man-made sunrise of golden flame. The shuttle streaks across the sky trailing a fiery plume 400 feet wide and 700 feet long from its solid rocket boosters that can be spotted from hundreds of miles away.

(more at Spaceflight Now)

James Cameron’s ” Avatar” has completed its three-part flight into history, surpassing a domestic box office record that’s stood since the filmmaker’s “Titanic” completed its theatrical run in 1998.

The 3D phenom previously shredded the international and worldwide b.o. records set by “Titanic.”

On Wednesday, “Avatar” distributor Fox said the sci-fi epic had rung up $601.1 million in domestic b.o. through Tuesday. “Titanic” registered $600.8 million in U.S. and Canadian coin.

So how high can “Avatar” fly?

“I have no idea where we go from here,” Fox domestic distribution president Bruce Snyder said. “The only picture that has gotten this high was “Titanic,’ but ‘Avatar’ is coming off of a $30 million weekend while ‘Titanic’ was ending its theatrical run at the same point in the cume.”

“Avatar” — which scored nine Oscar nominations Tuesday — boasts a foreign tally of $1.48 billion and counting, shaping a worldwide cume of $2.08 billion.

Box Office Prophets has a more in depth rundown.

(Ed note: I’ve seen Avatar in 3D and in digital 3D — there is a difference, the latter is much sharper — and believe I’ll probably get one more time in before Alice in Wonderland takes the screens.)

Remember how I used to change the banner and buttons over here pretty much every month? Well, guess what bitches? That’s right, your faithful webmaster, PIXIE, has figured out how to get a banner up over here on our brand spank-me new blog page. Isn’t it faboo?

Now that I think I got everything looking pretty much the way I want, maybe now I can relax some and put up some real updates again.

So today I worked a bit more on the site. I decided to move up the tag-board as I really think it needs to be something you see right away.

I also gave each of the sections over on the right headline labels. Kind of making it more uniform and looking pretty good.

Added a way for you to go back and more easily find posts that were tagged using the Category section (which is underneath the Archives section, both of these are below the NAVI now.)

Re-added the Other Important Links section at the very bottom.

I still want to try to do something with the space at the very top of the page, both in that box that includes the search area and where it says pixiesticks.org. Changing the banner has always been something I’ve enjoyed doing, so I want to figure out how I can continue doing that.

All in all, I’m pleased with how easily this transition occurred. The fact that I was able to import 4,900 posts and half as many comments from Blogger is nothing short of amazing. The fact that for the first time in 9 years this blog has a new layout is equally so. And, I continue to reiterate that not being a part of the Google-monster is really satisfying.

I’m actually thinking now this is could be one of the best things that happened to the site. Hopefully you will too.

Major major work going on right now at pixiesticks.org trying to get past the FTP issue. Please excuse our mess. (And bring Kleenex.)

UPDATE: I got some progress done since the major overhaul earlier today.

I removed a lot of the extra stuff this new template has that I didn’t think we really needed.

I got to import what formerly was the left hand side Navi-Bar. We’ll have to just get used to it being on the right hand side now. Everything over there should be the way it normally is (more or less.) I still have a few more odds-n-ends over there to fix.

When I imported the many many years of posts, I knew that quite a few would not format correctly. I’m going to just be okay with that. Not everything in this world is backwards compatible. We’ll just have to enjoy the fact that going forward, I can hopefully keep everything looking neat and tidy.

The commenting system should be working correctly. It still requires my approval, but that’s the way it was before, so no big deal there. And of course, there is still the Tag-Board if you don’t feel like posting any comments on a particular post. (I would encourage it though as what is said on the Tag-Board is temporary, but comments are forever.

Generally speaking, I think things are going as well as they could be. I don’t know how to make it so that if you are using a bigger screen or anything to change for you. I hope the font sizes are big enough and the colors aren’t too screwy. Those are more things I’m having trouble figuring out how to edit in the CS Style Sheets. But I think I’ve made some good progress since starting this project overnight.

Eventually, once I feel that things ARE running smoothly, I’m going to fix the old blog.html page so that it does a faster redirect. I’ll also fix the main index page. I’ll go around and fix other pages too. The main thing was to get the blog imported, functioning, and reasonably looking decent.

PLEASE let me know what you think, or if you encounter something that’s either broken or just not looking right. If I can fix it, I will. If I can’t, I’ll raise my fist and curse at it angrily and then probably let it go. But I’m gonna need your help on this.

While I’m not completely freaking out about it just yet, I certainly am NOT looking forward to implementing any solutions I may find in keeping this website going the way it has for almost 9 years.

My webmastering skills aren’t that great, so I’m not sure exactly what I will do, but I know that I want to keep doing this.

Pixiesticks.org has survived being removed from the internets twice, so I’m sure we will survive this too. But Google sure isn’t making it easy. (They’re complaining about resources? They’re fucking Google, how many more resources do they want?)

Alright, editing is underway! Yes, I finally said, fuck it, I have to dive back in. I have to see if what I wrote back in November as a sequel to my best selling novel “Later, Skater” is worth a damn.

And wow, I got through the first sex scene and was reminded very strongly why I love to write. What? Is that shallow? Heck no! Kalki and Skittles are very darling characters who are about to gain a whole new layer of dimensions as they journey forward in their sequel.

So what inspires me? You do, of course. You freaky ass homosexuals out there that I love so dearly. I don’t think I say this enough… I’m proud of each and every one of you that not only don’t let your sexual identity define you, but also don’t let others let your sexual identity define your place either.

And then there is music.

On the left hand side, below the Tag-Board you’ll find that GrooveShark widget again. This time, I’ve loaded it up with songs that I would put currently on the “Later Skater: On Tour” soundtrack if I could afford the rights to such a thing. Enjoy and know that I am back on top of this beast, ready to ride it until it’s released.

So, here’s the skinny, I haven’t even started editing “Later, Skater: On Tour.” Normally, I’d already be into the process preparing the novel for the April release, but I haven’t even started. Part of this is because I wrote longer than I normally do, so I thought I’d take a little longer break.

But that should have ended like two weeks ago.

And then there is that whole, “I’ll killed shotalicious” thing which kind of messed everyone up, including me. It was a choice I wanted to make, but I didn’t really think of the consequences of the fact that by killing that site, I was effectively killing a lot of the audience for my novels. I have this worry that now, no one will buy the new book whenever it does come out.

Some of you have followed me back here, and I totally appreciate that. But I’ll be honest, I really could use a kick in the ass to get me started on the editing process. So, if you got a cattle prod hiding somewhere, lemme have it.

A German reptile collector has been jailed for 14 weeks and must pay a 5,000 New Zealand dollar ($3,540) fine for plundering New Zealand’s wild gecko and skink populations, a judge has ruled.

Hans Kurt Kubus, 58, is to be deported to Germany as soon as he is released from prison, Judge Colin Doherty ordered Tuesday.

Kubus was caught by wildlife officials at Christchurch International Airport on South Island in December, about to board an overseas flight with 44 geckos and skinks in a hand-sewn package concealed in his underwear.

He admitted trading in exploited species without a permit and hunting absolutely protected wildlife without authority, pleading guilty to two charges under the Wildlife Act and five under the Trade in Endangered Species Act.

Department of Conservation prosecutor Mike Bodie told Christchurch District Court that Kubus could have faced potential maximum penalties of 500,000 dollars and six months in prison.

Bodie told Doherty that the department sought a deterrent sentence for “the most serious case of its kind detected in New Zealand for a decade or more.”

The geckos may have been worth 2,000 euros ($2,800) each on the European market, he noted.

“Internationally, this type of trade is prevalent and is on the increase worldwide and can be lucrative,” he said.

Customs records showed that Kubus had also been to New Zealand in 2001, 2004, 2008, and 2009. In 2008, he had been with a Swiss reptile dealer.

Doherty said Kubus had come to New Zealand and set about poaching the animals in a premeditated way which would have had an impact on particular colonies.

There was a potential for Kubus to end up with far more animals than he could have housed in his own collection and the rest would have been sold.

“I don’t think you necessarily came here to steal to sell, but I am sure the fact that you might have had excess was figured into your thinking,” said the judge, describing the offending as “pretty close to the worst case.”

This is a reminder that you need to pre-register this year to go to MomoCon over at Georgia Tech this March 20th and 21st. Registration is still free, though there are benefits to forking over some bucks.

If you’re local and you’re attending, shoot me an email or something. I’d love to get together and meet some of you loverlies.

Dictionaries have been removed from classrooms in southern California schools after a parent complained about a child reading the definition for “oral sex”.

Merriam Webster’s 10th edition, which has been used for the past few years in fourth and fifth grade classrooms (for children aged nine to 10) in Menifee Union school district, has been pulled from shelves over fears that the “sexually graphic” entry is “just not age appropriate”, according to the area’s local paper.

The dictionary’s online definition of the term is “oral stimulation of the genitals”. “It’s hard to sit and read the dictionary, but we’ll be looking to find other things of a graphic nature,” district spokeswoman Betti Cadmus told the paper.

While some parents have praised the move – “[it's] a prestigious dictionary that’s used in the Riverside County spelling bee, but I also imagine there are words in there of concern,” said Randy Freeman – others have raised concerns. “It is not such a bad thing for a kid to have the wherewithal to go and look up a word he may have even heard on the playground,” father Jason Rogers told local press. “You have to draw the line somewhere. What are they going to do next, pull encyclopaedias because they list parts of the human anatomy like the penis and vagina?”

A panel is now reviewing whether the Menifee ban will be made permanent. The Merriam Webster dictionary joins an illustrious set of books that have been banned or challenged in the US, including Nobel prize winner Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon, which last year was suspended from and then reinstated to the curriculum at a Michigan school after complaints from parents about its coverage of graphic sex and violence, and titles by Khaled Hosseini and Philip Pullman, included in the American Library Association’s list of books that inspired most complaints last year.

LOS ANGELES — James Cameron’s “Avatar” is on a course to sink “Titanic” at the box office.

No. 1 for the sixth-straight weekend with $36 million, the 20th Century Fox sci-fi spectacle lifted its domestic total to $552.8 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. “Avatar” raised its worldwide total to $1.841 billion. That’s $2 million shy of first place behind Cameron’s last movie, the 1997 shipwreck epic “Titanic,” at $1.843 billion.

“It defies all superlatives,” said Chris Aronson, head of distribution for Fox.

The studio said “Avatar” has hit $1.29 billion in international ticket sales, passing the $1.24 billion mark set by “Titanic.” The saga set on the alien world of Pandora is also enroute to overtake “Titanic” in domestic sales. After 37 days in theaters, “Avatar” soared past “The Dark Knight” on Saturday to become the second highest grossing film.

“We’re witnessing box office history,” said Paul Dergarabedian, box office analyst for Hollywood.com. “We’re watching all of these big records fall, and there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight. ‘Avatar’ is dominating at a time where it has no big summer blockbusters to compete with it. It’s perfectly poised to keep breaking all these records.”

“Avatar” is also positioned to win acclaim during awards season. While the computer-assisted performances didn’t earn any honors at Saturday’s Screen Actors Guild Awards, it captured the best drama and director trophies at last week’s Golden Globes and is considered a likely best-picture front runner when Oscar nominations are announced Feb. 2.

Screen Gems’ apocalyptic thriller “Legion,” featuring Paul Bettany as an Armageddon-fighting fallen angel, debuted behind “Avatar” at No. 2 with $18.2 million. Fox’s family fantasy comedy “Tooth Fairy,” starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as a hockey player who spreads his wings as a magical deity, took flight in the No. 4 spot with $14.5 million.

Warner Bros. grabbed the No. 3 position with “The Book of Eli” at $17 million in its second week, despite three other films debuting in wide release this weekend. The post-apocalyptic action flick stars Denzel Washington as a traveling prophet who battles a villainous gang leader played by Gary Oldman while protecting the last known Bible.

The medical drama “Extraordinary Measures,” the first film from new distributor CBS Films, opened with a disappointing $7 million in the No. 7 position. The film features Harrison Ford and Brendan Fraser as a doctor and businessman who collaborate to develop a drug that will treat a rare genetic disorder affecting children.

“It did well in middle America,” said Steven Friedlander, head of distribution for CBS Films. “This is not a shoot-’em-up or fantasy film. It’s the true story of people doing courageous things, and it’s building good word of mouth. This is the kind of movie that plays well to a family friendly crowd who doesn’t need to see the movie the weekend it opens.”

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Hollywood.com. Final figures will be released Monday.

1. “Avatar,” $36 million.

2. “Legion,” $18.2 million.

2. “The Book of Eli,” $17 million.

3. “Tooth Fairy,” $14.5 million.

5. “The Lovely Bones,” $8.8 million.

6. “Sherlock Holmes,” $7.1 million.

7. “Extraordinary Measures,” $7 million.

8. “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel,” $6.5 million.

9. “It’s Complicated,” $6.2 million.

10. “The Spy Next Door,” $4.8 million.

If you are anything like me, you’re all about some Taco Bell. Where else can you really pig out for less than 5 bucks? It’s also a great option when Courtney (Elf) comes over because she’s not so into eating the flesh of animals. Personally, I’d just rather her eat me, but that’s beside the point.

Well, none of us really ever thought eating at Taco Bell was ever very healthy right?

Now they got this Drive Thru Diet, which they claim is NOT really a weight loss program. Um… DURR!! But what it really got me wondering, just how bad IS what I eat at Taco Bell.

Turns out, it really isn’t the fat nor the calories that will kill me there. (Unlike McDonalds or whatever when I have big beef filled meals.) At Taco Bell, I typically have nachos and cheese and a volcano burrito.

What does that get me? SODIUM!

Together my meal has:

1130 Calories. Not too bad. I mean if you’re going by that 2,500ish number per day.
63 grams of fat. Quite high. In fact, this one meal is over what I should have a day.
2520 grams of sodium. Oh boy is that a doozy of a number! The recommendation is 1500 per day and I’m well above that just with one meal.

So what *could* I eat at Taco Bell and swing under the recommendations?

The answer really is pretty much nothing. While the Frisco menu does have lower content in fat and calories. You’re still going to get screwed in the sodium catagory.

But is sodium really that bad? I rather like having deer come up to me and giving me a little lick lick.

Here to explain sodium is Mike and the Bots. Afterward, go play around with the Taco Bell nutrition calculator and see just how unhealthy you’re eating. (But goddamn does it taste so good.)