Beardhead: Blog World Premiere

I finally understand how awesome it is to curl the ends of one's mustache.

Size matters

Check this out - relative size of things that are super tiny and unfathomably large. That's all for now, folks. It's finals week!

Human Dolphin

This is awesome. And echoing the sentiments on the website, now definitely on the top of my Christmas list - hint hint.

Just Dance

"What a thing it is to dance, to feel music in your blood, to have your heart alive and your body free."
-A. Heathcock

Teaching Good Sex (Finally)

Finally for two reasons - I'm slow on reading this and it's about freakin' time someone took the reigns on this.


I've been doing a semester long project advocating for what Al Vernacchio is already doing. For a summary, check out this other cool blog.

I have two favorite parts about Vernacchio's lessons:

1. He reinforces parity in sexual decision making and points out all of the nuances of the speech many people use to describe sex - for instance that the baseball analogies of first base, second base, third base and homerun imply a winner and a loser, an aggressor and a defender. He entirely reframes the way young people approach sex from the very beginning, which we've desperately needed, and he does it in a way that is relevant to pretty much everyone, using comparisons between sexual decision making and pizza topping decision making.

2. He cares about teaching young people about their bodies. Young people curious about sex or newly participating in sex are especially anxious about asking questions of their friends about their experiences or frightened by things they are feeling for the first time. “If kids are starting to use their bodies sexually, they should know about their potentialities,” Vernacchio told [Abraham] later. “It’s O.K. that boys ejaculate, that’s totally normalized” — wet dreams have been standard fare for middle-school health class for decades — “but girls, gross! Girls will think they’re peeing themselves, and it’s really shameful.”

Fist pump for Al Vernacchio, and Jane for finding the blog.

Ursula Upper

I've been feeling a little Debbie Downer on this blog recently, so today is all about things that are anti-Debbie, pro-Ursula.

First - Texts from Bennet. Hilarious. I'm probably the last person to know about this gem, but it's a blog full of texts between the author and their cousin, Bennet who is 17 years old and quite amusing. Not necessarily appropriate by any means, but ridiculous enough to make pretty much anyone laugh.

Second - it's Cristina's birthday in a few days. She is featuring champagne pong at her birthday party... I foresee a new craze, especially in light of New Years Eve fast approaching.

Third - Zach Wahls, who I don't even know but who seems pretty awesome. He spoke at some sort of public meeting about amending Iowa's constitution to ban same-sex marriage.

Fourth - Hannah has entered the blogging world with her awesome photography and styling skills. This girl may have an overflowing closet, dresser and clothes rack in the middle of her bedroom, but she's always dressed to impress.

Five - I'm visiting Amanda (and Erica!) this weekend. Yay for Brooklyn and friends and Christmas decor in NYC. I'm gonna have to go find that certain bus...