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7th arrest made in Las Vegas sex spa scam stabbing
Las Vegas police have arrested a seventh person after the stabbing of a British tourist at a business police say was marketed as a health spa but operated a prostitution scam.
Records show that 33-year-old Kenneth Stimpson was held Friday at the Clark County jail pending a court appearance on conspiracy, racketeering, fraud and other charges.
KLAS-TV 8NewsNow (http://bit.ly/KyR92j ) identifies Stimpson as the business owner at the Red Devil Fitness and Spa west of the Las Vegas Strip
Five women and a man were arrested shortly after 25-year-old Joseph Sherriff was stabbed early last Sunday in a dispute over sex acts that police say were hinted at but not performed.
Prostitution is legal in some rural Nevada counties, but not in Las Vegas and Reno.
Organic Soap and Spa Releases Celebrity Montage
Organic Soap and Spa Montage shows Brad Pitt, Tim Tebow, Melissa McCarthy, Glenn Close Product choices
Boulder, CO (PRWEB) May 16, 2012
Since 2008, Organic Soap and Spa Products have been in the hands of hundreds of celebrities. With the exquisite packaging of the Oscars’ 2012 gift boxes, Organic Soap and Spa packages, names as one of the Most Opulent Oscars gift boxes, Organic Soap and Spa products have seen the likes of red carpet goers all over the country and for all types of causes.
And not just a product here or there, either.
As many as 2 dozen – thats 22, 24, and more – products have been in the hands of professional athletes, movie stars and industry execs, and even a whole bunch of Iron Chefs, too!
Here is an extensive list of celebrities and highlights of the major products they have used. It is an excellent reference tool for you and your clients.
Note that not all of the celebrities that have had access to Organic Soap and Spa products are listed in this montage.
For the original version on PRWeb visit: http://www.prweb.com/releases/prweb2012/5/prweb9508003.htm
10 ways to stay healthy close to home
Dreaming of a spa vacation, but stuck in the Mohawk Valley this summer?
No worries. There are plenty of ways to have fun and get healthier right here this summer.
Here are 10 of our favorites:
1. Watch herons taking flight and enjoy the color of native flowers (as well as lots of purple loosestrife) while biking on the Erie Canal towpath. Bring a healthy picnic lunch and make a day of it. Pick up the towpath by heading north on Genesee Street and turning left on Harbor Point Road in North Utica.
2. Make Schultz and Dooley proud by switching to Utica Club Light for the summer. The Matt Brewing Co. brews up this light beer for the summer season only. It’s available on draft and in cans.
3. Catch running fever by taking part in the Utica Roadrunners’ Development Runs. These Wednesday night events offer 10K, 5K, 2-mile, ½-mile and 0.02-mile runs for everyone in the family, as well as a 2.5 mile walk. The walk starts at 6:30 p.m.; the shorter fun runs at 6:45 and the three longer runs at 7. Cost is $1 a person or $2.50 per family. Register at the Parkway Recreation Center on Memorial Parkway.
4. Pick up fresh, local berries, melons and zucchinis, as well as other local products, for your family at the Utica Farmers Market, which opens for the season on June 13. The market is located in Historical Chancellor Park on Bleecker Street and is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Check uticaod.com/calendar throughout the summer for other regional farmers markets.
5. Adopt a furry friend from the Stevens-Swan Humane Society in Utica. A study last year found that dog owners who walk their dogs are 34 percent more likely to meet federal benchmarks for physical activity. Call 738-4357 or visit www.stevens-swan.org for information. Don’t like dogs? Get a cat. Owning a pet can decrease blood pressure, cholesterol, triglycerides and loneliness, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
6. Get your heart pumping on the new, 1.33- mile walking path on the Utica College campus, put in as part of Leadership Mohawk Valley’s heart-health initiative. The path, which runs in front of the Strebel Student Center, was dedicated by the American Heart Association and college in April to keep the spirit and fitness of America’s Greatest Heart Run Walk going year round. Other AHA-designed walking paths run through Proctor Park in Utica, the Sculpture Garden at Griffiss Business and Technology Park in Rome and in the village of Cooperstown.
7. Reap the rewards of community garden membership. Not only do members get fresh vegetables, fruits and herbs all summer long, but working in the garden is great exercise. Plus it’s a chance to make new friends. For the Good runs three community gardens in Utica – at Linwood Place, on Noyes Street and on Jay Street. Call 797-2417 for information.
8. Have a ball playing rugby for the local teams. The women’s Utica/Syracuse team plays over the summer. The men’s Utica team season is in the fall, but it practices in July for participation in the Great American Irish Festival. And don’t worry about injuries; reports of the sport’s dangers are highly exaggerated, said men’s team president Frank Redmond. Rules protect the head, neck and shoulders, he said. To sign up, visit the website for the Utica Rugby Football Club at http://uticarugby.com.
9. Check out some of Utica’s healthier ethnic restaurants. Dietitian Pat Salzer, of Excellus BlueCross BlueShield, recommends Mediterranean foods with healthy monounsaturated fats, and lots of fruits and vegetables. Try Karam’s Middle East Bakery and Restaurant in Yorkville and The Phoenician Restaurant and the Grapevine Restaurant in New Hartford, she said. Megan Dischiavo, nutrition and dietetics professor at Mohawk Valley Community College, likes the “fresh veggies, nice proteins and minimal refined carbs” at The Lotus Garden in Utica and the vegetables, healthy fats and fish at Symeon’s in Yorkville.
10. Exercise your brain by checking out cultural festivals. Try concerts at the Stanley Center for the Arts, the Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute’s Arts Festival from June 29 through July 4; the Utica Maennerchor’s Bavarian Festival from July 20 through 22; or the Annual Hispanic Heritage Latino American Festival on Aug. 26. In honor of World Refugee Day on June 20, the Mohawk Valley Resource Center for Refugees also will host a week of events. Cognitive activity helps protect the brain as people age. Watch uticaod.com/calendar for more details on local events.
Final tip: Do all of the above with a friend. Friendship is good for mental health, and social connections help people age well.
PHOTOS Kim Richards and new boyfriend at Race to Erase MS Gala?
Last night was the 19th Annual Race to Erase MS gala held at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles and among the many celebrities turning out to show their support was The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Kim Richards – with a mystery man!
Kim posed for a few photos with her tall, darkly tanned stranger (along with sister Kathy Hilton and her husband Richard Hilton above), but none of the photo services were able to get a name. So all we know about this new feller, aside from his obvious affinity for UV rays, is he appears to be a little younger than Kim and a lot more – ummmm – television friendly than her former romantic endeavor, Ken Blumenfeld.
IF this is Kim’s new man, then I’m sure we will all get to meet him (much as we did Ken in Season 2) as Bravo is currently filming the third season of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills right now. (If anyone knows anything about Kim’s mystery date and/or what his relationship to Kim is, drop us a line at starcasmtips at yahoo.com!)
And speaking of RHOBH Season 3, according to numerous reports Kim is doing much better with her sobriety and the one with the really bad alcohol problem now is Taylor Armstrong. After reportedly getting a bit sloshed at Kyle Richards’ four-year-old daughter’s birthday party (at which Taylor’s daughter Kennedy was present), Taylor then got Hasselhoff cheeseburger wasted at a spa weekend in Ojai, California.
“Taylor was wasted from the moment she appeared in the morning until the moment she collapsed at night,” a source tells Radar Online. “It was a horrific sight to see. She totally lost control of her emotions and her temper. She is an absolute complete mess, but she refuses to acknowledge that she has a problem.”
“Taylor’s drinking is out-of-control,” another source says. “She doesn’t have just 10 drinks, she has like 30 or 40 and she’s a mess. Over the trip Taylor would say the nastiest things to everyone. As soon as she had a drop of alcohol she would start spewing hateful things, it shocked everybody.”
“She isn’t as relevant as she was and she is desperate to stay on the show but the things she says are outrageous and they’re making everyone furious. She caused major drama all weekend. The fights were non-stop, and she was a mess.”
Yet another source (How many people were there at this spa weekend anyway?) adds, “Taylor was all over the place while the cast was shooting at the Ojai Valley Inn. “She would start drinking very, very early in the day. The ladies are all very concerned about her, especially Kyle. They have spoken off camera about their desire for Taylor to stop drinking, but so far, nothing has happened. Taylor had a catastrophic meltdown on camera during the trip that will truly shock viewers when they see it on air this fall.”
There are also reports the cast is trying to arrange an intervention for Taylor.
In other words, more high ratings for The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills!
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The do-it-yourself day spa
Discounted salon and spa treatments are common at social-buying and daily deal sites such as Groupon and Eversave. That’s a frugal way to get haircuts, facials, therapeutic massages and the like.
Want to save even more? “Head to your kitchen,” advises a blogger named Eva at the website $30 Thursdays.
Eva and other bloggers suggest that the way to relax is through items like olive oil, yogurt, honey, oatmeal and brown sugar. You don’t eat them, though.
Such everyday ingredients can substitute for pricey conditioners, exfoliants and toners. For example, Eva says that brown sugar mixed with milk makes a good all-body exfoliant. Except for your mouth, that is; she suggests mixing petroleum jelly with raw sugar for a “lip scrub.”
Spring and summer may call for a lot of exfoliating, because more of you is going to be showing. Before a scrub, soak in a warm bath with a handful of Epsom salts and, if you like, a tablespoon of oil. You can use mineral oil (baby oil) or canola, olive or even peanut oil.
Those last three might sound odd. But Cynthia Bailey, a dermatologist in Sebastopol, Calif., notes that the cooking oils show up in natural skin-care products.
Unwinding your nerves
Some people prefer salt scrubs to sugary ones. About.com suggests mixing a cup of fine sea salt with half a cup of light oil and a few drops of essential oil added for aromatherapeutic value.
You could skip the scent if you don’t have any on hand. Recently I noticed sea salt in the supermarket bulk-buy section for 59 cents a pound. Bonus: Salt scrubs are a great frugal holiday gift.
In the article “DIY spa skin treatments you can do at home,” dermatologist Bailey recommends working the scrub into your skin with a loofah sponge or rough-textured bath mitt.
“Yes, it’s nicer to have the spa technician do this for you,” Bailey concedes, but a self-exfoliation is better than no exfoliation.
Watch your step getting out of that oil-slippery tub. Then use a little more oil — olive, coconut, jojoba — as a moisturizer. The soak and exfoliation will “unwind your nerves and leave your skin looking and feeling like you spent a small fortune at a spa,” Bailey says.
From head to toe
An all-over scrub is invigorating, but a facial should be relaxing. It’s hard to think of something more calming than oatmeal, an ingredient in commercial products for sensitive skin. But you can use regular breakfast cereal to make the “oatmeal facial mask” from the Spa50 website. The mix of honey, oatmeal and yogurt sounds easy. (Tasty, too.)
Keep the facial mask away from the eye area. But if your eyes are feeling puffy and irritated, try this chamomile tea remedy from Mary Ann Romans at Families.com. It can be used as an anti-inflammatory compress for your eyes or your entire face.
Romans has a frugal tip for softening hands: When cooking with olive oil, wipe out what’s clinging to the sides of the measuring cup and rub it into your overworked paws. You can also comb light olive oil through your hair (“no need for the more expensive virgin oil”), cover it with a cap and take a hot shower. After five to seven minutes, take off the cap and shampoo as usual.
A few other easy spa tips:
- Give your hands and feet a little attention with the mani-pedi tutorial tutorial at FrugalBeautiful.com.<!–
- Nothing beats a professional rubdown, but you can treat yourself to some simple self-massage techniques as explained by WebMD.com.
- No need to buy “massage” oil when you can make your own, according to Eco Thrifty Living. Even when using cold-pressed olive oil, as ETL prefers, the home-mixed emollient is “far cheaper than the oils sold specifically for massage purposes.”
- Treat dandruff with apple cider vinegar and herbs, suggests Laura Jensel at Livestrong.com. Interested in those pore-cleansing strips but unwilling to pay for them? A supersimple recipe for “DIY Biore strips” can be found at I Pick Up Pennies. “You’ll be impressed (and slightly grossed out) by the results,” promises blogger Abigail.
Note: Some of the items needed for these treatments — vinegar, petroleum jelly, cotton balls, pedicure toe spacers, nail polish remover, Epsom salts — can often be found at dollar stores.
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4th person charged in series of Erie gun crimes
Erie police have charged a fourth person in connection with a series of recent gun-related crimes in the city.
Marc A. Moore Jr., 18, is accused of taking possession of two guns that were reported stolen from a residence in the 1000 block of West Fourth Street on April 27 and were allegedly used by two people to rob a pair of businesses.
A robbery was attempted at Totally You Fitness, 1812 Peach St., on April 30, and cash was stolen from employees in a robbery at the Satin Health Spa, 2117 Peach St., on May 1, according to police.
The two suspects, 21-year-old Robert R. Davis and a 14-year-old boy, have been charged in those crimes and in the burglary where the guns were stolen. Davis also was charged with threatening a woman with a gun on April 29.
Another man, 21-year-old Gregory J. Thompson, was charged earlier this month with hindering apprehension for allegedly taking possession of the guns after the robbery.
Police allege in the criminal complaint filed against Moore that he took possession of the guns used in the two robberies. Police said the guns, which were stolen in the West Fourth Street burglary, were then sold by Moore, according to the complaint.
No further details were available Friday on what became of the guns, or if police recovered them.
Moore was arraigned Thursday night before Erie 2nd Ward District Judge Paul Urbaniak on charges of hindering apprehension, receiving stolen property and carrying a firearm without a license. He was placed in the Erie County Prison on $25,000 bond.
TIM HAHN can be reached at 870-1731 or by e-mail. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/ETNhahn.
Sunshine Coast Bed & Breakfast Celebrates 10 Year Anniversary
A Place By the Sea Sechelt Bed Breakfast Spa, located on the western shore of Sechelt Inlet on British Columbia’s beautiful Sunshine Coast, will celebrate ten years of award-winning hospitality this August.
Sunshine Coast, British Columbia (PRWEB) May 17, 2012
A Place By the Sea Bed Breakfast Spa, located on the western shore of Sechelt Inlet on British Columbia’s beautiful Sunshine Coast, will celebrate ten years of award-winning hospitality this August.
Owners Nancy and Shay Moudahi had a dream to own and operate their own bed and breakfast. Both had demanding careers – Nancy in the BC wine industry, and Shay in retail home electronics – but in 2002 they took the plunge, quitting their jobs in Vancouver and moving to the Sunshine Coast to pursue their dream.
“The vision for A Place By the Sea is to create a luxury bed and breakfast experience, offering guests deluxe amenities, privacy and excellent customer service,” said Nancy Moudahi. “10 years later we are still delivering on that promise, and we love what we do.”
This Sechelt Inlet bed breakfast has been featured in a number of magazines and publications, most recently in US Coastal Living’s Special Edition Spring 2012 magazine, “Best Beach Getaways”, where it was listed as one of the three best places to stay in British Columbia.
Other notable mentions include the UK Sunday Times Travel Magazine, Northern Exposure Feature US Coastal Living, The Best Places to Kiss in the Northwest, and Jack Christie’s “Best Weekend Getaways from Vancouver”.
Guests to this Sunshine Coast accommodation experience pampering, relaxation, and on-site spa services in the privacy of their suite, and couples massage is available. Treatments range from traditional massage and hot/cold stone massage to body wraps and reiki, along with esthetics for manicure, pedicure and facials. There is a hot tub with gazebo that overlooks the long reach of Sechelt Inlet.
Packages available include 2-3 nights Sechelt accommodation at the BB with hot gourmet breakfast for two delivered to the suite each morning, and gift certificate for a local restaurant; or guests can choose from Romance, Spa or combined packages.
For activities, visitors to the Sunshine Coast can kayak the ‘inland sea’ of Sechelt Inlet, mountain bike some of BC’s best trails, take an aerial tour over the Salish Sea and nearby glaciers, or visit over 60 artist studios and galleries in the region. The 18-hole Sechelt Golf Course is two minutes from the BB and hikes nearby ranging from easy half hour to several hours of moderate trails.
A Place By the Sea Bed Breakfast Sechelt is offering ‘10 Year Anniversary’ spring and summer rates ranging from $30 – $90 off regular prices for room bookings or their full range of Romance, Getaway and Spa Packages.
For the original version on PRWeb visit: http://www.prweb.com/releases/prwebsunshine-coast/bedandbreakfast/prweb9506347.htm
20 questions for … transgender author Kate Bornstein
“I was a Scientologist for 12 years, which is a lot more embarrassing than saying Hi, I’m a transsexual SM dyke living with borderline personality disorder,” Kate Bornstein tells PopMatters on the release of her memoir, “A Queer and Pleasant Danger.” Embodying not just gender — but the range of gender — is just a fraction of Bornstein’s complex, complete, utterly compelling persona; she is also the embodiment of a mind steeped in pop culture, past and present.
1. The latest book or movie that made you cry?
OK — does RuPaul’s “Drag Race” count as a book or a movie? Of course it does. Well, I cried when Latrice Royale had to sashay away — she is a queen of color, size, and age. She has amazing grace, and she lip-synchs like an earth angel. That was the latest show that made me cry.
I cried when Dream died in Neil Gaiman’s “The Sandman” series. Actually, it wasn’t because Dream died — it was more because it made his sister, Death, cry.
2. The fictional character most like you?
Most of the time, I feel like Candide. (Candide, ou l’Optimisme, Voltaire, 1759.) I can’t count the number of times I’ve set out in my life with a smile on my face and a song in my heart, knowing that I live in the best of all possible worlds — only to get hit with a pie in the face, or a piano falls on my head while I’m walking down the sidewalk, or maybe it’s an anvil, or maybe it’s a bullet in my gut. Candide walks through his life and discovers that every institution he was taught to believe in ends up screw him — not literarily.
3. The greatest album, ever?
“Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.”
“Sergeant Pepper” was the first time I’d experienced art that flipped-off what would later be called the straight, white, male patriarchy and its evils in Vietnam. It was hopeful music. It was comforting. It was cornball.
4. “Star Trek” or “Star Wars”?
“Star Trek.” But you need to ask which “Star Trek, and mine was “The Next Generation.” I always identified with Ensign Ro Laren — a complete traitor. Or Ishara Yar, Tasha’s sister. She’s only on for one episode, and she betrays Data, coming as close as anyone did to breaking the part of his neural net that was his heart. And both “Star Trek” and “Star Wars” are in the past.
5. Your ideal brain food?
Check out the field of neurogenesis, where scientists have discovered that when we learn something new, we actually grow new brain cells and we can heal the scars of the brain cells we’ve screwed up with drugs and depression and heartbreak and even real physical trauma.
Well, I have messed up my brain so badly over the course of my life that I need to learn something new every day. That’s what I live on, that’s sort of what I live for. Every new thing I learn is another piece in the puzzle that is the Meta of life itself. My life’s path has been a road called gender, and each time I’ve learned something new about gender, my heart feels lighter and that’s told me I’m getting closer to the truth of the phenomenon.
6. You’re proud of this accomplishment, but why?
I wrote a book called “Hello, Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks and other Outlaws,” from Seven Stories Press. I get letters every day, or tweets or comments, or text messages, or any other of the ways people get messages to me these days — thank you for saving my life. That’s a hard thing to own when you hear it, but I feel proud when I do own it, so that has to be it.
7. You want to be remembered for …?
I’d like my daughter and grandchildren to one day get out of Scientology long enough to read my memoir, “A Queer and Pleasant Danger,” and remember me with a smile. I know it’d be a sad smile, and I’m sorry for that.
Right, so I’d like to be remembered by my daughter, my grandchildren, and all the freaky geeky kids and grownups who read my books and it helps them live another day. I’d like them all to remember me as having been a good auntie, or a good teacher — a Hogwarts professor type, perhaps Sybill Trelawney. She taught divination but could never divine very much herself, except every now and then when it was important.
That’s what I hope all my books do for all my kids — shine a light on a future bright enough that they don’t want to kill themselves.
8. Of those who’ve come before, the most inspirational are?
Right then, in no particular order: Lao-Tse, Abbot Costello, Doris Fish, Mark Twain, Candy Darling, International Chrysis, Fredric Brown, The Beatles (together and separately), P.T. Barnum, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Holly Hughes, Laurel Hardy, Norman Rockwell, Suzanne J. Kessler, Wendy McKenna, Laurie Anderson, Robert Altman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Hermann Hesse, Dorothy Parker, Diane Arbus, Andy Warhol, Joss Whedon, Steve Jobs, Sojourner Truth, William S. Burroughs, Frank Zappa, Lucille Ball, Martin Scorsese, Carol Burnett, Ferron, Valerie Solanas, Heather Lewis, Steve Allen, Audrey Hepburn, Christopher Isherwood, Aphra Behn, Bob Fosse, Rachel Pollack, Truman Capote, Salvador Dali, the Dalai Lama, Caroline Cossey, Shirley MacLaine, Hugh Hefner and James Joyce. I’d like them all to be proud of me.
9. The creative masterpiece you wish bore your signature?
“All That Jazz,” the film by Bob Fosse. Oh god, I want to make a musical out of my crazy life. I wrote a play called “Strangers in Paradox” about a pair of lesbians who are serial killers. It’s 100 percent autobiographical and true. My dream is to turn it into a musical and a film.
10. Your hidden talents …?
I’m a scary good Tarot card reader. It’s my Professor Trelawney side. I see things that can happen, but not always. I’ve been working on designing my own deck for years. I also know how to stop myself when I get the hiccups — every time.
11. The best piece of advice you actually followed?
“I was a Scientologist for 12 years, which is a lot more embarrassing than saying Hi, I’m a transsexual SM dyke living with borderline personality disorder,” Kate Bornstein tells PopMatters on the release of her memoir, “A Queer and Pleasant Danger.” Embodying not just gender — but the range of gender — is just a fraction of Bornstein’s complex, complete, utterly compelling persona; she is also the embodiment of a mind steeped in pop culture, past and present.
“The way you do anything is the way you do everything.” Zen master, Cheri Huber, came up with that koan. I’ve been working on it for over 20 years, now. Essentially, it means that everything I do is practice for everything else I’m going to do. So, if I do something mindfully — anything at all — I’ll be better at doing something else mindfully in the future.
Knowing and using this koan helped me use all across my life the principles I learned in navigating gender — breaking binaries, disobeying hierarchies, staying alive, telling fun stories. If fractals were a life path, this koan would be the roadmap.
12. The best thing you ever bought, stole, or borrowed?
The very best thing is the idea that we are immortal spiritual beings, and as such we have no gender. I got that from L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology. I was a Scientologist for 12 years, which is a lot more embarrassing than saying Hi, I’m a transsexual SM dyke living with borderline personality disorder. But for all the nuttiness of Scientology’s beliefs, this one stuck with me. They told me I’m not my body, I’m not my mind. They said I don’t have a soul, I am a soul.
Their word for soul is thetan — an immortal spiritual being of unlimited powers. Well, I’m not so sure about the unlimited powers part but I’m going to hang in there with immortality. It fits nicely with a lot of Eastern and pagan spiritual paths.
When I first got into Scientology, I asked them if there were male thetans and female thetans. They laughed merrily and told me that no, thetans have no gender. Gender is for bodies.
Now, you’d think that with a philosophy based on that strong of an idea, that homophobia and transphobia would be non-existent. Sadly, both are rampant in Scientology and it makes no sense.
So yeah, I borrowed the idea that none of us have a gender, and I’m very happy to give it back to Scientology any day they’d like to accept it from me.
13. You feel best in Armani or Levis or …?
A mix of Free People anything, and Diesel sweats. I love being girly girl hippie chick, but there’s always this bad girl side of me that has to come out at the same time. And Fluevogs — they make any outfit work.
14. Your dinner guest at the Ritz would be?
Of everybody, it’d have to be Chuang Tzu. He was the world’s first slapstick Taoist master, one of the first great fools in the world whose work got written down. I’d like to trade jokes.
15. Time travel: where, when and why?
I’d like to be a fly on the wall in the room where Henry Miller and Anais Nin were. I’d like to follow them both to wherever they went to write. Or before they were going to meet, and while they were longing for each other.
16. Stress management: hit man, spa vacation or Prozac?
Dialectic Behavioral Therapy (DBT). I live with Borderline Personality Disorder, and it’s the only damned thing that helps me regulate my emotions. Like this piece I’m writing right now — it’s two days past deadline. Before DBT, I’d be panicking and I wouldn’t be able to write it. But hey, voila!
17. Essential to life: coffee, vodka, cigarettes, chocolate, or …?
Nicotine, caffeine and THC. I drink Diet Pepsi, not alcohol, and I do enjoy my e-cigarettes and other smokes.
18. Environ of choice: city or country, and where on the map?
Portlandia. It’s got such a high percentage of freaky, geeky people. I’ve always felt at home there whenever I teach or perform there. I’ve always felt most at home most anywhere in the Pacific Northwest, and I like to think I’d move there in a flash but my girlfriend would never go for it — she’s too much of a sun bunny.
19. What do you want to say to the leader of your country?
I’ve got nothing to say to President Obama. I have a lot of questions I’d like to ask him, and I’d like him to seriously consider.
I’d like to talk with him about church and state and how very collapsed they’ve become in my country to the point where so many of our laws are little more than the enforcing of some fundamentalist Judeo-Christian system of morality.
I like that he calls himself a mutt. I’m a mutt of gender. I’d like him to see the connection. And once that’s been made, I’d ask him to do whatever it takes to make this country safe for mutts of all kinds.
20. Last but certainly not least, what are you working on, now?
Becoming a star. Thanks for the leg up.
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Report: Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Stars Worried About Taylor …
First there were reports Taylor Armstrong had an intervention coming, courtesy of her fellow Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. According to Radar Online, Taylor’s friends were concerned about her reportedly excessive drinking habits and the impact that would have on her 5-year-old daughter Kennedy.
According to a new report from Radar Online, things may be even worse than anyone expected. Taylor reportedly spiraled out of control during a spa weekend in Ojai, California, during which she was said to be drinking heavily and acting out, all while the cameras were rolling.
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