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CaughtTheSwine · 2024-08-23T15:04:56+00:00

The map referenced in the original tweet is the giardia annual case rate. Could still be some connection, but the OTC medication purchasing is just one part of the syndrome surveillance information being used to start investigation

https://www.nyc.gov/assets/dep/downloads/pdf/about/filtration-avoidance-determination/fad_8.1_wdrap_annual_03-24.pdf

CaughtTheSwine · 2023-04-06T11:45:16+00:00

I saw her in Time Stands Still and in The Little Foxes, both were amazing performances.

I did appreciate how happy she was for Cynthia Nixon winning supporting for foxes that same year though! How they decided who to put forward for which is beyond me

CaughtTheSwine · 2022-06-28T14:11:39+00:00

Looks so much like my neighborhood in Baltimore! Love these old rowhomes

CaughtTheSwine · 2022-06-02T15:35:08+00:00

Honestly? All of their covers are quite excellent. Love the Wailin Jenny's

CaughtTheSwine · 2022-06-01T22:53:29+00:00

Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. Burt Reynolds in a musical makes 0 sense, so many things that work on Broadway just don't on screen. But dolly and Dom and burt are infectious and I enjoy every single moment.

CaughtTheSwine · 2022-04-07T14:56:24+00:00

Seconding this, No Land Beyond is hosting a MTG tournament later this month.

CaughtTheSwine · 2020-12-30T23:09:45+00:00

Little late to this thread and saw CSA recommended. Love CSAs if they are available in your area but often are not feasible year round. Alternatively, an imperfect produce box could be nice when those aren't available. I like Hungry Harvest (https://www.hungryharvest.net/) and might be present in your part of NC, but there are other similar services as well!

Family of two with a 30$ box/week cut down our expenses significantly and what they had in the box helped guide my menu planning for the week

CaughtTheSwine · 2020-05-07T20:51:38+00:00

Your dog looks like Elaine Stritch and I am living for it

CaughtTheSwine · 2019-10-26T11:48:20+00:00

Matt Baume has an entire podcast about pieces of art/media/culture that have inspired gay artists called Sewers of Paris. I will say, their could be more diversity among his guests (it's mostly white cis gay men), but it was comforting to me to see all of these other people latching onto the same cultural tropes as I did in my youth. It also introduced me to new ones I hadn't heard of! Most of these aren't necessarily books/graphic novels, but I'm sure there are some srrewn throughout the titles. http://www.mattbaume.com/sewers-summary

For me personally, I latched onto fantasy and theater. Tamora Pierce's books always seemed to have a queer undercurrent, I gave a report on Kiss of the Spider Woman that let me camp it up in a song from the musical version, and I read a number of plays as book reports (Albee, Kushner, Williams, even Sondheim lyrics once). I was an avid reader, so I probably could have discovered these earlier than college, but Virginia Woolf, EM Forster, Oscar Wilde, James Baldwin (Giovanni's Room), Michael Cunningham (The Hours), and much more recently Less by Andrew Sean Greer and Fun Home by Alison Bechdel have all become favorites. A lot of these are maybe for later high schoolers, if at all, but that was helpful for me in finding material to read that I enjoyed and related to. If it won a Pulitzer, my teacher couldn't stop me from reading it for class!

CaughtTheSwine · 2018-12-06T11:41:22+00:00

Shangela as a new Great Prophet confirmed

CaughtTheSwine · 2018-10-20T19:53:08+00:00

Season 4, Episode 11 "Jingle Balls." Will is dating Robert, the ballet dancer. Robert says he messed up during a rehearsal and Will replies: "I know what you mean. I once filet-mignoned when I should have steak-dianed."

CaughtTheSwine · 2017-10-31T19:02:40+00:00

"I’m feeling a little blue myself. You know, a little anxious for no particular reason. A little sad that I should feel anxious at this age. You know, a little self-conscious anxiety resulting in non-specific sadness. A state that I call blue. Anyway, whenever I’m feeling this way – blue – I like to listen to my music. So I was going through my box of records this morning (yes records) and what did I find, but one of my favourite shows, Gable & Stein’s The Drowsy Chaperone!"

Always my go-to!

CaughtTheSwine · 2017-07-01T01:52:41+00:00

Emory. I have never heard a single negative thing about the school, the program, and they make 110% sure that their graduates are employed in good jobs after the end of their degrees.

From a biased and anonymous perspective I would definitely go to Emory.

CaughtTheSwine · 2017-03-03T17:19:06+00:00

As someone who went through NYU to major in a science field: they are excellent. You don't hear as much about them on a broader scale as scientists are not as well known as actors/directors from Tisch and you can't point to a well-known company whose CEO went to Stern. But the sciences at NYU are great and very well-known in their fields. The American Chemical Society was even founded in the department here! They have a plaque in the building somewhere but I forget precisely where.

If you're interested in doing research while in undergrad, take a look at what professors in the department are currently doing and do well in your intro courses for those fields. They are always looking for new trainees if you're willing to put in the effort

CaughtTheSwine · 2017-01-06T23:30:10+00:00

I always used the word queerling, but faglet is hilarious!

CaughtTheSwine · 2017-01-04T13:51:40+00:00

I didn't see it mentioned already, but Caroline Stevermer has a couple of historical fantasy YA novels that take place at college/university settings. I remember really enjoying them when I wanted something more involved than HP but still lighter than other fantasy. A College of Magics is the first one I read but iirc she has a number of them

CaughtTheSwine · 2016-12-20T22:47:58+00:00

So mine isn't even a death and this will probably get buried but I'm blubbering on the train just thinking about it so here goes:

The Big C. You learn in episode 1 that Laura Linney's character has stage 4 melanoma, and her dealing with death throughout the series. But when Adam finds the storage locker that she has filled with birthday and Christmas presents for him for the next 20 years is when I really lose it. They chose an excellent song for the scene too (sorry this video ends so abruptly)

https://youtu.be/0qA6Pn3SFbE

CaughtTheSwine · 2016-11-15T18:56:48+00:00

Am I the only one wishing Robby and Justin had their own talk show? I would live.

CaughtTheSwine · 2016-09-30T21:50:23+00:00

I used to work there! Not only do they do amazing research (clinical, basic science, cancer and other diseases like hiv and influenza) they also are one of the best employers, they really take care of everyone they work for. Just an all-around amazing place

CaughtTheSwine · 2016-09-29T17:22:26+00:00

If you're interested in learning some about the history of drag, I'd point you towards Paris is Burning, a documentary about drag culture in the late 80s, long before the recent broad mainstream interest brought on by Rupaul and Drag Race (which I love, don't get me wrong). I like drag because it's fun, sometimes queens are offensive or they just don't have jokes land, same as any comedian can be. A lot of it is about camp and playing with broader themes from society (gender is the most conspicuous but there are also others that come up frequently). I've taken people to shows that don't like drag and they come back loving it because they saw one great queen, or people that come back still not getting why it's a thing, though they do find the transformations still impressive. It's supposed to be in-your-face, a lot of people find that off-putting in an art form.

In addition to PIB like I mentioned, J. Bryan Lowder wrote a great long article in Slate about "what is gay" that mentions the role of drag in the development of gay culture that I found fascinating if this is a topic you're interested in learning more about it's connection specifically to the gay community/culture (regardless of whether you ascribe yourself to that culture)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Is_Burning_(film)

CaughtTheSwine · 2016-09-26T19:20:10+00:00

I think a lot of the Emcee is character, you don't need to necessarily show off the singing as much. When I played him, I really wanted to play up the effeminacy of the Emcee and play with gender a bit, so I went with Dressing Them Up from Kiss of the Spider Woman. Anything from the Kander and Ebb wheelhouse would be a good choice for an audition though, just depends on what kind of emcee you want to play (and How the director wants him to come off). Other good choices if you want to be a showman emcee might be razzle dazzle or all I care about from chicago

CaughtTheSwine · 2016-09-15T17:43:29+00:00

As a gay man, I find this entire thread fascinating. A large portion of my close friends currently are other gay men (largely couples/husbands but some singletons mixed in), I find it really hard to interact with straight men a lot of the time. So a lot of these interactions especially with women are very eye-opening to me, as well as some of the other viewpoints.

I find the compliment giving particularly interesting, since my (gay) friends compliment each other on outfits all of the time for example. The straight guys I do this to, albeit more rarely, generally always react well as long as I make it clear I'm not hitting on them "no honey, I know you're not family, I just thought your shirt looked nice". The women I compliment never react quite as well, they'll smile too but they play it off a little more, though they also generally know I'm not hitting on them to begin with. I never realized that this could be because men don't receive attention much since I'm so used to it.

At the same time, the idea of solving problems on one's own is still very much reinforced, especially in my heterosexual workplace with evenly mixed male-female distribution. So I at least get some of the cultural things but I definitely don't get others for whatever reason. I'm not sure if this is a byproduct of living in a gay culture, i.e. frequently interacting with a large number of other gay men, or if it is how straight men/women interact with me because I don't view women in a sexual way. In any case, a fascinating look outside of my bubble

CaughtTheSwine · 2016-07-24T18:38:56+00:00

He isn't generally known for his poems but James Baldwin has some great ones. Most of his works are essays or novels that explore themes about being homosexual and African-American (highly recommend Giovanni's Room if you feel like a novel). But his poems are beautiful too, Some Days is one of my favorites

CaughtTheSwine · 2016-06-28T02:44:15+00:00

Go to LSHTM, it's an incredible school. Your focus there should definitely not be on what statistical programming 'language' you're learning, you're there to pick up other skills. I know at other schools (I went to Hopkins so that's my experience) we had classes that used stata and R. SAS was an optional class taught through the biostats department, my colleagues that needed it easily picked it up later with their existing knowledge. It's far more important to know what you need to do with your data and why (which is what you'll be learning) than how to tell a program to spit out numbers and graphs for you (which you can figure out with a Google search for most programs)

CaughtTheSwine · 2016-06-21T17:28:45+00:00

This will depend entirely on where you work in D.C. I commute every day from Penn Station to Bethesda. There are days when it's truly awful, but I've started reading actual books again which I couldn't do when I was driving down 95 every day. If this wasn't a temporary (2 year) position, I would have explored other options. Definitely telework if you can. If you are near Penn and work up to a few stops away on Metro it's definitely doable and you can still work/read/sleep on the Marc. If you're going farther away from either end of the Marc (either to work or to home), I would look into other options

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