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Wednesday, April 01, 2009 7:12 PM

Current mood: cheeky :)

Our friends at Astroglide have provided us with seventeen things you probably didn’t know about sex:
  1. Thanksgiving:   Is it Good?

    Certain smells like vanilla and pumpkin pie can make men sexually excited and increase the flow of blood to the penis.
      
  2. Or evil?

    A man’s penis shrinks when his team scores a touchdown. Intense nonsexual excitement can make the little fella disappear.
      
  3. Yeah, it was great. Now call 911…

    Every year, 11,000 Americans injure themselves while trying out bizarre sexual positions.
      
  4. What a turn off!

    The condom was originally made of lamb intestine. It was invented by a Dr. Condom in the early 1500s. (University of Washington Daily, 12/2/1997)
      
  5. Bring it on home, Jimmy Choo…

    52% of all women prefer shoe shopping to sex (Harpers Weekly Review, 10/16/01)
      
  6. Obviously you haven’t met my ex!

    Chimpanzees hold the record for the fastest quickies. Sexual intercourse can last as little as three seconds. (Bonobo Sex and Society, by Frans B.M. deWall, Scientific American, March 1995)
      
  7. Some people can’t pass up a bargain…

    Napoleon’s withered penis was purchased at a 1969 auction for $38,000. (New York Times, August 18, 1991)
      
  8. And it doesn’t hog the remote…

    Phenylethylamine, the chemical responsible for the ecstatic highs of
    love and sexual attraction, is also found in chocolate.
    (www.chocolate.com)
      
  9. But she’d keep tipping over!

    If she were life‑sized, Mattel’s Barbie® would have the measurements: 41″-19″‑32″. (American Demographics, 7/1/03 by John P. McManus)
      
  10. Today they’d be called “The Barbies®“

    Early French explorers named Wyoming’s mountains the Grand Tetons. The name means “Big Tits.”
      
  11. And that’s why they’re not called “Ken’s!”

    Why do they call them sperm whales? Could be because their penises are 9 feet long. (American Cetacean Society)
      
  12. Another good reason not to buy an SUV

    In Bombay, India, a man pulled a car with his penis in front of Mahalakshmi Temple in protest of India’s 1989 oil crisis. (Straits Times, 11/02)
      
  13. Is that a mochaccino in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?

    The Archives of General Medicine say coffee drinkers have sex more frequently and enjoy it more than non‑coffee drinkers.
      
  14. And it made a heck of a mochaccino!

    The first automatic vibrator was invented in 1869. It ran on boiling water and was steam powered. (New York Times, March 21,1999)
      
  15. Not that there’s anything wrong with it!

    Bats - especially fruit bats - have the highest rate of homosexuality
    of any group of mammals. (From the article, “Homosexual Activity Among
    Animals Stirs Debate,”  by James Own, National Geographic News, July 23 2004)
      
  16. Worst new trend

    In 1979, the Kinsey Institute reported that the average erection
    measured a healthy 6.2 inches. However, a study in 2001 found the
    average is now a measly 5.9 inches. Penile recession?
      
  17. Supersize me, please?

    The smallest normal penis on record, according to the same Kinsey
    Institute report, measured 5/8ths of an inch in its dormant state. When
    erect, who cares?



 
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009 10:16 AM




The question I am asked most often (about everything BLU) is, “Why BLU(e)?”

I am more than pleased to answer, as much thought did go into the naming of the magazine.

I initially searched high and low for words that represented singlehood. The problem with all of them is that they didn’t seem to “roll off the tongue,” or to appear well in print, as they would have to at the top of every issue. Plus, the words all seemed so forgettable.

It was then that I decided to utilize a color’s name for the publication, as colors trigger an instant response in the human brain, thus invoking a memory. “Red” had been so overused in the nineties, and it represents anger, fire, and many of the things that I just didn’t believe related well, for this use.

Of all other colors, only blue and green were left as being the most adaptable and usable (in my mind). After all, the color needed to be masculine enough without being too harsh, emotional without being sappy, memorable without being cliche, and representative of the single life.

I looked into the historic and cultural meanings of the color blue. In doing so, I was overwhelmed by just how appropriately this one color represents the life of a single adult, as evidenced by its symbolic use throughout the ages:

  • Independence
  • Conservatism (politics, traditional blue suit, blue laws)
  • Wealth and social affluence (blue bloods, royal blue)
  • Promiscuity, obscenity, and sexuality (blue boutiques)
  • Importance and confidence (blue police uniforms)
  • Intelligence and stability (corporate usage)
  • Transformation into mirror-like wisdom (in Buddhism)
  • Productivity
  • Good health
  • Friendliness
  • Truth
  • Fidelity, loyalty and love (as in “something blue” for brides)
  • Vigilance, perseverance, and justice (on the American flag)

Always one who enjoys cheekiness and “pulling one over,” I particularly love the contradictions in its Western symbolism:

  • Liberalism yet conservatism
  • Friendliness yet aloofness
  • Water yet fire
  • Clay yet ice
  • Sky yet underground
  • Light yet depression
  • In blood yet absence of blood
  • Royalty and nobility yet tackiness and obscenity
  • Tradition yet technology

Looking further, its literary usage has been one any color would be proud of, could colors feel emotions (as symbolized by their very being). From the Bible to Shakespeare, mythology to modern movies, in law books and stories of promiscuity, blue conveys the status, style, type, emotion, and feeling.

Four years after naming it BLU, four years after being quite pleased with doing so and feeling that the name adequately (yet perhaps somewhat secretly) conveyed the truest summary of what single life is about, I was introduced to what is now one of my favorite books of all time…one about the color blue, one about the emotion of blue, and one written in a sing-songy way that evokes the sing-songy feeling of blue. That book, On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry by William Gass, most appropriately sums up what it means to be BLU:
Of all the colors, blue and green have the greatest emotional range. Sad reds and melancholy yellows are difficult to turn up. Among the ancient elements, blue occurs everywhere: in ice and water, in the flame as purely as the flower, overhead and inside caves, covering fruit and oozing out of clay. Although green enlivens the earth and mixes in the ocean, and we find it, copperish, in fire, green air, green skies, are rare. Gray and brown are widely distributed, nor there are no joyful swatches of either, or of any exuberant black, sullen pink, or acquiescent orange. Blue is therefore most suitable as the color of interior life. Whether slick light sharp high bright thin quick sour new and cool or low deep sweet thick  dark soft slow smooth heavy old and warm: blue moves easily among them all, and all profoundly qualify our states of being.

Now, in saying all of the above, and hopefully in presenting this rather lengthy clarification of “Why BLU(e),” we can move beyond the very unimaginative expectation of every issue having a blue header (of the name “BLU”), a blue tone, and blue colors throughout (as it simply won’t). After all, we as single people - just like Gass’ color blue - move easily among all colors, though blue profoundly qualifies our states of being, well, single.





 
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Friday, February 23, 2007 6:24 PM

Current mood:  ecstatic

Thank you so much to everyone who has been so incredibly sweet by email this morning! It was such a nice surprise to wake up to such positive energy. I'm so glad you're receiving the sampling of pages as well as I had hoped...and have loved reading your notes!

Keep 'em comin! In return, we'll do all we can to keep BLU coming and improving with each issue!!

kisses,

k

 
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