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Yesterday I attended LA Times Magazine’s “Conversations on Health & Wellness” at Terranea Resort (what a stunning backdrop!) and a welcome respite from my brain, which has been mired in thoughts about mom, and cancer. I was glad to see that Marianne Williamson was one of the speakers, since her book, A Return to Love, [...]

September is ovarian cancer month. In this video, Kathy discuss her experience with ovarian cancer.
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I LOVE A MARGARITA, and this guilt-free recipe contains only 2 grams net carbs (if made with bottled lime juice) or 2.5 grams carbs (if using fresh lime juice). Cheers!
1.5 oz tequila — a jigger-full
1 oz lime juice
1/4 cup water
1/4 teaspoon orange extract
1 TB liquid artificial sweetener
Handful ice
Kosher salt
Wet glass rim, dip into salt. Combine all ingredients [...]

Here’s how to tell if someone has an eating disorder.

Are they secretive about eating (and the time after eating)? This secrecy gives the individual time to binge and purge.
Do they exhibit strange bathroom habits? (They might also make frequent trips to the bathroom after meals). Watch for signs and smells of vomiting, evidence of laxatives [...]

Our homemade ad for marriage equality is literally votes away from becoming a finalist in “Project: Pushback” … but we need your help. Would you vote for us?
All you have to do is click on the “HEART/I LIKE” icon on the vid below (or here), or pass it on to a few friends.

Just Like Anybody [...]

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I just learned that our little video/ad submission for the LAGLC’s “Project Pushback” competition was *offline* in the first day of voting.
Please help us!


Click the “like/heart” icon on the video below.
Copy and paste this info and ask friends to do the same [you rock!]

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First Look: at my shortened marriage equality spot. I submitted it to Project Pushback. You can also help by embedding or forwarding the ad using the tools in the player below.
Thanks everyone!
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Based on the trailer, it looks like the upcoming film version of Where the Wild Things Are will, at the very least, be a creative re-imagining of Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s book. Special thanks to my buddy Kevin for hooking me up with the code so I could embed it here.
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by BRONSON PAGE
If anyone in your family has had colon cancer, take the age they were when they were diagnosed, subtract 10 years, and that’s the age at which you should have a colonoscopy. Mom was 50, and so being 40, I had my first colonoscopy this year, besides, all of my coolest friends (Paul, Jeb, Sonny) were having them, and I’m not one to be left out. Here’s how it went for me. If I can get through it, then anyone can:
Thursday:
Breakfast is the last meal I’ll have for over 24 hours. At 9AM, I had mixed fruit with yogurt, cottage cheese, and granola, and since I knew it would be a while until my next meal, I felt a rice krispy treat was also in order. An hour or so later, the hunger kicks in, and it has to be quelled with clear liquids only, and juices without pulp until Thursday night. I definitely felt the absence of solid food, and learned that when I get a specific gurgle on my left side, under my ribcage, it’s time for a game of iPhone Scrabble in the “throne room.” When I got home, Sam was having our favorite Chinese chicken salad, and I would have killed for even a taste of the Styrofoam container it was in. But I had bigger plans. I was to take my first dose of MoviPrep, a pre-exam solution that gets its name either because everything moves, or because it’s good prep if you’re going to be in a porn movie. Maybe both. Either way, it tastes like lemon-lime crystal lite made with sea water. Icy cold, or even on the rocks is better than room temperature because you’re going to be drinking a quarter-liter every fifteen minutes for an hour. It starts to work in about 20 minutes. If you live with others, for their sake, please crank up the tunes. At few points in one’s life are the ramifications of one’s dietary choices more apparent or the reasons for making resolutions more clear. We’ll leave it at that. Provided you started a couple of hours before bed, you can feel pretty secure about bedding down...

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My college bud Trevor sent me this video, a cover of the original “I Kissed A Girl” by Katy Perry. I was shocked to see it has 5.4 million views and 17,000+ comments.
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“Pride goeth before the fall” may be the mantra soon plaguing the misguided marketing team behind Gatorade, launching this lame ad campaign trying to re-brand the time-honored sports beverage as “just G”.
Or is it just a big inside joke being played out on us consumers?
Don’t they know that club kids often mix the street drug GHB with Gatorade?  It’s a problem among bodybuilders too.  Just last week, in the Philadelphia suburb of Falls Township, a bodybuilder was accused of giving GHB-laced Gatorade to a co-worker at the gym where he worked:
[GHB] is often ingested by bodybuilders to calm down after a strenuous workout. Police say it is also used as a so-called date rape drug, because it puts users into a deep sleep.
Krueger, who worked in the sales department of the club and was not a bodybuilder, did not use the drug, prosecutors said. Schwendiman allegedly offered Krueger a sip of GHB-laced Gatorade while the two men were at work but did not tell him what it was. A witness told the grand jury that Schwendiman told the victim “trust me, you’ll like it.”
Several hours later, prosecutors said, Schwendiman dropped Krueger off at a hospital emergency room, where he was pronounced dead. When questioned by the grand jury, Schwendiman allegedly denied using GHB and giving it to Krueger.
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THIS IS THE FIRST ENTRY OF “MY FAVORITE 3 WEB DISCOVERIES” — A NEW WEEKLY COLUMN. Articles, websites, videos, contests, applications, pictures … you get it.  If you’ve seen something already, my apologies, sometimes I’m a little slow.
My favorite discovery this week was Ice Blink, a documentary about the Martin family, whose cruising lifestyle has potentially transforming lessons for urban types.
Next, this video, shown to me by Bronson & Conny cracks me UP!
I love ambient/downtempo music, so I loved this weird music video to a remix of Alice. If you like ambient tunes, check out Buzzoutroom (it streams in iTunes under the Electronic category):
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I’ve been thinking a lot about what really “matters most” to me, and I keep coming back to the Trevor Project, a suicide hotline for troubled gay youth. This cause in particular is dear to my heart because as a young kid, there were many times I had thoughts of suicide because I was gay.
If you’re on Facebook, please consider supporting the Trevor Project, a suicide helpline for troubled gay youth by clicking this link: http://tinyurl.com/3gwtc3 or visit TrevorProject.com And if you have the financial means, consider making a donation — you could literally save a kid’s life. Here’s a little background:
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Because of Resolution #2, I’ve necessarily been approaching different ways of to getting a handle on my daily nutrition. To lose a pound of body fat per week by June 20, I need to shave 800 calories off my daily 3,800 caloric number.
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