Monday Meanderings - Sep 20. This blog is rated "PG"

Austin quite often is named the number one city for.. and here will follow some accolade, such as "best place to live", "best place to start a business", "best place to be a slacker," etc. There apparently is no end to what we are number one at, including the latest tout - the, ahem,  most sexually active city in the nation. I am not making this up.

According to the October issue of Men's Health Magazine, Austin leads all other cities in the US in, well, shall we say euphemistically, mattress dancing. The magazine bases this dubious award on 1) sale of condoms, 2) birth rates, and 3) reported incidences of STDs. Of the cities that are most important to our family, the rankings are:

1.   Austin
11. Lubbock
14. Fresno

Now frankly, I am dubious. Where is New Orleans, Las Vegas, New York? At 46th, 70th and 73rd, respectively. LA? Not even on the list! That's just not right. I mean, the official motto of Las Vegas is "Sin City" while the official motto of Lubbock is "Keep Lubbock flat." I've heard that the motto for Fresno is "Eat more raisins" but I may be mistaken about that.

Now, I notice that a lot of the cities on the list are college and university towns. Maybe there’s a correlation? Go figure.

Article in the Statesman recently telling about an organization in Houston called Taping for the Blind, Inc. They have a somewhat similar mission as Recording for the Blind, dealing primarily in periodicals, such as National Geographic, Time, Reader's Digest AND PLAYBOY! Excuse me? I read "Heavy Truck Repair" and "Early British Literature" and they read Playboy! There's something very wrong here.

According to the article, the woman (!) who reads Playboy says, "I don't read it all cover-to-cover, but I do read everything -- all the articles, all the jokes, all the little cartoons, all the pictures, all the letters to the adviser, all those things." As for the photos, consider Miss August. "She is a Latina, brunette with dark chocolate brown eyes. She has long curly brown hair...in the first photo she is sitting in the ocean. She has a very large grin on her face, pink lipstick. She has a small tattoo right over the small of her back over the dimple area that appears to be some sort of tribal design...there are no tan lines at all. She is not wearing any nail polish, or jewelry, or bathing suit, or anything." There is more, but I think you get the picture, so to speak.

By the way, when asked why she mentions nail polish, she says, "Sometimes that's the only thing they have on." And I thought you only read it for the articles.

 Meanwhile I am reading "Texas : a Brief Account of the Origin, Progress and Present State of the Colonial Settlements of Texas; Together with an Exposition of the Causes which have induced the Existing War with Mexico."  Sigh.

And while we are on this subject, what's up with those Cialis commercials on TV? Evidently if you take this stuff you have to be very,very careful, because "an accidental touch" will WRECK YOUR HOUSE! Sure, an "everyday moment may turn romantic," but if you take Cialis that everyday moment causes the walls to fall down, water to pour from your kitchen counters, fences to fall over, and you find yourself living outdoors in a tent, or on the side of a pond and your bathtubs are now in your front yard.! Just saying.

And how ironic is it that the "Le Bare" club in Austin is in the former location of Cinnabons? The irony is more apparent if you say it aloud.

And we will zip up this subject with this video:


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