White Beans and Cherry Tomato Salad

http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes/white_beans_and_cherry_tomato_salad/

The following salad combines the sweetness of summer cherry tomatoes with white beans and parsley. The secret sauce is the dressing, which includes garlic and rosemary infused olive oil, and a paste made of garlic, lemon, Parmesan and anchovies. If you want a vegetarian option, omit the anchovies, if not, by all means include them. Or, if you don’t have access to anchovies, add a dash or two of Worcestershire sauce.

Straight Women/Gay Romance

http://www.lambdaliterary.org/features/booklovers/06/08/straight-womengay-rom...

Josh Lanyon, author of the popular Adrien English M/M mystery series, says, “The antecedents of M/M romance are fan fiction, and fan fiction is dominated by women.” In Lanyon’s magisterial Man, Oh, Man! Writing M/M Fiction for Kinks and Ca$h (MLR Press, 2008), he explains that fan or slash fan fiction is a subgenre of traditional women’s romance that involves male/male (hence the name, slash) pairings of characters borrowed from other fictional sources, such as Kirk and Spock from Star Trek, or celebrity personalities, and he writes, “Men have never been a huge part of the slash fandom.” Author and publisher Laura Baumbach of MLR (ManLoveRomance) Press says that she started out writing slash fan fiction. She says, “I moved into original characters when a publisher of my fan fiction had a distributor ask for more of my work.” She opened her own publishing house when readers wanted to see her M/M romance work in both print and e-book form.

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Although it would seem like gay male readers would be an obvious untapped market for M/M romance, John Scognamiglio of Kensington Press is quoted by Lanyon as saying, “It’s two different audiences. Readers who are reading M/M fiction aren’t reading gay fiction. It’s two different types of books.”

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As hot and heavy as some M/M romance sex gets, the bottom line is that it is predominately written by women for women.

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Why do straight women like to read gay erotica? One can see straight men getting off on pseudo-lesbian porn because they fantasize about protruding into the scene, but M/M erotica is about gay sex, pure and simple, not bisexual three-ways. The happily ever after is two men in love. For Laura Baumbach of MLR Press it’s obvious: “One man is good, two are better. Hotter, more fascinating to women who read this genre.”

When iMac goes to work

http://www.ikeahackers.net/2011/01/when-imac-goes-to-work.html

This looks like it would work with a stool, as described, but also, as a standing desk.

Materials: 1 LACK Wall shelf unit, 1 LACK Wall shelf, 2 CAPITA Bracket, 1 DALFRED Bar Stool

Description: First of all it’s necessary an iMac 27”! If you are looking for a workstation comfortable and elegant, suitable for a small space, this is the solution for you.

You only need a Lack series, especially a wall shelf unit, a wall shelf and brackets.

Discover Magazine: Two heads better than one (if the heads talk and know how competent they are)

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/08/26/two-heads-bette...

The failure of groups to outperform their individual members comes from situations where people don’t communicate the evidence for their decision and how reliable that evidence is. Just like the unwittingly incompetent recruits, people who don’t know about their own shortcomings limit the potential of the group.

The Fetishizing of Queer Sexuality. A Response — Lambda Literary

http://www.lambdaliterary.org/features/oped/08/19/the-fetishizing-of-queer-se...

If you aren’t familiar with M/M fiction here’s what it is: Straight women fetishizing the lives of gay men.

Most of us who identify as queer understand the complexities of sexuality. Many of us struggled with claiming our identities and defining them. Were that not the case, we would not have the alphabet soup of the LGBTIQ community, would we?

That said, fetishizing the sexuality of others is still a blatant form of sexism, homophobia, racism. When you fetishize another’s sexuality, you make them less than. You make them Other.