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Noted without comment: Science and religion
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Daily Archives: May 22, 2009
Writer’s Block: There Can Be Only One
What a strange question.
Does monogamy exist? Of course it does. Am I monogamous? Absolutely not.
I believe that choices in life are most meaningful when they are choices, consciously made rather than accepted as defaults. I believe there are a great many people who have thought about it and decided that monogamy is what’s best for them, a great many other people who have thought about it and concluded that non-monogamy in one form or another works best for them, and some folks who don’t much think about it at all and are monogamous because they think that’s the only option available.
Life is one of those things that gets better when it’s lived consciously.
Tape and plaster, Part II
In Part I of this tale, we wrapped joreth in layers of paper tape with water-soluble glue, for the purpose of creating a cast of her body from which she could make a dressmaker’s dummy.
That same day, we also created a plaster cast of her body, using plaster bandage strips.
The plaster was applied directly over skin, and was considerably messier than the paper tape. The process was a lot of fun, but absolutely in no way, shape, or form safe for work.