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LARGE bracelets are back in stock.

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then upgrade to a larger size!

i get lots of spam comments. only a few make it through the filter and on to groinstrong. sometimes they bring real meaning into our lives. here’s my new favorite.

All these junk comments from people ever all blackness i valid fire,
what i am looking for is comments by people on the material world.

i would obviously go here! thanks michelle.

These Genuine Bull Penis Walking Canes and Sticks are made out of real bull penises. The bull organs are actually 36″ or longer and are not stretched out. There is a metal rod inside the cane that is almost invisible to give extra support. The organ is professionally clean and sterilized by a professional taxidermists. They are the most unique collector walking cane that can be found. It is also a perfect gift for the most shocking over the hill birthday gift cane!

i am also behind on getting all of the incredible pictures from the groinstrong-a-thong.

here are ameet’s pictures!

is an apology. i am SO far behind on bracelets, cards and such. i know you all understand but i am WAY behind. i just hope i can catch up before my family invades next week!

thank you for your orders and support… and patience!

it’s a good thing i lived in minnesota for two winters. it thickened my meagre california-bred blood. i moved from the equatorial summer in east africa to the winter in minnesota - a transition i would not recommend to even the heartiest out there. did you know i lived in africa for a while? i did. i made a radio documentary even!

the temperature is dropping steadily and the winds that hurtle through this neighborhood from the harbor are picking up. it’s not as bad as it was on atlantic avenue, just a block or two from the water, but it’s no berkeley either. the tree outside my window is frantically holding on to its last few leaves; through its bare branches i can watch the ubiquitous starlings be their usual vicious selves.

this disability thing is great for my healing - not as good for my social life. the show outside my window isn’t too bad, but i’m getting tired of laying in bed all day. i managed to walk to daniel’s bagel corporation (really!) yesterday from the doctor’s office. i remembered it being on first avenue, so steve and i traversed various on- and off-ramps of the midtown tunnel only to find that there’s NOTHING on first avenue - and that we’d actually been about a half a block from warm bagels when we turned the wrong way - towards the windy river, many long blocks, downhill, out of the way.

of course, it’s a good sign that i could manage the walk, and it felt good to be out in the crisp sunshine. just over a week now since my last surgery, and no more cutting on the immediate horizon. so that feels good. hopefully in the next week or two i’ll be able to return to light stretching, if not a few of my old yoga poses. i miss being able to use my body, for stretching, for biking, for strolls through this magnificent neighborhood, to visit the shop owners and bartenders and tattoo parlor office managers who are my dependable good friends.

how nice then that they all manage to come and see me instead!

The Mugs with a Schubas-Groinstrong tribute, originally uploaded by Laate.

Mmmmm.

Having lunch post-doctor. Here’s the latest.

They did find more melanoma, this time on my left hip, almost a mirror image of the spot on my right side. Which isn’t great. BUT - it’s very tiny, about a centimeter across or so. Since we know where it is, we’re going to leave it in for now and keep a very close eye on it. It’ll be a barometer for the effectiveness of the oral chemotherapy - if it gets smaller, then that’s a good sign. And if it doesn’t, then we’ll just cut it out. The scan shots didn’t effectively show where the spot was, so my docs got to spend some time feeling around. “When I got up this morning,” Dr. Pavlick said, “I thought, gee, I hope I get a chance to massage Jonah’s ass.” I love my doctors.

The pills for chemo are on their way - I can’t start while this stupid drain is still in, so we’re delayed a bit. It’s looking like we’ll start the pills after Thanksgiving, which is nice. My cousin Jen is coming to give me a hand in the first week of December, which is about when I’ll get started. It sounds like the side effects should be pretty minimal. But just in case, it’s a good thing to have family around. My folks will have a chance to meet my oncologist before the holiday and since my whole family and Kathryn’s parents are coming (!), it’ll be good to take a break from things.

I have another appointment this afternoon with my psychiatrist. My delicious bagel is sadly gone and Steve (who is accompanying me for the afternoon) and I should head back to the Center. But how can we leave when Black Velvet is playing?

Groinstrong-a-thong from Chris Michael on Vimeo.

oh my goodness! endless thanks to chris michael for this video that captures the spirit of the evening in all its grainy, rainy, loving splendor. he just gave up his epic mustache for a good cause - mustaches for kids (really) - if you donate, it helps teachers get supplies for their classrooms. he explains it all in this video. i know y’all just donated a whole lot but every little bit helps!

p.s. if you’re interested, he also got some video of kathryn and myself rockin the freakin house. in case you’re in the mood for some visionary rock firepower…we will oblige.

groinstrong’s dynamic duo from Chris Michael on Vimeo.