i recently read a book entitled "treason" by orson scott card. it's one of those future-planets-inhabited-by-evolved-humans scifi novels. pretty interesting read if you're into that sort of stuff (although i liked "wyrms" better).

anyway, the protagonist comes from this "family" that has been genetically altered to be able to regenerate any lost or damaged body part. chop off his legs and they grow back in a matter of hours/days/whatever. however, there are these "radical regeneratives" that grow every body part possible and spontaneously sprout random extra body parts--they end up having their organs periodically harvested like animals or get exiled. so the hero discovers he's one of the radical regeneratives because he's grown breasts and ovaries and gets exiled. as he's leaving, he's miserable since he's leaving everything he's known and everyone he's loved, including his gf/fiance.

the slightly amusing part is that he grabs his own boobs to remember hers. haha

and this reminds me of several conversations i've had with males who say that if they suddenly became women and grew breasts, the very first thing they'd do would be to touch them. then they would use them to their advantage to get free drinks, seduce guys into getting their way, etc...

which leads me to the conclusion that if any guys suddenly became females, they would first fondle themselves and then become whores.

here we reach an intrinsic difference between males and females. most women, if they suddenly became males and grew dicks, would not immediately touch themselves and jack off.

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into holly palmer's new single, "just so you know". catchy...slight spoken word vibe going for it, sort of smoother nelly furtado-ish feel too. random fact: she used to be david bowie's backup singer.

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"Just So You Know" -Holly Palmer

i'm telling you something, i'm telling you something

tell me, baby, if maybe we could put the top down
the sun is flying so high today (hey, come here, come here, can you hear me now?)
and the shine off your cherry fenders would be too much, but not too much
with your hand reach out, with your mouth shape the phrase and say:

just so you know
just so i know
just so we know we're together
if i can look in your eyes, and see what i feel is real, and i know we're together

oh, with your eyes, look over, with your car, pull over
that's all it's going to take
'cause i have been paying very close attention to your habits

somebody over there at the counter in the diner on the corner in the corner of my mind
wears your face
on a different day i'm someone else too and we disappear together
we fold up and fly away like paper airplanes
we rub each other's creases and
line up each other's angles
and we choose the brightest papers
and we
fly

just so you know
just so i know
just so we know we're together
if i can look in your eyes and see what i feel is real, then i know we're together

we could really take our time, we could really get our shapes just right
and fly off each other into the night
where we land is out of our hands
and so in this way we don't stop
we never stop
we don't stop
we won't stop, baby

just so you know...