So, when I got a temporary crown put in today by my new dentist, (to replace the awful “permanent” one my old dentist put in, you see) I ask about getting a gold crown. With the old one, I didn’t know how things worked so when they put the awful one in, I didn’t know when to ask about whether I could get a gold one until it was too late.

So, this time I ask. And I’d have to pay $800 extra because my insurance considers it cosmetic. She tells me that it would last longer and that ordinarily they don’t ask if people want gold for their teeth near the front. So, I fume while she matches the shade of porcelain I’m going to end up getting. Am I detecting an ethnic bias in the policies of my dental insurance provider or is this just standard serving up lemon jello and telling me it’s dessert Ticketmaster doublespeak?

A snapshot of my psyche this July 4, 2010.

I used to wear ballgowns in the daytime when I lived in Copenhagen. There was also a kaftan phase. I had some quilted polyester. Actually I had a mauve quilted polyester dressing gown that I was quite partial to, and would wear it over one of my ballgowns. And flowers in my hair. Odd coloured shoes. Bowler hats. This is why I had to make a shop out of it all at some point. Nobody bought the quilted polyester. I had other stuff.

The craze for tattooing grew worse, and each morning saw new additions to the ranks of the disfigured. One morning the climax was reached when a dozen little boys and several little girls appeared with beetles, shrimps, lobsters and butterflies crawling over their faces.

New York Tribune. Illustrated Supplement. Sunday, October 26, 1902.

from Christina Hendricks: A Letter to Men

Indeed, let’s “call a spade a spade” regarding homosexuality.

By the way, that’s a lovely ascot.

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