Can't Miss Toilet News

1000 toilets in one public bathroom in China. Some of them are really cool! I like the spreading toilet culture part!

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A poem by Robin Morgan...Go buy her poetry and her literature and stuff...

Survival is the final offer

that arrives at the eleventh hour

just when pain to the tenth power

would kill you with another ninth degree.

By then, relief strikes you brief as an eighth note;

you wear doom proudly; it's your seventh seal.

But life whispers through your sixth sense

of what might await you in some fifth dimension

where miracle is saved for the fourth quarter.

Tricked, you sigh and rise on the third day.

You know better, but with no second thought,

risk that first step-absurd as first love at first sight

as if you were back at ground zero, as if it cost

nothing, as if this were not the last laugh.

Port-a-John Stonehenge

Perhaps a statement on constipation? Maybe why the festival was sunk in mud that looks tummy troubled? Don't know...but take a look at the Banksy Stonehenge. Of course, we could also get into the worship of toilets...

By the way, CNN reported that 160,000 rolls of recycled toilet paper were handed out at the festival.

Crohn's and Colitis Awareness Week

Happy Crohn's and Colitis Awareness Week. Most of you know way too much about Crohn's and Colitis. You know it sometimes can be a literal pain in the ass.

In case you don't know about Crohn's or you are new to it...the CCFA is the place to learn more. They have information, news, and resources.

Crohn's & Me is a great place to go if you are focussing on the pain in the ass part and need a bit of inspiration.It has all sorts of stories on people living and thriving with Crohn's disease. People with Crohn's and UC have guts for sure. They get up, they work, they raise families, they do amazing things every day.

Cures are in the works. Treatments get better all the time. But of course, all of that takes time, patience, and money. Awareness helps get that money. Because Crohn's and Colitis are digestive diseases...no one wants to talk about them. Your co-worker, friend, idol, or family member might have it and never talk about it. You might never talk about it. So, take a moment to talk about it. Talk to your lawmakers, grant foundations, friends and family.

More Folks with Crohn's

More Fall Ill to Crohn's and IBDs.
I read a post on a blog the other day (I would link but of course didn't save it because um I have no short-task ability (surely that is what it is called) these days) where someone called Crohn's the disease du jour. It made me laugh and growl. Usually things I consider the disease du jour have no quantifiable lab results or sketchy made up labs. But in any case, it does seem like everyone and their cousin (mostly their cousins actually) has Crohn's or Ulcerative Colitis these days. Is that really because it is on the rise or is it because once you say you have this...other people will confess they do too? Is it because in these food safe times, the symptoms are more unusual and alarming, so you go to the doctor? shrug. Don't know. I know I would be really glad to get rid of this "disease du jour."

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