Not to be a Bible-thumper, but there really is nothing new under the sun.

Any ideas of “other” are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of “normal.”

The blowing thing is something that you either have a predilection for or not. And I don't have that thing. It was just unsanitary. I couldn't do it. I am a complete germaphobe.

Not to be a Bible-thumper, but there really is nothing new under the sun.

Your yes means nothing if you can't say no.

We're all just bags of bones and muscle and hormones; I'll never understand what makes our minds do the things we do. It's like that statue of the monkey holding a skull. We're trying to use a thing we don't understand to understand ourselves.

It's interesting to do other people's music - that's how I learned to play, by learning other people's songs. It's nice to delve into how other people got to where they are.