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Please excuse my recent absence. I was experiencing a lack of Internet at home and a lack of time elsewhere. At this point I seem to be back on track, that is unless the noise emanating from the 'puter are really as ominous as I fear. Let's get on with it then.

I paid a little more attention while I was grocery shopping the other night and happened to run across a bottle of chocolate milk from Traderspoint Creamery of Zionsville, IN. Traderspoint is a certified organic farm that was listed at www.eatwild.com which I reported on last time when discussing The Omnivore's Dilemma. I really enjoyed it and was surprised by how flavorful it is. The chocolate flavor was very rich and creamy much more so than any other chocolate milk I have tried before. So I may pick that one up more often.

The latest issue of Details magazine (yes the one with Zac Efron on it) featured some good reading. Probably the most interesting thing Details features monthly is their "Know + Tell" section which always features various statistics, new slang, interesting quotes, etc. that can be downright shocking and pointed. For instance according to an internal memo at Comcast (the cable and Internet provider), it costs $1000 for the US government to set up surveillance on one of their customer's personal email. It is then a $750 a month for continued access. I don't know which facet of this is so disgusting: that a company makes a profit off of practice which is a complete violation of privacy or that the ungodly amount of my paycheck I don't get is being used to fund it. I really haven't seen much data regarding where the current Presidential hopefuls stand on the Patriot Act and so on, however I think citizens' right to privacy is something worth discussing.

Another section that keeps me buying Details every month is "10 Rules of Style." Every month they ask a designer to list some of his/her dictates of style, and this month it was A.P.C designer Jean Touitou. He stated, "If you can tell a man's sexuality by the way he dresses-like a 'gay' uniform or a 'macho' uniform-that's disgusting." I certainly agree. I am so tired of seeing clothes that are clearly geared to gays being worn in full force to bars (and I will admit I may have committed this sin in my younger days). One of the joys of fashion is the way it compliments the wearer not the way it announces how they like it. Plus, I'm all about the mystery...it's so much sexier.