People say mixed-race babies are the most beautiful of all. I dunno; I find most babies ugly. Mixed race couples, though, are beautiful to my eye. The combinations of colors and tones, curves and contours, makes me happy at a deep level. I get a similar happy feeling from seeing butch and femme lesbians, and for some reason, people decked out in swingers outfits. The good news is that I live in Oakland, where there are a lot of couples that fall into each of these categories, especially the first one.

The bad news is, when I'm wandering around the city and see a happy, lovely couple, I get anxious about it. How would they know that I'm staring because they're so heart-warming, not because I've got a bigoted axe to grind. Most of the people I know who have been in a mixed race couple say they get hassled a little, and stared at rudely a lot.

How do you balance indulging your asthetic fascinations with the potential creep-out factor of your gaze?

What racial mixes do you like best? I'm currently digging a Tall dapper Persion and a short Jewess who wears 1980's dresses and belts. I know them, so it's a little easier to get away with drinking them in.

I sware if I ever manage to ever own my own place, the first damned thing that I'm going to do is weld the damned flushing handle/lever to the fucking rod that it attatches to inside of the back of the toilet. Every apartment that I've ever lived in, and it's A LOT of them, I've had the same damned problem with the handle coming off of the toilet about once a week when I go to flush it. It usually happens when I'm taking that piss in the middle of the night and I'm too tired or still half asleep to deal with it. It also often happens to guests when they go to flush the toilet. Like I said, it's not just in my current place, it's happened forever, in every apartment that I've ever lived in! This never happened when I was a kid, living in a house with my parents, it still never happens at their houses, nor does it happen at friends houses or condos. But it continually happens in apartments. I've had roommates in the past that would use the toilet and then have the lever come off when attempting to flush, so they just fucking left it like it was, unflushed, until someone like myself came along with the knowledge of how to remove the lid on back of the toilet and put the lever back on and flush it. I'm so fucking sick of this problem. Does anyone else have this detachable flushing lever problem? What have you done to stop it from happening? I've pulled out tools and tightened the fuck out of it, etc. and calling the land lord never helps.