Mayor Barry---
 

That's just rude. He could have at least bumped her up for her trouble.

Fashion and safety
 

Over the weekend, it was reported that three female patients were sexually assaulted last week at one of the big hospitals in the Med Center by a guy who walked into their rooms looking like a medical professional. I know someone who was in the hosptial two days after the last assault having a baby. Another friend is supposed to give birth there sometime in the next three weeks. This whole thing scares the crap out of me.

Patients are already in a pretty vulnerable position, and they have to surrender so much of themselves to their health care practitioners. This guy came in, knew their names, asked a few questions and then told them that he needed to do a pelvic exam. He must have told them that he was a physician, because who else would be doing pelvic exams? He could be anyone, but he looked like he belonged. There's a lot of security in the Med Center, but I know how easy it is to look like you belong, especially since everyone from the janitor to the radiology tech guys to the chief of a clincial department wears scrubs. I have ID badges from four separate institutions in the med center from the various points in my life when I've worked there, and when I was a nurses' aide, I wore the same scrubs as the nurses. The IDs are probably deactivated now, but they still look legitimate. I wouldn't be surprised if he were an ex-employee or even a medical (or nursing or pharmacy or other type of allied health) student or resident. Hell, he could have even been a physician.

So I have a poll question: If someone walked into your hospital room in scrubs with a white coat and a stethescope and said "Hi, I'm Dr. so and so, and I was asked to come in and take a look at you" would you believe them?

Fashion and safety
 

If the first thing he (or she) wants to do is a pelvic exam, I'd start asking questions immediately.

("Okay, go ahead, so long as the exam has a happy ending")

Fashion and safety
 

Wouldn't it depend on why you're there? You're in for something upper body related and a guy wants to do a pelvic, I'd call for a nurse. And most things that would require you to be in the hospital for anything vaginal-related, birth, hysterectomy, etc. that would have to be one special kind of pervert to want to get up there then- you know? What were the victims in for?

Fashion and safety
 

I imagine they were in for ob-gyn related stuff, but the article in the paper said they were in different parts of the hosptial. The article also said that it took the patients awhile to figure out what had happened, so I guess he was sort of clinical about it.

My Weekend
 

I smoked ribs. I was able to burn most of the pecan branches in the seperate firebox. The smoke flavor or the pecan wood is similar to hickory, but a little more mellow and complex. The ribs were excellent, and they were well complemented by a cold bottle of Lone Star.

couches
 

Thurgreed, I put out an APB for more furniture for you to check out in NYC. My source is a little furniture crazy, so he gave me every place and designer he likes. The parens are his and he's very envious that you get to go furniture shopping in New York:

stores in nyc:

dune
http://www.dune-ny.com/
(store and furniture manufacturer. american designs to rival italians)

property
http://www.propertyfurniture.com/

Armani Casa
97 Greene St.

bddw
www.bddw.com
(showroom in soho; built in williamsburg; really nice stuff)

room
http://www.roomonline.com
(supposedly this place is huge.)

Rebel Designs
178 Lincoln Pl. (Park Slope/Prospect Hts) near Seventh Ave.
718-636-0414
"This furniture and housewares store imports unusually modern and minimal pieces from India and Asia."

sublime
http://www.sublimeamericandesign.com/

apartment
http://www.theapt.com/

terence conran shop
407 E. 59th St. (Midtown East/Murray Hill) at First Ave.
212-755-9079
this place is HUGE (under queensboro st. bridge)

Troy
138 Greene St. (SoHo/NoHo/Little Italy) near Houston St.
212-941-4777

domus design collection
http://www.ddcnyc.com/

manufacturers
most of these are represented by a dealer or have a showroom in the city.
look on the website for who sells them/where their showroom is

b & b italia
http://www.bebitalia.it

minotti
http://www.minotti.it/

living divani
http://www.livingdivani.it

molteni&c
http://www.molteni.it/

morosso
www.moroso.it/

dune
http://www.dune-ny.com/
(american designs to rival italians)

edra
http://www.edra.com/

cappellini
http://www.cappellini.it/

cassina
http://www.cassina.it/

de la espada
http://www.delaespada.com/

couches
 

Who wants to bet me dinner at the Palm that this source is gay?

couches
 

I won't go that far. I will bet it wasn't Oscar.

Paigow, hope you could make it to SF this weekend.
 

http://www.sfgate.com/chronicle/pict..._lebowski1.jpg

• The cult of Lebowski has arrived in the Bay Area. That's Lebowski --
  
  as in Jeff Lebowski, the protagonist in the 1998 Coen brothers film, "The Big Lebowski." But please, call him "The Dude."
  
  The movie about a middle-aged stoner/slacker anti-hero played by Jeff Bridges has grown in popularity since its paltry box office debut. And, in only a few years, it has joined that special class of cinema that inspires some fans to go a little nutty.
  
  "Lebowski Fest" -- a celebration of all things Lebowski -- has been held around the country, and a showing of the film Saturday night in a parking lot near Oakland's Jack London Square attracted more than 200 people. Many of those same fans attended a party later at the Oakland arts cooperative Oaklandish, which sponsored the showing, competing in a costume contest and a trivia challenge.

SF Chronicle

couches
 

Yeah, but you should see his apartment.

My Weekend
 

Because the branches were kinda small, they got consumed pretty quickly. This was something of a pain in the ass, because I had to check the fire and regulate the temperature regularly, and I couldn't watch as much football as I would have liked. On the other hand, it got me out of doing boring stuff with the gf like shopping for furniture and talking. And the ribs were good.

My Weekend
 

Paigow, hope you could make it to SF this weekend.
 

You went to the Lebowski fest. SS cooked ribs. I went to the Folsom Street Fair:
http://www.sanfranciscoleather.com/2...folsom04_5.jpg

http://www.sanfranciscoleather.com/2...folsom04_4.jpg

http://www.danheller.com/images/Cali...omen04-big.jpg

http://www.danheller.com/images/Cali...uple05-big.jpg

http://www.spectator.net/1256/images/folsom_05.jpg

Paigow, hope you could make it to SF this weekend.
 

Me: the Hofbrauhaus tent in Munich for Oktoberfest:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/160000...74_beer300.jpg

Prost!