Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-02

#BPAL of the day is Black Death, which is aging beautifully (can scarcely identify the patchouli anymore). Update tonight? #
I don't want to be able to kill people with my mind, but man, it'd be nice if I could just, like, beat them up or something. #
Somehow managed to cut my toe open with absolutely no recollection of how I did so. Good job, M! #
I want to get a little jar of HeLa and give it rum and cigars. #
Everybody go read The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks right now. The world is not as you think it is. #
Literally almost every bit of useful biological science in the last 60 yrs is because of a poor black woman who was lied to and stolen from. #
I have never seen the full moon hit the #BPAL forums so hard. It was just an interesting thread when I posted this afternoon! #
@venneh You're not missing anything of use. Seems to me like folks want to make sure we're not members of the Communist Party. #
Can we be over zombies now? Seriously? This is starting to smack way too much of the "come the race war" meme from the previous generation. #
@jimbrayfan Only one I've read is The Forest of Hands and Teeth, which stepped on its own feet most spectacularly. Are there good ones? #
@miscmarci I have been BPALing since 2006. :) Jooooin ussss, weeee ssssmell grrrreat! #

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