It’s been a good day for me somewhat. I decided to head into the city and visit the Highline. It was a nice enough day for it.

A lot of the blues I’ve been suffering from was partly from nothing to do, and also party from it being too hot to do anything.

90 degree weather, 90% humidity didn’t lend itself for going out.

I’m doing my best to make the most of the time I have free and I am trying to enjoy it. And today I decided to do just that.

Last night was Weeds/Nurse Jackie night. Weeds is winding down, Nurse Jackie is finished for the season. Both were good, but Nurse Jackie was intense. Not going to give anything away.

Bill and I had a discussion about the Centers for Disease Control advocating circumcision as a preventive measure against HIV. Seems that circumcised men are less likely to get HIV than uncircumcised men.

I was surprised by the statistic that 65% of white men are circumcised and most Blacks and Hispanics are not. And the rate of HIV infection in Black and Hispanic groups are rising whereas in the White groups they are declining.

It wasn’t a good discussion but that may be from Bill working on the rehearsal for a reading coming up or on the foreskin in his pants.

It was odd to read that some gay men consider a circumcised penis to be mutilated. I never thought of mine that way and I’ve never had any complaints about it, but then again most people don’t talk with their mouths full.

Sorry but I’ve been meaning to use that line for quite a while.

I take consolation in the fact that no one under 18 reads filth such as this.

The Highline has been in the news in the past 24 hours. I wrote about the exhibitionists on display as well as the voyeurs.

Well the fact that there would be a few onlookers today didn’t deter me from going and I was surprised to see it wasn’t as crowded as I thought it might be.

There were a few camera crews interviewing people, but like people handing out religious tracts to various pedestrians, no one came up to me. Which is odd since I would offer my opinion on exhibitionists as well as religious dogma.

Sometimes I can’t tell the difference.

I didn’t see any exhibitionists though but then again I didn’t go out of my way to find any either. They usually find me anyhow.

I enjoyed the visit to the Highline and will probably head back another time.

A nice walk through Chelsea where I helped a blind man make it back to his residence on 23rd street and we talked about James Brown and George Clinton. This guy plans to make it to Amateur Night at the Apollo to sing a P-Funk song and I wished him well as I headed back to the Path train.

All in all a pretty good day.

Tomorrow I plan on going to the Metropolitan Museum with Harpy. We missed the Francis Bacon exhibition, but I’m sure there will be other things to occupy our minds. Should be a nice enough day for a walk in the park in any event.