I saw some kid on the streets of Hollywood wearing a Cancer Sucks t-shirt and had to do some internet snooping to find out more. Sad to find out we missed out on the Cancer Sucks III punk rock benefit show, looks like it was some good times for a good cause!
Archive for April, 2010
Stinky Ol’ Cancer
Posted: Monday, April 26th, 2010Today’s Cocktail
Posted: Friday, April 23rd, 2010
I Heart Guts is unofficially attending an Experimental Biology conference in Anaheim this weekend — look what one woman added to her badge! Yes, it is indeed two kidneys drinking martinis.
Eat More Junk!
Posted: Friday, April 16th, 2010
Did you know that life and health insurance companies collectively hold $1.88 billion in fast food stocks? I guess from a life insurance perspective, investing in fast food makes sense — the longer you live, the bigger the life insurance payout to your family, so anything that kills customers faster is a good thing. I wonder if they also invest in cigarettes, motorcycles and skydiving? For health insurance companies, the benefits of investing in fast food is more murky — why would they want people with chronic health troubles caused by lousy eating habits? Maybe it’s strict economics — people like fast food, period, so it’s a great investment, especially in a recession. The Cambridge Health Alliance, which looked into the investments, urge the insurance companies to use their positions as stockholders to encourage healthier products. Let’s be real, though. McDonald’s’ success is not exactly built on salads and yogurt. {via WebMD}
Mid-Cycle Memory
Posted: Friday, April 16th, 2010
We ladies all know that the menstrual cycle can cause emotional ups and downs, but did you know that high levels of estrogen can actually improve concentration in some women? “Hormone fluctuations during a woman’s menstrual cycle may affect the brain as much as do substances such as caffeine, methamphetamines or the popular attention drug Ritalin,” says Scientific American. Neuroscientists at UC Berkeley asked women with naturally low dopamine levels — dopamine is known to affect short-term memory — to take some basic memory tests at different points during their menstrual cycles. Women with naturally low dopamine levels fared better on the memory tests while they were ovulating. Thanks, menstrual cycle!
Meet Gale the Gallbladder
Posted: Thursday, April 15th, 2010
artists I met at WonderCon was Maureen Klusza, a talented cartoonist who’d had her gallbladder removed several years ago and was inspired to draw this little friend, pictured, Gale the Gallbladder. RIP Gale!
Good New Guts
Posted: Monday, April 12th, 2010
We’ve got all sorts of good new gutsy stuff in our online store, including the Spill Your Guts journal and supa-cute stationery set with stickers. We also have a few Grab Your Gonads laminated cards (you can also download a free digital copy and print it out yourself!) and a handful of laminated kiddie placemats with all your gutsy glandy friends.
Testicles on the Tube
Posted: Thursday, April 8th, 2010
It must have been a slow news day because somehow I ended up on the local news as the poster girl for — of all things — examining one’s scrotum for testicular cancer. Very weird, I know. It was a fun and surreal experience and I did get to fondle our testicle plush sample live on the air and anchor Mekahlo Medina wore a testicle pin on his lapel in honor of Testicular Cancer Awareness Week! In other testicular news, we just put the Grab Your Gonads artwork up on the site, it’s free to download and print out yourself, and we have a limited number of laminated cards for sale as well!
The Wonder of It All
Posted: Thursday, April 8th, 2010
A few views from the good times we had at WonderCon 2010 in San Francisco, where the people-watching was at its best. Chuva took these beautiful photos of some of our favorite sights from the show, giving me some major telecommunications envy with her fake-Holga iPhone app, Hipstamatic. A little girl in costume, not sure what character she was supposed to be, a fabulous uterus tattoo and some weird scary nurse character from the video game Silent Hill.
We were stuck behind the Just Dance booth, where they were pimping some Dance Dance Revolution type game. They played Spice Girls and MC Hammer a few times too many, but made up for it when a crowd of storm troopers danced in unison to “Eye of the Tiger.” We caught Captain America busting moves onstage, met Boba Fett, and yes, the aforementioned storm trooper, plus eye-patch boob girl, another character I should know but do not — but maybe you know who she is? also known-as Molotov Cocktease from Adult Swim — thanks for illuminating us, Linda! Needless to say we had a fun time and met some great people. More pix on the I Heart Guts Flickr page.
