{"id":1499,"date":"2006-02-27T12:39:52","date_gmt":"2006-02-27T12:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2006\/02\/27\/all_glamour_all\/"},"modified":"2024-12-03T20:08:22","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T04:08:22","slug":"all_glamour_all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2006\/02\/27\/all_glamour_all\/","title":{"rendered":"All Glamour, All the Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s hard to maintain my rep<\/strong> as a Grade-A sexy motherfucker without the photographic evidence to back it up, so let’s just see what I got myself up to this past weekend…<\/p>\n


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Gotcha! Yes, my emergency root canal<\/a> has spawned on a drawn-out saga of frequent visits to the NYU Dental School<\/a>, where I\u2019m having a number of lingering issues resolved. Because that stuff costs some scratch (of which I don’t have quite enough, which is what got me in this position in the first place), I agreed to spend Saturday as a guinea pig for my teen dentist’s licensing exam. Basically, that means it was a regular drill-n-fill, but with long breaks where I would sit around with my mouth clamped open and have strangers come by and check out the progress being made by the teen dentist and his frat-boy assistant. Occasionally, I even got to walk around the hallways like some purple-bedecked monster of some sort so people in another room could check out my teeth. Ah, the things we do for science.<\/p>\n

Honestly, I did it for the free filling and the additional discounts, and also because my dentist — who I fondly think of as Doogie Howser, DDS — is a nice kid who needed a favor just as much as I needed a free filling. <\/p>\n

He’s not actually a teenager (he probably passed out of his teens at least a couple of years ago), but it is a bit disconcerting to hit that age where you’re likely to be putting your health and well-being into the hands of people much younger than you. Luckily, it’s a lot easier to handle when you automatically get second and third opinions from the faculty advisors every step of the way, even if it takes a little longer. Also, it’s not entirely unpleasant to have cute straight boys stick tools in your mouth and blush when you joke around with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s hard to maintain my rep as a Grade-A sexy motherfucker without the photographic evidence to back it up, so let’s just see what I got myself up to this past weekend…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultrapersonal","category-ultraphotographic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69338,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions\/69338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}