It may not seem like it, but I really do take every opportunity to see outside my little repro med box. In fact, you should know that when my blogging grinds to a halt, it's because I'm doing just that -- peering over the edge, maybe even venturing a toe into the world out there where not everyone is fascinated with baby-making. Or at least, not obsessively (or consciously...)
(I know. Who ARE these people?)
So when my attention is directed away from my typical fare by someone outside of my usual day-counting, hormone-injecting, finger-crossing crowd, I am extra delighted when the subject is actually the same topic, different window.
Because after all, it is ALL about baby-making, isn't it?
Zack Booth Simpson may be a scientific artist genius-type, but he knows what's important. Baby-making. And in The birds and the bees he tells his little one how babies come to be.
Chalk him up to yet another reason to hang out in Austin.
Zack's explanation is so exquisitely male in my eyes. It's a viewpoint that will, I guess, be forever less represented. (And I don't know, but I'm thinking guys really have it going on with the whole scarcity-value relationship thing when it comes to heartfelt expressions about creating progeny...)
All whining aside, here's to Zack and dorky nerds like him who take time away from their discussions of molecular computers to grace us all with their tender side.
{Edit 7.8.09 9:50 PM ET: And just to demonstrate how good my taste is (and that of the friend who first directed me to Zack's blog) -- the link to 'Birds and Bees' is currently dysfunctional because Zack, himself, is awaiting word from an unnamed highbrow publisher who might just give it a go in bigger territory. Stay tuned to find out if I get the a-ok from Zack to reinstall a link to his blog, or (better yet) if I get to link to the even more glamorous publication.}
{Final Edit 7.29.09 9:55 PM ET: Zack's informed me that the 'other' publication failed to respond to his query in a timely manner, so he's taken matters into his own hands and re-published "Updated birds and bees"... a must-read.}
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