Bear Soup # 16: U.S. Grant; PETA against bearskin caps; Scooter Libby; Rove at IML?; Jim “Tug” Taylor

Review of More Bear Cookin’; US Grant on the USD $50 bill; animal rights activists from PETA track Prince Charles and Camilla to urge end of bearskin caps on Palace guards; “Scooter” Libby writes of sicko sex with four-legged bears and young girls; Karl Rove seen at Mid-Atlantic Leather 2004 in DC; humpy pocketbear, Mr MAL 2004, Jim “Tug” Taylor.

Bear Soup # 7: Chest-hair insurance; IBR 2005: dinner with Chris Nelson; screening of “Bear Cub”; PAWS reading; Kinsey Sicks.

Chest-hair insurance; IBR 2005: dinner with Chris Nelson, ex-boyfriend, and cofounder and photographer of Bear magazine; film screening at IBR of “Bear Cub (Cachorro),” a Spanish film by bear director Miguel Albaladejo, and a movie review; PAWS reading, including readings by bear authors Jeff Mann, Joel Perry, Simon Sheppard, Raymond Luczac, performance artist Alan Reade, and Barth Cox’s short film, “Asking to See the Soul”; and a fabulous performance by dragapella musicians The Kinsey Sicks.