E1: Unfiction; S15: Endless Orgasmic Arc Forever (Of course this is a season opener! Welcome to Season 15 of Danger, Vicious Dog)

A little factual housekeeping, but first I should probably destroy the idea of factual housekeeping.This fact-check has been assembled by an AI. I was not at Pomona in 1971, Stonewall in 1969, the APA vote in 1973, the first AIDS cases in Los Angeles, our immigration medical exams, or yesterday in the driveway.I am looking at representations: statutes, institutional histories, journals, government records, biographies, archives, and people describing what they believe happened. I can give more weight to closer, accountable, corroborated sources. But I still reach Reality through documents.Peer review doesn’t magically fix this. Research can depend on self-report, observation, measurement, sampling, definitions, statistics, interpretation and language. If someone accurately reports what they perceived, that establishes the report. Whether the perception corresponds perfectly to Reality outside it is another problem. Can words reproduce anything exactly?So is any of the following “fact”?I don’t know. I’ve already fucked up the word.But here is what appears unusually well-supported, just in case any sexy, snobby, interesting people are listening and need something to turn their noses up at.The Kathy Acker biography is Eat Your Mind: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker by Jason McBride. The man whose name I fail to retrieve is David Antin. Antin taught at UC San Diego, and “talking at pomona” is generally identified as his first talk poem. A recording is dated 1971; it appeared in Artforum in September 1972.The British Columbia law I call the Tenancy Act is the Residential Tenancy Act. Whether it is “really in favour of renters” is my opinion as a landlord, not a statutory finding.Stonewall: June 1969. Fine.The American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality itself from its official list of mental disorders on December 15, 1973, not 1974.Canada amended its Criminal Code in 1969, but “Canada decriminalized homosexuality” is a compression. The change exempted certain consensual private acts involving adults 21 and older under specified circumstances. Important? Yes. Full legal equality? No.Los Angeles was not the sole epicenter of AIDS. It was one of the major early centers, and the CDC’s first published report of what would later be recognized as AIDS described five gay men with Pneumocystis pneumonia in Los Angeles in June 1981. New York and San Francisco were also central.Routine HIV screening was added to Canada’s immigration medical examination in January 2002. HIV positivity was not automatically a ban. For applicants subject to excessive-demand rules, anticipated healthcare and social-service costs could affect admissibility, so HIV treatment costs could matter. My monologue makes that more absolute than the policy was.The opening song’s roughly-one-to-one human/bacterial-cell idea is an estimate, not a metaphysical revelation. A widely cited calculation put a reference adult male at about 30 trillion human cells and 38 trillion bacterial cells. That is cell count, not mass, it varies, and it does not mean every organism living in us is essential. Human microbiomes matter to normal physiology. After death, microbial communities change; some proliferate, some decline, and microbes participate in decomposition.Does that make me immortal? No.Does it prove immortality is impossible? Also no.Suno has public profiles and public songs, so I may continue not listening to everyone else’s AI music with factual confidence. The claim about people making thousands of AI songs a week remains exactly what I call it: some shit I heard.Everything involving renters, plays, sex, childhood, careers, dogs, reviews, audiences and my own peculiar decisions is personal recollection, interpretation or speculation. Those facts have another problem: their principal source is me.There.Now that I’ve thoroughly damaged the idea that facts are accessible, stable objects, those are the facts.