ageing well

. . . or not---each week, creative loafing, southern voice, and david are sitting at the door of urban outfitters, the gay-boy clothing store on the first floor---i usually pick up the first two, but not the latter, which is the last in a long series of little party-boy rags that have been published for the last 25 or 30 years---but i try to look once a century or so, so i picked one up the other day--- flipping through it (issue #459, by the way) just now, i am absolutely amazed at the number of ads for spas and "aesthetic surgery centers" and what not---laser hair reduction, juvederm & radiesse dermal fillers (i should google those), laser resurfacing, skin tightening, chemical peels, spider-vein removal (wtf does that involve?), and botox, but i spewed out my cocktail just now when i saw the ad for fkg pectoral implants!!! from a place claiming to provide "surgical and non-surgical anti-aging solutions"---i have been wondering about all of the spas around here, including one in metropolis and two just opening up in the plaza---i guess there is more to them than mudpacks and full-body massages, although none of them can keep you from being an asshole---