welcome, my friends…
You’ve found the site of Mark S. King, award-winning columnist, author and video blogger. I’m an absurdist, a lover of human frailty, and a gay man in recovery living with HIV. What’s not to love?
My Fabulous Disease presents glimpses of my life with HIV and assorted other challenges, told with as much honesty as I can muster and often with the strongest medicine in my arsenal: a sense of humor.
My current featured video “from the vaults,” below, is the most recent in a series on facial wasting (lipoatrophy) and the efforts of Dr. Gerald Pierone of Vero Beach, Florida to correct mine. Dr. Pierone offers great insights and information about facial fillers, including costs and patient assistance programs. You’ll also see some dramatic before/during/after footage of the procedure.
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If you’re new to the site, you can take a 30-second tour by watching the “Welcome Video – Play Me!” near the top of the page. Basically, my site includes the live blog “My Fabulous Disease,” as well as the ongoing series of videos created for the blog, my book “A Place Like This,” and various other videos and fun items you might enjoy.
Maintaining a clean and sober life is Job One today (my Newsweek piece outlines my self destructive path from a community AIDS leader to an I.V. drug user). I hope my work might speak to your own experiences, or help you understand the journey of someone unlike yourself. Whatever the case, thanks for visiting my site, and please be well.
– Mark
p.s. Oh, and who’s the overwrought woman peering at us from the footer below? None other than Anita Mann, a comic alter ego of mine. Check out her infamous “TV Set†number here. Or, choose the Anita Mann listing under categories above to see her full catalogue of multi-media nonsense!