March 2009
1 post
Gut Reaction to "Watchmen"
There was a basic shallow morality that plagued the entire concept and thus, the entire film. I have not read the comics — I can only assume they must be more in tune with the way humans actually behave. Alternate realities are pointless if they reflect nothing to which the viewer can relate.
I was reminded of my disgust upon seeing Natural Born Killers — disgust springing not from...
February 2009
2 posts
“I must tell this very gently, and with somewhat of bated breath. We went to O....”
– from Mabel Wagnalls’ preface to Letters to Lithopolis: from O. Henry to Mabel Wagnalls
I am no rock -- I am no island →
January 2009
4 posts
What's it all about →
“One can bring no greater reproach against a man than to say that he does not set...”
– Samuel Butler
Happy HNT redux →
December 2008
14 posts
AlterNet: The Fantasy of Acceptable 'Non-Consent':... →
This one goes in the “essential reading” files.
‘Real Women’ are Saggy, Fat and Ugly | Friction →
No lie, y’all — Peridot Ash is just the bomb.
Pinter on truth →
Crimble →
The best part →
Kink for All →
I lied →
Undersharing →
Fur →
North wind →
Captured →
Wow. Look at all the white people. →
“interesting people and their creative spaces” = white, rich
Why is that?
November 2008
31 posts
It’s not the words so much as the sound,...
Happy Half-Nekkid Thanksgiving →
I was the glass →
Porn breakfast →
Sexual healing →
The nominees for the Literary Review's "Bad Sex in... →
Last year’s award was given posthumously to Norman Mailer for his final novel The Castle in the Forest, in which a male member is described as being “as soft as a coil of excrement.” “It was the excrement that tipped the balance,” admitted Philip Womack, assistant editor of the Literary Review, at the time.
“Because sadism is quite a lazy common trait in humans. It’s just that women who...”
– Dominatrix in Love « Bitchy Jones’s Diary
Mulling →
“It’s a satisfying bedtime story for the right. They can snooze and dream...”
– Down the Republican Rabbit Hole: the Evolution of the Credit Default Swap
Reasons to Fear (and Find Ways Around) Fear Itself →
Excellent analysis by figleaf on how it is that those at the top of the heap can still be so fearful (and why that makes them dangerous).
Morning sun →
Ghetto-Fabulous Genghis Kahn →
What a strange, lovely, smushed-up world we live in. The proof doesn’t get much better than this.
Oh, how I needed last night →
I'm not just saying it for effect →
“There are so many gerunds in places that do not need gerunds. She is insulting...”
– Wonkette : Sarah Palin’s First Press Conference Of The Campaign Happens Yesterday
Bootless cries →
WatchHA!
Ha ha ha! Hahahahahaha … ohhh man.
So sweet.
Tribute to the winner →
Via Dilated Choonz:
Billy Paul – Let ‘Em In
This was a great charity shop find by Hal and me. Soul singer Billy Paul had already had a massive hit on the Philadelphia International Label with Me and Mrs Jones in 1972, which was a platinum selling US no.1.
In 1976 he released the album Let ‘Em In. The title track is a cover of the Wings song, from their album Wings at the Speed of Sound also...
Sleep writing →
“2003 Mercury Marauder (EBay listing number 150307313854)
If Ingmar Bergman’s...”
– Dan Neil in the LA Times blog Up to Speed, “EBay cars under $10,000 that beat the pants off a Nissan Versa”
This bastard can write.
Bluebird of happiness →
Q and A →
Beautiful night →
Daaaaamn, Precinct 332! →