Brazil: birthplace of the glabrous clam
At Feministing, my one-stop feminist-outrage-shop, I read about a Missouri state Senate bill that would prevent 13-year-old girls from getting Brazilian bikini waxes without a note from Mummy. [Here’s the source article, written, it turns out, by my old boss Randall Roberts–hi, Randy!–who writes “[The bill] will take immediate effect–so […]
Archive for July, 2005
The Vagina Dialogue
Published July 17th, 2005 in The Beauty Ultimatum and Varmint Center. 31 CommentsActual size. I’ve seen’em twice as big. And, god help us all, they fucking fly.
In case you were wondering whether there is any downside to living in South Austin, I bring you Periplaneta fuliginosa, the giant flying Smokybrown Cockroach of Zilkerland. Now, as the director of the Twisty Center for Urban Varmint Research, you know […]
What to drink when you contemplate revolution: Vinum Cellars "It’s Okay!" Rosé 2004: Ten bucks at Central Market.
You know rape spam? I allude to those rape-avoidance-tips emails, the kind written by “the police department†and sent by your well-meaning friend, warning you to always look under your car for attackers (or up in the trees […]
The dog Zippy, prostrate with grief over the expiration of the C-1000
Where was I yesterday? Let me just tell you. Once again, I was torn from the comfort of my Sixties-era bungalow and forced to execute capitalist maneuvers in a shopping mall.
For lo, and did I slink into the kitchen yesterday morning with a pain […]
Mission control, this is…Twisty… hard drive…fried…coffee machine…dead…roof leaking in 3 places from insane midsummer deluge…limping in on impulse power…over
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Pussy refurbisher Dr. Jason, in his office
About 976 assorted spinster-auntly duties have kept me from composing my usual incisive patriarchy-blaming essay today, but here are a couple of quick things that are currently chapping the Twisty hide.
1. I overheard on NPR when I accidentally turned on the radio again (I am having the damnedest time […]
Patriarchy: Kickin’ It Old Skool In Dijibouti, UK
Published July 12th, 2005 in Patriarchy-blaming. 19 CommentsThe real story: Marilyn’s little-known plastic surgery transformed her from platinum yawn to redheadariffic, but Kennedy’s Secret Centerfold Agency had her executed for crimes against male incontinence.
Part of our continuing series on the breathtaking similarities between Third World “barbarism†and First World “sophisticationâ€
Mail & Guardian, South Africa: Activists in Dijibouti have convinced Muslim imams that […]
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Rightly or wrongly, I’m cutting myself off from the news. Period. No more CNN, no more NPR, no more Harper’s, no more New York Fucking Times. I just can’t take it anymore. From here on out, for an indefinite period, I’m confining my current events intake to a handful of blogs. Although I may occasionally […]
At Last! Radical Feminism Explained By Right-Wing Dude
Published July 10th, 2005 in Patriarchy-blaming. 49 CommentsAustralian feminist Vida Goldstein, the first woman to stand for Parliament in the British Empire, wrote: ‘No self-governing A-list liberal blog can prosper without the political aid of women.’
In the course of my prescribed program of daily frittering, I stumbled–it matters not how–across the Australian blog Larvatus Prodeo, described by another Australian blogger as […]
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