Urgent spinster auntly business compels me to buzz off to Dallas for a couple of days. In the highly likely event that there’s no WiFi in my temporary HQ, posting will necessarily be lite.
In the meantime, please compare and contrast the images above. Or make witty remarks about the Foley scandal, whatever.
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Archive for October, 2006
Catch you on the flip-flop
Published October 17th, 2006 in Varmint Center, Easy Persiflage and Patriarchy-blaming. 32 CommentsDo you take your suburban existential crisis rock (or, as it’s known in the world of professional angst-ridden melancholic scenesters, “sexcrock”) with a shimmering powerpop glaze? And do you prefer it to contain nary a single sexist rockdude bleat or rawk cliché?
I thought so.
You need Escape Velocity, Finn’s Motel’s debut national release (on Scat Records), […]
New Hope For The Enspamulated Commentariat
Published October 15th, 2006 in Easy Persiflage. 9 CommentsAre you one of the legion of blamers at whom the famously inept I Blame The Patriarchy spamulators have cried “Dee-nied, sucka!”? Good news. I’ve spent the whole morning handcrafting a new help page which offers advice on how to stave off the neuroses commonly associated with this painful psychical trauma. Just for you.
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Public Cans of Austin: Maria’s Taco XPress
Published October 14th, 2006 in Public Cans of Austin, Austin and Patriarchy-blaming. 11 CommentsI did not photoshop the undersea aura into this snap; this is one of the few women’s cans I have ever seen that has ventured beyond “pinkly flattering” into the uncharted territory of “Martian hag” as a criterion for its lighting scheme.
They razed a trailer park and tore down Maria’s Taco XPress a few […]
Red-headed tot ponders the origin of the cosmos at Maria’s Taco Xpress, October 11, 2006
Richard Dawkins is pretty high up on the extremely short list of people for whom, if it were lunchtime and he’d forgotten his wallet, I’d like to buy a delicious taco. At this writing, the only person higher on that list […]
If Las Manitas Goes, I Go
Published October 12th, 2006 in Morsel Institute, Austin and Patriarchy-blaming. 36 CommentsThe author stuffs face at Las Manitas in 2004. Little did I know that I was being tailed by late former Texas governor Ann Richards. I swear, the way that woman dogged me …
If you ever visited someone in Austin, and this person wasn’t a moron, the first place she took you was Las […]
A dog and a thong
Published October 10th, 2006 in Varmint Center, Easy Persiflage and Austin. 111 CommentsBehold the new template. The Austin skyline photo, taken yesterday afternoon by the talented Stingray, is (minus the bonobo) what you see when when you’re loafing at Jo’s coffee shack and you happen to gaze north down Congress Ave.
If you look west, you will see the handy dachshund pictured above. If you look southwest, you’ll […]
The Foie Gras Chronicles: Part the First
Published October 7th, 2006 in Morsel Institute and Patriarchy-blaming. 107 CommentsLauren says her new blogular gig isn’t some big political feminist platform. Nevertheless she has magnanimously focused the Twisty eye on glib egomaniac celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain and his tasteful views on misogyny and animal cruelty.
Like I always say, you can take the girl out of Feministe, but you can’t take the feminist out of […]
Study of the Week: ‘Foreplay’ Scientifically Proven Unnecessary
Published October 5th, 2006 in Patriarchy-blaming. 79 CommentsWhenever a new women vs. men sex study comes out it’s a banner day here at Twisty HQ, which means it’s always a banner day here at Twisty HQ. Women vs. men sex studies are extraordinarily popular. ‘Scientists’ just can’t seem to stop conducting them, and popular news media just can’t seem to stop pretending […]
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