Archive for February, 2007

I love the smell of a glamour-don’t in the morning

A propos of the recent discussion on self-policing female tools of the patriarchy: behold NPR’s “Morning Edition” commentator Dawn Turner Trice as she condemns the practice, which has apparently proliferated wildly out of control among pregnant women in her office, of wearing spandex that accentuates their enceinteship. She finds “unsettling” the frankness with which her […]

Mission statement revitalization programme, part one

[image ©1984 Universal Studios]
The mists of time part to reveal the origins of The Blame
With the damp, colorless fog that awakened the denizens of the Twisty Bungalow this morning (instead of the expected diamantiferous fanfare of taco-eating cherubim upon which my obstreperal lobe depends for its award-nominated vim and vigor) has also dawned the realization […]

Sisterhood

Few things are more distasteful to the delicate feminist sense of justice than instances of women harshin’ on other women. This women-bashing-women crap happens as often within “the movement” (such as it is) as it does among the unenlightened tighty-whitey anti-feminist collaborators. It’s bad enough, feminists lament, that men feel entitled to abuse […]

Chicks-running-for-high-officewatch ‘07

Unrelated Live Music Capitol of the World photo of the day: the alley behind the Continental Club, South Austin, February 2007.
This isn’t the kind of post that drives traffic to the blog since it’s not about blow jobs, but it is nevertheless of some relevance to the patriarchy-blaming community that Mayan Quiché leftist/feminist/Nobel Peace […]

Ex-Harvard prez gets moment named after him

Unrelated nature photo of the day: live oak tree gives birth to bastard opuntia cactus. Blanco County TX, February, 2007.
One of the countless weapons with which the dominant male culture defends itself and its hatred of women against any real enlightenment is the moldy old established canon of male thought. The canon, which exalts an […]

Over 1,000,000 served

Chile con queso con rajas at El Chile in East Austin. Departing somewhat from the standard Velveeta model, the queso at El Chile appears to contain, in part, queso.
It was one of those momentous moments that, had anyone been conscious when it ensued, would not soon have been forgotten. I allude to the stately occasion […]

My sordid lunch

I cannot explain the longing for smoked meat on a styrofoam plate that occasionally overtakes me. Rib plate with slaw and beans ($8.73) at Jim Bob’s, February 2007.
West of Austin, on a scrubby stretch of Highway 71 that connects one zillion-dollar subdivision of McTuscan villas to the next, is the dilapidated, corndoggily cow-pokey, caliche-dust-covered shack […]

Recognize this knob?

Let me know who he is, and I’ll send you a free Patriarchy-Blaming Kit (contents: 2 “THIS DEGRADES WOMEN” stickers).
UPDATE: Looks like his whole site is down now. Here’s the Google cache from Feb. 20.
UPDATE 2: Something from Utah called Ryan Byrd dot net announces his friend the Switchbutt MD’s blog, Google cached here (scroll […]

Public Cans of Austin: Hotel San José

The can at the chic Hotel San José on trendy South Congress Ave: where edgy, creative people with sculpted bed-head go to pee. It’s unisex!
Once again spinster auntly pursuits interfere with today’s blaming schedule; I must take charge of my 3-year-old niece Rotel. She telephoned yesterday to inform me — in the background I heard […]

Mystery solved

I have discovered the source of the recent upsurge in the number of male dude visitors to this popular feminist blog. I am quoted at Wired.com on the subject of the fetish restaurants currently enjoying a proliferation in wacky Tokyo.
What’s a fetish restaurant? Read it and weep. A summary from the Wired article:
Shomuni features an […]




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