When superfluous quotation marks meet a public can of Austin: Hearts and Paws dog training facility, Leander TX.
I laughed the hollow, mirthless laugh of an obstreperally-blocked spinster aunt when I read this story about the two butt-slappin’ 7th-graders in McMinnville, Oregon whose ‘horseplay’ — that is, an avocation leading them to cavort through the halls […]
Archive for July, 2007
Butt-swat Preservation Society goes to bat for jailed teen boys
Published July 29th, 2007 in Men Hate You and Sexploitation. 184 CommentsToday’s unrelated photo is of the Uptown Sports Club, abandoned circa 1849. East 6th and Waller, Austin, July 2007.
Yesterday’s post, wherein the entity known as Twisty emerged from the nebulous mists of the corporeal world to rejoin the Internet after an unauthorized hiatus, elicited surprisingly copious commentaries, considering that the post was merely a brief […]
Peckish asilid of the week
Published July 26th, 2007 in Announcements, Varmint Center and Austin. 60 CommentsI am not dead. Or even, aside from a bit of irregularity, sick. Since I freely admit to falling a bit short of meeting either of the aforementioned conditions, you may wonder why no blaming in over a week. Well, I’ll tell you. I do not have, at the moment (or, some would say, ever), […]
Anal is the new ‘third base’
Published July 15th, 2007 in Men Hate You, Mass Media and Sexploitation. 287 CommentsThe magical world of Texas fungi provides this charmingly innappropriate illustration: a stinkhorn mushroom. The spore mass contained in the black goo smells like, well, ass. Note that the stinkhorn’s order is Phallales. Mutinus elegans, Blanco County, TX, July 2007. Don’t eat this one, Alice!
Whenever I write about how much men hate you, somebody — […]
From the boyhood home of Gandhi
Published July 7th, 2007 in Men Hate You and Sexploitation. 140 CommentsIn some parts of the world it is still considered a fabulous idea for the families of teenage girls to pay for the privilege of their daughters’ legal enslavement to men’s families. Unsurprisingly, it is likewise considered a fabulous idea that, should the indentured girls fail to give satisfaction as cash-generators and spawnbots, they become […]
I cannot resist one more spider post
Published July 6th, 2007 in Varmint Center and El Rancho Deluxe. 61 CommentsClump of harvestmen writhing in my perpetually unfinished soffit. The reader will kindly forgive the crappy picture quality; I had only my little point-and-shoot with me, having chemobrainedly omitted to throw the Big Camera Bag into the truck prior to departure. Phalangiium sp., Blanco County, TX, July 2007.
Speaking of shrimp foam, the Twisty Arthropod Institute […]
Garish dinner photo of the week
Published July 4th, 2007 in Morsel Institute and Austin. 34 CommentsThe foam-as-food trend, invented a few years ago by that El Bulli guy in Spain, has hit Austin at last. Or maybe it’s been here all along and I’ve eaten it 46 times but because I have chemo-brain it slipped my mind. But in any event, the other night at Zoot — an upscaly joint […]
Fig. 7
Here in Austin it has been raining for 40 days and 40 nights. Some spinster aunts would simply throw in the towel and take to their beds with tubs of Cool Whip when confronted with such seratonin-depleting meteorological anomalies, but I am not one of them. No, not I. Instead I don raiment suitable […]
In yesterday’s brief essay I alluded to a news story about a women-only beach on the Adriatic. Almost as an afterthought I included the detail that the children as well as men are banned from this beach.
Because I just fell off the turnip truck yesterday, I had not expected this seemingly minor point to ignite […]
This video from MSN is precisely what would happen if you scooped, as they floated by, a few random globules of the ubiquitous patriarchal miasma we are all forced to breathe, whirled’em in a Video-Cuisinart, and posted the results on the internet.
The video opens with an commercial for a bank. A hot babe wood nymph […]
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