Today’s unrelated arachnid predation photo: Spinybacked orbweaver weaves orb outside Twisty kitchen window; eats head off bee. Gasteracantha cancriformis, North South Austin, August 2007.
As longtime readers know, so that I can stay on top of developments in my field, Google sends me news’n’blog alerts, to the tune of hundreds a day, on topics relevant to […]
Archive for the 'Mass Media' Category
The Procrastination Chronicles
Published August 20th, 2007 in Godbagism, Blogulation, Men Hate You, Mass Media, Sexploitation and Varmint Center. 30 CommentsThe right to choose mini-storage
Published August 17th, 2007 in Compulsory pregnancy and Mass Media. 47 CommentsBlamer Maria sends in this link to a photo of a Manhattan billboard. The billboard advertises mini-storage. It has a picture of a wire clothes hanger and the words “Your closet space is shrinking as fast as her right to choose.”
It’s delightful the way the hanger image is a sort of visual double-entendre. Abortion, closet […]
Because I am a pore bedridden invalid flyin’ high on pseudoephedrine, I took the backward Are you a feminist? quiz. Unlike some of the dudes deemed “100% feminist” by the auto-bot, I scored a pitiful 50%. I would’ve scored a 0, but I just wasn’t up to articulating my argument against each point. But at […]
Anal is the new ‘third base’
Published July 15th, 2007 in Men Hate You, Mass Media and Sexploitation. 290 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 — […]
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 […]
Under the weather for a couple of days, and discovering that I had omitted to schedule my Netflix program to accommodate this contingency — Netflix timing is something of an art form — I turned lemons into lemonade. That’s right, I took to my bed and absorbed, with a few bowls of sesame noodles, about […]
Pose of the week
Published June 8th, 2007 in The Beauty Ultimatum, Mass Media, Sexploitation and Femininity. 193 CommentsA mainstream music magazine has put a naked chick on the cover. This stunningly unremarkable event in the pornulational continuum induced not the slightest blip on my obstreperometer. Magazines put naked chicks on their covers roughly 82,697 times a day; it’s all part of the general background noise created in pop culture by the constant […]
Regular readers are perhaps dimly aware that the Faster family maintains a little wildlife preserve on a few acres in the Texas Hill Country. It is on this acreage that I have, for the past 2 years, been patiently waiting for a bunch of inefficient and expensive men to finish building me a house, so […]
I puke on Dude Nation
Published June 2nd, 2007 in Blogulation, Men Hate You, Mass Media and Sexploitation. 171 CommentsToday I’ll be blaming the Internet. More precisely, I’ll be blaming Dude Nation’s appropriation of the Internet as a women’s-oppression-delivery device.
Rare is the behavior the humanitarian outcome of which may be said to improve when performed by insensate mobs, and perpetual penisism is no exception; the phenomenon of internet voyeurism magnifies a zillionfold the misogyny […]
Thyreocorid bug of the week
Published May 26th, 2007 in Keep your bias off my gender, Mass Media and Varmint Center. 482 CommentsCorimelaena sp. The Twisty Hemiptera Department, May 26, 2007.
I adjourned to the bug paddock to snap this foto after throwing a copy of Newsweek across the room. It’s the May 21 issue, the one with a picture of a baby on the front. The baby is wearing a half pink, half blue wunzy. “The Mystery […]
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