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		<title>Poetry Korner with Jennifer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 03:35:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today we revive a dormant tradition here at I Blame the Patriarchy, the tradition of showcasing blamer poetry, which tradition is dormant only because nobody has put a pome in the comments in a while. This one is particularly fine. It&#8217;s a goddam sonnet.
Jennifer Weild
August 4, 2010 at 1:01 pm
Ask her nothing, dudely dudes, for [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today we revive a dormant tradition here at I Blame the Patriarchy, the tradition of showcasing blamer poetry, which tradition is dormant only because nobody has put a pome in the comments in a while. This one is particularly fine. It&#8217;s a goddam <em>sonnet</em>.</p>
<p>Jennifer Weild<br />
August 4, 2010 at 1:01 pm</p>
<p>Ask her nothing, dudely dudes, for she<br />
before all else does thee in truth despise.<br />
Do not protest thy honesty. Twisty<br />
knows well the lies thy phallus signifies.</p>
<p>Aloft above her ranch the boiling hawks<br />
the smallish, brownish birds and mice do hunt,<br />
while Twisty Jill o’er interwebs doth stalk<br />
the stupid man who dares her wield her gun.</p>
<p>Do not, dear dudes, assume sincerity<br />
will shield thee from the spit of her contempt.<br />
She can to thee attribute no real parity.<br />
Your penis by itself leaves you exempt.</p>
<p>Tremble then, dear man, before you post,<br />
or your head surrender to her cruelty’s boast.</p>


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		<title>Poetry Korner</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If a blamer goes to the trouble of writing a blaming pome about a Dr Seuss character who hates hoes, I can go to the trouble of giving it its own page.
Untitled
by PandanCat
I’ll have no hoes! No, no, noes!
Hoes with clothes? No, no, noes!
Hoes at shows? No, no, noes!
Hoes with piercings in the nose and [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If a blamer goes to the trouble of writing a blaming pome about a <a href="http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2009/10/06/frustrated-dude-vents/">Dr Seuss character who hates hoes</a>, I can go to the trouble of giving it its own page.</p>
<p><strong><em>Untitled</em></strong><br />
<strong>by PandanCat</strong></p>
<p>I’ll have no hoes! No, no, noes!<br />
Hoes with clothes? No, no, noes!<br />
Hoes at shows? No, no, noes!<br />
Hoes with piercings in the nose and hoes with eyes for all the bros?<br />
No, no, noes!<br />
Hoes who ask for a rose and hoes where fem’nist theory grows?<br />
No! No! Noes!<br />
I’ll say it now before I go:<br />
This bro will never love a ho!</p>


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		<title>&#8220;Life IS Life !!&#8221;: Commenter, in stunning intellectual leap, equates concept with itself</title>
		<link>http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2009/04/20/life-is-life-commenter-in-stunning-intellectual-leap-equates-concept-with-itself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:25:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Twisty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ It must be annoying, dealing with a spinster aunt who only pretends to be an Internet feminist.
I admit it; I have been moonlighting as a flesh-and-blood person lo these past few days, flitting around the countryside as though the Internet didn&#8217;t even exist. Spring is boinging up all over the rancho, and &#8212; not [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_2058" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 210px"><a href="http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2009/04/20/life-is-life-commenter-in-stunning-intellectual-leap-equates-concept-with-itself/fin_face/" rel="attachment wp-att-2058"><img src="http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/fin_face.jpg" alt="I tried to upload a photo of a painted bunting, but this proved impossible, as it turns out I haven&#039;t actually taken any pictures of any painted buntings. Instead, please enjoy this photo of the spinster aunt&#039;s winsome young relative Finn. We were all surprised when her face &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; get stuck like that." title="fin_face" width="200" height="267" class="size-full wp-image-2058" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">I tried to upload a photo of a painted bunting, but this proved impossible, as it turns out I haven't actually taken any pictures of any painted buntings. Instead, please enjoy this photo of the spinster aunt's winsome young relative Finn. We were all surprised when her face <em>did</em> get stuck like that.</p></div> It must be annoying, dealing with a spinster aunt who only <em>pretends</em> to be an Internet feminist.</p>
<p>I admit it; I have been moonlighting as a flesh-and-blood person lo these past few days, flitting around the countryside as though the Internet didn&#8217;t even exist. Spring is boinging up all over the rancho, and &#8212; not to be <em>too</em> adorable-woodland-creaturey about it &#8212; there are painted buntings to espy.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not as easy as it sounds, espying painted buntings. They are not, apparently, my specialty. I mean, barn swallow: check. Summer tanager: check. Ladderbacked woodpecker: check. Scissor-tailed flycatcher, red-tailed hawk, mourning dove, roadrunner, assorted hummingbirds, Carolina wren, ostrich, black-crested titmouse, 8 black vultures sitting in a row on a fence: check, check, check.</p>
<p>But the <a href="http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Painted_Bunting/lifehistory#at_habitat">painted bunting</a>? It might as well be a dodo.</p>
<p>I regret that I do not have a decent post even now. In fact, all I have, in addition to my gripping bird-watching checklist, is a funny comment from the moderation box, left on an <a href="http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/12/02/spinster-aunt-thinks-two-things-at-once/">old post</a> wherein I assert that culture is nothing but the realization of patriarchal fantasy. The comment goes like this:</p>
<blockquote><p>Hey You People !!</p>
<p>I am a Man !! (Patriactical ??) …</p>
<p>I have a wife AND, I have a child …</p>
<p>I am (was) willing to step up to the PLATE (!!), to take the HIT from this loser, that was harassing BOTH, my wife AND my child …</p>
<p>It’s just NOT the female’s OR the child’s nature, to really be able to protect themselves …</p>
<p>Men are NECESSARY !!</p>
<p>But, men are NOT God !! …</p>
<p>And, men should Love their wives, and, men should Love their children …</p>
<p>I’ve ALWAYS tried to do, just those …</p>
<p>And, I’ve ALWAYS had a hard Time with art !!</p>
<p>But, I’ve always believed in, “freedom of expression !!”</p>
<p>So, I’ve put up with their art !!</p>
<p>I didn’t have anything (!!) to lose …</p>
<p>In closing, I don’t even know who Firestone is, but, Life IS Life !!</p>
<p>Let’s get on with IT, shall we !!</p>
<p>Yours truly,</p>
<p>[email address redacted to protect our correspondent from a flood of marriage proposals]</blockquote>
<p>I offer the preceding, not as an excuse, exactly, but for your consideration as an explanatory condition regarding my obligation to take occasional unscheduled vacations from blaming. Even the spinster aunt, with her mighty nerves of steel, can only take so many ellipses before she snaps.</p>


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		<title>Veteran blamer lyricizes her way to a chin nod</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:33:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Twisty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I brushed a tear from the Twisty eye when I read this, The Rev. Lt. BDL&#8217;s latest. Because now I&#8217;ve got that fucking song &#8220;Wildfire&#8221; stuck in my head. Thanks, good buddy! I hope to infect you with 70&#8217;s novelty hit &#8220;Convoy&#8221; someday. Ten four.
A perfect opportunity to speculate on your death, sing an earworm [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I brushed a tear from the Twisty eye when I read this, The Rev. Lt. BDL&#8217;s latest. Because now I&#8217;ve got that fucking song &#8220;Wildfire&#8221; stuck in my head. Thanks, good buddy! I hope to infect you with 70&#8217;s novelty hit &#8220;Convoy&#8221; someday. Ten four.</p>
<blockquote><p>A perfect opportunity to speculate on your death, sing an earworm song twined in the DNA of anyone raised West of the Miss, embroider the scantily known facts of the situation, and triumphantly work out my horse envy:</p>
<p>“She comes down from Yellow Austin<br />
On a dark, flat land she rides<br />
On a pony she named Stanley<br />
With a whirlwind by her side<br />
On a hot Texas night</p>
<p>Oh, they say she died one summer<br />
When there came a killing rain<br />
And the pony she named Stanley<br />
Busted down its stall<br />
In a shopping mall he was lost</p>
<p>Chorus:<br />
She ran calling Stan-ley<br />
She ran calling Stan-ley<br />
She ran calling Sta-a-a-a-a-an-ley</p>
<p>By the dark of the moon &#8211; I blamed<br />
But there came an early rain<br />
There`s been a garbage truck growling by my window now<br />
For six nights in a row<br />
She`s coming for me I know<br />
And on Stanley we`re both gonna go</p>
<p>We`ll be riding Stanley<br />
We`ll be riding Stanley<br />
We`ll be riding Sta-a-a-a-a-an-ley</p>
<p>On Stanley we`re gonna ride<br />
Gonna leave ballbustin` behind<br />
Get these hard times right on out of our minds<br />
Riding Stanley!”</p></blockquote>


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		<title>Musical interlude with Nellie McKay</title>
		<link>http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/07/19/musical-interlude-with-nellie-mckay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Twisty</dc:creator>
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I was sitting around in my interior designer Ed&#8217;s studio yesterday. In willing compliance with my request to help me &#8220;funny up&#8221; the new Spinster HQ at El Rancho Deluxe, he was showing me pictures of some offbeat lamps for my office. One of these was a white plastic Venus de Milo bust that glows [...]


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<p>I was sitting around in my interior designer Ed&#8217;s studio yesterday. In willing compliance with my request to help me &#8220;funny up&#8221; the new Spinster HQ at El Rancho Deluxe, he was showing me pictures of some offbeat lamps for my office. One of these was a white plastic Venus de Milo bust that glows from within.</p>
<p>&#8220;I dunno, man,&#8221; I said. &#8220;There are feminist implications.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ed&#8217;s response was to whip out the laptop and play me <a href="http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/nellie_mckay_sings_feminists_and_if_i_had_you.html"> this video</a>.</p>


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		<title>The little-known lyric souls of blamers</title>
		<link>http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/03/23/the-little-known-lyric-souls-of-blamers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Twisty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Poetical Blamer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Occasionally a blamer, moved to an alternate plane of expression by sparks of unknown genius, will respond to a patriarchy-blaming post with a fit of poetic impulse. Hardly any of these deserve wider recognition, but I won&#8217;t let that stop me. Herewith, the first installment of The Poetical Blamer.
On the subject of PhysioProf&#8217;s account of [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Occasionally a blamer, moved to an alternate plane of expression by sparks of unknown genius, will respond to a patriarchy-blaming post with a fit of poetic impulse. Hardly any of these deserve wider recognition, but I won&#8217;t let that stop me. Herewith, the first installment of The Poetical Blamer.</p>
<p>On the subject of PhysioProf&#8217;s account of PZ Myers&#8217; bloodthirsty rampage at the creationist movie screening, rootlesscosmo writes, incorporating my new favorite word (but turning it into an anapest in the process, whoa nelly!), this  epic saga:</p>
<blockquote><p>Wackaloon, wackaloon, wackaloon,<br />
Let’s rejoice ‘neath the Roquefort moon<br />
For this glorious earth<br />
Whose divinely planned birth<br />
Happened only last Tuesday. At noon.</p></blockquote>
<p>And from the First Lieutenant Reverend B. Dagger Lee, whose muse was the prosthetic anus, is this ode to beauty in medical science:</p>
<blockquote><p>There was an old lady from Germany<br />
Plagued with a leg of infirmity,</p>
<p>She went into hospital<br />
Quite bad at anatomical,</p>
<p>Now she shits with robotic efficiency!</p></blockquote>


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