Archive for October, 2006

The circle is complete

Now my true intentions become clear. I mention anal bleaching on my site, Yahoo serves up the hot ads for it. So when HoleGlo hits the market, a slavering population will be in a frenzy for it. There’s no stopping it!

October 31, 2006 • Posted in: My Take • 1 Comment

Those damned dirty apes!

The Damned Dirty Apes have returned! Fear the monstrous, ill-focused eyes of the hideously misshapen Will Ferrel!

October 31, 2006 • Posted in: Asides • No Comments

A natural extension

We’re such an odd dichotomy in this country. We’ve got the religious right leery of anything more racy than hand holding and we’ve got the sexual Olympians that are leading the race to find new ways to decorate their naughty bits. Piercings aren’t enough, tattoos are damn near archaic.

First came anal bleaching, a term I’m [...]

October 30, 2006 • Posted in: My Take • No Comments

The Name of the Rose

The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco.

Apparently if you read this you’re instantly pretentious. How can I pass up that offer? Also, supposedly makes you feel dumb and is hard to read. It doesn’t and isn’t.

Montreal exacts its revenge

Montreal is fiercely protective of its good name, that much is certain. No more than 2 hours after I wrote that last post, lamenting the less than pleasing stench suffusing its streets, it frankly got me good.

I mentioned I was hitting the sack early as I had an early flight to catch. I followed that [...]

October 28, 2006 • Posted in: My Life • 1 Comment

Smelling progress

Smell tends to solidify memories more than any other sense. Everyone has a certain smell that will, without exception, immediately spark a memory as solid as bedrock, bringing it up in startling clarity. There’s a certain cologne that I used to wear that, upon smelling it on someone in passing, I am engulfed in nostalgia [...]

October 27, 2006 • Posted in: My Life • No Comments

With fists raised at the flying aluminum tubes

A thought occurs to me as sit rather uncomfortably slumped in a modestly padded chair at gate 31 in JFK airport: has there ever in history been an American Airlines flight that has arrived on-time? This is not an idle thought. It’s one that has been careening around my skull for the past 3 hours [...]

October 25, 2006 • Posted in: My Life • 1 Comment

Look To Windward

Look To Windward
by Iain M. Banks.

A new Culture book? Heart, be still. Even a bad Culture book is better than, well, almost everything else.