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Morning Readings
Read These Now as Demons Are Hungry
Aug 30th
- Here is one of the most important attendees at Glenn Beck’s Restore Rally. (Photo via Bright Young Things.)
- September is National Preparedness Month: Does God Have an Emergency Plan? I am not a Biblical scholar, but isn’t faith only necessary? I’ll put faith in a backup generator, lots of luscious canned goods from the garden, a well-stocked bar, and Xanax.
- German Farmers Want Army to Help Combat Wild Boars. (Spiegel) Wild Boar is tasty with a peppercorn sauce.
- Mushroom hunting is fatal in Italy. (Reuters)
- Two of my favorite lines from last night’s Mad Men. Joan said to Roger, “You’ve crossed the border from lubricated to morose.” Been there. Later Roger recites for his memoir, “I always liked chocolate ice cream, but my mother made us eat vanilla because it didn’t stain anything.”
- Smoked cannabis reduces chronic pain.
- YouTube Plans Mainstream Film Rentals … Again. (Wired)
- She’s Got Balls: 12 Creative Women Get in Touch With Their Masculine Side. (PaperMag)
- The trailer for a James Dean gay biopic. (Queerty)
- Via Coilhouse: A Sesame Street Orange sings from Carmen.
Read These Now Because I Prefer A Trim
Aug 19th
Talk about forsaken! Good grief! I haven’t felt like posting anything here and spend entirely too much time on Facebook. It is an evil tool of distraction. It entertains me though. The latest privacy concern is easily disabled. All I post is links, garden and food photos, and too many YouTube videos when I hit the decanters.
So. What have I read today? There are no political links as all parties are crazy.
- Male Brazilian waxing. (Salon) I prefer a trim.
- Joan Collins is on Twitter. She has a short film, Fetish, that gets raves. I might watch The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing tonight. The Joan Collins DVD set is a great collection of her earlier films.
- I am envious of 3 Boys Farm. All that organic, hydroponic produce would send me into fits of glee.
- The Burger King Pizza Burger makes me sick.
- There is a new James Baldwin collection of writings called The Cross of Redemption. (NPR)
- Karin Dreijer Andersson’s Fever Ray covers Peter Gabriel’s Mercy Street with a free download. (NME)
- Diego Zuñiga Fall 2010. (Fashionisto)
- The moon is shrinking. Just a bit. (Discover) (New Scientist)
- AIDS virus changes in semen make it different than in blood. (Eurekalert)
Random Rumblings
Jul 31st
I envy those souls who can sit behind a computer and continually post. I’m an expert in sitting. That’s about it.
What have I learned since my last posting?
- I want to change my name to Felix Pickles.
- I enjoy Steven Moffat’s interpretation of Sherlock Holmes.
- The movie Soapdish is a favorite film.
- As is Black Narcissus. Barnes and Noble still has the 50% off sale for Criterion DVDs. There is a new release and remaster of Black Narcissus.
- I require a brain transplant. This body is tedious.
- I dealt with cat piss.
- I dreamed of Galliano and how Genet looked in prison.
- Too much Liberace and Cabaret Voltaire invade my ears.
- And we need to take back America. Well, take back America with a healthy dose of Xanax.
Read These Now Before Ludwig II Mind-Melds with Your Cell Phone
Jul 26th
I experienced yet another hiatus. During this hiatus I read the Sookie Stackhouse series. If I’m going to enjoy the television show, True Blood, I should at least read the books. The books are a frighteningly easy read. It only takes a few hours to finish one. Mindless fodder is my goal. Thinkin’ is hard. HA! One of my favorite sentences from Book 9 was: “He was as deep inside me as he could get without an operation.” Uh-huh.
Let’s see what mindless fodder is in the RSS feeds.
- The heavily cloistered nuns of Abbaye de Notre-Dame de l’Annonciation will release an album of Gregorian Chants.
- A few days ago on FB I mentioned that Petulant kittens were devil spawn as I bleed daily from their attacks. Lo and behold, Satan is real. Petulant kittens also like to torture hapless frogs brave enough to journey from the pond to the screened porch. O’ kittens. They perform the dark work.
- OKAY! Tough healing love has a specific brutality. “A member of the First Love Church Healing Center says he was pinned down and spanked 20 times with a two-by-four for looking at a website.” (CNS) I must know what website, probably gay porn. Isn’t it always.
- Both can be an option. Sir Peter Blake: why I chose Pop (Art) over pot.
- I always adore Visconti and Ludwig. Schloss Neuschwanstein. Here is a favorite photo from my collection. I am also partial to the paint-by-numbers version too. I have yet to piece together the 3D puzzle version. Maybe I will scour the closets and attempt it. On second thought, that might require too much thinking.
- Though I am not a member of the jailbreaker brigade, other rulings by the Library of Congress Copyright Office are interesting. (Crunchgear)(Boing Boing) (EFF)
- allow college professors, film students, documentary filmmakers and producers of noncommercial videos to break copy-protection measures on DVDs so they can embed clips for educational purposes, criticism or commentary.
- Humans can mind-meld too. (New Scientist)
- Where’s the fence? Climate Change May Mean More Mexican Immigration. Oh wait. I forget. Winter is cold so it doesn’t exist.
- The hairy-nosed otter is adorable. I have a ground hog named Gertrude that lives under a shed. It could be male. Gender is subjective. I don’t mind if she nibbles the cucumber plants. A girl has to eat. The damn moles are a bane.
I guess that wasn’t too mindless. I should start Book 10 of the Sookie Stackhouse series.
Cheers.
Read These Now Before Invaders Attack Your Gut With Sadness
Jul 15th
- Tarkovsky Films Now Free Online. (Open Culture)
- 18th-Century Ship Found at Trade Center Site. (NY Times)
- Watch: James Franco, Jon Hamm and Others in New ‘Howl’ Trailer. (Towleroad)
- Graham Norton tipped to replace Jonathan Ross on Friday nights. (Pink News)
- Key Lime Pie (CoilHouse)
- Invasion of San Diego: Space Invader Map (Juxtapoz Magazine)
- Armchair Astronauts Can Take a High-Def 3D Mars Tour. (Discover)
- Remarkable fossil cave shows how ancient marsupials grew. (Eurekalert)
- What’s in your gut? (SciAM)
- Happiness and Sadness Spread Just Like Disease. (Wired)
- Five Things about Gary Shteyngart’s “Super Sad True Love Story” Video Trailer. (More Intelligent Life)
Read These Now Before You Go Limp
Jul 14th
- Annoying Cooks on the Web – A Field Guide (Urlesque)
- Variorum of Classic Tracts and Pamphlets (A Journey Round My Skull)
- Limp Laws: The Catholic Church’s impotence index. (The Smart Set)
- The bookcase you’ll want to live in. (Guardian)
- Which Dystopian Future Is Right For You? (Flavorwire)
- Skeleton Clocks (feuilleton)
- Altered animals: Creatures with bonus features. (New Scientist)
- Divide and Conquer: Genes Decide Who Wins in the Body’s Battle Against Cancer. (Science Daily)
- Iraq’s Modern Art Collection, Waiting to Re-emerge. (NY Times)
- Women Claim Boss Smelled Their Feet. (CNS)
- A Concise History of “Fuck.” (Vanity Fair)
Further Reading
Jun 22nd
- Via the New York Times, The Age of the Castrato.
- Butt Magazine has a great interview with James Bidgood.
Famous for his ethereal photography of beautiful young men in the 1960s, James Bidgood directed, produced and wrote the iconic 1971 film Pink Narcissus, starring Bobby Kendall. Nearly all of the film was shot in Mr. Bidgood’s Hell’s Kitchen apartment between 1963 and 1971 where he lived within the sets he built. Before the film reached completion, it was taken from him by investors and edited without his involvement, creating something Bidgood says he couldn’t even follow himself or stay awake through.
- Allen Ginsberg’s Beat Family Album. (Smithsonian)
- “Is it French, or Italian? Made with tuna, or without? Simon Hopkinson untangles the knots in a salade niçoise.” (More Intelligent Life)
Enjoy this photo by Horst P. Horst.
Male Nude (1950)
Read These Now Regurgitation
Jun 22nd
I spent more time on and off Facebook today than dealing with this place.
Let me regurgitate.
- I started the day looking at the McCrucifix.
- I read about the Terrifying Frankenfood to Be Unleashed on America.
- I pondered the length of my thumb.
- I looked at jewelry from the Cast of Vices Collection.
- I watched Neko Case at a New Pornographers show teach an audience member a lovely message about throwing shit on stage.
- I posted my favorite quote from Sunday’s episode of True Blood. “I’m a nurturer. I found a baby armadillo by the side of the road and I nursed it. Now it sleeps under my bed. His name is Felix.” -Terry Bellefleur.
- That lead to reading about Armadillos and Leprosy. There are rare cases of transmission to humans, usually through undercooked meat.
- Thanks to the illustrious Shad Marsh, I discovered that it was the International Mel Brooks’ Status Day.
- I posted Nurse Diesel from High Anxiety: “Those who are tardy do not get fruit cup.”
- I also posted from History of the World Part One: “Yes, citizens, plumbing! It’s the latest invention to hit Rome! It moves water from one place to another! It’s astounding, it’s amazing! Get on the bandwagon! Pipe the shit right out of your house!”
- Then I had to watch Lili Von Shtupp from Blazing Saddles. I am soooo tired too.
- Finally I linked to a photo gallery of spoilers for the Doctor Who finale. SPOILERS!
That was easy.
Read These Now Before Chimps Raid Your Neighborhood
Jun 21st
I pretend normalcy and attempt posting. HA! Let’s see if it lasts more than a day. I had to change the look of this place because the WordPress 3.0 upgrade hated the old template. This new one works for now because I am lazy and don’t feel like tweaking anything else.
- The New Yorker profiles Huckabee with too many words. Gay marriage is still bad. Evangelical. Hope for the GOP? Blah.
- Peter LaBarbera gets pissy about President Obama’s Father’s Day Proclamation that mentioned nurturing by two fathers. Better to have two gay nurturing fathers than an evil hetero one.
Reading the news always sucks. Oil spills. Endless hate. I require light reading.
That is a fitting link after the fabulous Doctor Who Pandorica episode. Happy Solstice too.
- TV that wouldn’t get made now. (More Intelligent Life)
- X-rayted Pinups. (Bad Astronomy)
- Hospital X-ray reveals £50,000 Robert Lenkiewicz painting beneath nude. (Telegraph)
- How the National Gallery uses science to spot fakes and masterpieces. (Guardian)
- Chimp Gangs Kill to Expand Territory. (National Geo)
- Vivienne Westwood Men’s Spring/Summer 2011. (Homotography)
- A conversation with John Adams, composer and so much else. (Washington Post)











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