There’s a post I keep meaning to track down from gordonzola, about the cheese foundry whose workers used some of the big cheesemaking vats as hot tubs after hours. I think listeria would be the least of your worries after one of those…
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Sunday, April 26th, 2009Etymology
Sunday, April 19th, 2009MILF versus cougar.
I have given some thought to the matter. I think on the whole, despite the inherent passivity of MILF (the name itself is objectification), it is less offensive than cougar which (to my ear at least) implies a negative kind of predatorship. How many people get mauled by MILFs when they go hiking up in the mountains?
I rest my case.
Excellent news for the world
Sunday, July 13th, 2008I proudly announce the creation of the Publican Party, just in time for the November elections.
Unlike other, lesser political parties, the Publican Party has a single issue: alcohol.
Behold, our platform, and despair:
- The lowering of the federal legal drinking age to 18 (a year younger than most of Canada! finally, drunken teens with cash will flood to OUR side of the border!)
- The raising of the legal driving age to 19 (they’re drinking anyway; why not give them a year to figure out what they’re doing, before we arm them with large blunt objects?)
- more draconian enforcement of Blood Alcohol Content (why should we let Saudi Arabia have all the fun?)
- and, on a local level, the instantaneous and irrevocable dissolution of the OLCC and WSLCB, and their replacement by some sort of sane regulatory body.
Thank you, and goodnight. Don’t forget to tip your bar staff.
Sunday, October 28th, 2007
The Ships Landed Long Ago: Afrofuturism and Black SF. Introduction to an issue of The Journal of Science Fiction Studies, which has been around longer than I’ve been alive.
Synopsis: American SF has long been a bastion of white nerds, devoted to a future in which everyone has the freedom to think and act just like white nerds. Which means that black inroads into SF more often happened sideways through music and comics, rather than through the front door. Sun Ra as well as Samuel Delany, Luke Cage: Powerman! as well as Octavia Butler.
COAL!
Saturday, August 11th, 2007no one belongs here more than you
Sunday, April 8th, 2007The promo site for miranda july’s new book is implemented in dry-erase marker on whitebox appliance.
See also (for a very different take on it): chocolatey shatner. Didn’t scale well, which was a shame. Ambitious style.
Saturday, January 6th, 2007
telephone-pole flyers. Not the kind about bands.
Excerpt: Did you enjoy Mongo Santamaria’s music? …the bandages on his fingers do not imply a gentle man.
Sunday, November 19th, 2006
Religious environmental movement growing. “If we are made in his image, we should mirror his image in our dominion over the Earth,†Mr. Wickersham said. “He is creative and sustaining, not destructive.â€
Monday, November 13th, 2006
You think getting the US out of Baghdad is going to be fun? Try being anyone trying to get into Baghdad
Thursday, November 9th, 2006
Calvin and Hobbes, the later years: Mars is amazing…Mars is amazing
crocodile nuns
Sunday, July 16th, 2006crocodile nuns, taken from this weird portfolio. some other content on this site, NSFW.
Christopher Robin has too many feet; or, Winnie-the-
Monday, June 26th, 2006that new “silent” ringtone all the kids are talking about
Wednesday, June 21st, 2006Supposedly, this highpitched tone is out of the hearing range of many adults. So of course, it is supposed to be all the rage as a custom ringtone for the younger set, unhearable by older authority figures. I can hear it and it hurts my ears. Does that count?
increased energy conservation cheaper, safer bet than increased energy production
Wednesday, June 21st, 2006To wit: someone ran the numbers and figured that a nationwide incandescent to compact fluorescent light bulb trade-in would save as much energy cost as building a new nuke plant would produce.
Now, that’s not factoring in the added environmental cost: although any fluorescent fixture contains a tiny amount of mercury, it is enough that a dead CFL bulb is considered hazardous waste already, let alone when people who don’t read the fine print are dumping them willy-nilly into the trash. Overall, I think even the mercury which makes it into the groundwater is going to pale in comparison to the emissions of most power plants, but it would be interesting to see another, environmental-impact cost breakdown.
peculiarities of the abortion debate
Monday, April 10th, 2006Since 1998, to receive or perform an abortion is a felony offense in San Salvador, even in cases of ectopic pregnancy, which untreated can kill the mother, and virtually never results in live birth.
Men write 83% of the editorials about abortion in the New York Times; in the Los Angeles Times, 62%
Before South Dakota voted to ban abortion (except to save the life of the mother), there was exactly one place in the state performing them, a clinic in Sioux Falls which brought in doctors from Minnesota. Cecilia Fire-Thunder, president of the Oglala Sioux, has proposed setting up replacement medical services on reservation land: within South Dakota, but outside the state’s jurisdiction. She also says it’s not happening at Pine Ridge. Still she was still a practicing nurse a couple years ago, before she got elected, so she might be serious.