War - what is it good for? I’m talking about the war - the war that rages on youtube about “worst___ ever.” Here’s a reply to “worst commercial ever” that showed up in my email courtesy of Citizen Robot. “It’s kind of old, it just … cracks me up in a kind of terrible way.” Ms. Robot says. Oh what the hell.
The majority of persons … imagine they can live in marvelous contentment with handsome feet and ambrosial buttocks. Most men are accredited fools shortly after they leave the womb.
True enough, perhaps, but I mean to satisfy some primary vices this weekend. And by vices I don’t mean my fledging career as a watercolorist, although I will have you know that I’ve sold my first — it’s a chiaroscuro of Kat’s left nipple. So best!
Another executive decision: Although I do not love bocce, I must become at the very least proficient. It’s come to my attention that Williamsburg BroHei chicks don’t ball losers. Unless said loser has a paid-down mortgage, in which case, I hear, it’s anyone’s guess.
Paging Christopher Hitchens!
Victims’ Group Releases Settlements With 16 Who Claimed Abuse by Elders
By Rose French
AP
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — A victims’ rights group has released documents showing that the Jehovah’s Witnesses, also known as the Watchtower Society, recently settled civil suits with 16 people who claimed they were sexually abused by church elders or that church officials failed to act on abuse allegations.The group, called silentlambs, held a news conference in Nashville to demand that the denomination change its policy for responding to sex-abuse reports.
Silentlambs, most of whose members are former Witnesses, have also held occasional demonstrations outside the Witnesses’ world headquarters on Columbia Street in Brooklyn Heights. On those occasions, the Witnesses refused to meet with them.
Bad enough that these fuckers took the Bossert. Now this.
In a NYTimes interview about his upcoming show, Leonard Nimoy lets us in on his fetish:
He knows that he is an unlikely champion for the size-acceptance movement; body image is a topic he never really thought about before. But for the last eight years, Mr. Nimoy, who is 76 and an established photographer, has been snapping pictures of plus-size women in all their naked glory.
He has a show of photographs of obese women on view at the R. Michelson Galleries in Northampton, Mass., through June; a larger show at the gallery is scheduled to coincide with the November publication of his book on the subject, “The Full Body Project,” from Five Ties Publishing. The Louis Stern Fine Arts gallery in Los Angeles and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston have acquired a few images from the project. A few hang at the Bonni Benrubi Gallery in New York. (Their explicitness prevents the images from being reprinted here.)
I may have to visit the Louis Stern gallery … I wish I could go with John Waters!
These women are not hiding beneath muumuus or waving from the bottom of the Grand Canyon à la Carnie Wilson in early Wilson Phillips videos. They are fleshy and proud, celebrating their girth, reveling in it. It is, Mr. Nimoy says, a direct response to the pressure women face to conform to a Size 2.
“The average American woman, according to articles I’ve read, weighs 25 percent more than the models who are showing the clothes they are being sold,” Mr. Nimoy said, his breathing slightly labored by allergies and a mild case of emphysema. “So, most women will not be able to look like those models. But they’re being presented with clothes, cosmetics, surgery, diet pills, diet programs, therapy, with the idea that they can aspire to look like those people. It’s a big, big industry. Billions of dollars. And the cruelest part of it is that these women are being told, ‘You don’t look right.’ ”
Y’know, I can kinda picture it. I mean, if it were Shatner, I’d just cringe.
“We do overhear some reductive ‘Is Nimoy into fat chicks’ comments when the gallery room is first entered,” he continued, “but in fact the fun nature of the work and the quality seem to shut people up by the time they leave. I’ve had a few crank e-mails with snide remarks, but not a one from gallery visitors.”
The Big Fat Blog, a Web site devoted to fat acceptance, wrote about Mr. Nimoy’s photographs in 2005. A woman calling herself Nellicat wrote in response: “I’m 5’5″ and weigh between 130 and 135. But I don’t feel as comfortable in my own skin as I should. I look at those women strutting, posing, laughing, and I feel real envy towards them. There they are, posing for a man (!) knowing that the whole world will be able to see them naked (!!) and they are LOVING it. Oh, to be that free! To be that comfortable and beautiful in your body — I truly envy them.”
Lenny’s got the magic touch.
And so, as an Iraqi, I say without hesitation: the American forces should stay here, and further reinforcements should be sent if the situation requires them. Not only that, these forces should be prepared to expand their operations whenever and wherever necessary to strike hard at the nests of evil that not only threaten Iraq and the Middle East, but seek to blackmail the whole world in the ugliest way through pursuing nuclear weapons.
It is up to us to show tyrants and murderers like Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah, Syria’s Bashar Assad, and their would-be imitators who seek to control Iraq’s people and wealth that we, the people, are not their possessions. They can’t take out our humanity and they can’t force us to back down.
“Up to us”? Fuck you, pal. You’re a goddamn dentist.
In the latter portion of The Times piece on the Dow Jones deal, we learn that:
On April 25, an investor made a single purchase of 280,000 Dow Jones options, far more than are typically traded in a day. (The buyer of the options, whose identity has not been disclosed, had a profit, on paper, of $4.6 million as of Friday.)
Call me!
During his remarks to Her Majesty QE II, President Bush said
As liberty expanded in the British Isles, British explorers helped spread liberty to many lands, including our own. In May of 1607, a group of pioneers arrived on the shores of the James River, and founded the first permanent English settlement in North America. The settlers at Jamestown planted the seeds of freedom and democracy on American soil.
Bush ought to avoid that metaphor. He used it back in May 2005.
It is true that the seeds of freedom have only recently been planted in Iraq, but democracy, when it grows, is not a fragile flower, it’s a healthy, sturdy tree.
As if that ain’t enough, check out what happened after the British settlers — or occupiers, if you will — set up shop in the New World:
War repeatedly broke out, and in 1621 the chief of the Pamunkey tribe, Opechancanough, engineering an exceptionally clever, devious strategy that enabled the Indians to win the trust of the settlers and then betray it, set off “a slaughter of unimaginable proportions” that killed “at least a quarter of the settlers and [left] the colony devastated.” It was a brief and brutally costly battle. Soon thereafter the British crown took over management of the colony from the Virginia Council, and the policy of ruthless extinction was put in place. “Extirpating of the Salvages,” as the royal governor put it, was carried out wholesale; after 1622, “the Powhatans were excluded from English Virginia other than as drudges and slaves.”
That’s bad, right?
