Posts Tagged by Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
She’s got legs
| March 17, 2009 | Filled under Video |
Magic Molly links to this TED talk by Aimee Mullins about traditional standards of beauty and the misnomer of disability.
I get what Mullins is trying to say, and I agree with her on most points, but at the same time she is speaking she is walking around on prosthetic legs made for high heels, legs that give her 6 extra inches, making her over six feet tall. And Mullins is a fashion model who has walked the runway for Alexander McQueen and was named by People Magazine as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world.
One wonders if she might feel differently about the standards of beauty if her disabilities were, say, above her neck, not below her waist.
Sex Machine
| February 16, 2009 | Filled under Shorts |
Mazda Miatas are such feminine-looking cars, and yet I know two men who each own one. After passing another man-driven Miata on the highway this weekend (red, naturally) it occurred to me I have never seen one driven by a woman.
Alone time
| January 29, 2009 | Filled under Shorts |
Office work is so depressing. I don’t want to be a cube dweller my whole life (and it’s only my second day). The bathroom is the most depressing place of all. It’s too small, and thus too personal, and it smells like raw sewage because the building is old. I don’t want to know my coworkers that intimately.
I should have never left the museum. I *loved* that job.
Bring the Weapons
| October 10, 2008 | Filled under Video |
Bring the Weapons from Andrew Laker on Vimeo.
My long-time friend and all-round creative person Butch Laker has finished his documentary on underground wrestling (wrasslin’) in Indiana and has set it free online. Click here to learn more about the bloodiest, strangest and most fear-inducing film on wrestling you’ll ever see. If you like it, please leave him a comment, and forward his link to your friends.
Failed bands of Oklahoma
| September 8, 2008 | Filled under Internerd, Shorts |
Via someone (I can’t remember who, maybe Megan?) comes a truly strange link: Failed Bands of Oklahoma, striving “to garner press coverage for failed bands worldwide.”
Me: I’ll have the Framboise. W…
| August 7, 2008 | Filled under Shorts |
Me: I’ll have the Framboise. Waitress: What flavor? Me: Framboise is the flavor. W: We have peach, raspberry, cherry.. Me: Okay, raspberry
Crazy dog lady might be crazy Mormon kidnapper
| August 7, 2008 | Filled under Internerd, Shorts |
This is one crazy story.
John McCain is a misogynist
| August 6, 2008 | Filled under Internerd, Video |
There are a million reasons* not to vote for John McCain but here are two that have my blood boiling lately.
First, McCain calls his wife a make-up smeared cunt ** and then he offers her up to a pack of bikers in an event that equals little more than a debaucherous wet t-shirt contest.
Other ways in which McCain shows little to no regard for women: he wants to overturn Roe v. Wade, limit access to contraception and and doesn’t believe in fair pay.***
* Next time I get a blanket email from my grandmother about how Obama is the Muslim antichrist I’m going to reply with this video.
** Here is an interesting follow-up to that story.
*** I know most of these videos and links are old news but I still think they’re important.
And to think, earlier today I …
| June 25, 2008 | Filled under Shorts |
And to think, earlier today I was in the most humanitarian mood, smilin’, small talkin’, helping old ladies at the grocery store.
Shakin’ that stick and drivin’ me crazy
| May 12, 2008 | Filled under Blog |
For those of you who know me and have already heard this rant, yes, I am still seething about this, and no, I will not get over it. For those of you who haven’t, the story that follows is pretty gross, both in terms of bodily functions and general human behavior. There is a picture at the end. Read on if you have the fortitude. (more…)
