Hector Was a Pup

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Dec 22

Labyrinth Dream Date

Dec 20

“I think that, as a guy with a raging libido and rather wild sexual history, that I can say this without sounding like a prissy, feminine apologist, and thus discredit what I am trying to say- But seriously, men need to get over themselves. Thinking that every woman who makes a joke about what you have in your pants means she wants to whip it out right there and go down on you is just plain ignorant, arrogant and stupid. It is just a sad excuse for men to be lazy in their faculties of judgement and morality by putting the entire burden of sexual regulation on women. It is pathetic, and one aspect of being a man I am not proud to share with my fellow men.” — Best reader comment ever on my big-kid blog, forceversusobject.blogspot.com

Dec 16

Deeply honored to make the list, of course, but part of me feels like this list should only include people whose names are a descriptive phrase, a la “Leather Jacket Guy from Tommy’s Park Who Lost His Leather Jacket in a Mugging About a Decade Ago.” Naturally, concessions would be made for name/descriptor combos like, “Norman the Glassy-Eyed Pervert.”

Dec 15

Dec 11

Fuzzy Logic and Scary Monsters

From an AP story about Ross Truett Ashley, the perpetrator of the recent shooting at Virginia Tech:

He said he never recalled Ashley so much as losing his temper or getting upset, and Ashley also seemed to know Scripture well.

“He wasn’t some kind of monster that people are trying to depict him as,” Muller said.

In determining whether or not someone is a monster, it should be assumed that their reading habits are never sufficient to offset the fact that they’ve committed murder. Especially when they’re really into reading a book that’s full of blood and vengeance and has a history of being used to justify some truly terrible business.

It seems like a lot of trendy women’s fashions aren’t so much attractive as they are just straight up logistically impressive. Like those platform-y, booty, high heel things…they’re godawful ugly but I can’t look away when someone manages to walk in them without looking like a bowlegged weirdo.

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