Sexual Politics

'The notion that a contemporary woman must look mannish in order to be taken seriously as a seeker of power is frankly dismaying. This is America, not Saudi Arabia.'

Anna Wintour, editor of Vogue on Hillary Clinton's decision not to appear in the magazine, for fear of looking too feminine.

Spaceman Gary Bell Is Still A Moron

Update: Gary Bell fans, go here first.

But his listeners are fantastically stupid.

Back in 2004 I made a post titled Spaceman Gary Bell is a Moron. Sadly, this post remains one of the most read on this stupid blog, and has a high google ranking for the search term Spaceman Gary Bell.

Well, this type of unfettered popularity is bound to attract the best and the brightest. Check out these witticisms from the fucktards who have commented on this post.

"He delves deeper then the so-called free press. His topics reach behind the main theme which all pressed follow."

Obviously unaware of how blogger works, "G" chimes in with :

"This guy posts on Aug. 4 2004, since then no one posts. I post and all of a sudden you have 2 dummies that follow, of course with their own personal retarded retort.Do you losers just wait around?"

This is tiresome stupidity.

Luckily, the fans of Gary Bell have an abundance of stupidity to share with the world. "H" takes a mighty swing at me with :

"You are that guy, gee I never knew you'd be sitting by your little computer waiting for a response from the world. How naive of myself. I guess you are another one in a long list of jerkoffs who thing that voicing their opinion matters to the rest of the world. Spaceman is a thinker whether you like him or not but I see that you can't probably comprehend that because you listen to what you Mother told you to do.
Did you make up that word "self-reverential irony" all by yourself or once again did Mommy help you.
Praise Ra."

And yes, Johnny-Tard miss-spelled referential. Fucking moron can't even copy and paste.

I am beginning to realize that Spaceman's fans aren't just stupid for swallowing mouthful after mouthful of his fetid sack juice, but they have to be drunk as well. That is the only way they can listen to his pedantic ramblings without pissing their pants in abject terror at the news of the coming apocalypse.

Here are some of Gary's newest revelations about the world:

Marlon Brando's son died at age 49. 4+9=13. Aaaahhhh!!!!! Run for your lives! Run for your lives!

There are 1000s of Illuminati controlled newscasters!

The collapse of the sub-prime mortgage market is a controlled crash! Controlled by the illegal Federal Reserve in a effort to destroy America - stolen from this genius web site.

George Bush told lies! And the only reason his lies were exposed, was to get Obama in the White House. The Diebold fix is in to get Obama in. Vedic astrology foretells that the 44th President will be assassinated in office. So there you go, Spaceman is predicting the assassination of the next President of the United States. Sure Space.

Oh yeah, your tv is casting black magic spells on you.

And on and on and on.

I swear to the almighty teapot that listening to this fucking joke of a broadcaster and his toe-rag listeners is harder than watching Fox news. Or that shit-tastic Kenny vs. Spenny. What were you guys talking about? That show is horrible. But not as bad as Gary Bell.

4 Square. Really.

I honestly thought the idea honshui and I had of promoting scree-sliding as a sport was just too wacky to be believed. But then I found out about amateur and professional dodgeball. Fine, people are bored, but surely this is then end of the madness.

Nope. Turns out there is a national tour for beach tennis in the U.S. Take out all the fun of tennis, and make it a game of volleys and serves with a high net. Just like volleyball. Whatever. This has to be the end of the silliness? I mean, what's next, organized walking with poles? Well, yes. And with the lack of snow here in SW Ontario, it is the closest you are going to get to cross-country skiing.

Still, with all this silliness, somebody has taken it up a notch. 4 square, the schoolyard staple, has rules and leagues. Different leagues with different rules and different court sizes - chaos!

So when the hell is Zim Zam going to get its own league? Or playing with plastic army men in a sand box? Oh wait, that has been done.

Calgary - Always The Bridesmaid

This past Tuesday, Calgarians held their collective breath in anticipation of the latest cold snap. Experts were predicting that it would break the old record of -45 C set on Feb. 4, 1893, or the wind chill record of -55 C set Dec. 15, 1964. The coldest Jan. 28 on record was in 1929 when the temperature dropped to -42.8 without the wind.

Typically, they came up short. Calgary, if you are going to go that far, go all the way! Where is that pioneering spirit you are always droning on about? Maybe Galbraith was right about you after all.

Update:

Did I mention in the comments that Calgarians are whiny?

In order to placate the gentil honshui, I submit the following. I think even honshui will agree that this is more in tune the Calgary's seemingly limitless ability to fail to grab the brass ring.




Update
So, let's see. The baby picture is too insensitive, and the Titans are failures (?) What will make honshui happy? Who the hell knows. Maybe a cheese cat.

Un Petit Jeu de Mots

In Paris, during the mid to late 1800s, Cora Pearl became the star of the demimonde. She was also known as the "Queen of the beasts". It has been said that this is a jab at Cora and at the low regard in which she and her ilk were held.

I can't help but think that there is at least a soupçon of delightful word play going on there.

Way too f----ing cold

This morning it was -46 Celsius with the windchill. A balmy -34 without wind. Let's get this out of the way Ontario, yes it is a dry cold, mostly because moisture is impossible at that temperature. An interesting fact is that somewhere down around these big negative temps, celsius and fahrenheit scales coincide. Cold is cold.