I’d resisted looking at “Sleep Talkin’ Man” since it hit a few weeks ago, but when it was mentioned on Language Log yesterday, I had to look at it. A woman named Karen reports what her husband Adam says in his sleep. I have to admit, the guy says some funny stuff. My favorites are all R rated. For example, on the 8th of this month: “Flap’s on fire. Your flap’s on fire! Chili in the vagiiiiina. I’m a bad bad boy.” Karen’s editorial comment: “you guys have to image “chilli in the vagina” in a child’s sing-song cadence. Creeeeepy.”
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“Pork chops are most satisfying. Mmmmmmm. Dangle them from the ceiling.”
Posted by acilius on January 27, 2010
https://losthunderlads.com/2010/01/27/pork-chops-are-most-satisfying-mmmmmmm-dangle-them-from-the-ceiling/
Cicero would have been great on Twitter
That’s what Forbes magazine says, anyway.
Posted by acilius on January 21, 2010
https://losthunderlads.com/2010/01/21/cicero-would-have-been-great-on-twitter/
Some connections
How do you pronounce "deeaaaaaaad"?
“Gay Teen Worried He Might be Christian” [The Onion, via Roger Hollander]
Cliff Clavin’s role in the Massachusetts Senate race; or, hold it right there, Doy-enne- it’s a little known fact that some of America’s greatest senators have been naked guys.
A novelty Periodic Table lists common uses for particular elements. Included are such valuable services as being a component of radioactive waste. Hey, that’s better than anything Senator Naked (R-Massachusetts) is likely to do. [haha.nu]
Some of Max Fleischer’s early avant-garde animation [Liza Cowan]
Lucy Knisley remembers bottle-base sidewalks. I remember them too, but Google doesn’t seem to, at least not under that name.
Conan O’Brien’s Funniest Show [The New York Times, via Steve Sailer]
Posted by acilius on January 20, 2010
https://losthunderlads.com/2010/01/20/some-connections/
Alternative Searching
Posted by CMStewart on January 17, 2010
https://losthunderlads.com/2010/01/17/alternative-searching/
The Tank Chair
Thanks to “Hairball of Hope,” a regular commenter at Alison Bechdel’s “Dykes to Watch Out For” blog, for calling my attention to the “Tank Chair,” an all-terrain wheelchair.
Posted by acilius on January 11, 2010
https://losthunderlads.com/2010/01/11/the-tank-chair/
Underground homes
To some, the idea of an underground house will suggest the early Stone Age. To others, it will suggest James Bond attacking a bunch of guys in jumpsuits. To some, however, it suggests a great deal more than that, as Alexandra documents at Weirdomatic.
Posted by acilius on January 8, 2010
https://losthunderlads.com/2010/01/08/underground-homes/
This So-Called Post-Post-Racial Life
If you like what we do here at Los Thunderlads, you’ll probably like “This So-Called Post-Post-Racial Life: Life, Culture, and Politics in the Obama Age.” The author writes short narratives that raise surprising questions about American life. Some particularly strong recent posts include “Racism, A Love Story“; “The War on the New Year“; and “Santa Claus Is a Black Man- And a Black Woman.”
Posted by acilius on January 6, 2010
https://losthunderlads.com/2010/01/06/this-so-called-post-post-racial-life/
Femicide
“There are about 100 million women less on this earth than there should be. Women who are ‘missing’ since they are aborted, burnt, starved and neglected to death by families who prefer sons to daughters. . The estimated number of women who are missing are 44 million in China, 39 million in India, 6 million in Pakistan and 3 billion in Bangladesh. This is the single largest genocide in human history.” -Lucinda Marshall, Feminist Peace Network
“More than 3,800 women and girls have been murdered in Guatemala since the year 2000. What local activists are calling ‘femicide’ is spreading in Guatemala and throughout Latin America. . Guatemala’s femicides are notable for their brutality as well as the impunity that exists for the perpetrators. Countrywide, a mere 1-2% of crimes against life are effectively prosecuted, meaning that someone who commits murder in Guatemala has a 98-99% chance of escaping prosecution and punishment.” -Center for Gender and Refugee Studies
Posted by CMStewart on January 6, 2010
https://losthunderlads.com/2010/01/06/femicide/
Miscellaneous links to end the year
There are a bunch of links I’ve been meaning to post here; so, as a sort of year-end housecleaning, here they are.
Artist and friend of the blog Liza Cowan on the world’s largest photograph, as of 1904.
“The Paranoid Center: How the panic over right-wing violence is being used to marginalize peaceful dissent,” from Reason magazine.
A much-discussed article from The Independent about how to keep young Muslims from turning into terrorists.
Osama bin Laden probably died years ago, but Americans and others go on marching to their deaths in the name of a campaign against him.
“Repentance is knowing that I am loved,” according to a certain “Father Gregory” of the Orthodox Church in America.
Imagine yourself as a contestant in a beauty pageant. A judge asks you a question about an explosively controversial topic. You had no reason to expect the question, and have not prepared an answer. What do you do? Friend of the blog Ellie is a former beauty pageant contestant who has some pointers for you.
The thank-you key (thanks to Cymast for pointing that one out to me.)
The world’s least comfortable chairs.
Taschen book catalog entry for Insects of Surinam, by Maria Sibylla Merian, edited by Katharina Schmidt-Loske.
Do you like the Periodic Table of the Elements? Then you’ll love the Periodic Dessert Tray of the Elements!
Some characteristic symptoms of phony science.
Get out your red and green 3D glasses to view these Italian postage stamps.
Posted by acilius on December 31, 2009
https://losthunderlads.com/2009/12/31/miscellaneous-links-to-end-the-year/
Non-Virtual WABAC Machine
Posted by CMStewart on December 21, 2009
https://losthunderlads.com/2009/12/21/non-virtual-wabac-machine/
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