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I read my blogroll! (Edition #1)

By on October 16, 2005 in General Skwib

I’ve been trying to point out fun and interesting stuff that I’ve read on my blogroll from time to time, but now I’d like to make it more formal. I shall be doing this on a regular basis on Sundays. Yes, the Day That Blogging Forgot.

Halloween & sartorial issues

More Halloween goodness from Mr. Snitch, including, How to Make a Head in a Jar. He give good link. Steve at The Poutine Diaries picked up on the Worst Halloween Costumes and showed us his. He one ugly woman. Archer at TunafishNews continues to amuse, with this post about Hobbits and Geroge F. Will. Heh, heh.

Oscar at The Columnist Manifesto is trying to start a new meme, with What is your oldest piece of clothing? Mine is a suit I had custom-fit when I was travelling in Thailand circa 1990. That makes it 15 years old. I can still stuff myself into the jacket, but thankfully the pants no longer fit, so I don’t wear it, though I could (thus qualifying for the meme). The damn thing makes me look like a Thai pimp. I mean, it’s shiny!

Politics

This week — a cornucopia of posts that pillory the politicians in the White House. Perhaps next week I’ll have some Canadian politcs to point at as well.

Damn! I think Jesus’ General has this whole Bush-Miers thing figured out. Laurence at IFOC News made me snarffle me Timmy’s when I read: Bush has run out of incompetent cronies to appoint. One of my favorite blogs is Mr. Sun’s and I enjoyed this bit about Cheney.

Personal notes

I was saddened to see that Budak’s travels in Canada are not going to be good for his health. And finally, Carmi made me laugh at him (in a nice way) with Batmobile loses 2 wheels.

If you’re not mentioned, don’t worry. I’m sure I enjoyed your blog this week too, but I couldn’t include everything.

The Lost PowerPoint Slides (Will to Power Edition)

By on October 15, 2005 in The Lost PowerPoints

Friedrich Nietzsche photo Friedrich Nietzsche presents concept of Will to Power in Beyond Good and Evil (slide 1)

  • driving force of nature
  • most fundamental instinct
  • exerting will in self-overcoming.

Adolph Hitler uses concept of Will to Power in political process (slide 2)

  • national socialism
  • totalitarian state
  • lebensraum (living space).

Old Testament God on Will to Power and Nietzsche (only slide)

  • I’m dead am I?
  • I’m going to drive that prick insane
  • Then kill him.

Inspired by:
Friedrich Nietzsche’s b-day (Oct. 15)

Dutch ban crotchless panties

By on October 14, 2005 in But is it art?, Parody & Satire, Skwibby fiction

image of panties with forbidden circle on topAMSTERDAM (The Skwib) — The Netherlands is soon to be the first country in Europe to ban public wearing of crotchless panties.

“Here in Holland we are over-stimulated, and the time for looking at genitals nestled in cozy cotton and silk is over,” Dutch Sex Minister Anders VandenBoomboom told The Skwib yesterday.

“Leather and rubber too! All crotchless panties. And assless chaps!” he added, stepping behind a podium, nervously hiding something.

Critics of the government say the move is only an attempt to distract the media from a proposed ban on the burka, traditional clothing in some Islamic societies, which covers a woman’s face and body, leaving only a strip for the eyes.

“We are trying to ban the burka too,” VandenBoomboom said, “but it is more difficult because there are freedom of religion issues. The crotchless panty does not have the same protection. In a way, it is kind of the anti-burka.”

This ban makes for some strange bedfellows in the seething political scene of the Netherlands. Civil liberties groups, orthodox Muslims, and the Amsterdam Association of Slutty Entertainers have banded together to fight the ban, who held a news conference early this morning.

Their spokeswoman, the anonymous “Burka Harlot”, appeared wearing traditional Muslim headgear and nothing else EXCEPT a pair of crotchless panties.

The Skwib was unable to concentrate on what she said.

Inspired by:
Dutch unveil the toughest face in Europe with a ban on the burka

Just in time … the worst Halloween costumes

By on October 14, 2005 in But is it art?, General Skwib

Welcome back Kotter maskMy thanks to Retrocrush for putting this list of the worst Halloween costumes of all time together. (Though I suspect, it would be fair to say the worst Halloween costumes of the 70s.) Why did marketers believe you needed to put the name of the show on the darned costume? Shouldn’t the costume’s utter lameness itself sell it?

And I can’t help but agree: the thought of some kid trick-or-treating while wearing a Gabe Caplan mask just fills me with sadness. A hat tip to Mr. Snitch as well, for providing the link to the 100 Scariest Monsters at the same site.