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What Is Bavalife?

By on March 1, 2006 in General Skwib, Parody & Satire

Bavalife logoWelcome to Bavalife. Where singles click — their mouse or their hooves.

Bavalife is a new brand…a new community…a new world…a new vision for single life. Bavalife is solely dedicated to enhancing the lives of singles: men, women … goats … any ungulate really.

More specifically, Bavalife offers singles anytime, anywhere connections that make single life a positive, fulfilling and self-esteem building experience through interspecies opportunities, antisocial interaction and a like minded community of ideas and cloven hoof information.

We recognize that all human beings have the need to interact with goats. Our history is filled with elaborate courting rituals and traditions. While our society may have changed, our need to be social and to connect with ungulates hasn’t. That’s why Bavalife was created. We’re a global brand and the world’s largest independent provider of technology-based meeting services designed to create barnyard possibilities for singles.

‘Inspired’ by:
Sudan man forced to ‘marry’ goat

Worst. Taste. Ever. (With a point.)

By on February 28, 2006 in But is it art?, Parody & Satire

The Passion of the Christ, with a Benny Hill soundtrack. Yep, this is offensive. I’m not a Christian and it offends me. (Okay, I laughed a bit at the start.)

But imagine if it had been Islam at the butt end of the joke? While the “Benny Hill Passion” is offensive, I doubt it will cause riots.

Normally, I don’t think much of Mark Steyn’s columns, but I found this one kind of fascinating. And if there’s any truth to the stories of the non-coverage of hate crimes in France, deeply frightening. It does lend credence to the hypothesis of William Bennett and Alan Dershowitz that the press is failing us, and not only because it has given the Bush Administration a pass on so much bad behaviour.

The Lost PowerPoint Slides (184 Proof Edition)

By on February 28, 2006 in The Lost PowerPoints

184-proof whiskeyTravel Writer Martin Martin presents Holy Crap! (circa 1695, slide 2)

  • Isle of Islay
  • Known for its peaty usquebaugh or “water of life”
  • Also have usquebaugh-baul: “perilous water of life.”

Travel Writer Martin Martin presents Holy Crap! (circa 1695, slide 3)

  • 184 proof
  • 92 percent alcohol
  • two spoonfuls can paralyze you.

Travel Writer Martin Martin presents Holy Crap! (circa 1695, slide 4)

  • powerful enough to affect all members of the body
  • you know what I mean.

Mark Reyneir, Manager Bruichladdich distillery presents: A bit of fun (circa now, slide 5)

  • making 184-proof again
  • ten years ’till done
  • not to be taken with any other medication
  • keep away from open flame.

Inspired by:
Distillery to revive 184 proof whiskey

Notes from the Blogroll: Does Mickey Dee Trump Community?

By on February 26, 2006 in General Skwib, Parody & Satire

Mickey Dees trumps AmericaI’d like to break away from the arms-length satire for a moment and ask, are we heading for trouble?

(Damn, even when I’m not trying to be sarcastic, it comes out that way.) A quick mine of The Skwib blogroll found some grist for the depressing notion that our consumer lifestyle is untenable, both in terms of what its doing to the planet and what it does to us as human beings.

First off, via the Rev., we read this long piece from Joe Bageant, which is a dispatch from the American Class war. Bageant quotes Charles Eisenstein’s The Ascent of Humanity:

It is a mistake to think that we live ultra-specialized lives and somehow add another ingredient called “community” on top of it all. What is there really to share? Not much that matters, to the extent that we are independent of neighbors and dependent on faceless institutions and distant strangers. Real communities are interdependent. Never in all history has there been such a lonely, inauthentic civilization.

Essentially, this is a meditation on the destruction of the American middle class as an incubator for community. And lest the Canadians reading this feel smug, we have enough in common in terms of our consumer culture that you will feel uncomfortable, perhaps even sad. Continue Reading →