Blog Title: Brief Essays With Pictures

Damned Lyrics 2 (Queen’s “Fat Bottomed Girls”)

As a guy who likes women to look like women, I whole-heartedly endorse this song. Strange though that it took a flamboyantly gay man to offer such high praise for curvy women. I’ve always wondered if the song was secretly about something else - specifically, I wondered if this was sung to the women who read more..

Teenage Sexuality

One of the irritating things about the internet is how often a reasonable topic delivers all sorts of undesirable people to your website. For instance, I’ve written about circumcision before, a ridiculous practice. I end up getting visitors from Google who were clearly looking for child pornography. Not cool. This thread probably won’t help things. The read more..

Snoop Wouldn’t Have Endured This

One of the great things about The Wire was its characters ruthless efficiency. Snoop, one of Marlo’s gun(wo)men from the third, fourth, and fifth seasons knew no mercy. It was the reason that, along with Chris Partlow, left numerous bodies in the vacants. If you stood in their way, you were put down immediately so read more..

It’s Criminal: Missy Elliot’s “Sock It 2 Me”

I’ve got a weakness for big-voiced women. That’s all there is to it - I’ve been writing these “It’s Criminal:” things for a few weeks now, and I’m primarily focusing on women: Nina Simone, Cat Power, and now, Missy Elliot. I’ve written about this song elsewhere on the site, and how irritating Da Brat’s appearance read more..

In South Dakota, You Can Swear At A Cop

I’ve never understood why police officer are automatically deserving of defference. According to the State Supreme Court of South Dakota, they’re not, at least in regard to what you can say to one. In this case, a drunk guy shouted “fucking cop” when police officers were driving by. They stopped and arrested him. He appealed, read more..

A Catholic Objection To Birth Control

According to the head of the Federation of Catholic Medical Associations, women who take birth control are apparently polluting the world with their powerful hormone pee. (The dream of a writer is write, “polluting the world with their powerful hormone pee.” I have accomplished my dream. I’m only 28. Now what?) The leader of the federation read more..

It’s Criminal: Nina Simone’s “Sinnerman”

This song easily cracks my Top Ten Favorites. It is, arguably, one of the greatest songs ever conceived. (I do write about other topics, occasionally, I guess.) Technorati Tags: Nina Simone, Sinnerman

Elena Delle Donne’s Very Interesting Experience

It takes a person considerable willpower to wake up one day and walk away from everything you’ve been working for. But doesn’t it take more to cover the fact that you’ve spent five years working maniacally toward a goal that you apparently never had? Elena Delle Donne’s story is interesting, but there are a couple of read more..

Ukeleles Abound

I want to write something about the importance of people being themselves, in the face of whatever stands before them, but Haku will no doubt get angry at my attempt to equate one with the other. Sufficed to say, these guys can play (ukeleles) and their version of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” is friggin read more..

Women! Have Sex With Your Husbands Whenever They Want!

(Update: Prager’s been divorced twice. Keep that in mind.) (I like to read Sadly, No! I thought when I read this, they were kidding. They weren’t.) I’ve written about Dennis Prager before. But never did I expect this bit of brilliance: When A Woman Isn’t In The Mood: Part II. But before we get to that, here’s read more..