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Damned Radiograph
From the start of a recently deleted sp*m comment here at RAMH: Whereas feelings are not viewed as ethical(that is, not judged to be good or bad), behaviors are . The radiograph will show you how many puppies she is having . Value your partner as your sexual friend and be an intimate team. The [...]
Bars on Every Corner
I worked for AT&T, late 1970s through sometime in the early 1990s (depending on where you want to place the marker). And I was a loyal customer, too. When less costly competing services came along, from MCI and Sprint, I never gave them a glance. I never considered buying a phone or answering machine that [...]
Write Your A** Off
Important: Please read the update at the foot of this post. If you can’t read that, at least read the boldfaced parts of the post itself. Thanks for visiting! The blogosphere — or maybe it’s just the corner I’ve been mostly visiting, the one with the writers and other assorted wordsmiths — seems to have [...]
What We Miss When We Shutter Our Senses
[Above image, "Magic Eye" by Jennifer Love, first appeared on TrekEarth.] From whiskey river (italicized portion): Beside the grand history of the glaciers and their own, the mountain streams sing the history of every avalanche or earthquake and of snow, all easily recognized by the human ear, and every word evoked by the falling leaf [...]
The Road to Hell Is Paved with Hard Decisions…
…badly made. Which is why, recently presented with these two books for review, I will probably start with the latter: How S*x Works, by Dr. Sharon Moalem. From the publisher [typos supplied by JES intentionally, to ward off The Wrong Sort of Internet traffic]: Why are women biologically driven to find Mr. Tall, Dark, and [...]
4 or 5 Crazee Guys*
I’ve resisted. Oh, how I’ve resisted. Really — it’s been, like, Thou shalt not… and Stay thy hand… and all the rest of those Biblical-sounding injunctions. I’ve been strong. I’ve cared. Ultimately, alas, although I wrestled with the angel, s/he has overcome me. It was never easy. And in the end, it was not even [...]
Collisions Between Poetry and… Other Stuff
[Artist's rendering above depicts "planets colliding in a sun-like binary system about 300 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Aries." Click image for more info.] From whiskey river: Poetry I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in [...]