A Daydream Fulfilled:

Often times I find myself wondering, what would it look like if Jim Henson designed a chain of drag clubs in Ireland?


Ahhh. Now I know.

Chris Jordan: Running the numbers

Thanks to Gina who posted this in her blog.

Thank you Denise Duhamel:

Denise on the difference between prose poetry and flash fiction:

"Prose poetry and flash fiction are kissing cousins. They are kissing on Jerry Springer, knowing they're cousins, and screaming "So what?" as the audience hisses."

--from Double Room

Please enjoy:

The wit of Amelie Gillette

I couldn't have said it better:

Oh, if you visit one blog today, please read Dan Savage's blog on Kay Barnes. The phrase, "black gay abortionists drunk on champagne" should be a part of everyone's day. And, for Christ and crackers, the commercial made me laugh out loud, for real, not LOL, in front of my computer.

A good reminder from Post Secret

What is today, again?

Mother's day! Don't forget to call all the moms you know and thank them for squeezing babies out of holes no bigger than say, oh, your father's fist.

And go here for some neat M-Day art!

MMM...Savage Love

I am a huge Savege Love fan. If you don't know who Dan Savage is, or have never read his column, go check it out here: http://www.avclub.com/content/node/78619.

He's a sex advice columnist and is hilarious and usually spot-on, in my limited and unprofessional opinion. He posts new columns every Wednesday and this was a particularly funny one this morning (the person writing in is in italics, Dan's response is below it):

I'm a 52-year-old male, divorced for the past eight years. I recently broke off a five-year relationship with a woman two years my senior. About six weeks ago, a new female worker started in our office. We're really hitting it off, and frankly, I've fallen for her—hard! However, she is 36, never married, and I have not asked her out yet, but I definitely want to. In fact, I want to marry her.

There are some of my coworkers who think I'm "robbing the cradle" in this situation. Given that we have two possible barriers to overcome, age and work situation, what do you advise? Go ahead slowly or full steam ahead?

Geezer In Love

I would advise you to stop wasting my time, GIL.

You've known this woman for six weeks—six weeks—and you haven't so much as been out on a date with her yet. It's not even appropriate to joke about marriage at this stage—marriage, GIL, which is so totally holy and sacred and between one man and one woman and wocka wocka wocka. And it's entirely possible that you've mistaken this woman's efforts to ingratiate herself with her new officemates as "hitting it off." For all you know, this woman, like your coworkers, thinks you're a creepy old lech, GIL.

And speaking of the so totally holy and super-sacred institution of marriage…

When two dudes get married, the marriage-is-between-one-man-and-one-woman brigades crap their collective pants, vomit up ten thousand press releases, and run in circles screaming about all the hurricanes and earthquakes and unattractive haircuts that Our Loving Father™ is gonna rain down on our heads if we don't pry Adam off Steve right fucking now.

Well, the one-man-and-one-woman crowd has been strangely silent about this polygamist sect in Texas that's been all over the news. It appears that the Fundamentalist Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints has been organizing marriages/statutory rapes between one man and dozens or more women and/or girls. "Where's the outrage?" writes a reader, which prompted me to go looking for some outrage at the reliably outraged website of Concerned Women for America (cwfa.org). There are more anti-gay-marriage press releases packed onto CWFA's website than there is fudge packed into all the homos in all the Sodoms in all of North America. But there's not one single word that I could find about these straight men in Texas violating the holy and sacred one-man-and-one-woman rule. What gives?

My Students, Do, This

Commas, Turning Up, Everywhere

WASHINGTON—In the midst of a crisis that may have reached a breaking, point Tuesday afternoon, linguists, and grammarians, everywhere say they...

Eat It!

Go to this link:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=zIkOLQ8gpHE

It's cute and maybe you can save some of these poor, defenseless "creatures."