anythingarian rambles from the land of the fretting nun · Updated 11 hours ago ·
Posted: January 9th 2009 16:16. Last modified: January 9th 2009 17:14
Lunch topics:
Marianism and genital iconography, as in The Virgin Mary is a hairy vagina. Conclusion: this one smells of red herring–she actually belongs to the sun.
The inability of “artists” to fit a proper fanny and a proper face into the same screen. The three best known forerunners of Bob Guccione-style gynaecology, Courbet’s stilled life Origin [...]
Posted: December 10th 2008 01:05. Last modified: February 27th 2009 12:47
The Google Earth version of ancient Rome is a bit like a collection of faked-up trainspotters’ notebooks. Until they find some way of populating it with exfoliant opera, our best bet as responsible amateur social historians is the porn industry:
European production company Daring Media Group will release its first movie, Roma, in October at the [...]
Posted: November 23rd 2008 20:02. Last modified: November 23rd 2008 20:27
JD had a bit more Time than I did and kindly sent me an article from 1930 which turns the tables on the filthy Swedes discussed this morning. It seems that towards the end of Primo de Rivera’s dictatorship the Spanish postal service issued a stamp of Goya’s unshaven maja desnuda. Time writes:
The stamps (29,800) [...]
Posted: November 20th 2008 08:55. Last modified: November 20th 2008 09:01
Geo-sensitive porn chat ads cope as well with multi-key characters as the average wanker. I doubt not that Cornell University is a chattering of cheeky chicas, but at this time of year the weather’s rather better in Cornellá, Barcelona. Not that I’m in CornellĂ , but you get the picture, and if you don’t then I [...]
En Barcelona como en otras partes comienza hoy la primavera, que en honor de la verdad no suele ser aqui la estacion mas hermosa del año. Cierto que ya los árboles comienzan á echar hoja, y que la linda y olorosa violeta alfombra los jardines y ribazos, y que le hacen cortejo otras flores; per...
