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Amusement
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Category Archive 'Amusement'
28 Sep 2014
Who Left That Camera There?Amusement, Owls, Trail CamsHat tip to Karen L. Myers and Walter Olson [Facebook]. 17 Sep 2014
Rory McIlroy’s Tee Shot Lands in Spectator’s PocketAmusement, Bizarre, Golf, Rory McIlroyAt the PGA Championship Tour in Atlanta, but he still makes par. 05 Sep 2014
Sex EducationAmusement, History, Photography, Sex EducationHat tip to Madame Scherzo via Karen l. Myers. 05 Sep 2014
Attacked and Eaten by a $4000 Jacket in TribecaAmusement, Books, Fashion, Mary K. Choi, Materialism, New YorkIt happens. You walk into Griffin & Howe (or the real Abercrombie & Fitch decades ago) without the slightest intention of buying anything, and you wind up leaving with some English shotgun or Payne fly rod you couldn’t possibly afford, but which has suddenly become a cherished and essential component of your personal existence on the planet. Women’s clothes work on women, we all understand, the same way best grade London shotguns work on men. Mary H. K. Choi, in New York magazine, delivers a quite amusing account of how it happened that an impecunious struggling writer (herself) wandered into a posh designer boutique and wound up buying a $4000 leather coat. (My God! woman, you can get a pretty decent grouse gun for that kind of money.)
Read the whole thing, which is apparently an excerpt from the young lady’s “How-I-Came-to-My-Senses-an-Got-the-Hell-Out-of-NYC” memoir (published as a quite inexpensive eBook). 19 Aug 2014
Martial Arts Referee Loses His TemperAmusement, Martial ArtsIt’s always better to listen to the referee. 12 Aug 2014
Nixon Battling Saber-Toothed TigerAmusement, Deviant Art, Richard Nixon, Saber-Toothed Tiger
You find strange and wonderful things on the Internet, even things which boggle the mind. Yesterday, I was doing a Google Image Search and, in the normal manner of things, a number of images having nothing recognizably in common with what I had searched for turned up. One usually just skims past those kinds of images, instantly dismissing them from mind, but this image made me stop and do a double-take. I began to hear Neil Young singing: “Smilodon tabbies and Nixon coming…” The artist, a fellow named SharpWriter, seems to have done quite a lot of US presidents and some historical figures as fantasy superheroes. Check out Bill Clinton. I think this artist has ascended past the realm of kitsch to the space of laughing-with-appreciation. Feeds
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