The Best Thing About Blogging...

...is that I can backdate posts. Go back and fill in the past; say the things I meant to say at the time.

Where else do you get that chance?

It's a funny thing...

...I am aware that, for pretty much all of human history (and before, in all likelihood), women have been treated as second-class citizens at best. That powerful men have made laws and upheld traditions that kept--and continue to keep--women in a subservient condition.

And yet, whenever I hear anyone use the term "patriarchy," I immediately stop taking them seriously.

I feel the same way about the phrase "the male gaze," but I'm less sure whether there's any substance to that or even what, exactly, it's supposed to mean.

Don't look back...

...something might be gaining on you.

Image source (As far as I know, anyway. Tumblr is where pictures go to forget their past.)

Obscure Fact of the Week

The Song "Come On A My House," used most recently as the theme to "The Girls Next Door," was written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright William Saroyan and his cousin Ross Bagdasarian, creator of Alvin and the Chipmunks.

Greetings from Colonial Heights

Where "politically correct" is still an insult.

"A jukebox of cool"

Playboy's editorial director Jimmy Jellinek describes Playboy's new "safe-for-work" website as "basically a juke box of cool."

Comic Art

Panels from Mark Trail and Judge Parker. Scanned from the local paper in glorious grayscale.

Song of the Month for June

Something about this song just goes so perfectly with late Spring/early Summer. A sort of 5 in the morning mysticism.

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Song of the Month for May

"Other Way Around" by Pieta Brown

Second song in this set on "Mountain Stage":

Michelle Malkin...

...reminds me of the barnacles in "Half Life 2:"