I'm going to make a bold statement here: a bunch of dudes on a whaling boat is even sexier than a bunch of pirates on a pirate ship. ... I mean, pirates are awesome and wear rad outfits and are swashbucklingly violent and all, but whaling dudes are all butch, they get filthy, their skin gets all tough and leathery, and they thrust their harpoons into the whale again and again, in and out, until its hot quivering flesh is still. See what I mean?
I think my semester will be a hell of a lot more interesting if I can spin erotic fantasies around all of my assigned reading. I mean, I'm interested in the reading already, but if I can masturbate to it I can reduce my porn-viewing time and increase my time spent on reading. Everybody wins! Especially Herman Melville!
Now she would be a good subject for my What Are You Working On series. I don't believe her name is really Audacia, though. It sounds like one of those spambot names I was talking about yesterday.
And, also courtesy Rachel K-B, A Million Little Penises. Worth it for the graphic.
You know, about that whole Oprah-Frey episode we've just lived through -- could there be anything possibly more satisfying? Not only is a too-full-of-himself, falsely humble millionaire author humiliated on national television and in the national media, but he's practically emasculated (as Virginia Heffnan put it in today's NYT) -- and by a black woman. Imagine her taking Abramoff apart on that off-white couch. Imagine Cheney under "her whip hand," as Heffernan -- obviously worked up by the whole thing -- also put it.
More fakes: As the sun sets on James Frey, it's rising on the less well-known but possibly even more heinous "Nasdijj" (that's two j's if you're keeping score at home). Galleycat has the latest, including links to proof that the self-described Navajo writer is really a white bisexual leatherman named Tim Barrus who wrote several gay male porn books. Badger, a Bay Area blogger with friends in the leather community, explains why the PEN award-winning author's cultural appropriation is even more shameful than the wool-pulling perpetrated by Frey and the JT Leroy scammers.
james Frey, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Moby Dick, Audacia Ray, Chris Genoa, Oprah, Virginia Heffernan
3 comments:
You got the author wrong there - Audacia Ray and Rachel Kramer Bussel are two entirely seperate people. Yes, both where glasses. Yes, both write about sex. Yes, both are very attractive. But, I believe the phrase here would be "screwed the pooch." The entry regarding Melville’s erotic value was from Audacia and not Rachel. Their orbits do seem to intersect from time to time so I can see why you made the mistake.
No -- if it seems like I confused them, I didn't mean to. I believe "Audacia" is a separate person and all, I was just saying it was a cute pseudonym. I really would like to interview her.
Bah! Spambot name indeed! I'm much more obsessive and creative than that. Full nerdy origin of my pseudonym here: http://www.wakingvixen.com/archives/000178.html
And if you want to interview me, you know where to find me.
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