Posts by Russell Brown
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I sobbed hysterically in the bathroom for a while, as you do when your world is like, totally ending, and then tiny little Frances showed up and took me on a walk around the field where the cold Wellington air blew on my hot feverish cheeks in a way that I found to be very dramatic, and I was certain that a character in a Judy Blume novel would feel the same way.
What a long yet wonderfully vivid sentence that is ...
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Like many men of his generation, my father wasn't very good at confronting his emotions, and I think his state of near-denial actually prolonged his terminal illness. I also made it pretty hard for me to get my head around.
Until, that is, one night when I dreamed that it was me who was dying. It was awful, inescapable and terrifying -- a feeling worse than anything I can recall. I woke up gasping at 6am.
But it was a turning point. I felt like I knew what had been going through his mind. I knew that we weren't going to have any magic moment -- it would have put pressure on him and I wasn't going to demand that -- but that was okay. I talked to him a little on his deathbed, and quite a bit more after he was brought back to the house after he passed away. We were good.
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Okay, that's an interesting perspective, worth discussing ect ect. But virtually every climate change denier I've ever argued with has enthusiastically recommended Lombergs book to me.
'Read this. It proves that global warming is just a big communist hoax!'
Totally. From Leighton Smith at the bottom of the intellectual pile on up. It's weird.
But the thing that bugs me is: where's his authority? The Salon review makes it quite clear that a great many people are thinking about the same issues, in greater depth and in a far more nuanced and open way than he is. It's just that he's the one who writes the pop-skeptic books that say things some people want to hear.
Note that when he came to New Zealand, he wasn't invited by any science body. His host was the Business Roundtable.
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The day you left your job, or your relationship, or school. The last time you set foot in church, or smoked a joint or stopped believing in Santa Claus. It's all about farewells and endings in this month's stories …
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Update: it has been brought to my attention that the reporter, Derek Cheng, isn't the one to blame for the Herald's Wikipedia story.
Sounds like it was the newsdesk deciding there was a story there wasn't and the poor reporter having to write it. So, the paper bring its reporter into disrepute rather than the reverse.
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I always heard they used pina colada mix! Another illusion shattered.
No, I had to go back and check myself: that's female ejaculation, aka squirting, she was referring to.
It appears that the industry has pulled a con on its punters there.
But, true fact: The Chief Censor once expressed to me his frustration that his people had to spend so much time trying to tell female ejaculation (legal) from urination (not permitted) in a certain kind of porn films.
Wow. This thread really is going to get me all the wrong kind of Google links ...
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No, I think it's a great story once you untangle the double (triple?) negative - because if "John Key's wiki isn't being vandalised hardly at all" - doesn't that mean it's being vandalised quite a lot?
You know I was ironically referencing popular culture by loading in the ambiguous extra negative so you'd all think I was cool. Don't you?
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Of course, for the male hetero brain 'straight sex' includes 'two or more hot women pretending to be lesbians' ...
Oh great IO, now you're saying that if they're hot then they must be pretending to be lesbians? And I thought we'd come so far... ;)
Touche!
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Here's a blog I wrote last year on gay pr0n and women. The first comment is from a good friend of mine who writes literal tonnes of slash. Part of the comment goes like this:
Cool. Genuine insight. Things I'd never thought about before, from people with different brains than mine.
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The result? No matter what the pairing - whether male/female or female/female - the subjects had similar reactions to both, and according to Bailey this proves that women will respond to anything, regardless of their sexual orientation.
The same could not be said of straight or gay men, however - last year Bailey and Chivers initiated a similar study in Chicago for men, and discovered that straight men were aroused by watching straight sex, and gay men were aroused by gay sex, and ne'er the twain did meet.
I think I saw this research showcased in a documentary more recently. It seemed quite persuasive. And interesting.
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