Then, on Saturday, a three of us from the law school got together and drank scotch into the wee hours. We tried to play music, but it didn't work out. Alan Lomax's grand-nephew, who I mentioned a few poems back, kept trying to play old folk songs that I knew, but in these wierd monotones that I couldn't play along to at all. Mr. Number Three, whose house we were at, was pretty good on the guitar, but he didn't know many of the tunes we were playing. It didn't take long for us to decide to focus our efforts on the scotch. We each brought a single malt. Our host bought a bottle of The Ardbeg, which couldn't be peatier if it were bogwater. They were both kind of new to scotch (he bought it for the celtic knot design), so I took the opportunity to point out that this was what people meant when they talked about peaty or smoky scotch. I guess my disdain was apparent, so my host made fun of me all night. Good times, though. I hadn't been out that late since I got out here.
Oh, and I saw Ghostrider. Pretty badass movie. I mean, dumb, but badass. That was one of the only comic books I used to read as a kid (the other was Tales from the Crypt), so I was pretty excited.
Part Two
From bitch_phd's website:
Notice how in four sentences she goes from calling us judgemental jackasses to writing us off as pricks. Nice.
I have to admit I am having a whale of a time stirring the shit over at my new gig. And I'm quite willing to concede that, so far, the bulk of the male commenters are, indeed, fairly run-of-the-mill judgmental jackasses.
Which serves, I hope, as a nice segue into the topic demanded by a few of you: porn, and its discontents. I wonder if we can talk about it from the point of view of women, rather than trying to channel (or infer) the p.o.v. of male consumers. Let's write them off (for now) as pricks. I realize that many folks are going to want to argue that it's *impossible* to discuss porn without thinking about the male p.o.v., since it's inherent in the system; but let's hold that off for part two of the discussion, if we can, and use this post just to talk about porn* from the point of view of women, as either subjects, consumers, or implied subjects, if anyone wants to make that case. Of course, guys can be the subjects of porn, too, so if any of you have been male strippers or whathaveyou, feel free to weigh in.
Though personally I'd prefer to put the entire text up here as well; to avoid this sort of difficulty, basically.
I am resigned to being a statistical outlier, anyhow