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Web Log Archives: September 14, 2003 - September 20, 2003 Saturday, September 20, 2003
Look, I love reading chaste, spare accounts of man's internal struggle. I enjoy psychological, familial and cultural conundrums. I crave learning about other lands and languages. But it seems that every young author is content to wander this spare literary landscape, all head, heart and soul, a sexless ethereal being unencumbered by the mess of a corporeal body. Gabriele quotes many examples of coy sidestepping of sex scenes, "the novel's equivalent of fade to black," and later some hot literary sex by lesser-known writers. Steve Almond is guestblogging at Bookslut, where he recommends Gabriele's piece and takes up the sexless fiction question himself. In fact, the lack of sex in modern fiction is a profound betrayal of the human experience, which is so obviously full of physical yearning and fantasy. I mean, you all live this shit every minute of every day. Your minds are all filled with the rich filth of desire. You think about cocks and pussies all the live long day. And breasts and asses and the soft skin of her neck. I mean: don’t you? So why don’t your characters? Almond's weeklong Bookslut guestblogging stint has thoroughly rocked out. Go read it all.
Friday, September 19, 2003
"Because the animals are migrating into New Zealand waters to breed, they are very randy," the Auckland University of Technology researcher said. "The freezer bag at home — to my wife's disgust — is actually full of giant squid gonad samples. We're going to grind all of this up, and we're going to have this puree coming out from the camera, squirting into the water. "Hopefully the male giant squid, absolutely driven into a frenzy, is going to come up and try to mate with the camera. "This is the dream - we're going to get this sensational footage of the giant squid trying to do obscene things with the camera." Coming this fall on Fox.
A sassy Englishwoman had a Paris courtroom hooting with laughter on Thursday as she used some eloquent quips to reject charges she ran a lucrative sex-ring that hired out classy girls to the well-heeled. Margaret MacDonald, who was convent-educated and has two university degrees, lashed out at France's ban on escort agencies, saying they provide a quality service between consenting adults -- a far cry from pavement prostitution. [...] MacDonald, who counts Japanese, Greek and Arabic amongst her six languages, faces six years in prison if found guilty for running an agency which had some 500 escorts on its books and set up luxury dates in Paris, Milan and Mediterranean resorts. Her defense is that the escort service promised only companionship (at $1000/hour) and that sex was purely at the individual escort's discretion. Obviously a lie, but hopefully enough to beat the rap. There's no good reason for this sort of business to be illegal. More and more and more.
Wednesday, September 17, 2003
Tuesday, September 16, 2003
R. Kelly says he's feeling a lot like Osama bin Laden these days, and not just because both of them have allegedly appeared on scandalous videotapes of uncertain origin. The R&B hitmaker, who has denied the child pornography allegations against him, says the fugitive terrorist is the only person who's as persecuted as he is. "People can say whatever they want about you without knowing the facts," Kelly tells Blender magazine. "They can criticize you without even knowing you, and hate you when they don't even know you. All of a sudden, you're, like, the bin Laden of America. Osama bin Laden is the only one who knows exactly what I'm going through." (No doubt the al-Qaeda leader is sitting in a cave right now, singing to himself Kelly's "Heaven, I Need a Hug.")
Dr Panyiotis Zavos, a fertility specialist at the University of Kentucky, also said he had created hybrid embryos by putting human DNA into "emptied" cows' eggs. He insisted that this was not in poor taste but was done as a scientific model for future human cloning efforts. But the claim met scepticism from other scientists, who pointed out that the work had not been published in scientific journals where others could verify the procedures and data. To which he replied, "Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha, the fools dare to doubt Panyiotis Zavos?!?" New Scientist has more detail on the experiments. Zavos says he created the human cloned embryo by fusing an empty human egg with a granulosa cell, an exclusively female cell which nourishes and protects oocytes as they grow in the ovary. The embryo, which was frozen after growing to a ball of eight to 10 cells, was created after Zavos had experimented for months with hybrid embryos made by fusing human cells with empty cow oocytes. To make female hybrids, he fuses the empty cow oocytes with granulosa cells from women. And to make male hybrids, he fuses the empty cow oocytes with differentiated forms of fibroblast skin cells taken from men. [...] Zavos rejected any suggestion that the hybrids were unethical. "We're not interested in creating monsters," he says. "We have no intention of taking them above the blastocyst stage of about 100 cells, and no intention of transferring any to term." He says that his team had pioneered a refinement to the fusion process, the electrical "jolt" which unites the human cell with an empty egg. He says that his system now uses two "jolts", separated by about five hours, and he was also testing chemical stimulants which trigger fusion. But [Bob Lanza, scientific director at Advanced Cell Technology in Worcester, Massachusetts] says: "It's dangerous and scientifically irresponsible to attempt human reproductive cloning, with or without chromosome testing. We've seen abnormalities and defects in almost every species cloned to date. There is no reason to think humans would be any different." "They laughed at me in Budapest . . . they laughed at me in Prague!" — "They laughed at you in Worcester, too."
The Chinese hadn't always been so reticent. Under the ancient Tang and Han dynasties, Chinese society was relatively open about sex, Liu says. Women had the right to divorce, were free to talk with and date men and, in some regions, even went naked above the waist, he says. By the early 20th century, Shanghai was known as the "whore of the Orient" for its licentiousness. Just as today's sexual opening is part of a larger transformation, easy sex for the European businessmen who ran Shanghai in that era was a metaphor for foreigners' dominance of a weak China. The Communist takeover of 1949 put a stop to all that. Mao Zedong's commissars crusaded to stamp out prostitution and enforced a puritanical public morality that regarded individual desire as a bourgeois indulgence. As late as the 1980s, dating was almost unheard of on college campuses. But as the country welcomed foreign investors to remake the economy, attitudes began changing. According to Parish, 95% of women in their 20s now say they have employed the "woman on top" position during intercourse, something almost unknown to their elders. And in Pan's research, nearly two-thirds of men ages 26 to 35 acknowledged masturbating — twice the percentage of 36- to 41-year-olds. (Link snagged from Evie's Erotic Miscellanea. Yeah, Evie is back!)
Yes, there's a computer inside the mannequin. This page has 32 photos detailing the creation from start to finish. (Large images, very slow-loading over dialup.) Monday, September 15, 2003
The October issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly has an article entitled "Spray Station" (not available online) about the game. "The pair hopes the device will be picked up by chain restaurants, bars — any place that provides players with plenty of ammunition." Game Girl Advance discussed You're in Control back in May.
It was reported that Affleck's cold feet may have been prompted by a last-minute prenuptial agreement presented by his would-be wife. And in yesterday's New York Post, a source close to the Good Will Hunting star said his mother had influenced him to call off the wedding plans. On the other hand . . . Despite the People report, there was speculation yesterday that the much-publicised cancellation of the wedding was a ruse to distract the press. The Honolulu Advertiser reported the wedding could occur on the island of Kauai, and Lopez was rumoured to be using body doubles to throw photographers off her trail. The Daze Reader spycopter is en route from Santa Barbara to Kauai even as we speak.
They were challenging regulations imposed by Seminole County which, like many local authorities in Florida, is fighting to control the explosion of lap dancing bars. The new rules insist that only bona fide theatres can have nude performances. Elsewhere they insist that G-strings and pasties be worn. In America, pasties are not Cornish delicacies but nipple guards. The club owner and the three performers eventually pleaded no contest and paid fines. Sunday, September 14, 2003
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