Cease and Desist
 

It's bad enough that Declan McManus* is suing the producers of the film for stealing another pseudonym of his without credit, but it is wholly another thing to out Shape Shifter by using his firm picture as your new Avatar.


*"Elvis Costello" for those that aren't PLF

Cease and Desist
 

Is it true SS is in negotiation to be the first "feature length" Queer Eye make over?

Movie Rec for the Theater Impaired
 

If, like me, you only get to see movies after they come out on video, I enthusiatically recommend Pieces of April. It's a great character study, and Katie Holmes charms gthe hell out of you right through the screen.

Movie Rec for the Theater Impaired
 

So, she shows them? Sweet.

Disturbing
 

MIAMI - Police in the Florida Keys are mystified by a bizarre new pastime — young people dangling themselves from meat hooks on a popular sandbar.

U.S. Coast Guard were called on July 12 to the sandbar off Whale Harbor in Islamorada. They found that five young people had erected a bamboo tripod and hung meat hooks from it. A young woman, her feet brushing the surface of the shallow water, dangled from the frame, hooks embedded firmly in her shoulders.

Lt. Tom Brazil of the Coast Guard said a young man, who also had hooks embedded in his heavily pierced and tattooed skin, told him the group was “just enjoying the afternoon.”

There were no laws against sticking meat hooks into yourself and hanging from a tripod on a sandbar (really? you'd think that someone would have done something about this by now), Brazil added, according to the newspaper.

What I'd like to know is, what kind of drugs one takes in order for meat hooks embedded in your shoulder to allow you to just chill.
And what kind of drugs you have to take in order to think up an idea like this, and talk people into building a tripod and hanging meat hooks from it. I mean, I knew some wacky people in college that would do anything to get high (snorting someone's asthma pills comes to mind) but this - I can't imagine what triggered this.

meat hooks in the night

Disturbing
 

It doesn't require drugs. It simply requires impressionable minds watching JLo's movie "the cell". Vincent D'Onofrio's character puts rings into his back, legs, and shoulders and chills in his basement hanging from them.

Disturbing
 

I have a friend who is a performance artist who ends up hanging by meathooks in nearly all of his pieces. He also sticks these really cool looking spears in his back in an intricate pattern that make him look like he has wings. His troupe is somewhat distrubing to watch, but certainly is interesting.

TV Update
 

So, having suddenly found myself busy and completely over tired again, I somehow find myself spending my limited night off watching the M. Night Shaymalan mockumentary on SciFi tonight. It was actually pretty amusing. I recommend it to anyone witih 3 hours to kill.

That is all I have to say for myself. Except that the skirts are really fun this season, yes?

BR(slipping back under the darkening waves)C

TV Update
 

I saw that too, on and off. I'm not sure what to make of it. How much of that was real v. staged? Getting Johnny Depp and the other actors together was pretty convincing.

Disturbing
 

see my avatar...

Dick & Jane
 

Run, Spot, run!

Statute of Limitations
 

Aw Slave, that's sweet. If I cared I would be really upset about your opinion of me.

Statute of Limitations
 

Hey, at least I still love you.

Statute of Limitations
 

YAY!!!!!!!

Tyler and Heras
 

Guess they're on a pretty shitty version of it these days.

Have to say Voeckler's been pretty impressive for an unknown. For a frenchman, he doesn't give up easy. I suppose the German surname explains it . . .

Tyler and Heras
 

I can't believe that he was dropped 6 times in the last mountain stage, but powered his way back up each time. That's impressive.

Chuck D wants to know...
 

'Splain. I was just trying to make him more comfortable! It seems as though that wouldn't be too pleasant to have it flopping around -- but what do I know?

Chuck D wants to know...
 

First, let me say that I'm going to let the atrocious grammar of your second sentence slide...

Now; down to business:

1. He's less than 7.

2. I let him wear what he wanted (I didn't insist he wear the snug undies) -- actually, he asked for my help in turning over the waistband of his underwear so that it wouldn't hang below his shorts. I think at his age, kids still laugh at the sight of underwear. What do I know from fashion?

Chuck D wants to know...
 

I'll help you with fashion, you help me with grammar. Deal?

Cease and Desist
 

I thought of you this weekend, too, when I saw Fahrenheit 9/11. Despite the oppressive heat (you called it "sultry"), there was quiet a line outside the Landmark River Oaks for the 9:40 show. You joked that MM would soon be lighting cigars with hundys at the Hotel Du Cap planning his next movie, "Why I Really, Really Like W's Very Fair To All Americans Tax Policy." You were dressed in a tight t-shirt that clung to you through a mixture of humidity, perspiration, and your rapidly expanding girth that shook when you laughed at your own joke.

I was reminded of you again when I returned from the concession stand and found psuedoslave sitting in the chair right next to mine. His arms spilled over the armrests and dangled his sandaled feet over the chair in front of him, presumably to the delight of the audience members on either side. While jockeying with him for armrest space, I heard his date mention the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Psuedoslave ws not familliar with it. The date explained that it was the movie where audience members participated by throwing toast and rice and stuff, Psuedoslave was nonplussed, remarking, "I don't understand why you can't just sit there and watch it. So is it a horror flick or what?" Before F9/11 began, he helpfully reminded everyone that the movie would only be showing bad stuff about Bush.

After the movie I went grocery shopping. Funny thing about the produce department. Were you not feeling well?

Thurgreed M wants to know...
 

Of course. It was an accident. You and sb are roughly the same level of stupid.

Yeah. You got me. All of these mommy issues have turned me into someone who can spot morons at a glance.

I never said "I fucked your mother." I said, "The bitch doesn't learn."

For future reference, putting Adu in your avatar and saying shit like "help a brother out" won't change you from whiny, little, spoiled brat to the voice of the people.

TM

Thurgreed M wants to know...
 

Help a brother out!

Thurgreed M wants to know...
 

You accidentally see my post again?

Talking to you is like playing chess with a mental patient. You start off promising, but then you start making horsey sounds and replacing pieces with cheese and staples and declaring victory.

TM

Thurgreed M wants to know...
 

The person who decides the rules wins the game. That piece of cheese kicked the shit out of your rook.

Disturbing
 

I've seen these sort of performers a couple of times now. The first time they were pulling a bus using the hooks embedded in their backs during an outdoor festival (no, it wasn't SS - the festival was not ACL) and the second time they were swinging from the rafters of a music venue along with a pretty heavy local band. They would actually get up on the speakers and swing off by the hooks in their backs. Maybe it is performance art, but it sure ain't my bag. Hard to do anything but stand there and shudder.

Disturbing
 

Has anyone (here) had a conversation with these people? What motivates the self mutilation?

I've never understood the piercing thing. I suppose I can see the "fuck you to the world" aspects of things like nose rings and tongue studs--a sort-of countercultural statement. But that doesn't really explain piercings that can't be seen (scrotal piercings, anyone), does it?

And now full-on meat hooks? Is it performance art when the poor in India gouge out their eyes to gain sympathy from would-be coin donors?

Disturbing
 

When SS first started posting on infirm, everyone thought he was brain damaged. It wasn't until later that we learned he was "gifted".

Disturbing
 

I have a feeling the guy with the scrotal piercing finds a way to include the fact that he has one in almost every single conversation. Kind of how people with tongue piercings are ALWAYS sticking out their tongues to show you.

I have a friend who has a tongue stud and he carries it perfectly. He's an accountant, and the only time I've ever seen it is when I've asked to see it. It's so discreet I sometimes wonder why he has it at all.

Disturbing
 

I could be wrong, but I would guess that there is some sex-based reason behind the non-visible piercings. And the tongue ones.

Speaking of sex, I like this picture of Sandra Bullock:

http://www.geocities.com/scotty858/sandy1.jpg

Disturbing
 

Your admiration for the picture is Not Wrong.

Win a Date with Trista and Ryan!
 

they

won't

go

away.

(realityblurred):

Disturbing
 

I've talked to Justin quite a bit about it, though not really about his motivations. He's the bartender at my local watering hole, and he just fills me in on what's going on in his outside life whenever I stop in for a drink. Most of my conversations with him are about upcoming performances, and tours that his troupe (I think it's the CoRE Suspension Group (http://www.wearecore.com/), but I can't double check from here because the site is filtered for "violence" at my work) has been invited to go on. Two years ago they went to Paris for a film festival.

I think generally it's the shock value, though I wouldn't be surprised if the pain gets them off too. My guess is that a lot of the people who get involved with it were/are cutters, and they've fallen into a group that appreciates pain. I think that there's also a theory of transcending the pain, and just seeing how far they can go. Justin is one of the nicest people I know, and he's not particularly scary looking, though he does have a piercing through the cartilage of his nose, and another one between his front teeth. I haven't asked about any that I can't see. He doesn't have any tattoos. He also comps a lot of my drinks. :)

Say what you will about the art value of doing stuff like this, but I think the photographs of the spears in his back (I think they're adorned with feathers) are really beautiful. Unless you knew how the spears were attached, you'd think that he was just wearing a harness.

Disturbing
 

I'm almost afraid to ask, but how does one have a piercing between one's teeth??



The only guy I know who has a Prince Albert pulled down his pants to show me about an hour after his sister-in-law's funeral (his wife was also in the room). He's a twisted fuck (and not just because of this).

Disturbing
 

I like your avatar.

Disturbing
 

I'm sure I have told this before, but some guy with one hit on me when I was on a nude beach some time ago. (my friend was at the time wandering through the woods behind the beach high as a kite so he wasn't much help). I don't like being hit on when I'm naked. Plus the piercing was so mesmerizing, I kept staring at his penis while trying to tell the guy to get lost. It was uncomfortable and I kept feeling like I was sending mixed messages (umm, go away, no wait, that's really fascinating, no go away, I mean it.. hmm that looks painful, I wonder what that feels like, no really, go away)

Disturbing
 

I'm late to the party on this one, but what's it called when you have your dick sliced down the center--filleted?? Anyhoo, the chick whose brother was making Crystal meth in his house also had that done, or so I'm told.

Disturbing
 

This is the kind of post that can turn a BDD into a LDD.

Disturbing
 

BBD? LDD?

Disturbing
 

Who does?

And, apropos of nothing, a friend gave my wife a CD with Cole Porter songs by various artists. As I type this, I am humming "It Was Just One of Those Things" along with Nat King Cole. Good stuff.

Disturbing
 

I have never heard of this. And I wish I still had never heard of this. How do you pee? Would it be double penetration every time then?