Tiger, grrrr!

Just finished installing Tiger, the latest version of the Mac operating system software on my computer.

Can't say I've noticed a significant advantage. It's supposed to be more stable (maybe it is, but we bought it cos one of out computers crashes regularly each morning - it still did), faster (not that I've seen) and more user friendly (not especially).

I'm struggling to notice any REAL difference. The only thing of note is a different setup for windows, that takes up more space (grrr), and a cool feature called dashboard, where at the cloick of a single button you can pull up dictionaries, travel times, news, yellow pages, clock, calculator, puzzles, weather, translation etc. That I like.

Ho hum.

How To Tell How Gay Your Gay Son Is

Your children are gay, you have always known it! But how can you prove it for sure? Behold Giblets's Guide to Proving Your Son Is Gay! These are can't-fail tests that should have you diagnosing deviant offspring as early as age 5. There's no use bothering with your daughter; she's stuck as a girl as it is.

Casually ask your son at dinner, "So, ever have sex with a woman?" If he appears uncomfortable, he's gay. Non-gays like sex with women.

Place two photographs in front of your son lying face down. On the left place a photograph of Tom Welling, TV's gay Superman; on the right place the stern but genial visage of James Dobson. Flip them over simultaneously. Which does your son look at first? If he looks at Tom Welling, he is gay. If he looks at James Dobson, he is gay with an unnatural fixation for James Dobson.

Tell your son you are going outside to play ball and wrestle alligators. Then shove your son to the ground repeatedly and say, "Whassamatta, crybaby? Gonna cry? Gonna cry?" If he cries he is a great big pussy and therefore gay. If he "takes it like a man" he's still gay, but one of those butch tough-guy gays, like a "bear" or a "top."

Dunk your son into a deep pool of water. If he floats to the top, he is full of buoyant gaymotrons (identified by physicists as the gay particle) and therefore gay. If he sinks to the bottom and drowns, he is a poor swimmer and unathletic and therefore gay. If he begins to sink and then just sorta hangs there, the water is gay.

Starve a large wolf cub for two days and have it wrestle your son. If he loses to the wolf, he's gay - it was only a wolf cub! If he beats the wolf, he is a lesbian. If he is beaten mercilessly by the wolf while apologizing for its economic agenda, he is a Log Cabin Republican. If he is bitten by the wolf, he is now a werewolf. Shoot him with a silver bullet before the rising of the next full moon.

http://fafblog.blogspot.com/2005/08/how-to-tell-how-gay-your-gay-son-is.html

And again, on the same subject...

The Abstinence-Only Education Program, produced by the US Dept. of Health & Human Services and the White House Office of Youth Purity.

www.sexisforfags.com

And now for something completely hetro....

Bellydancing.

To Ozzy Osbourne.

ROCK!

Black Widow Returns

There's a great interview with Richard K. Morgan on CBR HERE.

Excellent stuff. The first series was probably the only decent depiction of female characters in a year when rape, madness and abuse was central to most female-centric stories. Some great discussion on Natasha's motivations and the depiction of women in comics in general.

Been listening to Mark Radcliffe...

...on BBC Radio 2. I should listen WAY more often. I've missed him ever since Mark and Lard the Boy Wonder left Radio 1. Since John Peel's death, Mark Radcliffe has taken over as the torchbearer of new music on the BBC. Some great stuff on his show tonight. He and his guest were discussing the best and worse band names, thn got off on a cmplete tangent of trying to come up with the best names for tribute bands made up of overweight people.

My favourites?

The Heavily Brothers
The Obesetie Boys
The Blubberhood of Man
Expanded Ballet
Portlyhead
The Retaining Waterboys
Rage Against the Weighing Machine
Deep fried Purple
Shawaddlewaddle
Girth, Wind and Fire
Bio Mass Indexy's Midnight Runners
Lard Zeppelin
and my favourite:
Obesity Rex