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Karen Santorum 3: Jesus' Genitals and the Photographs of Dead Babies
Art historians argue, with ample documentation, that perhaps the most revolutionary assertion of the Renaissance was that Christ himself was a man.
Leo Steinberg has made a moving life's work studying this specially frank way a picture is worth 10,000 words. I can think of no image of the adult Jesus' genitals. (There are reasons for this, among ( Read more... ) -
Gyno Porn
I had a friend once who worked in a titty bar. She was the head waitress, which meant she could wear a jacket sometimes. She was a math prodigy, the smartest person with the least education I have ever met. Her deal was cross racial dating with guys who, to put it nicely, pulled her hair. Her idea of glamor was to be likened to Nicole Simpson, to ( Read more... ) -
Old Babes and the Invisible Man
Jacob Bernstein, who is, I believe, the son of Carl Bernstein and Nora Ephron, has written in the best tradition of his parents' candor the story of the suicide of Bob Bergeron, a Manhattan therapist who wrote a book about the bright side of gay life after 40 ( Read more... ) -
Upside-Down Cake a la Ötzi
First let's-eat-all-those-UFO-lump-bags-of-frozen-fruit-and-veg-in-the-back-of-the-freezer meal:
Corn pudding
Cluster beans amandine
Blueberry and peach upside down cake
The recipe for bumpin' fresh pineapple upside-down cake works just as well on Iceman peaches and blueberries.
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God, Somebody on the Internet Is Homophobic! They Believe There Was No Flight 93 in PA!
And I have to, must, go through every comment on the TMZ story and click DISLIKE on every homophobic one ( Read more... ) -
Hilton Kramer, 1928-2012
A friend of mine was Boston bureau chief of the LA Times for a million years. No one in Boston believed that she worked, which she did, about 14 hours a day, and would be slightly insulted when she could not meet with them during her extensive business hours. No one in LA believed she existed. For those of us who write, seeing the byline on an ( Read more... ) -
Hippies
I am reading Voices From the Farm, reminiscences of the founding and early years of the major persisting hippie commune. Founded in about 1972 by Stephen Gaskin and a couple hundred fellow refugees, and followers, of Haight Ashbury, the Farm persists to this day mainly because they made everybody get an outside job and tithe a serious proportion of ( Read more... ) -
Breaking Bad
Big news in the Macondo Manana [TILDE!!!] yesterday picked up by the NYT today, along with a lede story about bent horse racing in New Mexico killing horses and paralyzing jockeys.
Yesterday's big story was about how the local police union pays each officer who has shot a citizen, or a non-citizen, $500 or $600.
