More Than A Pseudo-Sexual Fad

Anonymous: “At a biological level this behaviour seems even odder. Most other mammals seem quite content with a luxuriant growth of fur. The idea of a chimpanzee pulling out the hair on its genital regions is ridiculous. Perhaps waxing is little more than a pseudo-sexual fad: another example of the kind of erotic titivation, such as body piercing and tattooing, that was once popular mainly among sailors, hippies and prostitutes.

Oui Un Autre Jour

Karl: “Elle me regarde à nouveau, nous avons envie de parler, de communiquer mais ni l'un ni l'autre ne sommes capables de vraiment passer à l'acte. Il manque un catalyseur. Elle me demande l'heure et je lui donne. La femme en rouge, c'est celle à qui je n'ai pas su parler, celle à qui j'aurais aimé parler. Peut-être un autre jour, oui un autre jour quand elle va s'assoir, on pourra se parler.”

Dubious

Roland Tanglao: “I find these networking sites kind of dubious. If you are already a good networker, it will help but if you are not I think you are better off blogging stuff that shows your expertise (or how lovely you are if you looking for dates!) and networking that way. Blogging might take longer, but I bet in the long run the outcome will be better.”

Unnaturally Simplified Reading Conventions

Teresa Nielsen Hayden: “They’re not making a defense of religion. They’re defending their own pet proposition, that the Bible should be approached via unnaturally simplified reading conventions that are less subtle than they’d use to read a paperback romance, and less sophisticated than their own face-to-face speech. I have real trouble with that.”

A Kind Of Granularity

Amy Wohl wonders if social networks really help create communities: “the trouble is that the people who least need the help are the ones people most want to connect to. They are beseiged with requests and are likely to opt out (or never join at all). [...] [O]nce you're listed, contacts are likely to ask you to requests favors for them of people you "know" in the sense that you have access to them, but whom you'd scarcely ask a favor of for someone who isn't an important friend or client.

TV Is Drugs

Anne Kingston: “Think of it. A bratty rich girl best known for her contribution to Internet porn is of more interest to the North American public than the leader of the free world sharing his vision in these dangerous times. ¶ Perhaps we should question whether one of the dangers facing that free world resides within the paunchy body politic itself, couch-potato comatose as it appears to be.

Half-Honest, Half-Rhetorical

AccordionGuy says he prefers dating to "hooking up". Up until a couple of years ago, I thought "hooking up" meant getting a phone number at the bar. My friends, just before we were heading out, would tell me such things as "Richie, you're going to hook up tonight!" (To women who go to bars looking for some hot lovin': everything else being equal, would you prefer to "hook up" with a guy named Richard or Rich, or Richie?

Mass

Adam: “There’s something about the rote memorization of words and actions, coupled with the sensory input of dim lights, choir music, and incense, that is very comforting.”

Principles

Lisa Williams has some blogging principles. It's important to have principles in these "post-modern" days, where supposedly everything goes. Instead of lecturing people on how or what to blog, she simply states what she's doing. People are free to follow her example, and disagreeing with her principles would be allowed, but would also be rather pointless, because, well, how would you feel if someone told you what principles to hold? Yeah, I thought so.

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