What's Wrong With Being Sexy?

David: They said the album cover is a bit sexist.
Nigel: Well, so what? What's wrong with being sexy?
Bobbi Flekman: Ian, you put a greased naked woman on all fours, with a dog collar around her neck and a leash, and a man's arm extended out up to here holding the leash, and pushing a black glove in her face to sniff it - you don't find that offensive? You don't find that sexist?
[...]
Ian: Well you should have seen the cover they wanted to do.

Oliver Wang, the man they call O-Dub, has a new gig over at MSN. Naturally it's a music blog. His old gigs, by the way, are still going and include the peerless Soul & Hip-Hop MP3 blog Soul Sides and the ever interesting more general blog Poplicks.

Anyway, in a recent post he's discovered the Museum of Bad Album Covers by way of annoucing a hope to do a post on sexy album covers in the near future. He links to a couple of places where others have attempted to list their favourites. One of those links includes a place called Bullz Eye. When, though, their top ten list places the notoriously shit cover for Roxy Music's Country Life at number 10 you just know you are dealing with a site that doesn't know the difference between sexy and, heh heh, pictures of boobies. Just looking at the list you have to wonder about the average age of the contributors: I'd say about 14 but could also believe 35 and still living in their parents' basement.

I Don't Often Get A Chance To Say This But...

Go Donny, Go Donny, Go Donny Go Go Go!

Though Pearce should surely sympathise with anyone who misses a penalty he cannot really have expected the top three in his shoot-out order - Darius Vassell, Antoine Sibierski and Richard Dunne - to fail to beat a stand-in goalkeeper playing his first first-team game in England.

Bummed!

You would think and article that has the headline "Ass Backwards" and the sub-head "The media's silence about rampant anal sex" would be quite fun, but as it is, it's a little dry. Although this bit raised an eyebrow:

Talking to your kids about oral sex is the easy part. If you're going to be frank about the most dangerous widespread activity revealed in the survey, you're looking at the wrong end of the digestive tract.

Trouble is, now I've got that old Oxo Tower review stuck in my head...

Neologism

I was all ready to try and trademark "mid-life goatee" until I found out there was a prior usage.

Arrr (gh)!

Apparently Monday was International Talk Like a Pirate Day and I spent it suffering from food poisoning... Anyway, according to the three pirate name generators linked to by Making Light my pirate names are:

Wilhelm The Dense,
Red Sam Rackham, or
Noseless Jim Dawkins

It's Not Knives That Stab People

[D]octors are calling for a ban on long pointed kitchen knives to reduce deaths from stabbing.

From the BBC Website. It's getting to be that Doctors will call for the banning of anything if it gets them on the news. Maybe that's what should be banned. There does seem to be a serious point here, though it is undermined by the third paragraph of the story:

They argued many assaults are committed impulsively, prompted by alcohol and drugs, and a kitchen knife often makes an all too available weapon.

Sort of suggesting the banning knives wont stop attacks happening, just make the injuries different...

Earthy

There is probably a name for it. You know when you have to add a word to an odd object to distinguish it from a new one, like ice skates where skates was sufficient until roller skates appeared. Retro-something, I'm guessing. The extra words suggest that there's another something out there, like the ballpoint in ballpoint pen tells you there's other types of pens.

With that in mind I liked this photo from Chris C Mooney's blog. That's right "Earth Based Spirituality". It suggests that somewhere else in the shop there are "Non-Earth Based Spirituality" books and that there's enough of them that they need an extra section. Maybe it's me, though, but isn't "Non-Earth Based Spirituality" an oxymoron?

Subversive Book Covers: Return of The Knob Gag

After You've Blown It subtitled "Reconnecting with God and Others" has a startlingly literal cover, though it seems the enormous penis is a cliff in other versions...

Via Boing Boing, who call it unintentional. Given that opposite the cock there's what looks like a chin and mouth it can't possibly be unintentional on the designer's part.

Of Course, I Get All My News From The Daily Show...

That's right, the two week lead-time for the comics pages is up. Let the joint Doonesbury/ Boondocks smackdown commence.

Gits

A while ago I pointed out an article where it claimed free Internet access was giving Americans reasons to be inappropriately rude. According to Vince Keenan there's now a Verizon advert that targets that very demographic.