Monday, December 15, 2008
City Seen Around the City
Posted by Charles Mudede on Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:52 AM
Just for me...
My love is always there for oval cartouches that have no inscriptions.
Just for waiting...
ESTRAGON:
Who?
VLADIMIR:
What?
ESTRAGON:
What's all this about? Abused who?
VLADIMIR:
The Saviour.
ESTRAGON:
Why?
VLADIMIR:
Because he wouldn't save them.
ESTRAGON:
From hell?
VLADIMIR:
Imbecile! From death.
Just for Brad...
What we see here has its match in that type of female spider that kills its mate after mating. The difference being that the female spider kills the whole of its mate, whereas this kills only a part of its mate: the part that desires.
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I am happy to say the 4' tall bust of Samuel Beckett (and that doesn't include the concrete base - seriously, this thing is HUGE!) resides just a few doors down from me.
I've taken to affectionately rubbing his nose for good luck whenever I walk past - a completely futile, irrational act, of which the late Mr. Beckett would have no doubt approved.
I've taken to affectionately rubbing his nose for good luck whenever I walk past - a completely futile, irrational act, of which the late Mr. Beckett would have no doubt approved.
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"[T]his only kills a part of its mate: the part that desires."
Wrong again! The desire just shifts, often to a different mate.
Nice try, Chas!
Wrong again! The desire just shifts, often to a different mate.
Nice try, Chas!
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My desire for my pregnant wife has not diminished one bit, though I will concede that sex became more difficult after the 7th or 8th month. At least I still get to drink beer!
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did you just compare pregnancy to a spider killing its mate? is that what this gibberish is all about?
@4, +1. you have the rare ability to offend and make no sense, all at the same time.
@4, +1. you have the rare ability to offend and make no sense, all at the same time.
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I get it. You don't find pregnant women attractive. Fine. I just have a problem with you framing your opinions with pseudo-intellectual bullshit to make them seem like a universal truths. Such bold, yet ignorant statements make you come off like a pompous ass.
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@4 +2, dude.
I have no patience for the manly-men who are unmanned by biology. "But she's... she's pregnant! Now she's all fat and icky! Ewwww!!!" WhatEVER.
I have no patience for the manly-men who are unmanned by biology. "But she's... she's pregnant! Now she's all fat and icky! Ewwww!!!" WhatEVER.
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@7: news flash: Charles doesn't think pregnant women are attractive, doesn't like dogs, couches both in philosophy major bullshit. In other news, water is wet.
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DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE FUCKING DIE FUCKING DIE YOU FUCKING STUPID RIDICULOUS POMPOUS FULL-OF-SHIT- SHIT EATING FUCK HEAD DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE
MY GOD, OUR HATRED OF YOU IS BEYOND BELIEF!!!!!!
MY GOD, OUR HATRED OF YOU IS BEYOND BELIEF!!!!!!
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Charles Mudede gets to write for the same reason Rahjket from the Gay News gets to write: he is absolutely insane.
And not isn't-he-crazy-wink-smile insane, but real, scary, don't-leave-him-with-knives, once-ate-a-jar-of-pennies insane.
And not isn't-he-crazy-wink-smile insane, but real, scary, don't-leave-him-with-knives, once-ate-a-jar-of-pennies insane.
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Pregnant women can indeed be attractive...it's AFTER the pregnancy that desire is officially murdered.
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yeah, its funny...but this is really lame. he compared a beautiful photo of a pregnant lady's tummy to an insect that kills and eats its mate.
charles, i'm a heterosexual male that loves women. like freaky, hot sex, "put your foot in my mouth after you do a line off my boner" loves women. i'm not a prude, and i'm not too PC. but i was raised my women, surrounded by women growing up, and i love them.
now, you claim to love women in all their shapes and forms and functions judging from your multitude of weird posts of just, say, a neck, or a foot, or a taint, and then pointlessly meandering on and on in deep poetic terms about how literarily justified you are in objectifying said taint.
showing a very sexy and touchingly beautiful photo of a postpartum belly and associating it with something so weird just validates that, actually, you find women kinda "icky".
as someone who actually DOES find sexual attraction in nearly EVERY facet of a females existence i can safely say you are a fucking ignorant hypocrite.
charles, i'm a heterosexual male that loves women. like freaky, hot sex, "put your foot in my mouth after you do a line off my boner" loves women. i'm not a prude, and i'm not too PC. but i was raised my women, surrounded by women growing up, and i love them.
now, you claim to love women in all their shapes and forms and functions judging from your multitude of weird posts of just, say, a neck, or a foot, or a taint, and then pointlessly meandering on and on in deep poetic terms about how literarily justified you are in objectifying said taint.
showing a very sexy and touchingly beautiful photo of a postpartum belly and associating it with something so weird just validates that, actually, you find women kinda "icky".
as someone who actually DOES find sexual attraction in nearly EVERY facet of a females existence i can safely say you are a fucking ignorant hypocrite.
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Maybe I'm totally off here, but I read this as saying not that pregnant women are unattractive, but that they no longer feel the same level of desire for their mate after the pregnancy. The pregnancy is the spider, the birth the end of desire for a child. Was I way off?
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What the fuck, Charles? Seriously? You can't be a PROGRESSIVE PHILOSOPHER if you are a FUCKING MISOGYNIST.
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stutter, you're a douche bag. It's a pregnant belly. Not postpartum. Not prepartum. It's called a PREGNANT belly. If you want to try to sound smarter than you obviously are, call it ANTEpartum.
Semantics aside, that is a gross picture. The only thing worse is the gratuitous naked pregnancy picture. Either way, if you are freakishly driven by raging hormones to this photo, keep it to your self & do not subject the rest of us to the inevitably induced gag reflex.
Semantics aside, that is a gross picture. The only thing worse is the gratuitous naked pregnancy picture. Either way, if you are freakishly driven by raging hormones to this photo, keep it to your self & do not subject the rest of us to the inevitably induced gag reflex.
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There are some things you aren't supposed to say out loud, Charles. Since we don't have to go through pregnancy the least we can do is lie about how we think they're still totally hot.
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The top image is from the entrance to the old Cabrini Hospital which they saved and stored while building that unfortunate replacement to the right.
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@23:
sorry I hurt your delicate grammatical sensibilities.
i'll type this as plainly as possible, using short words. that way i wont risk making any mistakes and you can possibly just respond to my fucking point, asshole.
you say nothing to disprove my original point. Charles consistently throws up things that celebrate his libido towards women. agreed? ok...
he compared a photo of a womans stomach ("that contained a fetus", ok?) and compared it to an insect that eats its mate after they copulate.
i happen to be of the opinion that these two things contradict eachother. the way frat boys that frequent Hooters contradict their own screaming heterosexuality when they only celebrate girls with fake tits.
the only reason i described my own sexual inclinations was to show that i was not an overly sensitive pc male. i thought it was relevant that people knew that this entire point was made by a person like me. not a freaked out pregnant lady.
sorry I hurt your delicate grammatical sensibilities.
i'll type this as plainly as possible, using short words. that way i wont risk making any mistakes and you can possibly just respond to my fucking point, asshole.
you say nothing to disprove my original point. Charles consistently throws up things that celebrate his libido towards women. agreed? ok...
he compared a photo of a womans stomach ("that contained a fetus", ok?) and compared it to an insect that eats its mate after they copulate.
i happen to be of the opinion that these two things contradict eachother. the way frat boys that frequent Hooters contradict their own screaming heterosexuality when they only celebrate girls with fake tits.
the only reason i described my own sexual inclinations was to show that i was not an overly sensitive pc male. i thought it was relevant that people knew that this entire point was made by a person like me. not a freaked out pregnant lady.
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I miss Cabrini. That was a pretty building. Weren't they supposed to keep that trim and do the entire ground floor level of its replacement with it?
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I have to agree with Charles - we have just become to fucking child-centric in this country.
My favorite line to the husband of a pregnant couple " Look at what you've done - you went and broke your favorite toy."
My favorite line to the husband of a pregnant couple " Look at what you've done - you went and broke your favorite toy."
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@29-
right...charles's point was that we're too "child-centric". you are just priceless.
I bet you are...around 20... lets see....either queer and dont know it yet, or actually a girl..have had no more than 2 sexual partners so far...and really enjoy going to Bimbos, when you dont feel too out-of-place even there.
real het men arent scared off because of a couple of stretch marks. shit, man. i'm pushing 40, but when I was 19, scoring what are now referred to as "milfs" was incredible! theres a reason that "the graduate" is such a great movie.
you are adorable.
ps-if you were right, half the women in this city would be carrying around their giant empty stretched out stomachs in wheelbarrows. you do know that SOME people go to gyms, and exersise their kegel muscles so that their vaginas dont dangle around their ankles after birth, right? this isnt your home town.
right...charles's point was that we're too "child-centric". you are just priceless.
I bet you are...around 20... lets see....either queer and dont know it yet, or actually a girl..have had no more than 2 sexual partners so far...and really enjoy going to Bimbos, when you dont feel too out-of-place even there.
real het men arent scared off because of a couple of stretch marks. shit, man. i'm pushing 40, but when I was 19, scoring what are now referred to as "milfs" was incredible! theres a reason that "the graduate" is such a great movie.
you are adorable.
ps-if you were right, half the women in this city would be carrying around their giant empty stretched out stomachs in wheelbarrows. you do know that SOME people go to gyms, and exersise their kegel muscles so that their vaginas dont dangle around their ankles after birth, right? this isnt your home town.
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I never thought I'd say this, but go back to writing masturbatory posts about architecture, would you?
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to be honest, i have to agree with @29. what bothers me is not so much pregnancy itself but the cultural construction/reading of that process.
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Charles,
Try using "I think" or even "I feel" before your statements. Or, use supporting evidence to back up your thesis.
Also, pregnant women are hot.
Try using "I think" or even "I feel" before your statements. Or, use supporting evidence to back up your thesis.
Also, pregnant women are hot.
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