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Wednesday, March 11, 2009

??!! / Hetero The Horse

Posted by Charles Mudede on Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 3:31 PM

This AP Photo/Mediafax photo, which is part of a story concerning the daughter, Elena Basescu, of the Romanian President, Traian Basescu (she wants a seat in the European Parliament)...
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...does the bizarre content of this photo reveal a massive gap between my customs and the customs of the Romanian world? Or has the content nothing to do with Romanian culture, and everything to do with the young woman on the horse? I can't tell which it is.

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Euro nepotism, sounds to me like. And the horsey set -- is it 1913 again?

Posted by Fnarf on March 11, 2009 at 3:29 PM

It begs many questions, to be sure.

Posted by Jim Demetre on March 11, 2009 at 3:33 PM

You're implying Catherine The Greatism. None too subtly, I might add.

Posted by jackie treehorn on March 11, 2009 at 3:34 PM

Why hello there...

Posted by N on March 11, 2009 at 3:35 PM

She's hot. Thank you Charles, and thank you Google Image Search.

Posted by Greg on March 11, 2009 at 3:38 PM

Romania has consistently excellently entertaining Eurovision entries, so they're fine with me. (This year's is one to watch, although it's still not a patch on their sadly disqualified 2007 candidate Dracula, My Love.)

Posted by Abby on March 11, 2009 at 3:42 PM

In Romania, this is not odd at all. All Romanian furniture is horse-based.

Posted by danhowes on March 11, 2009 at 3:43 PM

@3: Catherine the Great liked the horse *officers*, not the horses. And because she was a female monarch who acted in the manner of nearly every male monarch ever, well, we end up with your statement.

Posted by Abby on March 11, 2009 at 3:43 PM

Lucky horse!

Posted by formanoreasta on March 11, 2009 at 3:46 PM

It's a really beautiful image. But there's something troubling about it, too.

Posted by joey on March 11, 2009 at 3:59 PM

@8

Obviously, thanks.

Did Catherine actually horse it up? No.

Do lots of people think she did because of a popular myth from history times? Yep.

Do people actually do it with horses and sometimes die from it? Yep. Ask Charles.

Cheer up.

Posted by jackie treehorn on March 11, 2009 at 4:00 PM

winona ryder also romanian. bet you didnt know that

Posted by Go away! 'Batin'! on March 11, 2009 at 4:00 PM

@8
Are you sure?

I always heard that it was a little of both.

Posted by Mr. Ed on March 11, 2009 at 4:08 PM

It's the fact that it's a woman. With cleavage. And her legs spread. And a horse.

It's just you, Charles.

Posted by neigh on March 11, 2009 at 4:16 PM

That horse is hot.

Posted by some guy in puyallup on March 11, 2009 at 4:18 PM

Hey, if she wants to fuck horses, it's OK with me.

Seriously hot lady, too. Yowzers.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty on March 11, 2009 at 4:19 PM

@11: I just feel like I have to stick up for the interesting female monarchs on occasion. (But she'd probably just have someone killed, so she doesn't really need my help, does she? Also, she's dead.)

Posted by Abby on March 11, 2009 at 4:23 PM

I think Charles' filmography suggests equal interest in the (actual, supposed, and alleged) equine pursuits of both sexes.

The bulk of his Slog posts do not suggest that. But, he is a shining beacon of hetero perv intellectualism, and a local treasure.

(@14 he didn't take the photograph, he didn't pose in the photograph, he questions the bizarre content, which I think we can all agree is bizarre, right, I mean who hangs this picture in their office I mean jesus h)

Posted by jackie treehorn on March 11, 2009 at 4:25 PM

@17

As far as afterlife 'so how did you die?' conversations go, I'd say death by horsecockery is pretty dang interesting. Maybe they don't have wikipedia there and she can use the story as a great anecdote at parties.

I also prefer 'Tsarina' to 'Czarina.'

Posted by jackie treehorn on March 11, 2009 at 4:31 PM

Charles, sometimes a horse is just a horse.

Posted by 4 hoofs good on March 11, 2009 at 4:33 PM

what bizarre content? she's sitting on her horse when it's laying down.

thanks for the T & A, though. jesus fucking christ she's hot.

Posted by Jesus Fucking Christ on March 11, 2009 at 4:36 PM

WHAT?

Posted by -B- on March 11, 2009 at 4:43 PM

muh dik!

Posted by MUH DIK on March 11, 2009 at 4:59 PM

I'd hit that Dacian harlot like Trajan at Sarmizegetusa.

Posted by dr0q on March 11, 2009 at 5:03 PM

Catherine was a German in a Slavic court. The Russian nobility circulated that untrue story to discredit her and german forces in the court, as part of the eternal tension between East and West. F'reals.

Posted by Big Sven on March 11, 2009 at 5:20 PM

Xena Warrior Princess is Romanian???

Posted by aff on March 11, 2009 at 5:28 PM

Xena is Greek, isn't it obvious from the pantheon of gods she routinely beats up?

Posted by dwight moody on March 11, 2009 at 5:46 PM

the horse is a trophy horse - well trained to do this stunt

the lady looks fine to me, but as a gay man, yes, the horse looks fine too

and Charles has one mind set, pussy, can't you folks who work with him keep his needs met

so unDan, who preaches sex, to employ a sex starved male ... that might be NEWS

All FINE today - but cold out

Posted by Mick on March 11, 2009 at 5:51 PM

She's hot.

But it implies she is royal, or at least of noble blood.

Xena actually is a blond from the land of Kiwis.

Posted by Will in Seattle on March 11, 2009 at 5:55 PM

Catherine the Great was power mad, and a cock nympho - she did animals, and the biggest army guys she could find - tons of both -- Do remember the Czarina had unlimited power at her fingertips and vast wealth - ah, the old Russia.

Now that is the movie which awaits Hollywood, Catherine and horse cocks, the real thing and the real thing on a guy..

Posted by Dick - kiss my Catherine on March 11, 2009 at 5:55 PM

Catherine the Great did not have sex with horses. I believed that story when I was 12, too, but then I grew up and took some history classes.

Posted by My name here? on March 11, 2009 at 7:45 PM

Is that horse dead? If so, weird. Even if not, still sort of weird.

Posted by whataweirdmaybedeadhorse on March 11, 2009 at 7:45 PM

25 - Yes, exactly. And people repeat it because hey, a powerful woman? Obviously getting fucked by horses. QED.

Posted by Or here. on March 11, 2009 at 7:46 PM

I'm just fascinated by the fact that the Romanian president is named Traian.

Posted by Hypatia on March 11, 2009 at 7:48 PM

I don't believe I have ever seen a horse more content, relaxed and self possessed. that's a happy horse.

Posted by suspicious.logic on March 11, 2009 at 11:44 PM

And of course - classic dry rewrite history would talk about the love of horse cock .... sure

You all do believe in tooth fairies too ...

Posted by Peter peter, I did eat her on March 12, 2009 at 12:16 AM

dude i'm so fucking stoned i don't even know what i'm talking about!

Posted by Gnarles Mudayday on March 12, 2009 at 1:34 AM

She looks like Eliot Spitzer's hooker.

Posted by Original Ray on March 12, 2009 at 6:47 AM

"my customs"?

What, dont people in Romania make movies about horse fucking?
Or post endless pictures of breasts and butts, and then claim it only "tummies" that appeal?
Or beat dead horses, most often the one called Marxism?

I thought those "customs" were not only ubiquitous, clearly intellectually superior, but destined to prevail, now that we have suffered the failure of neo-liberalism.

Posted by customs confiscated my horsie pics on March 12, 2009 at 8:30 AM