Friday, June 19, 2009
Housekeeping How Gay Was Slog Today?
Posted by Dan Savage on Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 11:00 PM
Judging Slog's general gayness based on today's posts isn't entirely fair. An unavoidable and all-consuming gay story reached a crescendo late this week. But Jonah's post calls for some context, a little fact checking, some actual data. So let's crunch the numbers: there were a total of 38 posts on Slog today—I'm not counting this post—and out of those 38 posts, 8 touched on gay subject matter. So Slog was roughly 22% gay today. Seeing as our readership is roughly 25% gay, the gays were actually underrepresented on Slog today. We will have to up the number of gay posts on Monday. But here's a little gayness in the meantime just to balance things out...
...and, yes, I consider that video to be darn gay even though it's got just one dude in it—two if you count the drag queen (and you shouldn't)—and, yeah, there is a quick shot of a little simulated cunnilingus. But nothing's gayer than the "Lonely Goatherd."
International This is Iran
Posted by Charles Mudede on Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 9:26 PM
Night falls in Seattle.
Tomorrow we will wake up and see what is what.
Books Today in Get Off My Lawn
Posted by Paul Constant on Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 4:48 PM
Bookshelves of Doom reports that Seattle's own Sherman Alexie has set off another controversy with his book The Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian.
"I decided to read the book in order to help my son with the content," Anderson said. "I wasn't prepared for what I read. It was shocking. If there were just swear words, I could deal with that. But sections of this book are just vulgar."Anderson said she was stunned by descriptions of masturbation, racist language, graphic depictions of sex and references to bestiality.
"I decided there was no way my son was going to read that book," she said.
As you may or may not know, almost every call for censorship earns the disputed book's author the equivalent of a brand-new car in royalties, so congratulations to Mr. Alexie.
And, unrelated to the above news, Mark Helprin's very long book about how people on the internet suck is getting a couple of very long reviews. I would rather just ignore it. (Via Metafilter.)
(T-shirt from Red Bubble.)
Homo / Housekeeping / Hetero Is Slog Too Gay?
Posted by Jonah Spangenthal-Lee on Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 4:33 PM
A few commentors have asserted that Slog has, in the last few weeks, become a buzzing hive of overwhelming homoness, what with all of Dan's DOMA/DADT/Obama rants, the painfully frequent Sounders posts, and Paul Constant's Reading Tonight nonsense.
As the resident hetero insurgent here on Slog, it is my duty to post this video of a nearly naked woman fishing for bass.
Now that we've gotten that out of the way, I ask you:
International Candlelight Vigil for Iran
Posted by Brendan Kiley on Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 4:31 PM
From Slog reader Alex:
Can you post something about this?http://www.nwpersians.com/events/june192009/
I'm not connected with this group, but I have been looking for some local way to show my support. And I've other Slog readers ask about what they can do.
Also, there's this tomorrow at the Seattle Center:
http://iaca-seattle.org/iranian-festival-seattle
It looks like they are going to try to keep it more cultural than political, But it seems like a lot is going to happen between now and tomorrow morning, and nobody knows what exactly. (Also, they'll be serving Persian food!)
Good timing on your annual Iranian festival, Seattle Center. It may go down in history as the best-attended Festal event ever.
Meanwhile in Iran—more marching, more shooting, more Twitter:
Voices are louder tonight.Tonight at 10 pm, on the rooftops everyone chanted 'Death to the Dictator.' On previous nights it wasn't so strong.
People are angry. I think it will get pretty bloody tomorrow." end quote
Iran's situation is crisis , all say that tomorrow is a conflict day
The young boys and girls of Tehran, not the students, are "Basiji Hunting" at night. This is crucial to success.
A little bit more about the basij who, after Khameni's warning to demonstrators today, might be bolder and more violent over the weekend. From AP:
Formed during the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the Basij (buh-SEEJ) became one of Iran's most zealous forces in the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, often leading charges through minefields."The Basij began as cannon fodder for the Revolutionary Guard during the war with Iraq. Now, they are there to do the dirty work for them: breaking up parties, hassling women about their hijab (head covering) and much more violent acts," said Meir Javedanfar, an Iranian-born independent analyst living in Israel.
Crime Rough Sex Leads to Stapler Attack
Posted by Jonah Spangenthal-Lee on Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 4:04 PM
King County prosecutors allege a 41-year-old Seattle man attacked his wife and girlfriend with a staple hammer at their South Seattle home earlier this month after a night of rough sex turned unpleasantly violent.
Seattle Police Department records say the 41-year-old man, his 38-year-old wife and the 24-year-old woman are "intimately involved, sharing [a] 'BDSM' Bondage Dominance, Sadomasochism relationship."
According to a police report, the man woke up his 24-year-old girlfriend for sex at about 2:00 a.m. on June 3. The 24-year-old woman—who has lived with the couple since November 2008—told police that the man had choked her during sex, but suddenly "became violent" and began punching her as the man's wife lay next to them in bed.
Police records say the man began yelling at the two women, calling them "Babylon whores" before he left the room. The man returned to the bedroom and resumed hitting the 24-year-old woman, striking her in the face more than 20 times, records say. The man then turned his attention to his wife, striking her several times.
Police records say the man then forced both women into the basement where he grabbed a "hand held contractor's 'Hammer Stapler'" and forced his wife to hit the 24-year-old woman with the stapler. According to police records, the man became angry when his wife "would not hit [the woman] hard enough to make the staples stick." The man then grabbed the hammer stapler and struck his girlfriend's breasts, records say, before he attacked his wife with the stapler.
Police say the 24-year-old woman received 20 staple wounds on her back during the attack.
After attacking both women the man left the house three hours later and went to work.
Court records indicate the man takes Lithium for manic depressive bipolar disorder and may have been off his medication during the attack. He has been charged with third degree domestic violence assault for the incident.
Court records say the man was previously convicted for assault in 1997.
Politics Glenn Beckwatch: Drag Me To Hell
Posted by Paul Constant on Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 3:57 PM
Your friend and mine Glenn Beck has received the J. Edgar Hoover Memorial Award.
The American Federation of Police & Concerned Citizens, an organization that assists families of police officers killed or injured in the line of duty, recently honored Glenn with two awards. Dennis Wise, National President of the AFP&CC, presented Glenn with the J. Edgar Hoover Memorial Award for distinguished public service, along with the Civilian Medal of Appreciation, for Glenn’s support of law enforcement and his defense of the Constitution.
Apparently in Glenn Beck's world, the J. Edgar Hoover Memorial Award is supposed to be a compliment.
Crime / Arts A Word about Free Sheep
Posted by Brendan Kiley on Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 3:54 PM
There are three stories—and one Suggests—in this week's paper that involve the Free Sheep foundation.
One is an arts story about how Free Sheep (along with nearly 40 artists, including several Stranger Genius Award winners) will take over the Moore tomorrow, building ramps from the stage to the balcony, painting on the walls, stuffing 300 watermelons into the bathrooms, etc. (It's free.)
The second is a story by Jen Gravesabout Free Sheep's contribution to Seattle public art.
The other third a news story about a drug bust involving a three-year federal investigation, seven kilos of cocaine, three pounds of meth, a few guns, and a speakeasy/card room where an undercover cop met the (alleged) drug dealers.
New court documents draw a link between the Free Sheep foundation and that card room. From a Slog post Jonah put up:
The affidavits appear to tie the Belltown casino to a Seattle art collective—the Free Sheep Foundation—which was housed in the same building as the casino in Belltown, and another business, the Tubs spa in the University district, which was also was home to the Free Sheep Foundation after Tubs closed.Police say the Belltown club was "open[ed]...under the guise of the legitimate business (known as the Free Sheep Foundation)" and that the tables and bars at the various card rooms came from the now-closed Tubs on 47th and University, which, police allege, was owned by a participant in the gambling operation.
The affidavit only links Free Sheep to the card room, not to the meth and guns, but some members of Free Sheep are concerned that police are going to make gambling-related arrests during tomorrow's show at the Moore.
For the record, we stand by Free Sheep's work and what we've written about it.
And we still think you should go to the show tomorrow night:
From a fleabag motel on Aurora to the Moore Theatre in just two years—the Free Sheep Foundation's star has risen quickly. The itinerant art cabal that briefly colonizes buildings is now turning the Moore inside out. You will enter from the alley onto the stage and see a giant walkway, made by Lead Pencil Studio, beckoning you to walk up it, through the air, to the first balcony. That's just the beginning: DJing by Scratchmaster Joe, music by Orkestar Zirkonium and "Awesome," 300 watermelons in the backstage bathrooms, graffiti, murals, Gretchen Bennett's ghostly rock-show drawings, and much more. (Moore Theatre, 1932 Second Ave, 467-5510. 6—10 pm, free, all ages.) Brendan Kiley
That is all.
Crime / Film Ohm My God!*
Posted by David Schmader on Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 3:34 PM
Okay, it's not the worst story in the world. (This is.) Still, there can be no denying the existential horror that must accompany being sentenced to six months in prison for pirating a copy of Mike Myers' thoroughly and painfully horrific comedy The Love Guru. From the Wall Street Journal:
Jack Yates, 28, was sentenced to six months in prison today for making an unauthorized pre-release copy of “The Love Guru,” the Mike Myers comedy that Paramount Pictures released last summer. Yates made the illegal DVD when he worked at a Burbank-based tape duplication company that Paramount hired last May to make a promotional DVD copy of the film to show on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.”
Six months of incarceration, for this:
I hope he's on suicide watch. Thanks for the heads-up, Defamer.
* This stupid joke is exactly what The Love Guru deserves.
Politics / Homo Straight Answers
Posted by Dan Savage on Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 3:10 PM
A change in style...
...if not, as of yet, in substance. Remember Gibbs' pained expression and grudging answers the last time he was asked about gay issues? But we've heard Obama and his appointees say all the right things in the past. Now we won't be satisfied until they start doing the right things on DOMA, DADT, the HIV Travel Ban, hate crimes, ENDA, et al.
Politics This Is Why They Call Him "Dr. No"
Posted by Paul Constant on Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 2:55 PM
Only one House member refused to vote his support of the Iranian protestors. Can you guess who it is?
Ron mothafuckin' Paul, that's who.
In his defense, Dr. Paul said he was reluctant to dissent from the support, but he doesn't feel that America should be the world's policemen and blah blah blah Federal Reserve something something crazy. And then he says this:
"I have admired President Obama's cautious approach to the situation in Iran and I would have preferred that we in the House had acted similarly."
Ruh-roh. If Ron Paul thinks President Obama is doing something right on Iran, maybe it's time to reevaluate President Obama's stance on Iran.
Politics / Homo Damage Control
Posted by Dan Savage on Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 2:37 PM
All the bad press—all those shitty headlines, all those pissed off bloggers—are getting to 'em. Two top Obama aides—Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina and Political Director Patrick Gaspard—are holding a conference call on Monday with members of the DNC's LGBT caucus. They White House is promising "important updates on the Administration's LGBT agenda and how we move forward." Taking is great, meetings are great. But they're not action, they're not results. Says John...
Now, hopefully, those LGBT DNC members are going to actually try to hold the Obama administration accountable and get them to take some real action on the LGBT agenda. These two staffers are both very powerful. So, while they've got them on the call, the DNC members better get some deliverables from the White House on ENDA, DADT and DOMA. But, the way things go in this town, Gaspard and Messina will probably be screaming at them for the current mess—and the LGBT DNC members won't push back because they might not get invited to the White House.This does go to show—and I've heard it from many people on other issues—if you want the attention of the Obama White House, you have to play hard ball. For the LGBT community, among other things, that means shutting down the Gay ATM.
We have to keep this stuff up:
No more Mr. Nice Gay.
Politics / Homo Movement
Posted by Dan Savage on Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 2:06 PM
The Obama Justice Department has reached out to major gay rights organizations and scheduled a private meeting for next week with the groups, in an apparent effort to smooth over tensions in the wake of the controversy over the administration’s defense in court of the Defense of Marriage Act. Tracy Russo, a spokesperson for Justice, confirmed the meeting to me, after I posted below that top gay rights lawyers were miffed that administration lawyers had rebuffed their requests to meet and discuss ongoing litigation involving DOMA.At the meeting—which hasn’t been announced and is expected to include leading gay rights groups like GLAD and Lambda Legal—both sides are expected to hash out how to proceed with pending DOMA cases.... It’s [an] open question whether the meeting will resolve broader tensions in what has been an unexpectedly rocky relationship.
Sex Dr. Pearl Explains It All
Posted by Paul Constant on Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 2:02 PM
The Comics Curmudgeon informs us that the sexting panic has spread to the funny pages. The 6/18 episode of Gil Thorp is the middle of a very important episode about sexting. You can read this week's series, including naked teenage boys wearing Red Bull and Twinkies boxes for underpants, here. I had never heard of Gil Thorp before, but based on the drawing of the titular hero, at right, he is a man with a brush cut who is in an advanced hypnotic state.
Chow When Is a Taco Truck Not a Taco Truck?
Posted by Bethany Jean Clement on Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 1:26 PM
When it doesn't move, like Tako Truk, a landlocked "taco truck" from former Sitka & Spruce chef Cormac Mahoney, run out of the 14 Carrot Cafe on Eastlake on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights. This guy over here (who admits he's an old friend of Cormac's partner-in-Tako-Truk Bryan) says it's great, especially the braised pork tacos ("inspired"), the octopus, and the chicken adobo. If you're smart, you'll have your tacos with a beer at the Eastlake Zoo. Note: Tako Truk is cash only (the man in the fannypack takes your money). And in the customer service department, they Twitter 86'd notices when they run out of something.
Panic That's a Lot of Goddamned Shark
Posted by Paul Constant on Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 1:07 PM
An Irishman caught a half-ton shark with a rod and line (?!?) yesterday. The shark is so huge—over twelve feet long!—that it had to be moved by forklift. There is a photo of the deadly, enormous thing over at Swim At Your Own Risk.
Politics / Homo / Hetero A Letter to the President
Posted by Dan Savage on Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 1:03 PM
A letter sent to the president—posted here with permission—by a Slog reader.
Dear President Obama,My wife and I have been enthusiastic supporters of your candidacy and administration since early in the 2008 Democratic primaries. We are a young, professional, married, heterosexual couple with a 1-year-old son. I am a medical student, and my wife is a small business owner. Despite the incredible amount of time and attention consumed by being students, businesspeople and new parents, and our vested interests in issues like health care and the economy, we consider Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender rights to be among our most vital political interests. To date, we have been extremely disappointed in the near total lack of active support your administration has provided to the GLBT community.
Achieving equality for our GLBT brothers and sisters is the civil rights movement of our generation. Just as the movement for racial equality in the mid-20th century is well-remembered today, we feel
that the citizens and leaders of today will be remembered by how they stood on the issues of GLBT equality. You told us that you would be a "fierce advocate" of GLBT rights. We believed you. Since this January, your administration has continued enforcement of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, filed a deeply offensive brief in support of the Defense of Marriage Act, and most recently offered a hollow promise of benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees, without assurance of heath coverage. The apparent rapid backpedaling of your administration on GLBT equality has been frustrating and alarming.
Homo Willfully Obtuse & Gracelessly Rude
Posted by Dan Savage on Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 12:43 PM
A lot of people felt that Will & Grace—it was a teevee sitcom back in the day—trafficked in awful gay stereotypes. Some folks called it a gay minstrel show. It didn't really bother me. Sure, Will & Grace offered an unrealistic portrayal of gay life—a guy who looked like Will couldn't get laid? in Manhattan? with that apartment?—but Friends offered a pretty unrealistic portrayal of straight life and you never heard any breeders fuming about it. Anyway, Max Mutchnick, co-creator of Will & Grace, doesn't care for the "usual suspects" at pride parades.
Dykes on bikes, Tarzana Trannies, Jewish Leather Daddies and Kathy Griffin's mom. Don't get me wrong. I love these people. Let's call them the "Usual Suspects." They fought for my rights and taught me how to dance. But they should no longer be representing "the pride." It's a different time. For god's sake, Larry Craig is a life-long homosexual. What I'm trying to say is that "unremarkable" mainstream people are gay, too. So I cringe when a local newsperson shoves a microphone in the face of some young 95-pound twink (Straight Translation: a twink is a skinny homosexual with a lot of moxie). The twink looks into the camera and screams into the reporter's microphone: "Get down here now. The drinks are big. But you know what's bigger..." He laughs in a high-pitched cackle and his "girlfriends" join in. I wish they'd read more and drink less.
Seems to me that the problem here is the local newsperson and not the 95-pound twink, a human being who has a right to leave the house and have a good time and talk to whomever he cares to, microphones or no microphones, and just as deserving of his full civil rights as any "mainstream" gay person. There are "mainstream" types at pride parades; if the local TV newspeople prefer to interview the twinks and trannies and leather daddies, Max, that's their problem. And seeing as we've managed to come as far as we have, as fast as we have, with Dykes On Bikes and trannies and leather daddies and 95-pound twinks at our pride parades, Max, we really don't need to start hiding them 'em away now. They have nothing to be ashamed of, Max.
Politics / Homo The Bleeding Continues
Posted by Dan Savage on Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 12:24 PM
More and more gays and lesbians are boycotting the DNC's LGBT Leadership Council fundraiser next week. At this rate Tammy, Barney, and Joe Biden are going to have that 10,400 square-foot spa all to themselves.
Boom / Architecture Life Inside the Box
Posted by Dominic Holden on Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 12:12 PM
Joel Egan, principal of HyBrid Architecture, thinks construction as we know it is waning—soon buildings large and small will be built off-site and delivered. “Construction techniques have been the same for over 100 years,” he says. “Everyone is building the exact same way: Thousands of little pieces, thousands of little sticks and parts are brought to a site. That is not sustainable,” says Egan. “That is like ordering a car and getting a box of parts dropped off in your driveway. It’s clearly time for construction to evolve.”
Cranes are hoisting 12 steel cargo containers onto a site in Georgetown today to create two three-story buildings designs by HyBrid, which only designs prefab buildings. They will contain about the 7,200 square feet of space, partly for an interior-design showroom. Here's what it will look like once complete:
This design is an adaptation of a 2004 project, which never got built. An illustration of that building is below.
This modular construction alternative, Egan says, means buildings can be constructed more quickly, less expensively (20 to 40 percent less), and can be easily fitted to contain green roofs and other features to conserve energy. And they last longer, even if it’s not at the same location. “No one will ever take wrecking ball to a modular building because it makes more sense to cut the connections and disassemble it and relocate it,” he says.
HyBrid has also been partnering with Mithun Architects for the past several years to construct a massive modular 62-unit apartment building on Dexter Avenue North made of wood. The plans have changed slightly since we reported it in last year. “It’s got a new site … and it appears to be moving forward to essentially a bigger project,” says Egan.
Video of the Day Lunchtime Quickie
Posted by Kelly O on Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 12:05 PM
Forget sex with trees, how about SEX WITH AIR? Tonight is the first-ever Seattle Air Sex Championships. It's time to channel that little bit of Pretty Ricky that lives inside all of us. Also, I've got two free tickets for tonight's event. First person who sends their first and last name to freetickets@thestranger.com (with their favorite sex position in the subject line) takes 'em. UPDATE: Tickets gone, baby, gone. Have fun tonight, Lady T!
Video audio may be NSFW.
International Text Message and Photos from Tehran
Posted by Dominic Holden on Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 12:00 PM
A University of Puget Sound student is in Brooklyn; one of her classmates is in Tehran, where he has spent the last several days joining protests over Iran's apparently rigged election, taking pictures and writing about what he sees. For the purpose of this story, we are calling him Ali Golsar. Explains the woman here in the US:
We've been corresponding between Brooklyn and Tehran which has been proving more and more difficult. Since the elections, cell phone service either cuts out, or is out for days and the internet is routinely shut down and or choppy. In the beginning we could skype with little problems but currently we end up calling over and over again only to hear, nothing or creepy echoes. If he is caught sending critical info outside of Iran, then bye bye. It's something that as Americans we don't understand and then glamorize. People are dragged out of or beaten in their cars while standing in traffic. Dormitories are raided and students are thrown out of their windows. People are arrested left and right. Ali himself had a concussion and encounters with batons in his crotch and smacking his knees.Since the elections I've served as his decorated receptionist/connection in the US for getting news out about Iran (which at times seems a little strange. "Hello, I am calling on behalf of my boyfriend.") We've managed to create a little code for ourselves, which sometimes in frustration will break. I think our 3 AM dreary sports metaphors are likely so thinly veiled, it could be comical to whoever is hearing them on the other end. Though I really shouldn't laugh about it.
Photos and words by Golsar:
All these demonstrations take place in areas sprawled out across Tehran, making it difficult for the police to patrol all the demonstrations without outstretching itself. In northern Tehran, when a handful of baton barring Basiji charge a crowd of 30 protestors-all the men flee while women, conservative or liberal, stand their ground shouting profanities back at the police, “You are not Muslims! God is witness, you are not even men!” However, in southern Tehran, demonstrators are fearless to fight back with whatever means available to them.
More by Golsar after the jump.
Books No Seattle Poetry Chain This Week
Posted by Paul Constant on Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 12:00 PM
We have hit a snag in the Seattle Poetry Chain. Actually, wait: Do chains snag? Let's just say that my skin has snagged on the Seattle Poetry Chain and I'm going to slowly bleed out this week. There will be something next week at noon. In the meantime, read some poetry by Edna St. Vincent Millay, who almost unanimously won an "I'd do her" contest against Emily Dickinson some time ago on Slog.
Crime Stabbing In the University District, Violent Robbery in South Seattle
Posted by Jonah Spangenthal-Lee on Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 11:38 AM
Seattle police are investigating two serious assaults which took place in West Seattle and the University District last night.
At about 6:30 pm, police received a 911 call about a group of men assaulting and robbing a man in his 20s near 13th Avenue S and S Holgate. Police arrested a 19-year-old man and a 20-year-old man in connection with the robbery but are still looking for other suspects. Police say the robbery victim was taken to Harborview with life-threatening injuries.
The incident is being investigated by SPD homicide detectives who, according to SPD spokeswoman Renee Witt, typically handle "pretty serious assaults."
Just after midnight, police also arrested another man for an apparently racially motivated assault at a University District bar.
SPD officers were called to a bar at University Way NE and NE 43rd Street after, police say, an "extremely intoxicated" white man in his 30s directed several racial slurs at a black man in the bar in an attempt to start a fight.
According to police, the suspect then slashed the victim's face and stabbed him in the arm. He was booked into King County Jail for investigation of assault. The victim was treated at the scene and transported to Harborview.
??!! / Housekeeping / Teh Internets Do You Like to Have Sex With Trees?
Posted by Paul Constant on Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 11:17 AM
This week's feature by Charles Mudede, about the sexiest trees in Seattle, is a really entertaining read. Here's one sexy tree, The Movie Star:
This tree near Lake Washington played a role in my movie Police Beat. It gave a great performance. Its moment of indie-film fame: The bike cop investigates a tree that has assaulted an old woman. She has a cut on her head. She points out the offending tree. The officer walks up to it and knocks on the bark with his knuckles. The bark answers with a hollow sound. The bike cop then returns to the old woman and says: "Your tree is dead, and if you do not cut it down, it will continue to harm and disturb the living." The scene is based on a real police report. A woman called the SPD and blamed a tree for assaulting her. The report caught my eye because I understood her confusion. In the way it is easy to believe a tree can love us, it should be easy to believe a tree can hate us. Dead trees are most bewildering things because trees are not supposed to die. They are supposed to live and live and live. There are trees that were alive when Jesus was alive. Despite its great acting and its beauty, the tree in Police Beat has so far failed to land another role.
Well, Charles's story has been picked up by Fark, and there is some weird shit going on over there. It started with comments:
RocketRod 2009-06-18 08:30:18 PM
That's a knotty pine.
CruiserTwelve 2009-06-18 08:39:49 PM
I'm glad that fig tree is wearing a fig leaf.
vossiewulf 2009-06-18 08:49:12 PM
Lots of hortisexuals up in those parts.
djkutch 2009-06-18 09:37:23 PM
Someone, somewhere is tired of her sap.
Walker 2009-06-18 10:44:10 PM
I'm getting wood.
But then it turns into a competition to display photos of sexy, sexy trees and shrubbery. Some of the photos are clearly photoshopped, but that isn't the point. The point is that Charles Mudede's appreciation of trees in this week's paper seems to be creating a new fetish online. That is a good week's work, Mr. Mudede.
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