I actually, like Adam, watched that interview, even though I tend to find O'Brien intensely irritating, though not out of any deep interest in Ms. Berry. I was curious about the movie, and it's not as if having the tv on as background while I read is some great strain or effort.
But she was kidding, FL. Makin' with the jokesies.
I'm fine with the attempt to make fun of me -- hey, it's better than being forgotten, and never linked, and, well, anyway. But I actually don't quite get the joke; it would work well if I had some fetish for superhero costumes, or Storm, or comics characters, or something like that, but I'm afraid I don't. (I like good comics, but they don't enter into my sex fantasies.)
Not that Ms. Berry is unattractive, to be sure. Or that I lack for fantasies.
But that topic is long forbidden to me here, by law.
I did bite my tongue last night, while I was 3/4's asleep, but that was just accident. Still a bit stingy, though.
I guess having dreams about Peter Beinart and Matt Yglesias will do that to me.
(Actually, it was about six hours before that, but why ruin a punchline like this sentence does?)
I agree with B. People need to understand that the bar for "kinky" has been moved in recent years. Don't act surprised when people aren't all scandalized that you and your BF/husband/whatever took some whipped cream into the bedroom. If you're trying to make our jaws drop when we're dishing over Sunday brunch, you have to do better than that.
21 - Who says you have to be kinky, though? With the bar raised, I'm fine with not aiming that high. I just ask that friends who have what I perceive to be fairly mainstream and normal sex lives not make me feign shock and surprise at what they're doing.
"I just ask that friends who have what I perceive to be fairly mainstream and normal sex lives not make me feign shock and surprise at what they're doing."
I hear some couples these days do it with the lady of the house on top.
just a knee-jerk association of kink=fun. I suppose it's not necessary. There could be a case for taboo-violation, but I don't care about that particular.
When they come back they'll probably expect us to feign shock and surprise at what they're doing, but we know better. The kink bar is higher than that.
I call a draw. Since Ms. Berry herself has declined to coment, teo gets to don a bear suit, much confused and half-asleep in the corner, while Sir Farber of Gary spins in endless circles, wearing a suit of Amish-whipped-cream armor.
The revelation by implication in 54, that gay men are in fact not attracted to women, means that the Earth has a chance to resist Halle Berry-an domination. For others, I recommend seeing The Rich Man's Wife, which cured me. On second thought, what am I thinking, do not, under any circumstances, watch The Rich Man's Wife.
56: The Fabulosity Shield will protect you. It's like missile defense, except our magic works.
Can I just say that I also bear some grudge against her for the fact that Angela Bassett just so totally should have been Storm? I still fuss over that. I mean, c'mon, I didn't even read the comic growing up and I know that.
M/tch, I'm sorry, I should have been more clear. I don't mean that RB has no standards, or that I disrespect his unique and personally fulfilling method. I'm sure he's very sensitive to the schoolbus.
I can't believe people are commenting on rapebear and not this. And they're not even talking about rapebear.
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 06-29-06 9:33 PM
I know. I can't wait for the pictures of Halle having consensual sex with rapebear, who then rapes Gary.
Posted by FL | Link to this comment | 06-29-06 9:38 PM
I'm totally kidding. I'm sure the bear rapes someone else after that.
Posted by FL | Link to this comment | 06-29-06 9:39 PM
When you get them developed, send them to Spielberg.
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 06-29-06 9:40 PM
Um, is Gary someone on the Conan O'Brien show, or are you referencing Farber, or is it someone else I should know about?
I think you're slipping, Labs. There may be hope for ogged yet.
Posted by M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 06-29-06 9:40 PM
There's only one Gary on unfogged, m//tch.
Posted by FL | Link to this comment | 06-29-06 9:45 PM
I saw this on live television.
Posted by Adam Kotsko | Link to this comment | 06-29-06 9:51 PM
I actually, like Adam, watched that interview, even though I tend to find O'Brien intensely irritating, though not out of any deep interest in Ms. Berry. I was curious about the movie, and it's not as if having the tv on as background while I read is some great strain or effort.
But she was kidding, FL. Makin' with the jokesies.
I'm fine with the attempt to make fun of me -- hey, it's better than being forgotten, and never linked, and, well, anyway. But I actually don't quite get the joke; it would work well if I had some fetish for superhero costumes, or Storm, or comics characters, or something like that, but I'm afraid I don't. (I like good comics, but they don't enter into my sex fantasies.)
Not that Ms. Berry is unattractive, to be sure. Or that I lack for fantasies.
But that topic is long forbidden to me here, by law.
I did bite my tongue last night, while I was 3/4's asleep, but that was just accident. Still a bit stingy, though.
I guess having dreams about Peter Beinart and Matt Yglesias will do that to me.
(Actually, it was about six hours before that, but why ruin a punchline like this sentence does?)
Posted by Gary Farber | Link to this comment | 06-29-06 10:13 PM
Dude, wearing sexy outfits is kinky now? God, America is full of prudes.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 06-29-06 10:19 PM
But she was kidding
Will someone please use their admin powers to delete this because it makes babies cry? And Gary is totally banned!
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 06-29-06 10:24 PM
Who is 9 addressed to?
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 06-29-06 10:29 PM
The universe, I think.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 06-29-06 10:32 PM
"Will someone please use their admin powers to delete this because it makes babies cry?"
Well, she played it like she was kidding. O'Brien brought it up, and she played along.
But maybe it was acting. Better?
Posted by Gary Farber | Link to this comment | 06-29-06 10:32 PM
The, um, linked article? Hello?
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 06-29-06 10:32 PM
I agree with B. People need to understand that the bar for "kinky" has been moved in recent years. Don't act surprised when people aren't all scandalized that you and your BF/husband/whatever took some whipped cream into the bedroom. If you're trying to make our jaws drop when we're dishing over Sunday brunch, you have to do better than that.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 06-29-06 10:39 PM
ok. what qualifies as kinky, today?
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 06-29-06 10:41 PM
You actually clicked the link? I'm shocked.
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 06-29-06 10:41 PM
what qualifies as kinky, today?
Now that shower poop is mainstream, I have no idea.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06-29-06 10:44 PM
Isn't it three makes a trend?
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 06-29-06 10:48 PM
Isn't it three makes a trend?
The power is in your grasp, teo.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 06-29-06 10:50 PM
I like lowering the kink-bar, because, really, I don't want to have to try that hard to be kinky.
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 06-29-06 10:50 PM
In related news, I've tried this, and what the label says is true.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06-29-06 10:51 PM
What is it?
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 06-29-06 10:52 PM
"Now that shower poop is mainstream, I have no idea."
Some folks still aren't fully into the eating the shower poop thing.
Also, felching still isn't a newsweekly cover story.
Otherwise, try working off this list, which I'm pretty sure I linked to here in the past.
Posted by Gary Farber | Link to this comment | 06-29-06 10:52 PM
The power is in your grasp, teo.
That's not power.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06-29-06 10:54 PM
21 - Who says you have to be kinky, though? With the bar raised, I'm fine with not aiming that high. I just ask that friends who have what I perceive to be fairly mainstream and normal sex lives not make me feign shock and surprise at what they're doing.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 06-29-06 10:54 PM
What is it?
Not goatse, that's for sure.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06-29-06 10:56 PM
I for one am entirely indifferent to the level of the kink bar.
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 06-29-06 10:58 PM
15: But what if they make it from scratch, Amish-style?
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 06-29-06 10:58 PM
I hear kink bars only come in miniature form, nowadays.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 06-29-06 10:59 PM
"I just ask that friends who have what I perceive to be fairly mainstream and normal sex lives not make me feign shock and surprise at what they're doing."
I hear some couples these days do it with the lady of the house on top.
With the lights on!
And some women enjoy it, they say.
Posted by Gary Farber | Link to this comment | 06-29-06 10:59 PM
Yeah, I find that as the kink bar gets lower, I feel perversely more at ease with just not bothering.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 06-29-06 11:00 PM
Who says you have to be kinky, though?
just a knee-jerk association of kink=fun. I suppose it's not necessary. There could be a case for taboo-violation, but I don't care about that particular.
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 06-29-06 11:01 PM
"I for one am entirely indifferent to the level of the kink bar."
So you like your kink bar kinked?
Posted by Gary Farber | Link to this comment | 06-29-06 11:01 PM
That's one way of putting it.
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 06-29-06 11:02 PM
I hear kink bars only come in miniature form, nowadays.
Somewhere there's a warehouse full of aging full-size kink. You just have to call around.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06-29-06 11:03 PM
I hear kink bars only come in miniature form, nowadays.
You can still get them from wholesalers, though.
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 06-29-06 11:03 PM
The full-size ones, that is.
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 06-29-06 11:04 PM
Fuck! Bruce-pwned.
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 06-29-06 11:05 PM
Maybe I shouldn't have gone for the second beer.
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 06-29-06 11:05 PM
Hey, where'd everybody go?
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 06-29-06 11:13 PM
Maybe you should've stayed for the third beer. That also would have solved the problem.
Posted by michael | Link to this comment | 06-29-06 11:14 PM
"Hey, where'd everybody go?"
Behind you. Turn around really fast.
Posted by Gary Farber | Link to this comment | 06-29-06 11:16 PM
I still have one more. I think I'll save it, though.
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 06-29-06 11:17 PM
probably pooing in their showers
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 06-29-06 11:17 PM
That must be it.
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 06-29-06 11:19 PM
When they come back they'll probably expect us to feign shock and surprise at what they're doing, but we know better. The kink bar is higher than that.
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 06-29-06 11:25 PM
You guys will never guess! I was getting bored with the same old poop, so I took some whipped cream into the shower with me.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06-29-06 11:28 PM
Did you make it from scratch, Amish-style?
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 06-29-06 11:31 PM
"Did you make it from scratch, Amish-style?"
Don't have a cow, teofilo.
Posted by Gary Farber | Link to this comment | 06-29-06 11:34 PM
Wouldn't dream of it.
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 06-29-06 11:35 PM
"Wouldn't dream of it."
Q.E.D., you have never made whipped cream from scratch, Amish-style. My superior logic kink fu defeats you.
Posted by Gary Farber | Link to this comment | 06-29-06 11:39 PM
I call a draw. Since Ms. Berry herself has declined to coment, teo gets to don a bear suit, much confused and half-asleep in the corner, while Sir Farber of Gary spins in endless circles, wearing a suit of Amish-whipped-cream armor.
Or perhaps I've been hypnotized.
Posted by Stanley | Link to this comment | 06-29-06 11:53 PM
13: Heavens no, she wasn't acting. You'll know it when you see it, what with your eyes bleeding profusely.
Posted by Robust McManlyPants | Link to this comment | 06-30-06 12:45 AM
Damn. I was hoping there'd be at least some geeky discussion of the x-men here so I would have an excuse to link to their adventures in the vast network of caverns below New Orleans.
Posted by Tom Scudder | Link to this comment | 06-30-06 5:58 AM
The revelation by implication in 54, that gay men are in fact not attracted to women, means that the Earth has a chance to resist Halle Berry-an domination. For others, I recommend seeing The Rich Man's Wife, which cured me. On second thought, what am I thinking, do not, under any circumstances, watch The Rich Man's Wife.
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 06-30-06 6:39 AM
Wearing a giant rubber suit, or having one's partner wear a giant rubber suit, doesn't sound like my idea of good sex.
Posted by Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 06-30-06 10:04 AM
57: Well obviously then you're doing it wrong.
Posted by M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 06-30-06 10:30 AM
56: The Fabulosity Shield will protect you. It's like missile defense, except our magic works.
Can I just say that I also bear some grudge against her for the fact that Angela Bassett just so totally should have been Storm? I still fuss over that. I mean, c'mon, I didn't even read the comic growing up and I know that.
Posted by Robust McManlyPants | Link to this comment | 06-30-06 11:40 AM
Don't have a cow, teofilo.
That still clears the kink bar.
Posted by JAC | Link to this comment | 06-30-06 11:42 AM
That still clears the kink bar.
Not for rapebear it doesn't.
Probably not for George Washington either.
Posted by M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 06-30-06 12:09 PM
I'm not sure there's anything Rapebear could do that would, from its own perspective, constitute kink.
I'm also not sure there's anything Rapebear could do that, from anyone else's perspective, would not constitute kink.
As for Washington, it's a shame to waste those removable teeth on heterosexuality.
Posted by Robust McManlyPants | Link to this comment | 06-30-06 1:03 PM
I'm not sure there's anything Rapebear could do that would, from its own perspective, constitute kink.
Talk about the soft bigotry of low expectations!
As for Washington, it's a shame to waste those removable teeth on heterosexuality.
Well to be fair, the video didn't say whether the bears GW fucked the shit out of were male or female.
Posted by M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 06-30-06 1:06 PM
That still clears the kink bar.
The kink bar crumbles like tin foil when it receives the full attention of my libido.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 06-30-06 1:07 PM
I'm afraid that's going to cost you your deposit then, Mr. Apostropher.
Posted by M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 06-30-06 1:12 PM
Once I deposit it, I'm done with it.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 06-30-06 1:14 PM
Talk about the soft bigotry of low expectations!
M/tch, I'm sorry, I should have been more clear. I don't mean that RB has no standards, or that I disrespect his unique and personally fulfilling method. I'm sure he's very sensitive to the schoolbus.
Posted by Robust McManlyPants | Link to this comment | 06-30-06 1:27 PM