Archives: October, 2006

kat — October 26, 2006, 1:21 pm

Republicans MUST be crazy

Do you remember that old flick “The Gods Must be Crazy,” well, I think the same thing about Republicans these days. Take these items for examples:
 1. The fence. 700 miles of expensive fencing to separate us from those poor peeps of Mexico. Ummm. I’m sorry. These are people desperate enough to brave hundreds of miles […]

kat — October 19, 2006, 12:39 pm

overheard at the office this morning

I said to my boss—not ten minutes ago—”You’re OK with wee-wees, but I still can’t get pink in. Yeesh.”
We were discussing cover art for the magazine. Our layout artist had asked me if I wanted to “Photoshop out” the penises—”wee wees” was his term—on the architectural relief atop a finance building in the picture we are using. […]

kat — October 17, 2006, 11:58 am

Christian charity

It seems that Christianity is on everyone’s lips these days—even those of us who are not Christian.
Case and point #1: a new book by the former deputy director of Bush’s “faith-based initiatives” program that highlights (1) how Bushies ridiculed, made fun of, and generally laughed at how easily they could manipulate their Christian base, and […]

kat — October 3, 2006, 5:48 pm

sample of the new book

true story
1.
In Japan, there was no sex—at least, not for me. There was a seduction—once—but no sex.
I’ve been home for a year now; so, this story is mostly about sex. Sadly, it’s lacking in seductions. But, it has flashbacks. And Tim—but, we’ll get to Tim later. I don’t want to talk about him right now.
Oh, […]

kat — , 5:42 pm

info bits

1. Priscilla’s gave me a new vibrator, and the young (and sadly inexperienced) manager was profusely apologetic on the phone. It was rather fun.
2. Apparently, local oil baron Frank Phillips (who co-founded Phillips Petroleum), had a martial-arts-expert, ass-kicking Buddhist butler who died at 81 serving Frank’s granddaughter and left an estate of millions, although he […]