Thank you all for playing with my balls. And thank you, Jostlin' Testes Harder, for NOT :-).

Your comments were much more fun and imaginative than my original. But for those still interested in delving into the ontological/epistemological depths behind the photos and captions, here's a profound exeg… Read full post »

 

#1: I kicked this guy's balls.

#2: I inhaled with these dudes at a ball. They both won Nobel Prizes for something green.

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You have asked for this Office's views on whether certain proposed editorial conduct would violate the prohibitions against torture of readers and writers found at Section 2340A of title 18 of the Littérateurs Sans Frontières Internationale Convention of 1896.

Fir… Read full post »

BOSTON
April 15, 1773

CCC: (In hushed tones -- think golf announcers after another Mickelson muff.)

Responding to His Master's Voice, loping into the city from the Western boonies, reverse-tracking Paul Revere who is yet to ride (but not stopping… Read full post »

Reading in the NYT about the ratings travails of giant authors like James Baldwin and E.M. Forster after being consigned to the Adult bin by Amazonian midgets, I had to find out first hand what company their books were keeping.

I must be the only person on Open… Read full post »

Yesterday at 5:00 PM, regular as clockwork, Caruso Wegie posted another in the series of the exquisitely crafted, edgy, funny and highly original BATZ cartoons. This one was even better than usual because it included a clip of the templates the Walt Disney studios used for their toons, and provided t… Read full post »

Livicated to the canning Finnster and the feeling Caruso

Rabbit, run. Imahopping zerrymandering will diggit dugdugdug O O O O yes yes yes that Shakespeherian rag Jaysus weepies Cyclops crackerjacks jeffmute Philomel...............

10. Indie big inning

                                   In nature's infinite book of secrecy,
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O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a
king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.
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Ignore the sensation-seeking headlines: "Shock and Awe," "$1.75 trillion Tax Hike." Piffle. Penned by people who haven't even peeked at the Fiscal Year 2010 Federal Budget^[1]. It is a thing of beauty, crafted and drafted by economists with nous (instead of the ideological hacks of the Bush years). It… Read full post »

Based on the transcripts of President Obama's magisterial Speech to Congress and Piyush "Bobby" Jindal's umm, response, your devoted Dawg provides the following hermeneutic analysis, without editorial comment. These are the number of times a particular word (root) was used in their respective speech… Read full post »

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The nattering nabobs of Neanderthalism and other assorted know-nothings⁽¹⁾ have been inveighing against the New Deal in an attempt to discredit the premises of the stimulus package.Their main claims, based on ignorance, distortions and wilful disregard of economics and economic history, appear to be… Read full post »

In furtherance of the Fairness Doctrine and Equal Opportunity for Offense, submitted to the Editors and Readers of OS.

Behold the miracle!

At exactly 12:00 Noon on the twenty-seventh day of January in the Year of Our Lord 2009, on the Feast Day of Saint Lupus of Chalons  (I kid you not, a most appropriate saint for the occasion, as you will see and  like all OS members, he… Read full post »

"Know thyself" was, of course, the famous dictum of the Delphic Oracle  (and for all you neo-classicists, the Oracle in The Matrix). "Know thy posts" is the starter's call to the horses at Epsom (those Brits are so classical, as are their horses).  And "Know thy editors" is apparently Ruper… Read full post »

Frankenstein was a doctor. And he created a monster.  One reading of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus  is that the monster he created was himself. Any resemblance to the duelin' docs on OS is purely intentional.

Fast forward past the Hollywood movie to our curre… Read full post »

Bolt and bar the shutter,
For the foul winds blow:
Our minds are at their best this night,
And I seem to know
That everything outside us is
Mad as the mist and snow.

    - W. B. Yeats: The Winding Stair and Other Poems  (1933)

There are places, I remember,
all my life though some have changed
some forever, not for better
some are gone, and some remain
all these places have their meanings
with lovers and friends I still can recall,
some are dead and some are living...
in my life, I've loved them… Read full post »

KAMAL SALEH DELETED MY COMMENTS!

Some of you may have seen his earth-shaking, ground-breaking post tonight:

BREAST AUGMENTATION-BREAST IMPLANT-SLICON-SALINE FILLED

(Tonight it was in English. Yesterday's was apparently in modified Finno-Ugaric, meant only for the Open Salon International Edition --… Read full post »

               - W.B.Yeats   Cuchulain's Fight with the Sea (The Rose 1893)

The image of Cuchula… Read full post »

Perhaps my first post back after a wonderful family get-together (much tail-wagging, drooling, chow hounding, snoozing) ought not to be an angry one. But I noticed our resident savant Rob's moderate (no names, no pack drill) appeal fell on deaf ears and our dueli… Read full post »

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