Andymatic

Month: January 2007

  • From Cloacas to Vaginas

    Fascinating study of the evolution of the female reproductive system. The vagina is an entirely new structure, which has no homolog in amphibians or reptiles. That is an interesting observation. It’s a wholly original structure that arose sometime after the monotreme-marsupial split, an evolutionary novelty. How did that happen?

  • Famewhores Surprised Reality TV Abused Them

    The primary rule of American pop culture is Everybody gets to be a victim. Then you do your rounds through the talk shows and etc and then Everybody gets to be a survivor. And then if you are really pious and beat thy breast then Everybody gets to be a hero. These American Idol assholes […]

  • Night Terrors

    I was having a dream last night that I was watching a film’s credits and if a certain name came up I’d be killed or something awful would happen. It was one of those dreams where you can’t scream so you take a deep breath and push and try to make some sound – any […]

  • Dakota Fanning on Rape Scene Furor: Deal With it, Haters

    Dakota Fanning will turn 13 next month, and she has a short answer for anyone who questions her decision to play a 1950s girl who gyrates in her underwear, wakes up as her naked father climbs into her bed, demands that a prepubescent boy expose himself to her in exchange for a kiss and, finally, […]

  • Ford Execs to Fly With the Proles, Continue to Make Shitty Cars

    Put the chump on Southwest and you’ll save even more: The action comes amid media scrutiny over his flights, a common perk among executives but an expense that raised eyebrows because of billions of dollars in losses last year at Ford. Mr. Fields is the architect of a turnaround plan, the Way Forward, that calls […]

  • Pinion Doan Mean Nuffin (American Idol)

    Anybody see the idiot girl that countered Simon’s criticism with: Pinion Done Mean Nuffin At first I had no idea what she was saying. Then I realized she was saying: [Your] Opinion Doesn’t Mean Anything I swear if my daughter talks to me like that – I’m gonna smack her into next week. Of course […]

  • The Other Martin Luther King, Jr

    Every year the media enshrines Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and always conveniently forgets the last several years of his life where he moved from race relations to class structure and poverty. In the early 1960s, when King focused his challenge on legalized racial discrimination in the South, most major media were his allies. But […]

  • How Homophobia Creates Homosexuality

    Work with me: 1. Cultures and societies that persecute homosexuality exert pressure on homosexuals to remain closeted and lead normal lives. 2. Their efforts to appear normal include getting married and having children. 3. Genes/dispositions/influences for homosexuality spread further down the family tree. Summarized from this comment: Namely, that societies with more tolerant views toward […]

  • 24 Day 6 6:00 AM – 8

    When I watched the first season of 24 years ago, I was impressed with how the writers burn through the entire canon of plot twists, themes, archetypes and reversals  – sometimes in just one episode. So tonight, for the sixth season, I’m starting a list called 24 Tropes. A trope is a common pattern or […]

  • Newsweek Int'l Editor Attended Secret Pre-War Meeting

    In State of Denial, Bob Woodward delivers this sparkling scoop: Fareed Zakaria attended a secret gathering convened by Paul Wolfowitz in late 2001. The task at hand, according to a fellow participant, was to draft “a forceful summary of the best pro-war arguments” which became a blueprint for the Bush Administration’s PR campaign. Although he […]