Where are the seeds?!?

Is this shock, disbelief, or disgust? Am I projecting my own emotions onto him? But then, the guy in the glasses looks pretty bothered too.

Flesh hooks! Brings new meaning to the term 'Meat Hooks', eh? Which skin suit should I wear tonight?

They sell these a pets in Wales. I actually really liked them- until I read about the lung worm. No thank you. I need my brain to live.

Stag's Leap is one of the most beautifully intense pieces of writing that I have read in years. It explores the agony present in even amiable divorces- her husband (the subject of thirty years' worth of amazing erotic poetry) decides that he no longer loves her and leaves her for another woman. There is pain, but no…

I cannot say how much I love this picture. That is one happy little girl!

I had to wear a pink version of this for 2nd grade dance team in 1992. I got through it by pretending to be a lizard.

Beware the freckled hand of doom!

Ozzy really wants us to know he's English. I guess the ring-flag is the only way to do it now that he's gone all slurry.

Paracelsus said that chastity is having the body in the souls keeping- so basically behaving with self-awareness and in a way that is true with your ideal conception of self. But he was just one of the most intelligent and well-known philosophers of the middle-ages, so what does he know?

I would wear this hat everywhere- to the grocery store, to the gym (it is drycleanable, right?), you'd never miss me at poetry readings!

That is a lovely one, and beautifully done. The piano underlines the nuance of the words. Heaney is by far my favorite living poet. Human Chain is, I think, his best collection. Have you read his Beowulf? He gets the matter-of-fact diction of the Danes down pat- has a real feel for the world where everything comes…

This reminds me of a poem by Seamus Heaney:

Only tangentially related, but after this happened, I posted it as my status on Facebook and since it got pretty amazing results you all might as well see it: I walked into my gym today and came face to 'face' with a poster of a woman in a thong, advising me to be more 'Bootilicious'. I got very angry and wrote a…

For she on honeydew hath fed and drunk the milk of paradise...

reminds me of reading about gender segregated Canadian beer halls that operated until the 1950's, and of their American Cousins earlier in the century. Those faded when feminism began, perhaps it will there too once the women start earning their own money and are able generate some political clout.

You got the same athlete as my husband! This made him an instant fan of her. He has been bragging about his 'Olympic build' all afternoon!

Have any of you noted the way in which io9 framed this story? They presented it in a much more sexist way, attempting to normalize the behavior: http://io9.com/5929223/both-men-and-women-may-be-hardwired-to-objectify-womens-bodies

Also, Ithaca.

1) Uptight and reserved? Not in Swindon. Old ladies running in tank tops? All the freaking time. Makes me happy. Less ageisim here.