a question of values

(via debauchette's tumblr)

If you think art is good and masturbation is bad, you will most likely deny that there is truth in this tagger's analogy.

If you think art is bad and masturbation is bad, you will most likely agree that there is truth in the analogy.

If you think art is bad but masturbation is good, you will most likely deny that there is truth in the analogy.

If you think art is good and masturbation is good, you may or may not agree that there is truth in the analogy, depending on whether or not you have experienced or witnessed artful masturbation. But you would be duly challenged to argue that the creation (and, often, the consumption) of art is NOT masturbatory.

If you think both art and masturbation are good and concur with the tagger's correlative, you might wonder why someone felt the need to state something so obvious.

This post is so steamy it may vaporize at any moment

I owe indirect thanks to my friend Bob for this hot-as-blazes video. A couple months ago, he gave me a mix CD-- a veritable Zach Braff movie soundtrack of the trendiest stuff around-- and this one song sent me googling. And I have a distinct suspicion that, knowing me in the way that he does, Bob did not inform me of the existence of this video very much on purpose. This is why I love the internet more than I love Bob. OK, that's not entirely true...


But the internet DID lead me straight into the web of source material for the video. Beautiful agony, indeed. Why is the internet always so good to me?

Link-happy Afternoon

In case you like movies, food, or the American South, or some combination of the three, or maybe even all three simultaneously: The Potlikker Film Festival

In case you're still relieved that George "Macaca" Allen didn't win the most-tightly-contested-Senatorial-seat-in-the-2006-midterm-elections: download of Jeff Sharlet's forthcoming Rolling Stone article entitled "James Webb's Never-Ending War" (this is a fascinating piece!)

In case you like statistics that reveal deeply intimate stuff about people: (it's healthy, not dirty)