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Monday, June 30, 2003
( 8:20 PM ) The Rat SCIENTISTS ARE PROPOSING harvesting eggs from aborted fetuses. Can't wait to see what the kids' family trees look like. # Posted by The Rat @ 8:20 PM ( 8:20 PM ) The Rat Protestantism is a convenient religion because it offers denominations for drinkers and denominations for teetotalers. —Wasp, Where Is Thy Sting? # Posted by The Rat @ 8:20 PM Sunday, June 29, 2003 ( 7:32 PM ) The Rat KATHARINE HEPBURN has died, aged 96, at her home in Connecticut. # Posted by The Rat @ 7:32 PM ( 7:31 PM ) The Rat "If he gets some clothes he'll go away! And he's the only man I've ever loved!" —Bringing Up Baby # Posted by The Rat @ 7:31 PM Wednesday, June 25, 2003 ( 10:27 AM ) The Rat PAGE with lots and lots and lots of Orwell links. # Posted by The Rat @ 10:27 AM ( 10:25 AM ) The Rat BUILD A BETTER LIFE THROUGH JAPANESE PAPER-FOLDING. Via Eve. # Posted by The Rat @ 10:25 AM ( 10:25 AM ) The Rat AS OF TONIGHT, here's where I'll be and you won't! # Posted by The Rat @ 10:25 AM ( 10:24 AM ) The Rat "Now steady on, Garth," said the President. "I'm sure we're all as shocked as you are by Donald's... Donald's... well, his behaviour. But remember where we are. This is Cambridge. We have a tradition of buggery here." —The Liar # Posted by The Rat @ 10:24 AM Tuesday, June 24, 2003 ( 12:20 PM ) The Rat AN ADVANCE ANNOUNCEMENT, as the Rat won't be posting for a couple of weeks: Tomorrow is the centenary of George Orwell's birth. Celebrate by reading some of his essays. # Posted by The Rat @ 12:20 PM ( 12:19 PM ) The Rat SWEDES = LAME. # Posted by The Rat @ 12:19 PM ( 12:11 PM ) The Rat EU DRAFT LAW TARGETS SEX BIAS IN MEDIA AND INSURANCE. "The legislation would ban stereotypical portrayals of men and women in advertisements and the media, the paper reported." Is there any other kind of portrayal of women in European advertisements??! # Posted by The Rat @ 12:11 PM ( 12:10 PM ) The Rat FUN HEADLINE. This is pretty good too. # Posted by The Rat @ 12:10 PM ( 10:34 AM ) The Rat GREAT HOWARD DEAN GAFFE. Via Shamed. # Posted by The Rat @ 10:34 AM ( 10:33 AM ) The Rat The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault. —Henry Kissinger # Posted by The Rat @ 10:33 AM Monday, June 23, 2003 ( 5:06 PM ) The Rat ANY LIST OF MOVIE VILLAINS THAT WOULD RANK HANS GRUBER 46TH clearly doesn't deserve to be taken seriously, but here is a link to the AFI site anyway. # Posted by The Rat @ 5:06 PM ( 1:17 PM ) The Rat THE GERMANS are weird. # Posted by The Rat @ 1:17 PM ( 12:52 PM ) The Rat IT'S NATIONAL CHEESE WEEK! Which for some reason comes a full three weeks before Cow Appreciation Day. # Posted by The Rat @ 12:52 PM ( 12:51 PM ) The Rat PUTIN SHUTS DOWN LAST INDEPENDENT TV STATION. # Posted by The Rat @ 12:51 PM ( 12:50 PM ) The Rat INTERESTING NEWSWEEK PIECE ON LOS ANGELES-BASED IRANIAN RADIO. # Posted by The Rat @ 12:50 PM ( 12:49 PM ) The Rat "Even when one's no longer attached to things, it's still something to have been attached to them; because it was always for reasons which other people didn't grasp. The memory of those feelings is something that's to be found only in ourselves; we must go back into ourselves to look at it. You mustn't laugh at this idealistic jargon, but what I mean to say is that I've been very fond of life and very fond of art. Well, now that I'm a little too weary to live with other people, those old feelings, so personal and individual, that I had in the past, seem to me—it's the mania of all collectors—very precious. I open my heart to myself like a sort of showcase, and examine one by one all those love affairs of which the rest of the world can have known nothing. And of this collection, to which I'm now even more attached than to my others, I say to myself, rather as Mazarin said of his books, but in fact without the least distress, that it will be very tiresome to have to leave it all..." —Sodom and Gomorrah # Posted by The Rat @ 12:49 PM Friday, June 20, 2003 ( 4:00 PM ) The Rat THE FINGER GALLERY, via Eve. # Posted by The Rat @ 4:00 PM ( 1:48 PM ) The Rat CHINA CLOSES BEIJING NEWSPAPER IN MEDIA CRACKDOWN. # Posted by The Rat @ 1:48 PM ( 1:47 PM ) The Rat RECENT SEARCH REQUESTS. duct tape fetish porn messenger whip emoticon self-consciousness curiously arrested poems on unhappy marriages any iranian porn site reluctance to marry "Right Wing Drunks" cock kicking WHORE IRANIAN # Posted by The Rat @ 1:47 PM ( 1:44 PM ) The Rat CASE AGAINST HUSTLER'S FLYNT REVIVED. # Posted by The Rat @ 1:44 PM ( 1:38 PM ) The Rat He is not only a bore, but he bores England. —Malcolm Muggeridge on Anthony Eden # Posted by The Rat @ 1:38 PM Thursday, June 19, 2003 ( 3:42 PM ) The Rat RIO IS "WORLD'S FRIENDLIEST CITY." # Posted by The Rat @ 3:42 PM ( 3:41 PM ) The Rat BONE BOX LINKED TO JESUS IS A FAKE. # Posted by The Rat @ 3:41 PM ( 12:00 PM ) The Rat PENIS EUPHEMISMS PAGE. # Posted by The Rat @ 12:00 PM ( 11:59 AM ) The Rat PARIS COURT BLOCKS BOOK EXPOSING CORRUPTION. # Posted by The Rat @ 11:59 AM ( 11:58 AM ) The Rat "Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others." —Groucho Marx # Posted by The Rat @ 11:58 AM Wednesday, June 18, 2003 ( 11:54 AM ) The Rat COLISEUM BOOKS REOPENS IN MIDTOWN. # Posted by The Rat @ 11:54 AM ( 11:53 AM ) The Rat OBITUARY MAGAZINE? # Posted by The Rat @ 11:53 AM ( 11:52 AM ) The Rat REPORTS ON SOLDIER'S CAPTURE ARE PARTLY DISCOUNTED BY PAPER. The account, published on April 3 under the headline "She Was Fighting to the Death; Details Emerging of W.Va. Soldier's Capture and Rescue," was widely repeated in other news reports, and helped make [Lynch's] story an inspirational touchstone for American support for the war. But subsequent reports by The Post and other news organizations have cast doubt on several aspects of the initial portrayals of her story, raising questions about whether the United States military manipulated the episode for propaganda purposes and about whether American news organizations were seduced by a gripping, patriotic tale. # Posted by The Rat @ 11:52 AM ( 8:08 AM ) The Rat GOOD TO KNOW I'm not the only one with friends like this. # Posted by The Rat @ 8:08 AM ( 8:07 AM ) The Rat CHEATING WOMEN CATCHING UP. This is news?! The modern Western woman is now almost as likely to cheat on her partner as a man, according to a new survey carried out for a German women's magazine. In an online survey of 1,427 men and women aged between 25 and 35 by the Hamburg-based GEWIS institute for social research for Woman magazine, 53% of women said they had been unfaithful to their partner, compared with 59% of men. The survey revealed that non-sexual desires, such as the need for reassurance and understanding, were a primary motive among women for infidelity. # Posted by The Rat @ 8:07 AM ( 8:06 AM ) The Rat ALSO VIA THE PRESS: "Salvador Dali: Dream of Venus" opens June 22 at the Queens Museum of Art. # Posted by The Rat @ 8:06 AM ( 8:05 AM ) The Rat CHICKPEA, TAKE NOTE. Listing from the current New York Press: Mermaid Parade. For the 21st year in a row, Coney Island (where else?) will be home to Brooklyn's oddest, goofiest parade. Freaks and would-be freaks alike, exhibitionists, musicians, land sharks, pirates, the wearily tattooed and, of course, a couple hundred home-style mermaids and mermen will gather just off the boardwalk for the annual Mermaid Parade. The crowds are a nightmare, finding a place where you can actually see anything is damn near impossible, the lines to the bathroom stretch for miles, and trying to get a beer at Ruby's requires a whip. Nevertheless, if you can overlook all those things and find a perch somewhere, it never fails to be one of the best free shows the city has to offer. The parade route travels along Surf Ave. between W. 10th St. and W. 15th St., or else on the Riegelmann Boardwalk between the same cross streets. You'll figure it out. 2 p.m., free. # Posted by The Rat @ 8:05 AM ( 8:04 AM ) The Rat "WHEN A MAN AND A WOMAN LOVE EACH OTHER VERY, VERY MUCH..." This would have been a lot cooler if they hadn't used the bottle. # Posted by The Rat @ 8:04 AM ( 8:03 AM ) The Rat It is true that there were Guermantes who went in for intellect and Guermantes who went in for morals, and that these two groups did not as a rule coincide. —The Guermantes Way # Posted by The Rat @ 8:03 AM Tuesday, June 17, 2003 ( 2:01 PM ) The Rat YOU ARE A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN, AND I MEAN THAT IN A COMPLETELY NON-THREATENING WAY. Via the Onion. # Posted by The Rat @ 2:01 PM ( 1:14 PM ) The Rat CELEBRATING SAINT PETERSBURG, at the Met through January 25. # Posted by The Rat @ 1:14 PM ( 12:43 PM ) The Rat THIS JUST IN: TNR readers not into cruising. # Posted by The Rat @ 12:43 PM ( 12:42 PM ) The Rat PERFECT. # Posted by The Rat @ 12:42 PM ( 12:41 PM ) The Rat "What's going on, Normie?" "My birthday, Sammy. Give me a beer, stick a candle in it, and I'll blow out my liver." —Cheers # Posted by The Rat @ 12:41 PM Monday, June 16, 2003 ( 12:31 PM ) The Rat COW-KISSING CONTEST. # Posted by The Rat @ 12:31 PM ( 12:29 PM ) The Rat COKE DRIVER WHO DRANK PEPSI TOLD TO HIT THE ROAD. # Posted by The Rat @ 12:29 PM ( 11:58 AM ) The Rat THE UNH! PROJECT, via Eve. # Posted by The Rat @ 11:58 AM ( 11:29 AM ) The Rat MORE BLAIR FALLOUT. # Posted by The Rat @ 11:29 AM ( 11:27 AM ) The Rat THE RAT'S SOURCES TELL HER Porfiry Petrovich was the inspiration for Columbo?! # Posted by The Rat @ 11:27 AM ( 11:24 AM ) The Rat [I]t is a charming law of nature, which manifests itself in the heart of the most complex social organisms, that we live in perfect ignorance of those we love. On the one hand the lover says to himself: "She is an angel, she will never give herself to me, I may as well die—and yet she loves me; she loves me so much that perhaps... but no, it can never possibly happen." And in the exaltation of his desire, in the anguish of his expectation, what jewels he flings at the feet of this woman, how he runs to borrow money to save her from financial worries! Meanwhile, on the other side of the glass screen, through which these conversations will no more carry than those which visitors exchange in front of an aquarium in a zoo, the public are saying: "You don't know her? You can count yourself lucky—she has robbed, in fact ruined, I don't know how many men, as girls go there's nothing worse. She's a swindler pure and simple. And crafty!" —The Guermantes Way # Posted by The Rat @ 11:24 AM Friday, June 13, 2003 ( 3:28 PM ) The Rat THE POWER OF POSITIVE DRINKING. # Posted by The Rat @ 3:28 PM ( 2:35 PM ) The Rat RECENT SEARCH REQUESTS. rat dissection colon pictures rat sex life pregnant rat pictures (different searcher!) does condoleezza rice have good pussy Jacques Chirac's mistresses qusay hussein favorite drink maid porn should i marry a drug addict pussy after childbirth iranian vagina rat courtship dream translations duck rat (result #1) rat race drinking game mattress rat sex nude military medical inspection porn "mike yaeger" yale # Posted by The Rat @ 2:35 PM ( 12:38 PM ) The Rat SOME PEOPLE HAVE ALL THE LUCK... # Posted by The Rat @ 12:38 PM ( 12:35 PM ) The Rat SEGWAY FAILS PRESIDENTIAL TEST. But you knew that, didn't you? (As of this writing there are some very funny pictures on Drudge.) (Edited to add: link to photos here.) # Posted by The Rat @ 12:35 PM ( 12:33 PM ) The Rat WE'LL MAKE A RIGHT-WINGER OUT OF HER YET. The Rat's oldest friend, who just finished her first year at Harvard Med this morning, writes: Infectious disease specialists are some of the most cynical doctors. Yesterday we had a lecture from a guy who said that he hated Earth Day because it was just an excuse for a bunch of elementary school kids to do manual labor in vacant lots and dig a bunch of fungal spores out from the ground into the air and cause fungal infection epidemics. # Posted by The Rat @ 12:33 PM ( 12:30 PM ) The Rat "You know, it just gets more sordid. I mean, it's like the more you know, the more, ooh." —Tucker Carlson, referring to allegations in Dick Morris's article on the Clintons, as quoted in a transcript from CNN's Crossfire # Posted by The Rat @ 12:30 PM Thursday, June 12, 2003 ( 4:33 PM ) The Rat WORLD'S OLDEST CHOCOLATE ON DISPLAY. # Posted by The Rat @ 4:33 PM ( 4:07 PM ) The Rat GREGORY PECK has died. # Posted by The Rat @ 4:07 PM ( 3:50 PM ) The Rat "A-SITTING ON A TELL," Agatha Christie's parody of Lewis Carroll, written to preface her memoir of her life with archaeologist Max Mallowan. # Posted by The Rat @ 3:50 PM ( 3:47 PM ) The Rat "He's an Anglo-Saxon messenger—and those are Anglo-Saxon attitudes." —Through the Looking-Glass # Posted by The Rat @ 3:47 PM Wednesday, June 11, 2003 ( 2:20 PM ) The Rat THE RAT IS REMINDED BY THIS CLIP that a total stranger accused her of being Satan yesterday (and advised her to "Begone!"). The weird part is that this only happened after nearly two whole years in New York City. # Posted by The Rat @ 2:20 PM ( 2:16 PM ) The Rat "VETERINARIAN UPON VETERINARIAN..." Found in Amazon reviews of a Russian textbook: If you are considering buying this book, BUY IT NOW!! You can not even imagine the fun and hilarity waiting for you in this delightful series on a handsome young American visiting the great city of Moscow to meet up with Tanya, Olya, Misha, and the rest of that crazy gang! You will meet veterinarian upon veterinarian as you roll around Moscow will Sergey and learn Russian as little Vanya learns his English!! I whole-heartedly recommend this series! # Posted by The Rat @ 2:16 PM ( 1:34 PM ) The Rat WOODY ALLEN BECOMES PITCH MAN FOR FRANCE. Man—some news items, it's like shooting fish in a barrel. # Posted by The Rat @ 1:34 PM ( 11:24 AM ) The Rat FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF "UM?!!": "A piquant spy who heard Barbara Walters asking Hillary Clinton how she could have been so naive and unaware of her husband's philandering recalls that Walters the Wise had a long romantic relationship with Roy Cohn." # Posted by The Rat @ 11:24 AM ( 11:05 AM ) The Rat BALLOON DOG! # Posted by The Rat @ 11:05 AM ( 10:14 AM ) The Rat THE NEW AUDREY HEPBURN STAMP comes out today. # Posted by The Rat @ 10:14 AM ( 10:13 AM ) The Rat The blossom of the cherry-tree is stuck so close to its branches, like a white sheath, that from a distance, among the other trees that showed as yet scarcely a flower or leaf, one might on this day of sunshine that was still so cold have taken it for snow that had remained clinging there, having melted everywhere else. But the tall pear-trees enveloped each house, each modest courtyard, in a more spacious, more uniform, more dazzling whiteness, as if all the dwellings, all the enclosed spaces in the village, were on their way to make their first communion on the same solemn day. —The Guermantes Way # Posted by The Rat @ 10:13 AM Tuesday, June 10, 2003 ( 6:29 PM ) The Rat WHICH WIFE OF HENRY VIII ARE YOU? Believe it or not, I found this doing job-related research. # Posted by The Rat @ 6:29 PM ( 2:57 PM ) The Rat HEADLINE OF THE DAY. # Posted by The Rat @ 2:57 PM ( 9:22 AM ) The Rat "DREAMING IN PICTURES: THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF LEWIS CARROLL" is showing at the International Center of Photography through August 31. # Posted by The Rat @ 9:22 AM ( 9:07 AM ) The Rat I WAS IN THE FOURTH LEVEL OF HELL the last time I took this quiz; now I'm evidently in the seventh. However, watch this space. # Posted by The Rat @ 9:07 AM ( 9:01 AM ) The Rat SEE? IT HAPPENS TO WOODSTOCK TOO! # Posted by The Rat @ 9:01 AM ( 8:58 AM ) The Rat "I CALL THIS ENEMY... THE SUN." British Scientist Puts Odds for Apocalypse at 50-50: This is the way the world might end: A genetically engineered pathogen is released, debris from an erupting "supervolcano" blocks the sun or scientists in the biggest "bioerror" of them all accidentally trigger a matter-squeezing "big bang." # Posted by The Rat @ 8:58 AM ( 8:54 AM ) The Rat SINCE THE SMITHSONIAN HAS CAREFULLY PURGED its materials on the Hope Diamond of any mention of the "curse," here is a page to fill in some of the gaps. # Posted by The Rat @ 8:54 AM ( 8:49 AM ) The Rat "You might at least have the civility to begin by saying how d'ye do to me," he replied, without offering me his hand and in a coarse and angry voice which I had never suspected him of possessing, a voice which, having no rational connexion with what he ordinarily said, had another more immediate connexion with something he was feeling. For the fact of the matter is that, since we are determined always to keep our feelings to ourselves, we have never given any thought to the manner in which we should express them. And suddenly there is within us a strange and obscene animal making itself heard, whose tones may inspire as much alarm in the person who receives the involuntary, elliptical and almost irresistible communication of one's defect or vice as would the sudden avowal indirectly and outlandishly proferred by a criminal who can no longer refrain from confessing to a murder of which one had never imagined him to be guilty. —The Guermantes Way # Posted by The Rat @ 8:49 AM Monday, June 09, 2003 ( 6:10 PM ) The Rat LOOK WHAT'S COMING to the American Museum of Natural History!!! # Posted by The Rat @ 6:10 PM ( 4:59 PM ) The Rat "I turn on the radio, and I hear these talk shows with right-wing drunks calling in, and I ask myself, where are our drunks?" —leftist dude quoted in this article, via Shamed # Posted by The Rat @ 4:59 PM ( 4:22 PM ) The Rat AT LAST! Just think how thin even the Rat would look, in the context. # Posted by The Rat @ 4:22 PM ( 4:21 PM ) The Rat "Hey, Mr. Peterson, what's up?" "The warranty on my liver." —Cheers # Posted by The Rat @ 4:21 PM Saturday, June 07, 2003 ( 11:58 PM ) The Rat ENDORSEMENT: THIS STUFF is like a liquid Jolly Rancher, only, like, with booze and stuff. You know what to do. # Posted by The Rat @ 11:58 PM Friday, June 06, 2003 ( 1:29 PM ) The Rat WRITE YOUR OWN CAPTION. # Posted by The Rat @ 1:29 PM ( 1:27 PM ) The Rat RECENT SEARCH REQUESTS. swans brain atlas rat (searcher in Germany) nude torments (searcher in France) # Posted by The Rat @ 1:27 PM ( 1:27 PM ) The Rat THIS GUY has it all wrong. You don't have to stop speaking when your parents oppose your career; you just have to stop speaking to your parents. Ask me how I know. # Posted by The Rat @ 1:27 PM ( 12:38 PM ) The Rat THE RAT CAN'T GO INTO THIS without a lot of spoilers, but suffice to say she would dearly love to pitch the so-called heroine of this book out a window. The Rat is now retreating to Proust, whose fornicatrices are at least willing to put out. # Posted by The Rat @ 12:38 PM ( 12:36 PM ) The Rat CAN YOUR LANGUAGE DO THIS? The copy of Chaucer's Bawdy I picked up at the Strand a few weeks back informs me that the English words "acquaintance" and "cunt" both derive from the same root. # Posted by The Rat @ 12:36 PM ( 12:35 PM ) The Rat [His] only redeeming feature was his goodness. —Shusaku Endo, Deep River # Posted by The Rat @ 12:35 PM Wednesday, June 04, 2003 ( 2:32 PM ) The Rat LOOKING FOR LOVE? Move to London. # Posted by The Rat @ 2:32 PM ( 2:28 PM ) The Rat CHINA SENTENCES TIMES FREELANCE PHOTOGRAPHER. # Posted by The Rat @ 2:28 PM ( 2:27 PM ) The Rat "They will take the flower of your innocence, Jarvis, and they will bruise it." "Will it hurt?" —The Liar # Posted by The Rat @ 2:27 PM Tuesday, June 03, 2003 ( 12:02 PM ) The Rat XU WEI BEGINS HUNGER STRIKE. Incidentally, tomorrow is June 4—the 14th anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre. # Posted by The Rat @ 12:02 PM ( 11:58 AM ) The Rat IT'S TONY CURTIS'S BIRTHDAY! Here is a fun Curtis anecdote. # Posted by The Rat @ 11:58 AM ( 11:41 AM ) The Rat PULITZER BOARD BEGINS REVIEW OF DURANTY'S AWARD. It's about $#@! time. In response to an international campaign, The Pulitzer Prize Board has begun an "appropriate and serious review" of the award given to Walter Duranty of The New York Times, an administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes said on May 20. The board's administrator said in a telephone interview that the review began as a result of the thousands of letters and e-mails the board received in early May. A confidential review by the 18-member Pulitzer Prize Board is intended to seriously consider all relevant information regarding Mr. Duranty's award, said Sig Gissler, administrator for the Pulitzer Prizes. "There are no written procedures regarding prize revocation. There are no standards or precedents for revoking the prize. We look at what would be reasonable and analyze the factors that would have to be considered," Mr. Gissler said, referring to the fact that since the creation of the Pulitzer Prizes in 1917 the board has never revoked an award. # Posted by The Rat @ 11:41 AM ( 11:38 AM ) The Rat He reached the ancient hamlet while the people were at breakfast. Weary and mud-bespattered, but quite possessed of his ordinary clearness of brain, he sat down by the well, thinking as he did what a poor Christ he made. —Jude the Obscure # Posted by The Rat @ 11:38 AM |
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