Two posts in a row! Can you believe it?
It helps that I am feeling miserable and cancelled my office hours today so I could stay home and sleep some more. This is such a weird cold - I feel really gross for a few hours, then I feel totally normal for a few hours and think it was all in my head, then I feel really gross for a few more hours. I'm on the tail end of two hours of feeling good, wondering if I was being a slacker for not going in to campus today. But it's coming back. Let's hope I get the post out in time...
The first order of business: yummy mod goodies from Scout's Indie Swag Club...
[I don't know when these actually arrived, I checked the mail this morning for the first time in days. Forgive me if you all have seen all this already in blogland...]
Mmm... black tissue paper! I tried passing it on to Emily, since she has a thing for tissue paper. But she was really freaked out by it and ran away. So it's in the garbage now.
And, just what I need - another knitting bag! I love the fabric on this one - a very mod black and white. It's nicely lined, but it's still a basic cloth bag. I think it will be good for travel, since it collapses much more nicely than the more structured bags I own.
And yummy, yummy yarn from Scout herself in cool whites, greys, and black. I'm thinking socks. What do you think?
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The Land of Assless Men
I also wanted to introduce you to a new feature of my blog. One of my pet peeves is assless men. I don't mean men who literally have no ass. I mean men who insist on wearing pants that make it appear as if they have no ass. (It's like they've never watched a makeover show! Or turned around in the fitting room! Or wanted to attract sexual attention - ever!)
Anyhow, I want to invite you all to submit to me your stories, haikus, and photos of assless men. I'll put together some sort of a prize for the best submission. Deadline? Ongoing. I'll reward anyone who joins me in this consciousness-raising effort. It's only by calling attention to the problem that we can even hope to fix it.
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Well, I think that's all I can manage. I seem to be developing a throaty cough, which is dangerous since I have to present a paper on Friday afternoon. If you don't hear from me for a few days, don't panic. I'll be in upstate New York (but sadly not at Rhinebeck) thinking about feminism and war.
Haiku is 5-7-5, right?
But where did it go?
I had an ass yesterday.
Where could it have gone?
Posted by: Heather Joins The Round | October 18, 2006 at 09:02 AM
I actually have a story! It's not mine, but was told to me by a former co-worker. For his father's birthday, my friend gave his father a t-shirt with the following emblazoned on the back (complete with an arrow pointing to his nonexistent butt):
"Help! I have lost my ass. If you find it, please call 1-800-xxx-xxxx."
Posted by: susan | October 18, 2006 at 09:37 AM
Never mind Rhinebeck--would love to see you, but it happens every year. More importantly... Damn! It looks like Wangari Maathai leaves before you get there.
Posted by: Anne | October 18, 2006 at 12:51 PM
Awesome yarn and bag. Very fun. Sorry to hear you aren't feeling well again. Hope you get feeling better before you have to travel. Hate that.
Posted by: Michelle | October 18, 2006 at 02:06 PM
Cool Swag!
I think you should post pictures of assless men for inspiration.
Posted by: Sarah | October 18, 2006 at 04:27 PM
Glad you like it! I need ot e-mail you something totally inappropriate about sagging and bagging.....
Posted by: scoutj | October 18, 2006 at 09:27 PM
Love the new swag! The bag is tres cute and the yarn is pretty nice too.
Posted by: Wanda | October 19, 2006 at 10:50 AM
LMAO... oh dear, now I'm assless. Good thing I'm not male. :) I think I'll post this on my blog next week and see if any brave souls join you!
Posted by: Chris | October 20, 2006 at 09:43 AM
My haiku:
My husband has no
butt. He holds up his pants with
suspenders, and luck.
Posted by: andreavis | October 20, 2006 at 07:44 PM
Hope you are feeling better for your trip... I will have to see what kind of pix I can send your way, hmmm, I see these people all the time.
Posted by: Birdsong | October 21, 2006 at 08:27 PM
I'm sure those pants that make you have no ass can't be comfortable...I know guys who actually buy girl's jeans, and they look horrific in them...and not to mention the possibility of going sterile from putting on pants that weren't designed to accomodate the male anatomy...(ok, I'm going to go because that was TMI).
Posted by: Adam | October 23, 2006 at 09:46 AM
assless you complain
what could possibly be worse?
bubblebuttedness
Posted by: kitkatknit | October 23, 2006 at 09:48 AM
Wasn't "Pictures of Assless Men" a song by Status Quo? (a test to see how old you are)
Posted by: kitkatknit | October 23, 2006 at 06:02 PM