* Holy shit, condom ads that joke about rape and HIV?! Reader E writes me, “I’m writing specifically about your Pronto Condoms blog entry on 6/11. I’m not sure if you’re aware, but the ‘Jacob’ in the male advert is Jacob Zuma – the South African politician who ‘took a shower to avoid HIV‘ I’m not going to get into my opinions of the trial, since I’m still learning AND there’s that whole South African/American cultural difference. I’m not so sure that an accused/acquitted rapist is the best choice of a spokesman.” This video seems in bad taste, even if sexblo.gs reassures us it’s a parody — is it?
* A good number of writers and bloggers know it’s NaNoWriMo or National Novel Writing Month, where during November the challenge is to write a 50,000 word novel in one month. But few people know the November is also GLoRoMo, or Global Rope Month; the challenge being to complete 50,000 ft of rope bondage in one month. Awesome! It’s being sponsored by my pal Twisted Monk, who has all the details. (He tied me up once. I struggled!)
* Speaking of ropes, this is neato: ‘Spider Girl’ gang held in Chile. Snip, “The all-girl gang of teenagers were infamous for climbing up buildings in Santiago to burgle luxury apartments. (…) Lurking in the gardens of expensive parts of Santiago, the four girls hurled ropes and hooks up to balcony railings, hauled themselves up and walked through the flat windows. They then walked out of the buildings as if they were visitors.”
* Something else over at BBC News today you shouldn’t miss: Rumsfeld may face abuse charges [Germany]. Snip, “The Centre for Constitutional Rights argues that Mr Rumsfeld was instrumental in abuses committed at Guantanamo Bay and at Abu Ghraib jail in Baghdad. The lawyer group alleges that Mr Rumsfeld personally approved torture to be used to extract information from the prisoners. It is also seeking to prosecute US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and former CIA director George Tenet, among others.”
* I want a pair of these Walk the Porn shoes super-bad (photo above). Actually, I love all the artwork on Amor Munoz’s blog. They’d certainly be the shoes of choice if a girl had to testify in an obscenity trial. (via sexblo.gs)
* Oh, snap! We all know how hot John Hodgman is — but it looks like Apple is dumping cute Apple Boy Justin Long from their next round of (But) I’m A Mac commercials (though Long will still be the Mac hottie hipster poster boy through the holidays). I’m genetically programmed to seek satisfaction from any and all Apple products, especially the cute ones like Long — BUT, we all know Hodgman looks prettier in a casemod anyway…
* Lastly, thinking again of NaNoWriMo, I’ve made no progress on my book deadline this week. And I’m thinking of hanging it up with the sex guides after this — I mean, a) who can compete with fake sex writers who flash their twats at book signings (oh Mannequin, NO!), and b), now that Karrine “Super Head” Steffans is on the scene with a pile of book contracts, isn’t my work here teaching the world about sexual health and licking clits and deep throating essentially done? Okay — it is *only* if at Steffans’ book signing, she can unhinge her jaw and swallow Cattrall whole. Then I’m done.
