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29 Jan 2010
One of the things that my Brazilian/Polish/French children staff always laugh about is the phenomenon of women wearing pyjamas in public - which is now so prevalent that I've stopped even noticing - and I've found myself trying to explain the socio-economic background that has produced this sartorial hiccup. It does seem to be peculiar to Ireland and Britain. Indeed, some friends of mine are currently working on a documentary about it.
Well now a Tesco store in Wales is banning shoppers in "nightwear" or bare feet. Bare feet? That's a new one on me!
Though a Dublin cafe beat Tesco to it.
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29 Jan 2010
After reading my earlier post about the full veil, Emily pointed me in the direction of this mind-bending blog. I like to think I'm pretty un-shockable when it comes to peoples' fetishes and peccadillos, but this lady and mother takes her interest in rubber and submissiveness to extremes I haven't come across before, including spending a whole year completely encased in latex, all day, every day.
She writes in the most matter-of-fact tone about spending time with her son and his girlfriend, or going to restaurants with her husband, "Sir", while she is gagged and bound and totally encased in rubber from head to toe, as if she is writing about a trip to the school play. And she seems like a lovely woman!
Sir and I had a very nice dinner out on New Years Eve with another couple. I was restrained and gagged under my new burqa with its goggle eyes and internal silencing hood. I could not eat, of course, but sat quietly in my chair at the restaurant until the others had finished their dinner and drinks, then we all stood up and raised glasses (even me) to ring in the new year at midnight.
The restaurant staff were very accommodating and understanding. They have had the enjoyment of our custom before and knew that when i come in I almost never eat. Sometimes Sir allows me to be ungagged and to eat small plates, but less and less lately. he has been taking me on a journey of greater and stricter restraint and isolation lately and the new blue burqa is part of that.
It looks so unhuman, and many people seem to find it more intimidating with its two goggle eyes, that Sir prefers me to be less and less free when wearing it. So I am often restrained at the arms, hobbled at the ankles, and gagged with an inflatable gag under the bright blue rubber hood which is built into the burqa.
This all limits the interaction I can have with others which both Sir and I find exciting but which disconcerts strangers. Something about the eyes also seems to disturb people and I get more comments such as, "Why are you covered like that?" and "How can you see under that?" or "Can you breathe? Isn't that very stuffy?" they become even more flustered when I tap my mouth to indicate that i cannot speak, unless my arms are bound in which case i cannot interact with them at all except to shake my head.
Here's how she describes herself:
I am a lifestyle submissive latex fetishist. I am married, bisexual, a PhD, a mother and I now live a rubber-centric submissive lifestyle 24/7; a longtime dream of my Dom husband's and mine.
For a year from Jan 1, 2005 I was completely enclosed in latex 24/7 in some form or fashion.
For that year I did not see my own face or body nor did my husband, family or friends, without a mediating layer of latex. It was a very bizarre and fun year.
My base wardrobe consists of transparent 'skinsuits' that cover me completely including hood, gloves, and feet, then undergarments including corsets, usually an opaque catsuit, and/or a dress of soft latex.
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29 Jan 2010
Born in 1928, Tempest Storm was one of the most famous strippers and burlesque stars of the 50's and 60's, and is still a very sexy lady who still performs from time to time. She was famous for her naturally red hair (which should please you know who) and her spectacular measurements: 44DD-25-35.
Here she is performing with Bettie Paige in Teaserama (1955).
Here she is in 1980 at the age of 52.
And finally, a short interview with her at 80 as she performs in London.
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28 Jan 2010
Were dinosaurs ginger? And will Martin Luther Ginger be pleased?
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28 Jan 2010
Giving the gays Civil Partnership does undermine heterosexual marriage! In France anyway. Because it turns out more and more straight people prefer CP to marriage.
Of course the answer is obvious. Strengthen heterosexual marriage by letting the gays get married too.
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28 Jan 2010
... the love that dare not speak it's name finally finds it's voice and won't bleedin' shut up!
photo: Aaron McGrath
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27 Jan 2010
Robbo is a London based graffiti veteran, and now he (or people purporting to be him?) is engaged in an escalating spray-can war with the elusive Banksy. Which is so not cooool, Maaaan.
It seems to have started (as far as my cursory research can tell anyway) when Banksy appropriated a Robbo 'tag' from the 80's, by partially covering it up (a big no-no in the street art community) and using it as a backdrop to a piece where a 'council worker' is wallpapering over it with grey. And the Robbo hit back, changing it to a self aggrandizing piece where the worker is painting the words "King Robbo".
Not satisfied with that, Robbo (or his self proclaimed "Team Robbo") struck again, altering another Banksy, and adding "Did you think it was over?"
And now, Team Robbo is at it again, this time altering Banksy's ironic "I don't believe in global warming", to "I don't believe in war" and adding the poorly spelled "It's to late for that Sonny".
When it comes to drama, the drags have nothing on these lay-abouts!
UPDATE: Here's a piece about the drama in The Daily Mail.
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27 Jan 2010
... in my earlier post. Perhaps I was too quick to judge.
Life has a photo essay on famous literary drunks and addicts which is mildly interesting, but this picture of gazillion selling horror author Steven King stopped me in my tracks.
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27 Jan 2010
I'm old enough to remember when the 'folk mass' took over the country's churches, and Fr Trendy and Sr Down With The Kids would strum their way through increasingly cringe inducing Sunday services.
Well now the Buddhist monks of Japan are hitching their wagons to hip hop... and boozers! My gay Angelo sent me this clip, and we are in agreement when it comes to the young barman monk. Hellloooo Nurse!
Tenuously related side note: I used to love the Aminaniacs, from which comes the expression "Hellloooo Nurse!"
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27 Jan 2010
France has moved
closer to banning the wearing of the full face veil in some public places.
I’m a libertarian at
heart, so I can’t say I agree with legislating for what people can and can’t
wear, but I will admit to having
mixed feelings. Wearing the full veil in Western countries (or being forced
to?) is another example of the attitude of the religious wherein God trumps
everything.
In our culture,
covering your face is taboo, practised for the most part only by people engaged
in illegal activity who are attempting to conceal their identities. And
furthermore, it’s offensive. It says “I don’t want to interact with you, or get
to know you”, and moreover, it’s particularily offensive to men, to whom it
says (at it’s most basic), “You can’t be trusted not to rape me if you see my
face”. And of course it’s offensive to our cultural view of women, whom we
(hopefully) treat as equal citizens. The full veil is incompatible with
equality, and indeed in our culture, absolutely prevents it.
When I lived in Tokyo,
I soon learned that some behaviours that are perfectly reasonable at home are
frowned upon in Japan and I adjusted my behaviour accordingly so as not to
offend. So I didn’t eat on the
train, or sick my chopsticks in my rice, or behave boisterously with my friends
in public. And I’m sure that the women who wear the full veil (or the men who
make them) adjust their behaviour in other ways so as not to offend the
cultural sensitivities of the society around them. But not when it comes to
their religious beliefs, because God trumps everything else.
When I lived on the
South Circular Road where the full veil is a not uncommon sight, I never got
used to it. The wife of the family
next door wore the veil, and while I was soon on friendly terms with the father
and the kids, the mother remained a total stranger to me because the veil might
as well have had the words “Fuck off” printed on it. It was impossible to
penetrate. I could never even be sure it was the same woman, let alone whether
she was smiling or glowering at me. And while the kids and their father were on
first name terms with their neighbours and the local shop assistants, the
mother remained a dark, isolated, mostly silent, and apparently friendless
amorphous blob.
So while I can’t agree
with legislating for what people can and can’t wear (after all, I’ve been known
to dress unusually myself!), I can still hate the veil and everything it stands
for.
Religion poisons
everything.
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Though this picture
makes me giggle. It’s like a scene from Harry Potter! The Dementors are
coming!!!
religion poisons everything
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