tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post219322189560056992..comments2023-11-22T01:14:54.298-08:00Comments on amor mundi: Boys And Their ToysDale Carricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-13143846373683872752011-06-07T09:42:13.565-07:002011-06-07T09:42:13.565-07:00Maybe the episode will find its way one day to the...Maybe the episode will find its way one day to the page a la Philip Roth...Dale Carricohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-35327003571726495972011-06-07T07:47:59.103-07:002011-06-07T07:47:59.103-07:00> Men are pigs.
Testosterone giveth, and testo...> Men are pigs.<br /><br />Testosterone giveth, and testosterone taketh away. ;-><br /><br />This thing (well, not the actual **thing**) has<br />made the cover of the New York Post for four<br />days running. And today it's on the cover of<br />the New York Times.<br /><br />And I got to see the Tivo'ed Jon Stewart commentary<br />at a birthday party [*] last Sunday night (which included the<br />actual thing). His pizza rant apropos Donald Trump<br />and Sarah Palin was also pretty funny.<br /><br />[*] in the company of two adolescent boys, their<br />parents, their grandparents, and another guest.<br />After the Jon Stewart clip was over, one of the boys<br />had to retire to finish, with the help of his<br />grandmother, an English paper that was due yesterday.<br />So to encourage him, the rest of us had to promise<br />not to watch anything he might be interested in<br />(like the rest of the first episode of the Farscape<br />DVD box set I had brought as a gift). So we watched<br />Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes. Toward the end of<br />that movie, the mommy said to the daddy "he's been<br />in there half an hour. You're supposed to be keeping<br />track of this." At which point daddy called out<br />to the boy who was supposed to be finishing his<br />English paper "Remember what we said -- three minutes.<br />You've spent five minutes on your homework and half<br />an hour in the bathroom. Get out of there now."<br /><br />This **almost** went over my head -- it was a kind<br />of sussuration in the background. But I think I know<br />what it was about. I can't help but wonder if the<br />hormones were pushed over the edge by Stewart's commentary<br />about knowing his own junk, and how well his hand<br />was acquainted with his p****. I have to say, though,<br />that I was a little appalled about having an explicit<br />time limit in the bathroom, and that an adolescent<br />boy can't j*** o** in peace even on his birthday. [**]<br /><br />Ah, testosterone!<br /><br />[**] God help me if anybody I know finds this and connects<br />it to me! ;-> ;->jimfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04975754342950063440noreply@blogger.com