shanmonster | Linkage, and a New Kind of Fetish (Reply)

Hoo boy! It's been a while since I've had a pervert send me this sort of email. I am vastly amused....

Hi :) I loved that pic of you climbing the pole in the park on your webpage. I've loved climbing poles since I was a kid to get that "funny feeling", I used to call it (didn't know it was an orgasm till years later). I think it's brought on by the stomach and thigh tension while climbing.........but who cares!! It's just soooooooo nice. How far up the pole did you get? Have you ever had that "funny feeling" from climbing? Great pic. Thanks. Pete.

It must be nice, being able to get so much pleasure out of the most mundane things. Well, if it's not nice, it's most assuredly messy.

And now it's time for me to clear out all of my bookmarks again. Enjoy!

God Hates the Scene: Bitch, please. God hates the scene (so do dead rappers). An unapologetic bastardization of a Jack Chick anti-evolution tract.

A Tattooing "Artist": A 1902 newspaper article on why amateur tattooists practice on schoolchildren.

Diva Milkshake: Trust me, you don't want to be watching this at work. You probably don't want to watch it at all. Don't say I didn't warn you.

You Are What You Eat: A collection of oddly-packaged and oddly-named foods from around the world.

Street Arabs and How the Other Half Lives: A moving portrait of street urchins in the 1890s.

The Gift of Magnetic Vision: It's not such a big step from wearing quacky magnetic shoe insoles to having magnets implanted in your fingers. It must be hell on the guy's credit cards, though.

Safe For Work Porn: I'm not so sure of this, but there certainly are no pink bits showing (thanks, Daze Reader).

Chewy Spice Cookies: I made these the other day, and they're really good. I substituted two teaspoons of rum for the teaspoon of rum flavouring, though. These cookies have a nice zing to them, and aren't too sweet!

The Questioning of John Rykener, A Male Cross-Dressing Prostitute, 1395: I wish I understood Latin (thanks, curtana).