BWSS: Teacup Puppies

Have you guys ever seen or heard of these? They are puppies that have been bred inside teacups. You know, to meet mankind's unceasing demand for tiny things.

Aww.

(That's Nick in the background if you were wondering. This was actually his senior yearbook photo.)

But guess what. It turns out that "cuteness" as an aesthetic value can lead to practices that are morally -- wait for it -- questionable.

The Family of Man: Our love of the tiny unites us all.

Anyway, Teacup Puppies equal total genetic messes. Apprarently their bones are so brittle that sometimes they will just fall apart. They were not meant for this earth. It's sad and awful. It's a lot like Benjamin Button.

“Fuck you, Darwin.”

So, in short: we are tampering with nature in order to make it harmonize with our aesthetic values. But in so doing -- in our unceasing quest to produce a better, more beautiful product -- we are left with something frail and maladptive, something fundamentally broken, something whose very existence is an act violence.

In other words:

B.

W.

S.

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Or, I guess, BWSM (Busy Writing Scholarly Monograph)

Oscar Fever

Check out this snapshot of Norm Coleman that a citizen journalist captured on her cell phone:





Some would question our right to intrude on politicians’ private lives and to place them under media scrutiny 24/7, but if you ask me he should not have been wearing that shirt in the first place.

Do you ever stop to think about the way political humor has changed since Photoshop? I still don’t have Photoshop, so I almost never think about that. The bad thing is that I have to use Paint when I want to manipulate images, but the good thing is that I still understand the world's representation to be in fundamental harmony with the world's truth.

I’m thinking about asking for Photoshop for my birthday, though, as soon as I'm ready to turn wise beyond my years. Just like Benjamin Button. (A funny joke is to end every sentence, “just like Benjamin Button.” An example sentence: “That old man looks like a tiny baby!”)





Is it me or does this movie look so stupid? It should probably be nominated for the Oscar for Stupidest Looking Movie.

And this movie should be nominated for the Oscar for Greatest Title:




I think it's about a hotel for dogs.



Imagine how much this poster would have shaken your foundations, making you question whether cinema can ever truly be “radical” when forced at every level to compromise with the Hollywood system, if only I had Photoshop.

News can be fun too!

cOoL lInk AheAd:
STUDY FIND DOGS, ROBOTS CHEER ELDERLY

Here's a cute story that reminds us that we are all just blind idiots who spend our lives randomly bumping into other blind idiots, and that we are all locked in private dream worlds (IMPENETRABLE!) where we make up lie-stories called cool things like "meaning," "value," and "love."



capitalists: let's play on that with our new robots.
me: FUCK YOU, CAPITALISTS! (desperately clingin' to my lie-stories...4 lyfe!!!!!!!!!)

Blogs for dogs

What if dogs had blogs? It might look a little something like this:


I know it's super cliche, but my fav song really is "Who Let the Dogs Out?" Bark bark. But seriously, remember the dog 90s? If other decades were food, that decade is like treats. That barked, I can't forget all the friends I lost to dog AIDS.

Dog Bill O'Reilly is such a cat. By this I mean sometimes I want to eat him, other times I want to marry him. Being a dog is so complicated. That's why I blog, folks. bark bark bark.

Dogs don't have good concentration