"Through this twilight universe Daisy began to move again with the season..."

"... suddenly she was again keeping half a dozen dates a day with half a dozen men, and drowsing asleep at dawn with the beads and chif...

How to read a book a day for a year.

Choose short/easy/audio books. Actually, I read a book a day and have for years — but it's an audiobook, and most of this reading is don...

"In the olden days, when leftists wished to argue against gun owners, they claimed that guns were phallic symbols..."

"... and that the excessive love of guns demonstrated latent homosexuality ," says William (the commenter) , tapping his own memor...

A Drudgetaposition.

This line-up at Drudge (right now) is no accident. Obviously — don't bore me with disagreement — Obama making the teeny tiny gesture ne...

"Fatwa banning Muslim women from touching bananas and other penis-shaped foods makes Internet rounds."

"Unconfirmed religious order says the phallic foods may spark sexy thoughts." Hmmm. Emphasis on "unconfirmed." I don...

Today's Drudgetapostion: Qaddafi looking up, Obama looking down (and Irene coming up).

I love the kinetic energy here : Qaddafi's unbowed head aims up and to the right, in the position associated with optimism and progress...

"By instinct and archetype, comedy is usually phallic..."

"... Chaplin has his cane, Harpo his horn, Groucho his cigar, and Dame Edna her gladioli, with which to poke, probe, and goose the worl...

A Drudgtaposition that didn't last very long — for good reason.

Earlier today, Drudge had this photo juxtaposition: To become aware of the full — and, I would say, fully intended — subliminal effect, you...

"Will you quit annoying me?"

That line appears at 1:58 in this clip from the great Marx Brothers movie "Duck Soup": It's a funny scene with all sorts of th...

Sarah Palin versus the "impotent, limp and gutless."

Talking about reporters, thinking about dicks.

Speaking of politics and phallic symbols...

... which I just was ... check out the cover of Meghan McCain's new memoir : What's dirty and sexy in this book? Nothing, I bet.

Caught in a rainstorm, ducking into a small-town libraray, I read the Utne Reader yesterday.

I used to subscribe back in the 80s, when I loved it. But what is it now? I found the cover pretty amusing: I can't find a bigger pictu...

Tiger Woods will pay "$15 million per floozy."

In lost winnings and endorsements. Expensive! And that's just the first year. That's not calculating the lifetime loss... and not pu...

The Daily News deftly juxtaposes pictures from the American Music Awards.

Check it out. It's like panels of a comic strip: These pictures don't really relate to each other in the manner the sequence suggest...

"Extra LENGTH, Extra Taste, Extra Pleasure" in a cigar.

The sexiest commercials in the 60s were for Muriel Cigars, with Edie Adams sexing it up as much as possible while remaining cool and classy ...

"An image right there... of the Leaning Tower of Pisa and ... the Washington Monument.... You tell me why those 2 phallic symbols are placed there..."

NYT columnist Bob Herbert gets embarrassingly mixed up about the image of the Victory Column in Obama's "biggest celebrity" c...

Last Sunday's "Sopranos" episode: "Kennedy and Heidi."

I'm a little late to this, but I want to talk about the most recent episode of "The Sopranos." Of course, there are major spoi...

New Interpretation of Soprano's Dream.

Now I've rewatched the episode of The Sopranos I wrote about yesterday, and I have also been reminded that they are still doing another...