tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post7483771526884913432..comments2024-03-18T15:17:26.003-05:00Comments on l'astronave: Topless PoliticiansFrescahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15323129046492056942noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-66975240240125900802010-05-05T11:21:50.547-05:002010-05-05T11:21:50.547-05:00ANNIKA: Interesting thoughts!
I like Arnold in mo...ANNIKA: Interesting thoughts!<br /> I like Arnold in movies--he's got such a surprisingly light and funny touch-- but his worship of physical power makes me nervous, even though he is quite democratic about it.<br /><br />I proofread a book about him once, and he said he had hated to be a gym trainer because most people just want to do "sissy workouts".<br />As a sissy worker-outer myself, he makes me quaver.<br /><br />JENNIFER: Wow!<br />Good research skills!<br />Thanks for adding those. Funny, but yes, rather distressing too, somehow, to see these guys exposed. Though Mr. Fox looks pretty golden...Frescahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15323129046492056942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-75395197360280486002010-05-05T08:58:19.215-05:002010-05-05T08:58:19.215-05:00Oh, let's not forget the junior Senator from M...Oh, let's not forget the junior Senator from Massachusetts, Scott Brown, who won the seat after Ted Kennedy's death! <br /><br /><a href="http://www.cosmopolitan.com/celebrity/news/scott-brown-nude-in-cosmo" rel="nofollow">Nude pics of the future Senator back in 1982</a>. :D<br /><br />Oh, and of course recently Obama was seen swimming in Hawaii and showing off his pecs. Looking for those images brings up <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/23/other-shirtless-president_n_153097.html" rel="nofollow">a distressing slideshow</a> of other leaders of the world caught bathing. Yipes. Yet there's something rather charming about all the flab and untoned, untanned skin, it's rather endearing in its own way.Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13923745480765984429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-85500838990002376502010-05-04T16:45:19.577-05:002010-05-04T16:45:19.577-05:00giggle.
and:
titter.giggle.<br /><br />and:<br /><br />titter.Bianca Castafiore?https://www.blogger.com/profile/07088130255223709497noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-84280738025234344632010-05-04T13:19:01.154-05:002010-05-04T13:19:01.154-05:00I've had some half-baked thoughts about how Ar...I've had some half-baked thoughts about how Arnold built a career exaggeratedly based on his body/looks, to then suddenly come swiping out of nowhere with hitherto unimagined competence and talent (apparently, to judge from his succes - I hardly know anything about his political standpoints). It's the kind of career strategy women have more or less always been forced to adopt. A number of years ago, I wanted to write something on the similarities of Arnold and Dolly Parton, who is incredibly talented but seems to have hidden that behind her body for much of her career.<br /><br />I'll point out again that I'm completely ignorant about his political views, but I have a soft spot for Arnold because of his silly (pre-political) persona and a 1970s book I own by him, called Body Shaping For Women. I bought it expecting hair-raising but comically dated sexism, but it's full of sincere pep-talk about the potential of the female body. Arnold points out that if we have to call one of the sexes the weaker one, then we shouldn't pick the one that gives birth to babies. In one picture, he's sitting on the shoulders of a female weight-lifting champion who looks about five feet tall, not very athletic compared to women you might see in gyms today - and she's also holding a barbell above her head. All in all, Arnold represents an expansion of gender roles to me, all the more interesting because of the testosterone-heavy, stereotypical packaging. It's probably unintentional.Annikanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-18937938763467784392010-05-04T10:02:54.986-05:002010-05-04T10:02:54.986-05:00Your macronization of words/names surpasses my abi...Your macronization of words/names surpasses my ability, FRESKUH. Yes - AH-NOLD is it.<br /><br />W wrestling armadillo is easily imagined.<br />And somehow I can see him fighting the Gorn, too, (not intending to draw any comparisons there, although they are a little alike, Kirk and Dubbya - not in their ideas of motivations, no! but in how they carry them out.)Marzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05258262409718943594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-91620734190849882262010-05-04T09:46:33.237-05:002010-05-04T09:46:33.237-05:00Hey, M'get!
Should that be AH-NOLD?
I would l...Hey, M'get!<br />Should that be <b>AH</b>-NOLD?<br /><br />I would like to see George W. wrestling an armadillo, please.Frescahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15323129046492056942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-81773811574182449252010-05-04T09:25:40.252-05:002010-05-04T09:25:40.252-05:00The "Kirk" effect, more like.
Election...The "Kirk" effect, more like. <br /><br />Elections here aren't funny, (though they can get silly sometimes) - but we sure make fun OF them. <br /><br />ARNOLD! He used the broom prop, just like Homer Stokes did in "O Brother Where Art Thou?"!<br /><br />Clip here:<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiDFihP4CTcMarzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05258262409718943594noreply@blogger.com