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The Custer Wolf
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Link of the day
- Hits: 1975
A rather poetic remembrance of what sounds to be a rather remarkable wolf: Headline: "World's Greatest Animal Criminal Dead"
Link: http://www.fws.gov/news/Historic/NewsReleases/1921/19210103.pdf
And the Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Custer_Wolf/
Treasures in the Trash
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Found
- Hits: 2021
"On the second floor of a nondescript warehouse owned by New York City's Sanitation Department in East Harlem is a treasure trove—filled with other people's trash."
Collection of found objects picked from NYC's trash, curated by Nelson Molina.
Via Atlas Obscura: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/fascinating-photos-from-the-secret-trash-museum-in-a-new-york-sanitation-garage
Folk Kink
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Miscellany
- Hits: 2990
FOLK KINK - A term first used by Rod Boyle in the blog posting of the same name, "Folk Kink" is a term that embraces a comprehensive and multidisciplinary array of amateur sexual techniques. Seen as a reaction to more specialized and dispassionate Kink techniques and fetishes, such as latex, Shibari and Kinbaku, Folk Kink embraces and celebrates the enthusiastically bungled knots, duct tape trusses, toy handcuffs, clothespins, belts, straps, candles, saran wrap, the hastily improvised (and ill advised) lubricants and generally the DIY aesthetic that makes interesting and exciting sex available to the untutored dilettante.
Realizing the complex nature and nuances of sexual behavior, the Folk Kink enthusiast will typically resist the more formal labels and -philia's in favor of a more expansive and compendious approach to sex that not-infrequently necessitates the bemused involvement of the Fire Department or EMS services. With their willingness to creatively pervert handy and everyday materials to unintended ends, the motto or creed of the average Folk Kink Practitioner could be summed as
"It's the amps that Kill, not Voltage...".
A reassurance designed more to loosen bowels than knots. For a more expansive (although by no means complete) look at the ways one can specialize their enjoyment of sex follow the read more - or spend a couple of hours on Craigslist...
In Praise of Dollarama Paints
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Now in the past whenever I wanted to paint I'd run down to the art store and spend $20, $30 a tube and $30 to a hundred dollars on canvas, another couple hundred dollars on brushes and I'd be set. I had read all the books on the properties of materials, the fugitive colors, pigments, qualities of the various mediums, and was perfectly prepared to create a masterpiece.
...In all respects, of course, excepting for talent. and while it was certain the quality of materials would ensure my masterpiece survived it was also certain that by the time I was done I'd just lavished an awful lot of money on something that most definitely was not a masterpiece. My talent was clearly not equal to my vision...
Now, the rediscovery of disposable paints, a dollar a bottle, every color imaginable with names like "flesh tint", "expresso" and "blue", I find that for hundreds of dollars less I can create perfectly shitty paintings bound for the garbage, a hundred paintings for a fraction of the price I was formerly wont to spend.
I have entirely legitimate reservations about the quality of materials, the permanence of the colors, but given how seldom it is I'm pleased with my efforts this seems the perfect way to acquire the skills, an abundance of bad paintings made for the same price I once would have spent on a single bad one. And, presumably, I'll be getting better along the way, learning to mix and harmonize colors, at two or three dollars per painting it's cheaper than a course or degree at ACAD and allows for infinite experimentation. Now only to find the time...
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