Monthly Archives: August 2006

A Butterfly for Brian

By Frank Paynter | Published: August 31, 2006

And so when my attention is drawn or pointed often I yawn. The Monarch butterflies dancing about the tops of the Jerusalem artichokes out the back window hold more interest for me. But I have a glance, think neat, and move on. I don’t really think about it. Maybe I should. Maybe there’s something there, [...]

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Pimping the Party Cove

By Frank Paynter | Published: August 31, 2006

Ben Paynter’s feature this week in Kansas City’s Pitch spotlights a jaded yet curiously repressed swinging soft-core set partying in a polluted cove on the Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri. The language sometimes is a little rough. Ben describes a day and a night of dissipated debauchery, licentiousness that leaves you less excited than [...]

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The Tussle

By Frank Paynter | Published: August 31, 2006

David Clark, et al. (the ubiquitous Al, a guy who really gets around, a true multidisciplinarian) wrote a paper called “Tussle in Cyberspace: Defining Tomorrow’s Internet”. One of the tussles that define the current Internet is the tussle of economics. The providers of the Internet are not in the business of giving service away. For [...]

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Best Waxing in Toronto

By Frank Paynter | Published: August 30, 2006

Roza’s Esthetics (Bloor West Village) “It’s cheap, quick and less painful than anywhere else I’ve ever been.” Beauty tip courtesy of Miss Chickie, personally stalked by yours truly after seeing the chickadvisor preview flash “Hotlist” animation at Allied. I wonder what BMO thinks…

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BlogHer France….

By Frank Paynter | Published: August 30, 2006

On the occasion of the publication of photos from BlogHer France I am feeling all literate and shit. The images of these young bloggy-bloggers blogging has inspired me to poetry. Lacking the verbal facility to whip up a good poem for you today… it’s one of those days when I can’t remember people’s names… have [...]

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Free Beer

By Frank Paynter | Published: August 30, 2006

These lists of “best freeware utilities” are too interesting to lose track of. A lot of guys would bookmark them on del.icio.us or in their browser. Not me. I’ll use my web log instead. (This is some kind of old school thing, like before the artists, the pomos, and the squirrels took over the tech)… [...]

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jon benetâ„¢

By Frank Paynter | Published: August 29, 2006

witness ze Frank “leveraging the emotional aftertaste.“

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Thursday on the River

By Frank Paynter | Published: August 29, 2006

Less than a week ago, real time, but somewhere back in the neanderlithic in blog time, my friend Bruce at the River wrote another great piece. Nominally he was writing about Dershowitz’ folly, his ability to adopt inhuman principles promoting the Nazification of just about everything and everyone just about everywhere, including ironically enough those [...]

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