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POPSNew kind of Art ? Crochet and Knit Graffiti Magda Sayeg, founder of the original knit graffiti crew Knitta Please, works to redefine a craft that has been relegated to the stuffy attic of people's brains and dismissed by a limited vision for knitting's purpose, its function, its practitioners. Sayeg's work repositions this granny pastime in public spaces, streets formerly dominated by a hard, masculine public art culture. The fuzzy tags invoke entirely different connotations, antagonizing expectations and initiating dialogue about community-driven art and intersections between art and craft.
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POPSYou Should Know About This Guy: Scott Lively, Anti-Gay Crusader for The Family "Masculine Christianity" is a tenet of The Fellowship Foundation (ak.k. The Family). Lively on homosexuality: “In reality, homosexuality is nothing more than same-gender conduct among people who are innately and unchangeably heterosexual. Homosexuality is thus biologically (and to varying degrees morally) equivalent to pedophilia, sado-masochism, bestiality and many other forms of deviant behavior.”
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POPSCommon chemicals making boys soft Good research. Now we have to ban the things. Seem to be everywhere a pregnant woman would be. A middle and upper class problem. Poor people wouldn't be able to afford the goods containing phthalates (never heard of them, and neither has the dictionary).
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POPS'Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi' cont (more at source): And this drama was at the heart of a place we now call Cahokia, ancient America's one true city north of Mexico—as large in its day as London— and the political capital of a most unusual Indian nation. At that time all the stars and planets in the Northern Hemisphere's night sky were visible above Cahokia, situated in a broad expanse of Mississippi River bottomland just east of what is now St. Louis, Missouri. Cahokia's people looked to the Morning and Evening stars for guidance and— inspired by ideas from Mesoamerica, possibly brought back from Cahokian rulers' travels or priests' vision quests— incorporated them into a religion that would displace traditions across the American Midwest, South, and Plains.
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POPSNone Dare Call it Art When 40 months seem a heavy load And every day makes your head explode Read Ott and Steyn and Iowahawk And Life won't feel like such a crock. David Hussein Burge! Mmmm -- mmmm -- mmmm Thanks, DB, I'm proud as hell, Of America -- just like Michelle! We're finally rising from the pits Cuz we elected YOU the King of Wits! David Hussein Burge! Mmmm -- mmmmm -- mmmm! Is This for real? A contest? Panderhawk Oh, Iowahawk! Who leaps into action when all the other blogsters just talk? Iowahawk! Who rushes in where angels fear to walk? Iowahawk! Who packs more irony than any other kid on the block? Iowahawk! Who causes the targets of his incisive satire, whether high or low, left or right, real or imaginary, to throw up their figuratively blood-stained hands and squawk? Iowahawk! Oh, Iowahawk, Your intelligence compares favorably to sixties Star Trek character Spock! Your masculine beauty is without any flaw or pock!
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POPSWomen Are Sort Of More Tentative Than Men Men were tentative when writing about make-up or other stereotypically feminine topics, especially when they thought they were writing to a woman, he found. For example, one man, believing he was corresponding with a woman, wrote: "… maybe girls prefer the quality of products at Sephora over other major department stores? I don't know." Women were tentative when writing about changing flat tires and other stereotypically masculine topics, especially when they thought they were writing to a man. For example, one woman, believing she was giving instructions to a man, wrote: "I think they start out by raising the whole car, or maybe just the one tire with a tire jack?"
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POPSMajor pre-Columbian sites found in Puerto Rico more (at source): The plaza may contain other artifacts dating from 600 A.D. to 1500 A.D., including piles of refuse from daily life, Rivera said. "I have visited many sites and have never seen a plaza of that magnitude and of those dimensions and with such elaborate petroglyphs," said Miguel Rodriguez, member of the government's archaeological council and director of a graduate school in Puerto Rico that specializes in history and humanities. He is not involved in the excavation project. Archeologists have known since 1985 that the area contained indigenous artifacts. But their extent and significance only became clear this month when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began work on removing them so the land could be used for a dam project.
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POPSSouth African Crossdresser Runs 800 Meters "The gender verification test is an extremely complex procedure," said a spokesman, "The investigations will take some days or weeks, and I'm not a doctor to give a conclusive answer as to his or her gender." The track and field sensation had a good laugh at that one. "Just cop a feel!" he said. "You'll have all the verification you need."
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POPSWhat it Mean to Be a Man Today I want to touch on the subject of polarity – and instead of digging deep into the core of ‘masculine polarity’ and what it means to be a man…instead come at it from more of a surface level in terms of the importance of ‘bringing down the hammer’ when needed.
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POPSTuring: Campaigners demand pardon for mathematics genius full at source: A month later, after Turing, a veteran of the then still secret Bletchley Park code-cracking team, had been giving a talk to the BBC on his pioneering work on artificial intelligence, he returned home to find his house burgled. Related articles * More UK News The culprit was an acquaintance of Murray's, who would prey on Murray's lovers, thinking they would be so afraid of being outed that they would not report the thefts to the police. But Turing defied this convention and went straight to the police, where he admitted his affair – a "crime" for which he was spared the normal two-year jail term in favour of a hormonal treatment designed to beef up his masculine urges and suppress his homosexuality. The resulting publicity was to prove too much to bear and in June 1954, the 41-year-old was found dead in bed by his housekeeper. He had eaten an apple he had laced with poison.
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POPS51 Headless Vikings Found in English Execution Pit? "You've got Danish and Saxon armies fighting backwards and forwards across England," The early English also faced the threat of longship-sailing Vikings, Scandinavian seafarers who pillaged coastal regions. The team hopes chemical analysis of the buried men's teeth will show whether they grew up in Britain or Scandinavia. (Related: "Vikings Filed Their Teeth, Skeleton Study Shows.") Signs of muscle attachment on the bones could also help reveal whether the executed were Viking oarsmen, since "strong physical exertion in a particular direction does affect the bones,"
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POPSPortraits by Hitler Hitler also documented a wide circle of friends and acquaintances. His nude portraits of Anton Drexler and Dietrich Eckart, ca. 1919, and of Himmler, Goring and Goebbels in the 30's and 40's indicate these people were hiding much more than just concentration camps. So, in fact, was Eva Braun; one of the portraits has revealed her to have been endowed with a full set of masculine genitalia and a prosthetic bosom, perhaps explaining why Hitler was known to become so infuriated when Eva sunbathed in the nude. Money raised by the auction will be used to help finance projects and fund medical research in the fight against HIV-related infection and AIDS.
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POPSPOP And Hiss "It's all quite ambiguous and difficult to make black or white," Khan said. "I think in women there are massive spectrums of very bold and very powerful to very delicate and emotional forces and same in men as well. It's just the emotional spectrum in all humans."
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POPSBar review: 15 Romolo, San Francisco More: The vibe: Understated yet masculine, with reclaimed Douglas fir tables and muted hues of gray and brown. A corner jukebox stocks everything from Johnny Cash to M.I.A. The crowd: A flawless blend of sweet (wayward innocents from the Broadway strip) and tart (the almighty league of cocktail nerds). Best seat: Though Baird and Smith apparently wanted the space to have "egalitarian seating," where there's no best seat, the tables next to the windows that overlook Romolo alley are the best in the house, especially on warm nights, when you can gaze out at the North Beach street scene. Killer app: The 15 Romolo folks have dubbed their food seasonal carnival fare, with such tidbits as smoked pork sliders ($6) with cabbage slaw, jambalaya croquettes ($4) and funnel cakes ($5) sprinkled with powdered sugar. The crispy dogs ($6) feature Fatted Calf franks wrapped in corn tortillas and fried.
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POPSThe Top Three Winners of the 2009 Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest "The Best Visual illusion of the Year Contest is a celebration of the ingenuity and creativity of the world’s premier visual illusion research community. Contestants from all around the world have submitted novel visual illusions (unpublished, or published no earlier than 2008), and an international panel of judges has rated them and narrowed them to the TOP TEN. At the Contest Gala in the Naples Philharmonic Center for the Arts, the top ten illusionists will present their creations and the attendees of the event"
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POPS"America's Manliest Cities" The Manly Methodology* -- The rankings were determined using 50 of the largest metropolitan areas as defined by the United States Census Bureau, which includes a central city and the surrounding county (or counties). Each metro area received a manliness rating between 0 and 100 based on how well it performed in each of the study's manly categories. Factors used to determine the manliest city rankings included the number of U.S.-made cars driven in the city, number of sports bars and BBQ restaurants, number of home improvement and hardware stores as well as manly salty snacks consumption. All data was adjusted by the current population of the cities to arrive at "per capita" figures, providing an accurate comparison between cities of varying sizes.
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POPSMANLY - Silent and Sexy Gay Comics "Nobody talks but everything gets said -- MANLY is a sexy mix of the rough and the smooth, a dream about sex with the sounds off." —Alexander Chee, author of Edinburgh
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POPSCurbed Goes To Moscow Given the building boom that’s transformed Moscow over the past decade, we invited Joey Arak, the editor of New York-based real estate and architecture web site Curbed.com, and the site’s founder, Lockhart Steele, to discuss the changes the boom has wrought on Moscow – and on our very souls.
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