Transvigor / Lingster's Big Mouth: 05/2002

POSTS WILL BE SPORADIC AT BEST through Tuesday, June 5. Mighty Lingster is outbound on the highways and byways, and likely will be residing in the sorts of fleabag motels that have yet to install modular phone jacks. I gave posting rights to Marknew--we'll have to see whether he uses them while I'm away. TTFN.

MISS UNIVERSE AN AMAZON! Read it yourself! And Miss Venezuela is a firefighter, though when I found a picture of her she didn't look very muscular, either.

SORRY FOR THE OUTAGE. There was some kind of Blog*Spot problem this morning.

JILLY MILLY PART SIX, now available at DtV.

"BLUE TITS CAN BE POLLUTION WARNING SYSTEM", says this headline. (What if they're growing?)

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH in Britain periodically runs absolutely side-splittingly hilarious obituaries. This is one of them.

Quote: "'Queers,' he declared, 'have been the downfall of all the great empires.'"
Quote: '"Helping to liberate Brussels in 1944 was the beginning of my downfall,' he wrote. After capturing an almost inexhaustible supply of Champagne, he kept a crate in his tank, regularly refreshing himself from it with a tin mug. 'I spent much of the war tight and when it was over I couldn't stop.'"

ANNA NICOLE SMITH is going to have her own reality show. In the past I've complained that the celebrity culture only tolerates fleshless women--Ms. Smith is surely an exception to that rule, and so I guess I'm obliged to cheer this new development. Yay.

RXIVORT INSISTS ON PROVIDING A BETTER DEFINITION FOR "STANDARD DEVIATION":

COMICS STUFF: You know, twelve days ago I dropped the ball on New Comics Day and forgot to mention some goodies. You can still get the nice two comics on the shelves though.

The first is Savage Dragon #97, which features Amy Belcher, aka She-Dragon. Amy's origin is true FMG--she started as a scrawny, pathetically weak girl with a terminal illness, but then a man with the ability to grant super-powers visited her, and the next thing anybody knew, she was hale, healthy, busty and built. And, uh, green. I'm not sure which issue that happened in--maybe a reader can let me know? Anyway, she looks pretty good, especially on page 12.

The other one, which is even better, is Superman/Aliens II: God War. This comic, the first of four, features Superman (duh), H. R. Giger's Aliens, and Jack Kirby's New Gods. So there's a lot of crossover material thrown into the mix. What's nice--and I mean NICE--is that the artist doing the pencils is none other than Jon Bogdanove. Bogdanove doesn't do much comics work these days, that I'm aware of, but he likes his girls big. Fifteen years ago that meant that Storm of the X-Men had thick limbs. Six or seven years ago that meant that when Lois Lane went sleeveless, she was built like a middleweight bodybuilder. Today it means that when he draws Big Barda, she is BIG BARDA. He draws her a full head taller than Superman, her arms appear to be about as thick as his legs, and her breasts are as big as her head. Imagine what Marilyn Monroe would look like if she spent 10 minutes under a muscle growth ray, and put on a brunette wig. It's nice.

NERVE IS A WEIRD SITE: Back in the days of dotcom gold, it was richer in content than today. The personal ads are terrific still, but I don't think they run articles like this anymore.

SUNDAY EVENING GENDER THEORY: Here you go, a nice textbook write-up.

I REALLY AM SHUTTING DOWN MY PC NOW.

JK WANTS TO KNOW "What the heck is a standard deviation?" Well, that's a good question, JK. And the short answer is that I don't understand it well enough to explain it to you. But in an IQ bell-curve, one standard deviation is equal to about 68%, two sd's equal about 95%, and three equal 99%. Obviously your friend and FMG guide Mighty Lingster is floating in the ethereal realms beyond 3 sd's above the mean, which means he's smarter than just about everybody. (So smart that he gets to refer to himself in the third person, even.) But someone who is 2 sd's above the mean would be smarter than 95% of the people in the sample. So what I'm saying is that D. J. Wallis is at the very least in the top 5% of the population in raw cranial horsepower (or 'g', as the wonks call it), an assertion I make solely based on her completion of doctoral studies in neurobiology. And you can see for yourself that she's at least 3 sd's above the mean in hotness (or 'hotness', as the wonks call it).

LEEE WRITES that D. J. Wallis is a female Buckaroo Banzai, which is as astute an observation as I've seen. Let's list it:

Bodybuilder

Neurobiologist

Hottie

Evangelist of transformational philosophy of something called "Human Advancement Intensive"

Have any of you readers ever heard her in a karaoke bar?

If she can sing, too, I'm going to declare her the Messiah, give up all my worldly possessions and start a Church of D.J. Wallis. Maybe she'll seek out a variety of men who excel in one particular area, to acquire genetic material from them for a superbaby, like in Twins. If so I volunteer my smart-ass gene--if it will make a better tomorrow, it's the least I can do.

And since she's a neurobiologist, I give you this quote from The Adentures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension:

Buckaroo Banzai

Well, immersing myself in Wallisania has been a pleasant way to spend a Memorial Day morning, but now I must away. My lawn needs cutting, as does the hair on my head. Wish me luck in keeping the proper implements unconfused.

R M WRITES TO PROVIDE A COMPLETE GUIDE TO D.J. WALLIS GALLERIES:

That's quite a list! Thanks R M. It's extraordinary that she commits the time to cultivate and maintain a body like that, given that she's naturally so attractive, and so intelligent. For instance--I expect one of the reasons that really good-looking muscular girls are in such short supply is that good-looking girls don't need to embark on an appearance-transforming regimen, i.e. become gym rats, in order to get attention. And so they rarely do it. In D.J. Wallis' case, not only was she good-looking (and fully formed!) to start with, she's highly intelligent! I don't imagine it would even be possible to get a Ph.D in something as complex as neurobiology without an IQ of at least 125--bare minimum, which is about two standard deviations above the mean. Under other circumstances I'd guess that despite being good-looking and brilliant, she's insecure enough to feel a need to hone her body to a state of physical perfection, but if you look at some of the work she's doing professionally, it seems more likely that she is driven not by feelings of inadequacy, but rather by a desire to achieve her full potential. Words like "Nietzschean" and "post-human" come to mind.

MORE D. J. WALLIS: Look at this girl. My God, she's gorgeous. And I'd seen this picture before, but hadn't known who the model was. Here's her site. Would you believe she's also got her Ph.D? Neurobiology! Bottom line, she seems to be perfect: bodacious bodybuilder brainiac.

NEW ZEALAND_BASED FEMUSCLE GALLERY, run by pH. The nice thing about this one is that it's an eclectic selection. There are a large number of scans, but not an oppressively large selection. He has several Dannielle Edwards photos I hadn't seen before (she's so good-looking it makes my head hurt), and even an Alphie Newman scan that I hadn't seen before--clearly an old one. There's also a scan of a woman named D. J. Wallis, who is described in the photo as a "budding fitness superstar", but to my eyes she already budded, bloomed and blossomed bodaciously.

A COOL FEMUSCLE LINKS PAGE. Guess how I found it?

HERE'S ONE WE HAVEN'T LOOKED AT IN AWHILE, Ahern's GymGirlBells. He does draw 'em big, huh?

AN INTERESTING STORY FROM AUSTRALIA. Two questions, though: 1) How does a girl in Australia wind up being named "Brooklyn" and 2) Despite the pleasant view of her chest being thrust forward, why hasn't anyone told her that lat pulldowns behind the head are bad for the rotator cuffs?

SO EARLIER THIS EVENING I HAD A WEIRD MOMENT. I was stopped at a traffic light on the Jersey side of the Holland Tunnel, when all of sudden it seemed that my car was rolling backward at high speed! I slammed my foot down on the brake, but then realized that the car wasn't moving at all! It seems I was stopped right next to a nursery, and there was a whole shrubbery on a pallet. A worker was moving it, and its movement made me think that the car was moving (since plants usually don't.)

NOMDRESERV POSTED A KINDA SORTA UPDATE to his site.

I THOUGHT THAT GAUNTLET: DARK LEGACY on the PS2 was really cool because of the Valkyrie character who jumps up in the air and generally kicks ass. But last night I tried out the Sorceress. The player characters in GAUNTLET are generally realistic looking--the sorceress is about as big-chested as a real woman could be, and when she runs she swings her chest back and forth, which is really cool.

I'M NOT REALLY FEELING THE LOVE, lately. I see the visitor numbers ticking up every day, 700, 900, but I'm not getting much email. Come on! Send me some g_dd_mn email!

LEEE WRITES:

www.altawoman.net

DARTH LOJACK, LORD OF THE SETH (or whatever he's calling himself this week) posted a bunch of new stuff to his site, Super Girl Power, earlier this week. It looks like he acquired the original artwork for "Sex and Violence", a Savage Dragon story that Adam Hughes started but never finished (an occurrence not exactly unique in the annals of comic book history). Part of it was reprinted at one point in Savage Dragon. Anyway, even though the story barely got going, the art is so superlative that it merits looking at. The storyline concerned the origin of Jennifer, Dragon's girlfriend. (The Savage Dragon is super-strong and very resilient, but Jennifer has both those qualities in far greater abundance than Dragon.) In the few completed panels, Jennifer backhands Dragon and sends him flying.

I WONDER IF IT'S FROM A SPERM WHALE?

NEW LINGSTER RENDER over on Wreck Shop's message boards--check under 3D. Nudité, as they don't say in France. It features a severely overdeveloped chica holding aloft some guy, by his ankle.

THE NEW YORK POST says that Celebrity Boxing II was a success mainly because of the Joanie Laurer/Joey Buttafuoco match. Go figger. (How sad a state of affairs is it that I know how to spell "Buttafuoco" without checking?)

Next up--Joanie versus Janet Reno?

I NEARLY FELL OUT OF MY CHAIR when I saw what Jim Burton did with Stephanie, it's so funny. Apparently someone created a Stephanie variant that has articulated breasts, i.e. you can move them as if they were a limb. So Burton put some tassels on her nipples and, as the French say, laissez les bon temps roulez. Look down near the bottom. It's hilarious--just a bit risque.

I GOT A BUNCH OF CRANK CALLS 90 MINUTES AGO, and now I can't fall back to sleep. Pisses me off, really. Funny thing is, I pay for caller ID but I've never set it up. So I dug up an old phone-modem from an old PC, installed it in the current PC (which uses a DSL modem to connect to the Web), and then downloaded caller ID software. And I'm sitting here waiting for the punks to call back, but they haven't. It's damned irritating.

DESCRIBING DANIELLE FOTOPOULOS, soccer forward, and her transformation thanks to weight-lifting.

AN INTERESTING MAINSTREAM SITE for hot babes, run by AOL. It's called Celebrity Top Ten. Check out Kelly Brook.

I AM AFRAID I WAS RIGHT about Joey Buttafuoco and Joanie "Chyna" Laurer. What a tragedy it is that the biggest and strongest woman in the popular consciousness can be easily mahandled by an aging dirtbag like Joey Buttafuoco. It kinda puts the lie to the whole idea of Xena, i.e. one tall, athletic woman beating the crap out of five or six men at a time. Unfortunate.

RISTARD MCSEAN'S SECOND EFFORT IS A GREAT IMPROVEMENT over his first. You can find it here.

A SEARCH BASED ON THE AFOREMENTIONED STORY yielded this site concerned with feminist science fiction. Check the themes section. And here's another link concerned with female dominated societies in science fiction.

A WONDERFUL SCIENCE FICTION STORY published in 1961, concerned with a world without men. In this future-world, women are divided into classes, and the worker class is made up of tall, muscular (but still quite pretty) amazons. The story is called "Consider Her Ways", and it has a delightfully ironic ending.

NONE OF TODAY'S POSTS SEEM TO BE SHOWING UP, which is really starting to annoy me.

AND WHILE WE'RE ON BOOBS, here's a site I used to visit quite a bit: The Breast Chronicles. I tried--about a year ago--to gently ingratiate myself with Charlotte, the very-nicely-upholstered blogmistress, but to little effect. She runs a very thoughtful site about boobs. Charlotte also uses a graphic "rack" shot for button linking to her site.

AN INTERESTING NEW TREND IN BLOGGING: It seems some women bloggers have set up something called the "Rack Browser". So instead of just a text link in the body of the blog, you get something like this:

Actually, hardly any others are quiet as impressive as that, but you get the idea. Click down to the right of the linked page for the whole Rack Browser selection--several are quite impressive, and this is a trend I strongly welcome. Maybe we can get them to show biceps, too?

THUS FAR I'VE REFRAINED from discussing FOX's Celebrity Boxing II. I'm sure it's a very difficult thing to go from being a celebrity to being obscure. Being on TV is indicative of success and value, and so disappearing from TV is the opposite. But when you have former second-tier celebrities willing to humiliate themselves on television for a few bucks, well, that's just tragic. FOX did it once, the ratings were good, and so they're doing it again. There are three women involved this time: Olga Korbut, former Olympic gymnast with significant legal problems; Darva Conger, who was the winner of the equally exploitive "Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire" TV show a few years ago; and Joanie "Chyna" Laurer, who's so big and strong she's paired against a man.

The Korbut/Conger match is just pathetic, and that's all I have to say about it. But Joanie gets to fight the infamous Joey Buttafuoco--perhaps the most obnoxious person ever to emerge from Long Island. (And that's saying something.) Given all the crap this guy has gotten away with in the past, he is very deserving of getting his ass kicked by a woman. That said, he's a bit taller than Joanie, he outweighs her, and he might outmuscle her, too--he's a big guy. He's a lot older than her, but I doubt she's going to be able to knock him down. But I can hope.

THEY CAN GROW A FEATHERLESS CHICKEN, but nobody's come up with six-and-a-half foot tall amazon women yet? These geneticists need to get their priorities straight. (Besides, the Euros block any genetically modified food.)

CRACKERS 7, CD SECURITY WONKS 0. This is a remarkable story. If I bought one of those CDs, I would have figured this out myself. How dumb do they think we are? I'd like to see how much money SONY invested in this useless scheme--if I know anything about corporate technology investing (and I do), I'd put the figure at no less than $5 million in development. Whoever wrote the needs document missed a spot.

THIS IS ONE OF THOSE NIGHTS when I'm tempted to stay up 'til the morning working on a muscle girl Poser render--but I've really got to get some sleep. Sorry if I've been a little bit lax surfing for smut the last few days, but as a proud new owner of a PlayStation 2, I've basically been enslaved by the little devil box.

NOT EXACTLY MY KIND OF LADIES, but they're good renders, and one of them is even showing some muscle. They're both nude.

FULL FRONTAL NAKED stone goddess or something. Nice abs.

OK, NOW THIS IS FUNNY. She's topless, and that means 50% more than it normally would.

I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT'S GOING ON HERE, but I like it.

HERE'S A FUNNY STORY about the Mafia.

I watch The Sopranos, the same as a lot of people, and I'm entertained by it. But I have a bit--just a little bit--of experience with people like the characters on The Sopranos, and I'm glad they're a dying breed. When I was a kid, my parents were pretty much done disentangling themselves from various relationships with minor and mid-level organized crime "figures" (note they're always "figures"), but from time to time, I had the experience of meeting an honest-to-God Mafiosi. Two come to mind--one was always a true gentleman to my parents--especially my Mother, though I have no doubt he was vicious when the situation called for it. The other wasn't very smart, but he was flashy and radiated danger. Now, some people will brag to you about their "conections", that they "know somebody who knows somebody" or that "if [they] wanted to [they] could have your head cut off." But most people who have some affiliation with the Mafia wish to God that they didn't. People who own small businesses in any number of metro areas in the U.S. used to be (and sometimes still are) obliged to use so-and-so's waste disposal company or vending machine company, or suffer the consequences. Maybe someone worked in a bar and found that they were expected to help with bookmaking, or running numbers, or maybe they found themselves beholden to a criminal for a problem that was fixed using illicit means. Other people might have a job because of a relationship with the Mob, only to find themselves being asked to violate their conscience again and again as quid pro quo. People like to romanticize it, but I thank God that the Mafia is almost dead.

9 CHICKWEED LANE had some femuscle again today.

ANOTHER COMIC STRIP with a muscular female heroine, this one called "Tonja Steele". File it in the "not-quite-ready-for-syndication" folder.

WILLIAM MOULTON MARSTON, polymath odd-duck and creator of Wonder Woman, on the possible social ramifications of his creation: "Give them an alluring woman stronger than themselves to submit to and they'll be proud to become her willing slaves." Here's a nice bit of analysis, and another article on Marston's ideas regarding dominance and submission.

MORE POWER GIRL FUN: Tony Harris draws her in pen and ink, and then Tebra does the transgender mind-swap thing with her in this one and this one.

ATTACK OF THE CLONES!! I went to see it today, and I think it's pretty good. The love scenes described by just about everyone as awful were actually quite tolerable. Jar Jar Binks mercifully had just a few lines to speak, the action level was just about right, and Yoda kicked ass.

BURGOS DOES Mary Marvel, this week, I guess.

DEVIL CHILD.

VA-VA-VOOM! Burgos does Power Girl practically busting out of her top!

LIGHTFOOT WRITES:

The last game console I owned was the Atari 2600, which my Dad bought me in 1977--though I did install some emulators on my PC a few years back, to play arcade Pac-Man at home. So this is really a treat.

WAS I RUDE? Reader Jaemeel wrote in for more details on the WWF story that ran on UPN News last night. My response:

It was a profile of one of them--a woman called "Ivory". Now, normally I'd be the last one to complain about a muscular woman being shown on the evening news, but the whole voice-over was done as if the reporter inhabited the alternate universe of the WWF--as if pro wrestling was an actual sport, as if it were anything but a show for children and mental defectives.Uh-huh. That's right. Seems Jaemeel is a wrestling fan:

Barry W. Blaustein

Look, bottom line, when I watch professional wrestling, I experience two powerful feelings, one emotional, one physical. Emotionally, I feel an enormous sense of embarrasment to be a member of the same species as the freaks who produce and act in that crap. Physically, I feel as though my skull is going to implode--brain melt.

Around 1982, my father hit on the only way to enjoy wrestling and televangelism--turn the sound off and just enjoy the funny faces they make.

$199.99 IS TOO GOOD TO LET GET BY. And NO I did not buy an Xbox! I bought a PlayStation2! Spent the whole night playing Gauntlet. If I didn't have a date with a muscle girl tomorrow night, I'd probably spend the whole weekend on it.

RICH W. WRITES to let everybody know that "The Stepford Cheerleaders" episode of The Chronicle will be rebroadcast on June 13, 5am. Also, if anybody could scan and post some of the juicier artwork in Birds of Prey #42, Rich would appreciate it.

I WAS JUST WATCHING THE LOCAL UPN NEWS. Incredibly, they ran a segment on a WWF wrestler. More incredibly, they ran it straight--as if the ludicrous goings on we associate with professional wrestling were real. What is going on? Is everybody stupid?

A LITTLE BIRDIE TOLD ME that the guy who wrote "The Stepford Cheerleaders" episode for The Chronicle, Henry Myers, has gotten a writing gig for Charmed. So maybe we'll see some super-strong girls on Charmed, which already features the muscular Alyssa Milano, and which ran a boob-growth episode earlier this season.

I MADE ANOTHER ONE: Check the FMG2 files folder, under Lingster, for a new composite render called, "The Muscularization of Melanie". Nudity.

SOME NEW BURGOS DRAWINGS of Power Girl [sigh] are in the BAS2 file section. Just look at the files posted in the last few days.

FELLA NAMED "WILLDIAL" has posted a few muscle girl renders to Renderosity. There's this one, this one, and you might want to check his main gallery for other interesting things.

NAPSTER, R.I.P.

MARKNEW SPOTTED THIS story in the New York Times Science Section. Why do I get the feeling his next story will concern arboreal women?

POWER GIRL EXTRAVAGANZA!!! Burgos has outdone himself with four Power Girl [sigh] auctions going on at once!

There's sexy Power Girl pen and ink drawing--very Marilyn Monroe-esque.

An animation-style Power Girl.

Power Girl bitch-slapping the She-Hulk.

And my favorite, Power Girl, looking very strong, hefting a big piece of earth over her head.

All hail Burgos!!

MORE ON MY LOATHING OF POP-UPS and other deceitful Web redirect tricks: apparently 4,525 different domains lead to one porn site. That's some kind of jackass running that site.

TOM BURGOS POSTED A BUNCH of new stuff, but I am too tired to write clever little descriptions for all of them, so here's the search results instead. Whew. I'm going to bed. (OK, OK, this one of Fairchild is yummy beyond words.)

READER KEITH WRITES:

Now we just have to get Blondie to get built.

ANOTHER NEW RENDERED GIRL, not so massively developed as the one I posted to Wreck Shop, on Renderosity. The clothing of the girl is intended to evoke something similar to the effect of the pink Chanel suit. Unfortunately, I don't have said suit, nor do I have a pillbox hat, so I made due with a knit dress and beret.

CRAZY PEOPLE in New York always wave their arms around. It's really annoying.

I POSTED MY OWN RENDER to Wreck Shop's Message Board, under 3D, message titled "HUGENESS TEST".

A LOT OF GOOD CAPRIATI PHOTOS are available on Yahoo! Marknew sent me one with her arm bent--she's really strong-looking.

A NEW PENCIL SKETCH OF POWER GIRL [SIGH] at the Burgos Appreciation Society 2.

BLOODSONG POSTED A ROLE-REVERSAL RENDER to Renderosity--powerfully muscled barbarian girl hold sword aloft, scrawny slave boy crouched at her feet. Also, this weird-looking muscle girl was posted by Tiamatdx.

I COULD NOT FIND IT this morning, but this evening, FemaleMuscle.com is up and running.

I WAS LOOKING FOR Lori Victoria Braun's FemaleMuscle.com this morning, but it doesn't seem to be running. I think I saw Ms. Braun a few years ago on the street in Hoboken, wearing a sleeveless t-shirt. I was on the opposite side of the street but I nearly tripped and fell, I was so distracted by the sight. I am also very disappointed today because Y107.1, the only Country/Western music station in the New York area, has changed format to Latin music. I was driving last night, tuned to 107.1, and could not believe what I was hearing.

A LITTLE MOTHER'S DAY TREAT: Yaxeni Oriquen is kind enough to show before and after pictures on her gallery page. Happy Mother's Day, Yaxeni!

SOME JERK keeps sending me email with weird attachments. I've saved them as text files and looked at them--it's all encoded so I'm guessing it's a trojan horse. I'm not sure if it's related, but I also received an unsolicited attachment containing an executable, apparently from a well-known fella who runs a well-known overseas FBB video production company. It's starting to irritate me. For the record, the only unsolicited attachments I open end in "JPG", "GIF" and "TXT", and even THEN I might not open it if I don't know the sender. The beauty of a Web email client--like the one I use--is that the attachment never gets to my PC unless I deliberately download it.

NO MUSCLE, but nice big boobs on this viking warrior chick, from Renderosity. Also look at this one--incredible photorealism, no?

ONE OF THE REASONS I have been using the DivX codec to compress my video files is that DivX doesn't include spyware. Well, I installed the new codec yesterday, and it forced me to install Gator, which is spyware as far as I'm concerned. So I'll be compressing video differently in the future. I am open to suggestions.

AND WHILE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT EBAY ART, a colored sketch of Power Girl [sigh] by Adam Hughes is also up for auction. (If it wasn't already above $200 I would have bid on it myself and kept it quiet until the auction was closed.) And a Mary Marvel sketch is up for auction, too. Man, Hughes can't put pencil to paper without making something sexy.

INCIDENTALLY, IF YOU'VE GOT $25,000 sitting around, you can bid on a big chunk of Drew Struzan's output from the 1970s and 80s--77 drawings and paintings.

APPARENTLY HEZBOLLAH IS HERE in the United States and planning attacks. Given that Hezbollah is just a cats-paw of Syria and Iran, somebody will have to explain to me why we would not treat those states as belligerents if such a terror attack were to occur. I just don't get the feeling that these Muslim states understand how close they are to the precipice. Maybe Colin Powell isn't making it clear enough.

SPEAKING OF STAR WARS, here's a 3D render of an athletic, half naked Jedi nymph by Blackhearted, and another recent render of a topless girl jock.

BEEN LISTENING TO SOME OLD STUFF, mainly Ronnie Spector and Dusty Springfield hits back from when my folks were still fooling around in the back seat of my old man's '62 Corvette. One of the best things in those songs is that they seemed to have been thrown together. Like in The Ronettes' "Da Doo Run Run", you can tell that Ronnie and the girls are racing to try to keep up with the band, and that's just a tremendous effect--raw, lush talent in a mad dash. The whole song just carries the feeling of speed--you can feel the rush. And it's got such a terrific first line, "I met him on a Monday and my heart stood still, da doo run run, da doo run run." (Unfortunately the second line is "Somebody told me that his name was Bill," which packs rather less of a poetic punch.) Last year when Joey Ramone passed on, a friend of mine who works in the music business told me that Ronnie Spector and Joey were practically best friends. Plus I know Ronnie Spector sang backup on at least one Springsteen album. She's the real thing.

HMMMM...THIS IS GETTING DEEPER AND DEEPER: Apparently Struzan and Hughes collaborated on the artwork for a recent Star Wars role-playing game, are equally well though of among Natalie Portman fans, and in fact have attended conventions together and been interviewed together. Hughes also lists Struzan as one of his main influences. So I'm not sayin' that Hughes painted the poster, I'm just sayin' that you can see where it's possible to get confused here.

CHRIS WRITES TO CHALLENGE MY ASSERTION that Adam Hughes is the artist of the Star Wars poster I linked. He says it's by an artist named Drew Struzan, and it looks to me like he's right. Here's the rub, though--I saw the poster several weeks ago at an Adam Hughes fan site, and the art looks like a Hughes piece--plus Obi Wan as drawn looks a bit like a skinny Adam Hughes. But despite all of this, the presence of the poster on Struzan's official site makes it seem very likely to me that he is in fact the artist, so my apologies to all.

(This should in no way be interpreted as a withdrawal of my request to get Adam Hughes to draw Natalie Portman to She-Hulk proportions.)

ERIC F. WRITES to remind me to mention that Episode II: Attack of the Clones has been pirated and is available on the Net. A casual KaZaA search turns up a very significant number of nodes with the bootleg copy. It appears to be commonly broken up into two files, the first about 135 Mb, the second about 170 Mb. I don't really need to see it so soon--I actually have a ticket to see it on opening day next week, but I'm thinking of selling it and going at a later time.

I am of two minds on the issue of Internet piracy. Obviously, the Star Wars movies are the intellectual property of LucasFilm and Twentieth-Century Fox and the shareholders or partners of those companies are entitled both to set terms for those who wish to view the movies, and to pursue legal remedy against those who would trample on those entitlements. Further, in reducing the potential payout for quality video entertainment, pirates reduce the likelihood that investors will be willing to contribute to future movie productions.

I'm not entirely sure the same argument applies to music distribution, an industry which is burdened with a schlerotic overclass that obstructs innovation. Even successful musicians make only a small amount of money from album sales--the record companies eat most of it. Record companies restrict distribution of music, and also consume most of the revenue generated by their obsolete distribution model. Touring is what brings in the cash for the bands, and nobody is suggesting that Napster put a dent in that. So who does music piracy hurt? Not the artists, but the suits who are trying to lobby legislators into propping up an industry that's always been known for its corruption, and doesn't really need to exist anymore.

HERE IS A "FETISH MAP" from Katharine Gates' Deviant Desires Website. Where do you suppose we fit--within the growth category, obviously--but where? The interesting thing about FMG is that it combines two main fetish elements: physical transformation and change in power relationships. I stumbled onto all this when I did a search on "transformational fetish", and found this article by Donna Lypchuk. Ms. Lypchuk seems to think that those of us who enjoy transformational fetishes are on the bleeding edge of the fashionable fetish trendline. Anyway, the Lypchuk article led me to the Gates article, "Morphing Mutant Sex Nerds, Unite!", and then to her site. Interestingly, Gates mainly describes people who enjoy first-person transformations, rather than third person transformations. I know that some of the authors enjoy first person transformations--for instance, Marknew names most of his protagonists "Mark" and the poor fella almost always winds up getting shrunk a bit while his love interest swells and grows into muscle-bound amazon (yum!). Most of the FMG creators, though, seem to have an almost entirely third-person focus--it's all about the girl. I've written about cratolagnia and sthenolagnia before, but those two terms don't see to cover everything we enjoy. Thoughts?

I FOUND A TWO-YEAR-OLD spec sheet done by Phil Jimenez when he took over illustration duties for the Wonder Woman books.

OUR OLD FRIEND ADAM HUGHES, who draws deliciously voluptuous athletic girls from time to time, is the illustrator behind this poster for Episode II: Attack of the Clones. If any of you mooks see this guy at a comics convention in the next few months, see if you can collar him into doing a drawing of Natalie Portman with some meat on her bones.

The worthies over at the New York Times panned the new Star Wars flick today, by the way. Seems it was playing at DeNiro's TriBeCa Film Festival last night--anybody could go see it...for just $500/head. And so the Times decided to pour some water on the hype machine. I guess they don't like George Lucas as much as Yasser Arafat.

WIRED MAGAZINE (does anybody read WIRED anymore?) trashes blogging in "Flash: Blogging Goes Corporate". Bottom line: blogging gives the blogger a chance to air his thoughts while at the same time minimizing the abuses we've all seen on Usenet, or the apathy that periodically kicks up on the message boards. Additionally, blogging provides a channel for people who are very knowledgeable about a marginal field of interest (e.g. FMG). I wander a little bit, but most of my blog posts are dedicated to the genre, and I also use it as a way to draw out people's memories and ideas of experiences they've had or would like to have.

HARD TO BELIEVE that I was one of the last people to ride a train through that tunnel. I know it looks like it's trashed, but it didn't look all the much better BEFORE most of the water in the World Trade Center washed through it. It's almost 100 years old.

A GREAT PAGE describing the origin of Titania, strongest bad girl in the Marvel Universe.

HMMM... I lost a post. It was there, now it's gone. Anyway, it was a very clever post, as these things go, and shared a link to a brief movie filmed by Rob W., featuring FBB Christine Envall in business suit. I noted that since I am at work, I couldn't evaluate the movie before posting the link. I concluded by asking if Chad could find me a job working for a strapping amazon with a predilection for wearing pink Chanel suits. (I know that last bit seems like a bit of a non-sequitur, but within the brilliant and complex structure of the lost post, it made perfect sense.)

REGARDING THE PINK CHANEL SUIT, are you all familiar with The House of Yes? It's a terrific movie, starring Parker Posey as a deranged young woman who insists on being called "Jackie O" and dressing like the former first lady. She looks quite adorable in the suit, as does Rachael Leigh Cook, who plays Jackie O as a young teen during two or three brief flashbacks. I've seen Parker Posey in person, and she's diminutive, but cute! And damnit if I didn't fall in love with the pink Chanel suit watching that movie at the Angelika, here in New York. It's right up there with the "soft, fuzzy sweater" look described by the J. Geils Band.

WELCOME VISITORS FROM EAST ASIA! I wasn't aware of your presence before, but apparently there's quite a bit of one-handed Web surfing going on over there.

HERE'S A GIRL WITH SOME PIERCINGS, and some muscles, courtesy of Bloodsong and Renderosity.

SORRY FOR THE DELAY IN THE PREVIOUS TWO POSTS, but there was some kind of problem with the Blog*Spot FTP server, and I couldn't get in.

GOT AN EMAIL from a representative of Debi Purcell, the gorgeous girl who can almost certainly kick my ass in less than 30 seconds. His name is Chad, and he writes that she does dress in "business formal" style at the office. I remember seeing a Playboy Hardbodies video a few years ago, in which Christine Lydon appears wearing a business suit and glasses, with her hair up in a bun. And at the time, she was really big. She let her hair down, removed her glasses, and then began tearing the suit off her body. There's something very alluring about a muscular girl wearing a business suit--the inappropriate tightness in her sleeves and bulging calves below her hemline mock the subordinate position she is presumed to occupy. Plus it just looks so good. Forget mud wrestling, I'd like to see some muscle girls kickboxing wearing Donna Karan.

THOSE BURGOS HOOLIGANS have apparently launched a second Yahoo! Group. It's called Burgos Appreciation Society--The Sequel.

I wonder at the scalability of this Yahoo! Groups product--it seems like anytime one group fills its allotment of storage space, it immediately moves to another group. I'm not criticizing, of course. I just wonder how Yahoo! can handle the storage.

TODAY WE SHOULD SURPASS 50,000 VISITS. That's quite a bit, don't you think?

IT ALWAYS MAKES ME SMILE when some group of do-gooders releases a study with a shocking conclusion that everybody with an ounce of sense already knows:

A report released at a conference this week suggests a parent should be very worried because high school students with body piercings tend also to have smoked, used alcohol, had sex, skipped school and gotten into fights.

LOOK AT THIS WINGNUT. What kind of jackass goes around putting pipe bombs in mailboxes?

"MUSCLE MOM": A great little piece about a single mom who has muscles.

RED-ALERT!! Lookie see what Coyote and McGarnagal made! I really, really like the sleeve tightening as her arm becomes more muscular. That is such a sexy effect. Full frontal nudity, btw.

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