THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT THIS GIRL. I like her! She's on Forest of Breast, so check soon! And somebody tell this bastard to get his hands off my girl.

WAY TO GO, RUSSKIS! This is a the kind of thing we ought to be doing--desecrating the terrorist dead. Not because it will work, necessarily, but because it shows these fanatics the contempt they deserve. The U.S. Army is rumored to have adopted similar measures against the Philipine Moros early in the last century.

And of course our dead were desecrated in Mogadishu, by a related bunch of scum.

WINONA WATCH: Looks like I'm not the only one who noticed that Winona's been wearing see-through outfits to court. Update.

PLUTO NASH WILL BE RELEASED ON DVD AND VHS on December 24 in North America.

WINONA WATCH: Still more innocent-but-sexy outfits (1, 2) from Winona.

SOMEBODY COULD PROBABLY HAVE A GOOD TIME coming up with a caption for this photo.

BUSTED! BUSTED! BUSTED!! Bill Clinton can't resist being the center of attention, even at somebody else's funeral. But he got caught this time, huh? And took Fritz with him!

WINONA WATCH: 1999 ARTICLE IN THE NEW YORK TIMES MENTIONS HER ABUNDANT WARDROBE.

HAVE YOU EVER HAD TO GET UP SO EARLY IN THE MORNING, that it seemed like a waste of time to go to bed? Still, I should probably retire now.

MARC2410 POSTED A LINK TO THIS PHOTO on the Fistman board at DtV. Wow. Her name is Chris Cander and she has her own Website.

HILARIOUS BIT OF VOYEURISM as described by Al, Some Sort of Dog in R & D. I feel a bit bad for this woman, but dang! If she doesn't want to be gawked at, she'll have to start wearing a burka. Figures like hers cause car accidents. Make sure you read the text during breaks in whatever else you wind up doing while looking at the pictures.

WINONA WATCH: WILL SHE DRESS LIKE A NAUGHTY SCHOOLMARM FOR THE WHOLE TRIAL? Looking at some of the news photos, I can't help but notice that she keeps wearing clothes that are in one sense very conservative, but in another tend to have a somewhat gauzy, don't-I-have-an-incredible-rack look. I suppose it's possible she could get off just on the strength of her bustline (I know I have!). Maybe if she's lucky there'll be some schmoe on the jury who can't bear to send the pretty, busty waif to the big house.

WINONA WATCH: DIDN'T SHE WEAR A DRESS LIKE THAT IN HEATHERS? In the shower scene? God, it's burned in my memory for all time.

GLOBAL WARMING MAY SUBMERGE NYC BY 2080. Well, I never realized there might actually be benefits from the greenhouse effect. I might wind up with waterfront property, as my house is located 24 feet above sea level on a hill near New York Bay. New York was conceived by some of its original inhabitants as a New World Venice, so I'm sure they'll get by.

(And of course this is all horseshit.)

POSER 5 RENDERS ARE REALLY COMING ALONG. Take a look at this one (nudity) and this one. The quality of the light is really terrific. Still, I'm not even really pleased with the way Poser 4 runs on my PC, so I'll probably hold off on the upgrade to Poser 5 until I have a better one, in a year or so.

"ALL THE GIRLS IN NEW JERSEY, YOU HAD TO FUCK THIS ONE?" Another great episode of The Sopranos--Chase is clearly building toward something big, and there's definitely trouble coming.

THAT NEW RENDER I'VE BEEN WORKING ON IS DONE. I wasn't really satisfied with it, so I photoshopped it and made it part of a fake novel cover--"Tarzana at the Earth's Core", by "Edwina Rice Burroughs". It's based on a Frank Frazetta illustration.

OK, now my posts are showing up.

GAH! My posts aren't showing up.

YUCK.

REBEKKA ARMSTRONG, a scrawny little thing when she was Playboy's Miss September, 1986, follows a strict fitness regime to combat HIV. The results have been fairly astonishing, and she is now aptly named. Nice tricep, here, and nice figure! "Eating bananas gives you big, strong arms!"

She's been HIV positive for almost twenty years, and so just continuing to draw breath is an incredible accomplishment. Not to be trite (too late), but to be so incredibly, attractively, radiantly healthy as well is just phenomenal.

A NOTE FROM READER TED:

Nice note about Wellstone. To comment on an earlier thread on your blog, I may not agree w/ all your politics either. But it's your site, a place for you to air what you'd like. I don't have to read it, but I actually like hearing other's opinions, esp if they don't agree w/ mine. I've been known to be wrong now and again. And to change my mind. If you don't listen to other voices, you'll never grow.

Personally, I have a hard time finding myself in the political spectrum, and I find myself w/ a very cynical view of either party. Which leaves me with a very profound respect for the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Man those guys were smart. An awesome mixture of faith in humanity and knowledge of the foibles of mankind and the need to protect against them. Just enough trust, but not foolish enough to blindly trust. I sometimes think that we've lost both of those and that's what's really wrong.

Sounds like Wellstone managed to get a handle on that, and for that I'm sad to see him go.

As for you, thanks for another voice (and the great renders, stories, and links).

As for your latest render, I really like composition.

I like the musculature on the models, esp the front most one. I really love her shoulders and arms. And the movement of her hands. The line of her left are is quite nice, the bulge of her biceps leading into the play of her forearm, trailing into her hand. It looks real. Nice expression on her face. Really like the "retro" hairstyle as well. Nice sense of motion, I'm not really a visual person, but it's like you can see the motion.

I guess I didn't go for the "uber skimpy" outfit. Women are sexier w/ clothes on, and the front most one (aside from the boots, though I do like the boots) pretty much isn't wearing any. But then, this is a personal atheistic preference. I'm _not_ making a value judgment, but stating my personal reaction. Just not into But-floss. :-) Either semi-clothed or bare is good for me. Dunno. Chock it up to personal kink. (it's a reaction I had, so I'm passing it along. Consider it a reflection on the viewer, not on the artist.) But for all that, the lines uncovered are very nice.

An excellent piece of work. Thanks again for sharing your work w/ the world.

You're welcome! I agree with you on the butt-floss thing, but I got the clothing from Runtime DNA. I don't have the tools or the skill to make clothing or other props for Poser. I very much liked the art deco wings and boots at Runtime DNA, and decided to carry through with the thong and breastplate that came with them. I tried to put a lamé dress on her, but I wasn't able to make it waft properly.

I HAVE BEEN WORKING ON A FRANK FRAZETTA INSPIRED render for a few days. I'll try to post it this weekend. I like very much the muscular female figures drawn by Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell but no one composes a scene like Frazetta.

MICROSOFT HAS BEEN FINED $50 for putting butterfly stickers all over Times Square and other neighborhoods. They really went overboard with this MSN 8 launch, but the thing I can't figure out is, why was Marilu Henner there?

PEGGY NOONAN WROTE A NICE EULOGY TO PAUL WELLSTONE, it's on the Journal's opinion site. I never met the man, never even saw him in person, so I can't speak to his personal qualities. I didn't care for his politics. But it says a lot for him that so many people are rising to speak for him and for his life.

A DARK POSER RENDER with a muscular girl.

ONE OF MY MORE AMBITIOUS RENDERS. Just posted to Renderosity. Shower me with huzzahs, if you please.

A CUTE CARICATURE of Britney Spears, made with Poser.

ERIK WRITES to express shock and dismay that the Japanese "White" BBS is gone(!). NOT TO FEAR. The White message board is part of the larger Forest of Breast site. They're just rearranging and updating it. Here's a picture from it right now...it's great, but wouldn't it be better if it were young boys being hugged by busty Megumi?

WHAT'S UP WITH THIS GUY? While I was down in Maryland, every time I stepped outside I was nervous as a pig in a sausage factory. When I pumped gas, I kept my head down and stayed on the sheltered side of my car, away from the treeline. He seems to be working his way south, though--he's nearly to Richmond.

HEY, BUDDY BOYS--I'm going to be out of town, down in sniper country today. Wish me luck. I should be back tomorrow.

SO I GOT BILLED ALMOST $300 for a phone call to a foreign country that ran about an hour. I've looked online and found rates as low as $0.05/minute to that country, 1/100th the $5/minute I was charged for a Sunday morning call. Do I have any recourse here? My thought is that I might call the company and complain, and ask them to retroactively enroll me in whatever program gets the non-gouging rate to that country. $300! Can you believe that!? I use this phone company for my local, long-distance and DSL, so in a regular month they're into me for about $80--if they can't find it in their hearts to cut the cost for that call, they'll be getting NOTHING from me, here on out.

HEADLINE ON YAHOO!: "ISLAMIC LEADER SUSPECT IN BALI BOMBINGS". You don't say? I figured it was gonna turn out to be the Amish.

BRAINY MYOSTATINUS WRITES IN WITH THIS GEM, regarding a clinical evaluation of vacuum-pump breast enlargement. All I have to say is, FIFTY-FIVE PERCENT! Good God! Of course, they don't tell you what the subjects' measurements were beforehand--if they were all flat as a board, then a 55% increase isn't much. If they averaged a 'B' cup or more, then we're talking some serious tissue hypertrophy.

I STOPPED BY THE SPHERE THIS MORNING, and took a good, long look at it. I hadn't really taken the time to do that since September 6, 2001, when I ate breakfast for the last time at the Greenhouse Cafe, at a table that looked out on the WTC plaza.

REMEMBER MY POST, MONTHS AGO, about the Star Trek "Mirror Mirror" episode? The alternate Kirk, Scotty, Uhura and Bones were quickly spotted as fakes in the regular universe, whereas the real ones were able to go undetected in the alternate universe? Kirk was puzzled about this, but Spock explained that it was easy for civilized men to pose as barbarians, but impossible for barbarians to pose as civilized men. Here's another example--Saddam Hussein got 100% of the vote in a referendum on his rule in Iraq. So he holds this up as proof of his legitimacy, because he cannot understand that it proves his illegitimacy. Reasonable people, free from fear, will always find room to disagree.

READER JONESY sent a note to draw attention to Amy Fadhli's appearance on ESPN.com. He asks "Any positive mainstream mention is a good thing, right?"

SO I BOOKED A FLIGHT TODAY, but almost made it with AirTran. I had nearly forgotten that AirTran used to be ValuJet! I've seen "AirTran" so many times, the stigma began to fade. Whew.

WHOA! Take a look at Madonna, here. Her box office draw may be puny, but her muscles sure aren't.

FROM M.G., AN OFFICER IN THE U.S. ARMY:

Hey Mighty L,

You are absolutely right about the Australians. My prayers go out to them as they do to all who suffer from senseless terrorism.

I'd like to also point out that it is countries like Australia that bear the brunt of the joke of UN peacekeeping missions in Kosovo, in Bosnia, in any three-bit country in the world where UN peacekeepers and the ridiculed powder-blue beret are sent for meaningless resolutions. (We Army guys save our truest, most bitter, most vile ridicule for the blue beret and the UN. Even the French get off lightly compared to the UN. But Aussies and Kiwi's--we give them the most high honorific U.S. troops can give--we'd gladly have them beside us, and we'd even more gladly get into a bar brawl with them, and then buy them beer when it was decided that no one could remember what the fight was about in the first place.)

Keep up the good work on the blog, and keep telling it as you see it.

M.G.

Thanks! In hindsight I wish I'd chosen the path you have. I was always inclined toward the military, but my father talked me out of it. Ah, regrets.

I MISSED THIS ON SATURDAY. Found it today, from the New York Times:

KUWAIT, Oct. 11 — Muhammad al-Mulaifi, head of the information department at Kuwait's Ministry of Islamic Affairs, tried momentarily to suppress a smile, then broke into a broad grin when asked if he supported the terrorist attacks on the United States last year.

"I would be lying if said I wasn't happy about the attack," he said, sitting on the floor of his air-conditioned home office, a carpeted, cushioned oasis amid the harsh heat of this small, dry country. Mr. Mulaifi said that many Kuwaitis were delighted about what had happened to the United States and that he had attended parties held in celebration.

This from a country we saved 11 years ago. What more needs to be said? No diatribe required.

READER "OUTSIDER" WROTE ME A NICE NOTE:

I love your blog, for obvious reasons. Whats more, though, I like the diatribes and other tangents of all kinds. Its good to have a female muscle site that offers up the goods, but isn't so single minded. Sometimes I don't agree, sometimes I don't care, but I appreciate other points of
view, a personality that comes through loud and clear, and the occasional other little interesting tid-bits of info that I wouldn't otherwise hear about.

Its all good. Thanks, and keep up the good work.

Thanks to you, also! I don't have enough FMG material to make a viable blog, and so I have to pull in other things. (Plus I like to shoot my mouth off.) Nobody's forcing anyone to read anything or everything I write. If you want to tune it out, hey, no skin off my arse. So when I get a hostile reponse to something I've posted, not argumentative but genuinely hostile, it's a little surprising.

A GREAT AUSSIE WAR BLOG, by a fella named Tim Blair. Andrew Sullivan mentioned him this morning, so I went to look. My eyes keep tearing up when I read the news from Bali. It's so much like what happened here last year. It's hard to read.

CHECK OUT A TEST RENDER I DID.

I HEARD CURTIS SLIWA ON THE RADIO THIS MORNING suggesting that Australia ought to invade Indonesia. Ha! Indonesia, if memory serves, is slightly more populous than the United States, while Australia is not quite as populous as Pennsylvania. Australians ought to get busy making babies.

TIGERSAN POSTED A NICE LINK at Wreck Shop, to a Japanese site that includes a section called "The Goddess Project".

SO I GUESS IT'S STARTING AGAIN. It's looking like, per capita, this Bali attack is as bad for Australia as 9/11 was for us--about 200 lost. Plus there are hundreds of injured, many of whom are probably crippled or disfigured. You've got to wonder what these lunatics think they're accomplishing--sooner or later they may just get their holy war, but I don't think it will go the way they want.

I HADN'T SEEN ANY BURGOS PICS on eBay in awhile, so I went looking for some. I found this one at the BAS2 group on Yahoo.

THE MOST ORIGINAL Poser pose I've seen in a long while.

HAS ANYONE ELSE NOTICED THAT A LARGE PERCENTAGE OF FITNESS MODELS ARE NAMED "BRANDY"? In the whole breadth of my life experience I've met only one woman named Brandy, but it seems like every other fitness model has that name. There's Brandy Dahl, Brandy Maddron, Brandi Carrier and Brandi Hale, right off the top of my head. What's going on with that?

I'M ALL SET FOR COWBOY BEBOP, which is on the Cartoon Network at 12am EST Sunday morning. I'm usually out at this time, or just getting home, but I have no life this weekend so I get to watch it.

ONE PAGE ABOUT UTAKO MIZUMA, Japanese female bodybuilder. She's got a very nice build, and she's cute, too!

I CAN'T TELL IF THIS IS A JOKE OR NOT.

EEGORE SAYS SHADOWLURKER seems to have walked away from his site. I'll pull it off my links shortly.

THERE'S A GREAT LITTLE ARTICLE IN TV GUIDE THIS WEEK, about Denise Borino, who plays the heavyset wife of Johnny "Sack" Sacramoni on The Sopranos. If you watch the show, you know that there's been a big dust-up for the last few episodes because Ralphie made a joke about her character, Ginny Sack, having a 90-pound mole removed from her ass, and her husband was very offended by the joke. Psychotically offended. But the article in TV Guide indirectly makes a point I've raised here, regarding the incredible authenticity of the show--Ms. Borino is in real life a legal secretary in Morristown, and is a part-time manicurist at "Hair's Our Place" in Bloomfield (just a few miles from Frelinghuysen Avenue). She has never taken acting lessons. She is authentic.

From the article, it seems she appeared on the casting director's radar screen at the legendary Sopranos open-call audition in Harrison, NJ in July 2000. An open-call for people who "looked Italian", 14,000 people showed up at Harrison High School. The Turnpike Authority had to close the exit to Harrison, because it was backed up for miles. I know a dentist who closed down his practice that day, so that he could go to Harrison. Can you imagine that?

A TRULY SUPERLATIVE RENDER of a muscular fairy--rivals anything Boris Vallejo does.

SO I GOT AN EMAIL FROM A READER SAYING that he's tired of my diatribes. I checked, though, and until my outburst against Jimmy Carter, I'd hardly posted anything political in over a month, with the exception of a brief note regarding that German Justice Minister who compared Bush to Hitler. I've actually been pretty tame since Sunday, August 25, when I posted a blognote titled "Death to the House of Saud". And really, what's Jimmy Carter there for if not ridicule? We're talking about a guy who claims to have been attacked by a rabbit while in a rowboat.

As you might have gathered, I really, really, really, really don't care for the man.

A NEW MAGAZINE CALLED "CURL" is starting up, for women who are seriously into weight training. Looks pretty cool!

WHAT'S UP WITH SHADOWLURKER? I've got his site linked from the left side menu, but he hasn't updated it in six months. I'm thinking it's time to pull it off.

A SIX-MONTH-OLD ARTICLE ABOUT THE REAL JIMMY CARTER, from National Review.

WELL, THIS WOULD SUCK.

HMMMM...it seems I wrote "Jimmy Fucking Carter" as the name of the 39th President of the United States. His actual name is "James Earl Carter", but around the Lingster household he has been known, since sometime in 1979, as "Jimmy Fucking Carter". There are rumors among the Lingster klan of a blood relationship to His Uselessness, but out of good taste we have refrained from researching it. So forgive me the reflexive reaction of referring to that useless piece of crap as "Jimmy Fucking Carter"--I meant no disrespect.

TUNKU VARADARAJAN says it much better than I, and he didn't even know the winner when he wrote it.

SO THE NORWEGIAN NOBEL COMMITTEE gave Jimmy Fucking Carter the Peace Prize. Apparently they deliberately awarded it to one of the most severe domestic critics of the post-9/11 actions of the Bush Administration. They were "sending a message", in the current parlance. Message received.

Still, you have to wonder, why didn't they just give it to Yasser Arafat again? Hasn't he killed enough Jews since the last time he got it? Just on the strength of his effort you'd think he'd qualify for the Nobel bonus round. Or Osama bin Ladin? There's a strong critic of the Bush Administration, maybe he should get it? But on balance, if a weakling President who has violated all our traditions by criticizing his successors is what the Norwegians like, then that's what they like. As I said, message received.

Of course, the real irony is that in his pathetic failure to resolve the Iranian Hostage Crisis in 1980, Carter gave the Muslim world reason to believe we could be bullied. He created a world in which 9/11 could happen.

WHY DO I GET FLAGGED FOR GATE SCREENING WHENVER I GET ON A DAMNED PLANE? It's getting ridiculous--I get stopped every time. If I looked anything like the nineteen 9/11 hijackers, well, I'd grit my teeth and bear it without complaint. But since it's completely illogical, I'm gritting my teeth and bearing it with just a little complaint.

BASICALLY, you can always find at least two boob-growth related stories on Ananova, if you look hard enough. Here's the second.

AND THEN THERE'S THE VACUUM PUMP ALTERNATIVE.

YOU MEAN THEY DON'T REALLY WORK? Scottsdale scam crew busted for hawking breast/penis/height increase potions over the Internet.

AND MORE BAD NEWS.

TROUBLE COMING. I don't like the looks of this.

DAMNIT! Those wretched TV schedulers put Angel up against The Sopranos this season, on Sunday night! Much as I hate to say it--bye bye Angel.

A GREAT WITCHBLADE COLLAGE has shown up on Renderosity.

INCIDENTALLY, the model for that ersatz magazine cover I posted is from Danielle Edwards' site, the image is right here. She's so cute it ought to be illegal. I tried to make the female model look like a seriously bulked-up version of her, I think with a bit of success. It's not perfect, but what's perfection, anyway?

OK, I'VE BEEN WORKING ON THIS DOG FOR THE LAST FIVE HOURS. I think it's pretty good, but you guys can be the judge. I'm exhausted. And frankly, it's all Marknew's fault for putting the idea in my head.

HAVE YOU EVER FOUND AN INCONGRUOUS LITTLE HOLE IN YOUR EDUCATION? A hole that never really caused you any problems, and then one day you realize, "Hey! That's pretty cool, but I really should have figured this out in the fourth grade!"? I just had one of those moments. It never before occurred to me that "discreet" and "discrete" were, um, discrete. I knew both meanings of the word, and I even had some vague awareness that sometimes I saw "it" spelled in two different ways, but I just now pieced it all together. Try to be discreet about this, OK?

I OPENED AN ACCOUNT WITH A NEW BANK a few weeks ago, and the branch manager is a gorgeous-but-still-attainable hottie. (You know you're getting old when the phrase "hot bank manager" doesn't dry up in your mouth like a fistful of deposit slips.) While I was sitting at her desk, filling out the paperwork, she was giving me bedroom eyes. So I keep finding excuses to go into the branch, even though she's got a big rock on her left ring finger. I'm a serious ATM customer--I probably walked into a bank branch four times during the Clinton administration, yet I've been to this one three times in three weeks. I think it's my small-town upbringing--all the women I meet in New York have these insanely specialized jobs, as do I. But the appeal of something as simple and direct as "bank manager" is irresistible to me.

AN ASIDE: Just between you and me, Gribble's produced a very nice FMG comic and not nearly enough of you have ponied up the cash to get it. It's five bucks, you cheap bastards. By the end of the weekend, I want to get an email from Gribble telling me he's sold fifty more copies, capisce? You can pay via Paypal or money order and he'll email you a userid/password so you can download the comic. Get moving.

A DILEMMA: About 18 months ago I bought a used copy of Photoshop 5 off eBay, for about $60. Now I'm thinking about upgrading to Photoshop 7. A new installation of Photoshop 7 runs $600, which is too much for me to consider paying. But an upgrade is only $150, which I can handle. The upgrade requires that you have a serial number from a prior install. I do have a serial number, of course, but it occurs to me that the person I bought it from probably used that same serial number for his upgrade. Even if he didn't, since I bought the software second hand, do I have a valid license to use it? Is it copacetic for me to upgrade?

Moreover, why does Adobe price its products so high? They're very frequently pirated--a problem you don't see so much with lower priced software products. It's possible that piracy is part of their rationale, i.e. "We price the stuff really high but then turn a blind eye to piracy--that way, every graphic artist has access to it and becomes expert with it, we remain the industry leader, and pro shops are forced to pay our astronomical site license fees."

But the idea that professional outfits never pirate software is clearly wrong--I once worked for a company that had a single license for a $30,000 piece of database software, but used at least six installations of it, contravening the license which said it could only be run in one simultaneous iteration.

I MADE A NEW RENDER--not much muscle to speak of. The idea for this entered my head last night, and I worked on it a bit this morning and finished it this evening. It's called "Hooter Girl Rampage"--it's a fake movie poster. My subway reading right now is If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor, by Bruce Campbell, and it's putting all sorts of bad ideas into my head.

ATHLETE AND MATHLETE, a new render by me.

AND HERE'S A GOOD POSER 5 RENDER, with a muscular woman. The same artist did this one, too.

A POSER RENDER I LIKE. Nudity! Plus a somewhat muscular Lara Croft render.

ANOTHER YOKO MATSUGANE picture on FOB.