Meatscaping

Spring is here, and meat is in the air!

See my Valve post for a first helping. This Pandagon post for seconds. Matt Yglesias is discomfited by this advertisement. But hair isn’t meat (you object)! A mere debater’s quibble, easily answered with reference to Anaxagoras! At any rate, I think we need to forge some sort of synergystycal marketing synthesis of Red State red meatist masculinism with metrosexual manscapism. Has Rod Dreher written a book about this yet? Smoothie Cons? (Not to be confused with their English opposite numbers, the Depila-Tories.) Anyway, I think that … queer eye for the meat guy … meatscaping! is the bipartisan marketing breakthrough for May, 2006. I’m seeing a 12-blade Norelco sinking into a thick patty of beef, "adding an extra visual inch to YOUR burger." (I’m going to be a millionaire. Or at least a thousandaire.) Belle is prepared to add extra jokes to this post later, because she knows more about, like, cooking. (She can make jokes about French cuts and things like that. I wouldn’t be able to do it with conviction.)

In other news, our John Quiggin is skeptical of a breed of philosophical thought-experiment (cf. my Valve meat post, above, for a few stray thoughts on this fraught subject.) The best earworm about excessive philosophical thought-experimentation that has gotten stuck in my head all week is available at the Flaming Lips site. Or, if I’ve done it right, this is a direct link to a streaming version of "The yeah yeah yeah song", off their new album At War With The Mystics. I can’t get the video to play. (But here’s a video for a different song.)

Yeahyeahyeahyeahyeah [lots of those]

If you could blow up the world with the flick of a switch
Would you do it?
f you could make everybody poor just so you could be rich
Would you do it?
If you could watch everybody work while you just lay on your back
Would you do it?
If you could take all the love without giving any back
Would you do it?
And so we cannot know ourselves or what we’d really do…

With all your power
With all your power
With all your power
What would you do?

If you could make your own money and then give it to your buddies
Would you do it?
If you knew all the answers and could give it to the masses
Would you do it?
No no no no no no are you crazy?
It’s a very dangerous thing to do exactly what you want
Because you cannot know yourself or what you’d really do

With all your power
With all your power
With all your power
What would you do?

Truer words, especially where shaving is concerned. The album hasn’t really done if for me yet, except for this one incredible song. I’m pretty sure I’ll like the rest of the album later, after I grow into it. I always do. (I know what you’re thinking. There’s a stupid Amazon link in this post somewhere. But no.)