Carousel -- Week Ending 22nd February 2008
[ 22 February 2008 ]
Yay, distractions to get you through Friday!
Doctor of Sexology — A Profile of Dr John Money.
Money says pornography, contrary to persisting beliefs, is not “contagious” and isn’t going to make you do anything you didn’t want to do anyway. “The only kind of pornography you can like is that which corresponds to your own lovemap. An example I give in lectures is that I could shut you up in a room for five hours of coprophilia movies and there’s no chance you’d eat %&$# sandwiches for breakfast in the morning.”
Why We Love Who We Love by Dr Joyce Brothers.
Epicurious reviews Marilyn Manson’s absinthe.
Blogging For Money by Steve Pavlina. A very important read for anyone who runs a blog & wants to make money from it!
Mix your own make-up palette, a demonstration from Domino magazine.
Celebrity houses! A huge thread on the Fashion Spot forums (best fashion-related forums ever). 36 pages, featuring the interior tastes of Sarah Jessica Parker, Greta Garbo, Vera Wang, Gwen Stefani, etc. So interesting! I love to see how people live & what they do with their money.
I Love You, But You Love Meat from the New York Times. An article on dietary needs within relationships. So cool.
An interview with Helmut Newton.
Love advice for the terminally perplexed is now available 24/7 at baffld!
Our ever-changing hues, an article from The Age about colour.
“People coming out of depression often respond well to green. Yellow is associated with spiritual clarity, but also warning – some people find it too confronting. Blue is a cooler colour that stimulates introspection. Purple is a push-pull colour: people are never lukewarm about it.” Red, she suggests, calls for balance: a bedroom that sees a lot of passion won’t need red, but it can be a plus if the action is lacking.
30 Fundamentals Of A Wonderful Life from I Will Change Your Life.
My new favourite Livejournal: k17k. Weird & beautiful photos galore!
Did any of you watch the last season of Australia’s Next Top Model? For anyone who did, Jordan Loukas (the cute girl with great eyes) just starred in her own show called Runway To L.A.. You can see the episodes here. Yay!
Vogue covers! Thank you, Nubby! (I have #21 hanging up in the iCiNG Bowl!)
G-spot research! Italian researchers have found that women who experience vaginal orgasms in the G spot are anatomically different from those who do not!
Pucker up & read through Affairs of the Lips: Why We Kiss from Scientific American.
Library staircase! DREAMY!
Finally, I love Slug (from Atmosphere) so much. So should you. Read his advice column! If you need persuading…
Due to the way your question is worded, I feel like your parents may have left you with a twisted outlook on “happily-ever-after.” Join the f-cking club, and only marry for love. Anything else won’t work. Besides, your child will benefit more from learning what happy looks like alone, rather than what misery looks like embraced.
This is a video of him & Ant. Watch!
Super-love & cupcakes,
Gala
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Wow, what a totally mind-blowing roundup of links!!
I’m so distracted now and I’m supposed to be doing marketing & branding research at work!
xoxo
Pearl Lowe’s house is gorgeous!
Love the comment: “Yeah, but come on, where does she keep her roll-on deodorant?”
Beehee!
Oh and Christian Louboutin’s house is dreamy…
Yayy stuff to click on! doki doki
Thanks for the cool links Gala~ ^^
“Besides, your child will benefit more from learning what happy looks like alone, rather than what misery looks like embraced.” –
So very very true,
Those words are resonating in my ears.
Thankyou for all the wonderful links today Gala.
So much to read,
Eeeee!
I think this is the best Carousel yet!
The staircase library….just Wow!
And those Vogue covers! Oh My!
All these links are making me feel better (i’m sick =( ), I love the celebrity houses!
Not only did I watch AuNTM, I smooched the winning girl on a dancefloor last year ;)
X
Audrey — Did you know she just walked for Dolce & Gabbana?
community.livejournal.com/topm…
Another cool LJ with random pictures:
riotclitshave.livejournal.com/
Thanks for the “I Love You, but You Love Meat” article Gala! With me finally committing to vegetarian this week & Mike being meat’s biggest fan, this was an interesting read! Also, YAY Slug! x
It’s so funny to me now that I read multiple blogs that I see repeats here on icing! I remember seeing the library staircase on BoinBoing and the disgusting-sounding Manson absinthe on Coilhouse, right?
Alice — Probably! I haven’t read either for a while (though I never really look at BB) — I found the library staircase on LJ & the Manson thing by searching his name in Google news!
oh gala, how i love thee. you always have the most interesting articles and the best things to say. i love the science of kissing, especially. i wish wish wish (..please) that you would consider doing another article on it. like…gala’s kissing boot-camp phase two.
(and i made cherry blossom cupcakes today and thought of you. the icing was almost the colour of your old hair! hee hee!)
I must have a library staircase! they are the ultimate geek wanna be librarian home decorating idea! reclining on the stairs in a tweed skirt and twin set, pot of tea and a good book… heaven!
Oh, also, Polly on Brunswick St (http://www.pollybar.com.au/) has Marilyn Manson absinthe as well as a huge range of cocktails. If you haven’t been there I recommend, even if only to drool over their gorgeous decor!
unfortunately, dr john money was an absolute moron, and a cruel person to boot, and his desire for scientific breakthroughs completely outweighed his morals and integrity.
don’t know what i’m talking about? research the case of david reimer, an identical twin whose botched circumcision led dr money to ‘experiment’ with sexual reassign surgery of children. he theorized that since david’s penis was basically burned off, david could be raised as a girl with no ill effects. unsurprisingly, it wasn’t that simple, and david (aka brenda) had huge mental issues as a result. dr money strove to cover up anything that ran contrary to his hypothesis that ‘nature’ can be overriden by ‘nurture’ when it comes to a child’s sexual identity. ‘brenda’ eventually found out the truth- that she was indeed a boy, which she had suspected all along- and underwent surgery to revert to a physical male.
nonetheless, the lasting impact of dr money’s horrific ‘experiment’ resulted in the suicide of david reimer. sad, sad, sad. and what’s more, i can believe that dr money, someone who prided himself on being a man of science, would think something as ridiculous as being able to change the sexual identity of a child simply by changing their genitalia and dressing them ‘appropriately’.
kyndra — Yeah, that was a very messed up experiment. I read about it & went “ergh”. But that experiment aside (which I’m sure he learned a lot from), I think a lot of the other stuff he said about sexuality was pretty cool & interesting.
so ever since that one entry about how to improve a bad day i’ve been a lot more positive which is weird considering i already thought i was a positive person.
anyways i started my own list and its coming along swimmingly.
even if i don’t do any of those things [again :)] i hope that someone reads it and does them.
i watched that pallette video and i am quite intrigued even though i rarely sport the lipstick. only in the horrendous magenta and brick red that makes me laugh when i go to “fix” my make up but i’m really just going to look at it.
i like how she said “scoop”
celebrity houses! i’m green with envy of mariah carey’s walk-in closet!
oooh how i love that library staircase!I want one!i’d want one even if i lived in a one-level flat:D!!!
How do you find/decide on the amazing pictures that begin all your posts?
Mikolina — I browse Flickr a lot :D
A second Dr. Money is an idiot here. He really doesn’t ‘get’ perversion, and his statement that paraphilia prevents a person from enjoying love and romance is um… obviously untrue.
OK, I finally got to take a carousel ride. LOVE the Vogue covers! Too awesome! My faves are the 80s and 90s ones, because I truly love supermodels, Princess Diana and huge eyebrows . .