Neither humans nor animals were harmed in the creation of this AI image. Except for the ones being harmed by the emissions from the data centers powering the AI revolution that I call the Tyranny of Convenience. We’re all doomed.
This is where we have a little bit of fun here at the all aspect report. What with all the seriousness over on the main part of the blog, a bit of balance seems in order. On this page we’ll occasionally drop riffs, grooves and ditties. They’re intended to amuse and perhaps sometimes titillate. We can’t be serious all the time.
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The Alcatraz coyote is my new hero
In its 29 years as a federal penitentiary, no one is known to have escaped Alcatraz Island. Between five and ten inmates drowned during escape attempts (the larger number reflects an attempt by five inmates in 1962 who remain listed as missing and presumed dead). It’s 1.25 miles from the island to the nearest mainland…
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Amazon.com has become an extremely weird place (or: Adventures in underwear shopping)
I’m worried that capitalism has run out of things to do These boxer briefs may auger the demise of Western civilization. I recently had occasion to shop for underwear. I’ve never understood underwear companies’ approaches to the marketing and packaging of their products. For women, the experience involves going somewhere like Victoria’s Secret, wherein they…
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Mansplaining Mankeeping
The title of the essay in the New York Times is “Why ‘Mankeeping’ Is Turning Women Off.” Before you read so much as the byline, you’re hit with the essay’s lead image, a cartoon of a woman with bright pink and green hair wearing a lustrous blue leotard and enormous pink high heels. She’s delicately…
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When wokeism devolves into self-parody
I had to read the headline a couple of times. Then I had to double check that I was reading The New York Times and not The Onion or The Babylon Bee. Nope, it was right there, in the Letters to the Ethicist page of one of the most august newspapers of record in history:…
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Something Different: “The Rats, a parable”
Note: Today’s post is a departure for the all aspect report. It’s a short story. I’ve dabbled in short fiction in the past, and recently a bolt of inspiration hit when I read an op-ed that compared certain political figures to lab experiments that had escaped (for the life of me, I haven’t been able…
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FUN & GAMES: The indisputable superiority of British profanity
Warning: This post contains plentiful, rapturous, and thoroughly frivolous vulgarity (it’s 2024, for fuck’s sake, what did you expect?) Like millions of Gen Xers, my introduction to the strange land known as Great Britain came not via history class but BBC Television. Sometime in my impressionable childhood American Public Television positively lost its mind and…