amputate (v.tr.): to remove by or as if by cutting; especially to cut (as a limb) from the body Amputation is fucked up. I think this is a universal truth. I therefore present to you three explorations of the degree to which amputation is fucked up. 1.) Traumatic amputation has symptoms, the first of which [...]
catamite (n.): a boy kept by a pederast I mean, really? There’s a word for “little boy catcher?”
ill (adj.): cool, tight, sweet, rad, awesome, bangin’. Compare “sick.” It wasn’t long ago that I did some good hard thinking about funny disease names, and a recent reentry of herpes zoster into my greater circle of friends and acquaintances got me back on that train. I think the categories of amusing ailments break down [...]
blood diamond (n.): a diamond mined in a war zone and sold, usually clandestinely, in order to finance an insurgent or invading army’s war efforts The lessons of the movie Blood Diamond can be summed up in three bullet points: Fatherhood makes you stupid. Fishermen catch fish. Journalists never get laid. Never ever.
hebro (n.; HEE-bro): a large, rounded, bulbous hairstyle worn by certain male Jews For those of you unfamiliar with the hebro, you can see it sported by such colorful characters as singer Art Garfunkel: South Park co-creator Matt Stone (in both short and long forms): And in years past, yours truly: This is why I [...]
tonsure (n.): 1 : the Roman Catholic or Eastern rite of admission to the clerical state by the clipping or shaving of a portion of the head; 2 : the shaven crown or patch worn by monks and other clerics In the early 1960s, five American G.I.s stationed in Germany decided to stay in country [...]
