Ok, so Willow is in FHM’s 100 sexiest women, or at least the actress is. Is that the sound of Ian running out for a copy? Anyway, find your dream date from the buffy the vampire series Here. Ian’s match is unsurprisingly, WIllow.
The evil webmaster would like to point out: You’ll have to make it known that Willow is mine. All mine, y’hear!
Over on LiveJournal a poster has started a meme. When she scratches her belly button, she says, her clitoris is stimulated. All around the world, women are playing with their innies, trying to reproduce this effect. It’s actually quite common.
The revelation got me thinking about the good old BB. I knew it was where the umbilical cord connected in to the fetus and that was how nutrients etc. were transferred, but what exactly were the components of the umbilical. I had never given much thought to it, but it seems obvious that parts of the cord should remain in the body after birth, integrated into different organs. All of these useful facts were gleaned from a site set up to investigate the prevalence of belly button fluff (or lint, as it’s American).
Considering its connection to birth and strategic placement, it’s not surprising that the belly button has been eroticised, with a whole BB subculture and pages devoted to navels. (As we’re having a special Willow week here at Spinneyhead, here’s a link to Alyson Hannigan’s innie.) You can even find films ‘starring your favorite bellybutton – baring Superheros…The Bellybutton Hunter and The Tomb Huntress!‘
More scientifically, umbilical cord blood cells could be as good a source of stem cells as fetuses, though this is a controversial claim and most places only harvest the blood for reintroduction to the original owner.
And, finally, I couldn’t end this subject without mentioning piercings.
Well, I still have my two front teeth, and they won’t send Avril Lavigne or Alyson Hannigan through the mail, so-
Wear It Out
A few years ago, I wrote ‘I Want My MP3’ lyrics for Money For Nothing. As they were so awful that no-one would perform them, I’ll have to settle for the T-Shirt.
Power Symbol. Cause you turn me on.
Generic Humanoid Carbon Unit Just so everyone knows how to refer to me.
It must be user error It’s always user error. Life would be so much easier without them.
RTFM
The Eagle’s Shadow: Why America Fascinates and Infuriates the World, Mark Hertsgaard
9-11, Noam Chomsky
The End of the American Era: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Geopolitics of the Twenty-First Century, Charles Kupchan
Moving Pictures
Ronin Because my copy of this DVD disappeared.
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Four Disc Set Because everyone else seems to have a copy, so I must have one too.
Choons!
The Coral – The Coral
The Last Broadcast – Doves
A Rush Of Blood To The Head – Coldplay
Play!
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Crockett, Tubbs and me.