The Believer on “the visual erotics of mini-marriages”–staged weddings, that is, between children, stuffed kittens, dwarfs, and other small things.
Veritable Human Dumplings
November 7th, 2007 · 2 Comments
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Khalid (née Bertram) Sheldrake, the “power hungry, toothbrush mustachioed, British ninny” who somehow failed to convert western China to Islam. Some Of Our Corky Chums
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2 responses so far ↓
1 mgrasso // Nov 7, 2007 at 9:01 am
::stunned::
Yeah, I’ll definitely be using this in my Promethean game somehow…
2 Rob // Nov 7, 2007 at 9:04 am
There’s a LOLcats joke waiting to be made but I haven’t figured it out yet.
P.S.: The author of that piece is writing a cultural history of taxidermy. And she’s Canadian. And she has a blog.
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