QOTD

"Internesia, n.: The growing tendency to forget exactly where in Cyberspace you saw a particular bit of information." -- Dave Birch

(Via Dave Locke on trufen.)

Freak flags flying

Spotted just now at Bulldog News: a girl with a boy on a leash. They looked fannish to me, but maybe that's because the last time I saw people on leashes was at a Norwescon many years ago. Although in that case the couples were wearing fetish gear, whereas these two were dressed in weedy college-kid clothes. I confess that my bourgeois sensibilities were shocked, never having seen this on the streets of Seattle before. I also thought it was funny that it took me a moment to recognize the strap of leather as a leash, and part of the reason it took me a moment was because the leash was in *her* hand and around *his* neck and not vice versa. I had to laugh at my very conventional mind.

Image of the Night

The False Magistrate (Le faux magistrat, 1914)