Ok, DavidS is grosser. He wins.

What? You never went down on a woman using a diaphragm?

Incidentally, Gus, there's a travel book titled No Touch Monkey! which makes me think of you every time I see it.

Tommyrot, really good episode.

Incidentally, Gus, there's a travel book titled No Touch Monkey! which makes me think of you every time I see it.

Heh. He already has that book.

Historical tidbit: By 1669, the Dutch East Indies Company was the richest private company the world had ever seen, with over 150 merchant ships, 40 warships, 50,000 employees, a private army of 10,000 soldiers, and a dividend payment of 40%.

whoa. Way serendipitous post. Tommyrot sent me No Touch Monkey! in the mail a ways back.

You said that, then addressed tommyrot. So, I am going "whoa!"

The History of Spices is the History of Trade

Yeah, SA and I were at Quimby's when I found that book. I mentioned Gus and SA convinced me to buy it for him.

The History of Spices is the History of Trade

True, that. If you can make the leap between spice and entertainment, you can bring us right up to the present day.

If you can make the leap between spice and entertainment, you can bring us right up to the present day.

Cue, Guy Debord's Society of Spectacle.

In the essential movement of the spectacle, which consists of taking up all that existed in human activity in a fluid state so as to possess it in a congealed state as things which have become the exclusive value by their formulation in negative of lived value, we recognize our old enemy, the commodity, who knows so well how to seem at first glance something trivial and obvious, while on the contrary it is so complex and so full of metaphysical subtleties.

This is the principle of commodity fetishism, the domination of society by "intangible as well as tangible things," which reaches its absolute fulfillment in the spectacle, where the tangible world is replaced by a selection of images which exist above it, and which simultaneously impose themselves as the tangible par excellence.

The world at once present and absent which the spectacle makes visible is the world of the commodity dominating all that is lived. The world of the commodity is thus shown for what it is, because its movement is identical to the estrangement of men among themselves and in relation to their global product.

SA has been two-timing me with tommyrot. For years.

I feel like such a dunce.

I feel like such a dunce.

Well, she's going to Ireland for a while. Maybe she can two-time you with your relatives now.