I LOVED your exploration of nudity. Thanks for my encouragement. ” Now it’s my turn to take the exploration a step further and flesh it out. I cannot believe I waited a week or so do to this … but (deep breath).

I’m ready now.

I just typed in Winston Hoy nude, and this is what I found:

You wrote a few days ago about our society’s exploitation of natural bodies. I completely agree. I sat next to my uncle at my MeMe and Papi’s (grandmother et grandfather) house a few weeks ago for breakfast and listened to him describe why he thought KateWinslet was not attractive. I was completely dumbfounded. I thought she was so natural. I think she is completely wonderful.  If you’ve seen The Reader, she puts on a wonderful performance. She is nude through the better half of it (and according to some, it is the better-half of the film). But according to my uncle, whose opinion I do not share, her body needs a plastic tune-up. This could just be a geographic feature: the Los Angeles affair with plastic surgery – or it could just make him into women with big breasts, permanently pursed lips and serious inability to express emotion.

What I’m after is just how stark perceptions of nude are. There is a sense that people should be fixed, or that everyone needs some alteration. I prescribe to it, too. I indulge in a few self-help books now and again. However, when it comes the scalpel, that scares me. It should. There are women and men out there who don’t buy in to this cut and paste rubbish. I almost lost hope for some time, until I learned of a Brit named Sue Tilly.

In May 2008, BBC reported on a woman named Sue Tilly, who admitted to being the voluptuous body sprawled on Lucien Freud’s portrait titled Benefits Supervisor Sleeping.

At the time, this painting was the most expensive selling painting in the world at $33.6 million. IMAGINE THAT! I felt like I won the a huge prize, even though I was not painted on canvas (a la Titanic – another nude Kate Winslet reference!). I felt like I was winning for all the women who visit the beach and yearn to remove their tops or breast feed their babies in public. So often women, and men, feel uncomfortable with their legs, thighs, etc. – but Sue Tilly proves that everyone is beautiful. There is no standard for beauty, although people often believe there is. No one can design the perfect nude. No one can measure or calculate just how unreal it is to see something so natural and, cool. If you’re as cool as Sue Tilly, you might even find your place worldwide, as a spokesperson for your own beauty.

Oh hey, and I think you’re pretty great. I hope you enjoyed this rant. Let’s be naked soon.

What pages come up first in a google search say a lot about how our culture views a topic. Type in a term like “racism” and you will find a lot of pages exploring racism and denouncing it. Type in something like “baseball” and you’ll see a million pages feeding our culture’s obsession with baseball. Type in “nudity” and you’ll see our culture’s obsession with an exploit of our bodies in their natural state.

Now type in Nicole Elyse Charky nude in the images search. Nothing comes up. . . . yet. Nicole, you love being naked and I commend you for it. Don’t be afraid to frolic and play among the falling leaves of the golden brown season that is autumn. Do not miss your chance to experience the brisk sensation that only comes from a naked body of water making lik”

I don’t know where I was going with this, wrote it on 10.29.08 and just thought I’d share…

From Muriel’s Wedding. A fine little clip.

I like they way they move…!

I loved that little man’s song. Did you sympathize? Here is another Australian film that won some nods at Tropfest Australia last year. I adore this.

Listen to this kid’s range!

Hopefully we’ll catch some killer waves, fish and head out on a yacht. I leave you with a sweet yacht. Yacht may be my new favorite word.

I miss you and I want to have a large party with yacht rock.

Search youtube for zorb, zorbing.  These things are so sweet!!  Only $1500 on ebay!

For some reason ants chose to invade my mom’s kitchen. I am holding down the fort and securing the rations for battle. It’s been a battle, indeed. Every 20 minutes, I ambush the tile with Windex. I am struggling though because I am unsure if I should kill them. Everytime I smush one I have to ask for forgiveness from it. This morning has run it’s course. I had an appetite, but now I have none. I only have dead ants all over my kitchen.

Here’s a little Adam and the ants:

Lip Dub – Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger from amandalynferri on Vimeo.
I Like Orange Juice!