the boob mines

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Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:02:17 -0500

This Tumblr no longer tumbls.

It was a nice way to anonymously distribute funny observations about my weird job at a weird men’s publication.

But now I don’t work there anymore. Still, I don’t want to delete this stuff. So I have this other Tumblr over here.

Follow that one. Because nothing is going to happen here unless I get my old job back.

Well that was certainly a weird trip. I almost started to enjoy myself for a second there. Oh...

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:28:58 -0500

Well that was certainly a weird trip.

I almost started to enjoy myself for a second there. Oh well.

Sorry for anyone paying attention here. It was a half assed thing to begin with and now it’s over.

Raw, brutal economics at work, people.

The saddest part is that I’ll never get to to go the mansion.

via twitter

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:13:17 -0500

friend: Vermont teddy bear commercial continues to creep me out. Sexualized stuffed animals and infantilized grown women. Ew.

me: @friend You just described a normal day at work for me.

Photo

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:29:45 -0500

Just because the snow all melted over the weekend doesn’t...

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:17:25 -0500

Just because the snow all melted over the weekend doesn’t mean it’s not still gray and cold here. So that’s why we’re looking at this today.

OH: “I also have a bra down here that we didn’t use. Do you want me to return it? Can we...

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:20:49 -0500

OH: “I also have a bra down here that we didn’t use. Do you want me to return it? Can we get store credit because it’s a $150 bra. The tags are on the bra. She never even put it on.”

There’s been a really kind of distressing focus on twins around here the past couple of...

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:22:25 -0500

There’s been a really kind of distressing focus on twins around here the past couple of months.

Just sayin’.

I can’t think how it’s even possible that we...

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:20:22 -0500

I can’t think how it’s even possible that we don’t have one of these in the office already.

Everyday life is far out. I first realized that many years ago, when I turned on the radio and...

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:37:55 -0500

Everyday life is far out. I first realized that many years ago, when I turned on the radio and someone was asking a man to describe his most embarrassing experience. I’ve never forgotten what he said. “I was sitting at home one night, washing my trombone, when I looked through the window, and there in the moonlight on the crazy paving I saw a hedgehog. Thinking it might be thirsty, I took it out a saucer of gin. The following morning I observed that the gin was untouched. Imagine my embarrassment when I found that it wasn’t a hedgehog at all; it was a lavatory brush.” I’m sorry, but if that isn’t far out, I don’t know what is. What was he doing washing a trombone?

Oh, ok, right after I posted the previous, I discovered the above quoted paragraph in an interview with Peter O’Toole and if that’s not one of the best paragraphs ever, well, you’ll have Peter O’Toole to answer to.

And I think he can take you.

So I discovered yesterday that six different people are...

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:30:47 -0500

So I discovered yesterday that six different people are following this nonsense on Tumblr now. Who are you eager young go-getters with so little in your lives? Sorry this thing has gone all quiet. There has been very little news from the Mines these days, or rather none that can be turned into anything vaguely amusing. We’re in the midst of a redesign, concurrent with a project meant to chip every last speck of joy from our souls.

Oh, wait, no those are both the same project. My bad.

ANYWHO.

By way of apology, have a picture of Margot Kidder doing a topless cartwheel or something. Seriously. For you.

Sometimes going through the archives from the 50s I’ll pause briefly and think to myself,...

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:04:32 -0500

Sometimes going through the archives from the 50s I’ll pause briefly and think to myself, “dude, you’re ogling somebody’s *grandma*.”

This is so Fifties I can hardly stand it.

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:52:01 -0500

This is so Fifties I can hardly stand it.

One of the most perverse things a person can have to do here is go through the photo archives with...

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:14:13 -0500

One of the most perverse things a person can have to do here is go through the photo archives with the express goal of finding pictures of girls decently dressed.

Another bizarre gem fell in my lap today. It’s important...

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:11:00 -0500

Another bizarre gem fell in my lap today.

It’s important to bear in mind that this is from 1971.

No Photoshop, y’know.

Actual email excerpt: “If you could amend the stripper before you do the cowgirls, that would...

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:23:44 -0500

Actual email excerpt:

“If you could amend the stripper before you do the cowgirls, that would be great. Thanks!”

The fun part is imagining the scenario that resulted in ferrets...

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:00:56 -0500

The fun part is imagining the scenario that resulted in ferrets just showing up on this shooting location.

Ok, the front page of the site today is promoting “See sexy pics of NAKED GIRLS...

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:58:31 -0500

Ok, the front page of the site today is promoting “See sexy pics of NAKED GIRLS EATING!”

I do not approve.

OMG BUNNIES.

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:35:41 -0500

OMG BUNNIES.

Today I learned that no fewer than two of the cast members of...

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:34:19 -0500

Today I learned that no fewer than two of the cast members of “Beyond the Valley of the Dolls” were featured in 60s editions of TYCBOMT. And one of them worked in a TYCBOMT Club.

And this cheered me up immensely.

Is it a surprise that even the flu shots at this place are administered by hot girls?

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:32:00 -0500

Is it a surprise that even the flu shots at this place are administered by hot girls?