I think you meant to write that "sexy journalist" is an oxymoron, since I posted this, not Cory.

I am absolutely the sexiest vegetarian in the boing boing blog triumverate. (I'm also the only one.)

> I am absolutely the sexiest vegetarian in the boing boing blog
> triumverate. (I'm also the only one.)

David, you are the exception that proves the rule!

>What's so sexy about that? I like a girl who uses her
>exiquisitely pointed canines to tear into the flesh of a
>tender young rabbit or veal cutlet, and then wipes the blood
>dripping down her chin with the back of her hand.

...and nobody will ever look at you the way they look at Natalie Portman.

> ...and nobody will ever look at you the way they look at Natalie
> Portman.

I'd rather look at a chicken undergoing laser surgery than look at Natalie Portman. She doesn't possess a drop of pulchritude, imo.

She's a good actress. Veggie-ness is also a good thing.

Truly a PR stunt. They're both in movies that will be major blockbusters this summer. Somehow PETA has to pay those big advertising bills, eh?

I'm sure I could find sexier vegetarians using just my bike and a camera.

Mark, you're not likely to find Portman all that sexy. She's, maybe, seventeen. Pulchritude requires a little age, just like a good cut of beef.

Very, very obviously all about PR, which makes you wonder who actually voted on and decided this, as there appears to be a form for on-line voting. Maybe they convined all of their followers to vote Big Summer Blockbuster. Excuse me, in what universe does Tobey Macguire beat-out Jude Law?

Substitute BBQ sauce for blood in that description and I'll second the motion.

I like the taste of meat, being descended from vicious killer apes 'n all, but I'm hoping that this whole ethical thrash can soon be put to bed.

I think we're closing in on meat boxes, where big cubic yards of non-sentient meat is grown. Maybe big rollouts of meat mats, where cool new-wave kidney and boomerang shaped cutlets can be lasered out.

Here, imagine this - a boomerang shaped ModernMeat(tm) cutlet with scenes from old Jot cartoons laser branded on! That would rule so hard!

That would make me want to eat way more meat. And serve my friends, too! Hey, think abou it. You wouldn't even have to eat it. It would just look cool on your Ebay-scored Fiestaware plates!

I love the future!

I thought PETA links were only for Fark and MeFi. Ahhh ... I was really hoping Rider Strong would win. Now he's a superstar.

Of course, this is the same PETA that employs Dan Matthews who said that his favorite gay man was serial killer Andrew Cunanan "because he got Versace to stop doing fur."

Man, I like the idea of laser cutout cutlets ... you could do cool interlocking Escher patterns right on your grill top. You could alternate beefoid(tm) and porkish(tm) to get those alternating light and dark patterns going, and have your meat custom cut in interlocking geese and fish patterns, so your dinner presentation is an aethetic feast for the eyes as well as for the stomach ...

What's so sexy about that? I like a girl who uses her exiquisitely pointed canines to tear into the flesh of a tender
 young rabbit or veal cutlet, and then wipes the blood dripping down her chin with the back of her hand.

So, um, something such as this, then?
http://www.satanscheerleaders.com/katnip/g...es/katnip25_jpg.htm

(Found on Shikencho )

Word of the Day for Monday April 16, 2001:

pulchritude \PUL-kruh-tood; -tyood\, noun:
That quality of appearance which pleases the eye; beauty; comeliness; grace; loveliness.

"No stranger aftermath" developed after the war, Thorek recalled, "than the sudden hope, surging through feminine--and sometimes masculine--hearts, that where nature had been niggardly in her gifts of pulchritude, the knife of the surgeon could remedy the lack."
--Elizabeth Haiken, Venus Envy: A History of Cosmetic Surgery

While other symbols of postwar pulchritude have gone into seclusion, become anti-vivisectionists or begun hawking designer eyeglasses, Gina Lollobrigida continues to tend her image with a fully sequined sense of responsibility to the legend.
--Mitchell Owens, "A Body of Work That's Not Just a Body," New York Times, January 11, 1995

Where Linda has her infectious charm, Polly has only her empty pulchritude.
--Hannah Betts, "Sixty years on, and it's still a gel thing," Times (London), February 3, 2001


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Pulchritude comes from Latin pulchritudo, from pulcher, "beautiful." The adjective form is pulchritudinous \pul-kruh-TOOD-n-us; -TYOOD-\.