Gratuitous Domestic Posting (TM) - Technological Seduction Division

So the Missus went and bought herself an I-pod. True to our rayther Luddite leanings, we had to have one of the Llama-ettes' little friends come over and set the durn thing up for her.

For the past day or two, therefore, the talk around Orgle Manor has been of nothing but said I-pod, the Missus praising its glories and the Llama-ettes squabbling over it like seagulls fighting over a dead crab. I was sniffing about the whole business this morning when the Missus said, "Oh, yes? Well what about you and your blogging?"

"That, my dear," I replied loftily, "is an exercise in creative writing."

"Uh, huh," she said. "And I suppose all those babe photos you post are an exercise in creative writing, too?"

Ouch.

IN FOR A PENNY UPDATE: It happens to be the late Robert Palmer's birthday today. In his honor, let us study one of his more famous MTV videos with a view to a discussion of the so-called Reagan Revolution of the mid-80's and the aesthetics of babe objectification in popular musick and culchah and stuff during that period. This is strictly academic, of course: