Posts Tagged ‘John Waters’

Morning Roundup: The Ugly Christmas Sweater Edition

Good morning, one and all. Today is the last full shopping day before Christmas. Have you driven back and forth to the mall 16 times and purchased all your gifts? Crossed the "Did I spend enough?" threshold with the in-laws? Maybe you're at the point where you just don't care anymore and you're pondering giving [...]

Boing Boing, John Waters, Teabagging FTW

Well hell. So much for armchair journalism. I blogged this morning about John Waters inventing the term teabagging. My evidence? A bunch of lazy Googling. Freakin' Boing Boing e-mailed him. About all I've got going for me is time stamp: I think Boing Boing's on West Coast time, which means that Xeni Jardin's statement that [...]

The Origins of “Teabagging”

Teabagging! It's all over the news. It's so all over, it's all over!
I first heard this delightful term in an interview with John Waters. I can't remember where—maybe Monk magazine? Jesus I'm getting old. That was before Waters' 1998 film Pecker, which features this phrase (video not quite SFW)
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Video: Watch John Waters Smoke

Due to a nasty cold that I suspect is very slowly mutating into a lower respiratory tract infection, I haven't had a cigarette since Thursday of last week. In the interim, I've been thinking about smoking, and watching movies in which people smoke, and walking out to City Paper's parking deck, where I purse my [...]