Re: Our Lady of the Underpass

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Elevator down to get lunch two women were talking to each other about the new Pope (good--hewing to the course, the big changes can wait until after they die themselves), and how one of them had driven by the overpass to catch a glimpse in the morning.

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The only thing vaguely humanoid about the conical stain is that it's taller than it is wide. It has no recognizable face, no arms, no legs, no feet, no neck.

That's crap. Annotated picture here.

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The vagina looks more like a wine bottle, or actually like some of the 350ml eau-de-vie bottles one sees (thinner all round, less of a shoulder). It's the truncation at the bottom.

An alternate interpretation would make the flowers the anus (the ol' brown rose, mm-hmm) and the area between the flowers and the bottom of the vagina the perineum.

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Apropos of nothing, The Mineshaft in doll form.

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Patrick Nielsen Hayden beat Maria by close to two hours here.

I had the same uncharitable thought, but have no handy-dandy linkable post to prove it.

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Wasn't that Mrs. Nielsen Hayden?

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It was Mr. Nielsen Hayden commenting on a post by Mrs. Nielsen Hayden.

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