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Washington Journal : Elana Schor from "The Hill" on Larry Craig (realplayer popup)

Audio Interviews with Larry Craig, featuring an audio recording of man who claims he had sex with larry.

More In-Depth Reporting from Princess Sparkle Pony

One thing that stood out (LOL) in Senator Larry Craig's arrest report (for soliciting public sex with other men in an airport restroom, you may remember) was all the weird foot-tapping, almost as if the wayward Republican had been attempting to recreate one of the more heartfelt tap dancing scenes in Pennies from Heaven or, more plausibly, rudimentary Morse Code for "I want to [give pleasure to] your [poultry-related euphemism for male genitalia]." The arresting officer reports:

At 1216 hours, Craig tapped his right foot. I recognized this as a signal used by persons wishing to engage in lewd conduct. Craig tapped his toes several times and moves his foot closer to my foot. I moved my foot up and down slowly.

Is this tapping part of the secret, not-terribly-subtle or complicated code of the tearoom queens? Why yes, inquiring mind, it certainly is! From the same public toilet sex-enthusiast web site I quoted yesterday comes this helpful tip (emphasis mine):

If you are in the stalls, pick the stall that might offer the most privacy (if there is such a thing). Many Cruisers go for the handicap stall if there is one, because it offers the most room and is often at the farthest end of the washroom. Once there you can pull your pants down all the way to your ankles. This is a good sign that you open for business.

More and more public restrooms have automatic toilet flushing devices. Take a couple sheets of toilet paper folded, spit on an edge, and cover the electronic sensor. That way you can lean forward to check out other [people who give pleasure to poultry-related euphemisms for male genitalia] without the toilet automatically flushing.

If there is someone beside you, try tapping your foot once and see if he taps back. If he does, move your foot closer and do it again. After a couple taps back and forth, you are usually in luck. Clearing your throat can also be a good way of letting other guys in the restroom know you are there.

Poor Larry, he was doing everything right!

PS: For those of you yesterday who were wondering exactly how they... pleasure each other... under the stalls:

If there are no glory holes, you can go for under-the-stall action. Make sure that if you are on your knees having some guy [give you pleasure] underneath the stall, that you are flexible enough to quickly get up and recover should someone else come in. If there are glory holes, see the Glory Hole section of this guide for more info on getting off at your local hole.

This has been the most education week ever on Princess Sparkle Pony!

UPDATE: From Thursday's Washington Post:

"If you are in the stall, you tap your foot, and if the person next to you taps a foot, you keep going back and forth until one person makes a move," he says. "Someone will then stick their hand underneath. Or they will pass a note on paper. Or, what I've heard is, when they think it's safe," they will move on to sexual contact in the space beneath the partition."

Wow, does that sound in any way familiar?

log cabin republicans perspective

randi rhodes on larry king live

astrological analysis of larry craig

the singing senators - the daily show with steven colbert

remix: i want to be your nasty bathroom boy

parody: tap three times

randi rhodes on craig

dan savage on how "bathroom meetups" are for repressed people, not openly gay people

dan popkey on hardball http://video.msn.com/v/us/fv/msnbc/fv.htm??g=243ea109-3b77-4dc6-883f-481ddf52f4a1&f=00&fg=copy

cruising in airport bathrooms

Larry Craig : Update Update

Sex in a Public Bathroom is called . . . COTTAGING

I Might Have As Well Bee His Briefcase - the guardian

Craig Revelations Complicate Senate Picture - the washington post

Craig is Stripped of All Committee Appointments - cnn

My nomination for most unfortunate sentence in the Washington Post story:
His leading Democratic challenger is former congressman Larry LaRocco, a Boise banker and onetime Senate staffer. He already is campaigning aggressively, baling hay and laying pipe on a "Working for the Senate" tour. - from Metafilter

Larry Craig's first words to the assembled press at his news conference this afternoon: "Thank you all for coming out today." - also Metafilter

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Princess Sparkle Pony has been investigating "the bathroom" in question in the Larry Craig Bathroom scandal . . .
read up what those who frequent the Minneapolis-StPaul Secret Bathroom have to say.

WASHINGTON —  Sen. Ted Stevens, currently the subject of an FBI corruption probe, is questioning the modus operandi of the FBI in the daylong search of his home in Girdwood, Alaska, fellow western state colleague Sen. Larry Craig said Wednesday.

"They appeared to stage an event for the sake of publicity... It would be very intimidating to me," Craig added.

> Fox News Article, August 1, 2007

from larry craig's enewsletter "Idaho's Capitol Connection" - dated Aug. 23, 2007

"Larry Craig's bathroom behavior and the Right Wing -- Then and Now" - glenn greenwald of salon

watch a re-enactment here

Senate Republicans call for Ethics Investigation of Sen. Craig (R). - josh marshal of TPM

If I had no concept about myself, what would happen to me?

Why have I, who have lived forty, fifty, sixty—or whatever number of years it is that one has lived—why have I gathered this store-houseful of what I think, what I feel, what I am, what I should be, this accumulation of experience, knowledge? And if I had not done that, what would happen? Do you understand? If I had no concept about myself, what would happen to me? I would be lost, wouldn’t I? I would be uncertain, terribly frightened of life. So I build an image, a myth, a concept, a conclusion about myself, because without this framework life would become for me utterly meaningless, uncertain, fearful: there would be no security. I may be secure outwardly; I may have a job, a house, and all the rest of it, but inwardly also I want to be completely secure. And it is the desire to be secure that compels me to build this image of myself, which is verbal. Do you understand? It has no reality at all; it is merely a concept, a memory, an idea, a conclusion.

JKrishnamurti.org - Daily Quote
-The Collected Works, Vol. XV - 193

      

From Hearsay to Headline: Tracking the Larry Craig Coverage
How different editors made different decisions in the still-unfolding story of an online outing attempt. Here's how Poynter decided to handle issues raised by the story.

By Pat Walters, Freelance Journalist

It was about 5:30 on a Tuesday evening in mid-October when Dean Miller tracked down Corey Taule by cell phone.

The editor of the Post Register in Idaho Falls, Idaho, had called his political reporter to let him know about a blogger's claim that one of the state's leading political figures had had sex with four men. Taule was on a campaign bus with Republican gubernatorial candidate Butch Otter.

Also on the bus was Larry Craig, a Republican senator from Idaho and the subject of the blogger's claim.

Taule would discover later that evening that Craig had known about the blog post since early afternoon. The reporter was intrigued, in retrospect, by how unruffled the senator had appeared. But what should the newspaper do?

www.poynter.com

Larry Craig: Update

talking points memo has the arrest report

also, MyDD uncovered the Mitt Romney Endorsement Video

 

 

 

15 days ago, Dan Popkey of the Idaho Statesman asked "Will Larry Craig Run For Re-Election?" i have a sneaking suspicion the answer is "NO".

 

 

 

UPDATE! UPDATE!

Arrest Clouds Idaho Senator's Future

By MATTHEW DALY
The Associated Press
Tuesday, August 28, 2007; 3:25 AM

WASHINGTON -- Idaho Sen. Larry Craig is a conservative Republican who has voted against gay marriage and opposes hate crimes legislation that would extend special protections to gay and lesbian crime victims.

> Full Washington Post Article

 

Idaho On Fire

Ketchum/Sun Valley is on fire, threatening the Heinz-Kerry Estate.

 

 

a "he said/he said misunderstanding"

 

READ UP: 
roll call - Larry Craig Arrested, Pleads Guilty Following Incident in Airport Restroom

talking points memo - Larry Craig Arrested

talking points memo - Larry Craig Calls Clinton a "Bad Boy"

talking points memo - What Will Idaho Family Values Say??

ap news - Idaho Senator Arrested In Bathroom

fox news - Larry Craig Denies Wrongdoing

boise guardian - Larry Craig Arrested

Mitt Romeny Blocks Larry Craig Support Video  This Afternoon

UPDATE:  CNN’s Wolf Blitzer has reported that Larry Craig has resigned his appointment as co-chair of Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, and the campaign has accepted his resignation.

Craig Says "I Should Not Have Pled Guilty"

yeah . . . righttttt . . . more inside story here

watch local news coverage, channel 2

         

1982, Larry Craig in Denial

1982, Larry Craig in Denial, Part 2

Barney Frank on his gaydar of Larry Craig

Craig uses "JazzHands" on the Senate Floor

Grambo Report: Larry Craig Beats Puppies

an excellent archive on shipping containers as houses

more videos by inhabit

strangemaps: blog

telstar logicstics: blog

"glamping?" wtf?

click here to watch

what happens when you don't visit boing-boing for a while

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Also, have you ever wondered what the ambiance sounds like at Burning Man . . .
listen here

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                                           (from crooks and liars)

                                       (take the test yourself here)

"Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America" Peter Dale Scott - Professor Emeritus of English, University of California, Berkeley August 8, 2007

the someday lounge (portland, or) has a huge archive of web-streamed performances.

also, clips on the tube

German Spacecraft TerraSAR-X is taking high-resolution images of earth from orbit  (from metafilter)

zigloo (b.c., canada) has an extensive photo illustration series on one of their home designs which uses storage containers as the main frame structure.

volksware has an amazing photomural and a wonderful recycle aesthetic
(found via jill danyelle and her lab)