In case you didn’t know, I didn’t come up with the phrase “anal sovereignty” — credit for that goes to Jonathan Rosenberg, the guy behind the online comic Goats and inventor of my another favourite phrase of mine, “ass finger“. The story of how I passed inspection at U.S. Customs did the rounds at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference; since that memorable phrase was used to end that blog entry, it became a popular expression for the week.
Here’s the strip in which “anal sovereignty” appears:
And for the insatiably curious and butt-joke-fixated, here’s:
Now I think I shall step outside and do something a little more productive (and a little less disturbing).
Oh, my sweet summer child, do you not know about the “Loofah Code” in The…
...and by that, I mean, being completely ignorant of the larger world outside the U.S.…
Wednesday, August 7, 1991: A sunny day at Toronto’s CNE Grandstand, and what a lineup:…
The cover painting says it all.