Monday, June 23, 2008

it takes a licking

kind of like it takes a village.

Sure, President Bush's Council on Bioethics has ruled that licking an ice cream cone is immoral (I am NOT making this up, and it explains a lot about his stance on things like, oh I don't know, abstinence-only edumacation and stem cell research), but some things just call for a good licking.

Or, perhaps, all things.

It started many years ago. Kevin began a photo collection of me "licking things." Trees, national monuments, passers-by. And over time, the "Wilson licks X" theme took on a life of its own.

Here are just a few samples from my own flickr photostream that came up because I bothered to add a "lick" tag. Lord knows how many others are out there.

Wilson licks Kevin
Wilson licks Kevin at Folsom Street Fair
Wilson Hardcastle licks Jon Glassmeyer
Wilson licks cactus
No Hitch Hiking - 3
DeYoung Museum - 5
Kevin and Wilson Toast Beer
Ian and Wilson
Ruby feeds Wilson
Wilson licks little Nan
Kyle, aka Dean, and Wilson
Jase Shea laughs as Wilson licks
Handsome is tasty
Winnie Bego and Wilson Hardcastle

Just for you Kevin, via BoingBoing, the longest tongued people. Stephen Taylor of the UK gets to the center of his Tootsie Pop with 9.5 centimeters of savory muscle.

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