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		<title>bsc \/\/ the undeniable badassery of elephants</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s theme has something to do with worshiping Shiva and cucumbers equaling immortality. I didn&#8217;t really follow the logic because everyone already knows the the only way to become immortal is to find the philosopher&#8217;s stone and make rock soup mixed with the fungus of longevity while simultaneously listening to the phoenix song and drinking the water of the fountain of youth from the holy grail.  Problem solved humanity. Took you long enough. I am not an expert on Hinduism. Most of what I learned about it comes from a particular scene in an Indiana Jones picture (Kali Ma Shakti de! Kali Ma Shakti de! Cover your heart Indy!).  I do, however, know that Shiva gave birth to Ganesha (pictured above), who is blessed with the head of an elephant. Elephants have trunks that look like cucumbers.  And after all, elephants are everyone&#8217;s favorite land mammal and have a wide range of ready symbolism available. Wise elephant, old elephant, strong elephant, silent elephant. Seriously, I fucking LOVE elephants. I love their trunks and their tusks. Their wrinkly grey elephant crevasses. The word pachyderm.  Or when they gleefully play with water. I love their gargantuan size and how deceptively hairy [...]]]></description>
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