Pimpin’ ain’t easy…Fetlife Contest
Pimpin’ ain’t easy… I don’t usually pimp internet contests and assorted other memes. But Fetlife is running a holiday giveaway. Now, normally I’d ignore this. But I’ve already pimped Fetlife here, because I think it’s a great community service. It’s an online gateway that has brought about a quarter-million people into contact with the Kink […]
Thanksgiving and License WTF
So as we approach the holiday…somebody’s holiday, I thought I’d do something entertaining. All of my ideas got nixed with vague mutterings of “public indecency…Sir…” so that leaves me with prose and pictures. I always have mixed feelings about Thanksgiving. It’s true I have a tremendous amount to be Thankful for. But…why do I have […]
The View from the Roof
In the fall I make three annual pilgrimages. Unless of course I forget to. Unfortunately, one is often to my roof. The Manse passed its centenary a few years back, and the roof is old. The other Victorians in the neighborhood are mostly flat roofed, but the manse boasts a high hip roof which stands […]
Stumbling on Happiness – Part the First
For the past year or so I’ve been making occasional allusions to a great book with a really stupid title. Daniel Gilbert’s book Stumbling on Happiness sounds like it should be what the late Douglas Adams called a “Liff” – a book that claimed “this book will change your life!” Gilbert makes no such claim. […]
Californication and M/s
Californication I don’t really love TV shows all that much. I tend to let them go for a year or two then watch all the episodes in three weeks. I like to take the lead on the literature and ideas in my life, but I’m inclined to let girls take the lead on television…it just […]
RIP Jack McGeorge, and the Instinct for Humiliation
Jack McGeorge This is the last place anyone in the kink community will read it, but Jack McGeorge has died. While I did not agree with everything that he had to say, I always found him a powerful, provocative, and solid presence, and have a great deal of respect for him on many levels. I […]
The Lion the Witch and the Strap-On…
Trying to actually get some copy out these two weeks… So…take a look at this and tell me what you think: http://www.aslanleather.com/catalog/ First, disclaimer. The more people I get to know in the Leather Community (and let’s face it, I’m a fucking new guy to most of these folks), the more I can’t throw a […]
Gays and the Danger of Going Against your Nature…a provocative finding….
Last night I was, ironically, at Trio in Dupont (the stronghold from which we try to watch the Drag Race every year) when I saw the print version of the Washington Post Website (my cute name for Post Express…live with it) proclaim: Psychologists repudiate gay-to-straight therapy. and pointed this out to M. who said “well […]
"It was all on the Cover of Newsweek…"
“I’m on my way…” So this is one of those weeks when I don’t have time to tie my shoes (for which I have an elegant solution), but I wanted to post very quickly with this article for anybody who missed it. It’s unique for two reasons. First, it’s a very positive coverage of poly […]
Pimping
Back in March when it was cold outside, S. circulated an article in the Washington Post to me that we thought was very amusing. It was about how a sex store was opening in Old Town, despite the histrionics and aneurisms of the local high hats. This was just amusing. The shop also got coverage […]
