- Serena Williams is a goddess. Here she is enjoying life (she recently had surgery for a blood clot in her lung) in a bikini, frolicking on the beach in Miami, more pics at Daily Fail link: Curvy tennis star Serena Williams gets her beach wiggle on… but her tiny bikini is barely fit for purpose (dailymail.co.uk)
- So now you can add “tour the kinky castle” to your tourist to-do list when you visit SF! Seriously. The Kink.com tour is awesome – and this ABC item is fun, at least because we all know what Peter means when he says the building has “character” that fits his business needs: Kink.com owner opens San Francisco Armory to visitors (abc7news.com)
- Creepy ladycreeps: we’ve got them here in spades. I know how Mark Pincus feels (in this instance), and it’s no fun. Still, I wonder what club(s) she worked at in town: Zynga CEO Files Restraining Order Against Possibly Schizophrenic Stripper Who’s Stalking Him (SFist)
- You might think this item is ordinary, but it’s not – especially when you get to the part where a local Muslim man says that if she was his daughter, he’d kill her for being in Playboy. As in, murder: Turkish-German woman’s Playboy cover stirs controversy (Deutsche Welle, via Cyrus Farivar)
- This is a human rights issue if you ask me – in Malaysia it’s time for school to start. Homosexual re-education camp that is, where 66 boys are about to be sent, by the state. The outcry is starting, but I’m not optimistic: Malaysian anti-gay camp condemned (ABC Australia, thanks John!)
- Adorbs! This article about non-baby-making sex advice from a 17th century London column: Athenian Mercury: The Non-Reproductive Sex Issue (The Awl)
Wow, so you are personally familiar with what it’s like there – this must make it that much more personal, and thus so much more chilling. This item upsets me deeply. It scares the hell out of me, in the way all “camps” should actually scare everyone.
That story on Malaysia is scary stuff. I lived there while (arguably) growing up and loved the people, so the kind of institutionalised racism that goes on – and now this kind of persecution – sits even more uncomfortably with me than it would other wise.