Year: 2006

I cherry-picked a bunch of excellent mashups from M*A*S*H and The Food. Apologies to Bootie LA, who just gave me a copy of their great CD, but I think The Food’s What I Diggity Say (Ray Charles vs. Blackstreet) has got to be one of the best mashups I’ve ever heard and certainly the most…

Bettie Page is having yet another revival — though now, a totally Hollywood one — with the April release of The Notorious Bettie Page (Flash site, LAME!). I am glad that at least she’s being played by Gretchen Mol and not Liv Tyler, even though I can think of like ten non-famous, non-Hollywood burlesque dancers…

My friend Jack Boulware wrote a fascinating, well-researched and somewhat personal article for Salon about the fake writer JT LeRoy — who, as many of you know, is really a rich older lady who sold a bunch of lies as a memoir, even going so far as to say the “author” she concocted had HIV/AIDS…

On last night’s Colbert Report, TV’s Stephen Colbert did a short, hilarious segment on mysterious sperm donor 401, whose sperm was apparently in extremely high demand before the donor stopped jacking off for extra cash. If you read the nonfiction essay “Spem Bank Teller” in my book Best Sex Writing 2005, or listened to the…

I just got an email from a reader asking for male masturbation sleeve lube recommendations to go with a new toy he wants; I just don’t understand why a guy would be worried about the wasabi and ginger themed lube that comes with this blue Juicy Sushi Masturbator? I recommended Eros Bodyglide silicone for a…

Last night I went to Nerd Salon and had lots of fun listening to my friends talk about code (totally over my head), my pal’s Berkeley engineering robot project (got that one) and then when I just couldn’t take it anymore I rode molecular gastronomy geek and food hacker (and friend) Marc like a pony.…

I have a new obsession: YouTube. I’m playing around with YouTube’s subscribable tags right now, and came across this funny German commercial spoof and thought that since Kathryn and I are working like sexy little monkeys on my blog today, I’d experiment with my first embedded video in a post. It’s silly, but I love…