After being offline all weekend helping a friend get hitched at the Russian River, Hacker Boy and I are getting water at Safeway and he surprises me with that thing you never expect your pale, lanky, broody very boyish companion to say — “Hey, is that the new issue of O?” It was — and…
Month: June 2007
A day with the Sanyo Xacti waterproof videocamera
As seen on Scott’s post (image via), last night I got my hands on an about-to-be-released Sanyo Xacti E1 waterproof video camera (thanks Irina!). So today I took it to the beach — among other, ahem, places. I love it! wish I had one of my own — except now it seems to be broken;…
The TSA hates your vibrator, and they don’t think I’m very funny either
Image found in this explicit gallery (via). Today’s Chron column is a humorous look at applying the TSA’s travel guidelines to traveling with sex toys (and other adult issues). Lots of people like it, except for the TSA employee who wrote me a very stern letter about how they totally do not have slip ‘n…
Do not miss Josh Wolf on the Colbert Report
Scott has it here. I am still smiling :)
OMG ponies! I mean, podcasts!
I’m ba-ack…. Open Source Sex audio is in effect. Listen and read: open source sex 56: erotica (MP3; episode page) This is very much a new favorite story (and fantasy) for me, and it was a sublime pleasure to read — “Tied to the Kitchen Sink” by Kay Jaybee. It’s in my new book Lust:…
Rachel Kramer Bussel explains porn for women and boobies
Image: Artist Whitney Lee from Made With Sweet Love vacuuming her hook-rug porn. Okay, maybe not the boobies part, but a girl can dream… Over at HuffPo, Rachel takes a look at the Chronicle Books “humor” book Porn for Women and pokes at finding nuggets of truth in any of it, along with making a…
Flickr explains moderated settings and boobies
(Above image by seventeenstars; is public in Flickr) First — this made my nose into a soy latte cannon this morning: Fun With Flickr: Find The Uncensored Boobies! And — it’s filed under “butwhatabouthechildren”! So awesome. In response to my further questions pressing them for details, Flickr’s Stewart writes me back today with clarifying details…
Things I did *not* buy at the Good Vibes sample sale
Left to right: Sex Cab for Cutie; The Pursuit of Happy Ass; MILF Street Blues; Thighs Wide Open; Fast Fuck Nation; The Boobs of Hazzard 1 and 2; and Acockalipto. Also, Good Vibes gave me a cone for testing and reviewing. The Cone scares me. I made a video of my cone-phobia that I’ll edit…
Flickr responds
The apology email I got from Stewart at Flickr is below. It is deeply appreciated: * * * * * * * Hi Violet, I’ve set your account back to ‘safe’, though I’ve also set several of your photos (individually) to the ‘moderate’ setting and one or two to ‘restricted’. Scott Beale pointed out your…
Gmail broken
Image by courtneyp. Aaaaargh. I got an email from Stewart at Flickr late last night (morning, actually) and want to post an update about my account (mostly re-instated, still no hard answers on exactly what I did wrong or how I can avoid this in the future) but I’m frozen in my tracks because Gmail…