If you want to listen to yesterday’s fun panel, the SXSW post is here, and you can snag the mp3 here. Yay!
Year: 2007
SXSW 2007 schwag bag-a-palooza
Here’s the video. I uploaded more photos here. It’s pouring down rain right now here in Austin, with the most beautiful thunder and lightning show I’ve witnessed in ages. We don’t really get thunder and lightning very often in SF — maybe once a year, if that. Interestingly, it’s usually around the time of my…
Updates forthcoming
Photos, videos and stories from me later today; in the meantime Scott Beale has complete SXSW photo coverage going on at Laughing Squid. We finally caught up with each other at a party last night, and his best story was recounting to me the moment he introduced his pals Ze Frank and Robert Scoble. Awesome!
Arrived, slightly damaged
I made it to lovely Austin, yay! But I almost drove icepicks into my ears with rolled-up Sky Mall’s on the plane from SF listening to the endlessly namedropping mommybloggers seated (embedded/screechingly monetizingly festeringly) two rows behind me. Almost didn’t make it here alive, dear readers… seriously, they were all in their mousy brown highlights…
Readying for SXSW
Meaning, I’m finally packed and soothing my nervousness and stress with cocktails and relationship chat. I was deeply hurt by a lover today — and am heading into tricky lover/evil ex-lover territory at SXSW (toxic boy will be there, yuck). So Jonathan Moore and I have been in my kitchen with inebriants over ice, making…
Lustlab ad of the week art by Ellen Forney
Finally — Brad the way I’ve always wanted him… Seattle’s The Stranger (“Seattle’s only newspaper”) is one of my favorite free weeklies, most especially because it’s home to Dan Savage, the HUMP! porn festival, and their awesome Lovelab and Lustlabs. Their whipsmart, kinky sex-positive personals Lustlabs rock — and I just love artist Ellen Forney’s…
Local human-animal fetishists and their Bay Area ranch
In this week’s Chron column, I get up close and personal with human-animal fetishists and their local outings, such as a “foxhunt” at a Nor Cal ranch and a “dog and pony” show here in town. Snip from Whoa, Nelly!: For some people, life is a veritable dog and pony show; for a select few…
A moment of quiet
A few hours ago I cracked a filling and had the pieces come out in my hand. We’ve all had the dream — when it happened I stared into my hand in disbelief and felt like the air was liquid, that ‘am I dreaming’ feeling. Tomorrow am I see a dentist — no insurance, of…
Professor Lust trailer: Awesome vintage erotica
Just spotted at Bedazzled: the trailer for the 1967 film, Professor Lust (image via). It’s got acres of retro boobies, monsters, and so much sampleable audio — just ready for remixing. Link to post with viewing options.
But, really, does “sex sell”?
The article I linked to in my last post is really bugging me. You see, I’m of the reasoned, seasoned opinion that any argument based on the blanket theory “sex sells” is questionable, at best (and flimsy bullshit at worst). Sex does indeed get attention and boobies pull people in, no argument there. But if…