Month: February 2009

One of friend (and favorite nerd porn star) Sinnamon Love‘s Twitter responses after reading this week’s column. I don’t know how to preface this week’s column, Racist Porn and the Recession – Violet Blue: Nothing is recession proof, especially not your tired old racist porn. The topic is so upsetting that I had sleepless nights…

Image by friend, Richard Kadrey/Kaos Beauty Klinik. A day ago, on my overly customized Google News page I caught a headline that read, “Therapists Say Kinky Sex On The Rise” from ABC News. Naturally, pre-click, I was already laughing at the double-entendre and eagerly awaiting to see how, given the indication in the title, how…

Click image for hi-res; via Greg Rucka. Visitors to last weekend’s New York Comic Con got a little surprise: a preview of Batwoman at the back of their program guides. This allowed writer Greg Rucka and JH Williams III to openly admit that they’re hard at work on DC Comics’ Batwoman — DC’s highest profile…

Healthy sex toys PSA: Breaking Up With My Blow Up Doll, the musical

Kinds folksy. Not much dancing — okay, a minute of dancing. Still, fun and informative. The best part is watching someone sing the word “pthalates” in a song. Breaking Up With My Blow Up Doll is from the green activists at Grist. For additional information, check out my unsafe sex toys page. (thanks, Russ!)

A mysterious mustachioed marimba player sent me this link today; a post containing the complete high-res scans of Edward Gorey’s 1965 book titled “The Recently Deflowered Girl”. I didn’t know this book existed. Some of you might be familiar with the ookey spooky artist’s work from things like The Gashlycrumb Tinies, included in the great…