Year: 2009

A longtime lurker on the Мишка blog, I enjoy the art, music and edgy urban culture from the Brooklyn, New York based store’s multi-contributor endeavor. I love new discoveries and their blog always has something interesting; lately the gifted erotic photographer Ellen Stagg has been blogging a few outtakes from her shoots for the Мишка…

Tonight for San Francisco’s premiere literary festival, I’ve had the honor of being invited to read along with Stephen Elliott, Rachel Kramer Bussel (here from New York), Carol Queen and others. From beds, in lingerie. I wonder what Stephen will wear… Anyway, afterward there will be a spanking booth for charity and I’ll help administer…

AMC’s dramatic series Mad Men is now in its third season here in the US, and despite my usual reluctance to dig the popular stuff without a critical eye, I’m definitely hooked. Tight writing, a clever and calculated balance of character- and narrative-driven storytelling, style/costuming/design choices that tell stories within the overt stories (and about…