Month: July 2010

UPDATE Friday July 16: All charges against John Stagliano have been dropped on a technicality. “‘I hope the government will learn a lesson from its experience,’ [U.S. District Court Judge Richard J.] Leon said in a rebuke. He cited a string of “difficult, challenging and novel questions” raised in the case concerning decades-old federal obscenity…

Eloquent Analysis (And Seduction Secrets): Love in the Age of the Pickup Artist

Seen on Hacker News and sent by a sweetheart: Love in the Age of the Pickup Artist by S.G. Belknap is a must-read. A spot-on analysis of pick up artist’s techniques in the post-“The Game” era, plus a simply beautiful, personal piece of writing suitable for those who love New Yorker style non-fiction essays. The…

Sadly, The Periodic Table of Swearing by Modern Toss is currently out of stock. It was also extremely expensive. Still, the very British-flavored periodic table of verbal obscenities and graphic insults is really entertaining (click to view large size for detail, link via The Awesomer). I’m definitely going to start using these on Twitter when…

Femina Potens might just be one of the most happening and significant art spaces in the United States. Seriously. And not just because the central them is sexuality: this space is a movement, an intersection for art and thought, and an evolution in the space between artist and art, subject and object, old models of…