Image: me with Michael Soldier on NPR last week in the window at ATA. Today, I’m off to give an oral sex lecture with Thomas Roche for SFSI students — or as someone put it, I’ll be “discussing deep-throating in front of 35 puppy-dog-eyed newly-minted superfreaks.” After that I’m off to do the radio show:…

* Over at the Gate, Mark Morford has an excellent article (with lots o links) about high-end vibrators, including the 24k gold one Kate Moss just bought. It is my responsibility to note that I have a huge chapter on high-end sex toys (+ reviews, and not just vibrators but ebony butt plugs and all)…

What I wouldn’t give to see this auction (and lemme tell ya how weird it is to write *those* words). Apparently a huge collection of erotic art is going under the hammer at Christie’s in Paris next week, including an original manuscript of Story of O, over 100 autographed notes from the Marquis de Sade…

I just took a short trip to the Castro and saw two very cool things I didn’t buy but might go back for; one was the IOU Sex check set from Chronicle Books, which is the best treatment of erotic coupons I’ve ever seen. (They look ugly on Amazon’s bad scan, but great in person.)…

Things sure are different (at the Academy Christian Church) in Colorado Springs. She’s the church whipper (also more here). Don’t forget the Burka Shirker, which is somehow even more blasphemous. Thank you, Noel. We miss you in SF.

I’m crazed with the Best Women’s Erotica 2007 anthology submissions right now; I took a break for lunch yesterday with my friend Kathryn and she asked me, “don’t you get tired of the sex writing?” I do; that’s why I’ve been blowing off steam at Metroblogging SF. Highlights include my friend (and MT goddess) Kathryn’s…

…because my hands are in my inbox. Sound dirty? From Tiny Nibbles reader Chaz: “I’ll get right down to it. This morning just before I woke up I had what is most likely one of the weirdest dreams I’ve ever had in my life. (…) My fiance and I were at a club in NYC.…

Beloved friend and hugely respected colleague Patrick Califia has had a heart attack. This being America, he doesn’t have health insurance. If you liked Macho Sluts, Doing it for Daddy, Sensuous Magic, Best Sex Writing 2005 or any number of things he’s written, please visit his LJ page (being updated by a friend) and make…

I’m excited to say that after a weekend of negotiation, Tiny Nibbles is being sponsored for the next two weeks by the event Shibaricon 2006! From the same pervy and sweet people who brought us the bondage rope dyed in my namesake (no link because it sold out in five days), Shibaircon is an open-to-the-public…