Image taken in my kitchen with my Ocean: more images here. Obtained today in the Castro (where merchants were amazingly generous with me, thank you!) — a set of four adorable plastic pinup plates called “Naked Lunch” from my new favorite discovery, Pop Ink/French Paper. They also have the dirtiest soap (dig Skinny Dip and…

Advertising Agency: Draftfcb Kobza, Vienna, Austria. Spotted at AdsoftheWorld.com.

Office Max lets you upload a photo onto dancing elves — corporate viral crap, ya know. Could it be as fun as last year’s Chevy Tahoe DIY ad pranking? Hm.

Being a huge fan of Merkley??? — local photographer of local lovelies (and their strangely symmetrical couches and cats) — I am thrilled to bits and pieces to see pre-sales for his upcoming book “111???” become available. And, of course, to see the above Thanksgiving photo greeting that just went up on his Flickr photostream…

I adore this 2008 calendar: it’s a whipsmart, tongue in cheek(s) pinup treatment of “The Lovely Mistresses of George W Bush“. So cute, and the images are kinda hot. I love their stats and names, like “The lovely nurse: Robyn DeSyck”… (via Fleshbot)

David Lynch photographed and styled these extreme Christian Louboutin shoes for a Galerie du Passage photo shoot. More here.

Geoff Ashley is one of our Gawker Artists, but it wasn’t until I was working really super hard and concentrating on writing my column today that I clicked around and found his LiveJournal — and his super-delish portfolio site. Be sure to check out “latest works”, which is chock full of packed galleries featuring lots…

Image of Lina Romay from Female Vampire (1973). No — please. It’s my favorite kind of film (even though I watched Fido tonight and *loved* it). My neighborhood is going to be a mess this year, and no one is having a party, so my column this week is my top ten (okay, very offbeat…

Seeing images of clothes-on, clothes off in identical poses is one of my fascinations; I think it’s relatively easy (okay, easier) to do with today’s tech. I’ve previously blogged a retro version here and a modern version in full here. But imagine my surprise when I got (1920s, San Francisco based) photographer Albert Arthur Allen’s…

… Is extremely biting. I think you’ll like Los Angeles Erotic Film Fest 2007: Wrap It Up (I’ve been working on it all day, phew). It includes lots of links to photo galleries, coverage by others (good, bad and predictable) and this Altporn, Demystified panel intro video Hacker Boy shot from the front row. The…