Image of Dark Angels: A Collection of Lesbian Vampire Erotica (also: UK). Like superheroes are such significant icons for people who feel like they have to live with a secret (and so identify strongly with the double lives superheroes are forced to lead), vampires are strong cultural icons and their stories metaphoric for erotic outsiderism.…
Category: Culture
A great moment for literacy in America: Naked Girls Reading
As a writer and editor, there are many recent and current cultural forces I appreciate for making people read more, for the benefit of all. We all give it up for libraries (virtual and actual) and their necessary fantasy counterparts sexy librarians. Oprah’s book club got housewives reading apocalyptic Cormac McCarthy novels — I never…
To read, to do in SF: Shocktoberfest 2009
Image by michaelca. In this week’s Chron column, I did a full, glowing writeup of the incredible spectacle that is seeing a show by The Thrillpeddlers. I’m actually not a big theater fan, though I can’t recommend this experience highly enough — especially if you’re visiting from out of town. You’ll remember I did a…
Will lap dance for code (NOT)
UPDATE 10.21.09: This image (and others in this post) were originally posted by cocakl with this Creative Commons license. Cockai has been emailed asking why they are no longer viewable. /UPDATE Apparently female strippers and lap dancers entertained the presumably (presumptively) male, straight attendees of Taiwan’s Yahoo Open Hack Day (simonwillison.net). Wups! Which is all…
Health care reform requires balls, apparently
Silly and fun: the video looks like it was a blast to make — friend Liam Kyle Sullivan — known and loved by all as that betch Kelly — has a new video underscoring the fact that in order for us to get health care reform in the US, someone’s gonna have to “grow some.”…
Last night’s Litquake erotica reading
Last night’s reading at Supperclub for Litquake was fantastic! My segment was very racy and the above video was filmed from the audience — pardon the shakiness in a couple spots. Hope you can hear and enjoy it! Everyone was fantastic and I hope to have more (and high quality) video for you soon; just…
The “last word” on pro-life cupcakes
Image by Justin Hyte. It’s really exciting to see on Twitter that my column this week has been hailed by Clinic Escort as “the last word” on this topic and is being ‘re-tweeted’ around the twitterverse. Neat. It might make you angry to red ad, but it’s got levity, new stats on abortion worldwide (disturbing),…
Susan Sarandon’s daughter and Special Agent Mulder
This is a scene from last night’s Californication. David Duchovny, come back to us. Bring that INSANELY hot girl with you. San Francisco has enough Prosecco and stripper poles for all three of us. I’m a sex writer; leave LA do some research already. Screw that ‘sex addict’ cover story for your beard. You know…
Go Lorelei!
We miss Lorelei Lee here in San Francisco like you wouldn’t believe — we were all excited for her move to NY for grad school (and some even benefited from her pre-move giveaways). But she left lots of love, friends and adoring fans here. Still, I’ll never forget the first time I heard her read…
Thank you for coming out
Now that I’ve giggled and wiped tears from my cheeks after watching the above video, I strongly recommend that if you do anything unselfish today, or anything to contribute to National Coming Out Day — watch the video. Even if you’re out, or don’t think you can do anything. This sideways Greeting Card Emergency video…