Category: Culture

I’m so excited to see The Bi Apple trailer arrive! My pal Dacia (aka Waking Vixen, fellow Fleshbot minion) has been working on writing, directing, casting and making a bisexual film that reflects her New York values (hee! kinda like our SF values!) with some big-studio backing, and she’s just released a juicy preview. I’ve…

Last year I did a top ten sexiest geeks of 2005 list for Tiny Nibbles, which was followed a week later by Wired’s ten sexiest geeks (and they sweetly included me). As seen on Fleshbot and Kotaku this week, it looks like Wired has announced their call for nominations on their year-end sexy geek list…

It seems to me that some people take christmas really seriously. Like, I know that the guys who dress as Santa for Macy’s grow their real beards out, and some even stay in character the whole time they’re in the getup, to the excitement of children and the uneasy dismay of adults. And in dressing,…

This week’s Chronicle/Gate column is a quick interview with Nina Hartley; she was in town last weekend and I caught her for a few minutes to ask her about her porn history and feelings about San Francisco, her terrific new book, being a porn sex educator, and even what her favorite restaurants are here. Snip:…

Forwarded to me from HR Lori, The Tech Chronicles puts a bloggy fatwa on Cnet (UK) for their crappy, obnoxious, utterly developmentally disabled list Top Ten Girl Geeks: Your Essential Guide. Read the list, and it’s clear that Cnet has some *outstanding* drug connections. Snip: “They are girl geeks? Hear the blogosphere roar. Cnet, in…

So, Pelosi’s all set to become Speaker of the House. And conservatives like Bill O’Reilly and Newt Gingrich have tried to use “San Francisco values” as a derisive term. And lots of pundits are being all nice about what they think San Francisco values are, citing pot clubs and immigrants and the environment. In this…

My new Chron column is up: Violet and the Dildo Factory, where I tour local dildo makers Vixen Creations. Snip: “We have a dildo factory hidden in plain sight here in San Francisco, and in one sense I did get a Golden Ticket in that I got a tour — a tour with benefits. But…

Unless it’s Halloween, of course. Halloween officially began in San Francisco last night, so I’ll be celebrating it here on the blog through tuesday! Indulge in a cold, compelling slice of morbidity by checking out this dead porn star chart, which helpfully arranges the deaths of known porn stars by name, date, time, death method…