All About My Girlfriend

Well, not all about her, but I can't tell you all the really good parts and still expect to have a place to sleep when she comes home.  But here's a few kind words written about her latest production by a co-worker.

Syphilis Propaganda

Back before AIDS and HIV, before the invention of antibiotics, the Big Bad that haunted sexuality was syphilis. Untreated syphilis is a truly monstrous thing, that ultimately leads to madness, blindness, and extreme disfigurement. And like AIDS, because it was a sexually-transmitted disease, it took decades before it [...]

World Tour of Public Art

I find most public art pretty dull. Most of it is hampered by its public nature, and so any inventiveness is buried under triumphalism, inoffensiveness, and pandering.  I do have a fondness for some of it, like the statue of Alice in Central Park.  To see what public art can be, check out the gallery [...]

The Lost Girls

Like a lot of comics fans my age, I had my view of what comic books could and should be completely changed when Alan Moore took over Saga of the Swamp Thing in 1984.  Moore took a character that was at that time a bad joke, in a book that was slated for cancellation, and [...]

Giving Credit Where Credit is Due

Alanesq and I don't agree on a whole lot of things politically; among other things, he considers Michelle Malkin a legitimate commentator, while I think of her as a picayune, mean-spirited, opportunistic hack; he has also been, shall we say, "overly tolerant" of the creeping fascism under the Bush Administration.  In short on 99% [...]

Fuck the Internet

No, really. Fuck it.  That's what the guy in the video below is hoping to be able to do.  He demonstrates — well, explains — his invention, "The Penistron," which is a silicone vagina surrounded by a mass of magnets, wires, and chips, hooked up to an internet connection.  "This machine has a chip with [...]

Cover Letter of the Gods

Although I have neither the specific life experiences of Mimi in New York nor her skills, the chutzpah and contempt for the modern workplace she shows here make this the cover letter I would love to send. It's a masterful bit of self-parody and an attack on our corporate masters wrapped into one: 
Unfortunately, I [...]

Onion V. Reality

If we ever run out of reasons to keep the Religious Right out of power (yeah, right!), then this ought to provide some motivation: it really is only a short step from reading the Bible literally to reading The Onion like it's The Washington Post.  If you can believe in a creation that took seven [...]

Literate Perversions Calendar

I'm trying an experiment.
I've placed a new page on the site called the Literate Perversions NYC Calendar.  It lists an eclectic assortment of events and happenings that I, for one reason or another, think sound kind of interesting.  Mostly it's stuff that's sex- or kink-related, but the criteria is stuff that I think sounds cool, [...]

Got Rimjob?

The residents of Toronto and Goodie Bag TV try to solve that oft-asked question: Rimjobs — Yay or Nay?