Guest Post: Pictures At An Exhibition

In her post Lifestyle Choices, orchidea painted a disturbing triptych of three images: a roommate, her daughter and that which she "will never become inured to." The first image was the memory of a roommate, a girl who stood 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighed 88 pounds: "a cushion of bones held together by [...]

More Lost Girls

As if just being Susie Bright didn't make her cool enough, everyone's favorite sexpert has an interview with one of my other literary heroes, Alan Moore, about The Lost Girls, which I blogged about before.  Susie gets to have all the fun. Dammit.  She's also put together a Flickr gallery of Melinda Gebbie's work.  [...]

Heathers 2

Movies that just shouldn’t be made: Heathers 2

China Cracks Down on Striptease Funerals

Striptease Funerals in China: If the Devil reneges on our deal for me to live forever, this is how I want to be sent off. Shame on the government of China!

War-Torn Middle East Seeks Solace In Religion

The Onion gets it right again. 

Being a Republican Today

I found this on Nomi Prins's website today. I don't think there's any legitimate, moral reason for aligning yourself with the Republicans anymore. In the most literal, politcally scientific accurate sense, their agenda is Fascism.  It's time to put Godwin's Law in mothballs for a while and just say it.
Things you have to believe [...]

Republicans and the New Newspeak

Gore Vidal will be a great loss when he finally dies.  He's one of the old-style intellectuals; arrogant as hell maybe, but also insightful and brimming with a moral sense that seems almost quaint nowadays. I would cheerfully rip Dick Cheney's pacemaker right out of his chest if it meant that Vidal got to stay [...]

Propaganda: “How to Spot a Jap”

Just in case I haven't made it clear, I love Ethan Persoff's web page.  It's one of the Internet's best resources for finding strange bits of pop culture ephemera, especially comic books. The stuff he posts is like a secret history of comic books, and his most recent [...]

Thank God SOMEBODY Said It

Two things have bugged me about the LGBT movements in this country for the last ten years or so.
Well, actually, lots of things have bugged me about LGBT politics, but that's because I'm a skeptical, misanthropic bastard.  But for the moment, let's pare it down to two, just so I don't have to keep typing [...]

This Post Has No Redeeming Social Value

I just felt like posting some smut. Don't look if you're at work.