If you’re in San Francisco tonight, please do check out my pal Timothy Archibald’s Sex Machines: Photographs and Interviews slideshow and talk at Modern Times Bookstore. Timothy wrote an amazing piece about his sex machine travels and experiences all over America in my book Best Sex Writing 2005, and we’re both familiar with 888 Valencia, as that’s where we did the opening night reading for the book! There will be machine makers from various west coast locales on hand — notably the maker of The Thrillhammer, which was used in my live teledildonics demonstration. And the makers of my most delicious holiday present last year, the Monkey Rocker. Read the bite-sized article I just wrote about the whole event for my SFist column, beginning here:

SFisting: Sex Machines Slideshow: The Squeaky Thing Gets the Grease

With San Francisco as the home of Survival Research Laboratories, the birthplace of Combots and Robolympics, and the location of Fucking Machines secret lair, we have to wonder just what is in that good old SF tap water…

So when we heard that Bay Area resident Timothy Archibald was hosting a slideshow from his new book “Sex Machines: Photographs and Interviews” at Modern Times tonight, it made perfect sense, in the same way it makes total sense to infrequently see a remote-controlled V1 rocket engine blasting fire on 16th and Mission. [click here to read more + info]