Good Vibrations honors me. Um, I really just wrote that. It’s Halloween. Is it also backwards day? Seriously, I can’t believe what they wrote about me. Someone must have put E in the office Halloween candy bowl and put the copywriter in front of a computer aimed at “blogs” with a vibrating mouse and lubed up the links.
Am going to go stick my head in a pumpkin now. Eeee!

Right before the San Jose show last August, we had planned on making a solid steel Mr. Satan head — a 3D scan of an old SRL machine prop from the 1980s, coordinates put into a CNC, and recreated in heavy, gorgeous silver metal. The CNC broke about 20 hours into the job and we had to put it off — I paid a visit to the shop last night to see the progress and Mr. Satan is almost done! The machine has put in over 70 hours shaping the face, and I can’t think of a better time for Mr. Satan to emerge from his slumber, and for Mark’s dream of making this happen (he’s wanted to do this since the 80s) to come true. Watch this video I took of the CNC in action smoothing out Mr. Satan’s sideburns — and keep in mind that the face is longer than my forearm.

These are awfully cute and sexy — free dirty Halloween cards from Hegre art. They’re all girls and it’s all vanilla (though one is quite explicit, yum); if anyone finds ones like this that are kinkier or feature hot boys, send them in and I’ll post ‘em here. Yay!

At Mistress Morgana‘s party saturday night, there was a photo booth with Irena Solomon taking pictures of the undead parade through the dungeon — and her pics are now up! Here’s a link to the entire photo set on Solomon’s site; it’s amazing! * Here’s a link to the Hep Zombie album with my personal favorites, the ones she took of me and Mistress Morgana doing an unholy tongue-tango, spiced with my other corpse-tastic photo coupling of the night.
* Someone just emailed to tell me to hold off on the link to all the pics. Enjoy my selections for now, and I’ll update if and when I get the green light.
I spent the day yesterday off and on updating my Washington Post vs. Boing Boing post, and just sitting back and seeing how everyone reacted. I didn’t really post my personal thoughts on how Krebs (Washing Post), Singel (Wired), Norton (Wired) and Bonner (Metblogs) reacted, nor did I respond to any of them. That’s what this post is for.
What happened: I did this post about Washington Post writer Brian Krebs snagging a story (about an online boarding pass generator and the FBI fallout) from Boing Boing and not even giving a nod to the lengthy and detailed reporting already being done at BB. This happens *all the time* with Boing Boing and lots of other blogs — just read Gawker, as they call MSM Old Media Dirty Media out on it all the time. I was sick of it, and my point was to call attention to bloggers getting ripped off and having our work repurposed by dirty media.
Then: Krebs wrote me an email and I blogged it. I got lots of mail. Bonner blogged his angle, which was specifics about the story being snagged. Norton wrote me a terse email defending Krebs, then she wrote a blog post. Singel slammed bloggers on Wired and credited Bonner for my post and starting the discussion, ripped on Bonner and made it look like I was just following the boys. Bonner corrected him, Singel edited his post.
More after the jump.
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30 October 2006
And the topic is rimming, hoo-ray! Two stories to get the week started right. First up is The Sun Don't Shine by Elizabeth Colvin. In it, a girl wakes up with an uncontrollable urge to have her boyfriend for breakfast. Then, Anything I Want by Thomas Roche. When I lectured […]
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29 October 2006
Last night was the unofficial Halloween in the Castro -- lots of incredible costumes, flash mobs and parties galore. I had a last minute pre-party meetup at my house for bloodsports in my driveway, then a group including me, Annalee Newitz, Charlie Anders, Thomas Roche, Jonathan, Nina (both from SRL) […]
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28 October 2006
I lectured at UCSF's annex this afternoon to SFSI trainees and had a blast. One of the instructors was wearing this shirt -- how cool is that!? I talked about oral sex, and:
a) unintentionally wore socks that were pointed out to me looked just like kneepads
b) realized at one point […]
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28 October 2006
So, I know many readers here also read Boing Boing, so most of you will be familiar with the big story that's been breaking over there (and Wired) about the guy who created a fake boarding pass generator: the web page was taken offline, he was visited by the FBI, […]
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25 October 2006
Referencing, of course, the movie about the cheerleader whose paranoid parents hold a gay intervention and send her to heterosexual reprogramming camp to overcome her gayness, when it was discovered she didn't like her boyfriend. I've been spending much of the day solidifying my selections as a judge for The […]
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25 October 2006
I'm still on the Hegre affiliate email list -- I joined when I wrote The Smart Girl's Guide to Porn to see how different affiliates worked. They send me stuff, but I don't always like it -- truth be told, some of the Eastern European models are often too skinny […]
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