Oh, Milk (above). I was here when the film was shot: you’ll see my city, my views, our story — my City Hall whose very steps I celebrate pride on with cocktails, and the very halls in the film I’ve wandered around in (unattended)! It makes me weepy, and strangely, wanting to hang out with Sean Penn.
Super-fucking-excellent: I am dying to see the upcoming film Madonna directed (above), Filth and Wisdom “Two sides of the same coin”. It looks like my experiences and relationship with the Extra Action Marching Band + Emir Kusturika (gawd I love him) + a corridor of my life all in one package. I resist Madonna, but this round goes to her.
* I am also dying (ahem) to see Fear[s] of the Dark, if only as a longtime OG Charles Burns comic collector — *and* Repo! The Genetic Opera (ZOMFG it’s Mr. Giles with Skinny Puppy and Paris Hilton!) Oh, and the badass of the pack looks like Takashi Miike’s “fresh new look at the beloved spaghetti Western” (read: Japanese cult action Deadwood) Sukiyaki Western Django.
Wow, they really got these online fast — yay! All the audio from the talks, discussions and panels at Arse Elektronika 2008 are now on this page and available for free downloading/listening. If you just want to jump right to the panel I was on, “The Erotic of the Machine”, it’s right here (MP3 link) and it’s about a little over an hour long. Highly recommended if you’re interested in sex and machines (and love and robots), though some of the accents are rather thick. It was a fun panel.
But I definitely am the *neighbor* of the mouthpiece of Satan. Nothing’s more fun than when a conservative Christian reviews part of my body of work, like, say, my podcast. Today Skepchick did a great roundup of one particular conservative’s podcast reviews, where he embarks on his personal mission to screen podcast content as per his beliefs. Skepchick (of The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe) got caught up in the storm — as did I, apparently — and she writes,
Alexander Cornswalled is a Midwestern Conservative Christian who is not particularly fond of The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe. Cornswalled says that he helpfully reviews podcasts that the kids in his church are listening to, and the other day he chose the SGU. I know, I was pleased, too! Let’s see what he has to say!
The hosts pretty much accept global warming as gospel truth . . .
If by “accept . . . as gospel truth” he means “engaged in serious inquiry followed by a healthy discussion of the facts and a careful examination of both sides of the issue before tentatively erring on the side of the scientific consensus,” then yes, yes we do. (…)
And when it gets to me, she saves me as the closing note (best for last?) and writes,
My computer started showing a slideshow of naked people with whips when I hit “play” and things went downhill from there.
He’s probably right — when you start with pictures of naked people holding whips, the only place to go is down. He also mentions that “if you find it on your child’s computer delete it and bring your child to your pastor or a Christian counselor immediately,” presumably for reprogramming or to get a refund. (…)
Yes, my podcast is actually an *emergency* situation. Read her whole totally entertaining post The SGU: Mouthpiece of Satan.
The funny thing is, I ran into Amelia Mae Paradise on MUNI one day last week while coming home from a meeting downtown; she recognized me and said she’d put me on the list for a Folsom party she’d be throwing on the eve of last Sunday’s Folsom Street Fair — the Perverse Cabaret. When she sent me the lineup, I knew I *had* to go! I shot this Flickr set of photos and the two videos below (and please excuse the fact that I was steadying my camera above the crowd on my plastic cup!):
I was especially delighted to finally meet Alix from The Inverted Eye, and Suzanne Rachel Forbes, a former court sketch artist for ABC and now live documents fetish events. Suzanne and I chatted, and I got to peek at her sketchbook, wow! Don’t miss Forbes’ Flickr photo stream. Here she is in action sketching Alex, and below is the final product.
I was extremely moved today by the discovery of two of the most beautiful photo blog posts I’ve ever seen. I’ve long been a fan of Tokyo Undressed, but Kasso doesn’t update often so I don’t visit frequently. Today, I found Painfully Reticent v.2 and Painfully Reticent. (That’s the order I viewed them; I liked it that way, it really resonated with how I’m feeling these days…)
We just had our famous, huge leather pride festival Folsom Street Fair here in San Francisco (yesterday), and the above versions of lovely leather pride spinoff Obama / Shepard Fairey paste-ups started appearing… Fairey has a show in town right now, though no word yet if he’s behind the prank. This one’s really excellent, too.
Image of Muriel from this gallery.
Fake lesbians.
Real lesbians.
That's it.
Just kidding -- but sometimes I feel like just making a post like that. I've got a good number of galleries I liked this week, but after the jump is a very special treat, customized just for me by the uber-hot real […]
I've been a busy bee on Fleshbot, and I have a few things I've written up that I want to direct your attention to -- I know I already mentioned the interview and gallery with Sabrina Fox (pictured), but there's a timely event and a couple videos I want to […]
Pedal-powered dildo chair (fixie fucking?).
As I sit on indecision on contest winners and cull galleries for pretty girl friday -- I have to rush out the door to go catch the panel at Arse Elektronika I really want to see -- and you can join me at the Arse livestream, […]
When I went to my mailbox, I had a number of presents waiting for me, but there was a theme: earlier this month Babeland sent me a Rabbit Habit -- then LoveHoney UK sent me the CUTEST vibe ever, a Love Bunny, complete with birth certificate. And to top it […]
As I cull through the responses for this week's sex toy VB-bday giveaway, and as it was just a blip-gone-by on Fleshbot's front page -- you really must entertain yourself and watch the video above, Safe For Work XXX. It's a viral Diesel XXX "Dirty Thirty" ad campaign video, and […]
Image by Dave Ward Photography from his Ten Years of the iMac set.
Sounds like Codegirl will do much more than come *to* your office. SF Craiglsist ad, reposted in full in case it gets pulled because it's posted in resumes -- it's just TOO awesome (Thanks, Justin!):
I have needs at […]
The first three commenters who said they wanted them: mel, BristleKRS and Snooks, please email me at violet at tinynibbles dot com for your free VB-bday vibes, courtesy of Babeland. In your email, include the shipping info (shipping address, email address for confirmation) you want me to place your order […]
Image by videoplacebo, with book by Terry Richardson.
In this week's Chron column I wanted to share my recent experiences with feeling sexy in a world that's always trying to beat that feeling out of us -- hence, Feeling Sexy In An Unsexy World: Violet Blue stumbles through sexy movement classes […]
Image by Oleg Kosirev, via The Sex Carnival.
Bacchus, j'adore -- has been taunting the Google Suggest function because no matter how you have your settings, as adult as you like, it'll still treat you like a baby. Le sigh. Oh, Google. To wit, a snip:
Google, as all sex blog readers […]
Image via my Ocean.
Last night I went to the aphrodisiac feast event thrown by the Golden Gate Restaurant Association (GGRA), called A Food Affaire -- it was the topic of last week's column. And it was really, really incredible -- whoever organized it did everything right. The food, the elixirs, […]
Image is a self-portrait re-treated by Dustin Lacina, as a gift.
I just felt like writing a post saying, it's my fucking birthday. Consider this my LiveJournal entry on TinyNibbles. And thank you for reading me, following me, commenting here, hanging out, and checking back now and then. It's been a […]
Image of men's underwear ad "JBS Nurse" sniffing the goods instead of making her rounds, via PDesai21.
Okay, sorry about having scary sex toys at the top of my blog for a couple days -- I'm about to take your pain away a little bit. I was asked for a "unicorn […]
That’s anonymous' #1 co-winning entry above, the Concubine Masturbator; see the rest below.
And not hot. I mean, holy crap -- some of the stuff you all dug up and out of the bowels of the internets has been haunting my nightmares and goddamn... I mean, let me first just say […]
Ms. Violet Blue (@violetblue) is an investigative tech reporter at CNET, Zero Day, ZDNet, and CBS News, as well as an award-winning sex author and columnist, making her the foremost expert in the field of sex and technology. She travels to hacker conferences and hacker gatherings around the world to cover hacking, cybercrime and personal privacy violations in countries such as Malaysia, Germany, Morocco, China, the Dominican Republic, the United States, and Serbia. In 2012, Blue presented “Hackers as a High-Risk Population” bringing harm reduction to the featured stage for CCC’s 29c3 hacker conference in Hamburg. She is an Advisor to Without My Consent, a Member of the Internet Press Guild, a Member of the Center for Investigative Reporting, and is an Editor on the Board for Routledge's Porn Studies Journal.
Blue appears on CNN and The Oprah Winfrey Show and is regularly interviewed, quoted, and featured in a variety of publications that includes ABC News and the Wall Street Journal. She has authored and edited award-winning, best selling books in eight translations - one is excerpted on Oprah Winfrey's website - and has been a sex columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. She has been at the center of many Internet scandals, including Google’s “nymwars” and Libya’s web domain censorship and seizures—Forbes calls her “omnipresent on the web” and named her a Forbes Web Celeb. She has given keynote talks at such conferences as ETech, LeWeb, and the Forbes Brand Leadership Conference, she received a standing ovation at Seattle’s Gnomedex, and has given two Tech Talks at Google.
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