friday nibbles

6 June 2008
Image of Justine Joli by Consensual Media. I'm thinking next week I should do this in a video version. What do you think? Fake newscaster, real sex news? I might just go for it... Here are your nibbles, enjoy! * Who isn't a fan of Andrew Blake? I may not have been […]
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tristan taormino visits sf

5 June 2008
Image via my Helio Ocean. Today I had lunch with Tristan Taormino, and I'm about to go down to the hotel she's herded a few porn stars into and interview them about Tristan's new video, Chemisty 3 Chemistry 4. Tristan's in town to celebrate that film and her new book Opening […]
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congratulations, babeland!

5 June 2008
I just want to say o hai CONGRATULATIONS to Babeland on opening their new Brooklyn store today! Sounds like they totally aced the usual media mini-firestorm and mini "there goes the neighborhood" hypefest in the process. Go, Babes!
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california wants to tax that ass

5 June 2008
Image "Obey" by hirnpflaster. This week's column is about the porn tax bill a California assemblytard wants to make into law, pretty much based on the notion that porn is bad. I'm oversimplifying -- a LITTLE -- and I'm about to run and meet Thomas and Tristan for lunch after a […]
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hot boy thursday rides again!

5 June 2008
Image of Kevin by Tony Duran, via kvclif2004. It's been too long since I've attended to my Hot Boy Thursday duties! So let me offer up the work of Tony Duran, and two male paysites with lots of freebees. If you haven't peeped Sean Cody in a while, pay him a […]
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fuck shopping

4 June 2008
Or, shop fucking. This is the insane new fashion photo campaign for designer Tom Ford (by Terry Richardson). I think I licked the monitor at least once. So nice to see lots of naked men for a change, too. Site is Flash: go to About<Gallery<SS08 and Beauty<Gallery for the fun […]
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great moments in fake sex news

3 June 2008
Retro image via Ben Pearce. Over the years The Onion has served up some of my favorite sex reporting. Let's hope they can keep it up. Because there's a hell of a lot of fake sex news out there, and most of it isn't trying to be funny. Here are my […]
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twitter from the block

3 June 2008
I'm having fun playing with Twoorl and Plurk. It's almost like every social networking site has an affected gang name. Just sayin'. I'm not sure what they're useful for yet... ;) (post title reference)
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I feel a really bitchy post coming on…

2 June 2008
No, I haven't seen Sex In The City. No, I have no plan to see it, ever, until there is a Peaches Christ Midnight Mass musical version that ends in drag queen soaked bloodshed and someone loses an eye with one of those goddamn Rabbit vibrators that Peaches heated with […]
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thank you, dark horse!

2 June 2008
Someone at Dark Horse thinks I have been a very good girl! And I have been: I even waited until after the requested brag-by date to squeal about my big box of Hellboy prezzies! Thank you!!!! I'm SO happy!!!! You can peep more of my Hellboy gifts here, including some […]
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o hai from richard kadrey

2 June 2008
Richard Kadrey is one of those people whose name is well-known around San Francisco's underground sex and writing circles, and whenever I run into him at parties we have great, laughing conversations. He's wry and darkly humorous, and I consider him a colleague -- and now a Flickr friend. His […]
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this weekend: cupcake camp!

30 May 2008
They say it's for cupcake lovers -- but I'll just go ahead and say it's for lovers, period: this sunday here in San Francisco my very close friend Ariel Waldman is the buttercream-alicious driving force behind Cupcake Camp, at Citizen Space from 2-6 pm. Tonight she told me they're going […]
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beers with me, the interview

30 May 2008
Photo by Justin Juul for the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Recently I drank beer in Dolores Park with the San Francisco Bay Guardian, and they interviewed me -- it was a really great time and the weather was perfect. The interview came out terrific and surprising; they asked me about my […]
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congratulations, mom!

30 May 2008
Along with Cyndi Lauper and Charo, my [adopted] mom -- Theresa Sparks -- has been named Grand Marshal of the San Francisco Pride parade 2008! Yay! Last year I rode in the car with her, but this year's going to rock!
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pretty girl friday with mark rutherford

30 May 2008
My column about San Francisco's sex work clients was the #2 read item of the day on the Chronicle's website, got conservatives' knickers in a twist, and got a lot of praise. But the best compliment I got was from local photographer Mark Rutherford who said, "Must say I'm glad […]
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the stickiest links of the week

30 May 2008
Image Devil Girl with Angel Wings by friend Demetrius Gonzalez. As the week comes to a close, I've been sweating out a book deadline: Best Women's Erotica 2009 to be precise. I received hundreds, literally hundreds of stories as hopefuls, I can only pick around 20, and the submissions are […]
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tristan taormino’s guide to open relationships

28 May 2008
Image by Cyan Del Mar. In this week's SF Chronicle column, I interview Tristan Taormino about her new book Opening Up, and the resulting piece Open Relationships, Demystified is quite revealing. I'm really a n00b about open relationships and tend to be monogamous-yet-always-questioning, so my queries are not from a place […]
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now do as you’re told and buy the mistress a birthday present

28 May 2008
I love, love, love San Francisco's Mistress Morgana. No discipline is needed for that statement (though from her it is always desired). I've been reminded that her birthday is coming up sometime near the weekend, and today she expressed her birthday wish: marriage for all. So if you want to […]
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always consider the right-leaning, fallacious source

28 May 2008
Image by gecko.juice. I've been attacked, criticized, parodied and trolled quite a bit over the past year. Every time, I remember my close friend Lori's advice, from her mom: always consider the source. Which is why considering a recent blog post attack on sex work in San Francisco by Ben Wachs […]
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slate’s girls night at the firing range

27 May 2008
Image by Helmut Newton. The video embedded below was on the front page of Slate yesterday and now it's impossible to find -- luckily I coped the embed code for Girls' Night Out At The Firing Range because it's really an enjoyable video. Host and writer Samantha Henig is a gun […]
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