photos from last night

9 April 2006
Party photos by Jason DeFillippo and after-party giantess photos by Hornboy. When I got cornered by naked drunk guy, I was all like, Jason -- get the camera! More photos after the jump! (more...)
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whatever happened to taschen?

9 April 2006
It's been about a year since I stopped reviewing sex books and videos for Good Vibes, but I was there long enough to watch the world of sex and art coffee table books go through a revolution. And Taschen, publisher of all kinds of those glossy, tasteful and gorgeous books, […]
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off the record

8 April 2006
Subject: burn the NYT clown "Violet - the largely-fictional NYT needs no protection. It's coasted on an undeserved reputation for far too long. Print his e-mail. Burn him, and burn that little bung who excreted the xenisucks site. Chechen rules apply: no mercy no prisoners no exceptions" Subject: Post it! "Why in the hell is a journalist […]
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site rebuild test, with bonus booty

7 April 2006
Making it worth your while: More at Peter Franck (Dark Side Hotel), with much thanks to Geoff Cordner.
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my guide to SF, adventures in braille and… come tasting!

7 April 2006
* Metroblogging San Francisco beat me to... blogging about new stuff at Tiny Nibbles! About to land in the left sidebar is my guide to San Francisco, posted last night by Jason DeFillippo who sweetly wrote, "San Francisco's favourite sex columnist and media maven Violet Blue has launched her guide […]
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writers, ropes, boobs, blogs (and a hangover)

6 April 2006
* New York Times writer and star of my post when a man hates a woman sent me an epic email yesterday, but prefaced the whole thing with "this is off the record". One wonders, why bother? What do you think, dear readers -- should I post *my* responses to […]
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blip.tv embed test: SF in jello

5 April 2006
Hope this works! Blip.tv looks extra hella cool. Here's my text: Liz Hickok's amazing installation San Francisco in Jell-O was featured as part of the earthquake exhibit at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, last saturday, April 1st. This is my video of the teeny-tiny jello SF; I was sad it was […]
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let them eat… you know

5 April 2006
Last week local paper SF Weekly ran a seven page article about Cake, the New York grrrl-power sexy party, who had their debut San Francisco party a few weeks back. I met Emily from Cake at the Center for Sex and Culture where we both shared the stage to celebrate […]
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tantus loves me

4 April 2006
This I know. Because my butt plug tells me so. Sing along with me, people! There was a huge box on my doorstep today; a giant gift from Tantus Silicone. Metis, the woman behind Tantus, is one of my heroes -- because I think she single-handedly mainstreamed silicone toys, getting these […]
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a beautiful shrimping

4 April 2006
My friend Thomas has officially lost his overmedicated, undersexed and almost beautiful mind. Read his review of the Behind Kink opening party, full of gems like: "I spent years in the marketing field, so I'll let you in on a not-so-well-kept secret: at these press events, journalists -- among whose ranks […]
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a love note

4 April 2006
From Fatty D (aka April Flores)! I don't think all the DVDs come with notes like these, but it'll make watching her video this afternoon a lot sweeter!
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when a man hates a woman

3 April 2006
Ask three women that you know if they're ever been stalked, sexually assaulted or violently threatened by a man. I don't need to bet money to know you'll get a yes from one of those women. Too lazy to ask anyone? That's okay, I'll fill in the blanks for you. […]
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three kinds of interviews

3 April 2006
Audio, text and video! Wow, today my RU Sirius Podcast Show interview is blogged on Boing Boing; I'm profiled (with a great photo) in the Spring 2006 print issue of Venus Zine, along with Neko Case and Margaret Cho; and the Geek Entertainment TV video interview I did with San […]
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la dolce sunday

2 April 2006
Courtesy of Bruno Bisang, via my friends at Touche Sexy. Today, an article in the NYT about pro-anorexia online, not as thoughtful or informative as the one I asked Thomas Roche to write four years ago for the GV Magazine. Yesterday, pirate radio with Annalee Newitz (soon to be an […]
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[audio] on the RU Sirius podcast show!

31 March 2006
Last week I was on the RU Sirius podcast show, and it was the most fun I've had doing audio in a long time! It's a hell of a funny and fun show, and I'd be on again in a red hot second -- especially because it's like hanging out […]
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video pranks

31 March 2006
I'm about to have a conversation with someone at YouTube about the censored video and their policies. But in the meantime, it seems that Chevy is hosting an online contest where participants make commercials for their SUVs. Evidently they haven't started screening the entries yet. Check 'em out -- and if […]
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[video] Mateo: For The Ladies

30 March 2006
Remember a while back I went to an underground amateur male, alt-boy strip show in an Oakland warehouse, called For The Ladies? Well... I was cruising around Flickr and found their For The Ladies Flickr Pool, and thought it would be a good idea to upload the video I took […]
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howto: sex toy PC casemod for dirty girls

30 March 2006
I almost didn't make it past the top photo with all the candles and the photo of Brad Pitt for inspiration, but I have to admit that this DIY PC casemod, where a vibrator is mounted on a B*rbie PC, is pretty damn cool. Granted, if it were my mods, […]
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kewl things to read

30 March 2006
* Sean Bonner and Wil Wheaton write for Suicide Girls -- got a problem with that? Apparently a few people do, for some curiously old-fashioned reasons *like the site's name*, and Sean excerpts and comments on Wil's eloquent responses here. And here I thought no one liked SG for being […]
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[video] alter ego + carlos batts

30 March 2006
I posted about smokin' hot curvy babe April Flores (aka Fatty Delicious) on Fleshbot a few months ago, and since then we've become email pals. I'm looking forward to meeting her in person when she comes to San Francisco to become a human canvas for the Center for Sex and […]
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