[video] Bettie Page, old and new

16 March 2006
Bettie Page is having yet another revival -- though now, a totally Hollywood one -- with the April release of The Notorious Bettie Page (Flash site, LAME!). I am glad that at least she's being played by Gretchen Mol and not Liv Tyler, even though I can think of like […]
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saying you have AIDS to sell books

16 March 2006
My friend Jack Boulware wrote a fascinating, well-researched and somewhat personal article for Salon about the fake writer JT LeRoy -- who, as many of you know, is really a rich older lady who sold a bunch of lies as a memoir, even going so far as to say the […]
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stephen colbert’s bestselling manjuice

16 March 2006
On last night's Colbert Report, TV's Stephen Colbert did a short, hilarious segment on mysterious sperm donor 401, whose sperm was apparently in extremely high demand before the donor stopped jacking off for extra cash. If you read the nonfiction essay "Spem Bank Teller" in my book Best Sex Writing […]
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[video] the cramps: bikini girls and machine guns

15 March 2006
I forgot for a minute how incredibly awesome The Cramps are until I saw this wonderfully kitschy psychobilly video from possibly when I was way too underage to even get near one of their albums. Player embed after the jump. (more...)
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Everyone Loves Sushi

15 March 2006
I just got an email from a reader asking for male masturbation sleeve lube recommendations to go with a new toy he wants; I just don't understand why a guy would be worried about the wasabi and ginger themed lube that comes with this blue Juicy Sushi Masturbator? I recommended […]
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nerd alert!

15 March 2006
Last night I went to Nerd Salon and had lots of fun listening to my friends talk about code (totally over my head), my pal's Berkeley engineering robot project (got that one) and then when I just couldn't take it anymore I rode molecular gastronomy geek and food hacker (and […]
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youtube embed test

14 March 2006
I have a new obsession: YouTube. I'm playing around with YouTube's subscribable tags right now, and came across this funny German commercial spoof and thought that since Kathryn and I are working like sexy little monkeys on my blog today, I'd experiment with my first embedded video in a post. […]
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this is only a test

14 March 2006
of the tinynibbles system; apologies for any extra RSS sticky wet spots left in your aggregators... (more...)
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three cheers for the girl!

13 March 2006
Hooray for Girl With A One-Track Mind, who won the 2006 Bloggie award for "Best British or Irish Weblog"! It's such great news, as she's a really cool chick (I had a beer or five with her in London last year), and it's right before the release of her upcoming […]
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in today’s San Jose Mercury News

13 March 2006
Today I'm quoted in the 'Merc about portable porn; it's called, Smut goes wireless; critics sound alarm, and as usual, my opinions clash with mobile porn critics...
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How To Surf Porn, Safely

12 March 2006
Learn how to surf porn safely, avoid popups, viruses and unethical link practices, how to safeguard your privacy online, and much more in the new permanent sidebar link, safe porn surfing. Here, I list the bad things that porn (and travel and pharmaceutical) sites do, things you can do to […]
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podcasting at 2am

11 March 2006
Beer + new Logitech headset + hot erotica + friday night melancholy = late night podcasting! Quickie: "The First Stroke" by Erica Dumas, from my new book Lips Like Sugar: Women's Erotic Fantasies. Here, a woman tries out her new strap-on and takes control with her boyfriend for the very first […]
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Marie Claire Likes Me

9 March 2006
My pal Alison Tyler has alerted me to Open Source Sex in the April issue of Marie Claire magazine! They recommend my podcast in their "sex confessions" section, saying: "Sex By iPod: One of the most popular sex podcasts is the Open Source Sex show by sex educator and writer […]
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Adult Babies And Secure Computing

8 March 2006
Many of you know I've been keeping an eye on the censorship fobiles of Boing Boing's coverage of Secure Computing, as I explained in my "Websluts, Powered by Google" post, the language and interpretation of online censorware is determined by the people who create and run the wares. But what […]
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dude, where’s my abortion rights?

7 March 2006
I don't blog too often about women's rights in this space because I feel that it's *ovbious* we're humans, you know, like men, and should have the same rights. But much to my shock at the fact that I'm even writing this -- now that abortion has become illegal in […]
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sex toy vending machines

6 March 2006
I tried to get a former employer (ahem) to do this a couple years ago (when I first saw the Tabooboo sex toy vending machines). Because even though I have access to free sex toys for review, I'd totally blow cash money on kewl toys while drunk in bars and […]
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children are always smarter than Hollywood

6 March 2006
I wish my friend's kid had liveblogged the Oscars last night: http://toiletpaperonline.typepad.com/the_blog/ursen/index.html "Oh, I can't believe it Pete!"/"He's just burping"/"This Godzilla is much bigger than I thought it would"/"Shouldn't you just start freaking out?"/"You want some beer?". Just change "Pete" for "George Clooney", and "Godzilla" for "Jon Stewart Jumps the Shark" and call […]
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the oscars are seriously lame

5 March 2006
It's raining and cold, and I'm sitting in front of the TV watching the Oscars -- because Jon Stewart is the host. It's sad that he left his funny in New York; couldn't someone who cared overnighted it to him? And sent some to the rest of everyone trying to […]
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cool stuff, new podcasts

3 March 2006
* First off, congratulations to the Stockroom and Steve Diet Goedde for being on The Colbert Report! In the segment "Better Meet a Founder", Colbert interviews Ben Franklin and attempts to one-up the founder with his own groundbreaking inventions -- one being a sex sling (the 4-point stand with leather […]
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Websluts, Powered By Google

2 March 2006
While my cohorts over at Geek Entertainment TV are (allegedly) pushing t-shirts that say "I was internet famous once" (hey, where's mine?), it simply doesn't compare to the internet autofellatio possibilities found at the Slut-O-Meter. This wonderfully amusing timesuck harnesses the unstoppable pimp powers of Google to determine internet sluttiness: […]
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