My Two Cents on This Twerking Frenzy
All this talk of twerking following Miley Cyrus’s performance has really reached obnoxious levels. Really? What’s the big deal? People (mainly, black women) have been doing this twerking thing for...
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Scary Ben and Darlinda Just Darlinda at their Bushwick Burlesque show. (A.K.A.: How my friends put on an anniversary Burlesque show in Brooklyn). So I went to the two-year anniversary of the Bushwick...
View ArticleOops, I Did It Again
I went to a sex party this past Friday, even though I wrote previously about no longer going to them and haven’t been back in exactly a year. Thing is: I’m not, and never was, morally opposed to them...
View ArticleA literary seduction (my favorite kind)
The Seducing Cast from the Poetry Brothel Whores (and I say that in the most sex-positive sense of the term. I am one, too, after all) are not hard to find in New York City, I’d say. Intellectual...
View ArticleHalloween-ing Around
From the Susanne Bartsch Halloween party. Photo by Citizen Chris. Whoa, it’s been a whirlwind of a few weeks! Particularly the weeks and days leading up to, and following, Halloween. I feel like I’m...
View ArticleBeen around the block, no longer on the corner
This was the title of the Craigslist personals ad that my friend Juicy J and I posted, mostly just for fun, a few weeks ago. Juicy, who came up with the clever tag line, and I had been talking for some...
View ArticleCojones
The backside of the Wall Street Bull in downtown Manhattan, whose balls you have to rub for good luck when you come here. I forgot to mention that when I was prancing around all those fabulous...
View ArticleThe Underground Scouts
The Night Heron speakeasy (photo from The New York Times). Lest you ever get bored of the existing options in underground, alternative events and shenanigans in New York City, or are one of those...
View ArticleGratitude, in its many forms
I must say, I’m quite content with the holiday season this year. And by that, I mean everything from Thanksgiving up until now (and who knows what New Year’s night will bring yet). Or, as they call it...
View ArticleFunnies at Orgies
If you’ve never been to a sex party before, you are probably imagining it to be either something decadent and well-staged like Eyes Wide Shut, or something lame and disgusting, full of old, aggressive,...
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