On Sadism
This post is primarily in response to Tutivillus’ excellent podcast on being a physical sadist. It’s short and clear, so please have a listen to it before you read my post, or it really won’t make a lot of sense. You can listen here. (Please read Tutivillus’ comment at the bottom of this blog. Apparently […]
Writing Jags & Butterfly Collectors
If you’re a regular visitor to my site, you will have noticed I was on something of a writing jag this weekend. But with Monday, work has intervened and it won’t be until Wednesday that I post another installment of The Lepidopterists. Writing this is an interesting experiment for me. Yvette is the first really […]
Bad Romance: Book Review
I’m pathetic at writing book reviews, and I rarely do it. But once in a while, you read something that so encapsulates the genre as you hope it will be, that you just have to grit your teeth and go for it. Hating Lady Gaga with a passion that rivals Camille Paglia’s, when Lisabet Sarai […]
Podcasted: Heat Sink
Heat Sink explores the themes of anger and bitterness through an erotic lens. The muscle at the hinge of his jaw twitches beneath his skin. Only this subtle sign betrays his thoughts as the dinner party’s fatuous host holds forth with unforgivable ignorance on the subject of poverty. From across the over-lit dinner table, I […]
Outed for being a Good Teacher and a Published Author
I don’t know how many of you have heard the about Judy Mays, but this high school English teacher of 25 years has just been disgustingly and viciously ‘outed’ as – hold on to your hats – an erotica writer. You can see what laughingly passes for news here. And read more about her travails […]
Another Love
When I was a little girl, I learned: To love is to fight. Passion is pale if it doesn’t draw blood. Anger is the fertile sod of love, and its growth leaves indelible marks on every part it touches. To love is public spectacle screaming operettas at two am, scenes in restaurants and hotel lobbies. […]
Quantum Bodies
These pieces were written in response to “Constitutive Self-Negation”, a talk given by Dorothée Legrand for the Dark Materialism Symposium. I was not so taken by her extreme examples of the object/subject duality of the body as much as the idea of its concept of being in flux, of its incorporation in the moment of perception. And for me, everything is framed through the lens of eroticism. Of course, as always.
Idiot stuff
It’s hot, I’m feeling bored and utterly uncreative. So, here, for your geeky pleasure is a Gregorian Chant ringtone for the iPhone. Because…everyone needs one of these. It’s zipped so you need to unzip it and drag it onto iTunes. For the rest of you, here’s the mp3 version: gregorian_ring_1 Yup… That’s the entirety of […]
Take Me Down
Because I love you hold me tight close my eyes take me down. Don’t warn me how deep the drop how dark the depths how thin the rope. Trust in me to know these things and have chosen not to choose. If you want me jack me in pull the cord make the cut. If you love me don’t betray me with hesitation, take me down.
alliance #lostinsaigon
when I say hurt me you do but with such regret. the damage is not delicate but your intentions are. I’m training you to ugliness a vine grown into monstrous shape. you will leave me worse for wear tainted by alliance. #lostinsaigon