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At the urging of goodvibes-mag, I'm taking this survey on attitudes towards lube. It is rather silly.
Let me see if I can paste some of it over here...
17. Who approves of you using lubricant alone during masturbation? What people or groups of people might support you?
I can't think of a single human being on this planet who might give a shit.
18. Who ( Read more... ) -
Velociraptors with Hoverboards
...is a phrase that I believe originates with XKCD, a webcomic I'm actually not all that into. I admire it plenty, I've just somehow never made the leap to checking it regularly ( Read more... ) -
Another day, another social media bandwagon
A few weeks ago, I gave in and got a Twitter account after a year of all the cool kids at Circlet sneering at me for not getting with the program. I'm not putting a feed of my tweets here on account of I kind of hate that. Twitter is its own odd little ecology (I admit I've been enjoying it rather more than I expected), and reposting chunks of ( Read more... ) -
Genre geeking
Readercon was fun and very intense. This isn't a report on that experience--it's an essay I started to prepare for the event. I was on one panel, entitled Traditional Genre Boundries are Melting, and I wanted to clarify my own thoughts on genre as preparation. I'm not sure I actually achieved all that much clarity, but I did manage to bring ( Read more... ) -
THIS IS A TESLA NEWS FLASH
Readercon is in one(1) week. How the hell did that happen ( Read more... ) -
News bits
* The schedule for Readercon in Burlington, MA has been tentatively announced. I'll be doing a solo reading at 6 PM7 PM on Friday, July 15, and appearing on a panel about genre boundaries at 8 that night. On Saturday the 16th at 8 PM is the Circlet Press group reading, where I'll be appearing with ceciliatan and several other writers to be named shortly ( Read more... ) -
Ebook buying guide--draft
One thing that came up at the book club meeting last night is that ebook formats and readers are daunting cacaphony of inconsistently-named overlapping systems. For example, Erotofluidic Age is available on the Circlet site as a PRC, EPub, .lit, HTML, or two different types of PDF. That's a lot of alphabet soup if you're not used to it. I just ( Read more... ) -
Feminist men and feminist porn
Professor Sarah Whedon interviewed me for the Good Vibrations blog this week. I was very pleased with the piece (I do come across as a bit pompous, but that might be because I'm a bit pompous), but it did leave out what I thought was one of the more interesting bits of discussion ( Read more... ) -
Of Faith and Facts
The most effective argument for atheism (or at least against against religious doctrine) I ever heard is Voltaire's famous "if God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him ( Read more... ) -
You can't spell "Immense Media Fame" without ME-ME-ME
There's been a bit of coverage of Erotofluidic Age lately. In particular, Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.oom posted an extensive review, and today, Sarah Whedon at the Good Vibration blog has posted an interview with me that focuses a bit more on the theory and ethics of writing smut, rather than the book itself. Go check 'em out and leave lots of