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Web Log Archives: August 17, 2003 - August 23, 2003 Saturday, August 23, 2003
Jonno has been following the march plans and brainstorming the best way to respond. "Think about it: thousands of us on the balconies of Good Friends, the Bourbon Pub, Oz and Lafitte's welcoming the marchers with glitter bombs (not that kind), napkin salutes, cans of Silly String, confetti and streamers. Outdoor speakers blasting (God help me) 'I Will Survive'. A flashmob with a purpose, culture jamming at its most celebratory, a way of taking the high route (literally and figuratively) against those who want to silence us. We'll be doing what New Orleans does best - meeting adversity with celebration - while keeping everyone safe, happy, and feeling good about why we're all there." The StormsWatchers has been set up to track Storms' plans and organize the balcony welcome response.
Friday, August 22, 2003
And the fact that my neighbor is hotter than Satan's Sunday gumbo is simply my supreme good fortune. God bless his rock hard little ass, the guy next door has this whole "guitar and tattoos," "long hair and vegetarian lasagna," "I know fifty obscure oriental massage techniques and have tickets to Burning Man in my pocket" quality going for him, and that can really kick the seeds out of my watermelon.
Thursday, August 21, 2003
Are Hollywood forces behind that lawsuit that a stripper filed against the National Enquirer? That's what some industry insiders are wondering after Antonella Santini, a stripper who lives in Vancouver, sued the tabloid for libel when it ran an article claiming that Ben Affleck performed hanky panky on her. "It's very interesting to me that Affleck himself has not sued," says a source, "Yet the stripper has. Now, if Affleck's people want to discredit the story, they can point to the stripper's case without having to go through the process of disclosure." What's more, the lawyer representing Santini is with Rintala, Smoot, Jaenicke and Rees, a Los Angeles-based law firm that has worked on the same side as Affleck’s lawyer, Marty Singer. (Link snagged from Slotman.) The latest National Enquirer prints a handwritten letter allegedly written by Ryan Haddon (Christian Slater's wife) to several Vancouver strip club employees (including Enquirer cover girl Tammy Morris) the day before the Enquirer's first article appeared. In the letter, she thanks them all in advance for keeping quiet about that wild night. Meanwhile, Michael Musto looks into another Affleck scandal. But hold the chicken fingers and shoot water into my hole! I hear Ben Affleck's lawyers are still torturing Gossiplist.com, the celeb dish and rumor website that ran a shot of Ben masturbating that the lawyers said was fake. (If it was one of him carrying on with strippers in Vancouver, however, that would be real. By the way, more people allegedly watched that scene on the monitor than saw Gigli.) Anyway, the webmaster tells me they threatened her for big bucks, so she complied with their wishes, "but they won't unfreeze my account until I take the info I have on their other clients off the site." I can understand their concern, but maybe these people should also spend some time trying to find better scripts for Ben. Damn, next time I get a cease-and-desist order, remind to call up Michael Musto and hope he gives my site a big plug.
A fierce debate about whether jealousy, lust and sexual attraction are hardwired in the brain or are the products of culture and upbringing has recently been ignited by the growing influence of a school of psychology that sees the hidden hand of evolution in everyday life. Fresh sparks flew last month when a study of more than 16,000 people from every inhabited continent found that men everywhere -- whether single, married or gay -- want more sexual partners than women do. "This study provides the largest and most comprehensive test yet conducted on whether the sexes differ in the desire for sexual variety," wrote lead researcher David P. Schmitt, an evolutionary psychologist at Bradley University in Peoria, Ill. "The results are strong and conclusive -- the sexes differ, and these differences appear to be universal." The idea that male promiscuity is hardwired -- and therefore "normal" -- drew swift and furious criticism. Scholars who assert the primacy of culture in shaping human behavior charged Schmitt with choosing his facts, making his conclusions less about science than "wishful thinking." Vedantam does a thorough job exploring the various scientific issues and debates. The study, titled "Universal Sex Differences in the Desire for Sexual Variety: Tests From 52 Nations, 6 Continents, and 13 Islands," was published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Only the abstract is available online. Followup commentaries by Cathy Young and Jeff Jacoby.
Tuesday, August 19, 2003
Monday, August 18, 2003
Castillo, a manager of Keith's Comics in East Dallas, became something of a cause célèbre in comic-book circles after police brought him up on misdemeanor obscenity charges for selling a racy comic book [Demon Beast Invasion: The Fallen] to an undercover vice cop. Because of a vigorous defense paid for by the Massachusetts-based Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, which saw fit to fight the matter all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, the case has spent nearly three years before appeals courts. After the nation's highest court declined to hear the matter in its most recent term, Castillo's conviction became final, and he began a yearlong probation this summer. Earlier stories about the case appeared in ICv2 and the Dallas Observer, and Newsarama interviewed Jesus Castillo last fall. Eugene Volokh commented on the case last week.
Sunday, August 17, 2003
Some people know Valerie Shahan as the new person who is in charge of opening the first real public library in town. Only a few know her as Lady Jane Grey of Bellingham, who advertised her sadomasochism services on the Internet. [...] Shahan did not tell her employers about this activity. What she does in her spare time is nobody's business, she said. The library board hasn't made a decision about how or whether to respond, though one board member is quoted as saying, "It's part of her private life. It's none of the board's business." A followup article in the big-city Seattle Post-Intelligencer notes that Shahan is a former vice president of the National Leather Association. Shahan worked for 25 years at the Western Washington University Library before taking the Concrete job earlier this year. Klipsun, a student magazine at WWU, ran an article about BDSM in 2000 focusing on Lady Jane Grey and a local group called the Triskeli Guild.
"A 1920's primadonna is taking off her clothes, and then some. I was playing with the idea that something very beautiful and desirable may contain something very ugly and disgusting." Her site has a series of stills and an 8-minute Quicktime video. More. Vidyaykina has two performances left this week at the Fringe Festival. (Links snagged from Aberrant News.)
The actress is shown looking at the camera the whole time and talking directly to the viewer. Her co-star is never fully revealed. Only his hands and other crucial appendages are visible, depending on the sex act that the viewer gets to choose. "It's the closest you'll ever get to having sex with our girls without really having sex with them," said Joone, who goes by one name. He is the 35-year-old creator and co-owner of Digital Playground, who also directed the "Virtual Sex" series. Digital Playground, which was formed in 1993, unlike the older companies in the so-called Porn Valley outside Los Angeles, began releasing its interactive products on CD-ROM's. "When you're watching a regular porn movie, you're watching it in the third person," Joone said by telephone. "You're basically a voyeur. This way it's a first-person experience. If the girl is in the missionary position, the camera is looking down at her as you would be if you were actually there with her. You're the god of your world at that moment." The Times doesn't provide any stills or box covers or buy-this-DVD links, but Daze Reader has no such qualms. So consider this a sidebar.
I rented Virtual Sex with Devon once. Clicking through the menus to call up different positions and acts (finger | vibrator | tongue | cock) was fun, but the "you are there" illusion required a truly heroic suspension of disbelief. Fortunately, the Times article also reports the development of "new technology involving holographic porn" which might "someday soon offer porn that seems to bring the performer into the viewer's living room." |
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