Koch Industries is one of America’s largest privately owned companies and a major funder of conservative political causes. You can read about the Koch brothers (there’s family drama in addition to coverage of their Tea Party-supporting ways) in a couple of thorough articles from last summer in New York and the New Yorker. Currently… Continue reading I’d Rather Go Naked Than Wear LYCRA®
More things that Portland did first *
Have you heard about this supposed “hipster strip joint,” the Westway, in New York? Stories about it usually are sprinkled with HI-larious commentary about how funny it is to mix hot nightlife spots with tits. SORRY NEW YORK, Portland, OR has been doing this for years. Mary’s Club, Union Jacks, and Devils Point are all… Continue reading More things that Portland did first *
Tina Fey Hates Sex Workers: Part One of Infinity
Y’all catch that joke on 30 Rock a couple of weeks (S05E13) ago? Jack Donaghy is in his office, mourning the change in GE ownership. “This is where we used to hold retirement parties. The balcony below is probably still littered with stripper bones.” HAR. One of the reasons sex workers become politicized is to… Continue reading Tina Fey Hates Sex Workers: Part One of Infinity
If you can think of it, there is a fetish for it: Centaur Fetish
“I’m a…crab!” The girl who is always drunk was dying at her own joke. “Well I’m half-person half-horse!” Ah, dressing room astrology-talk. “You’re a centaur.” “What the fuck is a sen tar?” It seemed like she couldn’t decide if it was rude of me to call her a sen tar. “A mythical horse man thingy.… Continue reading If you can think of it, there is a fetish for it: Centaur Fetish
A Conversation With Lusty Day
I love it when a plan comes together, don’t you? So, here’s the tea: I went from Dallas, TX, to the Desiree Alliance conference in Las Vegas on a bus last summer. By myself. Twenty-four hours or so of quiet and calm before the storm that Las Vegas always is. I remember sitting somewhere in… Continue reading A Conversation With Lusty Day