The fine folks at Kink caused quite a stir when they purchased The Armory in San Francisco. This is a hundred year old building initially constructed as a San Francisco National Guard Armory and Arsenal. As the building fell into disrepair from a combination of age and neglect and — this being California — earthquakes, [...]
My October has been hectic, so I’m just now getting to sharing with you all some more nice press my Backstage Passes anthology has been receiving. Rebecca , writing for Dirty Sexy Books, writes: “Sex, drugs, and rock n’ roll are the big stars in this erotica collection, including some bondage, bloodletting, and other interesting [...]
I’m not exactly a big tabloid reader, although I’m fascinated by the cultural impact of evolving media forms. I did watch the Edward G. Robinson classic Unholy Partners this week on TCM. Unholy Partners is a 1941 movie, a period piece about how WWI spurred sensationalist journalism but America was all done with that by [...]
I was just checking up on Twist Magazine, which is a cool alternative webzine out of Sweden that I like. You’ll need a translator for a lot of the articles but they feature some great concert photos from current tours with bands like Dimmu Borgir and Skinny Puppy. Twist just put up a massive seven [...]
A long time ago, in a land far from here, my punk rock group house Cambodia held a screening of a double feature of Edward Scissorhands and Edward Penishands. I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that Edward Scissorhands was in fact the better movie, but it was still a really [...]
We’re excited to help our good fiends at Release the Bats celebrate birthday number twelve! Forrest Black and I will be on hand to have fun. We’ll be photographing a select few folks who really show off the Release the Bats deathrock vibe. If you are in California, come on out of your graves for [...]
Our old school DC friends Ego Likeness have extended their tour in support of their recent album Breedless and if you haven’t had a chance to catch them live, you really should rectify that. I really like this album a lot. Donna Lynch has a beautiful haunting and powerful voice that sounds so good poured [...]
So there is a big brouhaha in Porn Valley right now because a performer has tested positive for HIV. It may or may not be someone with the nom de porn of Cameron Reid. If so, Cameron Reid has a girlfriend who was also a pornstar and he performed in both gay and straight fuck [...]
The very talented Chad Savage has done artwork for various Blue Blood projects over the years. He is a master of Halloween projects in specific. This month, he is offering a limited edition art print of Never Bury a Corpse in a Pumpkin Patch. Even if you can’t go shopping for jack o’lantern finery in [...]
According to Clara Moskowitz at Live Science, there is an award series called the Ig Nobels. An Ig Nobel award should not be confused with the no-longer meaningful Nobel prizes, who they hand out to pretty much anybody these days. (I used to hope that maybe some day I could be Time’s person of the [...]