In honor of 4/20, I wanted to write something about how the low price of kush in California, even when you factor in doctor visits, demonstrates what happens when the market right-prices healthcare. I’m indifferent to marijuana, on a personal level, but I believe strongly in what it politically represents. But I glanced at Facebook, […]
How far would you go if threatened? I’ve been thinking about this a bit extra due to Game of Thrones. For example, does it make sense to kill suckling infants for fear that, when they grow up, they might want your job? What if their success meant you’d probably have to be dead, not just […]
Sexy Fandom reports that io9 editor Annalee Newitz and Esther Inglis-Arkell are now hosting io9‘s new web TV show. Annalee Newitz is perhaps best known now for editing SF blog io9, but I first came across her writing in features she did on the junction of sex and technology (one of my favorite junctions!) She […]
Gothic.net has posted a few more interesting Panel of Experts features. The most recent questions are Do you enjoy novels or anthologies more? and What are your favorite monsters and what specifically appeals to you about them? I felt inadequately special saying vampires, but I was surely not alone with this answer. It is kind […]
Given that it is pretty much the best thing on television right now, I’m not exactly surprised that Game of Thrones has been renewed for a Season 3 on HBO. With Boardwalk Empire’s wretched season finale and few feature films coming to premium cable in a timely fashion, I wonder how much of an uptick […]
Darn it, yesterday was Cthulu Day and I forgot. I swear I would have baked a cake, had I remembered. Maybe not as awesome as the 200 pound octopus cake from Highland Bakery in the Buckhead area of Atlanta where I inexplicably used to live. But definitely with tentacles. I’ve actually gotten pretty decent at […]
Forrest Black and I first attended the Stoker awards afterparty some time in the 1990’s. I don’t remember why we were in New York, but I remember being on a rooftop, chatting with other writers, with a cityscape in the background, which, at least in my mind’s eye totally looks like New York. It was […]
I love crazy special effects makeup and I love before and after pics. I recently watched the whole second season of SyFy’s Face/Off back to back in a TiVo watching orgy of monster-making competition. When Forrest Black sent me the link to this Wicked Pictures BTS video, he pointed out that it was like a […]
Whether or not you know or live by the rules about white after Labor Day or however that goes, this sexy white constructed corset with black detailing from Heavy Red is part of their new spring line of gothic couture. I always used to loathe daylight savings time in the spring. I am not a […]
Sometimes you don’t know how badly the world needs something, until that thing arrives. To wit, a video starring fabulous drag queens Willam Belli, Detox, and Vicky Vox singing Chow Down (at Chick-fil-A). Which features entertaining outfits, shots of my neighborhood, hot tubbing with hot gay boys, and of course snowballing bits of Chick-Fil-A. Crossdresser […]