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Always On A Monday
I am going to make the attempt to post here regularly every Monday. I figure Monday needs something to recommend it, right? 🙂 I’ll still be posting randomly, of course. But this way you know definitely when to look for stuff. I’m told that’s the way to run a blog. So…
The Nude That Launched a Thousand..well, One Trial
Meet Narcissus. The original of this statue of him was discovered in Pompeii in 1862 and housed in the Naples Museum. In 1873, an enterprising art dealer of New Bedford Massachusetts, one Charles Hazeltine, purchased a replica of this very Narcissus in Boston and displayed it in the front window…
The Erotic Diaries of a Victorian Seafarer in the US Navy
An American Seafarer in the Age of Sail: The Erotic Diaries of Philip C. Van Buskirk, 1851-1870 by Barry Richard Burg My rating: 4 of 5 stars This book is not what you think it’s about. 🙂 Philip C Van Buskirk was an educated young man whose family fell on…
Do You M/M?
Are you one of the many (many, many) readers of m/m romance? Do you swoon to Alex Beecroft’s False Colors: An M/M Romance or Erastes’ Transgressions: An M/M Romance? For anyone who might be thinking, “What, M&M’s have romance?” and trying to picture the green girl M&M in something slinky…. no. M/M is…
Happy New Year!
So did y’all make any resolutions? How long do yours usually last?My answer is: not long. I have sooo many good intentions … I must have a very well-paved road to Hell. ;)A friend of mine has made a resolution to blog regularly one day a week. I should probably…
Introduction to Aunt Flo
“For perhaps the first time in your active, tom-boy life, you must accept the fact that you are a girl. … You’re a girl and you are getting ready for the special role of childbearing. … You may think you were intended to be a Hollywood star, or a scientist,…
Spread of Technology
So, I’ve been seriously restricted in my access to the interwebz this week (a source of much chagrin and many conniption fits, lemme tell ya), and I started to wonder how humanity ever survived without being able to tweet about cat antics or lint or the contents of one’s coffee…
Roasting Romance
If someone were to come up to you and sneer, “I don’t write romance. I write a real love story involving real people grappling with real dilemmas*,” is your response:a) “Oh, so you do write romance, then?”b) “Pretentious, much?”c) “I assume this dismissal of an entire genre was reached through…
Full Kitty Belly
Happy Thanksgiving!
When Sugar Isn’t Sweet Enough
Did you get a chance to try Pepsi Throwback when it came out earlier this year? If not, you’re in luck, because it’s coming back in December for a limited engagement of 8 weeks.What’s the deal with Throwback? It’s made with natural sugar.(As opposed to un-natural sugar? Deviant sugar? Perv…