A few of our female OS bloggers have been whipping up photo-heavy lists of their sexiest men.  I have enjoyed seeing these lists, due mainly to my remarkable physical resemblance to every man on them!

I decided to come up with a sexiest women list, but didn't want to bore you… Read full post »

Not a poem.  Just words.

I'm nobody's poet.  Just somebody's friend.

We shared the best of times, Joker, you and me.

Moose and Dickie and Pickle ran with us too,

But my wingman and me more alike than they.

A shoulder, a heart.  The fiercest friendship I've known.

K… Read full post »

Author Cory Doctorow 

I have recently been thinking about Cory Doctorow's wonderful futuristic book, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom.  It really reminds me of Open Salon.

In the Bitchun Society to which the main characters belong, people don't use cash but instead gai… Read full post »

In the 1990's there was a brilliant commercial featuring Avery Brooks.  In his distinctive baritone he spoke about his childhood dreams of the future.  He then went on to speak of new technology products that had arisen, but in the end lamented, "But where are the flying… Read full post »

I call the defensive tackle "sweetheart," and the tight end is "our girl." 

I've coached seven years of HS football.  A rare liberal in jockland, I remember several times standing up to entire coaching staffs--particularly at the Catholic school for which I coached--and defending girls' ri… Read full post »

I got slapped in the face.  I pulled some muscles in my stomach.  I broke my glasses.  I had ridiculously good sex.  So, of course, I will always remember it as a glorious night.  I just wish I had the slightest clue how it all came together.  But I have never quite… Read full post »

When did you pop your computer cherry?  Was it with someone you loved?

I remember a conversation I had in 1983 with my wonderful English teacher. She was concerned that computers would limit our creativity and produce a uniform society--she read and watched science fiction, bless her heart, and… Read full post »

I guess I'm a member of a gender that is becoming obsolete.  Wait a minute, I'm sure of my gender.  It's the obsolescence I'm guessing about.

Men have made many vital contributions to the world, but as evolved as we are, we may not be needed much longer.

We've known… Read full post »

She was a foxy badass chick with raven Farrah tresses and black leather pants. 

We were thirteen. She really shouldn't have been my friend, but she was.  She had been for five years.  When she first moved to town she was a poor kid who talked funny, but I thought she was… Read full post »

Jenny Agutter...wow!  I was ten in 1976 when Logan's Run came out.  I was barely a hatchling, but I had already realized two things.  I was already in love with science fiction, and I was definitely starting to like girls.  While many people considered those two… Read full post »