Journalism may be going all to hell.

But there are a few worthwhile gigs left, apparently, and I count doing a video interview with Savanna Samson as one of them.

If I was a smarty, I'd mine this 20 minutes of chat for about five magazine articles ... oh, wait!… Read full post »

... I do crack myself up sometimes, and this is one of those times.

The Naked Reader Book Club: That is So NOT Sexy!

Mostly, when I write humor for publication, I find that by the time I am reallyreallyREALLY done with a piece, it no longer makes me laugh and… Read full post »

"Oh, the plight of the poor, straight male! “Pity me,” he cries, “for the weight of my entitlement is mighty, and I am weary from too much testosterone.” Wait … What’s that sound we hear? Why it’s the world’s tiniest violin… playing just for… Read full post »

That's easy.

Live Make-up or Break-up Sex.

That's all that's really left for them, huh?

Having recently posted a list of 34 Kinds of Sex, and now read, as has everyone else here, about 16 Kinds of Overrated Sex, I feel perfectly qualified to write the above headline and then stare at this screen, wondering what the fuck I'm going to type and expecting the worst.… Read full post »

My favorite entertainments are generally simple and beautiful and inspiring, and have at least some elements of fantasy. Peter S. Beagle's "The Last Unicorn" has been and will always be my favorite book. And Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy will forever be my favorite movies, with the first… Read full post »

These are funnier by far if one imagines that the humor is unintentional ... which it cannot be, really. The Brits are just plain good at this kind of stuff.  For those who would kill off the entire "Self Help" genre ...

1. How to Behave after Sex. I think the… Read full post »

I fiendishly commend to you the LOLinator, for translating your perfect prose and favorite web pages into LOL catspeak.

 I will not claim it is a good idea to do this. But it is, perhaps, less sucky than taking oneself too seriously.

  All of you on the front page… Read full post »

Some girls have all the luck.

I watched the Best. Super Bowl. Ever. last night, but I didn't know that Tucson, Ariz. viewers got to see 30 seconds of Club Jenna porn after Larry Fitzgerald's second touchdown. Now I feel cheated. Even though I am mostly indifferent to seeing porn star… Read full post »

I did, I swore I wouldn't write "25 Things."

But that was last year.

1. I believe there is such a thing as a self-fulfilling prophecy. As proof, I offer the name of my dog when I was a kid: Trouble.

2. The people I have met who… Read full post »

 Yes, I took one of the more provocative thoughts from the lengthy New York Times Sunday Magazine piece:

What Do Women Want?

... and used it for the headline. 

Contributing writer  and author Daniel Bergner delves into the current state of scientific research into what turns women on,… Read full post »

Space Elevators.

(rimshot)

Then add solar arrays and efficient microwave power beaming.

I'd like my Lexus battery-powered flying car for my 70th birthday, and I'd like my grandkids, if I have any, to be colonizing the solar system.

Thanks! Bye for now ...

When I read, in a reputable scientific journal, that the universe we live in may be more like one of those fancy 3-D images that they use on bank cards and '80s knicknacks than it is like the traditional heaven/earth/sky/ model ... well, I rejoice, and I hope you do, too.… Read full post »

Playboy has published its list of the 55 most important people in sex over the past 55 years, and Shere Hite isn't on it? Puhhlease. She belongs in the top 20, maybe the top 10. No one has done more for female orgasm and masturbation than Hite did in the 1970s.… Read full post »

Driving down the road in Florence, Mass. last week, my girlfriend and I saw something by the side of the road that made us pull over to the side, endangering ourselves and others.

 We knew we were being bad. But it was just ... too tempting. And we took pictures:… Read full post »

NO, I won't do it. I won't write 25 Things. No disrespect intended to all the fine writers of 25 Things out there, about whom I now feel I know more about than at least ... ummm, several ... of my ex girlfriends. But I won'twon'twon't.

And if I won't write… Read full post »

It was New Year's Eve day, 1983, when a Massachusetts cop broke my right front tooth by grabbing my heavy sweater at the neck from the other side of the bars of the cell I was in and yanking, slamming my face and mouth against the metal. I had been in… Read full post »

"... In Saudi Arabia, a newspaper reported that a man had offered $10 million to buy just one of what has almost certainly become the world’s most famous pair of black dress shoes." (New York Times)

I want to know all about those shoes, the ones formerly owned by Muntader al-Zaidi,… Read full post »

Let me first say that I’m so glad that economists have been able to determine that we officially went into a recession early this year. I read that in the New York Times right after Thanksgiving. It made the front page, in fact. And I’ve been wandering around with this cognitive… Read full post »

I haven't checked in for a while; I've been moving, and working on other things, and deliberately limiting my intake of political discussion.

I'm thrilled to have a new government on the horizon. 

But I'm not as nice a person as Barack Obama. I'm a little vindictive.

Dear O.,

Before you… Read full post »

I'm set for fuckin' life if I can just make it through the next six weeks, huh? Shit, my friends think a little spare change from the National Enquirer is somethin' ... it ain't nuthin' but a few tabs of Oxy, a little reefer. I got the whole fuckin' Republican Party… Read full post »

Not. Sarah. Palin.

The brief comment I most agree with regarding McCain's selection of a running mate (and I am going to try to never use her name again except under the unlikely circumstance of her becoming president of the United States ...)

McCain is trying to distance himself from the… Read full post »

I have an old friend -- he was best man at my wedding 22 years ago, but I forgave him for letting me go through with it -- who ran off to Paris when Dubyah got elected. He hasn't been back except for important family get-togethers and such. Anyway, I get… Read full post »

This is going to be really, really short. I 've managed to say very little about Sarah Palin so far, and I don't really have much more to say beyond this:

My considered reaction, after I got through reading about what even just the Republicans have to say about her, is… Read full post »

News Item: WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is missing as many as 225 days of e-mail dating back to 2003 and there is little if any likelihood a recovery effort will be completed by the time the Bush administration leaves office, according to an internal White House draft document obtained… Read full post »