I’ve been told I’m an acquired taste. Not everybody likes my sense of humor and that’s okay. My mother doesn’t like horror movies ever since my father took her to see The Exorcist all those years back. But I like them, so I figure there’s a 50/50 chance you will, too.… Read full post »

This was another special weekend, mostly because like the conventions I attend, it only happens once a year. And it typically involves a convention. My best friend from college (Don) comes down with his girlfriend (Lindsay) and we attend the Motor City Comicon. We’ve done this for the last ten year… Read full post »

Some online friends who I’ve had the pleasure to meet in person have been giving me a hand reaching out and asking their peeps if they’d like to submit something for the Face of Gay series. And when their initial approach hasn’t yielded any fruit, they’ve taken to more direct… Read full post »

Several of you have been mightily amused reading about my struggles during the home renovation project. I haven’t been quite as amused, but it’s entirely possible I may look back on this one day and find it amusing. Or I may have one of my staff look back on it and… Read full post »

I now know after last week why it is I space my blog posts out. Monday’s didn’t happen because I was traveling and still detoxing from time spent breathing the air around Patti Logan, which was easily 8% proof. I didn’t quite get the post done for Tuesday since I still… Read full post »

Original MySpace Publication Date: July 7, 2009

Right, so some of you posted or e-mailed some curiosity aimed at the reading I had yesterday with uber-psychic Sylvia Brown.  I figured rather than respond to random questions, I’d simply type up a bit of the information that was shared with me.Â… Read full post »

Dear Kristopher,

I’m a little late writing this to you, but considering where you are, time is no longer linear, so you most likely got this exactly when I meant you to. That’s my attempt at a plausible excuse. I think I’ve simply put this off a bit because I knew… Read full post »

I’m not someone prone to exaggeration as my super adorable, hunky, and delightfully succulent husband will tell you. I’m also not prone to fibbing as my staff will attest to. So when I tell you that this past weekend attending OutlantaCon has become my favorite con experience to date, believe me.… Read full post »

One of my favorite bands, Tears For Fears, regrouped several years ago and released an album titled Everybody Loves A Happy Ending. I find that I concur. The human adventure comes with a number of hidden traps and pitfalls mixed with uncertainty and the ever-looming unknown. And then there are times… Read full post »

You’ve met three of my incredibly talented and delightfully breasted fellow authors from the Butt Pirates in Space anthology, so it’s high time you met the one with the plums, the rocks, the nads, nuggets, Cracker Jacks, stones, kerbangers, marbles, tenders, Pelotas, family jewels, gems, cojones,… Read full post »

When author Kiernan Kelly talks, E.F. Hutton listens. E.F. Hutton didn’t listen once, but he was quickly tied up, tickled, whipped and otherwise politely influenced to listen to her. It was either that or there wouldn’t be an orifice on his body that wouldn’t be prodded before it… Read full post »

I love writing sequels, which is why I’ve already got a second episode of the Spacehunters series in mind. However, one thing I hadn’t considered that fellow author Angelia Sparrow did was the serial. What an absolutely perfect idea for an anthology like Butt Pirates in Space, which is me… Read full post »

Happy Monday to you! Kage here and VERY much looking forward to an exciting week. Why? Because not only is my bum still completely flawless and a sight to behold…and, you know, actually hold, but the Butt Pirates in Space anthology was released! I am one of five authors contained in… Read full post »

Original MySpace Publication Date: July 2, 2009

This blogging thing is seriously feast or famine with me. Either nothing comes to mind (in which case people start calling me McLeod) or it all comes flooding out. I do want to preface this one by saying that I’m feeling bluntly honest about… Read full post »

I couldn’t resist. I thought about it and thought about it after Monday’s blog post and I finally decided to throw caution to the wind, borrow the postcards from my father-in-law’s nightstand for a few hours and type them up. They meant something to him for him to have kept them… Read full post »

I’ve been spending an inordinate amount of time at my father-in-law’s house cleaning, sorting, rearranging, playing Tetris with the furniture and generally making myself useful. That’s pretty easy to do since if I wasn’t doing it, it wouldn’t get done. I consider it my full-time job once da… Read full post »

There are certain people I’ve met who I’d never want to be in a dark alley with if I’d just ticked them off. And then there are people I’d simply never want to be in a dark alley with under any circumstance. Now, there are people I know who voice their… Read full post »

So when we last left our self-professed stressed hero, I…er…he was trying to figure out where to go in order to step away for a bit and relieve the stress. He…er…I did finally settle on such a place; Manhattan. Of all the places I haven’t been, why choose some place I’d… Read full post »

Dear Self,

Can we talk? No, put the Johnny Sokko DVD case back on the shelf. We can watch it together later. And don’t you dare pick up the Ultraman DVD set instead. Put them all back…right next to Firefly. For now, you and I need to have a conversation that’s… Read full post »

Original MySpace Publication Date: July 1, 2009

Blog, they said, and people will read you.

Blog frequently, they said, or people will not read you…and instead read someone who actually does blog frequently because those are the rules we just made up since they sound wise and sage-like.

Kinda ma… Read full post »

Men are pretty simple creatures, right? And yet I enjoy being one. We didn’t start out this way, though, but then puberty hit and we’ve been living our lives by the 4 ‘h’s ever since; hairy, hungry, horny and huffy. It’s entirely possible that women are the same way. They shave… Read full post »

A friend was pontificating a week ago and mentioned she thought she’d be in a different place right now in life. When I asked what she meant, she said she just always felt that she’d be dividing her time between several soul mates, not just one. Conversations like this fascinate me… Read full post »

Welcome to our 30th Face of Gay post, which I believe is cause for celebration. You’ll find that the length of today’s piece is a little longer than usual, but packs a tremendous amount of emotional punch equal to its length. Plus, having met Moxie Ann Magnus at OutlantaCon last year,… Read full post »

Of the two or three things I haven’t figured out in this world—feel free to ask me about anything you haven’t figured out yet—one of them has to do with death. I’ve come to suspect it’s unknowable until the time is upon us. I find that very annoying. And, really, this… Read full post »

“You’ve crossed the threshold that divides those who have experienced the death of a loved one and those for whom that time will come.†–Dorien Grey

Those words stuck with me all through the last week and not just because they’re true. They’re VERY true. There are certain life experiences… Read full post »