The Shortbus came… and I went. And thoroughly enjoyed it. Everything about Shortbus was splendid: the character conflicts, the resolutions (some certain, some ambivalent, all representing personal breakthroughs), its hearty, spirited humor, its splendid poly-Salon where gay trannies can make out with straight girls and all body types are welcome, its action expressed in symbolic [...]

Naming the ten best erotic memoirs ever. Like its recent list of best erotic novels, it’s a blend of the old and new, spanning a couple of centuries of erotic literature, i.e.:

1) The Sexual Life of Catherine M, by Catherine Millet (2001)
2) The Surrender, by Toni Bentley (2004)
3) The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, [...]

Last week, a small number of incidents amazed and amused me. The first occurred while watching CNN’s The Situation Room. I think Wolf Blitzer was talking to Bay Buchanan and either James Carville or Paul Begala about the Mark Foley situation. I can’t remember because a small number of Bay’s words stopped me dead in [...]

Have come to end for the moment. I had the pleasure of warm, but not hot, weather in Florida and was the lucky recipient of the serenity of shelling along the beaches, shopping at used book stores, catching falling prey to that Florida need to nap daily, and, most of all, plenty of family warmth. [...]