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January 18, 2009 | Sunday | 58 Comments
Writer Sailor Jim has reprinted his essay on describing the erection, from his 2002 book Naked Through the Snow and Other Bits of Silliness. Hark! Throbbing, turgid, rigid, engorged humor on the sultry rod of manflesh! Let us rejoice. Lately, I think I’ve read more uses of the word “cock” than any other euphemism, and have even bumped into “erection” more often than I expect. Um,not literally. My house is not filled with turgid man staffs, though now that I think about it, that’s a solid decorating idea if I’ve ever heard one. What methods of describing the erect penis…
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January 17, 2009 | Saturday | 44 Comments
The National Endowment for the Arts released their report “Reading on the Rise” on 12 January documenting that for the first time in 25 years, more Americans are reading. An increase in readers? Excellent! According to the demographic breakdown, young adults show the biggest increase (yay!) and fiction is the largest growing market in adult readers (also yay!). Here’s my favorite statistic from the report: “Online readers also report reading books. 84% of adults who read literature (fiction, poetry, or drama) on or downloaded from the Internet also read books, whether print or online - and nearly 15 percent of…
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January 16, 2009 | Friday | 65 Comments
After reading two romances, one historical and one category, DocTurtle, it seems, has fallen and fallen hard… for you guys. He had such a great time reading and blog-reviewing Sex Straight Up and An Infamous Army that he asked for more romances to read and review for the awesomeness that is the Bitchery audience. As he wrote to me: I can’t tell you how much fun I’ve had reading these books and writing these reviews, and how much I will be delighted to continue my association with your blog in whatever way you’d like me to…. I’ll leave it to…
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January 16, 2009 | Friday | 25 Comments
Question: is that Mike Rowe narrating? I think so - which makes it 400% more hilarious.
Thanks to Anna L. for the link.
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January 14, 2009 | Wednesday | 67 Comments
Have you ever wondered to yourself, “Self, I wonder what Sarah thinks about at 6:40 am before she’s had caffeine?” Well, wonder no more. Here’s a sample! Following the discussion during our last liveblog about the use of the word “prostate” during a sex scene in K.A. Mitchell’s Custom Ride, I got to thinking about the word “prostate.” Within the context of m/m romance and sex scenes, the prostate is big pimpin, as stimulation thereof can yield mad happy pants, if you know what I’m saying. Yet the discussion we had questioned the use of the word itself, since it’s…
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January 07, 2009 | Wednesday | 6 Comments
Looking for free ebooks? Of course you are! If you’re inclined to read sci-fi and fantasy, which often has that delightful thing we call the Luuuuuuurve™ in it as well, Baen has a free ebooks library online at WebScription, with piles upon piles of free download options. Whee!
[Thanks to Gry for the link.]
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December 10, 2008 | Wednesday | 4 Comments
Ever wondered about the large scale and small scale environmental impact of eBooks? Wonder no more: Grist.org takes a look at the issue, from the technology involved to the saving of paper. Interesting food for thought.
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December 04, 2008 | Thursday | 43 Comments
ToroHo sent me a link. It was very mean of her. It was a link to the book you see pictured over there: An Enema, A Birthday Spanking, A Love Story. The title of the actual paperback seems to read “When the Jonquils Bloom Again: Book One,” but the Amazon.com title is all enemas and spanking. Is there a better way to catch people’s attention as they look for something to read? Spankings and poo? Sign me up! No, wait, don’t. I downloaded the Kindle sample (Kindle: Nom nom..What?!) and, well, in the interest of complete honesty, I went to…
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November 30, 2008 | Sunday | 14 Comments
It’s not every day you see dinosaurs fornicate on eBay.
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November 30, 2008 | Sunday | 48 Comments
You will never look at flan the same way again.
The comments, too, are gold. Spoogetastic gold.
[Thanks to Elf for the link.]
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November 16, 2008 | Sunday | 22 Comments
From Rebecca comes this thought provoking link: a Georgian (I think) -era vampire hunting kit sold at auction for $14,850.00 in Natchez, Mississippi. It contained stakes, holy water, Bibles, mirrors, crosses and garlic.
Aside from the question as to whether Colleen Gleason is going to go see it for herself, my query is this: how in the world does 200 year old garlic look that fresh? I mean, I have some garlic that’s past its prime, and it does NOT look like that.
I sense supernatural powers at work.
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November 02, 2008 | Sunday | 15 Comments
Ever wanted to read an audio book? (I so do, it’s like a fetish almost. I would love to do voice work. It’s bizarre, how fascinated I am with the whole industry.) Or maybe volunteer your time in an entirely new way? Check out LibriVox, where you can volunteer your time, and your sexy voice, to read audio books of works in the public domain. They have a whole process in place where books are announced, chapters are assigned, and voices are collected - so that folks who prefer audio books or who need them for a variety of reasons…
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October 10, 2008 | Friday | 16 Comments
If I’d had this when I was taking chem, I’d have had a lot easier time remembering how chemical reactions work. I think it’s the dance music, really.
Thanks to Vera for the link.
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September 27, 2008 | Saturday | 2 Comments
From Lucinda Betts: a truly fascinating article on why and how our brains are wired to enjoy stories. Seriously - worth a read over your morning weekend coffee. We tell stories about other people and for other people. Stories help us to keep tabs on what is happening in our communities. The safe, imaginary world of a story may be a kind of training ground, where we can practice interacting with others and learn the customs and rules of society. And stories have a unique power to persuade and motivate, because they appeal to our emotions and capacity for empathy.…
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July 25, 2008 | Friday | 6 Comments
Robert J. Sawyer gave a marvelous ranting talk at the University of Waterloo about science fiction, it’s origins, and what it meant in terms of social relevance. Evan Steacy set them to visual images, and the three part narration is fascinating, particularly the part about Shelley’s Frankenstein.
All you science fiction romance fans, enjoy.
Thanks to Nathalie Grey for the link.
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