Category Archives: sex

On “Perverts” and the Brony/Pegasister Community

Michael J. Nelson: “BronyCon 2012 drew a crowd of 4000 chubby little pervs.” (twitter.com) When I first started writing here about getting into Dance Dance Revolution in late 2003, I got a lot of negative e-mails. Most of them were along the lines of, “You can’t go play video games where kids are present because you’re one of them queers and everyone will be right to assume that you’re just going there to try to ‘pick up’ or kidnap kids for whatever perverted things people like…

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The V Word

Michigan lawmaker to help perform “Vagina Monologues” (AP via Google) Lost amid the understandable silliness surrounding the reaction to Michigan Republicans forbidding Democratic Michigan State Representative Lisa Brown  to speak on the Michigan House floor, due to her use of the word “vagina” in a floor speech against an anti-abortion bill, is a larger and much more serious problem that has been going on in Michigan for over a year now. Bear with me talking about that for a while, and I promise I’ll talk…

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The Machine

Joseph Campbell: “[The modern myth] has to do with machines …” (Interview with Publishers Weekly excerpted in Facebook post from the Joseph Campbell Foundation) Anything having to do with Star Wars is kind of timely with news of George Lucas preparing to step down at LucasFilm still fresh in our minds. As I read Campbell’s words I had to wonder what he would have made of the Borg from the Star Trek universe, which were more contemporary for people of my generation. With Darth Vader the threat of…

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Trying to Start Adult Conversations

A quick story (with news) about The Prostitutes of Lake Wobegon to lead into this blog: One of the reasons I set up a Facebook page for the novel this early in the game was because I figured that after the announcement that I’d been shortlisted for the Dundee International Book Prize I figured that I needed to grab up domain names and usernames and such before anyone else grabbed them and “held them hostage” as it were. I finally got enough Likes to get a…

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You Can’t Stop Fan-Based Works

Esurance Axes Erin After the Secret Agent Took on an X-Rated Life of Her Own (cbsnews.com) If you’ve never heard of Rule 34, it’s another of those Internet memes. The full text of rule 34 is, “If it exists, there is porn of it. No exceptions.” My friend Max C., who first made me aware of this story, pointed out that Erin Esurance may well be the first “casualty” of Rule 34, a character retired because its creators were sick of all the adult spinoffs…

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