Posted By jss on August 26, 2010
… So sayeth unto us Jesus H. Christ and the Four Hornsmen of the Apocalypse …
Jesus says “f*cking” instead of “fucking,” of course. But Risa Mickenberg says whatever she wants.
… and I’m moving back to CT next week, which is at least part of the reason I’ve been incommunicado for a bit.
Posted By jss on July 30, 2010
Seems like old times. Good times. Hefner vs. Guccione.
Except there is no Guccione and this is 2010, not 1980.
Penthouse Owner to Battle Hefner for Playboy Control
In other Playboy news, the company has launched a safe-for-work site, The Smoking Jacket. The site LOOKS an awful lot like Men’s Health, does it not?
Is the rest of the world so into Mad Men that smoking jackets are back even if smoking isn’t? Someone tell me it’s not so.
And in yet more Playboy news — there is a Hefner biopic/documentary out:
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel (video from MoMA)
Posted By jss on July 6, 2010
He’s just not. Al Gore does not look anything like a poodle. Maybe a St. Bernard?
So at least that part of his whole scandal is not true.
Until the Portland, Oregon police finish their investigation, I’m only going to pay attention to reputable Chinese news sources for perspective on the whole Al Gore thing.
Posted By jss on July 5, 2010
According to, like, every news source in the world that covers what celebrities do and say, Cameron Diaz said, just the other day, that monogamy is outdated.
That’s the consensus headline or near-the-top-of the story tidbit, anyway.
Like here:
Monogamy outdated: Cameron Diaz
Only, of course, she did not actually say that monogamy is outdated. She said that it isn’t for her. She said it isn’t for everybody. She did not, as far as I can tell, say that monogamy is outdated for everyone or deride monogamy in any way.
She did apparently say, in an interview with German magazine Bunte:
“You don’t find true love, it finds you. Somewhere out there, there’s someone you can share your love with. Our society tries to makes us believe you’re ready for love at 18, have to get married and spend the rest of your life with the same man. Bullshit! That’s not the ideal anymore these days. Some people find their true love at 50 and with today’s life expectancy you could live another 50 years with that person. Just imagine having to sleep with the same guy for 20, 30 or even 50 years. If you can’t you shouldn’t go there.”
Not exactly radical. So why does she get painted as a foe of monogamy?
Mostly because bad journalists painted her into a corner. I suspect she minds, when this happens.
I can’t find the original interview with Bunte, unfortunately, so this is all at least second-hand news. The only current info about Ms. Diaz on the German magazines web site asks: “Eine Überdosis Botox?” I won’t insult anyone’s intelligence by translating or even commenting.
Posted By jss on June 29, 2010
Sometimes, a headline pretty much says it all.
But here’s the link:
R.I.P. Chatroulette, 2009-2010
“A few months ago, it was the Web’s hottest trend. Then users took their self-exposure way too far …”
Actually, Chatroulette was pretty much all penises, all the time, a few months ago when I finally got around to taking a look:
So I’m not sure what the new information is here. The last I heard, Mr. Chatroulette himself was being courted by venture capitalists and they were going to get rid of the penises, somehow:
Chatroulette Enlists Shawn Fanning In The Fight Against The Masturbators
Anyway, the only thing I am sure of in all this is that wherever you have webcams, penises will probably be nearby. Marketing tip to webcam makers: Forget about megapixels and put a magnifying lens in, and say right upfront that this new webcam will make your penis look bigger. I guarantee you will sell zillions.
Posted By jss on June 28, 2010
“Yes, yes yes … Like you, I’ve heard everything I ever wanted to hear for the rest of my life … about President Clinton and his marriage …”
From the This American Life archive at WBEZ in Chicago, a *great* discussion from March 7, 1998.
Summary:
Act One. Scientific Experiment.
Chris and Sylvere, and how they tried to contain a marriage-threatening crush, and how difficult that is. (26 minutes)
Act Two. Love And Happiness.
Writer and nationally syndicated sex columnist Dan Savage explains what actually happens in non-monogamous couples, how they make it work, and whether they’re happy. (9 minutes)
Act Three. Istanbul.
Ian Brown of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on the normal struggle most people experience when they try to stay monogamous. (13 minutes)
"Into Temptation" is a usually-but-not-always safe-for-work forum about evolving social-sexual networks and how they have changed and are changing lives. It will also loosely chronicle the research, writing and publication, I hope in 2011, of a book by the same name.
The author and editor? Jeff Schult | DWM | New England | ... We've dispensed with pseudoanonymity.
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