Charlie Jane Anders is your new website.

Charlie Jane Anders is your new website.

Filament only prints explicit images when these are of high photographic and erotic quality, and clearly designed for women - we won’t ever be putting hard cocks on every page. The problem is, all the printers that a small, independent magazine like Filament can afford have said they won’t print images of the male of the species in a state of obvious arousal. Reasons given include that printing these images may cause offence to ’women’s groups’.
— FILAMENT Magazine And The Erection Dilemma (via Warren Ellis)

“And we like to think Gaga’s tipping her teacup to the biggest design lothario of them all, master swordsman Frank Lloyd Wright, when she explains in this clip that a little lovin’ shouldn’t damage one’s creative output.” (Flavorwire » More Than Just a Pokerface: Lady Gaga as Architectural Cipher, by Kelsey)

Two of my friends back in Smith College days did a weekly riot grrl/postpunk/pirate rock radio hour. Inspired by this fine beauty product so completely adopted by babydyke hairdo’s, they called the show “When The Lipstick Negates The Tie.” (Because there’s a lot of gender going on with the illustrated person on the left, right? Or maybe we’d just be mainlining too much Judith Butler.) Which I am telling you because I bought a Ben Sherman tie and my first tube of dark lipstick since college, NARS Scarlet Empress, for a shoot tomorrow for this benefit calendar. The theme is “sexual freedom” and I went with “freedom of expression.” So I will be standing here and will be holding this. And thinking of this this this.

Two of my friends back in Smith College days did a weekly riot grrl/postpunk/pirate rock radio hour. Inspired by this fine beauty product so completely adopted by babydyke hairdo’s, they called the show “When The Lipstick Negates The Tie.” (Because there’s a lot of gender going on with the illustrated person on the left, right? Or maybe we’d just be mainlining too much Judith Butler.)

Which I am telling you because I bought a Ben Sherman tie and my first tube of dark lipstick since college, NARS Scarlet Empress, for a shoot tomorrow for this benefit calendar. The theme is “sexual freedom” and I went with “freedom of expression.”

So I will be standing here and will be holding this. And thinking of this this this.

An unecessary interlude on seduction

The top ads on the 2 right now are pink and promise to turn on your “inner vixen” if you purchase one thin book. (They may actually promise to “unleash” this, not that I have ever once seen anyone walking a girl fox on a lead, so I must have mentally edited that.) “How to attract, seduce, and keep the man you want.” Not, and why would you want to do that, the man you love. Just, you know, choose one. Nab him. Bam.

This may sound horrid coming from a former professional girlfriend, but, how mercenary! Who does that? And who buys books from trains? If Gladwell were a woman, is this what he’d be writing? Or are retired prostitutes supposed to?

There’s only one fair place for calculation in sex, and that’s when you’re getting paid for it.

Someday I'll write a long post on surviving a transcontinental project conducted over Skype but until then, here's my signoff to my video editor in Shanghai just now
  • 0022: i have been listening to the TACKIEST britpop mix for days
  • 0022: it's like, you know when you wear like one outfit during finals in school?
  • 0022: that playlist is my outfit.
  • 0024: night!
  • 0024: (bear)
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

Suede, “Daddy’s Speeding” (Dog Man Star, 1994)

Go outside, look up. The moon is the same color as a new penny. It looks even better in the little flecks of glass on the curb.

“Agent Cooper has a dream that Don is in an office, talking backwards, while a midget does the twist in the corner. Joan Holloway saunters into the dream, which is odd considering that at this point Agent Cooper and Joan have not met. Joan whispers into Cooper’s ear that Don likes bubble gum…” (In Which We’re Just Mad Enough To Climb These Peaks - This Recording)

“Agent Cooper has a dream that Don is in an office, talking backwards, while a midget does the twist in the corner. Joan Holloway saunters into the dream, which is odd considering that at this point Agent Cooper and Joan have not met. Joan whispers into Cooper’s ear that Don likes bubble gum…” (In Which We’re Just Mad Enough To Climb These Peaks - This Recording)