These structures can be hazardous to the individuals living in them and to the community at large. – Connie Llanos
If you aren’t familiar with the Lovecraft story “The Statement of Randolph Carter“, you may want to read it (at that link) before watching this funny video provided by the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society. The links above the video were contributed by Mike Siegel, Marc Randazza, Ed Krayewski, Nun Ya, Emma Evans, Laura Lee, Tim Cushing, and Mistress Matisse, in that order.
- Born bad.
- The deep Jewishness of Mad magazine.
- Crime: poverty. Penalty: death in a cage.
- Please tell me nobody’s actually surprised about this.
- Next week they’ll be yammering about “food deserts”.
- Some people are just looking for excuses to complain.
- Won’t someone get me the Wonder Woman one? Please?
- Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
From the Archives
- Government, cops, jazz, Harold Ramis, storytelling, ghosts, bananas, video, surveillance, lice and Bill Watterson.
- If you’re going to argue against bad sex work laws, it’s probably best if you eschew language like this.
- The idea that men paying for women’s company is “unconventional” is so naive it’s hilarious.
- Huge coperations have never found more than a single-digit # of UK “sex trafficking” cases.
- Amateur women’s attacks on whores are always pathetic, but this one is truly stupefying.
- The need to deny that sex work is work has some weird results at tax time.
- Why are my escort partner’s friends so skeptical about my feelings for her?
- How can one educate irrational people about “sex trafficking” hysteria?
- An especially amusing twist on the “porn causes sex trafficking” trope.
- Clueless academic makes stupid, ignorant statements about sex work.
- Hong Kong reporter tries out for job in Beijing’s propaganda ministry.
- End result of prohibitionism: more women are pushed into sex work.
- Western Australia politicians keep playing with this diseased carcass.
- Cops, celibacy, Sweden, messages, government and Leonard Nimoy.
- Big masked heroes prove their manhood by attacking Asian women.
- Why can’t people get this simple concept through their thick skulls?
- A remarkably stupid, impressively ignorant anti-BDSM hate-screed.
- Everything is magically right and moral when state actors do it.
- Quite possibly the stupidest statement ever made about sex.
- “Survivor” admits others convinced her she was “trafficked”.
- The problems with attempts to medicalize female sexuality.
- Retrospectives of my blogging for February 2011 and 2012.
- The “New Orleans sex economy” ain’t just strip clubs, y’all.
- Attempt to recriminalize sex work in New Zealand fails.
- Alas, it’s the sex workers who suffered from this idiocy.
- “Sex trafficking” used as weapon vs. massage parlors.
- Liane de Pougy, one of the last grandes horizontales.
- A test of a screening method some readers doubted.
- Peter Schafer on his project Whores and Madonnas.
- Every generation thinks it invented non-vanilla sex.
- Harry Reid is on his anti-whore hobby horse again.
- Man dies of heart attack while visiting sex worker.
- It’s good to see the mainstream media getting it.
- Has any futurist ever been right about anything?
- Obligatory Olympic “sex trafficking” scare story.
- Butt-injection killer sentenced; another on trial.
- Sheri’s Ranch indulges in flagrant whorephobia.
- Rapist cops of the week, part one and part two.
- Whore-murderer keeps changing his story.
- Two sex workers’ flats re-opened in Soho.
- My appearance on The Bob Zadek Show.
- “Rescue” cop sends dick pics to whores.
- How Chester Brown changed the world.
- How not to be an ally to sex workers.
- Sex workers on police body cameras.
- A guideline to the C36 consultation.
- The rise of porn-actress escorting.
- It’s sad that we’ve come to this.
- Attacking anti-Barbie claptrap.
- Another wake-up call to wives.
- Laura Lee vs. Mary Honeyball.
- She’s no Maggie McNeill, but…
- The trial of Monica Jones.
- My first week in Seattle.
- The Devil’s doorbell.
- Belle Knox speaks.
