I struggle and shriek ere the daybreak, being driven to madness with fright. – H.P. Lovecraft
I’m not as much of a music nerd as Lorelei Rivers is, but I’m enough of one to be tickled when I discover that poems can be sung to the tune of well-known songs, such as the fact that “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening” can be sung to the tune of either “Jerusalem” or “Hernando’s Hideaway”, and any Emily Dickinson poem can be sung to the tune of “The Yellow Rose of Texas”. And since I’m also a big old HP Lovecraft nerd, I was rather amused to discover the video below (though I honestly think this version is much better). I got those from the HP Lovecraft Historical Society, and the links above the video from Furry Girl (“karma”), Franklin Harris (“speech” and “three”), Carol Fenton (“violence”), and Radley Balko (“together”).
- Instant karma.
- Free speech ≠ lack of social consequences.
- It’s hard to imagine a more senseless act of violence.
- I exploit you, still you love me/I tell you one & one makes three…
- Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
From the Archives
- When migration control disguised as “sex trafficking” law is very apparent.
- It was inevitable that the “escort licensing” scam would eventually spread.
- Not a “mistake”, but a result of government-approved profiling guidelines.
- So much writing on something that doesn’t exist & never will in this form.
- This is where sex workers “rescued” by the likes of Somaly Mam are sent.
- Lawheads amazed persecuting Backpage didn’t magically erase sex work.
- Think you’re safe as a sexual minority just because money isn’t involved?
- If Rainbow is “notorious”, I’d hate to see what adjective they use for me.
- Swedish model fanatics won’t stop trying to impose their filth on the UK.
- How is anti-client bullshit “disregarded” in “sex trafficking” propaganda?
- Morally-retarded academics invent bullshit to support your propaganda.
- I smell a whiff of Swedish rot here rather than actual decriminalization.
- Kenyan sex workers say a serial killer is targeting and mutilating them.
- While cops have power over private behavior, this will keep happening.
- Non-issue complicated by sociopathic need to control others’ sexuality.
- Seattle reporter libels sex workers despite knowing my phone number.
- Pride Toronto votes to ban cops from any official presence at parades.
- Cops, Sweden, Yuggoth, yoga, longbows, “Fuck you” and much more.
- Perverts want to inspect children’s genitals before they use the toilet.
- Pigs oink that families they damage by stings were already damaged.
- Brooke Magnanti on politicians & whores, including a quote from me.
- Fetishists claim Texas has 500% of underage sex workers in the US.
- Cris Sardina on the ridiculous “statistics” spouted by prohibitionists.
- “Material Girl”, “Walk On the Wild Side” and three from Elton John.
- Cops, fascism, censorship, D.B. Cooper, Gomer Pyle & much more.
- As usual, Indians understand this far better than Americans do.
- Can this absurd little coffee-stand drama finally be over now?
- Suppressing dissident views is a typical behavior of religions.
- Alabama wants to put pigs in women’s bathrooms. Seriously.
- I’m infatuated with a sex worker, but I think she’s using me.
- Dr. Laura Agustín on why she wrote The Three-Headed Dog.
- In other words, he was a time waster, not a “sex trafficker”.
- If only amateurs realized how common this sort of thing is.
- The right way to report on sex workers’ use of technology.
- A short history of politicians’ war on sex work advertising.
- State actors pretending that porn causes “sex trafficking”.
- Medical ethicists are now solidly behind decriminalization.
- I find the lack of “victim” rhetoric here kind of refreshing.
- “Sex addiction” is becoming a “get out of jail free” card.
- The only kind of sex robot I could ever be interested in.
- Unfortunately, this doesn’t really help Backpage now.
- Bogus “signs” and masturbatory “awareness raising”.
- Politician pays whores for mildly-kinky show. Yawn.
- “Sex trafficking” debunking comes to the LA Times.
- Internet porn just claimed another casualty.
- Rapist cops of the week, 2016 and 2017.
- All of the interview that’s printed to fit.
- How can I get you to speak in my city?
- Sex worker runs for congress in Peru.
- “Woman has two jobs” is not news.
- More amazing activism from India.
- Sweden, the feminist paradise.
- Another excuse to justify rape.
- The slow death of Die Wallen.
- The first leg of my 2017 tour.
- But what does “porn” mean?
- Fantasy film double feature.
- Mind your dysphemisms.
- Alea iacta est, y’all.
- Backpage on trial.
- Pig meets dog.
