Month: October 2008

Originally published in SF Chronicle. If you've ever been in San Francisco for one of our famous zombie flash mobs, then you know just how sexy the undead can be. With no warning, often during business hours, a group of zombie and necrosexual wanna-bes moan, ooze and alluringly shuffle their way downtown looking for…brains. (And… Read more…

Originally published in SF Chronicle. I don't know about you, dear readers, but I reached Palin porn exhaustion about a month ago. I was being sent Palin porn links from the most unlikely people. Local UC professors. A librarian. A Google employee. People I thought didn't give a whit about Palin or porn. They e-mailed… Read more…

Originally published in SF Chronicle. Getting ready for my latest flight out of SFO, I ran down my checklist of must-have carry-on items in my bag. For the long flight to Los Angeles, I'd need a 16 oz. bottle of Liquid Silk, latex gloves, my raincoat, my Vibrating Hugh Jackman Realistic Dong, a pack of… Read more…

Originally published in SF Chronicle. Any sex writer who's had a bit of success has heard it enough times to make them choke on their gummi boobs: "Well, of course your book/movie/blog/podcast is a hit, 'sex sells'." Right? Wrong. In January 2007, the Village Voice fired one of their beloved sex writers, Rachel Kramer Bussell.… Read more…

Originally published in SF Chronicle. As this year's international sex and technology conference Arse Elektronika 2008 hit its stride last Saturday — that's Folsom Street Fair eve here in San Francisco – I found myself on a panel discussing "The Erotic of the Machine" (listen to the MP3 here) with six men and a sizable… Read more…