With apologies for my absence, I offer this forthright observation by Paul Krugman from this morning's NYTimes on the culture wars. As...

I like to think of this journal as having nominally to do with rope and it's eroto-mystical potentials, but it is, I think, slowly shapi...

“Can you imagine old age? Of course you can’t. I didn’t. I couldn’t. I had no idea what it was like. Not even a false image. No image. Nobod...

The following may or may not have happened not too long ago. If it did, you know who you are. Me, I didn't recognize myself. It was not ...

Partners very reasonably expect that I have at least a modicum of skill in the dance I would lead, and while I have never dropped anyone in ...

So, it's late on Monday evening and I’m shuffling through Jersey City to the Grove Street PATH station. Following a bit of work I’ve ...

Are the very rarest and most precious things really so hard to obtain, or do they merely seem so? For the last week and some I have been...

“Mac! You’re early, fucker.” That much I remember verbatim. (The next bit I don’t think I’m making up, but I scribbled down something to the...

I was reminded recently by a correspondent and fellow blogging top of an episode from a few years back by which I shifted from being solely...

The Chicken/egg question, eluded to in my last post : Does BDSM affect my (passive) psyche, or is it my psyche doing the heavy lifting? Als...