My very brief earring period, which lasted 7 days, was enabled by Claire’s. I twisted, as they instructed, and 7 days later I tore them out because they wouldn’t stop getting infected. I don’t blame Claire’s, though. I blame my own lack of impulse control.

Mansplaining is offering advice / information which may or may not be “corrective” based on the (most likely mistaken) presumption that you (a man) know better / more than the woman you are talking to does. The subject, whether it be women’s issues, how to fix a car or how the universe was born, isn’t really…

I was once invited to a party at a wealthy artist’s estate in Marin which my friend told me was a sex party. So I got there, expecting sex party antics, and there was music, booze, really good looking people, fire dancing, singing... and no sex. Well, there *was* sex, but it was in one dimly-lit room in the corner of…

F yes! NYE is what you make of it. I’ve been to wildly disorganized spy parties, the bar across the street, had to climb hills in the rain to find the next party by listening for it and spent it on the couch with nothing but a hat and a noisemaker. One time I even got into a dance battle with a legit b-boy. If you…

The internet archive has a lot of the articles backed up, so all is not lost for the writers in terms of their output.

“Stranger Danger” is now a motto for adults, it seems.