PORN HEALS ALL WOUNDS Porn is the gift that keeps giving; and not just in obvious ways, as I hope to prove with this 36-part series. For 36 posts, I am going to seek and present porn knowledge — fun facts, obvious truths, exciting trivia and even some pictures. I’m no expert but I hope to transcend...
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Don’t look now, but it’s List Time! (Lists abound at the end/beginning of every year, in case you live in a cave and didn’t know.)  Below is my little contribution to the literary scorekeeping process — my favorite books from the past decade.  Arts and Entertainment If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor, by...
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Last Saturday, I took the family downtown for a joyous jaunt through our lovely sustainable city. We gazed in awe at Portland’s inarguably wonderful mass transit system, and our mouths watered when we walked past the city’s delightful and quirky food carts! YUM! Multiculturalism! Sadly the carts were closed for business on this Saturday night....
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A smattering of links that I’m parking here. Does anybody besides me remember Mold-a-Rama? “Of Borscht and Barbecued Flesh“ Ayaan Hirsi Ali: “It’s Time Lily-Livered Europe Stood Up to Muslim Bigots“ I’ve never been a Dan Savage fan, but I respect him for calling Barack Obama out here. Says Savage to Mr. President: “Stop fucking around and start...
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Just finished Roger Simon’s BLACKLISTING MYSELF: Memoir of a Hollywood Apostate in the Age of Terror. A very good (and quick) read that details one man’s self-imposed exile from Hollywood’s faux liberalism and phony altruism. Roger seems like a diplomatic guy and a gentleman, so he’s not vicious when describing the profound idiocy of Barbra...
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“…at another moment John Cusack would come running up to me, with just a little spittle in the corner of his mouth, speedily reading Noam Chomsky quotes about the Vietnam War.”
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