Category: IRL
Happy April Fools Day
Gene Roddenberry was reportedly an incorrigible practical jokester. On this day in 1934, Bonnie and Clyde killed two policemen in Texas.
Kirk and Uhura’s Taboo Interracial Kiss
Notorious playboy Captain James T. Kirk shared not only the first prime-time interracial kiss but the first televised interracial kiss in American history with...
Hate the Gamer Not the War
According to Hanan Greenberg writing for Ynet News, the Israel Defense Forces asks all incoming personnel a rather personal question. They ask them if they, you know,...
Why I Never Masturbate Thinking About Kirk
I was very young when I watched the original Star Trek series on a small television which was cool because it was a color television. I would have been too young in 1969...
Science Fiction and Fantasy Black Leather Times
The first time I mentioned the brilliantly witty BLT zine, I probably should have pointed out the Science Fiction and Fantasy issue which should really speak to Sexy...
Big Bottomed Girls They Make the Star Trek World Go Round
Leonard Nimoy, best known of course for playing Spock on Star Trek, is preparing to do a book of photographs of BBW burlesque dancers. Reva Lucian’s Original...
Who was Caligula the Man?
Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus (August 31, AD 12 – January 24, AD 41), also known as Gaius Caesar or Caligula, was the third Roman emperor of the Julio-Claudian...
Pimp Junta Possibly Likes Sexy Fandom!
The Pimp Junta blog recently described Sexy Fandom as “a blog primarily known for its series of pallid cyborgs sexing up a panracial spectrum of hot convention...
Happy Green Beer Day!
Leprechauns are a class of “faerie folk” associated in Irish mythology and folklore with the Tuatha_Dé_Danann and other quasi-historical races said to have...
Beware the Ides of March
The Julien calendar used after 46 BC is the one which was used in the time of Julius Caesar. Caesar was told in both William Shakespeare’s play, and apparently in...
The Ides is Not the 13th
All rulers of Roman Empires should note that the Ides or full moon of March falls on the 15th like it does in July, October, and May. It is not supposed to be on the...
Phantastic Psychotomimetic Hallucinogens
A quick backgrounder on hallucinogens is probably helpful for understanding the work of Jeff Noon. I think psychotomimetic is my new favorite word. Hallucinogenic drugs...
