Category: IRL
NaNoWriMo
Today is the day that most of the people who participated in the National Novel Writing Month word count fiasco can return to their normal lives. If you have been...
Thanksgiving
I’ve been bothered about the Thanksgiving holiday ever since I found out about the whole thing with the plague blankets. I do love eating a lot though and this...
Son of Filk
It looks like others have tried to explain what filking is and come up short as well. Their explanations waffle between apocrypha and despair. Filk is a form of music...
Filking Slam Dance
It has always struck me that fandom and various musical subcultures have a lot in common. They are both refuges for the socially disenfranchised seeking meaning or a...
Playing Dungeons & Dragons Good for Your Offspring
The Weekly World News has done it again. Noted Spanish scientists have done an experiment which proves roleplaying can improve your kids’ career chances. They had...
How to Tell if Your Prostitute is an Extraterrestrial
You have to love the Weekly World News and not just for Batboy. They have just graciously provided us all with an expert list of ten warning signs that the prostitute...
What is Absinthe?
Someone emailed me to ask whether mead was what got Edgar Allan Poe and Vincent Van Gogh so loopy and so creative. You are confusing mead with absinthe, gentle reader....
What is Mead?
I usually think of mead as some appalling-tasting brew which only seems right to consume at renfaires and around the holidays with friends who think they are brewers....
Fleshbot Sex Blog Likes Me
I just got my first press coverage for Sexy Fandom. The Fleshbot sexblog, which is a really big deal, said, “Sexy Trekkies: We know we’ve said in the past...
Smurf Porn
Okay, I don’t think there is really lots of smurfporn online. But I’ll give you what I’ve got. If you inexplicably happen to have access to...
Fur and Loathing in Las Vegas
What is up with the Furry Posts? I just saw the infamous furry episode of CSI on DVD and it brought this particular subgenre of fandom to mind. The Las Vegas Crime Scene...
What is a Furry?
Let me back up a bit and define what a furry is for you all. Furry is a colloquial term used to indicate a particular category of fictional anthropomorphic animal. Put...
