Category: IRL
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...
What is Furry Sex?
Because “funny-animal” characters are often used in children’s entertainment, furry fandom has long faced a dilemma that has caused numerous arguments...
Barnes & Noble SF
I love Barnes and Noble because it has an excellent online selection and it still supports actual physical bookstores. You can even get coffee and snacks at the B&N...
What is the SCA
Oops, it did not occur to me that I should make sure all you gentle readers knew what the SCA or Society for Creative Anachronism is. Here is a definition from the SCA...
What is the Church of Satan
Tomorrow it will become clear why this needed defining today. The Church of Satan is a philosophical/cultural organization which draws its name from the...
The Elmendorf Creature
The Elmendorf Creature is an alleged chupacabra corpse, found by a man in San Antonio, Texas. It was a small hairless dog-ike creature, apparently the cause of the...
Late Breaking Chupacabra News
The legend of El Chupacabras, as it was known in Spanish, started to grow in about 1992, when Puerto Rican newspapers El Vocero and El Nuevo Dia began reporting the...
