A volunteer and I need to get to The Fest, but we are going to be unable to meet the 1:00 Friday afternoon bus. I’m out of the loop- are there other buses planned? If not, does anyone have room for two heading in Friday evening after work hours? We can meet up in Manhattan……
Back from the hospital, with some alterations…. So two weeks ago I noticed some signs of infection in my right foot. This is the sort of thing I am supposed to be vigilant about, so I immediately got to the doctor, who bounced me to the hospital. Last time this had happened, I got antibiotic…
After all the drama of Saturday, Monday was a welcome change. After dialysis I made my way into the city and spent the day in Central Park in good company- some of my favorite people were there; and I met a couple of new ones, some of who I really took to.Most of all, it…
from a leading BDSM activist: “What I don’t get is why people who also claim they have their slaves’ best interests at heart, get so riled up about SSC.”I do not get riled up by SSC. I get riled up byleading statements like this: “Or… well, all you have to do is read the NCSF Media…
I don’t anger easily, and I am often at a loss regarding how to handle it. Right now, I am channeling rage. Old rage. I met with someone I had pushed out of my life about two decades ago. I’m sure she thought it went well, that a new era of love and acceptance is…
I am more and more pleased with the evolution of the Men’s Group at TES. When I first took it over, it was an afterthought, and a catch-all for lonely, dispossed TES members with nothing better to do. Four, five attendees at most. Soon it was thriving, with up to twenty men in atttendance at…
Novocaine is my friend. I just began the real meat of my dental oddessy. I was grateful for the numbness, and have been through medical procedures which were much worse in the recent past – but I still came away with this conclusion: Dental work should never involve hammers.
My house burned down I lost everything Again. It feels better every time. -A Softer World
I’m presenting a new seminar at TES soon- “I’m Only Human”… Rationalizations, Excuses, and Passive Aggressive D/S and I’m gathering my notes. I’d like to ask: From either side of the leash, what excuses, behaviors or rationalizations make you craziest? Bother you most? Or come most easilty? Either comment or forward me your observations confidentially. The…
I may have found it… the motha-load, the Source, the dark, beating, cancerous heart of the Beast of Mediocrity. Certain sorts of websites are bad enough, catering to the oreo-stuffing, self aggrandizing, overblown and hyper-poetic “BDSM” crowd- the masses, the bottom of the barrel, the lowest common denominator. These horrific sites tend to promote the…
New Innuendo post.
I spent some time chasing ghosts. I’m done with that, now. Everybody pays. The check will always come sometime. This is as terrible as it is inevitable. If you spend all your time looking back, you stay stuck where you are. There is no way to reclaim what’s lost, no way to move forward… and…
As many of you know, I savor fine crazy. Self mutilators, conspiracy theorists, crackpots, loons and wackos. I love the people who think that their appliances are conspiring against them, I love the people at war with their toes. I collect the crazymail TES gets, and the cribbed pamphlets handed out buy streetcorner prophets howling…
I have had my share of interesting roommates and other temporary companions since I started my medical roller-coaster. There was the delirious preacher who spoke in tongues and would attempt to get out of bed at 4 in the morning, explaining to the nurses that he was going fishing. There was the guy who ate…
In my world, there is a new King of the Monkeys.