Over on Crasstalk today, I’m asking inappropriately personal questions about sex. It begins:
The other day my Twitter pal and sometimes lunchmate Ahm asked for a conversation topic, and I suggested something that I’ve been stewing on lately: Are most people’s sexual fantasies POV or roving camera? Read on >>>
Yes, I do go on to reveal my own sexual fantasy techniques, thus robbing Parade Magazine of their scoop. I also cogitate a bit on whether being a screenwriter effects one fantasizing methods and vice versa.
Head over their and spill your filthy, disgusting guts. Also, might I suggest that this topic makes for excellent Thanksgiving dinner table conversation. Nothing brings you closer to your family than hearing about their breathless, orgasmic moments while slurping mashed yams.Bring a pamphlet for the kids table.
NOTE: This post was originally published on May 12, 2011. I’m reposting it now because it’s
OCD Awareness Week. Irrational anxiety isn’t a necessary part of life.
Help is available.
I’ve got a short piece up on Crasstalk today about comedy and OCD. Click here to read it. It begins:
I have obsessive-compulsive disorder. Not the bogus kind that people claim to have when they scream at a party guest for setting a drink on their issue of Dwell. The genuine kind — the kind that leaves you immobile on the couch for hours at a stretch because you’re afraid that if you get up you’ll chop off your hand with a meat cleaver…. More >>>
I have a short piece on Crasstalk today that begins thusly:
I finally finished watching all five seasons of The Wire. It’s unquestionably a great show, but after the months I spent with it the series left me not wanting to discuss everything it does right, but one thing it does very wrong:
Why, in a show so concerned with race and ethnicity, is the only identified Jewish character a stereotypical money-grubbing, scumbag lawyer?
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UPDATE: The übernerd site Slashdot has picked up on this story.
I have a new piece up on Crasstalk today. It begins:
As everyone who’s ever passed the GRE knows, there are two major hypothetical operational problems with Star Wars lightsabers. More accurately I should say there were two problems, because I solved both of them while trying to fall asleep last night, shortly after mentally ranking the breasts of the Legion of Super-Heroes. Read on >>
