Boys and girls of every age, Wouldn’t you like to see something strange? Come with us and you will see, This our town of Halloween. - Danny Elfman, “This is Halloween” Technically, the Celtic festival of Samhain (SOW-en) is tomorrow, November 1st, but its most important festivities began on the previous evening and, like so [...]
Archive for October, 2011
Samhain
Posted in Biography, History, Miscellaneous, Philosophy, tagged anecdote, carnival, Europe, holidays, Rome on October 31, 2011 | 22 Comments »
Mass Hysteria
Posted in History, Miscellaneous, Perception, tagged hysteria, neofeminism, psychology, rape, stereotypes on October 30, 2011 | 25 Comments »
Ladies and gentlemen, I have a grave announcement to make. Incredible as it may seem, both the observations of science and the evidence of our eyes lead to the inescapable assumption that those strange beings who landed in the Jersey farmlands tonight are the vanguard of an invading army from the planet Mars. - Orson [...]
The Country of the Blind
Posted in Miscellaneous, Perception, Q & A, tagged dirty, ethics, hysteria, psychology on October 29, 2011 | 62 Comments »
Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. - John Kenneth Galbraith This column’s title is that of an H.G. Wells short story about a man who stumbles into a remote Andean valley cut off from the world for [...]
Frightful Films
Posted in Biography, History, Miscellaneous, tagged anecdote, BDSM, censorship, holidays, Hollywood, porn, psychology on October 28, 2011 | 22 Comments »
Where there is no imagination there is no horror. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle “Scary Movies” is the name of my one year ago today column, but it’s about the interaction between porn and escorting; I did do a short piece on vampire sex workers as part of October Miscellanea, but since I really love horror movies, [...]
Bad Fantasy, Good Reality
Posted in Perception, Tyranny, tagged archeofeminism, BDSM, courtesans, dirty, East Asia, hysteria, law, neofeminism, psychology, restaurants, sisterhood, stereotypes on October 27, 2011 | 18 Comments »
Fantasy consists in a morbid fascination with unrealities, which secretly transforms itself into a desire to make them real. - Roger Scruton One year ago today I published “Good Fantasy, Bad Reality”, about a Missouri case in which Ed and Marilyn Bagley were accused of torturing a young woman in extreme BDSM activities; the Bagleys [...]
Scrambled Eggs
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged archeofeminism, dirty, ethics, neofeminism, psychology, welcome to our world on October 26, 2011 | 28 Comments »
Why waste your life working for a few shillings a week in a scullery, eighteen hours a day, when a woman could earn a decent wage by selling her body instead? - Emma Goldman When I first wrote the column entitled “Welcome To Our World” back in January, I had no idea I would find so [...]
Wine, Women and Song
Posted in Perception, Philosophy, Miscellaneous, tagged streetwalkers, Hollywood, archeofeminism, ethics, stage names, Madonna/whore, sacred prostitutes, psychology, drivers, New Orleans, United Kingdom, brothels on October 25, 2011 | 21 Comments »
Asking only workman’s wages I come looking for a job But I get no offers, Just a come-on from the whores on Seventh Avenue. I do declare, there were times when I was so lonesome I took some comfort there. - Paul Simon, “The Boxer” One year ago today I published my second column featuring [...]
