I have gone completely insane.  More specifically, I have gone completely insane over video-game cakes.  What started as an innocent interest in gamers making cakes to express (and ingest) their fandom has officially turned into an all night game cake round-up.  What games get most commonly made into cakes?  For what occasions? With what food [...]

Update: Oops, apparently the piece didn’t go up until Friday. Tricky, tricky, tricky. Here’s the official link to “Venus in Furs.”
Up yesterday at American Sexuality you’ll find (fingers crossed) my article, long in the works, on furry sexuality in Second Life. As for real-life furs, I’ve always wondered, what happens if you [...]

Since Scott was a hardcore doll and camped out for our Wii the night before launch, I’ve been totally out of the coveting circuit.  My little brother, however, who still can’t drive, has been verbally clawing at us to take him to Best Buy every Sunday morning for the past two months (This week, apparently, was [...]

Well, I made it back safe and sound from Israel, only to discover I’ve led you astray.  Scott’s contribution to Playing Dirty, “The Queer Hero,” did indeed go up two Thursday’s ago at Joystiq, but my Off the Grid piece, “The Elusive Letter ‘Q,’” didn’t make it up until this Thursday.  Anyways, the important thing is we’re [...]

Today we’re off for twelve days in Israel, where we will be blissfully internet-deprived, but before we leave we’ve switched things around a bit. Up this afternoon at Joystiq you’ll find a “Playing Dirty” column on Resident Evil 4 and the queer hero–not by me, by Scott. Next Thursday, stop by Joystiq for [...]

Here in Philadelphia, we celebrate each new year with the Mummers Parade, a downright dazzling display of glitter, feathers, and choreographed dancing performed almost exclusively by men.  Not just any men: Irish- and Italian-American men from south Philly.  In short, guys you wouldn’t normally expect to see wearing frocks.  Now, don’t get me wrong, I [...]