MAD MEN gets it right again. As I have written here before , LSD was originally the (legal) property of the drawing room and the elite...

Lots of other people have memorialized Ben Masel, most of them far better writers than I am. But I was unsatisfied. There is a word missin...

I need some soundtrack to getting tarred and feathered over at Womanist Musings . Comments welcome, here or there. I am told there is so...

I had put off reading and reviewing The Labrys Reunion because I knew it was gonna get to me, big time. Flipping idly through the novel, ...

Photo of the first-year commemoration of the Three Mile Island nuclear accident . Your humble narrator is at the top right of the photo. T...

My Sacred Heart of Jesus vigil candle is from my Flickr page. Redemptorists? Did they say Redemptorists? Watching Ted Kennedy's funer...

This is a poster from 1977 , which I look at every day, in my spare room. As you all know, I love flowers, and I find the mandala of flower...

No matter what I did, they resolutely refused to look at the camera. My post on women going shirtless got major hits from Reddit , Stumble...

Photo of topless men from Legal Juice .[1] I saw what I initially believed was a topless old woman walking a dog outside the apartmen...

Interesting that this illustration gives Dorian a big heart and I didn't see him that way at all. I just saw Surfwise (2007), a do...

...but Tuesday's just as bad. Wednesday's worse, and Thursday's oh so sad. It's storming, and these are my favorite sto...

I am in the photo on the right, wearing a hat labeled "Reagan for Shah"--which was the forerunner of the Berkeley guerilla-theatre...

Marilyn French has died at age 79. Her novel, The Women's Room (1977) was a major bestselling sensation. We all read it, even my gra...

Carrie Prejean, the reigning Miss California-USA. (Photo unabashedly stolen from Perez Hilton, the pageant judge who started all of this wi...

As promised , part of Daisy's radical history! At left, video capture from the History Channel, in which I look like a fabulous 19-year...

Way back in the day, I belonged to a very rigorous political collective, which contained several Marxists. They policed everyone, as Marxis...