Ain't misbehavin'

I love marital aids that look like they've been plucked from the set of Star Trek tos.* I'm talking your fantastical and otherworldly. I'm talking your improbable.

You'd think I'd have had a bit of media posted here from the old Star Trek with an example of exactly what I mean, but after a person has been searching for vids and photos that have an incidental prop in them that look like a groovy dildo for over an hour, a person realizes that they're pretty much at the end of the line. The evocative photo of Kirk and Uhuru will have to do. You can extrapolate the rest for yourself.

*tos is an acronym for "the original series," which I learned while doing my intrepid research for this post. I'm cutting edge like that.

Oh all right already. I hear you bellyaching over there. Now this is as examply as I'm going to get, but damn if this little number couldn't command the Bridge and then some:

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This post lovingly dedicated to Fred.

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Mail call

A toast of respect for magical prowess

I just purchased a very large reproduction of this 1899 image on canvas. We hung it over the mantle. Can you imagine my poor kid? Who hangs something like this in the most prominent place in their home? Your dubious hostess, that's who!

First off: I love vintage magic posters. I've loved this one in particular for years and years. I love the way Mephistopheles is depicted as androgynous. But he's not androgynous in a soft way. The lines between his male and female components are hard--really hard. The masculine face, the voluminous dress. This is no Boy George, baby. This is a devil to sin with.

I want that mother's hat.

I love the huge goblets of brandy their hefting. No little candy-ass sips of polite aperitif here! I love Kellar's tuxedo, the intensity of his eyes as they bore into the smirking devil. I love the bats in the background and the outlines of other evil entities, the distant pitchfork. I love the colors.

And for those who are wondering, yes, everything in my house is this weird.

Well hello dolly

Not safe for work. Perhaps not safe for any sort of human consumption, but nonetheless, this is one of the funniest vids I've ever seen.

Love machine

This important footage is a companion piece to an essay I wrote for Ed Champion on David Levy's book Love and Sex with Robots.