Okay, so I don’t really want to be a giggling teenage girl. At least, not for any meaningful amount of time. But imagine a time in the not-too-distant future when science might let us “try on” different bodies. Is it so hard to believe? Making spare parts to order is still in its infancy, but [...]
Sexy Machine
DEVIANTS Part 1: Having Sex with Half-Elves and Helicopters Reay Tannahill—in her interesting and informative book Sex in History—gives readers an overview of human sexuality from our primitive prehistory paternity, down through the rise of the first great ancient societies to modern gender roles and pornography. But, as with all histories that attempt to [...]
Cybernetic Eating Habits of a Poor Reporter
(NOTE: Sometimes I write things and forget I wrote them. Usually, with good reason. Here’s an example.) Typical freelance journalist—at least, one living on the cusp of the communal cup that was the U.S. dole, filled with whatever sketchy dross…whatever watered-down witches brew… you might expect to find at the bottom of such a public [...]
Heavy Weather
Tonight the Weather Channel is tracking Carlos, the second storm of the 2009 Hurricane Season. Also tonight, lots of unattached guys my age are getting ready for another spin through the single’s scene. In cosmopolitan Fort Payne, Alabama, there aren’t too many places where the ancient mating rituals of the Homo sapiens take place. After [...]
