Archive for October, 2009
Movers & Shaking LA
October 21st, 2009
Getting ready to MOVE with Sparkle Sparkle Bang Bang and Christina...
I now commit bloggamy from the eye of a storm of change. Yes, change is good and the changes we are going through right now are all essentially positive, potentially even quite marvelous. Nevertheless, major changes often cause pain to parts of the human body and mind that haven’t hurt since, well, the last time you went through major changes. Like a good spanking, it stings as it stimulates.
So, right now, I am being spanked by the firm hand of fate. Of course, I enjoy a little light spanking, but this is more like a stiff caning or a whopping power-wallop. Which is still kind of arousing, but it hurts.
Kinky CMS
Notice anything different about the bloggamy? Yes, we are transitioning into a new platform or CMS, joining the Word Press Revolution in content management systems. Do I sound like I know what I’m talking about? I don’t really know CMS from PMS, but with Norioku’s patient help, I’m getting the hang of it. And I’m excited about new features I didn’t have on the old system, like multiple private galleries (almost as hot as multiple orgasms)! But migrating everything is tougher than getting a visa to Tibet, so some of the blog entries don’t have all their stuff together and none have comments yet. There are other kinks in the system (and I’m not even going to get into all the interpersonal melodrama that has accompanied this transition). While we’re migrating, you can always look at the old bloggamies in Drupal, and you can see both the fabulous new Word Press galleries and the old Drupal galleries when you subscribe to the bloggamy. Such a deal.
But such a headache! Within a week or two, we should be full migrated, but in the meantime, my brain is exploding with themes and tools and settings. Where’s my vibrator? Where’s my husband? I need something to make my body explode so I can get my mind off my brain exploding…
OMG, We’re Moving!
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From TV Academy to B&D Academy & Up to The Speakeasy with Nina Hartley, Victoria Woodhull Friends & Free Lovers
October 12th, 2009
One of the sexiest, most powerful, progressive, open-minded and inspirational characters in American history was a freethinking businesswoman named Victoria Claflin Woodhull. Newspaper publisher extraordinaire, mediumistic hypnotherapist and fearless advocate of “Free Love,” an important precursor to the feminist and sexual revolutions, as well as ethical hedonism, Woodhull was also America’s first lady broker on Wall Street (along with her sister Tennessee Claflin, mistress to Cornelius Vanderbilt). And in 1872, the first female U.S. Presidential candidate, before women even had the right to vote.
Woodhull’s independent thinking, dazzling personal success, journalistic “outings” of powerful sexual hypocrites like the Reverend Henry Ward Beecher and open advocacy of sexual freedom earned her multiple enemies in both conservative America and the sex-averse suffragist movement. Some of Woodhull’s stronger enemies managed to squelch her once-powerful voice in her own lifetime, as well as in the history books. Over the course of the 20th century, Woodhull was almost forgotten. American schoolbooks don’t tend to mention her along with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, though Woodhull was at least as important a figure in the history of women’s rights.
