Nothing could better sum up where we are as a culture

Sit and twist for Xmas

Okay--I'm intrigued. nightlightcinema.com/movie/mistre...

Yesterday I was delighted by the music @mirandarider.bsky.social selected for our session. I was treated to songs by Morphine, Lorde, and James while Mistress Miranda flayed my butt with freshly cut birch rods.

Experts say rash of Pride Flag vandalism across Ohio points to shifting trend in anti-LGBTQ violence www.clevescene.com/news/experts...

Spotted this treasure at the Meadows Museum in Dallas today: "Saint Catherine of Alexandria Dominating the Emperor Maxentius," by Claudio Coello (circa 1664-65).

On the lighter side of the news, Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee just called Trump an "off-brand butt plug." #DJT #motleycrue

Tonight, Circuit des Yeux; tomorrow, taking it to the streets. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHyK... #circuitdesyeux #50501movement

Killing it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4E6... #Nout

Two nights in Cleveland! Thank you, thank you!

I woke up with Q Lazzarus on my mind . . . #qlazzarus #goodbyehorses www.youtube.com/watch?v=voBu...

"Sometimes the holes in your life grow so big they become doors." Sasha Geffen (in a wonderful retrospective piece on Against Me!'s "Reinventing Axl Rose") #LauraJaneGrace #SashaGeffen pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

Do I ever fantasize that I'm Carmen Sternwood and I'm begging for a good spanking? Yes, I do. (BTW, I have a polkadot fetish.) #spanking #polkadot #thebigsleep www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0_w...

sometimes I'm that same person when the right people are looking

I use nothing. I embrace the pain, incorporating it in a sexual fantasy in which a younger woman (i.e., someone in her fifties or sixties) is deriving pleasure from inflicting it on me.

Mephistopheles? No, it's Andrew Eldritch (and Kai) at the Sisters of Mercy gig in Cleveland on October 25. (This is the best of the bad photos I shot with a cheap phone camera.) #sistersofmercy #andreweldritch #kai

She Gets Us. #sineado'connor #fighttherealenemy #shegetsus

Early Christmas present from the New York Thruway Authority: a speed-cam ticket (66 in a 55 zone). Yeah, it was a work zone, but it was inactive. This was my first ticket since I took the stealie decal off 1979 Bobcat thirty-five years ago. (It's okay, Sugar Magnolia, I pay my own tickets.) #stealie

I learned a new word today: "iconophages." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Our holiday present from The Cure: three hours of blissful listening. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aWD...

I'd love to hear Anouar Brahem live, but to do that I'll probably have to travel to Europe. Now there's an idea . . . #anouarbrahem www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9P_...

Hurray! Now that @mirandarider.bsky.social is here, the party can begin. (And now I have one less reason to endure Musklandia.)

if we all do this on Tuesday December 3rd it could have a huge impact!

Today's zeitgeist: sacred rage #ofme www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtZ8...