Saturday Morning Links
It’s Saturday morning and you know what that means. It means I need a drink.Two gun puns in the title? Come on, y’all.I’m with Sadie here: what kind of couples do this to each other?Rush Limbaugh wants...
View ArticleYou’re Just a Sinner I Am Told: Prince & the Sexual Revolution
I wanted to have sex, to lovefuck, to sweat, open, close, get fucked, taste and kiss and lick, and I wanted to dance.I was sixteen. I had a beautiful, kinky, experienced boyfriend. D. was nineteen, an...
View ArticleSound & Vision #21: Tim Barnes
Welcome back to Sound & Vision, the Rumpus profile series that spotlights the creative talents of those working behind the scenes in the music industry. In this installment I’m delighted to be...
View ArticleHow I Lost My Memory
It started with a kiss. In early 1987 my first wife’s lips lingered in a long goodbye on those of a close male friend as I emerged from the bedroom with two winter coats, one his, one his wife’s. As...
View ArticleThe Tongue Goes
I learned to fear breasts from Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. One eye lensed in blue plastic, the other in red, I ducked their pendulous trajectory toward my cardboard 3D glasses and prayed for B-cups....
View ArticleThe Proustian Wilbur Bud
According to my well-thumbed copy of A Writer’s Reference, which I’ve consulted since the twelfth grade, there are a handful of verb tenses: present, past, and future, with simple, perfect, and...
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