Sex Ed

I will gather up my memories of you, And with them I will build a tower, Sweet thought upon sweet thought, Until mine is a life of a dream-piler. And in the spreading meadows below my tower, The bees will know your name,And fill the flower with happy nectar, Until [...]

I had almost forgotten how much I love trains.You can’t count the GO train, really. It doesn’t go fast enough to rock you the same way, and it smacks of commuter convenience. There is no sense of exciting destination, though I swear every time I’m on one, I can smell [...]

I promise to only do this once every few months...Sunday's show was spectacular. It was exactly the kind of high-art, high-class, sexy, sultry, comedic, variety onslaught I've always dreamed about.The resulting photos are phenomenal, of course, thanks to Ryan Visima. There are some really gorgeous shots of the guys and [...]

Billie Black, Photographed by Michel MersereauThis is what I see as I sit in bed, breaking my own no-laptop-in-bed rule, surveying The Fortress.It's almost show time, and my apartment is a sea of feathers, and sequins, and silky drawers. There are rhinestone encrusted shoes, wigs, boas, tiaras, scarves, and tassels [...]

Little cramped words scrawling all overthe paperLike draggled fly's legs,What can you tell of the flaring moonThrough the oak leaves?Or of my uncertain window and thebare floorSpattered with moonlight?Your silly quirks and twists have nothingin themOf blossoming hawthorns,And this paper is dull, crisp, smooth,virgin of lovelinessBeneath my hand.I am tired, [...]

1-12 The Guests.m4aThis song is dedicated to my Valentines. Both of them. Thank you for a very memorable Valentines day. Is that it then? Perhaps it should be. I was starting to feel too much, and that just made no sense at all. It's so much easier for me to [...]