Year
2012
496 posts
Shame, or, sonnet 129
Read moreA.O. Scott’s review of “Shame” in The New York Times alludes to Shakespeare’s Sonnet 129: The expense of spirit in a waste of shame Is lust in action; and till action, lust Is perjured, murderous, bloody, full of blame, Savage,…
Monogamy and its discontents
Read moreNewt Gingrich asked his wife for an open marriage. Sort of. Not really. Really, he asked her not to divorce him while he continued to fuck Callista. She says he asked her for an open marriage. I’m continually baffled by our…
Breaking up is hard to do
Read moreI’m sad. I’ve lost something I really value, with someone I really care about. Is it made harder or easier by the fact that it’s involuntary, that neither of us wants it to stop? I’m not sure. Her husband needs…
She sits at the bar
Read moreShe wears a short cotton dress, no bra. The taste of my cum surely is fresh in her mouth. Her nipples poke out against the fabric. The hotel is filled with wankers in khakis and golf shirts. Though they leave…
My sally field moment
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The herald square hotel
Read moreThe Herald Square Hotel is in midtown Manhattan, convenient to, well, pretty much everything in midtown. It’s a hotel – a sort of budget hotel, but unlike the Carlton Arms, it caters primarily to grown-ups, and unlike the Liberty Inn,…
Writing about sex from a distance
Read moreThe Historian e-mailed me what she called “marginalia” – her contemporaneous journal entries from the weekend in question (almost two years ago now). I recall everything she writes vividly, but still, it’s jarring to read it in her words –…
Fucking, being fucked
Read moreWriting about, reading about, fucking I did almost two years ago, I’m reminded of how passive I was when fucking, how far I’ve traveled since then. (The Historian has just sent me her contemporaneous notes from the time referenced in this…
Miami
Read moreShe thought about it. She decided to come. It would be two nights and a day-and-a-half. The deal was, she would relax by the pool, enjoy the weather (it was May – still cool up north, much warmer in South…
Ye olde carlton arms
Read moreDown the busy block from Baruch College – an undergraduate school of CUNY – in a residential neighborhood of no distinguishable character, the Carlton Arms (or “Artbreak Hotel”) sits. It feels seedy as you approach the locked front door and buzz for…