There is a poor cat crying mournfully at my back door. I'm wondering if it is my upstairs neighbor's cat that they're not supposed to have. It occasionally escapes. They're not home, and my asthma is bad enough lately that I really don't want to go near it.
'Safe'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
It strikes me that the Folsom Street Fair people probably enjoy having a few less, um, extreme people around. After all, they can hardly shock or surprise each other and I imagine that there is some entertainment value in shocking people.
Vast entertainment value.
Beneath my semi-Victorian swoopy exterior lies someone that makes Jilli go "EEP!", cover her face, and run away - ah, the stories I can tell from dating a very interesting gentleman in San Francisco, and going to Sunday mass (St. Gregory of Nyssa's) all duded up for Folsom.
I KEED YOU NOT!
Pulls up a chair, and popcorn
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Cassie! Jilli! NO.
You either Hil. Or me for that matter. But at least we wouldn't go running over gleefully, eyes twinkling, filled with mischeif and trying to ignite water -- we'd just burn half the place down accidentally and walk away with a mystery bruise or two.
Cassie! Jilli! NO.
Trudy beat me to it. No clicking on that link you two.
Drew, Omnis, NO to you too. I don't care how cool a Ruben's Tube is, it is not your friend. And the 36 union firefighters, safety reps, monitors, standby medical staff, and ignition crew aren't in the budget any way you slice it.
t totally random tangent
Ooh! SH, you've been to St. Gregory of Nyssa? Isn't it unbelievably gorgeous? One of my friends got married there (to tie in another topic, she wore a cream-colored corset gown from Dark Garden) and it was stunning (and warm, and kind, and all sorts of good things). If I had infinite amounts of money, I would seriously hire that icon painter to do murals all over the apartment in a heartbeat (Hec, please stop screaming--I'm pretty sure this is the icon maker who, among other things, does images of St. John of Coltrane).
If any church on earth would welcome someone all duded up for Folsom without batting an eye, it's definitely Gregory of Nyssa.
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I understand now that at some point in my life I must go to Folsom Street Fair. Preferably wearing a black leather corset.
YES!
Apparently for the serious leather daddies there's a separate less advertised event in an alley at a different time of year which is All That by which I mean things well beyond porn.
Bay Of Pigs? That's this month (or was it last? Not being a leather daddy, I'm not too sure).
As someone who fully enjoys FSF and the kink community, and who has very few hangups about what she sees occurring between consenting human adults (provided it's done with a modicum of taste) - the hooks are beyond my comfort zone. Just - GAH. Also, OW.
JZ, do you know who the icon painter is? Because I think they've decorated one of my favorite bars.
I looked at the link and am still confused by the hooks.
I get where the one end goes, but what are we then hooked to ? And in what way that the hook doesn't end up, you know, popping out?