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| Saturday, July 30, 2011 9:40AM | | | | While I've Been Gone | Tags: Old West, romanticism, Empire, rebellion, mudsill, slaves, sovereignty, education, health care, marriage, sex, Cuba, Philippines
| | | | While I’ve Been Gone
I have neglected this blog for a while to write a novel “Jade:The Law.” The book is now finished except for editing and the cover. Once those are finished, I will be back to blogging. “Jade:The Law,” my ninth novel is scheduled for e-book publication in September and print publication in November. Print takes longer.
Jade:The Law is in some ways a sequel to “Jade: Outlaw” as both books share many of the same characters. However, “Jade:The Law” is broader in scope covering the coming of law to the West, the romanticization of the West, the beginning of the American Empire, rebellion against the Union continuing underground, and the survival of antebellum Southern ideas such as:
A “mudsill” people of inferior quality, a... | | | | | | | Wednesday, April 27, 2011 6:49PM | | | | Late Night Sex | Tags: Sex, irvine welsh, edmund white, craigslist, gay sex, cunt
| | | Sex! That central human preoccupation. It looms large for all of us, but so often in literature the curtain falls - or the chapter closes - just as the lovers retreat to the bedroom. We find them again the next morning with little idea of what has gone on. And when we are told, it’s often done with a self-consciousness that embarrasses us, makes us squirm, and leads to the creation of Bad Sex Awards.
I was particularly keen to go to the Sex Session on the top floor of the Standard Hotel because of a challenge I set myself a few years ago: to remain with my characters, whatever they did, and to follow them wherever they led me.
The novel... | | | | | | | Friday, February 11, 2011 3:59PM | | | | The unChristian Right | Tags: poor, sick, undocumented, prayer, charitable deeds, enemies, divorce, homosexuality, taxes, fear
| | | | When Jesus announced his mission on earth he declared that he had come to bring good news to the poor (Luke 4:18). The Christian Right brings bad news to the poor. You are poor because you were born in the wrong place, to inferior parents, of an unblessed color, lacking a superior IQ, devoid of desirable skills, and lazy. If God favored you, you would not have been denied prenatal care, health care, endorsed diets, equal education, equal opportunity, entitlement to a lavish inheritance. If God didn’t like you, why should those whom God favored like you?
Jesus asked his followers not to pray in public (Matt. 6: 5, 6). The Christian right demands prayer in schools and other public places.
Jesus told his followers to do... | | | | | | | Monday, May 11, 2009 7:08PM | | | | Sometimes you must raise your voice | Tags: A. philip Randolph, abzug, elizabeth cady stanton, equality, Jesus, malcolm X, proposition 8, same-sex marriage, stringfellow, susan B. anthony, w.e.b. dubois
| | | A while ago someone said to me that she's "had it with the whole gay thing." The woman who said this is one of the nicest people I know, willing to go out of her way to help anyone, anytime, and even when we talk about things about which we disagree, she is ever gentle and respectful. However, it seems that something about "the whole gay thing" has set her off.
"Has someone insisted you start having sex with women?" I asked.
"Of course not," she said, "But they're everywhere! They're imposing it on me."
Huh. I wondered if in truth it might not be the other way around. I mean, I imagine if you're gay you might feel like straight... | | | | | | | Thursday, May 7, 2009 1:40PM | | | | What's Taboo | Tags: Salwa Al Neimi, Zsófia Bán, Nicole Brossard, Rakesh Satyal, politics, religion, sex, Koran, Bible, language, holocaust
| | | | Salwa Al Neimi, born in Syria but lives in France and writes in Arabic, Zsófia Bán from Hungary, Nicole Brossard from Canada, and Rakesh Satyal born in the US to Indian parents, met to tell an audience about taboos. They generally agreed that religion, politics and sex were dangerous, particularly if one did not represent the prevailing religious, political or sexual orientation.
Although the Jewish Bible describes the body as being good and mentions functions of the body in frank terms, Al Neimi has been censored for using Arabic, the language of the Koran, when writing about the erotic. Bán and Satyal found that otherness in sexuality was taboo. Satyal said that he wrote the book he needed as a child and didn’t... | | | | | | | Monday, May 4, 2009 3:14PM | | | | Flavor of the Month Taboos at PEN | Tags: Taboos, Arab sexual writing, gay writing, gay indian writing, Western taboos, Publishing Taboos, Taboos for Writers, Literary Guide to Taboos, Taboo Update, Boo to Taboos
| | | Forbidden Flavors of the Month Taboos
On the “What’s Taboo?” PEN panel with Salwa Al Neimi, Zsofia Ban, Nicole Brossard, Rakesh Satyal, and Victoria Redel.
There are social, political, religious, literary, and publishing taboos, Western and Eastern taboos, Taboos that it is taboo to write about and acknowledge, even in PEN, and but for some startlingly illuminating contributions by Nicole Brossard and Salwa Al Neimi, the PEN World Voices panel seemed fixated mainly with the Forbidden Flavor of the Month taboo, that is, Taboos Permissible and Fashionable, and Long Untaboo Western Taboos: the taboo against writing about homosexuality, male or female, or about Sexual Perversity in Saudi Arabia. And for this reason, something was lost.
But first,... | | | | | | | Sunday, May 3, 2009 9:54AM | | | | Neil Gaiman: Books and Imagination | Tags: graphic novel, boundaries, boycots, homosexuality, freedom, libraries, rules
| | | What wit! from his boots to his expressive face and anecdotes, Neil Gaiman is surely one of the most entertaining of performers and well as writers. I loved his telling about his reading while walking along as a child (of course we all did that) and bumping into a lamp post to which he would apologize (we didn't think of doing that, alas). And about the local librarians worried that he would let on he was a feral child entirely raised by them: they would get used as a day care center.
He enjoyed, said he, writing comics, because they had only been around 100 years instead of 3000, so there were no rules, and he was therefore free. The ultimate compliment paid... | | | | | | | Tuesday, December 30, 2008 2:52PM | | | | David & Bathsheba | Tags: marriage, homosexuality, adultery, murder, war
| | | | If you’ve seen the movie you know that King David was a mighty warrior, a great king, a great lover, and his great love was Bathsheba.
If you attended the Sunday School classes I did you also knew that David committed a great sin. He allowed himself to be seduced by a temptress.
The men and women of the Bible were a sorry lot. The women were wanton, the men helpless to a woman’s smile. Adam ate whatever Eve gave him to eat. Lot’s daughters got him drunk so that he was unable to avoid incest. Samson allowed Delilah to trim his hair. Hebrew bucks were seduced into idolatry by Moabite women. And King David was taffy when he saw Bathsheba.
There are a few details missing from... | | | | | | | Monday, November 24, 2008 12:06PM | | | | Katrina and the Sodomites | Tags: Sodom, Leviticus, Lot, homosexual, David and Jonathan
| | | | Katrina and the Sodomites
Genesis 19:1-38
Two males who appear to be slopes come to the city of Sodom. Lot is sitting in the city gate, a place usually reserved for officials, and invites them to his house. Travel was dangerous especially if you traveled alone because travelers followed trails and robbers could lie in wait for them. When possible people traveled in caravans and hastened from city to city. Cities were also dangerous because there were no homeless shelters, Two-dollar motels or Taka Tacos for them. Travelers were dependent... | | | | | | | Monday, May 5, 2008 5:32PM | | | | Catherine Millet is not a libertine | Tags: art critic, orgies, de Sade, Bataille, Warhol, pro-sex neo-feminist, jealousy, libertines, the most explicit book about sex written by a woman, sex is no big deal.
| | | | Catherine Millet, the author of the bestseller The Sexual Life of Catherine M., published eight years ago, and hailed as the most explicit book about sex written by a woman, doesn’t see herself as a libertine or a Casanova. She certainly doesn’t come across as a coquette. With her plain, black pantsuit and sensible boots, her short hair framing a handsome face, she looks more like a reserved, well-spoken university professor than like a debauched Messalina. In fact, she is a well-regarded art critic and art curator, and the founder of the French art magazine Art Press. Before her memoir started to sell like wildfire in the French bookstores and all over the world - her book has been translated into twenty-six languages – she... | | | | | | | Saturday, February 16, 2008 4:53PM | | | | For the Love of Agape or Eros | Tags: sex, religion, Christian, Jew, Muslim
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For the Love of Agape or Eros Without Error
A Religious Sex Shop
The monotheistic religions agree that begetting is God’s chosen method of human duplication and that the Creator made an almighty mistake. A better choice would have been clay-molding, rib-taking or zeroxing which are more hygienic, less disruptive and not impregnated with sin.
Because of God’s mistake the monotheistic religions require or at least desire their followers to be sexual novices before the consecration of marriage. They want the participants--one male, one female--to come to the union as amateurs, without apprenticeship or probationary period, and to approach the hymeneal altar as neophytes. This would seem to require... | | | | | | | Monday, February 11, 2008 12:17PM | | | | Christianity and Reason | Tags: Christian, abortion, homosexual, equal rights, evolution
| | | | Christianity and Reason
I am an evangelical Christian but Pat Robertson, James Dobson, Franklin Graham, Richard Land don’t speak for me, although they sometimes seem to in the media. Some evangelicals shun the name “Evangelical” because they don’t want to be identified with fundamentalists who want to usurp the name for themselves. By dictionary definition all Protestants are evangelical but we quote different scriptures. Jesus said we are to love our enemy (Matthew. 5:44) but it’s hard for me to love my enemy if I call him evil. The Bible says believers are to pay their taxes (Romans: 13:7) so even if I weren’t a patriot I would pay my taxes. Jesus said we would be judged by how we feed the hungry, clothe the naked,... | | | | | |
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