Dave Goodman Featured Transmogrification of The Soul: The Reliable Rebirth Narrative of the Great American Road Trip The cross country journey in America is its own poem, its own song of a nation, and its own spiritual rebirth. Time to press onwards through familiar terrain into the next unknown. . .
Dave Goodman Achieving Spiritual Union Through The Passionate Pursuit of Vice In the monotheistic world, we have forcefully eschewed this. We live in a brutalist Manichean world, like a Hoover Dam Sized Firehose being choked off with a mix of circumcision, Catholic shame, and Protestant self-hatred holding fast the kink with all its Abrahamic might.
Dave Goodman The Varieties of Hipster Experience and The Slippery Slope of "Authenticity" Gilly’s was not playing by the rules. In fact, it wasn't even playing at all. Gilly’s was an unreconstructed dive bar. It was uninhibitedly, unapologetically gross - where gross people come to do gross things.
Dave Goodman Featured Artistic Liberation, Strange Bedfellows, and The Unspeakable Luxuries of the (Itinerant) Simple Life It was touching. The Gadsden flag people evidently have not made it to Armenia, Rubin's home. "The *real* Armenia. U.S.S.R. Armenia. Not Armenia from. . .'Greece,'" he scoffs. I smile in recognition, as if I have any idea what he's talking about.
Dave Goodman Featured The Passive Aggressive Post-Honk: A Talisman of the Fecklessness of Our Time The "Millennial Honk" is the perfect metaphor for our time in that it is at once completely annoying and that nothing will ever actually be accomplished by it.
Dave Goodman The Platonic Ideal of the Old San Joaquin: Charmlessness with a Hint of Spice. But what you lack in pizazz, Manteca, you more than make up for in. . .remoteness from any semblance of natural beauty.
Ramón Larsen The Tragic Ending of a Bought and Paid For Rape Fantasy The female heart, once hardened in its resolve, never to be taken for a chump again, will be merciless in her revenge on male-kind once betrayed. Yes, hell hath no fury and so forth, but being "scorned" is a far lesser evil than being disappointed. . .
Dave Goodman Our Greatest Joys Are Built on the Suffering of Others. Waking Up To A Tired Cliché. "I've never seen anything like it. What an amazing collection!" He replied in a flat deadpan that was not meant to be deadpan:"Yes, it's a mental illness."
Ramón Larsen "I Can Only Cum With Guys I Don't Like." When there is a problem this big, fast fixes are almost never the answer. But rather, patient allowing of the deeper truth trying to emerge to reveal itself is the more reliable (if far slower) approach of (my) choice.
Dave Goodman The Southwest's Plus-Size Cousin is Worth Its Weight in Buried Silver The endless dryness, unpunctuated by spectacle or wondrous glamour of any kind- it's just rock after rock with even rockier mountains dividing the vast sprawls of gravel. It's a hard sell, to be sure.
Dave Goodman Matzoh Ball Posole: A Tale of Redemption and Joyous Miscegenation The flavorous resemblance to dishwater (or, on meatier days, bathwater) has been inescapable. Not quite thick enough to be stew and not quite thin enough to be tap water, posole has a lack of flavor all its own.
Ramón Larsen Kinky Kissing Cousins: The Bible and BDSM Most men will absolutely not fuck their women properly. And in the world of the natural man, most men will never fuck a woman at all. Because the world of the natural man also houses the natural woman. And her standards are stiffer than the unrequited boners of those losers she snubs.
Dave Goodman How George Clooney Upleveled My Multitasking and Added Countless Hours to My Life I can’t imagine they are still making old-skool, self-important, shittily, choppily, and lazily edited, arcless dreck like this. Like I’m in shock.
Ramón Larsen Vanilla Sex Redux: Why I May Never Be Fit for Spiritual Society So, the other night I had the first fully vanilla sex I've had since my kinky awakening so many years ago. It was something I had hoped to avoid, and it was something I knew would be dissatisfying. But for some reason - fatigue? curiosity? - I went ahead with
Dave Goodman Featured Why I Will Never Forget What I Heard in the Last Lonesome Cowboy Town In America I couldn’t help but think that I was in the presence of greatness, the spirit of St Cecilia in one of her many disguises, crying her way into the night along the streets of a never-has-been western town for no one to hear.
Dave Goodman Do Your Probies Pass The Fart Test? Seconds later, I sounded like a buzzsaw with Tourette’s. The farting was instant and uncontrollable. As soon as the little varmints hit my intestines, the byproduct of their High Noon Face Off were quickly spattered against the plexiglass tombstone to their violent demise.
Dave Goodman Featured The Boy And The Blob: Gay Sorcery and The Capture of The Ultimate Prize In catching my gaze, he did not even try to conceal what was not a devilish, but rather a purely evil grin, which, along with a knowing head nod, said unmistakably: “Yeah, I’m tapping that.”
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Dave Goodman Featured Time Travel, Promises of Enlightenment, and The Delicate Art of Southern Perspiration Here in this reflective purple temple the only thing keeping you from visions of Nirvana was the deep stank of frozen body odor. That and the spy cam pointed directly at you, making escape from the watchful eye of Boris impossible. . .
