The Other Scarlett

someone said everything was getting too ‘male/metrosexual’ round here. So here is a woman, an object of desire of mine. Not so much Scarlett on her own, as her character in Lost in Translation. I loved that film.  

Letters From An Alien: Trick

  There is this trick (you will have played it on yourself) where a writer writes something very personal and somehow manages to convince him/herself that on finishing it, it will magically turn into just another book. That is detached from the personal things it refers to. But that is the point when it becomes [...]

Scribbling On Foucault’s Walls #1 Madness Is Childhood

I could not keep my patient QRG readers waiting any longer. So here is the first of three-parts of Foucault’s Daughter, aka Scribbling On Foucault’s Walls. It is available FREE on smashwords: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/70119 I am busy trying to get an e-publisher at the moment, so if I am successful the whole novel/la (it is quite [...]

Hello, Kitty – Stryker responds to my ‘female gaze’ critique

http://androaperture.wordpress.com/2011/06/28/poll-whatre-you-looking-at/ This is Kitty’s comment in full from the previous post below. I have added some notes in response in bold. Anyone else got anything to say on it? ‘Theory does turn me on. And it turns on a lot of my friends. QRG, I’ve seen that you’e had this argument with other people doing [...]

Gazing at Men, Gazing.

QRG has been getting into a spot of bother-again-about the ‘female gaze’ again! This time by arguing with Kitty Stryker, who has recently set up the Andro Aperture Project. http://androaperture.wordpress.com/ This is what she says about the project (emphasis mine): ‘Andro-Aperture is a mini-crusade for the appreciation of male beauty in all its forms- sexy [...]

Nietzsche Was Right

When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexually. Sterility itself disposes one toward a certain masculinity of taste; for man is, if I may say so, “the sterile animal.” -Nietzsche (photo via @rachaelewilliams)

Disembodied Limbs

I can’t get this image out of my head. I keep going back to it to try and work out what the guy is holding. My perverse imagination has decided it is part of a body the delicious model has recently dismembered. Any other ideas?

Cemetery Gates: #Foucault’s Daughter On Youtube

Foucault’s Daughter is probably not made for the big screen. I think my novella is very much for reading. But, it does contain some choice clips from some wonderful films. I won’t give the story away by putting them in context, except that I think you may be able to see a common thread running [...]

Raw Sex

One reason I don’t get as wound up about the ‘lack’ of decent pornography that features men’s bodies, as Some People, is that I find plenty of very hot images in realms that are not officially classed as ‘porn’. AND they are free or cheaper than the vast majority of porn. How many M/M/m S [...]

The Last of The Gang To Die

http://englishcottage.tumblr.com/ The Strange Decline of The English Cottage is a documentary that is being made at the moment, for BBC4 about the old tradition of ‘cottaging’ in Britain. Men having sex with each other in public toilets. I found this article about the project delightfully ironic, as it mentions Miss Marple in relation to the [...]