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Beauty Is a Sign of Intelligence*

Erin Blackwell — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:04:15 -0600

I'm distracted by Lisa Ray's beauty. I've got a cold and I'm eating a large pot of fresh-popped popcorn on the couch in a big, cozy house I'm housesitting.

Love vs. Marriage

Erin Blackwell — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:32:08 -0600

People have confused ideas about marriage: what it is, who should do it, what it means. TV political ombudsman Keith Olbermann famously equates it with love, at least for the rhetorical purpose of shaming the homophobes.

Why Are Men So Unsexy?

Erin Blackwell — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:15:19 -0600

I apologize for putting the word "men" in a headline. And maybe the headline should be "Why Are Men Such Ambience-Killers."

French Feminism 101

Erin Blackwell — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:58:37 -0600

"You're not born a woman: you become one." (On ne naît pas femme: on le devient.)

Adapt or Perish

Erin Blackwell — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:33:55 -0600

White people look better. Straight people look worse.

Love for Sale

Erin Blackwell — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:18:02 -0500

Joan Kelly, author of The Pleasure's All Mine: The Memoir of a Professional Submissive (2006), swapped AIMs with me about San Francisco's Measure K, which would decriminalize prostitution.

Sit Next to Me

Erin Blackwell — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:39:17 -0500

Charlie Kaufman makes really smart movies about two or three things: consciousness, art-making, multiple personalities and heterosex.

The Shakespearean Agenda

Erin Blackwell — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:25:09 -0500

The woman on the other end of the phone wasn't happy. I was listening, but not feeling it until something in her tone — some desperate depth of suffering turned angry — or a vacuum, maybe, in her emotional life that suddenly disgorged disgust with the whole human condition based on her own sample of it...