Life in L.A. (Munch)
From the comic book store to the retro diner, scenes from my life in L.A. For more, follow me on Instagram.
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Books I Read: Paying for It
The first time I read Chester Brown’s Paying for It was around the time it was originally published, I believe. I decided to buy a new copy and reread it when I heard that the woman who had been Brown’s “last girlfriend” before he started paying for it had directed a movie adaptation of the book. I seem to remember liking the book more the first time I read it. This time I found it kind of grim and sort of ick. I write about a fair amount of stuff related to this subject matter, and I even ran a website for a year where I posted anonymous emails men wrote to me about paying for it, but this comic is so dark and weirdly dissociated and lacking in any kind of empathy that I read it faster than usual just to get it over with. If you don’t know anything about paying for it or why guys pay for it or the politics of paying for it (particularly in Canada, Brown’s country of origin), this book may be of interest. Also, the drawings are cool. But to the Brown on these pages, sex workers are receptacles to be judged, used, and discarded. That take is retrograde, boring, and depressing.
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We're All Very Happy to Be Here
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Books I Read: A Few Collectors
I’m in love with A Few Collectors by Pierre Le-Tan. It is a wunderkammer of a book, an extraordinary collection of small essays about collectors that Le-Tan knew and / or admired and / or encountered. I’m not even sure what this book is about, because I don’t think collecting is it. Perhaps how to live one’s life, or the importance of beautiful things, or the inherent transience of existence. I actually read it slower and slower because I didn’t want it to end. Also, the printing is beautiful. It’s a coffee table book in miniature.
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A Sign (She's Hot)
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In this week’s edition of The Reverse Cowgirl Roundup: a sign from God that Justine Mae Biticon is hot, AI is for falling in love, a woman crushes watermelons with her thighs, bush is back, the Supreme Court weighs in on XXX, and more. Like it, share it, and / or subscribe to it and get all the sex news that’s fit to print.
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The Artist Goes Shopping
Some of the wonderful art supplies at Carter Sexton. For more of my photographs, follow me on Instagram.
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I Am Team Charles
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The Reverse Cowgirl Interviews the Dick Lazers Guys
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In my first installment of The Reverse Cowgirl Interview series, I interviewed the young masterminds behind the penis laser that was purportedly involved in that fight Jamie Foxx and Jackass franchise-related individuals got into at the Beverly Hills restaurant Mr. Chow. Read it here and subscribe.
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RIP David Lynch
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Books I Read: Parasitic City #0.1
Parasitic City #0.1 is a total insane, very extreme comic book by Shintaro Kago. As I wrote in my newsletter: “it’s for anyone with an amputee fetish, a bio-clothing fetish, a bio-furniture fetish, a bio-prosthesis fetish, or a bio-firearm fetish.” There’s a woman, and a war, and copulating chairs. It’s sci-fi meets hentai. It’s weird.
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The Reverse Cowgirl Roundup for the Week of January 13
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In this edition of The Reverse Cowgirl Roundup: things heat up on the beach in Fort Lauderdale, a sex worker breaks down “romance labor,” a former adult star reveals her most intimate procedures, a lauded lenswoman gets censored, and more. Hit the Subscribe button to get all the sex news that’s fit to print in your inbox.
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Life in L.A. (Smoke)
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Books I Read: Ten Days in a Mad-House: A Graphic Adaptation
Ten Days in a Mad-House: A Graphic Adaptation, written by Brad Ricca, illustrated by Courtney Sieh, and based on the book by Nellie Bly, is an absolutely astonishing work that brings to life the terror, shame, and seemingly inescapable horror of being trapped in an abusive system. I’ve read the original Ten Days and I’m an investigative journalist, so I wasn’t sure what to expect. This book is a masterful adaptation of an original work as imaginative and evocative as the graphic adaptation of Paul Auster’s City of Glass. Sieh’s illustrations are especially moving, as she conjures up the faces of the women trapped in the asylum’s hell.
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What I'm Listening To (Prince)
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Eat Me
I’m so happy to live in Los Angeles, where I can eat incredible food. A few of the wonderful things I’ve eaten as of late, from left to right: 1) the biscuit breakfast sandwich with bacon at Calabama in Hollywood, 2) the spinach and cheese borekas at Borekas in Sherman Oaks (they also have a location in Van Nuys), 3) the mangu at El Bacano in North Hollywood, 4) the protein omelette at Clark Street Diner in Franklin Village.
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Books I Read: Peepland
I didn’t care much for Peepland, which was written by Christa Faust and illustrated by Gary Phillips and Andrea Camerini. I felt like the story was all over the place and a bit hard to follow. But more importantly I largely bought it for the peep show setting, and the peep show world ended up mostly being set dressing. Pretty much everyone dies in the end. I guess I would’ve preferred something more illuminating of that world.
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Fire smoke hangs over the 101 Freeway on a windy day. For more of my photographs, follow me on Instagram.
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Books I Read: The Structure Is Rotten, Comrade
I picked up a copy of The Structure Is Rotten, Comrade by Viken Berberian and Yann Kebbi because I thought the art was dazzling. And it is. The colors are arresting, the strokes are aggressive, and the pictures soar across the page. I’m also interested in Brutalism, with which this graphic novel (which it isn’t, exactly) concerns itself. But the first third features a woman whose sole role is to have giant tits and act like an idiot. When you’re a woman reading this book and this is all you see of yourself, it gets boring. Maybe do better, guys.
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All About the Girl
In the latest edition of The Reverse Cowgirl newsletter: a gamer and tattoo model is this week’s star, a curious Colorado stripper pole house is showcased on the news, adult content streaming is blocked in Florida, President-elect Donald J. Trump is facing his porn star hush-money conviction sentencing, and more.
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Giddyap
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