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Cassius Only Has One Suggestion For Everything
I’ve been rereading Julius Caesar this week in a fit of nostalgia. Two things have struck me on this go-round which did not always stick out to me…
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On Sleeping With Many Normal Men
I have a great deal in common with the men I sleep with. For example, we both want to be here; we both want to do this.
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You're In A Lesbian Pulp Novel From 1958! What's Distracting You From Work And Causing Your Heterosexual Coworker Nora To Glance Curiously…
The Chatner has been astonishingly ill and in bed all week.
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Advice Everyone Should Follow
I'm planning on getting around to some of these myself
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The Sad Butler Movie Index
(If the Butler Movie breaks on the side of emphasizing dignity, it’s sad; if it breaks on the side of emphasizing hauteur, it’s happy.)
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January 2026

The platonic equivalent of r/deadbedrooms and friendship crop rotation
"This creates its own problem when all your friends have known you for the same length of time, like how farmers need to practice crop rotation or else…
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Signs You're A Doctor In A Midcentury Novel
“Have you still got those yellow pills I gave you?” “Your father’s heart is weak. You must never tell him this; it would weaken his heart.” “The best…
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Everything Beebo Brinker Eats and Drinks in the 1962 Lesbian Pulp Classic "Beebo Brinker"
You'd never guess how many times Beebo Brinker defiantly drinks milk in the lesbian pulp fiction "Beebo Brinker" Chronicles.
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They Got Me At Last. I Became A Cyclist
“I’m just like you,” I want to say, instead of “On your left.” This isn’t who I am, not really. It’s not the wheels, but the feet that matter.
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A Biblical Exegesis of P.D. Eastman's "Go, Dog, Go"
"Work, dogs, work!" Exodus 5:9: “Let more work be laid on them, that they may labor in it.”
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I'll Tell You This For Free: Never Get The First Vitamin They Tell You To Buy
Elsewhere: I wrote about visiting gay bathhouses for Coyote last week.
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December 2025

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