And there was much sadness.

I am very sad to report that my adorable purple Kawasaki EX500 was stolen and then crashed last Friday. Some rat bastard stole it, joy rode around for a few hours before trying to evade police by doing 60mph down NW Market. I am perversely pleased to report that after losing control, the thief was ejected from the bike and slid for approximately 70 feet in an undeveloped lot.

I am now bikeless. Well, technically, I still own a bike, I just can't ride it.

It is with a heavy heart that I offer my Ninja up for sale for $300 or first decent offer as a parts bike. Here's the Craigslist ad. Resurrection is not within my budget and I don't have the mechanical where with all to part it out.

Parts that are still good include, but not limited to:
motor (it ran beautifully before the crash; haven't fired it up since)
both rear fairings
front & rear tires (Avon, less than 100 miles on both)
frame (best as we can tell, it looks nice & straight)
instruments
gas tank (has 1 small dent, no damage to paint)


Help me get a jump start on my new bike fund.

Classes coming up!

If you are still trying to decide whether or not to attend one or both of my classes this Saturday, you can always email me with questions. I got a note from someone who had specific thing she wanted to learn. A quick private message on FetLife got him the answers he needed to make his decision.

Please take a moment to RSVP to workshopRSVP@sexpositiveculture.org and let them know which workshop you want to attend. Even though it is not required, it gives the staff a good idea of how many chairs to put out so that class time is not taken up by adding more seats.

More information can be found on the CSPC calendar.

Take the SEAF Survey, please!

Did you go to the Seattle Erotic Art Festival last May? If so, can you please fill in an online survey?

Taking this 5 minutes out of your day will help us on the organizing committee in making next year's festival even better by learning from what worked and what didn't during the 2010 festival. This is particularly important if you had strong feelings about the lighting on the art and how it was dimmed during the stage performance. I am shamelessly suggesting that when the survey gives you a chance to add any other comments, you type in length about your feelings and opinion regarding the lack of lighting on the art.

Thanks so much for your support of one the finest erotic art festivals in the world which fulfills it's mission of supporting living artists by consistently selling 25% of the exhibition art. No other erotic art show or festival comes any where close to this number. Thank you to all my docents for doing such a great job of assisting people to purchase sexy art.

Palpation class on 7/3/2010

I am very excited to be teaching this skill. This is one of the best ways to protect your bottom while still having a fabulous time playing. More information can be read on the Foundation for Sex Positive Culture website and the FetLife event page.

Chores

One of the chores on my list is boiling the insertible sex toys.  The thought of having to do this, as well as the actual task, causes me to giggle every time.

Please join me...

 

For more information, you can go to the Center for Sex Positive Culture website or the FetLife event page for this class.

Fun video tutoral

My dear friend Michael Sol did a quick and dirty video with RiggerJay on Guerrilla Bondage. Michael is a treat to watch, even if he does get the names of the nerves wrong that he warns people not to pinch. Always humourous and ever the Kinky Scoundrel.  Enjoy!

Happy Father's Day.

Historically, this is a difficult day for me.

My biological father has- well, lots of problems. So many problems that it was difficult to be around him and involved in his life. As I got older, I realized that the problems he was mired in were self-inflicted and I was not responsible for taking care of him. I haven't had direct contact with my father in 11 years.

Finding others to fill this role is challenging, but important. My step-father has been a good stand in, though it took about 7 or 8 years for him to settle into that role for me. For my brother, it was much quicker. I have had 2 partners who have been a Daddy to me in our kink relationship. Each was quite different from the other in manifestation, though their natures of being men who supported me emotionally and mentored me was the same.

In the last decade, I have realized that strong, male role-models or father figures in one's life are very important; every bit as important as a mother figure. Ofttimes one must look outside their blood relations for this support, and that's ok. Chance cannot always pick the perfect parent for us and have that perfectness last our whole lives. It's good to acknowledge those who fill this role for you once you have found them, too.

This is a special "Happy Father's Day" to all the leather daddies out there. Thank you for being someone's daddy.

My first testamonial!

I got a lovely little note from a woman who attended my "Head Games: Anatomy for Edge Play with the Head & Neck"at Shibaricon over Memorial Day weekend. Whenever I get comments and emails after a class, I can't help but be buoyed up knowing that I contribute to someone's fun and joy.  This one takes the cake, though, and makes me a little nervous. I mean, this is a lot to live up too!

I'd just like to thank you for the incredibly painful, incredibly humiliating, incredibly erotic, hot wet sticky yummy nasal fucking I received last night at the hands (ahem, fingers) of [my Master.]

I had no idea it would be like that - he interspersed it with triggered orgasms - so that I felt constantly off kilter and fucked and unbalanced and out of my mind with pain and pleasure.

I have seriously sensitive olfactory receptors and it was a bit like experiencing Wonka gum. I could smell my spit on his fingers, then to moisturizer, then to soap, then it turned to the garlic which is kind of ever present since he cooks so much, and then finally to him, to that base scent I associate with him.

I was really blown away by the whole thing. My nose was sore for days and I had hallucinatory reactions about smells.

Thank you for letting us know about this - I'm so glad I asked about noses. Little did I know...

hugs ~
btw, please consider this a testimonial for your class - I will sing your praises highly wherever I go!

There is no saving me.

I am so horny and there is nothing I can do about it until late this evening.

Ok, so I am exaggerating. There is one thing I can do and it's not all that satisfying so I would rather not risk making my "condition" worse.

New Class on July 3rd!

I hope you aren't going out of town for the July 4th weekend. And if you are, hopefully you are coming to Seattle. I am unveiling a brand new class, one that has been nagging at the back of my mind for a while now. One that Mark Yu charged me with creating some time ago.

Many times in the past, I have found myself talking someone through to process of feeling for a nerve or assessing a muscle in preparation for or in the wake of a bondage scene. Each time this happens, the person tells me I should teach people how to "feel this stuff."

Palpation for Rope Play will focus on cultivating the skill of gathering information via the tactile sense. Here' the official write up:

Palpation is the skill of gathering information through touch. Learn how to find where those pesky nerves are, which muscles are tight, and how to assess your partner’s state of being without asking “are you ok?” Increasing your palpation skills can also increase connection between top & bottom and body awareness, both of which make for safer and more satisfying play. This class will include several exercises and drills to develop your palpation abilities.

Please wear loose clothing and be prepared to participate in group palpation exercises. (Yes, this means you have to touch people.)

This class is being held on July 3rd, 2010 at the Center for Sex Positive Culture. Start time is 5:30pm and the class will run through until 7:30pm.

This class is $20 and pairs up nicely with Anatomy 101 for BDSM, held earlier that same day, with a bargain price of $45 for both classes, which is a total of 6 hours of instruction.

The director has arranged for a $5 discount to the party after the class for anyone who wants to practice implementing their new found skills. You must be a CSPC member to attend the play party.

About last night...

Performing our aerial bondage act is always a joy. When we have our classically trained bass player of choice playing her acoustic stand up bass it's an even more soulful performance. Her music feeds, accents and supports our movements. I am pleased to say that she enjoys playing with us as much as we enjoy her.

A new addition for this show was David Jones and his poetry. Jim Duvall and I decided we wanted to have this performance be darker than usual and also to go back to the original incarnation with poetry and the bass. Well, for dark poetry, David Jones is the man to go to. After sifting through a few volumes, Jim asked him for something about using someone up and throwing them away. "Oh! That's easy!" says he, delivering a scathing, sad and angry lamentation of a dead relationship.

The act begins with an empty stage but for the suspension ring and a shove. The two of us square off, angry and rough movements punctuated by lines poetry. The bass starts in with low, menacing notes and we slowly transition from anger to joy, ending in a collapse.

We definitely need to record one of these performances. Anyone want to be in a studio audience for us?

Book recommendation

I referenced The Concise Book of Trigger Points, Revised Edition in 2 of my classes at Shibaricon. This is a great book for locating the more common trigger points and incorporating them in SM play. Good illustrations and the beginning of the book has a great informational section.

Remember, once you activate a trigger point in a muscle, you need to actually do something to resolve it. Otherwise, your partner will have lingering pain that is not the fun kind. Expect to fork out money for a massage if you don't "put the points to bed".