From the monthly archives:

December 2008

FeatherThe Big “O.” Orgasms. Mr. Poopy Pants a.k.a. Moebius was in New York over the weekend, and we met up for savory quiches, Pinot Grigio and red velvet cupcakes at Sweet Revenge. I think it’s been more than a year since we saw each other. He looks the same, perhaps a little thinner. He’s cute. He knows it. I’d describe him in detail, but that might give his “identity” away to longtime Funky Brown Chick readers and inflate his ego. So, moving right along … In conversation, “Moebius” and I agree on a lot of stuff but we also vehemently disagree. Take orgasms, for example. Question: When two people are in bed together, are both entitled to an orgasm if each desires and is able to have one? I’d say yes. If I’m in bed with a guy and I get him off, I typically want him to get me off too. It’s only fair. Moebius agrees. He says, basically, “When I’m in bed with a woman, I do everything I can to make her come.” Good boy. “But once she comes,” he adds, “my responsibility ends there. I’ve done my job. My work is finished. I’m going to sleep. If she wants another orgasm, that’s her responsibility. That’s what vibrators are for.” What. The Fuck??? If I’m in bed with a guy, I want him to please me as much as I desire to be pleased. And, I’m willing to do the same for him. I get off on getting guys off, and I usually wanna do it more than once. If he’s ready to go again, I’m almost aways good to go. If I’m dating a guy and he wakes me up by cuddling a not-so-subtle daytime erection against my warm body, believe me, it’s my pleasure to oblige.

“Everything from your nails to your orgasm is your responsibility,” counter-argues The Frisky. (I love that site.) “If he can’t handle the job, you should finish it off.” I agree. If he’s unable to do the job, I’m more than willing to take care of myself. That said, if I ask a dude to have sex with me, it’s because I crave his penis, fingertips and tongue pressed against every inch of my body. Shit, if I just wanted my hands and/or plastic & batteries, why the hell is the guy in my bed????? :) SIDENOTE: Seeeee, THIS is one of the many reasons I’m drawn to younger men; they’re quite happy to take care of me as much as I like.

It goes without saying: no one should be forced to do anything they don’t want to. If a guy simply isn’t in the mood, that’s fine. I’m strictly talking about guys who rebelliously feel they shouldn’t have to go the extra O. What say you, dear readers? During sex, after both partners have come once, who’s responsible for further pleasure?

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Credit paid: Red feather photo is by Kai Kuusik-Greenbaum

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I see the headline “One in Three Women Would Dump Their Partner over an ‘Inadequate’ Christmas Gift” and I wonder: what the fuck has this world come to? In celebration of Liam, Diva, Judy, Dacia, Tess — and the awesome goodwill of other folks who recently organized, supported or spread the word about using $$$ or time to support good causes this holiday season — I thought I’d do a teeny little “Holiday Giving Guide.” If you know any other great programs that need support this season, feel free to leave the details in the comments section.

Ryan Gosling in There’s No Christmas in Darfur (Monday Dec 15 @ 7:30pm, The Bell House located at 149 7th St., 718-643-6510, $25.) What’s hotter than fine ass Ryan Gosling wearing a Darfur t-shirt on the MTV Movie Awards? NOTHING. Well, maybe, the “There’s No Christmas in Darfur” benefit. (Pssst! People, did you SEE the best kiss reenactment??? I almost fainted from the hotness. But, I digress.) Hosted by comedian and friend of the FBC Liam McEneaney, Monday’s benefit for Save Darfur includes the Daily Show‘s John Oliver, comic Todd Barry, Hot Tub host Kurt Braunohler and a bunch of other funnymen. “You’d be hard-pressed,” says Flavorpill, “to find a more rewarding — or funnier — way to spend your bucks on a good cause.” It’s only $25. Plus, they’re giving out prizes from Comedy Central and The Onion. Please support it. Totally worth it.

New Orleans' Ninth Ward9th Ward Field of Dreams. (Donate any amount by Monday 12/15, Website: http://9thwardfieldofdreams.com) “When I was down in New Orleans this past October,” Judy McGuire mentions, “I was horrified to see that the Ninth Ward is still completely wrecked.” Given a tour of the area by a local high school teacher, Judy learned kids had neither books nor safe spaces to run around and play. “Pretty much every child there has lost something,” Judy said pretty honestly, “even if it’s ‘just’ their home.” GW Carver High School wants to build a community football field/track to bring entertainment, play and the spirit of happiness back to the lives of those touched by Katrina. If they raise 200k by the 12/15 deadline, NFL’s Grassroots Program might do a matching gift. Please give. Any amount helps. Details: http://9thwardfieldofdreams.com.

Group Shot of 2009 NYC Sex Bloggers PinupsNYC Sex Bloggers Calendar. Of course I’m gonna plug the calendar — not just because I’m Miss March, but because your $20 actually goes to a good cause and because Tess is such a fucking saint for organizing the whole thing, and Diva’s been doing awesome stuff to promote it. Money from your purchase / donation goes to Audacia Ray’s nonprofit Sex Work Awareness. SWA does sexy stuff like support institutions that help sex workers, conduct research about the sex industry, develop public education initiatives and other things. By the way, as a reminder, I’ll sign your calendar for you if you buy one. Read this to find out how to make that happen.

Vigil to End Violence Against Sex Workers. Speaking of sex worker rights and stuff, there’s gonna be a candlelight vigil from 7 – 8 pm on Wednesday, December 17th in New York’s newly reopened Washington Square Park to commemorate the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. If you can’t give money, give time by dropping by the march to support the cause.

Please Save News and NotesNational Public Radio. If you haven’t heard the news, NPR is cancelling a couple shows. I gave my first donation to NPR a couple years ago when I still lived in Chicago. I was listening to This American Life on WBEZ because I fucking love that show. During a pledge drive (surprise, surprise), David Sedaris and Ira Glass tried to convince this random woman to give money. I think she gave like $20. So, the NPR folks were like: “Say it with us: I. Saved. Public Radio.” She wouldn’t because she was like, “My $20 didn’t save NPR.” And, they were like: no, seriously, we need donations & each one collectively “saves” NPR. I got that. I donated the next day and got a kickass “I Saved Public Radio” mug for my efforts. Donate today to save NPR. In particular, if you’re a fan of News & Notes ( … all Funky Brown Chick readers should be because they kindly had me as a guest on their show … ), please join this Facebook group to learn how to help snatch the show off the chopping block.

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Credit paid: Images appear online as follows – Ninth ward (AP Photo/Don Ryan); prostitute (Der Spiegel); News & Notes team ( NPR); calendar girls (my Flickr); and Ryan Gosling Save Darfur (ecorazzi).

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Sweet baby Buddha on a 10-speed bicycle!! I gotta interrupt melancholic ruminations about my love life to answer NY friends & others who’ve asked me: “What the fuck is going on in Illinois?!?!” I’m a New Yorker now, but I was born with a couple corn cobs hanging from my mouth in the Land of Lincoln. One of my best friends in high school lived on a farm. I. Have. Milked. A. Damn. Cow. So, really, I have to talk about Rod Blagojevich today. It’s a de-facto Wanker Wednesday.

The Backgrounder: Illinois is corrupt. Seriously. Fucking New York sent “Scarface” Al Capone from Brooklyn to Chicago in 1923; by 1924, he was almost running the place — taking ownership of Cicero‘s town council. Barack Obama’s original opponent for the IL senate seat, Jack Ryan, paid someone to stalk Obama. Under cover of night, Mayor Daley once secretly ordered wrecking crews to bulldoze huge X-shaped craters in a small aiport’s runway because (Chicago voters wishes be damned!!!) he wanted it closed. And, speaking of airports, you know Chicago “O’Hare” is named after the son of “Easy Eddie” O’Hare — a mob lawyer who willfully collaborated and made a fortune with Scarface. Later, O’Hare got in bed with the Feds to bring Capone down; the gangster gave O’Hare a Chicago-style “thank you” by having him gunned down in his car. In the past 40 years, I think 4 out of 8 (or, depending how you count, 3 out of 6 … doesn’t matter, it’s half either way) IL governors have had brushes with federal prison. I’m not sure any state can match that. Shit, even the saying “vote early, vote often” specifically refers to Illinois’ long history of politicians/gangsters manipulating votes. Be ye not fooled by the Midwestern smiles; Iraq is less of a political minefield than Springfield, Illinois. People, I’m telling you: There are gangsters in them there cornfields!!

NO ONE in Illinois is surprised about Blagojevich. No one!!! :) The man is goofy. What other statesman cusses more than Tony Soprano? (Blag on Obama: “Fuck him!”) Who the hell goes on The Daily Show without knowing it’s a comedy??? A year or two ago, when The Daily Show interviewer called Gov. Blagojevich “Gov. Smith” because he couldn’t pronounce his name, asked him to pretend he was a hot 17-year-old who needed contraceptives and questioned whether he was the real “gay Governor”, Blagojevich’s response was: “Is he teasing me, or is this legit?” Who does that??? “With all due respect to the governor,” said someone baffled by the incident, “he [had to know] it was a comedy show. It’s general knowledge for people under 90 years of age.” And, of course, the newest goofiness from G-Rod Blago … apparently, the guy tried to “sell” Barack Obama’s Senate seat to the highest bidder. The seat, he said, “is a fucking valuable thing, you don’t just give it away for free!” So, if anyone out there is still wondering: “What the hell is going on in Illinois?” The answer is what it has always been: “Politics as usual.”

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We contacted each other previously. He approached me at a friend’s party on 46th Street and 7th Avenue. Cute. Foreign. Brilliant. Interesting. Immediately sparking sexual chemistry, we were lip-locked within 20 minutes. Thinking back, maybe it was 80% chemistry and 20% booze … or 70% chemistry, 30% booze. Hey, it was a party. We were drinking! But, whatever. Anyway.

I thought he was a player. My snap judgments and gut instincts are usually spot on; I should trust them more often. When he initially gave me his little white business “card”, it had four things printed on it: (1) Name, (2) City/Country of origin, (3) New York City and (4) domestic & foreign cell phone numbers. Last summer, my visiting friend Anna-Scarlet said she’d never seen such a thing. “They’re player cards,” I told her. “Some New Yorkers actually get personal cards printed with just their contact info so they can give them out at bars.”

“Are you kidding???” Anna-Scarlet scoffed.

“Nope. They’re convenient when you wanna connect with someone, but you don’t really want them to know your personal information — like, where you work.” So, the dude gave me one of “those” cards. Still, I decided to reserve judgment until I got to know him better. Partly because I wanted to be wrong about him. Partly because I actually liked the guy. Maybe those two are the same thing? Over the next weeks, we went on dates: holding hands while strolling through museums; making out at bars; flirting across brunch and dinner tables; and, most importantly, talking about how much we mutually despised stupid games & lies people turn when dating.

Still, I was skeptical about his intentions. Instead of seeking honest answers, I mulled over tons of scenarios and came up with crafty solutions like 007 or Jason Bourne. Why did he have a player card? Why did he repeated tell me he was a “very private person”? Why did he refuse to friend me on Facebook though he contacted me through the site countless times — adding, “You can’t write anything kinky on my wall”? Why did he come on so incredibly fucking strong, then turn me down when I eventually suggested we go back to his place (e.g. “Um, we can’t. My apartment’s a mess”)? I wasn’t sure if we’d been on enough dates, and I didn’t want to feel like I was prying into his life. But, I knew this: if he’s not actively hanging around with other women (he said he wasn’t), at the very least, he’s hiding something.

Why are people so fucking careless with others’ hearts? It’s not worth explaining why the dude’s out the picture now, what went down and why our tale, this possible-love-story-in-progress, is now wasted on Manhattan’s streets — splattered on Midtown pavement like bird shit, run over with the clunk-clunk of a dump truck passing a pothole. It’s just, you know, over. Of course, I cried. Not for that specific boy; I’m just, you know, sick of the bullshit. What’s the point of lying to someone you barely know? When someone tells me “I’m not into games, I like honesty, I don’t understand why people date a lot of people at the same time, blah blah blah” THEN it turns out to be bullshit, it feels like a mind fuck.

When I meet a object of desire for the first time, I get really excited about it. “Ohhh,” I figure, “he’s cute! I really like him. OMG, MAYBE WE’LL GO ON DATES!!” So, when it doesn’t work out, I feel hurt, frustrated, irritated and saddened. And, everyone knows it. Sometimes I’m glad I have a blog because it’s cathartic to write about the shit I go through in the dating world. It helps me make sense of everything. Other times, it feels odd to be so “public.”

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Credit paid: “You Fucking Broke It” image appears on Chelsea Labsu’s Flickr.

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Today’s post is sexy & short because I’ve got other shit on my mind. Boy drama. Might share details later today. Or, tomorrow. Or, maybe, never. We’ll see how I feel about everything in a bit. Anyway, in the meantime, the new Manly Monday pick is a guy named Nick. If you read this post, you know I judged Jen Dziura’s First Annual Man Pageant over the weekend. Additional photos — including a couple of him sexily clad in underwear — are posted on my Flickr, Jen’s Flickr, Dacia’s Flickr and elsewhere online.


Um, yes, OF COURSE I noticed he’s cuddling a brown girl in one of his photos!!! Hot, right??!?! (Psssst, if you’re new on Funky Brown Chick today, read this, this, this and this.) Anyway. The best part of the man pageant? All the guys REALLY got into it. They serenaded us, tried to win our votes with flowers and beamed 100 watts brighter as we told them what we loved about their handsome faces, hard bodies and adorable talent competition segments for boxing, singing, poetry and comedy. I asked one of the guys, Michael, “So, is this your first time participating in a male beauty pageant?” He smiled, blushed and was like, “Um, yeah. I can pretty safely say this is the first time for all the guys here.” It was too cute! Job well done, boys.

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Credit paid: Nick’s modeling portfolio images appear online at Model Mayhem.

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Tonight, I will judge the First Annual Man-Pageant hosted by Jen Dziura from www.jenisfamous.com — an awesome New York-based comedian and writer best known for orchestrating the Williamsburg Spelling Bee. (Psst! I once interviewed Jen for Gen Art. Read the article.) Because I’m so ridiculously excited to visually size up delicious hunks of man flesh, I’m live blogging the whole damn thing. Twitter streams from my fellow judges Nichelle Stephens, Audacia Ray and Judy McGuire are included within. To play it, click the green arrow shaped like a circle.

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Written by Alec Greven, How to Talk to Girls is available on Amazon.com. Read his Today Show interview with Meredith Vieira on MSNBC.com

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