Toronto Trim's Hotel Cum Drop-in Centre - Page 182

NotFromHere · 06-22-2005, 06:32 PM

Dear NotBob,
If you aren't doing anything this weekend, you can see what "vanilla" really is.

An Oakland hairstylist by day and co-owner of a South of Market dungeon popular with the whip-cracking crowd by night, Knight, 46, is an ambassador of kink. She and about 70 other volunteers will staff Leather Alley, one of the fastest-growing niches at the annual San Francisco Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Parade and Celebration.

On a splash of asphalt on Grove Street will bloom a place for what leather aficionados call "vanilla" types -- i.e., everyone else -- to learn about flogging, spanking, boot blacking and other staples of the subculture known as BDSM (a condensed acronym for bondage and discipline, dominance and submission and sadomasochism). The "ambassadors" will answer all their questions.

Creating the environment for such intimate acts in a parking lot -- not to mention broad daylight in front of an audience -- can challenge those more accustomed to the windowless dungeon setting.

"At first, you're very aware that everyone is watching," said Knight, who runs SF Citadel, a 7,800-square-foot playground for the leather set. "But once you start to concentrate, you relax, and everything else kind of melts away."

Since the demonstrations are rated at least PG-13, they are staged behind a curtain that is parted only for those over 18. But they will be miked this year, so demonstrators can tell the audience what they're feeling throughout the experience, and afterward.

Your link.

notcasesensitive · 06-22-2005, 06:32 PM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
That tummy is an affront to mankind.

I am freaking never leaving the house again, and will only interact with people if I am sitting behind a table in my house. Just so all of you know. Any future FB get-togethers are at my place.

The photo made her tummy look like my tummy. And I don't have no Rebecca Romajin tummy*. Her tummy in that photo looks like a Tyra Banks tummy shot pre-touch up.

(who hates the word "tummy" again?)

*and yet, both gwnc and ABBA would do me. must be my endearing personality.

Flinty_McFlint · 06-22-2005, 06:33 PM

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Originally posted by str8outavannuys
Gold star for correct usage of industry terminology.

And, as the co-founder of Yale's leading humor publication*, I am quite secure in my zing-cred without feeling the constant need to show it off.

*We killed the Record, baby.

Rumpus or Yale Record?

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) · 06-22-2005, 06:34 PM

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Originally posted by str8outavannuys

And, as the co-founder of Yale's leading humor publication*, I am quite secure in my zing-cred without feeling the constant need to show it off.

Please. The Yale Law Journal was founded well before you got there.

robustpuppy · 06-22-2005, 06:35 PM

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Originally posted by str8outavannuys
And, as the co-founder of Yale's leading humor publication*, I am quite secure in my zing-cred without feeling the constant need to show it off.

If I were to post "Hahahahaha," would I be whiffing?

I'm feeling too insecure to zing anyone right now.

Shape Shifter · 06-22-2005, 06:35 PM

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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
The photo made her tummy look like my tummy. And I don't have no Rebecca Romajin tummy*. Her tummy in that photo looks like a Tyra Banks tummy shot pre-touch up.

(who hates the word "tummy" again?)

*and yet, both gwnc and ABBA would do me. must be my endearing personality.

48. "Well, nobody's perfect," "Some Like It Hot," 1959.

ltl/fb · 06-22-2005, 06:38 PM

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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
The photo made her tummy look like my tummy. And I don't have no Rebecca Romajin tummy*. Her tummy in that photo looks like a Tyra Banks tummy shot pre-touch up.

(who hates the word "tummy" again?)

*and yet, both gwnc and ABBA would do me. must be my endearing personality.

That photo makes her tummy look a million times better than my tummy, and yet people are jumping all over it.

I think the liquor store down the street delivers, thank god.

str8outavannuys · 06-22-2005, 06:39 PM

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Originally posted by Flinty_McFlint
Rumpus or Yale Record?

I stand corrected from my previous post; the Record has apparently been resurrected. But I'm sure it's still unfunny. It's like Penske; it can't be killed. But we (the original Rumpus crew) gave it our best shot.

notcasesensitive · 06-22-2005, 06:41 PM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
That photo makes her tummy look a million times better than my tummy, and yet people are jumping all over it.

I think the liquor store down the street delivers, thank god.

Because before you were walking around LA naked except for blue body paint and scaley make-up effects? I'm just not clear why the crappy photo of hot Rebecca Romajin makes you want to hide out in your apartment.

Replaced_Texan · 06-22-2005, 06:41 PM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
That photo makes her tummy look a million times better than my tummy, and yet people are jumping all over it.

I think the liquor store down the street delivers, thank god.

I'm just glad that no one here got to see my solstice dance last night. I think I'll also be going into seclusion.

Flinty_McFlint · 06-22-2005, 06:43 PM

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Originally posted by str8outavannuys
I stand corrected from my previous post; the Record has apparently been resurrected. But I'm sure it's still unfunny. It's like Penske; it can't be killed. But we (the original Rumpus crew) gave it our best shot.

I was a contributing writer to that famed comedy publication: Yank.

ltl/fb · 06-22-2005, 06:44 PM

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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Because before you were walking around LA naked except for blue body paint and scaley make-up effects? I'm just not clear why the crappy photo of hot Rebecca Romajin makes you want to hide out in your apartment.

The thought that the stomach in the picture is somehow notably (apparently more notably than her face/hair crap) non-good is what is doing it.

And nice outing me as the chick with the blue body-paint thing. Geez.

06-22-2005, 06:47 PM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
The thought that the stomach in the picture is somehow notably (apparently more notably than her face/hair crap) non-good is what is doing it.

And nice outing me as the chick with the blue body-paint thing. Geez.

I saw Rebecca Romaine in yoga. She is statueesque.

ThurgreedMarshall · 06-22-2005, 06:47 PM

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Originally posted by robustpuppy
How ironic that I, a super genius, forgot the name of Acme Bread Company.

POTM.

TM

ThurgreedMarshall · 06-22-2005, 06:50 PM

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Originally posted by ABBAKiss
I don't understand people like you with this elusive "self control." This reminds me of my college roommates who "couldn't finish a can of soda" or "couldn't finish their fruit before it went bad." WHAT!?!?!???? A few nights ago I ate a pound and a half of grapes because they tasted good and they were there. I can ALWAYS finish what is there.......

Sebby, give Abba a call.

TM