Shrapnel — April-May 2005

<Sports fans are dummies>

No, really.

<S/M>

So imagine you're a dominatrix and you decide to give up the profession in favour of office work. And then you discover one of your former clients is your boss....

When Susan Peacher hung up her latex evening gown and wooden paddle for a job with the federal government, the former dominatrix thought she was done with abuse.

She went to work for the Treasury Department in San Francisco, but when she arrived at her new job, she found that one of the office managers was a former client.

 

<Public Space and Its Discontents>

Every city has its own variation on the Tentacle Man. Some are weirdos, some are living in their own world, and some just want to subvert the hidden, codifying power structures of so-called public space. (Photo lifted from pixietart.)

<"But it was a very popular episode" >

Trekkies and the minor characters they love.

<Does my health care cover this?>

For every amputee who feels a phantom limb, there's a person who feels a phantom amputation.

When the legless man drove up on his own to meet Dr. Michael First for brunch in Brooklyn, it wasn't just to show Dr. First how independent he could be despite his disability. It was to show Dr. First that he had finally done it - had finally managed to get both his legs amputated, even though they had been perfectly healthy.

 

<Jet Set Ruins>

Photograph them or just take them home and hang them on the wall as art.

<Real Lovers>

Real Dolls settle down. (From Boing Boing)

What began for me as playful curiousity -- how to photograph men having sex with 125 lbs. of a perfectly formed synthetic female -- rapidly turned into a serious exploration of the emotional ties that exist between men and women and their dolls.