something new.

I guess I should finally mention my boyfriend. I don't know what to call him, but I need an alias for him... I guess I'll call him Phoneboy, because we met through our work, which is a calling centre for non profit organisations. Anyhow, so we'd been flirting ever since we first met, and how we've just really hit it off. And got it on, I guess.

I mean, we haven't got that far yet, but we will, and I'm a little... nervous is the only way to describe it. I guess I just don't want to come across too strong. I went over to his house this evening and we watched The Usual Suspects and then made out and ... got undressed. We didn't really get farther than me straddling him shirtless and making out. And he bites... and I really like it.

Anyhow, probably TMI. But I like him a lot, and I'd probably let him do anything at this point. Bad, but still.

He makes me happy, oddly enough.

Paco Y Manolo

Paco Y Manolo is a Spanish photography duo that takes some of the frankest images I've seen in a long time. They basically take pictures of nude men, but in a sort of vulnerable, non-pornographi way. Really, it's very interesting art. Or at least to me it is. Anyhow, I thought I'd share a few images, just to spread the love. Thanks to Slava Mogutin's blog for introducing me.

Slava Mogutin

I wanted to blog for a moment about one of my favourite photographers/artists, Slava Mogutin. Mogutin is famed for being exiled from Russia for his queer writing, and specifically for "malicious hooliganism with exceptional cynicism and extreme insolence." Anyhow, I'm going to post a few of my favourite photos of his, and then I'm going to give you a link to his site, but I do have to warn you that many of the photos are particularly sexually explicit, and I'm sure that to some degree I am a voyeur for enjoying his work, but I like to convince myself that it's the artistic sensibilites that draw me to his work, and that's true definitely, but there is something insanely beautiful about all of it: the grunge, the BDSM.

Slava Mogutin