Rad blues.

Remarkable bluesman Joel Krivy performs to celebrate his debut CD release, The Radiation Sessions, live on Steve Fruitman’s Back to the Sugar Camp, this Thursday @ 6pm, CIUT-FM 89.5

At home.

Yes, it’s out on DVD, and Sigur Ros’ glorious doc/concert film, Heima is being given an additional Images Festival screening (tonight @ 9:30) after last night’s sold-out Canadian premiere, finding it’s perfect venue at The Royal. Following the 2006 World Tour of their album Takk, the Icelandic band return to give free public concerts in sixteen locations of their beloved homeland. It’s hard to imagine Iceland (or the world) being better served. Advanced tickets $10 (highly recommed) at Soundscapes.

Sidebar: Went to Duff’s (famous “Armageddon” chicken wings) prior. “Medium” is not hot, as promoted. You’re much better served to get the Spicy fried chicken wings (no.60) at Pho Hung on Spadina.

Thanks Michael.

“Read in order to live.”*

In our time, bereft of ancient dreams – which we’ve replaced with dreams of pillage – the illusion of immortality is created by technology. The Web, and its promise of a voice and a site for all, is our equivalent of the mare incognitum, the unknown sea that lured ancient travellers with the temptation of discovery. Immaterial as water, too vast for any moral apprehension, the Web’s outstanding qualities allow us to confuse the ungraspable with the eternal. Like the sea, The web is volatile: 70 percent of its communications last less than four months. Its virtue (its virtuality) entails a constant present – which for medieval scholars was one of the definitions of hell. Alexandria and it’s scholars, by contrast, never mistook the true nature of the past; they knew it to be the source of an ever-shifting present in which new readers engaged with old books which became new in the reading process. Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.

Alberto Manguel, The Library At Night

My current “stack”:

Edmund White, Chaos; Hotel De Dream
Margaret Atwood, The Door
Alan Weisman, The World Without Us
Alan Dershowitz, Blasphemy
Philip Zaleski and Carol Zaleski, Prayer: A History
Tariq Ramadan, In the Footsteps of the Prophet

Photo: Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, Main Branch

*Flaubert

“It’s a [BIG] DICK thing.”

 

 

Okay. I’ve been gettin’ off on “straight” porn for the past year.

No, it’s not about the chicks, it’s about the dick. I enjoy watching dudes have their way with the ladies (and vice versa).

As my best friend Paul in New York says, “We’re probably watching the exact same porn and seeing completely different things.”

He’s into big booty. I’m into big dick.

Not that I haven’t gotten off on straight porn before. As a teenage boy in Toledo in the seventies, I’d frequent the Westwood, and the Eastwood, and the strip mall peeps and cinemas to see men’s cocks (both on and off screen). John Holmes. Johnny Harden. Dallas doing Debbie. I didn’t see my first “all-male” film ’til my adventurous trip to the Adonis in NYC (which I’ll save for another entry).

Now, by availability mostly, I’m revisiting my “roots”, with huge (pig-squealing) delight! It started with one of my most frequented sites, XTube (check out “my favourites“), then Mr. Biggz (who also does gay porn as “Bam”), then the whole throat-gagging scene with Brandon Iron pulverising face, then Bangbros and their “Monsters of Cock”, and, most recently, Brazzers with the jawdropping, teen/MILF-fking, CRISS STROKES, my current BIG crush.

done

 

The only “uncool” thing about many of these sites, is that they only index their female stars, and while I can appreciate their primary target market (straight college boys into pussy), if you emphasize anything with a big dick (as these sites most certainly do), a good percentage of your customers are going to be devoted, paying, size queens like myself who would welcome your massive, yummy male stars to be tagged as well.* 

I’m interested in launching a Criss Strokes Fan Club. Anyone care to join me?

more Criss here

Photos: Criss’ junk @ Brazzers.

*Addendum: Brazzers has since remedied this somewhat.

“so f*cking gay for you, dude.”

“. . . to know a man’s heart.”

The sensational Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings