I think you know by now how much I love smart boys. Mmmmmmmmm. Tasty. She's into malacas, Dino.
This man, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, is sexy. I love to curl up with this book, his masterpiece about the highly improbable thing that will sneak up and bite you on the ass. The Black Swan is a beautiful freak. Gotta love that.
Black Swans are highly unpredictable and improbable events that, when they do occur, change everything. Ever had the impossible happen and change the entire paradigm of your life? Perhaps you were a sweet young thing who had never been hit and then one day your mean bitch of a girlfriend hauled off and slapped you. First you were angry. Then you got a hard on. And you got even angrier about that.
A Black Swan can be the big event that changes the world (like a credit crisis) or a big event that just changes your world. Either way, it changes the game, to borrow an overused phrase from the political pundits of CNN.
Even better than the incredibly geeky/sexy subject matter of math and philosophy: this man can actually put together a coherent sentence! Hooray for the Queen's English! This book makes me hot as a librarian, as a student of history, and as a dominatrix.
Keep it up, all you sexy smart boys who aspire to be like Mr. Taleb. You get the dominant bitches wet. ISBN-13: 978-1400063512 Amazon.com
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Thursday, March 5, 2009
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Book Review Thursday - Screw the Roses, Send Me the Thorns
This classic by Philip Miller and Molly Devon is a truly "boots on the ground" look at what the subtitle refers to as "the romance and sexual sorcery of sadomasochism." I don't know about sorcery, really, but this book is required reading.
Screw the Roses is a masterful (no pun intended) description of how a BDSM lifestyle relationship can work. The touching tales of how love conquers pain are actually fantastic from the right point of view. An individual hoping to embark on a BDSM journey with a spouse or other loved one simply must read this book. It touches on so many important subjects that can make or break a traditional relationship, and for that it must be worshipped.
However, this is not to be confused with a professional BDSM relationship of any sort. Just as a professional (usually) will not have sex with you, they (usually) won't cuddle after a scene and tell you they love you. I know I won't. You may earn a loving sigh or even a few words of affection, but these things are not rights as they are in other types of relationships. Remember, just as you must do what it takes to earn an engagement ring, you must do what it takes to earn your collar. Don't expect that it will be freely given without something in exchange.
So- as much as I adore this book in a relationship context, please do not read it and expect that your life as a trainee will resemble this in any way. It will not. The dichotomy must stand. For it's intended purpose, though- this book is the best. ISBN-13: 9780964596009 amazon.com
Screw the Roses is a masterful (no pun intended) description of how a BDSM lifestyle relationship can work. The touching tales of how love conquers pain are actually fantastic from the right point of view. An individual hoping to embark on a BDSM journey with a spouse or other loved one simply must read this book. It touches on so many important subjects that can make or break a traditional relationship, and for that it must be worshipped.
However, this is not to be confused with a professional BDSM relationship of any sort. Just as a professional (usually) will not have sex with you, they (usually) won't cuddle after a scene and tell you they love you. I know I won't. You may earn a loving sigh or even a few words of affection, but these things are not rights as they are in other types of relationships. Remember, just as you must do what it takes to earn an engagement ring, you must do what it takes to earn your collar. Don't expect that it will be freely given without something in exchange.
So- as much as I adore this book in a relationship context, please do not read it and expect that your life as a trainee will resemble this in any way. It will not. The dichotomy must stand. For it's intended purpose, though- this book is the best. ISBN-13: 9780964596009 amazon.com
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Book Review Thursday - Female Ejaculation and the G Spot
Female Ejaculation and the G Spot, by Deborah Sundahl. Save yourself some heartache and add rubber sheets to your Amazon order when you buy this book. Part fantasy fodder and part what you really hoped to learn in Sex Ed, this book deserves a place in every woman's collection. Leave it out so your partner can find it "accidentally." ISBN-13: 9781904132387 amazon.com
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Long Weekends Create Long Tuesdays
The smell of books is what keeps me going on long days like today. Not exactly musty and not exactly crisp, the paper of a book takes on some of the character from the place where it is stored. For instance, our periodicals reading room has changed over the years. At one point it smelled of cheap pulp and rubber bands. Now it houses computers for online exploration, so it smells like sweat and hot dust.
My favorite area of the library, as far as smells go, is the pseudo-corridor between the children's section and the sports section. The children smell sweet, of course, and the sports section smells rancid. The only people who frequent the 790s on most days are adolescent boys with overactive sweat glands and the local newspaper's sports writer. He wants so badly to be punished that he leers at me between the shelves. But the sweet and the rancid combine ( in a manner not unlike Chanel No.22) in that corridor. The space is truly just the empty shelves between sections where the breath of the building somehow ebbs and flows.
If you catch that certain square meter of space at just the right moment it smells fantastic. Like innocence in the process of becoming. Not being the patient sort, I find reasons to visit there much too often. Sometimes I catch that fleeting scent, but I usually just reminisce.
My favorite area of the library, as far as smells go, is the pseudo-corridor between the children's section and the sports section. The children smell sweet, of course, and the sports section smells rancid. The only people who frequent the 790s on most days are adolescent boys with overactive sweat glands and the local newspaper's sports writer. He wants so badly to be punished that he leers at me between the shelves. But the sweet and the rancid combine ( in a manner not unlike Chanel No.22) in that corridor. The space is truly just the empty shelves between sections where the breath of the building somehow ebbs and flows.
If you catch that certain square meter of space at just the right moment it smells fantastic. Like innocence in the process of becoming. Not being the patient sort, I find reasons to visit there much too often. Sometimes I catch that fleeting scent, but I usually just reminisce.
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