“If all lap-dancers get as carried away as Nomi does, I’ll bet they’re constantly seeing a chiropractor about their backs.” –Roger Ebert on Showgirls When I was younger I remember seeing Showgirls on television. I remember the scene where Nomi performs at the Stardust for…

“I think it’s time we all stopped hiding from this, and started talking more about dick pics” It all started about six or seven years ago. I was in Columbus, Ohio, and a friend hooked me up with a visiting tattoo artist who TOTALLY wanted to, you…

“The job. It holds you. It’s all around you; a constant, enclosing absorbing gel. And when you’re in the job, you look at life through that distorted lens. Sometimes, aye, you get your wee zones of relative freedom to retreat into, those light, delicate spaces…

“Shame is pride’s cloak” —William Blake The first ten or so minutes in Steve McQueen’s Shame give you a taste of Brandon Sullivan’s (Michael Fassbender) relentless bachelor lifestyle: the fancy high rise one bedroom apartment, his foolish charm; how by simply exchanging a glimpse with a…