Recently there was some rather abrupt relocating in my world, as I changed my residence from the Suspension Capitol of the World to the Bondage Capitol of the World. I’ve heard some interesting rumors about my reasons for the move as well as some of the other aspects of it, and I thought I’d address [...]
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Return to the Bondage Capitol of the World
Posted: November 14, 2012 by Gray in community, cool people, family, ropecast2
This is going to be an unusually personal post for me, and only tangentially has to do with rope and kink, so feel free to skip it and go on to something more sexy. Lee Harrington has this habit of changing people’s lives. Maybe you already knew that, having taken his classes, heard his sermon [...]
A Simple End-of-Year Post
Posted: December 29, 2010 by Gray in community, cool people, event, family, photography, play, writingIt is the season for Wrap Ups, for Looks Back, for reflection and “what the fuck happened?” to mingle in the brain. I normally don’t do such things; arbitrary ends-of-years (you do remember that more than half the world doesn’t see this as the New Year, right?) don’t normally appeal to me. However, I had [...]
Cad-egorizing Naiia
Posted: November 17, 2010 by Gray in cool people, family, GRUE, play, Rope Bondage“Labels, and Why I Hate Them” was one of the classes Vesper suggested at the recent Madison Satyricon GrUE, and it seemed to coincide well with my own proposed class: “WHATCHAMACALLIT: Finding Different Words for What It Is We Do.” The discussion itself was very enjoyable, and probably could have gone on far longer than [...]
Rope Ritual, Life Ritual
Posted: October 27, 2010 by Gray in community, cool people, family, Rope Bondage“The improvisation and change in connection between the two becomes the overarching ritual.”-Kiora I’ve said it before, but that one statement blew my mind. It was during a class/discussion on “Ropes, Ritual & Symbolism” at the recent GRUE in the ‘Lou (the 1 after 2) and you can read the rough transcription of my notes [...]
Madison, WI: The Rope Bondage Capital of the World
Posted: October 23, 2010 by Gray in community, cool people, family, GRUE, Rope Bondage, ropecastA Response to the ARA List “Flag” Discussion
Posted: July 30, 2010 by Gray in art, community, family, Rope BondageWhile the comments on this blog are WONDERFULLY welcome, there has been a lot of conversation about this elsewhere – for example, on Fetlife, and also on Jimi Tatu’s “Adult Rope Arts” List. While this was a post to that latter group, I feel it might have some benefit to the larger discussion, so I’m [...]
I’ve known about it for about a week already, but I’m finally able to share some really wonderful news with the world: I’m going to be working with the people at Maui Kink in a marketing/representative capacity. They’ve got some amazing products and some really neat ideas, and I’m looking forward to working with them. [...]
“Freedom from Porn” But “Intro to Bondage”
Posted: June 25, 2010 by Gray in art, family, proporn, Rope Bondage, sex educationI’m frothing at the mouth a bit after reading this article, Have the Feds Gone Soft on Porn? There was so much wrong with it, and I decided to re-post my comment on the article (with the relevant excerpts). Please comment at the article; happily, most of the commenters already tend to advocate free speech [...]