The beautiful Ms. Seberg, before she decided to off herself with pills.

1. Jean Seberg as Lilith

While I fancy myself a bit of a Seberg, on account of my close, personal ties with the Black Panthers, it is her portrayal of a mental patient that really made me feel close to the gal. I came across Lilith a few years back, when I went on a massive Warren Beatty viewing binge, having decided that I was kind of in love with the guy. Hopefully Warren Beatty googles his name frequently enough that he will stumble across this blog and we’ll be very happy together. I don’t even need him to get a divorce. Annette seems like a pretty cool lady. But, let’s get back to Jean, whose madness in this movie isn’t anything compared to the raw power of turning men’s knees and brains to mush. By the end of the film, Beatty, who’d gotten a job working at the mental hospital, loses his own damn mind.

Wearing bathing suits is an art. Like everything, Sylvia did it well.

2. Sylvia Plath, naturally

“Dying is an art. Like everything. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say, I’ve a call.”
Sigh. Oh, Sylvia, from the moment my 13 year old eyeballs devoured that bit of literary awesome, I have loved you. And even though the movies tell us he was a jerk-face, I totally love Ted. I mean, yeah, he messed around. Yeah, he wasn’t always there for you. But you loved him, Sylvia. And you were no dummy.
What I love most about Sylvia and Ted Hughes is how much they loved each other’s writing. Basically, they’re like Tim and I. Yup. I just compared myself and my best friend to two literary geniuses. Because, duh, we totally are, and also, I once wrote a poem that was pretty good.

F Scott and his dear lady who always looked great in hats.

3. Zelda Fitzgerald

F. Scott loved that woman deeply, as she inspired every single one of his heroines once he met her. She was beautiful, and wild, and the two of them found each other in real life. That gives me hope that my own F. Scott may show up one day. It also gives me hope that if he does, I can be a flapper.

4. Mabel in A Woman Under the Influence

Man, Mabel is a goddam champ. All she wants is to make her husband happy, and she tries, but she’s too much of a wild card to fit in with all of these ridiculous ideas society keep foisting on her. Her stupid dingbat husband has her locked up, but then he gets a taste of what it’s like to be a housewife. Frrr-reallz, that shit would drive anyone over the edge.

5. Betty Blue

I’ll admit it. I love Jean-Hugues Anglade even more than I love Warren Beatty or Ryan Gosling. If presented with the opportunity to make out with Beatty and Gosling or to merely lick one of Anglades deltoids, get him over here because my tongue is ready. And in the movie “Betty Blue”, you see Anglade (in the role of Zorg) naked naked naked so many times. Full on, weinie wagging in the wind, beautiful naked.
This is really one of the saddest films I have ever seen. When Zorg says the the name Betty when he’s happy, bringing her gifts and flowers, it’s like he’s laughing her name. But near the end, when he’s running up the stairs and yelling her name right before finding out that she done gone and popped out her own eyeball, well, I start sobbing every time.

So, Tim came over to my house to help me with a few episodes of So, What Did We Learn? And I may possibly have usable footage for that. But I also have a ton of other footage, and so… Coming soon. Tim & Nikol. We’re Sorry.

Warning- NSFW  and if you care deeply about maintaining an idea that I am a rather wholesome lady, just don’t click play.

Back from my Wisconsin days of hanging out with developers at Bucketworks, I asked people to tell me their definition of sex.

What’s yours?

My monthly video blog, So, What Did We Learn? (which is not at all SFW), usually focuses on my dating life. This month, with my full time 13 year old son being around, I have been thinking instead about the thing I want to tell him about sex, but feel way too awkward saying to him. Go watch the video. Comment on it. Tell me the things your parents should have told you, or the things they did tell you that you felt horrified by.

Hey, do you guys remember Midwest Teen Sex Show, the video podcast I spent two years hosting that eventually brought me out here to Los Angeles and then ended before it should have? I miss it, too. If you never got to see any of it, here’s one of my old favorites.

One of the very first people to ever take notice of what we were up to was one Kidder Kaper, a man who, along with the sexy Lorax and delightful Coochie, host their own podcast “Sex Is Fun”. Beyond their newly launched site for teens, the Sex is Fun crew also make a series of sexy card games for groups and for couples.

Because they’re totally into finding out what people really think about what they’re up to (in fact, they have listened and replied very thoughtfully to what I’ve opinionatedly expressed in the past), they sent me the whole barrage of their games to check out for myself.

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