San Diego CityBeat - There She Goz

Confronting body shame, ass-naked - The day I faced my demons and modeled for a nude-drawing class

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 00:00:00 EDT

Fourteen years later, it’s still a daily fight to maintain a sense of empowerment and self-possession over those body issues. Hell, I own multiple girdles and use them regularly.

My guide to summertime binge drinking at local parks - Or, how to be a kid and an adult at the same time

Mon, 06 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT

It was at a birthday party recently over craft beers and pizza at Pizza Port in Ocean Beach where I heard the woe of many late-20-somethings expressed with sullen nostalgia.

Spirit guides and past life readings - Getting to know myself with a professional healer

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 00:00:00 EDT

It’s strange for me, in particular, after years of what felt like stagnation in my personal life. There’s a charge in the air that led me to ask the universe a simple yet important question: What the fuck is going on?

Great women in history - Why witnessing a UFC match in Anaheim brought tears to my eyes

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 00:00:00 EDT

The culture surrounding UFC has always felt like a strange cult to me, like Heaven’s Gate, Jonestown or that other brutal yet freakishly fascinating cult, child beauty pageants.

Baby oil, beefcakes and breast fondling - A night at Over the Border’s male strip revue

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 00:00:00 EST

I consider myself a feminist, so when it comes to female exotic dancers, I’ve always felt a combination of awe and aw, man. If a woman chooses to do airborne leg splits on a pole while a bunch of horny dudes make it rain dollar bills and it allows her to pay her rent, more power to her.

I was asking for it at SantaCon - Who knew such a bulky costume would be so alluring to drunkies?

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 00:00:00 EST

If you dress up as a giant Christmas gift, you will be sexually harassed.

Honky-tonkin’ gay foot-stompin’ - My night of country line-dancing at Urban Mo’s

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 00:00:00 EST

Like Nicky Minaj, there are many random alter egos that float around in my head, every so often popping out during conversation.

My tour through the Museum of Creationism and Earth History - Are you there, God? It’s me, logic

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 00:00:00 EST

I’ve never had a problem with the theory of evolution—not because I’m of a strict scientific mind or a staunch atheist or I think people do kind of look like primates.

Talking to dead people - Connecting to the other side with a psychic medium

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:00:00 EDT

The question of what happens after we die has always haunted me. It haunts most of us non-hippies who have no clue about chakra flows.

Getting gunshy around heavily armed children - An afternoon at an East County shooting range

Wed, 05 Sep 2012 00:00:00 EDT

East County has always been a strange, foreign planet to me. It’s sort of like the basement baby of San Diego, or the weird child that parents hide whenever people they want to impress come over for dinner.

Fighting age with bad music - How cheesy songs helped kick my not-so-fresh feeling

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 00:00:00 EDT

I am not Carrie Bradshaw. I never looked up to her impeccably styled columnist character on Sex and the City, who often “had to wonder” about shoes and how they relate to the rich dude she was boning at that time.