Greetings from Costa Rica

After last night's mad running around, meeting all sort of folks including Diana "Topless Professor" Blaine, attending Kathy Finney's How To Be a Budget Fashionista book party (with kick-ass goody bags), traversing half of SoHo and the LES in search of gold shoes and a bathing suit, seeing umpteen comics chilling at Mo Pitkin's post How To Kick People, then staying up all night to catch my 6:40 am flight, I am now in the lovely paradise of Los Sueños Marriott relaxing by the pool, playing Scrabble, Boggle, and magnetic hangman, reading, relaxing, and hanging out with friends old and new. Won't be checking/answernig email until I get back on Tuesday though.

My new Lusty Lady column, "Suburban Smutmongers' Audio Porn," just went live, about audio erotica CD makers Sounds Erotic.

Toe sucking. Tightly laced corsets. Sex on a motorcycle. Double penetration at a sex club. None of these things are what I anticipated when I met Brian and Catherine OliverSmith at Book Expo America. Wearing pastels and holding their sleeping baby, they looked like they'd landed in D.C. from suburbia—and they had. Incongruously, their Sounds Erotic line of audio CDs (soundserotic.com) features some of the raciest content at the publishing convention.

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