Media catchup (cliff notes: I'm "reliably ho-y")

More catching up this weekend but for now:

Check Phillyist later today for a link-happy interview with me about the future of my writing, sexual community, exhibitionism, and cupcakes, by the fabulous Jessica Gold Haralson.

Proper In The Flesh recap TK this weekend and February/March/April lineup announcements coming soon. I think there were 80 people or so, it was packed but fabulous and I crammed 10 readers, including myself, in and they all rose ably to their jobs. Especially Gael Greene, whose book Insatiable sold out from Mobile Libris. A magical night and I thank everyone who came (even Lena Chen of Sex and the Ivy who couldn't get in cause she's 19. (Harvard Class of '09 if you want to feel really old!) See Brian Van's awesome photo gallery from Wednesday's reading. (and check out his www.485i.com for much more.)

The Village Voice Power Plays blog announces their new sex columnists (check the comments especially from the reader who didn't even like my column!)

The L Magazine iChat about the new Voice sex column might win funniest coverage:

Asch: but, you know, they fired someone who's very involved in the sex-writing community and alternative sex cultures so they could run jokey stuff that is, implicitly, punking the whole nature of a sex column
Asch: also, people who talk about sex using locker-room metaphors like "climb back on that horse" should be shot, in the brain, with a bullet

My girl Jessica Cutler, the much-missed former New Yorker, says "Everybody Loves Rachel." Again, someone I never would've become friends with if it weren't for my Voice column and that would've been a shame. Never underestimate the power of a thank you note. The Jessica I've gotten to know since I wrote about her is, I suspect, not the Jessica people bandy around to mean some sort of filler for slut/skank/ho of the day. I've learned so much about not giving a shit what people think of me from Jessica, and she never fails to entertain me whether via e-mail or when I see her out (last time notably at Madame X for Nina Hartley's book party where the first thing she told us about the guy she was with is that he had a big cock). "Spanking Jessica Cutler" remains my favorite column from my Voice tenure (perhaps because it, in some small way, made those three ultra expensive, largely pointless years of law school seem at least somewhat useful) and you can bet that no matter what, if that case goes to trial, I will be covering it even if it's just for this blog. Here's Jessica:

I can't help but feel that losing a sex column is not so much Rachel's loss as it it is ours. The Voice has two married mommies writing about their sex lives, and it's almost as if being single is somehow passé now. So where does that leave us Lusty Lady fans? Waiting for her first book! (More on this tk.)

Viviane's Sex Carnival, "It Takes TWO Columnists"

Yep. It takes TWO married sex columnists to replace ONE Rachel Kramer Bussel. I was married for over a decade and had little or no sex, much less good sex. I'm not going to read about two married columnists not getting any. In Yoda speak I say, break me a fucking give.

Fishbowl NY Media Minutiae roundup

Flora Fling, most dedicated In The Flesh attendee ever, writes an open letter to the Voice - Okay, Flora is really the most dedicated blogger ever - she dug up the Time magazine cover featuring the two Hollywood actors Gael Green slept with tha she read about at the reading! That is so fucking cool - Flora, you rock my world

Can "reliably ho-y" be my new tagline? Professionally, I guess I am. Maybe I can make a t-shirt.