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New Orleans had not been my home for long before it was threated by Hurricane Ivan. I went to Club Eve in Metairie the night before they declared evacuations and it was dead. The few staff there said most of the dancers had stayed home to prepare or already left town. I had gone with a friend,…

There is a scene early in the movie "Pretty Woman" where Richard Gere orders champagne and strawberries for Julia Roberts. Noting that he's not partaking, she tells him: I appreciate this whole seduction thing you got going, but let me give you a tip ... I'm a sure thing. Strip clubs are supposed to be sure things The core of the…

Big Tech has done amazing things for language learning. But, it's algorithms are even more prude than your High School Spanish teacher. If you're learning Spanish to communicate with the Mexicanas of Tijuana or the Cubanas of South Florida, you'll no doubt find that Google Translate, ChatGPT, or Duolingo come up short when it comes to expanding your mongering vocabulary.…

Remembering the time just before COVID I had just found out that my scheduled trip to Frankfurt to speak at a conference was cancelled. I was supposed to fly out on Saturday March 14, and I got the notification from the conference organizer Thursday morning. That was my first hint that this COVID thing was not going to be…

A book signing? In a strip club? Read on. I first read about the Mitchell Brothers O’Farrell Theater in a copy of Playboy magazine around 1980. Figured I had to go next time I was in San Francisco. Don’t think I’d had a particularly sheltered upbringing, but it blew my mind. Is this where they invented the lapdance? I’d just taken…