Susie Bright's Journal

The Toasted Marshmallow Electric Milkshake Goodness Test

Last night I had a toasted marshmallow milkshake. It was so heaven-gobsmacked-delicious I hardly know how to reconstruct the recipe. Is there anyplace else besides New York that has this on the menu? It was served at a upwardly mobile burger joint called Stand, which my friend Laura Miller introduced... Read more →

Snooping Around the Underwear Drawer

That's my take on Hitchcock's Rebecca— one of my favorite bits from the documentary The Celluloid Closet, a whole movie of the secret sexual and queer messages that Hollywood so delighted in weaving into its dramas... especially Hitchcock! I was a friend of the late Vito Russo, who wrote the... Read more →

What Kind of Fool Do You Take Me For?

Despite my attempts at life's little enchantments, this week carried a deep, dirty, rotten disgrace in its wake. I refer, of course, to the decision of the Democratic Party majority in Congress to give George Bush a hall pass and a pot of gold to sally forth into Stage Freakazoid... Read more →

More Random Honest Porn Review

Susan, from Marin County, is another curious reader of this blog who subscribed with the bait that I would send her a random porn tape from my attic collection. Of course she was also deeply devoted to my political passion and exquisite prose— RIGHT, Susan?— but it was just too... Read more →

The Abyss

Who needs sex toys for a desert island when apparently you just have to dive a little deeper for this sweet number? This photograph is from the new book, The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss, which is reviewed in the NYT today. The photographs have me agog. These... Read more →