REVIEW: Fruitvale Station

Originally published by Ladybud Magazine Before sitting down to see Fruitvale Station at Oakland’s historic Grand Lake Theater, I had heard that for Oakland residents the experience would be more like reliving memories than seeing a Hollywood film. The movie opens with one of the infamous cell-phone recordings of 22-year-old Oscar Grant’s shooting at the Fruitvale BART Station that went…

[NSFW] The Mercy Fuck

Originally published by Ladybud Magazine Desperation is an ugly thing indeed. I recall one hot summer afternoon with a very drunk, very depressed fledgling stand-up comic who was going through what every San Francisco transplant goes through by their third year here – a nervous drunken breakdown – sitting across from me in my bedroom, giving me…

[NSFW] If You Want To Keep Up, You Need To Go Down

Originally published by Ladybud Magazine Last month, researchers at Oakland University in Michigan did a study of roughly 250 men to get to the bottom of the burning question, why do men perform cunnilingus on women? The hypothesis was simple, “among men who perform cunnilingus on their partner, those at greater risk of sperm competition are more likely to perform cunnilingus…