Liz Langley

Happy New Year! Well, almost....and if you're still considering what you're going to do I have five, count 'em, five today on  WMFE 90.7 FM's What's Hot in Central Florida . For the downtown crowd, there's  prom night at I-Bar ,  Enzian Theater  is having their James Bond party,  A Comic Shop  in Winter Park is celebrating with "New Year's Evil,"  Daytona's Cinematique  is showing the Rocky Horror Picture Show and Tiffany - yep, that Tiffany - is going to be at  The Parliament House .      Have a safe and happy holiday and I'll see you in 2012!

It started with my reading about a project called "Fucking James Franco," wherein people would write erotic fan fiction about, guess what? Yep, adult encounters with James Franco. I've never read very much Real Personal Slash (RPS) fiction...in fact I don't think I've ever read any, though slash fiction about fictional people, well that's another story. That's  entertainment! Sometimes. At any rate I asked you what fictional character you'd like to get it on with and you responded right here in  SexCult: Fucking James Franco and the Fictional Characters You Love...Really Really Love . Not to give too much away but guess who came out on top, so to speak? In the men's division.... and from the ladies... Make what you will of the differences in the winners, but do read the story and see the wonderful variations in taste....my favorite part of the job.

Early December brought my favorite headlines of all time:  Smoking might make your nipples fall off  (if only the Weekly World News were still on the stands... sniff) .    Less bizarre was the  Hands-on sex college opening in Austria , far, far weirder was a  Condom marketing campaign sends men messages fromfuture sons   Ookiest:  Man calls hooker and his daughter shows up .... Deputy interrupts bondage fantasy  was entertaining but this will make you check what century you're in:  Overt racism in KY Baptist church . Big surprise:  Sex-related allegations helped drive Cain out of GOP race  (but at least he left with that weird Pokemon quote).       Scarily,  AIDS still often untreated, diagnosed, even in the US , also  Saudi scholars: Women driving cars would be end of virginity  (no 'scholars' is not used sarcastically there),  Topless protestors in Kiev oppose sex tourism  and a false worry flurry:  Teens sexting? Not so much      My favorite?  Kisses from adoring f

Thank you to everyone who came to talk to me at the Eden Fantasy's Naked Reader Book Club  meeting on Tuesday night about Crazy Little Thing: Why Love and Sex Drive Us Mad ! I had a great time and it was really fun to get to talk to readers on such a direct level, to answer questions and to hear the parts that people were most interested in. I'm very gratified that people liked the stories as much as the science (I do, too...can you tell?) :) So thanks NRBC!! And thank you so, so much for the great reviews! (see link above). Lots of work went into this and I'm so, so happy it's being enjoyed as much as it is! :) Cheers!

In catching up with Sex Feed I realized thatlate November had some fun stories in it, stories that make me thankful that, while I have to wade through the bad news the world coughs up at least I get to concentrate on a lot of fun things......like Cocksox,  a bra for penises  and  a penis so big you can only see it from a plane ..like Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis making Marine dreams come true ...and a  Gay wedding for Archie comics . The WTF section included the  World's Heaviest Woman resuming her hot sex life! , making many people wonder "And I'm  not getting any? Not to mention the fact that disembodied spirits -  Ghost sex: Suddenly it's everywhere!  - may be getting more than some of us with perfectly good, corporeal parts. Best weird story of late November:  Biblical Lego sex . Don't ask. Just click. (picture from "Sodom and Gomorrah" section of  "The Brick Testament" ) Sad news came with the death of  Ken Russell, who gave us

Wow, I know it's been an intensely busy time and during those times I don't always get to post all my Sex Feed stories. But when I look at this list...jeepers! Now wonder I didn't want to revisit a lot of these topics! Sickness, Gadaffi, tampons....bloody depressing! At least the IRS deductions for sex change surgery are a plus but when the best you can say about a list is "spiders" it just wasn't the best news week-or-two in the world, nontheless, here goes.... For homework, he wants you to masturbate twice as much Just in case you need reason not to have interspecies sex...it increases the risk of penile cancer IRS allows deductions for sex change surgery 144 tweets to document sexual abuse...before she died Beware of (male) spiders bearing gifts...they just want sex Scientists link birth control use to prostate cancer FDA orders recall of contaminated Kotex tampons The Citadel Admits Inaction after 2007 allegatinon of sex abuse Mississippi Vote

Despite high temperatures and low funds the holiday spirit seems to be more robust than it has been in years and there's still lots of holiday entertainment to enjoy. This week on WMFE 90's What's Hot in Central Florida  like  The Messiah at the Cathedral Church of St. Luke  this evening,  Pinnochio's Marionette Theater  performing "The Little Drummer Boy," and  Chanukah in the Park  on Park Avenue this Sunday. Also, whether you're home prepping for holidays tomorrow or out and about getting last errands done I hope you'll listen for me from 3-4pm on 810 AM's Out N About  radio show, Orlando's first gay-themed live radio broadcast (click the link to listen live online). Hosts Tom Dyer from  Watermark Media  and Randy Stephens from  The Center  will be talking with journalist and DJ Kirk Hartlage and myself about LGBT issues in the news but mostly we're just going to be having some fun-and-easy year-end wrap up chat. So spend par

Despite high temperatures and low funds the holiday spirit seems to be more robust than it has been in years and there's still lots of holiday entertainment to enjoy. This week on WMFE 90's What's Hot in Central Florida  like  The Messiah at the Cathedral Church of St. Luke  this evening,  Pinnochio's Marionette Theater  performing "The Little Drummer Boy," and  Chanukah in the Park  on Park Avenue this Sunday. Also, whether you're home prepping for holidays tomorrow or out and about getting last errands done I hope you'll listen for me from 3-4pm on 810 AM's Out N About  radio show, Orlando's first gay-themed live radio broadcast (click the link to listen live online). Hosts Tom Dyer from  Watermark Media  and Randy Stephens from  The Center  will be talking about LGBT issues in the news but mostly we're just going to be having some fun-and-easy year-end wrap up chat. So spend part of your weekend with us! And have a lovely, ha

Had a totally wonderful time being on L.A. Talk Radio yesterday, on "Lunchtime with the Loveologist" with Wendy Strgar, author, talk show host and excellent interviewer! I have to admit, when I first saw the show title, "Good Clean Love," I thought "Uh-oh...is this going to be super G-rated?" but no, no, no, the "good, clean" part is about the organic products on Wendy's website and she is all about "sustainable" relationships: how to take the wisdom of using "current resources in a way that does not harm the future," and apply that to love. Brilliant.      Wendy and I talked about Crazy Little Thing: Why Love and Sex Drive Us Mad  and she had many compassionate insights into the universality of crazy love and how difficult it can be when our hearts grab the wheel from our heads. It was a pleasure to talk to her (and it never hurts for someone to tell an author 'I couldn't put your book down!') So, please c

"Crazy Little Thing" is making me Radio Ga-Ga. Not only do I get to be on our NPR affiliate WMFE 90.7 FM  every Friday, but I'm getting to do lots of radio interviews for "Crazy Little Thing: Why Love and Sex Drive Us Mad,"  lately, the most recent with Dagni Rose on "The Wild O" podcast. Dagni and I talked about the role of chemistry in love and sex but also about some of the psychological reasons why some people gravitate towards the same type of people over and over again (while others are good at finding different paths to lunacy). My favorite part, though, is talking about the people I interviewed and sometimes traveled to talk to, like our trip to Gibsonton, Florida, sometimes called "Freaktown," for it's illustrious history as a seasonal home for side show performers. In Gibsonton we popped at the Showtown bar for a quick one and snapped this painting, a "demon bartender with metallic blood-red eyes who looks like h

The holidays can be stressful enough to give anyone holly jolly heart attack. You barely have time to buy the damn presents, make the damn cookies and decorate the damn tree, I know. But do yourself a favor and set aside an evening to see   A Tuna Christmas at Orlando Shakespeare Center  before it closes on Dec. 30. The laughs will undo your holiday stress as well as a cup of decently spiked egg nog.  Michael Kevin Baldwin and Mark Lanier play 24 of the citizens of the tiny town of Tuna, Texas (which might as well be any number of small towns in Florida, so you know these people). Considering the speed of the quick changes they make switching from part to part the play could have billed this as a magic show in addition to a brilliant comedy. 'Tuna Christams  is a  sequal to Greater Tuna, both written by Ed Howard, Joe Sears and Jaston Williams  and is so tightly written, though, that you barely have time to think "How did they do that?"  The laughs come as if fired

What's hot in Central Florida this weekend is everything cold, including cold-blooded reptiles at the premiere show  Repticon , disenchanted Disney princesses in the musical  Disnechanted: Bitches of the Kingdom  and  Ice! and Snow! at Gaylord Palms  with 130 tons of real snow that's amazingly kept at a bearable 55 degrees! Personally I like a little atmosphere for the holidays and since the temperature has been a little warm for the season hopefully some of these cooler events - plus the fact that people seem to really to be in the spirit this year even though they are, as Dolly Parton once astutely said, busier than a one-legged man in a butt-kicking contest, will lift your holiday spirits. Cheers!

Orlando Vintage Clothing & Costume is having a party and you're all invited! I'll be there signing copies of  Crazy Little Thing: Why Love & Sex Drive Us Mad , my new book, that just came out Dec. 1! Thank you Lisa, from Orlando Vintage, for asking me to come to the event! Fifteen percent of sales from Orlando Vintage and of "Crazy Little Thing" during the party will go to  Central Florida's Coalition for the Homeless  and the store will be accepting items for donation like blankets, baby items and food staples. Please come check out a gorgeous store, enjoy drinks, food and surprises and support an important cause in the bargain. The event is Thursday Dec. 15 from 5-9pm at Orlando Vintage Clothing & Costume, 2117 W. Fairbanks Ave., Winter Park, FL, 32789, phone 407-599-7225. Look forward to seeing you!

Very excited to report that one of my Sex Feed posts got a mention in The Week! I've often used The week as a place to find intriguing stories and am glad they thought they found one from me Whee!!! Gay penguins get a baby ! And doesn't that  seem like a reasonably good cue to play a little game of Catching up With Sex Feed? Since I write about 18 posts a week for SF it's often hard to get them all posted every day, but with my book  "Crazy Little Thing: Why Love and Sex Drive Us Mad"  having debuted less than two weeks ago I have been happily swamped with book events and radio shows so am further in the weeks than usual, which is too bad because there's been some great stuff in recent weeks! Stuff like this: Circumcised with bamboo sticks: it's all in a day's work Beware the Quadraboob! Catholic church turns out to be a big seller of erotica 87 year-old woman shoots 88 year-old husband over affair Ryanair CEO hints at in-flight porn options

This week in  WMFE  90.7's What's Hot in Central Florida we have a  Twilight Convention  here in Orlando,  Lakeridge Chocolate and Wine Festival  and the Orlando Gay Chorus  Plaza Live Orlando . And a huge congratulations to WMFE for making their pledge drive goal a full day ahead of schedule! I'm so glad there are so many people listening and supporting this enormously valuable - and fun - local resource. THANK YOU!!!!!!

Thanks to  Seth Kubersky for featuring the Crazy Little Thing Book Launch party on his Orlando Weekly blog!  It's much appreciated AND he got some pics of people we missed so thank you, Seth!

A long time ago when I wrote for Glamour magazine I got an assignment to write about "Sexual Selections: What We Can And Can't Learn About Sex From Animals,"  and interview the author, Marlene Zuk, a biology professor at UC Davis. It's the kind of assignment where you could ask "So....what can  and can't we learn about sex from animals?" as though you were boned-up on the subject without actually reading the book, but I did read it, avidly, and loved the way Dr. Zuk made her scientific subject so approachable, like you were just chatting and she'd been meaning to tell you how frequently we misconstrue animal behavior because we're so prone to looking at animals through the filter of our own behavior.      I've interviewed Marlene several times since, including for my own book  Crazy Little Thing: Why Love and Sex Drive Us Mad  and recently wrote my  column in SeXis magazine about her most recent work  Sex on Six Legs: Lessons on Life, Lov

FINALLY! My book  Crazy Little Thing: Why Love and Sex Drive Us Mad , from   Cleis Press / Viva Editions  was released on Dec. 1 in bookstores and also on Barnes & Noble's  Nook  and on Amazon's  Kindle  and on the same day my good friends at RhodeHaus Productions put on a party at  Sip Orlando . (You'll not the peacock feather pen I signed with;  Doug Rhodehamel  made that for me from the feathers of one of the peacocks you'll read about in the book; photo by Peggy Arminas DeFilippo). (Kirk Johnston, Skip Sell, me and  Jim Crescitelli , photos by Doug Rhodehamel) Tparty couldn't have gone any better. Not only did I completely sell out of books but I got to meet a lot of new people, see a lot of people I hadn't seen in a long time and to really enjoy the fact that after all the months of work and waiting people could finally hold it in their hands (or download it onto their respective devices) and enjoy it, which I suspect they are...I was told abou

LOTS of stuff going on in Orlando to kick off the Christmas season so listen for me on WMFE 90.7 at 4:32 pm today for What's Hot in Central Florida  including info on  Theatre Downtown's classic version of A Christmas Carol,  Orlando Shakespeare Theatre's  A Tuna Christmas,  the sequel to the brilliantly funny "Greater Tuna," author  Janet Evanovich  signing copies of her latest mystery "Explosive Eighteen," and Barnes & Noble on East Colonial Drive at 1 pm this Saturday and a celebration of Victorian Christmas Customs at  DeBary Hall's Teas and Trees  celebration. See you out there!!

Wahoo! Yesterday was the Orlando launch of my book  Crazy Little Thing: Why Love and Sex Drive Us Mad  at  Sip  which was so fabulous I should be recovering until around Christmas. But just prior to the party I managed to put up a video about the fact that the book is also out on Nook and Kindle! AND a few extra minutes of crazy love history about a lady named Helen Morrison who had a worse time in love than you did. Take a minute to look and I hope you enjoy!!