allow me to introduce…

Buster. Yes, that Buster… I first met Buster back in early 1998. I was the Ventur-N leatherboy for 1997 and Bob de Jardine had set up an event down there that including a flogging demonstration with yours truly. I didn’t know it until I got to the bar down in Tucson, but Buster was the […]

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allow me to introduce…

This is Bob De Jardine. He is the owner of Tuff Stuff Leatherware here in Phoenix. (The kind of place where they custom-make the garments from scratch. None of that hacking pre-made things down to fit you.) He has been the owner for over twenty-five years now. He worked for the original owners for ages […]

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gryphon has landed

I am in Phoenix. I got in yesterday morning. It is freakin’ beautiful. One hundred degrees here is so much more comfortable to me than KCMO in the nineties… I am not dripping. Also, my sinuses already love me for the trip. I got to catch up with a few folks last night. Robert and […]

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to sum up…

Livejournal allows me to feel I fit without changing the core of how I function or who I am. Facebook leaves me with the reminder that I do not fit in ‘as is’… without editing or sacrificing. Or pretending. Of course I find it frustrating that a source that allowed me such a feeling is […]

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