http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=triangle&id=5354980

Sorry everyone missed the party (including me, I'm in DC and OK). I'll try to get the invitations out sooner next time.

;)>

Tags: things tower change
Current Location: Omni Shoreham, Washington DC
Current Mood: grateful
Current Music: Burnin Down the House

Yours this moment please unseal,
And faith be gay and hearty!
To tell the truth and shame the de'il,
Please be as fou as Bartie:
But Foosday, Mob, your promise leal,
I 'spect ye a' my partie,
If on a beastie ye can speel,
Or hurl in a cartie!'

--(apologies to Robert Burns)


It has been long since ere a Tower party were, and long is far too long.
All your friends and families are welcome
Libations and party food would be wonderful too, and we shall have a potluck.

As everyear the Smoking City will bring us fireworks when the shadows fall, and the best spinners of the Triangle will spin into the night.

One rule this year, and one rule only... no shoes upon the rooftop rubber.
Truly a night of dirty fieet, and that will be OK too.

Anticipating you all with joy with delight, I remain
-
Dykki

Current Location: Tower
Current Mood: excited
Current Music: Badmarsh

( For this writing, I free myself from the need to coherently communicate that I may communicate at all... )

Current Mood: exanimate

Greetings Mob and sundry…

I have been so compelled recently by the number of people running marathons and soliciting pledges around herculean efforts for great causes, that I became fully inspired to join their throng! After all, I have such a wonderful collection of family and friends, that I was certain to be able to raise good money and support for the right cause. All that remained was to find the ( right opportunity. )

Current Mood: happy
Current Music: Theme from Chariots of Fire

Local news article on how I (very likely) will be spending my next five years...
The broad rather incoherent quotes about databases and systems? That's me.

( USAID gives UNC affiliate $250M )

Current Mood: accomplished

OK, I just vomited this out of my head for our party this weekend from where it has apparently been gestating for some time, and I really like it, so I am posting it here too.
What, you don't know about our party yet?

Ringside
Downtown Durham
11/13 10:00 PM
$10.00 prepay (titiallationparty@hotmail.com through Paypal) $15.00 at the door
Post comment to ask question

but nuff marketing... on to my post
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Hey all, listen up, I got something to say…

…Titillation is a Fetish Party…

As I promote this party, and talk it up… I keep getting this weird thing where people seem to be confused what Fetish IS. I don’t think it ever occurred to me before to answer this question, and that is probably where the confusion has come in. I have been attending fetish parties in many cities around the world since I was old enough to do so, and have been hosting them for years now in various venues, so I am going to self-declare myself as able to declare a definition…. Or perhaps a lack thereof. I encourage all of the people in all of the communities this may reach to chime in their perspectives and corrections, because Fetish is, quite literally, different for everyone.

There are people who do the swing thing, and love swing parties. and people who do the BDSM thing, and love BDSM formals. There are people who like the legal missionary monogamy thing, and tear their bedroom up several times a day, but don’t go to any parties at all (why do they need too?)…

Fetish is none of these things.
Fetish is all of these things.

After going through all my references and all of my books and magazines, conferring with all the resources I can bring to bear on the question I believe I have it distilled down…

Fetish is the Art of Sex.

Now, you can’t I don’t think, find two much more subjective and all encompassing words, except maybe for Love, Religion, and Weapons-of-Mass-Destruction, but hey, I think they can fall into Fetish too. So I won’t get stuck with stressing about the precise definitions of these words. In fact where Fetish happens is nowhere near the center of those memetic territories, but in the twilight areas between. The fusion of the two. Indeed, I think the more you can question whether it qualifies as Sex, perhaps even the more you question whether it qualifies as Art, the more you question how it makes you Feel and Think and React and Desire… The more likely it is that it is Fetish.

Fetish clearly lies at the extremes than the spectrum between. Fetish is particularly evident where you take the spectrum and bring the ext around in a circle to meet,. Where the pendant is Moderate, the clasp of such a necklace is Fetish

The stark Ascetism of rampant Hedonism
The untouchable Beauty of devouring Ugliness
The radiant Desire of dim Repulsion
The soaring Freedom of unbreakable Binding
The searing Pain of ovewhelming Pleasure
Phobophilia
Le Petit Mort
…
Fetish is about Freedom too. Freedom to Desire and Feel and Be whatever you want in the Depths of your Desire. To find a community where that’s not only OK but encouraged. Our Freedoms are challenged in these dark days, and we must continue to celebrate and explore them if we wish to keep them. Don’t get me wrong…. I have no qualms at all with those whose Desire is for Inhibition and Restraint, Fetish has room for them too.

I could go on (oh Lordy how I do go on) but that’s enough for my point. Those who want more, let me know… I’ve got it in spades (and all the other suits as well). but I start sounding more and more like the preacherman I was brought up to be and less and less like the promoter I am trying to be.


Fetish is first and foremost (but certainly not only!) a visual art. The communication from artist/exhibitionist to artist/voyeur. Even more importantly, the communication the other way… That’s why it is so important to exhibit and be captured and why formal fetish photography is integral to this event. Anonymity will be respected, in fact, we even consider it an integral part of the art. Those of you who are very circumspect about such parts of their lives need not worry. We are watching and controlling this very carefully. No one will get ‘outed’.


In a Fetish party we step away from street clothes and the spectrums of the everyday to understand the brilliant darkness of extremes and their conjunction. Fashion forward, even EXTREME fashion-forward is the order of the day. Dress however you feel most Sexy, Erotic, Desirable. Dress so you push the boundaries of what you consider Sexy, Erotic and Desirable. Dress in a way that you are a little Embarrassed that you find it Sexy, Erotic, Desirable. You may be outing yourself a bit to each other, but the whole point is to recognize that you are part of a community where everyone CAN out themselves to each other.

That fusion of Embarrassment and Erotic is important…


Because that, after all, is Titillation.


My love to all, looking forward to seeing you on Saturday, I remain
-
King Mob

Current Mood: creative
Current Music: Lords of Acid! and Peaches! at the same time!

( ...about riding a motorcycle in Bangladesh )

King Mob adventuring
Dhaka
Bangladesh
N 23 48.249'
E 090 24.485'
UTC+6

Current Mood: rejuvenated
Current Music: Nitin Sawhney - 'Bengali Song'

What: Party for the Fourth, Shango, Fireworks, life, passion, friends and such as that.

Where: The Tower (atop the Snow Building) 331 W. Main St. Durham, NC, USA

When: Sunday, July 4th, 7:30 doors and elevator running (call 682-8262/593-2148 if noone answers your knock. 9:00 Fireworks, DJ's shortly thereafter and on into the night...

Bring: libations, comestibles, beautiful, kind and beloved friends.

Call 593-2148 if you want to know anything else!

find your element
at mutedfaith.com.

Current Mood: irate
Current Music: boing boing boing

Here in the rockin land of the Bengals,

Opposition party Awami League has declared hartals (countrywide strikes) today and tomorrow as part of an ongoing process to overthrow ruling Bangladesh National Party by April 30. Other than the fact the office here is relatively quiet and empty (thus my ability to write in LJ), I am getting mixed messages as to whether this is a more or less irrelevant everyday event (most of us in the diplomatic sector are business as usual) or a really scary worrisome thing... (notes on my bed left by the hotel from the Embassy run as follows: "... In view of this information we wish to remind American Citizens in Bangladesh that the Department of State's Consular Information Sheet for Bangladesh advises, "American citizens are urged to avoid all political protests, demonstrations, and marches. During hartals, American citizens should exercise caution in all areas and remain inside their hotels, residences, schools, or workplaces whenever possible. Clashes between rival political groups during hartals have resulted in deaths and injuries."... As always, Stay Safe! American Embassy, Dhaka Bangladesh"

Lovely. More news as it happens.

On other news, being that getting dead and injured is about the only really fun thing to do in Bangladesh (OK, the worlds largest littoral mangrove forest IS pretty exciting), I am jetting off to Bangkok for the weekend! Perhaps when I get back all the political volitility will be over. SO... who has recommendations for fun things to do in Bangkok?

Thinking of you all
-
King Mob adventuring
Dhaka
Bangladesh
N 23 48.249'
E 090 24.485'
UTC+6

Current Mood: excited
Current Music: Badmarsh and Shri