I look up links because I adore you (alternate title: if you are not in New York, this post might not get you off)

Tonight prior to the radio interview, I attended the 30th birthday celebration of Village Voice sex columnist, blogger, and erotica writer Rachel Kramer Bussel. I walked in while she was being roasted by comedian Todd Levin, who was wearing tight red underwear and had "slave" (correction: just "slav," see comments) written across his bare chest, as pictured below (all photos by Brian Van of 485i):


Shortly thereafter, I ran into Michael Malice and S. Morgan Friedman of overheardinnewyork.com, and then Jessica Cutler of Washingtonienne and Nadine Haobsh of Jolie in NYC (photo below: me, Jessica, Nadine), both of whom I recognized immediately from various press photos and Gawker entries. Nadine said "I've heard of your blog but not been to it," which is probably just as well -- maybe the day she heard but didn't go was the day I was just posting cat photos instead of being funny or sharing juicy tidbits (like the fact that my ex-boyfriend recently fled the country and mailed me some other woman's socks). I love women with book deals.


I also ran into GirlyNYC and Nichelle plus comics Lianne Stokes and Baron Vaughn, caught a set by Rob Paravonian, and finally was introduced to the illustrious Susie Felber. Between posing for a faux-kissing photo with Lianne, and commenting on how nice Susie's "Jenisfamous.com" button looked pinned to the fabric just barely holding back her cleavage, it was a rather sapphic evening.


I was sad to have to rush home to do the radio interview (a friendly publicist suggested it would be very celebutante of me to do a radio interview from my cellphone on the sidewalk outside a party, preferably while drunk or coked up), but I've got to hand it to RKB for a bash well done. Happy 30th!