Publicity is such a double-edged sword.
It cuts through the natural obscurity of things to introduce you intimately to people you've never seen, and it slices your soul into bite-size bits, throwing them to the hounds. While it's nice to be recognized as a force to be reckoned with by the new paper in town, the piece is dumb, snide, choppily edited and generously peppered with journalistic inaccuracies. Wide view of me and my crotch in New Times , Photo by Marc Savage. The guy wore Birkenstocks to our interview which he looked down at sheepishly when I showed him my vulva puppet. But there is that other edge to the sw ord, and it's an essentially positive article, especially regarding The 10 Commandments of Pleasure and the HBO show.