Boy, this has been a blast. Thanks so much for entertaining my stories and opinions over the past couple of weeks. It's such a thrill to get this much instant… Read the rest of the article: Susie Bright: Au Revoir, Mes Amies!

You did it — you survived another "holiday with the family." Your (parent, sibling, soon-to-be-ex) is batshit crazy.  No satiric holiday movie comes close to the horrors you've witnessed. The… Read the rest of the article: Susie Bright: George Carlin, Meet Kris Kovick

Is it too late for potato latkes? Can I have some more? It's never too late for latkes. You can eat potato pancakes all year round! Is there a perfect… Read the rest of the article: Susie Bright: The League of Amazing Latkes Q & A

Tara the Hobo Stripper is a van-living, traveling striptease dancer and self-taught herbal medicine guru who's recently settled into a remote cabin in her native home of Alaska. Even if… Read the rest of the article: Susie Bright: If you want to live in a van or be a stripper, then she's got some tips for you.

Talk about a mash-up. The legendary  James Thurber wrote the parody,  "A Visit from Saint Nicholas in the Ernest Hemingway Manner" for the Christmas Eve edition of The New Yorker… Read the rest of the article: Susie Bright reads Thurber's version of a "The Night Before Christmas," in the Hemingway Manner

Today, I'm off to the Monterey Bay Aquarium with a new generation of children who've never seen the Pacific Ocean like this before. Someone called MBA one of "10 Things… Read the rest of the article: Susie Bright: Take Me To Your Jelly Leader

In the war for blue jean supremacy, there is no more worthy, yet neglected contender than the Wild Ass Jean, complete with six Wild Ass bachelor buttons and red suspenders.… Read the rest of the article: Susie Bright: I'm a Lumberjack and I'm Okay

My mother died four years ago, on a Christmas week. My father passed the next winter, when the light started changing and the warm days were gone for good. A… Read the rest of the article: Susie Bright: Daughter Songs — Death and Loss at the End of the Year

I've been working on a memoir — which was catalyzed by Tin House editor Rob Spillman when he asked me if I had a story about going to the high… Read the rest of the article: Susie Bright: The Bunny Trip

Bright Eyes (1934) Starring Shirley Temple, with Charles Sellon — completely upstaged by uber-brat Jane Withers. I'm starting to see where PeeWee Herman got some of his moves! One of… Read the rest of the article: Susie Bright: "My Psychoanalyst Says There Ain't Any Santa Claus"

Today, on my In Bed podcast, I interview Wendy Chapkis, author of Dying to Get High: Marijuana as Medicine. Wendy and her co-author Richard Webb conducted extensive interviews with members… Read the rest of the article: Susie Bright: The Story Behind Pot Medicine

"Say Goodbye to 2008 in the Manner It Deserves!" Pick a shoe, any shoe…. Now choose a velocity and angle, and let the spirit move you! Comrade Danielle in Argentina… Read the rest of the article: Susie Bright: Out with the old, in with the shoe

Aside from whether or not you think it's an insult to entertain a notorious bigot at the television event of the year, why isn't Obama worrying more about Warren's charlatan-tastic… Read the rest of the article: Susie Bright: Rick Warren can either come out of his closet, or go take a hike

(Photo: España, from Mariquita's scrapbook.) This story is by farmer/blogger Andy Griffin, of Mariquita Farms, who co-owns the CSA veggie-box scheme I belong to. He writes a weekly Ladybug Letter,… Read the rest of the article: Susie Bright: The Christmas miracle on the road to Oaxaca

Greta Christina is the editor of Best Erotic Comics 2008, and the author of "Deprogramming," an erotic short story from my new anthology.  The plot is about physical and sexual… Read the rest of the article: Susie Bright: Greta Christina and Her Godless Pursuits

This morning, I got a note from the "Playboy Advisor" – yes, the man who, for every generation, knows how to tune your stereo, tie a Windsor knot, and find… Read the rest of the article: Susie Bright: My Little Chat with Playboy Today

A Modest Proposal: Raising the Minimum Age for Porn "Can a girl of 21 really know what she is consenting to when she signs a release form for a pornographer?… Read the rest of the article: Susie Bright: Raising the Minimum Age for Porn

December 17, 1851 "The pitch pine woods on the right of the Corner road. A piercing cold afternoon, wading in the snow. R. Rice was going to Sudbury to put… Read the rest of the article: Susie Bright: This date, from Henry David Thoreau's journal

Every year, I do it right. Sure, I dabble in the supermarket eggnogs, the rice and soy variations- I appreciate every earnest effort. But the ne plus ultra of nogging… Read the rest of the article: The Sweet Delirium of the Perfect Eggnog

Peggy Munson is the author of "Fairgrounds," a short story in my new Erotic Treasury. Peggy's story is about a group of young perverts who work at the circus. Their… Read the rest of the article: Stay Close to Daddy and Stay Away From the Octopus Man!