Sweet, Sweet Nekkids

Just a heads up to those of you who like your women pale, disheveled and bound...

Sent an email to Monk today linking him to my photographer's galleries of our scenes, shot this past summer right inside the TwistedMonk HQ. And wouldn't you know it, within an hour's time he had some teasers up on his blog! He's moving pretty fast for a frozen Seattlite, wouldn't you say? ;)

So, if you want to see some NSFW pics of me getting tied by one of the best rope tops out there, go to Monk's blog now! And comment about the pictures' lurvliness, so's he knows how much you want he and I to work together again...

I'd be posting this on my NM.com Updates blog... but apparently right now some things with Google's servers are all mucked up and everything I try to post to my own domain goes nowhere. :P Thank you, "java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out" error! You ruined my first day back from vacation. I will never work with servers professionally, that's for damn fucking sure. They are the Spawn of Satan I tells ya! And an instant headache when things don't work right.

But don't think about that right now. Just go look at the bondage nekkids and ponder how totally hawt, awesome, and rawking the rest of the pics will get! ;)

The Current State of Affairs, Holiday Edition

We've had snow here since December 14th, and more actually fell today (wee, snow on christmas day!). To have snow on the ground for two weeks straight... that is crazy. I don't think that's ever happened to me in the Willamette Valley.

But, I continue to love it. I think it's freaking awesome. I am determined to view it positively, rather than focus on all the bad consequences. Our local grocery store is running out of certain types of food because delivery trucks can't get here. Our area has been without bus service for a week, which is an issue when the nearest MAX line is 3 miles away. We canceled our train tickets to visit the hometown when we heard that Amtrak had been canceling routes as well... nevermind how we'd get to the train station. Oh, and the presents Makal and I ordered for eachother, using "last day for 3-day shipping", have been sitting in UPS warehouses for about a week.

On a lighter note, Makal and I have continued to marathon Doctor Who, Stargate SG-1, and an anime called Gankatsuou (very good, very visually trippy). We managed to stock up a good amount of food supplies and, since we haven't once lost electricity (knock on wood), we've been able to continue cooking said supplies into delicious wintry meals (and keep the heaters running). There is the most wicked lasagna in the oven right now, swollen with olives, mushrooms, spinach, cheeses, and MEAT, and we had amazing crepes for breakfast.

December 2008 has definitely been a month of hibernation for me, and for much of Portland I'm sure. I was hearing people complaining about being "done with" the snow on the very day it started falling. But given that I am already prone to secluding myself away in the wintry throws of hedonism, I really don't care. I have been happy as a clam inside my little snowed-in den, watching big white flakes fall and purify the ground with a clean white coat.

Also, we've been working our way through a good supply of alcohols, whilst sequestered: port, gin, rose sake, red wine, rum, scotch. Worry not; some of these bottles do remain unopened, for now... I'm really digging gin & tonics right now. Green limes, so festive.

Have a mentioned that the winter holidays are my favourite time for rampant hedonism?

There's a RISK: Lord of the Rings board ready for pieces behind me, and I think that lasagna is ready to come out of the oven. And my drink is almost gone. Merry christmas, y'all; see you on the other side of New Year's.

New PF Feed Flavour!

My catchphrase for this morning is "Meep meep!" It's nearly 2p, so I know I've gone somewhere with the day, but damn if it doesn't feel like it could just as easily be 8a. I've got all the lights on, but the window blinds aren't open because people are walking back and forth doing some sort of construction work outside. And I spent an hour today tricking out my Firefox so that now it has a very dark theme that makes me feel oddly productive, perhaps because it reminds me of Lightroom. Mmm, fall.

Anyway, to the point! No, to the tea kettle, then to the point...

The point is: I've started publishing a new feed for Perfectly Flawed, and I thought one or two of you might be interested...

THE NEW Perfectly Flawed BASIC feed!

This new feed differs from the current, main feed in only one way: pictures. See, when I started using--I mean, really using--Flickr a while back, I saw that Feedburner gave you the option to attach an RSS of your photostream to a normal blog feed. Which I thought hey, cool! That is relevant to my interests.

As time has passed, I have ended up spending far more time on Flickr than I do in Blogger; my Flickr stream is practically a blog unto itself, and I'll admit, it is updated FAR more frequently than any of my others blogs are. Between recently obtaining an iPhone, and getting off my ass and uploading modeling shots from over the past year, my use of the site has jumped up and I can end up posting 20 or more (potentially crap) shots on a given day. Which can be cool, if you really like pictures of Portland's sky line at dusk (I do), or if you like my un-"Moderate" modeling work that gets posted.

But see, that's the thing: part of the reason I wanted to attach my pictures to this feed was to correlate with naughtymerrick.com, yet I have totally branched that off into its own blog and feed. And as it is, only images that I've set as "safe" get published in my feed, so the self-moderated nekkid shots don't make it to your feed reader... just all the "boring" work-safe pictures I and others take. I still feel like my activity on Flickr is an important part of my online presence, moreso now than ever, yet I don't like feeling like I've assaulted all my lovely subscribers with those pictures innundating the feeds as I group edit them as "safe for work".

Last month, I finally launched a new domain: MerrickMonroe.com. The purpose of the domain is to end up as more of a catch-all for my online presence, with the sexy stuff holding its own at NaughtyMerrick.com. And--if you go and visit the new, mostly SFW site right now, which you really really should--you'll begin to understand why I had a need for a feed of PF that didn't import Flickr activity. Just the words, plain as day thankyouverymuch. And since I am a generous fellow, and feel the pain of blogs with wild feeds, I'm making sure you know about this basic feed, too.

So now you knowThat is, if you don't like seeing my fancy iPhone pictures and random bits of modeling. If you do then I totally invite you to stay on the current feed, cuz this puppy's not changing one bit.