Went to my friend Sam’s birthday party on Saturday evening, which was good times. Lots of wine, and Monkey came out for the occasion too. Met two Marcs, and Sam’s neighbor Yarra (no idea how it’s spelled), who was a European gal — I believe she was from Denmark or something — that could have been Steffi Graf’s younger sister.


There was much interesting conversation, but my favorite part of the night was when Yarra seemed to take offense to the notion that Wonder Woman was originally a BDSM-influenced creation, being a dominant woman who binds people with rope and thereby compels them to do as she wishes. But the part that seemed to grate on Yarra was the idea that Wonder Woman was also submissive, since she becomes powerless when a male chains her wrists together. Wonder Woman’s creator, one Dr. William Marston (who went by the pseudonym Charles Moulton) was a psychologist who also created the polygraph, and he was in a polygamous relationship with his wife and a live-in partner named Olive Byrne. According to Monkey,
Wonder Woman was largely based off of Olive, who was dominant by nature, but submissive in the bedroom. This was the part that Yarra seemed to take offense over — I got the impression that Wonder Woman was one of her childhood heroes, and the idea of her being secretly submissive was unimaginable.

This lead to a wine-soaked conversation about the notion that often people who are dominant in social situations tend to be more submissive in intimate matters. That somehow turned into a conversation about masturbation frequency as a teenager as compared to the frequency of sexual activity later in life. And also, how Monkey’s wife molests him.

It was a good night. Then last night we went to see Grem’s brother, who had organized a comedy troupe doing improv comedy. This was highly entertaining, especially the game of Improv Asshole. Basically, there would be a skit with suggestions from the audience, then audience applause would determine which actor “won” the skit. The winner would impose some condition on the loser. Here are a few that I remember:

  • For the next 2 skits, you must speak with a lisp.
  • For the remainder of the night, at some point in each skit you must pretend to be a hamster running in a giant wheel.
  • Your entrance into each skit must include a barrel roll.
  • You must replace every curse word with the name of a venomous snake for the rest of the night.
  • That hamster wheel you’re pretending to be in, in every scene? It catches on fire.

And other such nonsense. I will have to attend this again sometime in the future.