I’ve been really enjoying this singer Jose Gonzalez (from Sweden, believe it or not). You can stream some of his songs on MySpace. Whenever I listen to “Crosses” I get really quiet and stare off into space…
http://www.myspace.com/josegonzalez (Scroll down a little ways for streaming).
I’ve been bad at updating the blog the last few days, but am glad to finally have some information to post on the new Club Fantasy, TG Bondage party, scheduled for Friday the 18th. It’ll be a once a month event in North Hollywood and I’m hoping we can get off to a bang next week. If you’re in the area, come on out!
By the way, it’s for a good cause, with proceeds going to Threshold. I don’t make a dime off of it.
So here it is, reposted from the Threshold Yahoo Group:
Club Fantasy
In an effort to reach out to other lifestyles and communities, Trannies In Trouble and Threshold are proud to present the newly reconfigured Club Fantasy, a monthly TG Bondage Party! It’ll be held every third Friday of the month from 8 PM to 12 AM (this month it’s Friday, August 18th).Although Club Fantasy is a CD/TV/TS/TG Club, it’s open to Everyone! Admirers and Friends are highly encouraged to attend.
There’ll be all kinds of play going on with an added emphasis on Transgender Bondage! If you like to see helpless damsels getting tied up, Sandra from Trannies In Trouble will be bringing lots of rope and is looking forward to doing some serious bondage. So break out your rope, tape, scarves and whatever else you’d like and come on out. Or if you’d prefer to watch and socialize that’s cool too.
Club Fantasy will be held at a fully equipped 4,000 sq. ft, air conditioned, dungeon in North Hollywood, CA., with bondage tables, racks and crosses, the medical room, the chain web, and the huge throne in the purple room, perfect for foot worship and pedicures.
Never dressed? Want to? Try this:
Club Fantasy is a place where you can safely and discretely transform yourself into the woman you really are! There is also a secure place to keep your personal items so everything will be there when you get back. And if you dress but would prefer to just attend in “guy mode” that’s okay too!
Admission is only $10 and is for 18 years of age and over.
No alcohol or drugs allowed. Sodas, bottled water and snacks will be available all evening as part of your $10 admission.
Hollywoodland Studios (Entrance in rear – plenty of free parking)
11300 Hartland St.
(off Tujunga, 1 block north of Vanowen)
North Hollywood, CA 91605For questions or more information on attending, please contact Sandra at clubfantasy@tranniesintrouble.com
One odd thing I noticed on my Delta Airlines flight is that they have several video monitors all throughout the plane. And during take-off and landing they have this rather crude computer animation of a plane, well, taking off and then later, of course, landing. My question is: Why? Are the folks at Delta worried that passengers won’t be aware that the plane is barrelling down the runway and lifting into the sky, or that we’ll wonder at the end of the flight, “What the hell was that big bump and those jet engines whining, and, hey, why are we pulling G’s and slowing down?” There’s the real-life liftoff and landing and then the virtual liftoff and landing that you can follow along with on the screen. Maybe I’m over-thinking it, but it just seemed kind of weird.
Well, I was out of town again this last weekend, visiting my parents in beautiful Atlanta, Georgia, where the weather was actually cooler than it had been lately in Southern California.
On the plane trip home they were showing the gender bender comedy, “She’s the Man.” It looked pretty lame, but did have the cute Amanda Bynes dressing up like a guy to play on the soccer team at her boarding school. It was apparently based on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.
Thankfully the star of the movie is twenty years old, but she looks so young that I still feel like a total perv looking at her pictures.
Hey gang, let’s go get our pig tattooed.
I finally got around to these pictures from last Wednesday’s webcam session with Bettie Cho. I have much more of a sadistic side than I ever realized and playing with a masochist like Bettie makes me even worse. I love doing layers when applying a gag, as you can see here, building it up to the point where the subject starts to really worry about her situation. That feeling of maybe being in over one’s head can be such a rush.
It’s been a busy few days here, and the monthly rope bondage workshop was just this afternoon. I had a really nice time with it. Last month I felt like my energy was off, but this one seemed to go pretty well and there was a lot of tying going on during the hands-on session.
Afterwards a bunch of us went to Twain’s again for dinner. It was equally nice but their air conditioner is really weak, and in the San Fernando Valley, AC is a must. (I was reading about temperatures of 119 yesterday in nearby Woodland Hills – freaky).
I usually dress when I do the workshop – just casual, jeans and a tight top – and often go out for dinner afterwards. I always notice the busboy there giving me the eye when I go, and it’s the same guy every time. I’m always tempted to nicely say, “I see you’re curious. Would you like to ask me any questions?”
I’ll have the webcam up and running later tonight, starting at 7:00 PM Pacific time. Once it gets to be about time I’ll post some links for both cams – the members’ cam and the free public cam, here on the Ts in Trouble homepage. Drop by and say hi in the chatroom.
It’s time again for the monthly bondage workshop in North Hollywood. I’m looking forward to it and hoping the weather doesn’t melt me walking from the car to the building carrying a big bag of rope. Stop by and say hi, and do some tying or get tied up.
Rope Bondage Workshop at HollywoodLand Studios
Sunday July 23, 2006
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Hollywoodland Studios
11300 Hartland St.
North Hollywood, CA 91605
Notes:
Open to all interested members of the BDSM Community. Join Sandra to
learn the basics as well as some new tricks! $5 for Threshold
members and affiliates, $10 for non members, proceeds going
to Threshold.
I saw in the L.A. Weekly that there’s a 20-year anniversary re-release of Blue Velvet, one of my favorite movies. I remember first seeing it when it came out in ’86 and being completely blown away by it, sitting in the theater afterwards and going, “Damn, what was that…?” I can’t believe it’s been twenty years already.
It’s only been a couple weeks since the last webcam but we’re going to be online again this Wednesday, July 19, 7:00 PM Pacific Coast Time. It looks like I’ll again be restraining and keeping quiet that little wiggle-worm Bettie. I’m really looking forward to it. Here are a few more stills from the last one.
I recently saw that Al Gore movie on global warning, “An Inconvenient Truth,” and found it quite disturbing. If that movie is even partly true, we are so screwed as a species. I have a friend who thinks it’s just a political move for Al Gore to score points for a future run at being president. Perhaps. The whole global warming thing is obviously a controversial subject, but I’m a bit of a fatalist so it kind of appeals to me.
Then yesterday as I was flying home I noticed all the fires raging out around San Bernardino. Looking out the window from the plane, I could see huge billows of white and orange smoke. It was both beautiful and creepy. I’ve often thought that the human creature will most likely eventually become extinct, whether it’s next year or thousands or millions of years in the future. Global warming, nuclear annihilation, a stray asteroid, who knows? But extinction happens to so many other species, why would we be spared? Especially since we’re so good at screwing things up.
Current mood: a bit dark.
While out of town, I passed through Leadville, Colorado, and my friend L. and I giggled over this unfortunate business name. It’s hard to imagine that somewhere someone had a list of names for their company and this is the one they chose.
Hey, I was checking out my stats and it looks like Trannies in Trouble made it onto the links page at Portal of Evil – Fun fun! Well, actually I had to look up the site on Google to find out what it’s all about, but it looks pretty darn cool…
Well, I’ve been out of town for a week, but am finally back in Los Angeles. I had a great visit back in my hometown of Colorado Springs, and am glad to be back but also a little sad saying goodbye to friends.
But what a weird day it was coming back. I was at the airport this morning going through security and the guy checking IDs “ma’am-ed” me. And I wasn’t even dressed – I was in guy mode! I walked away thinking, “What just happened?” On the one hand it’s kind of cool to be mistaken for a women, but on the other hand, being paranoid, I’m not sure if that’s what it was. I was thinking, “Is this guy just giving me shit?” Perhaps he saw a slightly femmey looking guy and wanted to insult me, similar to calling a guy “fag” or something. Wow, that just got my head all twisted around. I’m probably just being paranoid, but “ma’am” is such an old-fashioned kind of word, with possibly negative connotations – kind of like calling a woman “old bag.” My passport photo does perhaps look a little androgynous, so maybe he really did think I was a woman. I don’t know. I’m probably over-thinking this whole thing.
But later it got even weirder. The flight was fine, and I was walking along the sidewalk, just a few blocks home from the metro station. A guy and two girls, they were probably about 18 or 19, were just ahead of me. I pass them with my carry-on bag in hand and as I’m moving ahead, I hear one of the girls say something to one of her friends and then say the word “faggot.” Again, I have a moment of, “Uh, what’s going on here?” I figured I’d just keep walking and ignore them. Maybe I heard wrong or something. I keep walking and then after a moment I realize the guy has moved up right behind me on my left side, so close that he’s nearly touching, and he seems to be mimicking the way I walk. I stop walking and say, “What do you want?” He mutters something and kind of shrugs and just keeps going. I just stand there in shock as he continues on, followed by the two girls, who each make what seems to be rather hostile eye contact as they pass by.
I was thoroughly rattled by all this. I felt enraged and wanted to see them physically suffer, preferably with me administering the suffering. But I certainly didn’t want to provoke some 19-year-old kid into taking a swing at me. I watched them in shock for a while and then just let them walk off ahead. Fucking weird and a real bummer of a way to come home. Welcome to L.A.
With the holiday week here in the States it looks like I’m going to be away from the computer, at least in terms of blogging, for a few days. Everything else will be business as usual more or less, but it’ll probably be a little quiet here on this page for a bit.
I couldn’t wait to check out some of the webcam clips from the other night with Bettie Cho. So I posted an early update in the Members’ Area with three clips edited down from the footage. Altogether it’s about 30 minutes. I still have hours more to wade through, but I really liked the energy and interaction on these and wanted to get some of them up for viewing.
I’m currently planning to do the next webcam show sometime during the week of the 16th, most likely mid-week. As usual I’ll post the final time and date once we get closer. I’m already looking forward to it.
I had dinner tonight with a (non-kinky) friend at a little Thai-Chinese place that I like on Vermont. I was driving home through Hollywood going down Sunset and had one of those great L.A. moments. The sun had just gone down and the palm trees and buildings up ahead were in semi-silhouette and on the radio was some track from that new Paul Simon album. Sometimes this city can be a royal pain in the ass but at moments like this it’s beautiful and feels so full of promise, at least until the moment passes. Then I went by a pharmacy and noticed a guy out beside the building taking a pee on the wall.
Morbid person that I am, this site seems to have made an impression on me and I find myself occasionally checking it out. I don’t mean to be disrepectful to the memory of anyone or to the grief of their friends and family, but there are two deaths in particular that really strike me as especially weird and kind of embarrassing.
Apparently two young college students, a girl and a guy, were messing around with a large helium-filled balloon that was used to advertise a condominium complex. They climbed inside of it and then later the balloon was found deflated with their bodies inside.
It raises so many bizarre questions. First off, who knew that helium was so toxic? What were they hoping to accomplish crawling inside the balloon: a squeaky cartoon voice on a massive scale? How long did they last inside it before expiring? Was there a moment when they realized that they were in real danger or did they just black out without any awareness that things were going terribly wrong? Did they both willingly crawl into the balloon or did one of them have to convince the other that it would be a good idea? The embarrassing thing is that now they’ll always be remembered for their bizarre and, dare I say, kind of ridiculous manner of dying. It’s the kind of thing that makes me think the gods truly have a warped sense of humor.
More weirdness: I was just about to post this entry when I found that the MyDeathSpace site is suddenly non-responsive. I just get a “Service Unavailable” message. Cue the creepy music.
Last night’s webcam was awesome for me. I really put Bettie through the wringer, and got that bitch all tied up! She’s really good at suffering and looking pitiful. It was a really long evening, over four hours. Later, Binder G. stopped by, messed with Bettie some more, including lots of spanking, and then finally he got both of us tied up together. After he left, I tied Bettie up some more, took a few pictures, and generally tormented her for a while with some breath deprivation and caning on her thighs. I don’t think she really minded too much.
