WCS 64: About that cock in her mouth
w/: Bidwell Mansion blaze + after-hours Portland + Rams @ Niners
One of the more remarkable facets of Jacqueline Novak’s thoroughly remarkable Get On Your Knees is that—despite this epic-poem-in-stand-up’s-clothes exploring fellatio from base to tip, from tightened ball sack to spurt of spooge—the artist does not reference sucking dick a single time. GOYN contains no form of the phrase.
Novak’s love affair is with sucking cock and absolutely reveling in the act’s vast ramifications.
Jacqueline Novak performing Get on Your Knees
And here I must say that to me they are “blowies”; eliminates the labor overtones that are subconsciously associated with blowjobs. And I could write a book on why I couldn’t write a book about a lifetime of eating pussy. It’s inarguable that the content is less filling. Substance inverted, in a way; folks get lost in there.
In her breathless, Natasha Lyonne-directed show, Novak delights us with just over 90 minutes of female, CIS-gendered—“Does she even read?”—blowjob POV: Made to feel weird about her desire to please.
That this performance is classic got cinched early, when Novak spun a bold observation about ball fondling into a brief meditation on authenticity’s meaning.
Sober Time Icon of the Year Elton John said, “legalizing marijuana in America and Canada is one of the greatest mistakes of all time.”
What’s stayed with me most is that the character of Novak doesn’t even perform her first blowjob until an hour into the stage performance. The artist teases a Trojan-horse fellatio that is exploding with ideas. One might want to call Novak, 42, brave. But in the time of the “Groupies” Lost Notes podcast narration, Sabrina Carpenter’s intimate hits, and The Hawk Tua Girl’s sticky celebrity, she’s just right on time with her oversharing. The actual gift here is specifically legitimizing head as a mainstream subject for deep literary and philosophical play.
Far more women than America is prepared to imagine know what they look like on a cell phone with a cock in their mouth.
As of this publication, the experience of having a penis in one’s mouth has eluded me. Giving a blowie just never rose high enough on my list of things to do. But I have been listening to a lot of Donna Summer lately. And over the weekend I was walking down a main street with a bright pink Cake She Hits Different Tangerine Dream vape dangling from my lips. I thought, I might as well be sucking a dick.
And after all that Jacqueline Novak has put in my head, one never knows.
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10 Karma payback continues as Niners lose to Rams
The idea that Joey Bossa’s MAGA photo bomb from a month of Sunday nights ago ruined the defending NFC champion’s locker room is gaining currency online, and I am 100 percent here for the speculation. San Francisco is 1-4 since the Buckeye line-stepper jumped in and waved a yellow version of the Republican cap behind a Brock Purdy interview.
Less divisive issues have torn away many a locker room’s unity.
An ugly, 12-6 Thursday night home defeat to the Rams is the latest evidence that the injury-riddled Niners lost their season those four weeks ago. The game was marked by defensive end De’Vondre Campbell’s stunning refusal to reenter after being benched.
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“That’s somebody who doesn't want to play football, that’s pretty simple. I think our team and myself, we know how we feel about that. I don’t think we need to talk about him anymore,” said head Coach Kyle Shanahan, whose squad fell to 6-8.
But we do so need to talk about De’Vondre Campbell. Look for his narrative to join both SF’s bottomless injury report and Bossa’s boneheaded gesture to end up in Bay Area beat writers’ inevitable “what went wrong” post-mortems.
With the win Los Angeles keeps pressure on division leader Seattle, cutting the Seahawks’ lead to a half game. Three of the Ram’s last four games are against NFC West teams.
Lil Hit
Now is the darkest time of the year—time to celebrate Portland’s somewhat secret after-hours world.
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