Things have been insane...catching up on life and preparing for a packed Pride Weekend in Seattle. If you're going to be in town and attending the festivities, you could catch me as the Scoremistress for the Rat City Rollergirls "Big Gay Bout." I'll be at the Cuff and the Wild Rose on Saturday night, and will be with the Leather/Fetish contingent in the downtown Pride parade on Sunday.

Here's a little bit more about DESIRE...

One of the coolest experiences this weekend was the class and demos on water bondage and play. This woman is one of the only ones who does this type of play because of the risks (it's literally life-threatening). She's a scuba instructor, an EMP, and loves water, so she was drawn to this type of play. She talked a lot about the safety features she has in place...5 or 6 backup people as well as people in the water monitoring what's going on. The conference was more like a retreat, with a pool in the center and walls all around (let's just say I was naked most of the weekend). After watching some DVD footage of a scene she did, we went outside and got geared up.

The demo was really cool...it was the first time I'd been underwater with a mask since my scuba cert, and I found it difficult to remember I wasn't wearing a regulator and shouldn't attempt to breathe underwater. :) The bottom (who was in scuba gear) ended up spread-eagled underwater, with her feet tied to two cinderblocks at the bottom and her hands lied with two ropes held by people on the surface. Did you know that you can scream as loud as you want underwater and no one will hear you on the surface? It was trippy...I took short trips down there with my mask, watched and listened, then came up for air before going back down. On the surface you could barely tell that anything was happening, except for shadowy figures and bubbles rising to the surface. Underneath it was a whole other story...she did some knifeplay, attached some zippers to the girl's inner thighs (hence the screams) and did a cool trick with nipple clamps - she attached them to empty water bottles so that when they were let go, they floated toward the surface and pulled on her nipples. At one point the top took her reg out and breathed more air into the bottles, making them float upward more forcefully. It was really cool, seeing what worked and what didn't underwater, and just appreciating how neat it would be to have that experience.

I tried to scene with her, but she was super busy with prearrangements...not to mention that set-up of a single scene took a couple hours. Ah, well...maybe next time! But it really was something else.