Author Archives: Bel Poblador

Last time I checked, you couldn’t carry around a gay man in a little bag with a ventilation screen like you would a tiny lapdog.

My e-mail in-box is holding up rather poorly in the sudden onslaught of e-mails I’ve recently received.

There I was, sipping my beverage, surveying the scene that lay before me: The grinding, the pelvic thrustage, the lack of rhythm ““ it was enough to make me outwardly cringe. Then I glance to the side and see two people ““ perfect strangers up until a few minutes ago ““ making out rather furiously. […]

It started out innocently enough ““ a student wanted to be free. And by free, I really mean clothes-free. So he turned his back on societal propriety and ran around the streets in his underwear. It was such a phenomenal and mind-boggling idea, even the Los Angeles Times wrote a piece on all the students […]

“I’ve come to accept the fact that someone is going to cheat on me at least once,” said my 16-year-old sister, in a painfully matter-of-fact way. If this doesn’t make you want to celebrate Valentine’s Day, then I don’t know what will. Lately I’ve been getting this sinking feeling that love ““ or at least […]

From scaling fences to slipping down an ivy-covered hill to walking home barefoot ““ I’ve heard some absurd stories. Ah, the Walk of Shame. The nuances of leaving without waking anybody up, the acrobatics of getting out of a building unnoticed, and ““ let’s be honest here ““ no one really wants to dwell on […]

You and your best friend are the epitome of BFF (Best Friends Forever, for those of you who weren’t in on the middle school lingo). You live together and you drunk-dial each other proclaiming your love. You can even talk about everything from politics to the multifaceted nature of Will Ferrell. That is, until your […]