Tanos's weblog on Informed Consent http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/weblogs/Tanos/ The IC RSS Gadget webmaster@informedconsent.co.uk 360 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:46:40 GMT Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:46:40 GMT Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:46:40 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/199778/ I got hold of one of the new 3G iPhones today and this is my first post with it. I've also written a longer post about getting hold of it and a picture. I'm impressed :) Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:28:57 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/197394/ Saturday was our (me, lili, popi and charlie) first visit to Spankd in Cheshire, and we were very impressed :) Sat, 19 Apr 2008 08:00:31 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/188631/ In the last couple of days someone called "smoo" has been sending emails with fake From: lines. I know some have gone out with From: Tanos@tanos.org.uk, and I have received at least one addressed to me which I believe to be faked (to discredit the apparent sender.) Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:29:02 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/179551/ I've had my offer to buy some woodland accepted. I've been looking at various pieces of woodland since the autumn, but this has been the best of the bunch: 19 acres of broadleaf woodland on the southern end of the Cheshire plain between Manchester and Birmingham. The wood is very secluded - it's surrounded by streams and ditches on all sides, with a single access point - and includes a lot of young shrubby growth so it's also well screened. Tue, 05 Feb 2008 23:58:13 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/178887/ Next Saturday is the 10th Anniversary Manchester Munch and I thought I'd write a bit about the first Manchester Munch and how it came about. Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:38:03 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/176637/ This weekend was a marathon for lili and popi, with a drive down to London for Purrr. As Purrr is a women-only event, I stayed at home, hacking a website about and eating pizza :) On Saturday night, we all headed over to Nemesis II in West Yorkshire, which seems to be on the way up again. Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:08:42 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/175624/ This weekend I went to Club Lash with lili and popi on Friday, and the three of us dropped into the Manchester Munch for a few minutes on Saturday. We've not been to any scene events in Manchester since the autumn, and the effects of the smoking ban are really sinking in with no "smoke hangover" the next morning for a non-smoker like me. Sat, 14 Apr 2007 10:59:54 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/139462/ We've not been to Lash for a while, but lili, popi and I made a special effort to go last night, to Club Lash's 9th anniversary birthday party, and had a great time. Wed, 24 Jan 2007 00:03:15 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/126550/ "Le Lien" ("The Bond" or "The Link") is an autobiographical account of a BDSM relationship by Frenchwoman Vanessa Duries. Following it's publication in 1993, she shot to fame and notoriety, and even appeared on French television, before dying in a car crash in the December of the same year, at the age of 21. I had high hopes based on reviews of the French original, but I'm quite disappointed. Wed, 10 Jan 2007 01:55:18 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/124507/ My latest site is 100 BDSM Books, which has Top 100 lists based on sales data pulled from Amazon .COM, .UK and .FR. There are just so many BDSM books these days! :) Sat, 06 Jan 2007 22:07:11 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/123926/ I first read Story of O in 1993 and at the time I didn't really like it - certainly not its BDSM themes. I could see it was capital-L Literature, and I'd read enough modern fairy tales and fables to read between the lines, but to be honest, I was indifferent to it. I reread it twice over the years with no change in how I felt, although I did start to notice some astute observations and quotable passages. Fri, 05 Jan 2007 11:38:39 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/123690/ It's the first anniversary of popi moving into my house 24/7, and the last year has gone by so quickly. And yet she's done so much with her life in that time, and made me very proud of her, as she's turned herself round, sorted out all the baggage and loose ends, and got back on with her career and her development as a person and a submissive. Sun, 03 Dec 2006 15:20:03 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/117755/ I was impressed enough by Pan's Labyrinth last Saturday, but it didn't prepare me for The Prestige, set in the world of 19th century stage magic. It's hard to write a review without including spoilers, so I'll just say go and see it in a cinema before its run finishes! Sun, 26 Nov 2006 15:24:53 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/116642/ The three of us went to see Pan's Labyrinth last night: what a treat! A very adult fairy-tale: violent, fantastical, innocent, knowing, and altogether surprising. Tue, 31 Oct 2006 21:09:34 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/112796/ This year, lili did two carvings: Billy from Saw, and Mr Pumpkin! :) In other news, East Anglia's ambulance service was reporting five Saw-related call-outs to cinemas last Friday. Sat, 28 Oct 2006 16:42:15 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/112303/ It's been Gross-out Film Week here in the House of Tanos, with DVD showings of Hostel, Saw, Saw II and then the opening night of Saw III at the cinema yesterday. Saw III wins the prize though. Wed, 30 Aug 2006 12:00:56 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/102633/ The Home Office has published its response to the consultation on the possession of "violent" pornography. Despite an overwhelming majority of the responses being against their proposals, the government is to press ahead with their original idea: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 23:39:10 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/102217/ Yesterday, lili, popi and I went to watch the annual Pride Parade through the centre of Manchester. Every year it seems to get bigger and thousands of people turn out to see it. Afterwards we went to see "The Notorious Bettie Page". Both parade and film turned out to involve themes of the celebration of sexual minorities, and other people's attempts to suppress them. Thu, 24 Aug 2006 01:26:20 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/101560/ There's been some discussion on IC about this month's issue of Bizarre Magazine, so yesterday I went and found a copy for the first time in more than a year. There always was some BDSM or Fetish content, but this month has features on BDSM and the law, flesh hook suspensions, and that Kaotian "slave master" in Darlington. As well as the features, there is a double-page spread with a report on the Club Noir burlesque night in Glasgow (a borderline fetish fashion event); Club Rub and LAM listed in the calendar of events; and "Bianca's Diary" on why there's nothing to fear from fetish. And then lots of Bizarre's usual assortment of pictures showing necrotic limbs, huge wasp nests and corpses. Sun, 30 Jul 2006 22:46:23 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/97796/ Another great KinkFest: this year's highlights for me were the fashion show, Laurence's D/s & Psychology workshop, Rosie's compereing in general, the Slave Auction in particular, lili and popi :)