East Coast Travel Notebook #2

The co-conspirators meet again.

Many of you are doubtless waiting for the next edition of The Foxhole, the new sex advice column from Bystander’s General Manager-cum¹-lay²-sexologist Laura Fox.

Be patient. Each column Laura writes is the hard-won fruit of a prolonged spelunking into the weirdest crannies of human behavior, and such cave-diving takes as long as it takes. And what happens when you spelunk in haste? People die.

So let’s consider the waiting itself a form of participatory journalism, specifically into the question, “Are ‘blue balls’ real…in readers?”

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The last time you and I spoke, I was coming clean about the theft of a (very nice) Brooks Brothers necktie from a Goodwill near Lancaster, PA. The next day, possibly on the lam from the law, Laura and I drove down to visit my best friend and his mother, in Gaithersburg, MD.