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October! It’s the name of U2’s second album and, my dear Caftan readers, it’s very possibly my favorite month because the weather is crisp and dry again, darlings, and for a perpetually clammy, schvitzy person like myself, that is absolutely delicious! I was just briefly in Provincetown for their cute little book festival where I was “in conversation” (I love that pretentious literary term) with my dear friend Mike Albo…

This is a guest post by Davey Davis. “Domme work,” says Tiff Chester, AKA Mistress May, as she clumsily wraps a scarlet rope around her friend’s wrist, “is about more than just hog-tying someone. It’s about the rope pressing against the skin, becoming safer yet more dangerous with every tug.” As the rope constricts, her friend, an effeminate young redhead named Pete, winces, and even once yelps, “Ouch!” but Tiff keeps winding, tighter and tighter, until presumably causing some kinky nerve damage.

No, that’s not an actual Jordan Peterson quote. But it feels like it could be, right? Anyway, I’m taking a brief hiatus from my hiatus because this bear in the woods stuff is just too fucking much, with incels o’er the land coming out of their mom’s basement to prove the point being made. In case you missed it, social media blew up hard the last two days because women were asked “If you were alone in the woods, would you rather meet a strange man, or a bear?

Hot Takes is my bullet point thoughts on fashion's hottest issues. These posts get to the heart of why people are talking about what they’re talking about, what this means and where this could go next.  Think: what direction is fashion heading in? What’s new, innovative and exciting? What's going on in fashion that's really pissing people off? Hot Takes ties fashion topics to a wider cultural and social context, and digs into why these topics are important and the often more significant meanings behind them.

A funny thing happened to me on the way to a 30-year career in engineering. When I was a young kid, growing up in the southern US, the normal thing to do was to go to college if you had the patience and means (and it was a lot easier back then), and then to start working somewhere. Now, here’s the interesting part: you were supposed to stay there for your whole career.

Beenos (3328.JP) is currently my largest holding, and it’s a company I’ve written about in the past. Beenos is an entrepreneurial company with a low valuation. Although these alone are nice features, over time I have been appreciating one of its subsidiaries more and more. This wholly owned subsidiary is called Buyee. I’ve also been impressed with the culture of Beenos. I’m not going to write about how Beenos has ¥5.

Is there anything better than that first warm day where you’ve got to slap on some sunscreen before you head out to a brewery? I Citibiked from Bushwick to Astoria to visit Singlecut Queens on Sunday. Fourteen miles round-trip on a 40-pound bike isn’t recommended, but I burned plenty of beer calories in the process. Spending two consecutive weekends in the city has been a rarity for me this year, and it’s nice to get out to some of my favorite spots and events, like KCBC during Lager Appreciation Month, The Grand Delancey for their Brasserie de la Senne event, Threes Brewing’s Can Jam, NS Beer’s first Bushwick-brewed beer release, Flagship Brewery’s Eighth Anniversary, and just a sunny warm day outside on the sidewalk at Singlecut Queens.

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No parking space. Those were the three words that made me immediately ignore any condo unit option that my Realtor told me about. For prospective homeowners in high-traffic areas, spending anywhere from five minutes to 45 minutes looking for parking each day is an absolute drag. Even after the initial move-in, bringing in groceries, laundry or other heavy items are mind-numbingly annoying. I tried owning a car on Chicago’s North Side without a designated parking space.