TwistedMonkTV

If you liked Monk's lovely instructional videos from the Twisted Monk website, you're going to love his new YouTube section.

If you act now, you get ten new instructional videos, including the body harness, the hog tie, and a chest and leg harness.

But wait! There's still more! If you act now, you get Monk's hair tie absolutely free!

Now how much would you pay?

Well, the answer is free!* That's right, just direct your browser to "TwistedMonkCom" on YouTube and you get all these videos and more absolutely free!

* Rope not included. Offer not available in all states. Must be able to at least tie your shoes. Must be 18 or over and of legal age to watch rope videos to qualify. 14.4k modems are unlikely to display videos correctly. Pyrate Lasses pay a surcharge of learning to tie your Daddy up for Teh Hott Sex. Ties as shown may not hold effectively under nylon rope. See TwistedMonk.com for further details.

I'm a sucker for a vintage cord . . .

Like Bettie Page, but hate the sloppy ropework she and her cohorts are in most of the time? Looking for some vintage-style bondage executed with a bit more skill?

In steps Tie Me Up Tom.com with some really fun pics of leather- and lingerie-clad bottoms in some really nice ropework. It's enough to redeem my opinion of cotton and nylon, seriously. Nice stuff. And of course it's got the smile afterward, not to mention the smile during.

Want more? Tom also has a Livejournal. Complete with ponies!

Ha'Shibari lo kasheh . . .

I was amused today to find among my Googlings this Shibari site from Israel.

Unfortunately for most of my readers the site is entirely in Hebrew. Pretty pictures, however, are universal.

Supreme nerdiness

Uh oh. I've gotten out the glasses.

Nope, it's not for rope ties or caning. (Although I've had bottoms say they love me putting on my glasses to see better for those.)

Nope, it's far nerdier. It's RopeWiki.

Yep, I've been spending my coffee breaks this weekend playing secretary and nerd girl, trying to add what I can in the service of rope. There's something really fun and at the same time terrifying about joining a new Web project this early in its progress, but I have to say one of the best parts is that there's lots to do for a relative novice like me. No article yet on EMT shears? Hell, anyone can write that.

Wheee!

RopeWiki

I was pondering tonight what I'd write. I had a fantastic weekend with Pyrate Lass, and a great time at the SIG.

And, as is usual after these events, I have so much to say that I have no earthly idea where to start. I'm buzzing with ideas, and feeling inspired but nothing's quite cogent yet. So I figured I'd do a cop out post and post tutorial links to a couple of the ties we were ostensibly there to learn before things got more complex.

Then, in the course of looking up the "Foole's Cuff", I found Rope Wiki, a little "wikipedia" of shibari stuff. How cool is that?

So, that can keep you busy till I find time to write about shibari knots, predicament bondage, thoughts on documentation, and the fine art of going sideways . . .