Owner: Sex and the Beach URL:http://sexandthebeach.blogspot.com Join Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 12:44:42 -0500 Rating:1 Site Description: You won't find me on the side of a bus. I AM THE BUS! Manola BBB is a semi-fictional character and the pen name of a wordsmith born, raised, praised and laid in the magic city. She tackles all subjects sex and love with nutty humor! Site statistics:Click here
Happy Oxytocin Day! 2008-02-14 10:30:00 I don't think you have to be a scientist to realize chemical bonding must be absolutely necessary between lovers. After all, how else would we put up with all the extra-curricular crap outside the bedroom if it weren't for some hormone that makes us go ga-ga?"In humans, oxytocin is thought to be released during hugging, touching, and orgasm in both sexes. In the brain, oxytocin is involved in social recognition and bonding, and may be involved in the formation of trust between people and generosity." -- More at Wikipedia.So you know what that means: on this day, go stimulate yourself and your lover enough to produce gallons of oxytocin, because you know there are going to be days when you have to tap into the reserves!tags: valentine , oxytocinYou won't see me on the side of the bus! Read more:Happy
Chancleta: Cooking with Cojones 2008-01-19 14:03:00 Professor Chancleta drops the Hialeah accent to help a friend from the northeast learn a few basic words in Spanish."I feel like little red riding hood ... I wish the big bad wolf would visit me at night. Eh, he's such a wuss!""Everything is so freakin' complicated with Cubans ... when you say to a Cuban 'I'm going to give you a cracker' you could also be saying 'I'm going to bitch-slap the shit out of you' ... it's all about context.""When Cubans eat a banana, they are reminded of the bloody, money-greedy history of colonialism, when plantation owners brought slaves from the country of Guinea.""If you are in fact referring to testicles, use the word COJONES.""Spanish-Cuban people put chorizo in EVERYTHING. I don't care if it's a birthday cake!"It's all about the paprika ... and that sl
Cold Weather Crisis in Florida!!! 2008-01-04 10:07:00 It was very cold in Miami during the past couple of days. Cold trumps everything for us tropical creatures, zOMG! I mean even the iguana that lives in the tree behind my apartment died! It was floating in the Biscayne Waterway, so sad! Plus, there was free frozen gator meat festival in the Everglades all weekend. Oy! Let's not even talk about citrus fruit and such. This was one hell of a cold front. It even snowed in Daytona, typically the land of hot rods and loud carburetors. Do you think Julia Tuttle could've pulled the wool over Henry Flagler's eyes with this one? Julia Tuttle, the founding "mama" of Miami, sent Flagler orange blossoms as proof we do not have freezes down here, just to encourage him to extend the railroad down to our hot, sticky swamp. Julia, was that a well- Read more:Florida
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Silence Is Golden 2007-12-28 12:46:00 Dear Readers, this 'live blogging' thing has suddenly come to my attention. Would you be interested in a regular Manola show? Twat would it be about? And what time of the day? Please leave comments below, but make sure they are not below the belt. I would be happy to entertain this possibility ... Already one of my loyal fans suggested a Dr. Annie Steelclit bulletin board, but I think we can take it next level, especially with other blogger guests. Remember, it's a little me, a little Miami Beach ... and maybe, a little you.What say?tags: seesmic, videoYou won't see me on the side of the bus! I AM THE BUS! A single woman's guide to chronic living on South Beach. Read more:Golden
Shoe Shopping in Dubai 2007-12-28 10:10:00 Just wanted to say thank you to SO MANY people who have made a difference in my life this year. I will list none here, because there are so many and I would hate to leave anyone out. What is this, an Oscar's acceptance speech? Alright, already! You know who you are and I heart you! Wishing my readers, clients and friends much love, health and prosperity now and in the year to come.And yes, let's go shoe shopping!tags: you tube, dubai, giftsYou won't see me on the side of the bus! I AM THE BUS! A single woman's guide to chronic living on South Beach. Read more:Shoe
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Erotic Verse: Cherub 2008-03-17 10:04:00 Rosy-cheeked, a giggling cherubTumbled blithely down from heavenAnd alighted on a treeLittle fingers, plump and determinedPulled the taut string backBut I pierced him insteadWith tender, blue-eyed mischief"Hmpf!" he puffed "you're already in love"And just like that, this winged harbinger of heartsTossed his curly tufts and flitted awaytags: poetry, erotic, love, cherub, cupidYou won't see me on the side of the bus! I AM THE BUS! A single woman's guide to chronic living on South Beach.
Sexcrunch: If These Holes Could Talk 2008-03-21 03:35:00 All the news that's fit for bed, served between the sheets. Don't ever say you aren't getting any!Yay! Miami has sexist clubs! To see some real hardcore pussy, scroll down. Photo by Ade Peever.These Butts Were Made for Walkin' ...... well, sort of. A pensioner in Germany went in for leg surgery and got a refurbished bunghole instead. Clearly, someone at that hospital wasn't anal retentive enough about surgery scheduling, so our medical correspondent Dr. Suckmy Gupta just had to get to the bottom of this case. In an exclusive interview, he asked surgeon Herr Doktor Feindass if he knew the difference between chronic incontinence and incompetence. "Well, the old woman's sphincter was loose and a little worn around the edges," said Herr Doktor Feindass. "Face-to-face with a fresh, tight Read more:Holes
South Beach: Requiem or Rhapsody? 2008-03-25 22:24:00 "When the quest to fill your inner emptiness by appropriating something from outside becomes desperate, repetitive, or automatic you have what is called an addiction." -- Edmund J. Bourne, The Anxiety & Phobia WorkbookAddiction. That's brilliant. There's no better way to describe my relationship to this place. I was addicted to the idea of the beach, even though, two and half years ago, I started this blog in a process that was really the beginning of the end. I had some kind of unnatural attachment to the island and everything it represented -- a life of longing, a life of being single with no responsibilities, a life of flotsam and jetsam, minus the consequences. A life of cocktails, minus the hangovers. A life of tourism, a life of running away, traveling to and from my own li Read more:South
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Relationships, Part 1 2008-03-24 12:13:00 Well, lots of change going on ... "we" may be moving off the beach, but no matter ... this blog has always been about sex and relationships. Relationships
with self, with others, with sex, even relationships with ... especially relationships with place ... stay tuned.And besides, who wouldn't want Manola reporting from other locales?"Everything is about relationships. The most important relationship you can have is with you.""I think most of us in social media realize this -- it's not the media, it's the relationships that are formed that are most important.""Relationships shouldn't be a mirror. It should be a fucking reality check. How can you make me a better person?""This I think is the key to any social media circumstances ... want to ... not because you have to."tags: miami, seesm
Traveling Light 2008-04-07 14:40:00 A funny thing happens when you decide to let go of all your material possessions. You realize that they were never really yours and that those things you do own -- your heart, faith, purpose and love -- are the things that no one person or circumstance can take away from you.An even funnier thing happens when you decide to let go of your attachment to place. You realize that as a spiritual being on a human journey, being rooted anywhere is just a temporary illusion. The most important anchor you have is yourself.I'm getting a divorce and having an affair all at once -- separating from places, people and things that no longer serve me and falling in love with all that truly matters. This is an interior place of peace that only exists within. It doesn't have a name. It's not on any map. Read more:Traveling
Alexander's Note 2008-05-07 08:00:00 I come from a family that left their homeland with nothing but the clothes on their backs, so it's interesting that I have little, if any, attachment to personal belongings. I detest clutter, but my mother hoards all her countless knick-knacks with the possessive zealousness of a child. Her life is measured by an inventory of things she owns, whereas my life is measured by an inventory of things I've done.I sometimes wonder if her sense of loss inspires the compulsion to be a pack rat; I also wonder if my seeming detachment betrays some fear of loss. This much I do know: what I possess should never possess me.I once promised myself, however, that I'd always keep a treasure chest -- one simple box filled with all the little things that shore up memories.Recently, after making the decisi Read more:Alexander
Raleigh Runway Caper 2008-05-14 12:15:00 Video shot in March 2008 of the now infamous pool."Effortlessly chic, impossibly seductive." -- Conde Nast Traveler"Full of shit, impossibly snobby." -- The Locals Guide to BS in SBSo last Sunday some friends and I decided to meet at The Raleigh Hotel for a leisurely afternoon of mojitos, sandwiches and good conversation -- an activity we've enjoyed more than once in the past.At one such gatheri Read more:Runway
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Slab of Beef 2008-06-02 22:20:00 Somewhere in South Miami, a better beach to have sex: no buildings, no hotels, no tourists, no attitude ... just beach.You can take the girl out of the beach but you can't take the beach out of the girl. Had you been an iguana sunning on the shore, you may have overheard this mobile phone conversation at Matheson Hammock Park.Manola: OMG, there are two horse shoe crabs mating!Friend: Really?
Sex and the City of Pleasant Living 2008-06-02 21:28:00 As I settle into my new life in South Miami, the city of pleasant living, the possibility of dating again has begun to rear its ugly circumcised head. But what would I know about ugly? I haven't seen a live penis since the pre-construction phase of Stonehenge!Speaking of the past, that's precisely what I'm determined to no longer do. I've put the past behind me. You see, before I could even con Read more:Living
Hurricane Season Boyfriend 2008: Hope Blows 2008-06-16 15:40:00 Actually, hope floats on Biscayne Bay. Look it, I don't make this shit up! This extraordinary piece of driftwood was just lying there during low tide, ok? Taken at Matheson Hammock Park by yours truly.Since June 1st, I've been thinking about whom I would choose as this year's Hurricane Season
Boyfriend. In seasons past, I've chosen men for their ability to perform duties around the house who wo
Erotic Verse: Skinny Dipping 2008-07-01 21:39:00 A sudden splash: my sly eyes lowered stillAbove the swaggering man, his thighs caressedBy the dark waves, my hands caught in his thrill,He holds me helpless crest upon crest.How can those terrified shy fingers roamThe wearied glory from my loosening thighs?And how can body, laid in that white foamBut feel the strange heart beating where it lies?A shudder in the loins engenders yetThe broken lust,
Biker Chic 2008-06-26 14:30:00 The legendary Lourdes Bretos in Daytona. The Cuban flag hangs from Harley Davidsons.One of the reasons I moved back to the mainland was to focus on a project I've been wanting to do for years. In the coming months, I will be working on a historical memoir about Harley Davidson culture in Cuba, as seen through the eyes of Lourdes Bretos, my dad's cousin. Lourdes was the daughter of Luis Bretos, Read more:Biker
Planet Manola: Of Madames and Spinsters 2008-06-25 10:34:00 Random news, commentary and photographs. Updated at least once every menstrual cycle, if not more frequently. Have you ever been out on a date and felt exactly like this? Photo by Shveckle.LOVE/HATEA forum member at Talk Night Life posted a link to my Raleigh Runway Caper piece and inspired a little discussion, mainly about tourism. One member, however, expressed his opinion about Sex and the Be
Planet Manola: The Truth Is Out There 2008-07-18 09:09:00 Photo by Ipanemic.HEALTHY IS SEXYOn the one-year anniversary of my heart troubles, my dear friend Stephanie Quilao, publisher of Back in Skinny Jeans, asked me to write a guest post on her blog about a very personal issue I've never discussed here.She urged me to share my untold story because I have recently made a complete recovery from a crippling, long-term episode of anxiety disorder and ago Read more:Truth
Planet Manola: Of Poems, Plants and Photos 2008-07-05 09:22:00 Random news, commentary and photographs. Updated at least once every menstrual cycle, if not more frequently. I mounted some stranger's parked Harley at Monty's and my dear buddy Ipanemic went into one of his wonderful, intense shutter-clicking trances!SEASONAL AMNESIANot long ago, I bumped into my high school English teacher while taking the Metrorail downtown. Peggy Hall is retired now, but s Read more:Poems
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