• Toby unloads on “Bitch Session,” where gay men — “traditionally known for their near-stubborn reticence when it comes to expressing their thoughts, feelings and personal affairs to anyone within earshot” — can unload. [VividBlurry, who, btw, is begging for votes for the Urban Blogger Awards. Throw the boy a bone.]
• “Did you ever read or encounter a book when you were a kid that talked about how it was okay to masturbate?” [DCeiver]
• “Dude, I’m so baked. Hahaha. Butterspliff is more like it. Hahaha.” [BBBS]
• The City Paper comes to the defense of the “longtime paying subscriber,” “the fluorescent light bulb of the ongoing debate over how to save newspapers.” [WCP]
• John Hodgman reads the names of 700 hoboes tonight at the Warehouse Theater. [DCist]

• If you didn’t get your Stick tix today, you’re stuck with the PandaCam. The National Zoo’s Stick showings are booked through Jan. 2. [FONZ]
• On last week’s porn hearings: “One of Brownback’s witnesses apparently testified that masturbation ‘lights up your brain like a parade.’ Which makes me think I need to get to more parades.” [The Agitator]
• Vividblurry’s semi-annual Metro rant: Look at “the ton of banners and posters and placards urging Metro riders to report ’suspicious behavior’ to the station manager. Yeah, have fun with that. You’ll be greeted with a resentful if not vacant stare, assuming she looks up from her copy of Express to take notice of you.” [Vividblurry]
• Bored PandaCam? Stinky plant time! Sort of stinky. Some are disappointed. [WP]