1 — Tom of Finland Night Stick and Hammer Vibe
People often wonder how grandiose architectural structures can inexplicably collapse, and the reason is that people like me are hired to build them. I am, perhaps, the least handy man on the planet. Some people are “all thumbs”; I’m not that lucky. I have no useful digits whatsoever, and as a result I’ve lived my entire life never knowing the joys of Kerouac-like adventures hitchhiking across America.

I took wood shop in high school and nearly cut off my pinkie finger. With a screwdriver. While the rest of my class made fancy wooden rocking horses as Christmas gifts for their moms, I was in charge of sweeping up the sawdust. I broke four brooms in three months. The shop teacher asked one of the quadriplegic girls in class to make a... Read More