I hold a special place in my heart for a good hip-hop ballad. Much like 50 Cent’s request to “Come give me a hug” in the chorus of In Da Club, a hip-hop ballad reveals the soft gooey marshmallow at the center of even the hardest of exteriors, and when it’s done right – like it is …

A friend recently blogged about the fact that she is having a hard time going to sleep at a normal time whenever her new beau is in her bed. In addition to the other activities they engage in, they are also kept awake by late night chattering. Her revelation got me thinking about what a…

I recently turned on the television to learn of yet another disappointing sex scandal. These scandals are almost always disappointing not because of the sex (never that!) but because of the big ironic reveal (the anti-pedophilia pedophile, the anti-gay gay). Frankly, it’s enough to …

Sometimes it can be maddening how connected everything and everyone is; how many people overlap on your Facebook pages or how your “current” is all too often a friend’s ex. It can sometimes feel like the world is closing in on you. Then, of course, there are the other times when you are in the middle of too much new and you’d do anything to talk to a good old …

At one point in the midst of this big presidential primary hoopla, Obama wondered allowed why he would trade his number one position for a lower spot: why he should step down to vice presidency when he could be president? While in his case this was a valid question, we Boinkologists know the pleasure of switching positions…

LL Cool J insisted that we not call it a come back, but we persist anyway, don’t we? Whenever our favorite old stars of yesteryear break from an extended hiatus to put out something new, it just seems like they’re back from the dead (and sometimes their new ideas make you wish they stayed there). But in a music climate where a new band can go from…

Watching someone writhe on the dance floor can sometimes be a way to assess how they move between the sheets, and, indeed, dancing has been a precursor to many a pleasant tussle in the bedroom. So it is a strange fact that most dance music cannot make the trip from feet on the dance floor to clothes on the bedroom floor. Alas, most dance music is just …

While we here at Boinkology are flexible and open to a lot of things, there are some things we are resolved not to try. Sometimes it’s just obvious to see certain things won’t be good for you, and you have to draw the line…

The fact that the month has started with the drama of Super Tuesday kinda upstaged the fact that February is supposed to be the month of romance and love. I mean that high drama and verbal jousting just isn’t conducive to kissin’ and huggin’, is it? Well, actually it might be. According to a recent University of Michigan study…

Sometimes it’s utterly impossible to reinvent yourself. You try and try but people just know you as a certain thing and won’t let go. In cases, like this it might be good to take the lead of Siobhan Donaghy, who was a founding member of saccharine Brit pop group, The Sugababes, but decided to leave, have a break down, and reappear years later …