Shamonica Magazine

A few weeks ago I was shooting a machine gun and swimming in the South China Sea (not at the same time, I’m not John Rambo). But today I am blogging and complaining about my dry cleaner. A lot has changed within a month’s time. How I got there It’s true; I was in Vietnam [...]

Call it artistic appreciation or some misplaced side effect of what I like to call my “late stage penis envy” but I cannot stop taking pictures of these cigar man signs all over downtown San Francisco. I am so charmed by them. My friends, sometime a cigar IS only a cigar, but then, sometimes, cigars are people.

Author Tupelo Hassman’s debut novel, Girlchild, was released last week. As a friend and admirer of her many talents, I couldn’t wait to follow the story of Rory Dawn Hendrix, the precocious heroine of Girlchild, but also the story of Ms.Hassman, as her book is received by the world. In the book, we’re introduced to [...]

Dear Shamonica readers: Illustrator Tessa Brunton and I are collaborating on a series of mini comics about food. If you’d like to share your recipes and, more importantly, the stories behind them, we’d love to re-tell them through the magical medium of comics and illustration. Contact Tessa Brunton at: acannonloose@gmail.com, or me, at amity@shamonica.com and [...]

  I LOVE objectification. I am basically checking everybody out all the time. Regardless of sex or gender. I am like a randy teenage boy and a middle-aged female vampire all rolled into one. Also, as I like to say because it is very true: I am a gay bear, trapped in a woman’s body. It [...]

Love it or loathe it Valentines Day is totally a THING. With the socially enforced mandatory demonstration of romantic affection, not to mention the profits companies such as Hallmark and Sees Candy make off of said enforced mandatory demonstrations, it’s easy to understand why so many ladies and gentlemen are truly “meh” over v-day. It [...]