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“So should I leave work early to get married?”
The above e-mail today from a friend was how I found out about the results of the Proposition 8 ruling (which the District Court apparently slipped under the door into the court’s press room and then ran like hell; it wasn’t read aloud in court). I am bummed that I am out of the city [...]
Tagged Law, LGBT, Proposition 8, squeeMovie review: Inception
The only negative about this movie is that it doesn’t follow the Mo Movie Rule. This is offset by the fact that the female member of the heist team is present because of her brains and skill, not her cleavage, and while pretty in a well-scrubbed Midwestern sort of way, is not a model and [...]
Tagged movies, reviews, SF/FBook review: The Arcanum
A great disappointment, particularly as it was a “Staff Pick” at my local independent bookstore. The author, Thomas Wheeler, is a screenwriter by trade, and boy does it show. A trivial example: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle takes a ship to America in order to meet with H.P. Lovecraft. The chapter starting on his arrival is [...]
Tagged book review, Books, media, shadow historyRecipe Minute: Tea and Incense Cookies
Finally got the tea cookies right! Or so Samwise tells me. I hate tea. Preheat your oven to 375 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with parchment or grease lightly. 1/4 cup loose darjeeling tea leaves 1/3 cup boiling water 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1 cup sugar 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 [...]
Tagged cookies, food, recipesŌoku
I admit I was interested in picking up Ōoku: The Inner Chambers for less-than-literary reasons, given the cover copy and the “Mature” rating, but then there was the whole nomination for the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize thing which suggested hey, this probably wasn’t just well-written porn. In fact it’s not porn, and it did (quite [...]
Tagged Books, mangaElmore Leonard
He writes some pretty good mysteries, sure, but the man is the Ernest Hemingway of Westerns.
Tagged Elmore Leonard, fiction, Westerns, WritingSo it’s like this
I’m really too tired to go around punching people in the mouth today. So: if you find yourself tempted to post one of the following things to the Internet, or God forbid saying one of them sincerely in conversation, would you kindly punch yourself in the mouth? Thanks. “IANAL, but….” Anything describing how when you [...]
Tagged Angry, Dumbth, YANAL, You Kids Get Off My Lawn