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Slow Food for Uppity Broads
Amanda already said quite a bit of what I was thinking about the stupidity of Michael Pollan’s recent article in the New York Times Magazine, though her main point is that if you’re writing for the NYT, you need to be fashionably ‘postfeminist’. That’s the nice version. Myself, I throw in a dash of cynicism [...]
Where is my remedial garret?
Scalzi’s thread about what you need to give up to write (spoiler: screwing around watching TV and stuff all the time) got invaded by someone who is either a total emokid or a troll indistinguishable from one, blathering about how one must Suffer in order to create Art. Naturally we all made like he was [...]
Tagged Books, ow, WritingSunday book blogging: The City & The City
I would have read it eventually since it’s by China Miéville, but since Bryan recommended it I moved it up the stack – even though I was a little concerned it would be even more baroque than The Iron Council. Miéville, darn him and his talent, has written a police procedural, set in a city [...]
Tagged Books, China Miéville, science fiction, SF/FMonday game blogging: Dogs in the Vineyard
(Yes, I know I traditionally do reviews and media blogging on Sunday, but I was so darn busy cleaning and fixing up the house yesterday that Samwise actually stopped me to ask “You’re not about to go into labor, right?”) This game was brought to my attention by Betsy, Hottest IT Attorney in Los Angeles. [...]
Tagged dogs in the vineyard, Gaming, WesternsSunday media blogging: Chéri
I done earned myself some serious Spouse Points this weekend, as I volunteered to go with Samwise to watch a romantic movie based on a classic French novel. (Sorry; romantic film.) Despite the fact that nothing blows up, at least not physically, in this movie, I enjoyed it immensely. It’s certainly pretty, and the acting [...]
Knew, or should have known
Since it’s Pride weekend – When did you know you were queer? Or when, looking back, should you have figured it out? Some people say they always knew; others figured it out later in life, very suddenly; some of us took a little while to get it all sorted. I should have known one night [...]
Tagged gender, pride, queerGoodbye, Granny
My mother called me tonight – I already knew, I think, because there’s no other reason she would be calling me at well-past-bedtime Eastern. Her mother, my grandmother, my last living grandparent, died in the hospital this morning. It wasn’t terribly unexpected; she was 95, she’s been in pretty ill health for a while and [...]
Miracle on Father’s Day
The Queen, who a) believes her father to be a cruel tyrant with the sole motivation of making her life miserable, and b) hates cooking (up to and including microwaving a TV dinner), spontaneously made breakfast in bed for her dad on Father’s Day. Okay, it was toast and Grape Nuts, but there was no [...]
Tagged fathers, holiday, kidsSCOTUS: pro and con
Pros: Cool architecture. The bench is only slightly raised, instead of being higher than God as is not uncommon in many courts. Apparently the Justices do not have something to prove. Their cafeteria food is actually pretty decent. Marble, and plenty of it. Just admitted Mythago to the Supreme Court bar. Cons: Supreme Court gift [...]
Tagged Law, SCOTUS, Travel