We’ve been thinking about replacing the 15-year-old Lesbaru wagon with a more commuting-friendly car and, as it’s about time for me to have my midlife crisis, I have decided that what we need is something more like the car our neighbors are selling:
1957 Chevrolet 210
Samwise is baffled, probably because he grew up in the wrong [...]
VROOM! goes the lawyer
Aug 31st, 2009
When I am made empress of the Internet
Aug 24th, 2009
Wondermark will have been prescient.
In which Reality factors
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The pants! The horrible pants!
Aug 12th, 2009
I cannot describe the horror of this flashmob video that the Queen sent me, and yet I must — IÄ! IÄ!
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Slow Food for Uppity Broads
Aug 1st, 2009
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?
Jul 31st, 2009
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 a [...]
Sunday book blogging: The City & The City
Jul 19th, 2009
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 that [...]
Monday game blogging: Dogs in the Vineyard
Jul 13th, 2009
(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. I [...]
Sunday media blogging: Chéri
Jun 28th, 2009
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 is [...]
Knew, or should have known
Jun 27th, 2009
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 when we were [...]