It’s just the sort of day for this
That is all.
eye roll so hard they may get lost in my brain
There’s this new article up on Fox News, called The War On Men. It’s written by Suzanne Venker. I want to read it as satire, but there’s absolutely no sign that it is anything but a serious discussion of what’s…
A little bit of politics
I read this tonight on a Huffington Post article about Michele Bachmann. Note that it comes at the end and has nothing to do with the article about her, but refers to a video clip. Here’s the quote: Eric Fehrnstrom,…
Confessions about watching bad TV
Warning: what follows is rather disgusting, so you may want to skip this one. * * * I’m right now watching Hoarders. It is the worst and most frightening one I have ever seen before. We’re talking poop soup in…
Friday Funnies
I ran across this one and thought it was pretty amusing. ADULT: A person who has stopped growing at both ends and is now growing in the middle. BEAUTY PARLOUR: A place where women curl up and dye. CHICKENS: The…
A good cause
A really good cause. If you can’t donate, then please boost the signal.
of color
Kate Elliot posted an essay today called Decolonizing as an SF Writer by Rochita Loenen-Luiz. The subject is one that’s interesting to me because a lot of my dissertation and research has dealt with colonization/postcolonization/neocolonization. I think colonization is the…
Bird Neepery
There is a hawk cam at the University of Wisconsin Madison. You can see the mother (at least I’m supposing it’s the mother) and three babies (are they called eyases?). It is so very cool. Go look. Two different lookers…
web inept
On Monday I start a new class teaching how to build a webzine. Because of issues on campus, I elected to buy a domain and have it hosted off campus. I did that. I am now waiting for that to…
The funnies
Okay, these are flipping funny. Stephen Colbert is interviewing Maurice Sendak in a two part interview. OMG. I was weeping, it was so funny. You must watch. really. Part the first Part the second