According to this new book, Smart Girls Marry Money, anyway. And my career woes would be over. Assuming the summary is accurate, the book is not asking why lady bartenders or lady web developers are “still slaving after forty” — maybe the assumption is that our prospects for marrying millionairesContinue Reading
Just came home through the back yard. There was a black cat in the yard of the same size and general type as Daughter, one of the spayed feral cats we have been feeding for the past ten years. So I assumed it was Daughter. Then she came up toContinue Reading
In writing up "Doppelgangland," I mentioned "Something Blue" as another instance of Buffy characters saying things about themselves which they clearly want to believe are true which are not, in fact, actually true.Continue Reading
Saw Star Trek over the weekend and was pleasantly surprised. It’s simply a good time at the movies — funny, fast-moving, occasionally touching, and full of life. My expectations were not high after the dismal double-whammy of Nemesis and Enterprise managed to suck the last tiny spark of vitality outContinue Reading
Or the voodoo saints are annoyed with me. Or I used up all my good karma points and now I need to rack up some bad ones. Or, something. That would explain why, just a couple of weeks after I broke my butt, I would get laid off. What IContinue Reading
April is national poetry month, so I thought I would talk about poetry. And then I didn’t finish this while it was still April. Anyway, for those of you who don’t actually want to read about poetry, my gluteal injury seems to be healing and my butt is significantly lessContinue Reading
So I have a working theory now: fashion is experiencing something like the “long tail” effect that is happening in other art forms — increasing segmentation. So instead of propagating through the culture as a whole, fashion trends are more likely to appear as either an entirely new sub-genre (suchContinue Reading
Oh, George Will, my favorite Republican scold. You had me for a while, with your anti-denim rant, until you dissed cartoons, and then we parted company. (Also, I’m not entirely certain about the wisdom of taking sartorial advice from a man who wears a bow tie without a trace ofContinue Reading
Last night kenscholes was in Bellingham, so that today he can read and sign his book Lamentation at Village Books. All of these things are awesome. (Ken, Bellingham, his book, and Village Books). I tagged along on a pub crawl with Ken and his awesome wife jens_fire, who is pregnantContinue Reading
So, a couple of nights ago I was at the awards ceremony for the Bellingham Business Journal Business of the Year (it’s an honor just to be nominated) and there was wine and asparagus, so I was moderately entertained. But there was one thing that bugged me. Now, this isContinue Reading
There are things I think about when we visit my grandmother. Her house has always been heavy with two themes, Disney and religion. My grandfather, after getting out of the navy, worked for Disneyland for some amazing amount of time before retiring, fifty years maybe? He had a special plaqueContinue Reading
Good lord, we have a Democrat in the White House for less than a month and already the Clinton-era worms are swarming back out of the woodwork. By “worm,” I mean our old scandal-sniffer Kenneth Starr, who has decided that it is up to him to tear asunder 18,000 CaliforniaContinue Reading