I can’t honestly say I didn’t see this coming, but I still feel like this Slate essay, which claims WALL-E goes out of its way to equate obesity with environmental collapse misses the point in a dozen places. In case you don’t know the basic premise, 700 years ago theContinue Reading
Check out this delightful and heartwarming story about getting bigots to shut up by singing show tunes. Usually I have a problem with the whole loud bigots thing — ignore them and they never shut up — yell back and it validates them, plus escalates the situation — but showContinue Reading
End of first week: June 28 So far so good, as the first week’s story was completed, critiqued, and into rewrites by the time I broke for a barbecue and zombies. The second week’s story is going to be a bit of a challenge, as there is a big ole’Continue Reading
…Because I am doin’ the write-a-thon!* Still, somehow, I ended up reading this post: I don’t just hate ladies, but men who I think act like ladies. The post is pretty good, but I zeroed in on the first comment by Mnemosyne: This is what I think is going toContinue Reading
I am doing the write-a-thon for Clarion West this year. If you would like to sponsor me, the page is here: http://www.clarionwest.org/events/writeathon/JulieMcGalliard I am once again requesting sponsorships in extremely lucky multiples of thirteen. Just because I happen to have Excel open, these are: 13 26 39 52 65 78Continue Reading
I know the deep rattling coughs are alarming. And I know that I am giving you a dead-eyed zombie stare, but it is only because the coughing makes it hard to sleep and I’m a bit tired. That’s all. I have not been bitten. It is just a cold. ItContinue Reading
So, this “Reclusive Leftist” chick has been really getting up my nose and I wanted to vent. She’s a Hillary Clinton supporter — no big shock, many people were. Approximately half the people who voted in the Democratic primaries in fact. Many of these people were feminists. Also no bigContinue Reading
Is coming home to find a bunch of hatchling spiders dangling in the branches of the forked sundew in the carnivorous plants terrarium. I didn’t get a picture, since my digital camera seems to be dead, but the hatchlings looked more or less like this: And the sundew looked likeContinue Reading
It occurred to me yesterday that the contest between Obama and Clinton for the Democratic nomination has turned into a bullseye endgame. This is something that happens when Paul and I play real pub darts (you know, the pointy metal kind)*. We’re playing Cricket. Player 1 is lower in points,Continue Reading
So, you’ve heard about the open-source boob project controversy, right? Well, now you have. I will summarize, with prejudice: some pervs hanging out at Penguicon decided that people aren’t rude enough already and it should be easier to proposition random strangers re: copping a feel. In the interest of thatContinue Reading
Keffy, one of my partners in crime — er, literature — er, comics — got accepted to the Clarion Writers Workshop, and needs cash to be able to go. If any of you out there would like to donate, here is the post with the PayPal link: Clarion is Expensive.Continue Reading
It has recently come to my attention that presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s unimpressive bowling score has led some pundits to actually question his fitness for office. Chris Matthews : “the fact that he’s that terrible at bowling does make you wonder.” Joe Scarborough and Willie Geist: “You know Willie, theContinue Reading
Last night we had a zombie-fest which involved 1. Drinking zombies, and 2. Watching zombie movies on Mike’s giant projection TV screen. We watched Shaun of the Dead (which somebody there hadn’t yet seen… gasp!) and then The Return of the Living Dead (which a few people there hadn’t seen…Continue Reading