November 2004

The world bores me today. As today is Bomb the Shit Out of Fallujah day, I find it appropriate that I drop off the radar early and get back to work on my blood & sand novel. I need to hit 54 pages today

NEW YORK (AP) — A 25-year-old from Georgia who was distraught over President Bush’s re-election apparently killed himself at Ground Zero.

Amanda’s got some thoughts up on a silly Salon piece about the still-popular idea that women should only be dating men who are taller than they are. Television continues to push the monstrous sexual dimorphism thing for no good reason, except to make people feel bad about themselves if they’re not paired up “correctly” (or

There’s an interesting interview up with novelist Tom Wolfe – “I do think that if you are not having a fight with somebody, then you are not sure whether you are alive when you wake up in the morning.”

Had my first sparring class yesterday. Ended up being 3 hours worth of classes, as I showed up for pilates at 10:15, and the sparring class wasn’t until noon, so I had an hour of pilates, an hour of boxing (partnered mitts), and then an hour of sparring. Do you have any idea how badly

Read the original here. Read the “find and replace” version below: MIXED Sexualities AND MIXED Marriages by Herbert Ravenel Sass (From The Atlantic Monthly, circa 1956) WHAT may well be the most important physical fact in the story of the United States is one which is seldom emphasized in our history books. It is the

Off to the library to renew my warfare and arab history books. Then I seriously need to come back and go jogging – haven’t done that in awhile. Boxing tomorrow. 100 pages by the 20th. In the meantime, here’s some more New Zealand goodness:

From American Progress… Something to keep in mind while CNN blares: ELECTION – NOT SUCH A MANDATE: Following President Bush’s victory over Sen. John Kerry on Tuesday, conservative media followed Vice President Cheney’s lead in declaring the election “a decisive mandate for Bush’s agenda, and mainstream media outlets have followed their lead.” In fact, the

Half-inched from misia If you happen to be working on some creative writing project, fanfiction or NaNoWriMo or what have you, post exactly one sentence from each of your current work(s) in progress in your journal. It should probably be your favourite or most intriguing sentence so far, but what you choose is entirely your

Here’s how the election would have panned out if it was up to all the under-30s who showed up on Tuesday. Obama is so winning in 2012.