December 2004

I’ve got a couple posts up at Alas, A Blog. Come join the fun.

Stuck in corp. meetings all day. More tonight.

Starting tomorrow, I will be guest blogging over at the always-amazing Alas, A Blog. My partner-in-guest-blogging crime will be Lauren of Feministe. I’ll be doing some crossposting; hopefully producing a good post a day over at Alas in addition to my usual mixed bag of goodness over here. Should be fun. Hope to see you

Philobiblon has a post up about unisex sport/women in sport (one can’t have an interest in women in war and not keep one eye on women in sport), which I’ll be addressing tomorrow. In the mean time, I’ve got a painter story I need to work on. Today’s story reject was from an editor who

Must. Contain. Myself. (why the fuck does Jenn send me these links? Satire? Or not? Want to wage a guess?) The Fellowship Baptist Creation Science Fair is a fair that promotes children’s interest in science from a Creationist perspective. Sounds great, doesn’t it? Of course, I thought, nodding happily along, we must include all views

Thanks to all those coming in via Alas, A Blog (thanks for blogrolling me, Amp) and Pharyngula. And, as usual, hello to everybody reading offsite at the LJ feminist forums and friends’ lists. Good to have you here.

Had a nightmare last night that Yellow found this blog. Really must rein in my work posts. I have a history of prescient dreaming.

I’ve been keeping up with Jeff Jarvis over at buzzmachine and his research into complaints about television programming, FCC censorship, and the like. What’s interested me about it is just how few crazies it takes to freak out networks, sponsers, and get television shows slapped with FCC fines. Just how few does it take? In

John Rickards, “making a shameless bid for linkage again” posted some thoughts on why writers write. Being someone who makes a living writing crime novels, he went straight for the jugular: To quote ‘Fight Club’, “You’re not your job”. And that, when it comes down to it, is what writing professionally is. It’s a job.

I was channel surfing last night and saw a familiar-looking room getting decorated for the holidays. I paused and realized where it was — First Lady Laura Bush appeared on screen looking perfectly coiffed and dainty, hands folded demurely in her lap. Ah. Yes. The Lady’s House. I had found HGTV’s special on the decorating