September 2005

Dhalgren in New Orleans – what an old science-fiction novel can tell us about the Big Easy. Well, yea. Disaster novels will certainly have similiarites to, um, actual disasters.

Oh, look! Another hysterical “OMG, I FORGOT TO HAVE CHILDREN!!!” peice! Yarrr! Women who wait until their late 30s to have children are defying nature and risking heartbreak, leading obstetricians have warned. This assumes: 1) all women want to have children 2) not having children is heartbreaking 2) women don’t want to become pirates Yaarrr!

(via Sisyphus Shrugged, via Pharyngula)

Yarr! How I love ta’day’s new photoshopped header… Harrdy harr har Fuck, I just can’t stop laughing.

Arrrr! I will be catchin’ up on the e-mail me chiklits, so for those of you expectin’ mail from me, get yerselves a bottle o’ rum fer the mornin’ coffee and sit tight! Harrrdy harrr harr har

Arrrr! It’s that time o’ the yar agin me chiklits! Ta’day be talk like a pirate day! Check out me matey Pharyngula’s digs! It’s all pirate talkin’ all the time! Here be some excellent pirate loot.

I have 34 more chapters to line-edit by Friday. I’m on pass 3. Haven’t done much else this weekend except laundry, grocery shopping, reading the first chapters of all of the big fantasy sagas on my shelf, and trying to ignore the Lost marathon that Jenn & K are indulging in. Ignoring Lost has been

(via tempest)

And yet, why is it that something tells me the bisexuality has been there the whole time and isn’t something that has only recently come upon college co-eds? I’m interested in how common it becomes among both men and women to have sexual experiences with those of the same sex the more we take down

A study has found that the differences between men and women have been vastly overestimated… The American study found significant differences in only 22% of traits. These included sexual behaviour, where men were less willing to show commitment, and in aggression — men were more prone to anger. Men were also, the psychologists found, better