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Hot damn, Kelly Link’s story collection Stranger Things Happen is now available for free under a Creative Commons license… If you like what you read, why not go out and buy a copy, or check out her new one? I plan to. And the uber-scarily taleted Simon Owens (21 and rocking the house) has another […]

Did anyone else assume we’d gotten past that whole “mankind,” “man,” “where no man has gone before” stuff with Star Trek the Next Generation? I mean, I really thought that narrators in the future would mention, also, that women did things, built things, and genernally contributed to the formation of society, seeings as women, like,

It’s one of those days where I want to fast-forward things a bit and get to that beach house of mine filled with books, already. Patience, patience.

Really. Damn, why do I feel so tired?

Alaska is changing by the hour. From the far north, where higher seas are swamping native villages, to the tundra around Fairbanks, where melting permafrost is forcing some roads and structures to buckle in what looks like a cartoon version of a hangover, to the rivers of ice receding from inlets, warmer temperatures are remaking

Who’da thought? Neat.

Thoughts?

Ooogg, what a morning. Feeling groggy and sleep-deprived. Also, need cofffeeeee and some water. Came home and cleaned the house for the apartment showing we had and the bunches that are today and spent the rest of the nigh hashing out some stuff with Jenn. B’s flying in tomorrow, so I figure I’ll wash the

Everywhere you go, you can buy skin whitening cream. I had one women come up to me and compliment me on my skin tone: “So beautiful, so white.” I shudder mightily.

Over the past decade, Iran’s best-selling fiction lists have become dominated by women, an unprecedented development abetted by recent upheavals in Iranian society. The number of women who have published novels has reached 370, said Hassan Mirabedini, a scholar of Iranian literature, whose findings recently appeared in the magazine Zanan (Women). That is 13 times