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I left work early yesterday and milled around Borders for a crappy gift-exchange gift for our office Christmas lunch today. I find these gift-exchange Secret Santa things kinda crappy. Basically, everybody goes out and finds some really crappy junk gifts and passes them around, and you open them, smile nicely, and then promptly go home […]

Titled, appropriately, “Earthsea in Clorox,” or A Whitewashed Earthsea: How the Sci Fi Channel Wrecked My Books. snip: I had just seen Mr Halmi’s miniseries Dreamkeeper with its stunning Native American cast, so I said to them in a phone conversation, hey, maybe Mr Halmi will cast some of those great actors in Earthsea! —

Here’s an interview with Hilary Swank, who trained four and a half hours a day, six days a week, for three months to get into boxing shape for “Million Dollar Baby” – the latest troubled-woman-boxer-will-kick-your-ass-movie. What bugs me about these interviews of ass-kicking heroines is this need the interviewer feels to remind the audience that

So, Earthsea’s got a token black guy in a world that’s supposed to have a token white chick. Oh well. And now we have Pullman’s work getting savaged, too. For fear of wingnuts. Wingnuts. All twelve of them. What the fuck is genre fiction supposed to be all about? Why write this crap, when it’s

Sometimes, I’m just sad. Cristina translated a piece by Mircea C?rt?rescu from Romanian to English called “A Few Reasons Why We Love Women,” and then she posted her own response, “A Few Reasons Why We Love Men.” Now, before I start, please know this about me: I did find some of this very sweet. I’m

So, my roomie is outta here for the holidays (not that it’ll be all that different around the house – she and her SO have been connected at the hip for the last two weeks, so I haven’t seen much of her. They’re terribly cute), which means I’m going to be watching a lot of

This morning I was forwarded an “all users” message from our health & safety department. Was this a reminder about wearing a hard hat on construction sites, or properly lifting boxes by using your legs so you don’t throw out your back? A lesson in ergonomics? Or perhaps it was just the usual holiday reminder

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How about a show of hands from everyone who gives a shit that Alien’s Ripley would be played by a 55-year-old woman? Anyone? Apparently, Hollywood’s concerned about it. Um. Hello? Sigourney Weaver, dude, ass-kicking heroine extraordinaire. Not only do I not care if she *is* 55, I’d appreciate it if she *looked* 55 and went