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 […]
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Ah. Here’s a neat-o gallery of my favorite work-day inspirational posters: More at despair.com
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There’s something immensely satisfying about finding a successful author who finds their characters sitting around doing the same sorts of frustrating things that mine do, instead of furthering the plot: Dave McKean phoned me up today. I got unexpectedly testy when he commented on a couple of scenes in Mirrormask that were just two people
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“Any female[…] has had to work ten times as hard as her male counterpart to be accepted in their organization. She will be more able, will react quicker, and will generally be much more dangerous. Kill her first.” — Starr, “One Man’s War,” Preacher That’s the best quote ever. A great article on Geeky girls
Rox Populi points to this article about recommendations for the deployment of mixed-sex units alongside all-male units in the US military: The Nov. 29 briefing to senior Army officers at the Pentagon, presented as part of the service’s sweeping transformation of its 10 war-fighting divisions, advocates scrapping the military’s ban on collocation — the deployment
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Amanda’s got some thoughts on the latest round of the “weak Y chromosome” story at NPR. And I’ve got some counter-thoughts. I’ve heard people lamenting for awhile that the Y chromosome is “too small.” Mostly, it’s men who say this. I think this has something to do with the male preoccupation with size. Let’s be
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Learned how to do a jump kick last night. Well, sorta. OK, I figured out how to do the basics of a jump kick last night. You know that winning move at the end of The Karate Kid that Danny uses to win the match? It’s like that. Only, without the arms. We had an
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Because I wasn’t invited to today’s meeting. I have mixed feelings. That aside… here’s a yearly round-up questionairre via Vandermeer: 1. What did you do in 2004 that you’d never done before? Took up martial arts and boxing, started a blog, got a story published in Strange Horizons, got the most “this is a great
A Perfect Circle has a remix of Lennon’s “Imagine” (and, uh… check out the very familiar propaganda posters they’ve got scrolling over their front page. I laughed and laughed) I’m usually not a fan of remixes, but I’ve had this one on repeat all day.