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Just Call Me Tina

The IT boys have decided they should just call me Tina… Tina the Tech Writer: She’s the technical writer in Dilbert’s engineering department. Tina believes any conversation within hearing distance is intended as an insult to her profession and her gender. She strives to maintain her dignity while surrounded by engineers who don’t have a […]

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Is it September Yet?

This whole hang-out-with-your-boyfriend-five-times-a-year thing? Tough. Manageable, and works for us, but tough. Particularly the last couple weeks at the tail end of the three month stretches. Tough. Good thing I’ve got so much shit to do.

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Um

“Now, being a predominantly fantasy writer, I don’t often deal with race (as we know it, I mean) in my writing.” Ummmmm. Um? Are there any other fantasy writers out there who consciously write work that they believe “doesn’t deal” with race? For serious? I mean, SERIOUSLY?

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Please Do Edify Me…

As to why it is that 80% of the time you read one of those “Americans are all so FAT!” articles that the only gender whose FATNESS is measured from one decade to the next is… women? You can’t tell me that it’s about “AMERICANS” who are getting fatter and nobody did any comparisons on

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eXistenZ

Sorry, movie-makers, I already read the Chris Priest novel with the similiar name, and it was way better. It even got written a year earlier, minus the silly sexual “game pod” imagery and with actual characters.

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Letting Go

One of the hardest parts about writing professionally; that is, writing in the corporate world, is letting go of things you know you could do better if you just had more time. Deadlines come hard and fast. You often don’t have enough information to work with (and sometimes you’re just making up filler with no

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Buy Me "Love"

Fantastic documentary about Japanese “host bars” where women go to pay men to entertain them (and certainly, sometimes, more). You really should watch the whole thing. I thought the film maker did a great job exploring a number of the complexities involved in this kind of work from the perspective of the hosts and clients

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