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If you try and sell a Star Wars fanfic novel, you’re doing so in violation of copyright law and George Lucas is going to have your ass for lunch. Fucking idiot. (via Nick)

Who invents these women? Do they not read history books? I’m remembering an anecdote Joanna Russ relayed in which one of her female students said, “I wish things could go back to the way they were in the 50s. Our roles and choices were so much easier.” Russ wanted to take her by the shoulders

One of the guys in the office just asked me in the breakroom: 1) “How much weight have you lost?” and 2) “How did you do it?” I replied: 1) “I have no idea” and 2) “I lift weights and eat a lot.” Yea. It’s getting to be a tougher and tougher question to answer.

I have a confession to make: I eat a lot. I eat more now than I can remember eating in the past. Or maybe I did eat more in the past, but I ate it in three daily gorge-fests. In any case, despite or because of the fact that I eat so much, I’m still

Oh dear lord: Ladies, You Should Know Better: How feminism wages war on common sense. I’ve been meaning to write a post about rape for some time, because it’s all over the feminist blogs. When preppy white boys are accused of crimes that far too many people think are only committed by “sociopaths” or blond

Well, Yellow’s last day is Friday. I’m going to miss that dorky motorcycle riding guy. Yellow’s resignation is the latest in a long string of rats fleeing from a burning cane field: the head of our entire branch of the org, Mr. Dollar, resigned two months ago. My dearest boss ever (who once brought *me*

List ten favorite novelists: 1) Mary Renault2) Angela Carter3) Joanna Russ4) Ernest Hemingway5) Rupert Thomson6) Honore De Balzac7) Isabel Allende8) Jacqueline Carey (I forgive her for Banewrecker)9) Gene Wolfe10) George R.R. Martin List ten favorite nonfiction authors: 1) Jared Diamond2) Barbara Ehrenreich3) Naomi Wolfe4) Elaine Scarry5) Thomas W. Laqueur 6) Joseph Campbell7) Louise White8) Antjie

Halfway done with tDW line edits. The first third have been input into the text. Clipping along nicely. Can’t wait until this is out to readers so I can concentrate on God’s War again.

We just need to leave our cars in the garage, stroll down to the park, and play some softball with our neighbors on a Saturday. We just need to enjoy every last bite of our home-baked birthday cakes, then have some oatmeal for breakfast the next morning. We need to resist the pressure to overwork

1/3 of line edits done for tDW. Also, my credit card debt – including buying my emergency computer and the balance left on the old computer – is down to $5700. If I can get that under 1K someday, that would be oh so sweet. And does anyone remember the day when the government actually