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“Yes, Clarissa thinks, it’s time for the day to be over. We throw our parties; we abandon our families…; we struggle to write books that do not change the world, despite our gifts and our unstinting efforts, our most extravagent hopes. We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep – it’s […]

Put in almost 2.5 miles on the treadmill, without really getting tired. And wow, do I feel a lot better. They’ve had shitty food in our warroom the last two days, and the Boys are living on brownies, and I haven’t done any exercise beyond get out of my chair for two days. Endorphins are

Feministe has a post up about the man-hating feminist myth and the “has feminism gone too far?” argument that men like to argue about – you know: feminism must be going too far not because we’re making more money than men or are able to keep tabs on our reproductive health without legal or social

I’m so incredibly bored. I’m an under-utilized resource. The good news is: I’m being paid for it.

“It is better to be careful 100 times than to get killed once.” – Mark Twain I know I don’t belong here, because I’d say: “It is better to die once for something grand than to live a hundred years doing nothing.” I’m such the romantic.

There are days when I’m embarrassed to be an American. Days when Americans with all of the best intentions don’t do their homework, and end up looking like idiots. Why do we keep doing this? Why do we keep going into places to “fix” things without doing our homework? I was asked in a previous

Turned on CNN, and found one of the Iraqi presidential candidates using all the catch phrases, “pockets of resistance,” “free and fair elections,” “cival war,” “if Osama Bin Laden, Zalawi and Saddam don’t want us to have elections, then we have to have them,” etc. My favorite, “All we have to do is make sure

Thoughts on fantasy fiction, from China Mieville. Also, Vandermeer is back from hiatus, and blogging again. Yay.

All day meeting (as a nice addendum to yesterday’s desire post, I spent most of one presenter’s speech deciding whether or not I’d go to bed with him. This made it really difficult to take notes), Blaine took off early, Yellow’s not there, and the expected and much-hyped big drunken dinner is apparently big-wig invite

“Well, we still have zero visibility in Denver, but we think we might have figured out what’s wrong with the equipment here in the cockpit, so we’re just going to go ahead and attempt a landing.” At this point, you’ve just got to sit back, relax, and turn up your CD player. In fact, the