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Had my first sparring class yesterday. Ended up being 3 hours worth of classes, as I showed up for pilates at 10:15, and the sparring class wasn’t until noon, so I had an hour of pilates, an hour of boxing (partnered mitts), and then an hour of sparring. Do you have any idea how badly […]

Read the original here. Read the “find and replace” version below: MIXED Sexualities AND MIXED Marriages by Herbert Ravenel Sass (From The Atlantic Monthly, circa 1956) WHAT may well be the most important physical fact in the story of the United States is one which is seldom emphasized in our history books. It is the

Off to the library to renew my warfare and arab history books. Then I seriously need to come back and go jogging – haven’t done that in awhile. Boxing tomorrow. 100 pages by the 20th. In the meantime, here’s some more New Zealand goodness:

From American Progress… Something to keep in mind while CNN blares: ELECTION – NOT SUCH A MANDATE: Following President Bush’s victory over Sen. John Kerry on Tuesday, conservative media followed Vice President Cheney’s lead in declaring the election “a decisive mandate for Bush’s agenda, and mainstream media outlets have followed their lead.” In fact, the

Half-inched from misia If you happen to be working on some creative writing project, fanfiction or NaNoWriMo or what have you, post exactly one sentence from each of your current work(s) in progress in your journal. It should probably be your favourite or most intriguing sentence so far, but what you choose is entirely your

Here’s how the election would have panned out if it was up to all the under-30s who showed up on Tuesday. Obama is so winning in 2012.

It’s cheaper than London, and less people live there. Auckland is a lot like Seattle. It’ll be like an episode of “Lost” – only, with cities. Anyhow, I’m outta here. Taking tomorrow off to stay home and write, because really, you can only play so many rounds of Xuma.

“She wanted to be the heroine of her own life.” – Carol Emshwiller While on the phone with my dad last night, discussing my virulent rants here on Brutal Women, he asked me why I started this blog. There are several reasons for it: 1) I get to meet new and interesting people 2) I

It’s a lovely rainy November day here in Chi-town, and Al-jazeera has some news about Bush’s cabinet reshuffling (Colin Powell has had enough, and it’s rumoured that Rumsfeld is leaving), and here’s a neat 10 things the Chinese do better than we do from the Globe & Mail, and a boingboing reader sent in a

Deep breath. I’m home. No more bagels. My headache’s gone. I’m less nauseous. OK. Thoughts from Amp: The big mistake the Democrats, and most of the left, made was to believe that by winning elections we will change the country. Just the opposite is true. It is only by changing the country that we will