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No, I haven’t read it yet, but Catherynn M. Valente’s The Labyrinth is out, and it looks hellacool. I get paid on Friday…. From Publishers Weekly In Valente’s surreal, image-driven first novel, centered on the Greek myth of the Minotaur, a female Theseus details the bizarre landscape of the Minotaur’s maze and its unique flora […]

Had a pretty good boxing class last night, and met Sifu Dino for the first time. He generally teaches on Tues. and Thurs. but he was out last week, so I didn’t bump into him (last week was the first time I was doing classes in addition to my usual Mon/Weds). He seems cool, very

My buddy Jenn forwarded me a reading list for Duke University’s military history majors and minors. To be fair, this was a reading list compiled in 1995, and the note at the top says the instructor was compiling a 1999 list, but I can’t find it, and h-net (a big history geeks list) is still

I admit it – this one’s from a wacky little nut (anti-semitic, too?), but it deeply amuses me. Can’t you just see it? We’re not at war! We’re supporting Israel’s fight against terrorism! I kept wondering how on earth we were going to figure out how to go to war with Iran. I mean, hell,

Here’s another great electoral map, this one is running data based on the day’s current polls. It’s cool. Kerry was at 280 to 254 yesterday, down today 260 to 274. Fun to watch.

Had an exhausting class last night – Mondays are always a bitch, because I’m coming back to it after a break. We were doing the classic Monday cardio and technique class, three minutes of jump roping, then three minutes of bag work, one two, one two, then some pushups, back to ropes and bags, then

I stumbled on this over at Hugo’s place. It’s by Sharon Olds, and after reading this, I’ll be picking up some of her stuff. Just beautiful. Sex Without Love How do they do it, the ones who make love without love? Beautiful as dancers, gliding over each other like ice-skaters over the ice, fingers hooked

Run your own Test Election. This Electoral College crap has got to go. Via jed

Is it really neccessary to bring *more* food into a workplace where we all sit on our asses all day and read blogs and check our email incessently? Oh, fuck it. I’ve got kickboxing four days this week. I’m eating another bagel. Bastards.

Amanda’s picking apart our trusty MSN advice columns again. This time, MSN is trying to aid those poor, poor middle-aged men seeking 18-year-old sweethearts. Poor, poor boys. — William, 45, has always dated younger women. It was only recently, however, that he detected a pattern in those relationships. “I end up raising them — helping