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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

My buddy Jenn and I went to brunch over at Mary Anne’s yesterday and ate good food and talked shop. I also had the opportunity to meet Jennifer Stevenson, who wrote the recently released trash sex magic. We talked about selling novels – it apparently took Jennifer about twenty years to sell hers – and

Here’s the final word on nutrition and health. It’s a relief to know the truth after all those conflicting medical studies: 1. The Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than the Americans, British or Canadians. 2. The Mexicans eat a lot of fat and also suffer fewer heart attacks than the

Matt Cheney’s got a great post up – What if the Presidential debates were run by SF fans? They might go something like this: MODERATOR: Welcome to the first World Science Fiction Presidential Debate, sponsored by Tor Books and Baen Books. Let’s start right off. What do you think about the threat of clones and/or

Bear with me, as I am resurfacing from the land of the dead… Only to read via mousewords about a woman’s “romantic” memoir about her discovery of self through sodomy: “You open your ass and you open your mind and you open your heart.” WTF? Oh. She’s from New York. I mean, what kind of

Me: Hey, Jenn, I just finished the copy of Zelazny’s Guns of Avalon that you loaned me. My buddy Jenn: Great! How did you like it? Me: It was cool. Zelazny does in 200 pages what all these other writers do in a ten book series. Though, if we put Martin into that category… I’d

I’m finishing up Angela Carter’s Heroes & Villains (which I enjoy because it’s – because it’s Angela Carter), and there’s this quote at the beginning: “Ou fuir, dans un pays inconnu, desert, ou habite par des betes feroces, et par des sauvages aussi barbares qu’elles?” Now, my grandmother is from France (she was a war