I was watching my new favorite TV show and I cried. Once my eyes had stopped dripping, my ears started to. I immediately administered Q-tips. But it reminded me that I frequently end up with fall-out from crying that is not limited to my eyes. Apparently, there is a reason they’re called ear, nose, & […]

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if not on fire.
This article made me think of people who claim that Afirmative Action is no longer needed, or that women have come so far as to be equal so feminism is archaic. If that were true, this year’s Super Bowl would not “make history”; if that were true, this article would not even […]

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Bush v. Choice has designated today, January 22, 2007 as the second annual Blog for Choice Day. The theme is “tell us, and your readers, why you’re pro-choice.” I don’t think that any great political feat will be accomplished by this, but I do believe that creating a forum (or hundreds of blogger fora) to […]

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So, last night, my apartment caught fire. I don’t mean my apartment as in, “the rooms in which I live” but the rooms in which someone else lives in the building in which all of our rooms are. So, an apartment in my apartment complex (which I refer to generally as “my apartment” although my […]

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The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
Witness the second little fruit of my resolution to review every book I read this year! It’s also evidence of my current Steampunk kick.
The Difference Engine is a poster-child of Steampunk, and Steampunk is a visually rich sub-genre. Anime and film capture, for example, the armored, […]

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Jana just told me about the death of Iris Chang. I was already melancholy, but now I’m on the verge of tears as I write this.
I met her in 1998 when she was on a tour promoting her book, The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II. I knew about […]

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Geography: What do Texas and Canada, Kansas and Malaysia, Hawaii and Nigeria have in common? The answer can be found in a map that matches the GDP of various nations of the world with the 50 states.
Trend: According to the New York Times, for the first time ever more than half of American women […]

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I have an account over at Yelp, which is how I found Rutabegorz. It asks questions to help people get to know me (it’s like myspace for restaurants, instead of music). I regularly go in and change my answers. For example, one is, “What’s the most recent interesting book you’ve read?” to which my answer […]

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One of my current favorite TV shows is Brothers & Sisters (after Desperate Housewives Sundays on ABC…I don’t actually know the time it’s on, that’s what I have TiVo for). It’s about a woman, her 5 children (her husband died in the first episode), her brother, and her husband’s mistress. I guess it’s a late-night, […]

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Jana has written her reflections on her chapter of Bart Ehrman’s Misquoting Jesus. Go there to discuss the introduction. Discussion links will also be kept under the “Book Group Selection” at the bottom of the left sidebar.
For all of you who volunteered to blog about a chapter: email me (fierymind at gmail, etc.) […]

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