I write a Christmas "special"  of my almost acceptable detective noir series:

Bearing Gifts part one of four

So, my attempts at World Domination via the method of gender-flip detective noir weeklies* continues!

http://www.badreputation.org.uk/2010/11/12/king-losers-weepers-chapter-four/

Writing fiction like this - is a new venture for me. I'm very ( Read more... )

I get all excited about solidarity and the Fawcett society

http://www.badreputation.org.uk/2010/10/22/making-laws-count-together/

So, that blog I write for? I thought I'd attempt my own personal take on the noir detective serialised novel.

http://www.badreputation.org.uk/2010/10/22/king-losers-weepers-chapter-one/

I wrote another bit of soapbox ranting...

http://www.badreputation.org.uk/2010/10/15/manolo-inferno/

I am also writing stuff here:

http://www.badreputation.org.uk/2010/10/06/fathers-4-feminism/

Have a look at the site - there's lots of cool stuff, including art posts, stories, reviews and not just me standing on my soapbox.

So, as a kind of companion piece to this post and as a general "hurrah!" - also as proof that I don't just bitch about the Awful State Of Things but can hand out credit where credit's due (in my self-nominated positions as arbiter of taste, Grand High Poobah of forward thinking Art and Captain of the Seekrit PC Brigade*)

This is my list of 10 comics ( Read more... )

Back at work, where almost everything that could go wrong, did go wrong including resignations, a mind-boggling report to write in under a week with incomplete sets of data and no way of filling them* and sundry broken items (the email server being a personal favourite).

But on the plus side, I have some young female artists in the building working ( Read more... )

I think that, when left to my own devices and without work to distract me, I revert back to my natural state of Very Angry Feminist.

This is another "gendered food" failure.

Things to do when you are ill No. 47 - Complain to Marks and Spencers

I've been watching a lot of TV. That includes adverts. The current one working it's way up my nose is this ( Read more... )

I make no apologies. The 7th doctor is my doctor. I remember being terrified of the Happiness Patrol long before I was old enough to understand how terrified I should have been - as a milk-free child growing up in a Northern town - of Thatcher. Ace was everything I wanted to be when I grew up, she took no nonsense, went everywhere,, did everything ( Read more... )