This is not as organized as it should be, but it is already too long and too far late, and migraine or no migraine it needs to be out there, I say in all humility--
All the leaves are brown
And the sky is grey
I went for a walk
On a winter's day
I'd be safe and warm
If I was in L.A.
California dreamin'
On such a winter's day
"Mel Gibson isn't an ( Read more... )

George Will is one of those "nice," "decent," oh-so-respectable conservative pundits, who has that reputation in part because he's older than dirt, and in part because he presents a carefully-cultivated Casper Milquetoast facade, like David "Morally-Hazardous" Brooks and Tucker Carlson and Jim Lileks. He is of the pious, simpering school of ( Read more... )

Does anyone know how to find out if the founders of Coldstone Creamery still have stock in the company?

Sorry, but if you believe, against all objective evidence, that a very small, unorganized minority of people from across all walks of life, social classes, ethnic groups, religious backgrounds and political alleigances united only by a shared nonconformity which cannot be shown (objectively, again) to be any more harmful to other individuals than ( Read more... )

The one who tells the stories rules the world.
--Hopi proverb"Intersectionality" is one of those words that, like "dynamic", can seem to be (and is sometimes used as) a meaningless buzzword, but which really does have meaning and is a useful descriptor for discussion purposes, namely of the fact that the world is not a bunch of separate unrelated ( Read more... )

...that a small bunch of fans got together and put together their own fanfic archive - it has been known to happen, now and again - volunteering their time and using a donation model to pay for bandwidth and server space and it gets a number of submissions and a bit of a name among all the other fanfic archives out there, but it's not a household ( Read more... )

Big surprise, this:

via Tobias Buckell again, I see this a.m. that Sanders has:
1. Minitrued his 'pantiwadulous' insult to Yoon Ha Lee and Nora Jemisin, in keeping with his rep for doing this - apparently unaware that people who get reps for retconning their faux pas also get screencaps;

2. Has now decided that he's going to charge people $40 to ( Read more... )

That's a Shorter William Sanders, responding to Yoon Ha Lee's request that Helix take down her story from their archive in rx to his bigot eruption the other day. You can read the longer version here on her LJ, in which he declares that he never liked it really, he only bought her story 'cause he was TRYING to be more diverse in his publication, ( ( Read more... )

In comments at Tobias Buckell's blog, the author of the story which got the infamous Sanders rejection letter states:

To be perfectly honest, my Muslim extremist was to a large degree BASED ON those very zealots in the Asimov’s Political/Religious Discussion, as well as religious right extremists in my own extended family.
IOW, he was just ( Read more... )

If I were to construct a scene, one of those humorous sketches perhaps, in which a media gatekeeper praises a writer for being courageous and perceptive enough to portray their story's villain as utterly one-dimensional, lacking in any tragic virtues whatsoever, without any personal motivation other than his essential evilness, when said villain is ( Read more... )