Of the top 3 scroogle scraped google hits for the search "manscara", were two predictably androsexist ha-ha funny columns in UK newspapers (the worse of which was in the usually high quality Guardian), and a short article that penetrated to the heart of the matter published at the fashion site styledash.com. The styledash article, focuses not the ( Read more... )

For some reason, I distrust Facebook (which I use once a year or so :-p) more than I do myspace (which I use once a weekish). Myspace is crass and transparently commercialized, and -- as evidenced by the number of unreadable layouts -- in many ways remains the space of the users. I fear that facebook has gone from a tool that lets users communicate ( Read more... )

Time Magazine has a special issue out on romance. The articles are rather silly for the most part, but just as I was getting annoyed at the heterosexual monogamous assumptions in them, bless their hearts they actually has an article looking at the differences among gay, lesbian and straight couples. Nice ( Read more... )

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Pakistan, Burma, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, sub-prime madness, a mad president (choose the sense of that word that befits your politics), recession, wildfires, climate change. the news ain't good ( Read more... )

polyamory robs many conventional stories of their dramatic tension. take the return of the king movie, that i saw today: aragorn clearly felt for eowyn, so why couldn't he have simply given her some loving healing? what? it's nobler in the mind for a healer to stay chaste and let a cherished companion suffer? maybe he just wasn't that into her.

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I feel slightly bad that I didn't write in support of the Chocolate naked Jesus Figure "my sweet lord" whose display in a NYC hotel's art gallery has been stopped ( Read more... )