Ok, so I haven’t done a journal upate in a long time, and I think it’s high time that I posted an update about my projects and stuff. It’s my blog after all.

I’ve been working a lot, which is a good thing. Also I think some ( Read more... )

I’ve written before about why I use a pseudonym and about the importance of naming, but there one aspect of this whole “being tycho” thing that I’ve never really articulated, mostly because I think they’re hard to explain.

And then the entry sat in an open window on my desktop for the better part of a week.

Let this be a lesson to you. Don’t ( Read more... )

One of the best things that happened to me during college was that I discovered and got involved in the Women’s and Gender Studies program at my school. Though I went to college very interested in gender and sexuality stuff I’m not sure that I ever really intended to come out of the experience with a second major in Women’s Studies, but I did, and ( Read more... )

This post grows out of a sort of smoldering rant that I’ve been having for a while now. As I sit here at one of these synthetic moments when I’m trying to figure out how past interests and experiences build up to the future-how do the things that I loved so much in college affect life/me now?-the purpose of social/literary theory (”philosophy with ( Read more... )

So part of my job deals with listening to interviews conducted as part of a documentary about the civil rights movement. So as a result I get to hear all sorts of people talk about the civil rights movement, with a bunch of different perspectives. From people who knew and worked with Martin Luther King personally, to liberal (and radical) white ( Read more... )

A year ago, I read a book on the history of academic women’s studies called: “When Women Ask the Questions: Creating Women’s Studies in America,” by Marilyn J. Boxer. While I’m sure some of my classmates would describe the book as staid and boring, I thought it was bearable at the least. I’m sure they’ll all comment if I miss the mark on this one, ( Read more... )

Overheard this past week:

“I think because queers (guys specifically) mostly don’t get a chance to be teenagers-with the flirting and the sex experimentation and what not-when they’re actually teenagers, we spend a lot of time after we’re teenagers fumbling through our love lives acting like teenagers even though we know it’s not right, because we ( Read more... )

So there’s this book of knitting patterns called “classic knits for real women”

I am naturally hesitant to get behind a book that’s presupposes some notion of “real womanhood,” right? but this book has middle aged women on the cover which bodes well (white, admittedly, though it’s a British publication from a pretty rurally located company). 1

And ( Read more... )

With a title like the “Daily Grind,” I suspect you’re expecting a post about how I’m acclimating to my new 9-5 job. Wrong. I think this one is more about publishing schedules in new media, but, it’s probably a lot more connected than I want to think about.

I suppose first off, I should cop to the fact that I am totally guilty-when I know I’m going ( Read more... )

I said that I’d write a post about headphones, given my latest headphone recovery project. I have a few thoughts about this so here goes…

I think having a good set of reasonably isolating headphones is one of the most important pieces of technology that an aspiring writer should have. Not ear buds, I’m talking big, over the ear headphones that ( Read more... )