I woke up early this morning, having had a nightmare that Brexit had won, and decided to get up to see the news, since when I went to bed last night it looked like Remain would win. So much for that: it looks like the nightmare is real. (I am devastated and worried; I've also made an appointment to apply for UK citizenship, since I doubt that ( Read more... )

I can't believe it's been quite so long since I updated! Sorry ( Read more... )

Due to my childcare arrangements I end up pushing an empty stroller (pushchair) through central Oxford on a regular basis; this means that I get the "I think you've lost someone..." joke equally regularly. (This joke NEVER GETS OLD for some people.) My usual response is an exaggerated "OMG I left the baby on the bus!" routine, which makes ( Read more... )

I was going to post about my response to ibarw (International Blog Against Racism Week; visit the comm for links and discussion), and kept putting it off, because I get the sense that people's feelings are still rather raw, and goodness knows we don't need another round of "those Italians/Hungarians/Russians/Protestants/whatevers beat up my grandparents ( Read more... )

Via the_grynne, a piece on anti-American sentiment in Europe; I thought it was interesting, probably because it confirms what I've always believed to be the case, that anti-Americanism has at least as much to do with internal European politics as with whatever America is or isn't doing on the world stage. I don't think that this is a particularly popular ( Read more... )

A guy I knew once had this cartoon over his desk: a TV news anchor behind a desk, and the text was something like, "Doctors have reported discovering the cure for cancer, and peace has broken out in the Middle East. Meanwhile, in Northern Ireland ( Read more... )

So somebody decided that this was "blog about racism week," or maybe "blog against racism week." See here for further details and a list of posts. I had a kind of cranky "this is a bad week for me to blog about racism, actually," moment, but then I decided to post something anyway.

coffeeandink has a post about ways to suppress discussion of racism. I ( Read more... )

... or, vaznetti breaks that self-imposed rule about talking about politics ( Read more... )

::waving hello from the library:: I am not in fact dead or missing, but we got a shiny new computer yesterday, and I may spend all my leisure time between now and 2010 playing computer games on it to enjoy its huge screen ( Read more... )

I think that gabby_silang tagged me for this meme, so here are six songs which might be described as my favorites (usual caveats apply, with the addition that I have little faith in my own taste in music):

Indigo Girls, Chickenman: I am convinced that this song is about McKillip's Riddle-Master trilogy, although I'm not sure what the thing about the dog and ( Read more... )