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Celestial Introspection Redux
Recent forum chat about astrology reminded me of this, so I figured I'd try it again, as I still find astrology weirdly interesting. Chart here is from astro dot cafeastrology dot com. Also, is it just me or do they talk about sex kind of a lot? Is... is this chart hitting on me ( Read more... ) -
Apologies / Princess Mononoke
O hai LJ. Sorry I've been away so long. I've even failed in my stated intention to mirror the things I post up on mhuzzell.wordpress.com. I'll catch up on that at some point soon (though I'll probably back-date them, so I don't know whether that would put them in your feeds or not ( Read more... ) -
Bike of Theseus
Apparently there's a Yiddish word, farpotshket, meaning "broken because someone tried to fix it", or according to one translation, "totally ruined in the attempt to fix a minor error". Which is kind of what I have just done to my bicycle, though not quite. (Though, FWIW, it was the entirety of my experience with orthodontia and also antidepressants ( Read more... ) -
Overthinking Folk Songs: Geordie
Having listened to Maddy Prior & June Tabor's album 'Silly Sisters' several times at work the other day, I found myself with their version of Geordie stuck in my head -- only, annoyingly, I couldn't remember all the words, so had just snippets. Thinking to exorcise it through fuller knowledge, I opened up a songbook, Rise Up Singing, that I knew ( Read more... ) -
Identity Politics
I was born in the '80s, which means I was a child during the '90s. I remember them, but with the perspective of a child; I saw things on the news; I overheard grownups and parroted their opinions. I didn't start to become politically aware in my own right until the early '00s, and didn't start to become an 'activist' until midway through ( Read more... ) -
Rape Culture and the Occupy X Protests
Cross-posted from my less personal blog. If you want to link please use this one: http://mhuzzell.wordpress.com/2011/11/03/rape-culture-and-the-occupy-x-protests/ Like many feminists, I've been incredibly dismayed not only at the flood ( Read more... ) -
The Justification Game, or Playing Evolutionary Psychology Against Itself
There's been some recent patter over at aberwyn's journal about cultural ideas of male and female sexuality and the differences therein, &c., where she characterised evolutionary psych as follows ( Read more... ) -
Faith and Reason
I finished watching Star Trek: Deep Space 9 recently, which means I finally get to talk about it. There may be some spoilers below, but I'll keep them out of the first part and put the rest under a cut.
Terry Eagleton's latest book, Reason, Faith and Revolution* argues that most atheists are missing the point when discussing a 'belief in God', ( Read more... ) -
Oh hello LJ
It's been a while. I've been reading you, and putting nothing in.
I think perhaps I just have very little to say -- and have been saying more to people in meat-space and not to you.
Merry Christmas, anyway.
