Month: April 2005

Student Cuisine

When I lived with MikeDitty, he introduced me to the wonders of “student gourmet” by combining PC White Cheddar Mac & Cheese with PC Jerk Sauce. It was an inspired bit of combination, resulting in something dramatically different from the student standby of regular old Kraft Dinner, but at only a marginal cost increase–and a bottle of jerk sauce could… Read more →

I have no ability to resist

Justina Robson: Living Next Door To The God Of Love Metropolis is a city of superheroes where you can become anyone you like – fight all day, party all night…Sankhara is a universe where everything is remade by night, according to the inhabitants’ deepest, darkest dreams…Koker Ai exists in another time and space, where Intana, less favoured courtesan in the… Read more →

Quick and Amusing

Best headline ever. Somewhere there is Fletch wannabe laughing at the headline he slipped past his editor. (I wonder if gnomes run to the underwater sanctuary to avoid this kind of violence.) * You know how sometimes when you’re writing up your Articles of Piracy you wish you had access to some really snazzy buccaneering fonts–just to make it look… Read more →

8 months already…

Wow. I can’t believe Sarah is already 8 months old. She’s definitely mobile now, and is on the verge of becoming an efficient crawler. She’s talking (in a special language that seems to be mostly made up of “ba”, “ga”, and “da”–which is fine with me because it includes “dada” a lot) and she totally sings. She is also the… Read more →

A couple of quick book links

If I convinced you to check out Stephan Zielinski‘s book Bad Magic with my review, or if you came to the book yourself by some other route, you will probably be interested in the interview with him that just popped up at the Agony Column (in both MP3 and That Vile Format). If you haven’t read the book the interview… Read more →

A few links on language and lexicons

Sometimes things seem to pop up in nice thematic clusters. For instance, I saw an interesting article on Cajun English at PBS (link via Brad Parker) that I found very interesting. Despite being subjected to abuse and stigmatization for many years, Cajun English speakers abound. Why would this be? Why would a dialect which was considered a mark of ignorance… Read more →

Hump Of Hate: Church & State

What could possibly be worse than the alignment of highly conservative political factions with fundamentalist Christianity? Xemu knows the answer to that question. As an aside, also from my Hump of Hate, even ignoring who this award was given to, doesn’t this sentence from the article encapsulate so much that is hate-worthy about North American society? Members of the group… Read more →

Hump Of Hate: Texas Textbooks

So, I’ve talked a lot about textbooks, primarily about the religously-motivated alterations of their content; most recently it was the homophobic alterations of Texas texts. Now I read in a post at Ambiguous.org that because a number of Southern states buy their texts as a bloc, lead by Texas, that the national publishers are self-censoring their content so that it… Read more →

Hump of Hate: Fascism Anyone?

A while back, Laurence Britt published an article in Free Inquiry magazine entitled “Fascism Anyone?”. In the article Britt looked at a number of fascist regimes (Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Franco’s Spain, Salazar’s Portugal, Papadopoulos’s Greece, Pinochet’s Chile, and Suharto’s Indonesia) and finds fourteen common characteristics of all of them. The “14 characteristics of fascism” from the article have spread… Read more →

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