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Stolen from Matt Cheney: Clarion East, one of the oldest and most prestigious SF-writing workshops, lost their university funding last year, and so they are holding an auction, where you can bid on remarkable items from people like Michael Bishop, Cory Doctorow, Harlan Ellison, Neil Gaiman, Jeff VanderMeer, Kate Wilhelm, and Connie Willis, among others. […]

Here’s a handy Buffy episode template for Season 3: something every young, aspiring slash fic writer should keep in their toolbox. Cold Opener: Buffy is on patrol. She kicks vampire butt, etc., then stumbles across a person[s] killed in a gruesome and emblematic manner. BUFFY: Ew. *cut to opening credits* Scene: The Library BUFFY: …and

[Brutal Women note: This was originally posted on 1/7/05: I am re-date stamping it for 1/27/05 to keep the comments current, as it’s received some interest.] Brendan’s found a couple of good articles. The one I want to tackle is this one about why feminists are afraid of fat: i.e. feminists want to be pretty,

I’ve been feeling for the last week or so that I’m fighting an uphill battle, and rapidly losing ground. I’ve had a number of freakouts lately (food binge twinges, exercise shrug-offs, early-to-bed “low” days, and two very, very uncommon twinges of claustraphobia – weirder still because they came within a couple weeks of each other),

Because I love putting faces to names in the blog world. Me and my mom, Christmas `04. My sister and her son, Christmas `04 Me and my maternal grandmother, when I was about 14. I like this one, as the family resemblence is uncanny 😉

Man, I hate writing up posts I don’t have the guts to make public. Oh well. Another one for the draft stack. These things are piling up…

The other day, Jenn told me that a friend of hers said I might be interested in this story: Apparently, this woman, a grad student, was prescribed Zoloft and not told at the time that it was known to cause decreased sexual desire in women. In fact, when men are prescribed Zoloft and Prozac now,

Ah. Wonkette: 10:02 Bush starts reading before he gets behind podium. Clearly would rather be elsewhere. Rather be being interviewed by Dan Rather. 10:03 Iraqi freedom will require “commitment of generations,” i.e., “We will be drafting your grandchildren.” 10:04 “There has been enormous sacrifice by some of our citizens.” No one i know, of course,

From Pandagon: —————- Black People Gonna Die Watch: Day 1 The BPGD Watch is a new feature of Pandagon, featuring the best of Bush administration nonchalantness about the shorter life expectancies of black Americans, particularly black men. In addition to Bush’s skillful huggery and head-rubbery of darker-skinned Americans, he’s shown a remarkable propensity to accept

I’ve been paying particular attention to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios v. Grokster case on whether or not file-swapping services are at fault if their users decide to download copyrighted files. Same thing VCR manufacturers had to go through ages ago. And Grokster should continue to get the same verdict that the VCR manufacturers got. It’s all