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And… here’s the fire in the Chicago Loop that was blocking traffic last night as I tried to get home from kickboxing. I’d never seen so many firetrucks and so many diverted taxi cabs in one place before. This is the second highrise fire they’ve had in the year I’ve been here (that one also […]

Contraception Museum opens (via boingboing). In Ohio, of all places. They’ve also got a flash presentation of “Obstetric Literature and the Changing Character of Childbirth.” If the coils don’t make you cringe… And I snickered when I read the intro to their collection: “Birthing is a normal, yet extraordinary event that has been with us

I don’t care if people write conservative SF, but when they start trying to make a “movement” out of a masturbatory molehill, and start writing up frickin “manifestos” I get really frickin’ irked. You need a manifesto in order to write fiction? Shit, why didn’t anyone ever tell me sooner! I better start writing my

This is an old joke, actually. The first Euro trip I did was with a bunch of kids from our high school theatre, and we teamed up with a group of rowdy Canadians for much of the trip, meaning we shared transport and rooms with them. And let me tell you, everything you suspect about

Had a good MA class tonight. 2 min kicking techniques, 1 minute jump roping, repeat for 45 minutes. Great fun, actually. I had a good partner. Also, always inspiring, Ray is now 6 months pregnant, and still jumping, kicking, punching and just basically kicking ass. It’s totally cool. I’ve been hard on myself, as I

More proof that war-obsessed children will become war-obsessed adults. If not, perhaps, in the way that you’d think. I stumbled across the site Yo Joe, which is an awesome database of GI Joe figures from 1982-2004, complete with pics and accessories. I was a gleeful 80s child, who combined My Little Pony play with GI

Your Axis of Evil (TM) Roundup. If you care. Via The Talking Dog.

via Moorish Girl: Apparently, there were some significant edits to the screenplay of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. And, oh, thank goodness for those revisions: It starts with an “OLD WOMAN” visiting a publishing house with a manuscript in hand. It’s fifty years from now, so who knows? Maybe people won’t need to write

There’s a call for subs for anyone interested in writing pieces about experience, acceptence, and all things in-between from fat women for a new book called Phat Girls in Search of a Pretty World. So far as I know, there’s no cut-off BMI for what exactly constitutes a “fat” girl. If you’re a woman who

I don’t know when I first saw the movie Romancing the Stone, but as it came out in `84 and I was born in `80, I was probably pretty young, as it ended up in our VHS collection at some point, after being rented at least a couple of times. To sum up, Kathleen Turner