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
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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
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Your Axis of Evil (TM) Roundup. If you care. Via The Talking Dog.
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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
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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
Ah. The “He’s Just Not Into You” craze. Once again, Amanda’s already been on this, and here’s the Salon article that takes the “He’s just not that into you” book to task, but I wanted to throw in my 2 cents about the dating bullshit. Now, I’ve already discussed why I haven’t dated since Alaska
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Thank you, Amanda, for finding this news article about the 2,000 year old skeleton of a female warrior in Iran: DNA tests on the 2,000-year-old bones of a sword-wielding Iranian warrior have revealed the broad-framed skeleton belonged to woman, an archaeologist working in the northwestern city of Tabriz said on Saturday. and, ha ha —
A big welcome to all of those visitors streaming in from the LJ feminist & misc. friend forums, and a big thanks to Ann for sending them my way… My hit count tripled yesterday. Great to have you here.