Interesting stuff: As the young woman writing in the Times admitted, “I consistently trade actual human contact for the more reliable high of smiles on MySpace, winks on Match.com, and pokes on Facebook.” That she finds these online relationships more reliable is telling: it shows a desire to avoid the vulnerability and uncertainty that true […]
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Because really, who else is going to link to shit like this?
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Um, I mean… REALLY??? WTF? One of the toughest things to find when you’re going to an SF/F art show looking for art that features tough female heroines is finding tough female heroines who are actually wearing clothes and looking like physcially tough female heroines. You know, the sorts of heroines whose outfits don’t make
More here. But, predictably, this is as butch as they get…
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Why do they cancel good shows? No, seriously, why? What’s the politics of this? Let’s take a show about a perpetually single guy wizard and his ghost-in-the-skull assistant who gets to help out these distressed-but-oh-so-not-weak, usually very kewl, romantically inclined female characters, throw in a tough female police lieutenant who he can work with and
Melissa Ferrick – “Every Three Words” I can only hearEvery three wordsSo make ’em countCause I’m out hereBarely hanging on There’s no else I’d Wait around this long forTake this much no forMakes me wonder what we’re in for So would you give me some hopeYa give me a reasonTo keep on tryingCome on buy
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