Uncategorized

I put myself on the scale the other day at the gym and was elated to learn that I weighed 195 lbs. Because I’m a chronic weight-obsessed person (less so now, as I get older and more confident), I’d been thinking for the last year that I was about 20 lbs heavier. When I look […]

Mistress Krista is reading The Wimp Factor: Gender Gaps, Holy Wars, and the Politics of Anxious Masculinity. The main argument being that men’s fear of women makes men more conservative. Hm. First let me throw out the term “femiphobia” as a way of naming this anxiety. Femiphobia is the male fear of being feminine. The

Here’s Touched By Venom(!) a new fantasy novel, teaching us all to Respect the Cock: Right away, I noticed their erections. Truth, I’d been looking for them, as had Waisi and Kobo’s twins, Rutvia and Makvia. All four of us poked each other and tittered. Behind us, Mother yanked on Waisi’s and the twin’s braids

Doing crunches while holding a 20 lb free weight behind your head. You sure will feel that the next morning.

It doesn’t get much better. Pure coincidence that my protagonist keeps ordering whiskey everywhere she goes, like those characters in Golden Age SF who were swilling coffee and chain smoking… Pure coincidence.

Even if there are only 3 Arya chapters. I will perservere.

STOP URINATING ON THE GODDAMN FLOOR. Now, I don’t mind if a guy uses the women’s restroom, particularly when and if all the men’s restrooms are occupied. I’ve used one of the men’s restrooms here before when I really had to pee and they were cleaning the women’s restrooms (we have three men’s bathrooms and

Something I don’t pay enough attention to with the whole workout/weights routine is how much easier it makes everyday tasks. For the last four months, I’ve resolved to take the stairs every time they’re offered, even when I get off at weird train stops and realize I have three flights of stairs to climb, even

Why does this not surprise me? Two studies in the October issue of Behavioral Neuroscience show that when animals are stressed, deprived and exposed to tempting food, they overeat, with different degrees of interaction. The powerful interplay between internal and external factors helps explain why dieters rebound and even one cookie can trigger a binge

I sometimes forget that I can be a hack writer when I want to be. I once produced 50 pages in about 12 hours, which, when I break that down, doesn’t seem possible. But it got done. I realized at the Con when VanderMeer asked how many pages I had of God’s War that, in