I held off on mentioning this until I was sure it would be a reality, but now it can be told: I’m attending the Inauguration of President Obama! Yay! I just arrived in DC on the Chinatown bus and am waiting in a Starbucks for
A few years ago at WisCon (the feminist SF convention) there was a panel about Cultural Appropriation that sparked an online discussion about the topic that is generally referred to as the Great Debate of DOOM. This was partly due to the wide-ranging nature of
I’m tired, ya’ll. Too tired to be angry. So tired of all this shit. The tiredness won’t last forever, of course; I’ll rebound, as I must. But I need a break. In the meantime, though — I’m cautiously heartened by this. Mehserle was arrested in
Happy New Year, all. Took me only 5 days to get angry about something; a new record for me! Well, more annoyed than anything else. Who can really afford to get angry about all the stupid crap we see in the media? Us WoC gotta
I’ve been meaning to write this post for a long time, but one of the comments on the Avatar post finally pushed me to do it. I am just so tired of people using the dictionary in discussions of complex issues as if the dictionary
Quick heads up that I was on the blogger’s roundtable for News & Notes yesterday. We didn’t get a chance to talk about the BlackBird browser, but we did talk about shoe throwing, weight gain, and smoking presidents (elect).
The economic crisis is affecting NPR, naturally, and one of their responses has been to cancel two of their shows, News & Notes included. I believe the story is that the show doesn’t bring in enough money in donations and has low ratings. I would
I don’t post much about TV stuff because I don’t watch a lot of TV. But when I do, because my tastes have always been eclectic and a little weird, I tend to watch weird eclectic stuff. Thus was born my love of Avatar: The
I know I put this in the BlackLights yesterday, but I’m still so appalled by it that I think it deserves its own post. In case you didn’t see it, there’s a new browser out called BlackBird, aimed at the Black community. It’s essentially Firefox
Sorry if I confused folks last week making you think that I meant I wanted to meet for drinks last Friday. I was just asking, in general, if there would be interest. Looks like there is :) So now let’s make it official: NYC folks,