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I got back from San Francisco pride two weeks ago, and I’m still processing. I have many words to say about the experience and the city. Many. They are merely all freakin’ jumbly. A brief summary of my brain:
raw vegan tiramisu! / has that wheel always been there? / dykes on bikes! / we cant […]

The U.N. Security Council has unanimously declared that rape is a weapon of war. My first thought upon hearing this was “yay!” My second thought was that perhaps “yay” is not the right response to anything pertaining to rape; in any event, thinking about the news even now stirs a dull pang of hope.
Reiterating deep […]

Is Lost’s Island Electromagnetic Enough to Move Itself Through Space? Time-Travel Expert Says It’s Not Impossible.
Well, thank goodness. I was wondering about the plausibility of moving an island through an artificially-created wormhole, but if an expert—especially an expert in that vaunted and well-founded field of time travel—thinks it’s possible, then I am TOTALLY ON BOARD.
I’ve […]

I saw Nightwish a bit earlier. Opening for them was a band called Sonic Syndicate, who I think really demonstrated admirable restraint in not calling themselves Sønïc Sinndikæt. At one point, the lead singer said something that led to the following exchange:
“Did he just say this song is about…”
“…gay rights”
“Yeah, that’s what I thought. Neat!”
Death […]

I’ve been loathe to write about the primaries in the U.S., mostly because I try to only write about those things where I feel like I have something to contribute, and I haven’t experienced any particular election-related insights.
(Also: I don’t have or want a side apart from “not another douchebag, please, the increased relevance of […]

Right on the heels of Marc incisively questioning the distance between progressive rhetoric and action. I bring you… movies! yaay!
I saw Prince Caspian a couple of days ago. It wasn’t terrible, it wasn’t great. Mostly, it failed to make an impression on me at all beyond wondering who these people are, and why there is […]

I’m not much one to blog on news stories, but this deserves a PunkAss mention.
The California Supreme court overturned Proposition 22, the amendment to the California constitution that would ban marriage for lesbians and gays.
And that’s fucking awesome.
Tomorrow, let’s do talk about how this doesn’t do all we might hope. Tomorrow, we can talk about […]

I’ve been working on some pieces about the American criminal justice system, and I came across this:
“A person who has chosen to commit armed robbery, rape or kidnapping has chosen to do something with a strong possibility of causing the death of an innocent person,” Mr. Scheidegger said. “That choice makes it morally justified to […]

For the last week or so, I’ve been telling people, “you know what I want? I want Jet Set Radio Future and The Itty Bitty Titty Committee to get together and have beautiful, free-running radical lesbian babies.”
Then I saw Mirror’s Edge.

Which isn’t exactly what I had in mind, but still… “Whoa.” Parkour! Fluid movement! The […]

BBC’s Magazine today has a fantastically breathless article documenting what I can only imagine to be the “increasing trend” of girls being (gasp) perpetrators of violence. “These reports still jolt society in a post-feminist age,” according to the article, “Partly because they are so rare and partly because women are not expected to be aggressive.“ […]

I saw this in the aisle at Sunflower market, an organic grocery store that operates around this here parts (this, at an organic grocery store? shock!).
“Guess what’s at the center of the universe? It’s you! Also, let’s talk about Deepak Chopra and those wacky atheists, eh?”
I have, on occasion, the urge to bonk people with […]

The question is: how to love?
You don’t know a thing unless you are perceiving it. This isn’t an epistemological statement—you are not meant to take this and run round-and-round in the solipsist death spiral. “My perceptions are necessarily imperfect,” you are not supposed to say, “ergo I cannot know anything.”
This is a statement about all […]