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So like I said in my last post, I’m moving. This will be the first time I’ve lived by myself, which of course has advantages and disadvantages. Ability to walk around topless whenever I want? Maru! Splitting the cable bill? Batsu! This biggest disadvantage will be the crippling loneliness. […]

I’m ba-aaack!
(It’s possible nobody noticed I was gone…but in case anybody DID–)
In the past year or so I have gone on many, many, many business trips. Oh, to think that there was a time when I thought that business travel was probably Glamorous and Exciting and You Get To See Lots of Cool Places […]

If you are not familiar with craps, it is a game played with dice, and the important thing to know about it is that you cannot win at it unless you figure out some way to control how you throw the dice…ie, you cheat. You CANNOT win by playing by the rules. It […]

Over at Hugo’s place, there is this truly excellent post on rape and consent. Really, everyone should go over there and read it. But, this post is not about rape, this post is about a theme that started to develop in the comments, about clearly communicating desires and wants.
More than once, […]

Their secret identities are still safe.
As anyone who’s been reading my posts for a while now knows, I am a mommy. S’matter of fact, I’ve been one for like 10,000 years now–okay, not really. It just FEELS that way. Sometimes!
I haven’t blogged overly much about the offspring for the following […]

As some of you may know, Utah Phillips, the great storyteller, musician, hobo, and Wobbly, passed away last weekend. I posted a bit about him here, but since then, the tributes from friends and Fellow Workers have been pouring in, and I thought I’d share one of the more inspiring with the PunkAss crew.
This is […]

Something has been bothering me lately, within the feminist blogsphere. Feminism is about equality between the genders, and by extension equality between all peoples. We routinely bemoan the treatment women get in the rest of the world, and (rightfully) call out allies and enemies for using sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, and fatphobic frames […]

I’m off to Europe this summer to spend 3 weeks apiece in two different countries doing some sciency type things. I have about four months to reach a level of fluency in two different languages that will allow me to identify food, find bathrooms, and use public transportation with a minimum of tears. […]

I just returned from a trip to the grocery store, where the purchase of a half a chicken breast, a tube of toothpaste, a half pint of cream, some pantyhose, a package of tortillas, and a bag of pre-shredded cheese resulted in the acquisition of four plastic grocery bags, plus the plastic bag around the […]

Have you been reading Men’s Health online content for weeks, if not months, treating their words though they were the bible and scrupulously following every inane lifestyle suggestion? I know. Me too. Yet, I still find myself occassionally not sitting alone and in the dark, abandoned by all who loathe my vapid […]