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12 years ago @ The Blue Bookcase - Review: Modelland by T... · 1 reply · +1 points

OMG, how could I NOT totes lovesies a book that uses the phrase "gargantuan mood ring"? TWINSIES!!!!!11!!eleven!

...and so on. :D

I'll probably read it, when I'm in the mood for a new contender for Awfullest Book Ever, but not because I paid money for it.

12 years ago @ The Blue Bookcase - Literary Blog Hop: Mar... · 0 replies · +1 points

Added a link to my own replies. Sorry I'm late to the party, but I didn't hear about it till today! But you're in my Google Reader now. ;)

12 years ago @ Womanist Musings - James Craig Anderson W... · 0 replies · +1 points

I learned about James Craig Anderson's death at the same time I was reviewing B.J. Hollars's new book, Thirteen Loops, which is about the 1981 lynching of Michael Donald. I still haven't been able to put my feelings about it into a blog post. I'm appalled and ashamed that the two events indicate precisely how racism and racist violence have stuck around basically unchanged in thirty years. As I understand it, Mr. Anderson's killers were looking to hurt the first black person they could find, and that's exactly what they did. It's also what Michael Donald's killers did.

I had not heard that James Craig Anderson was gay, and your post title pretty much sums that up for me. My heart goes out to Mr. Anderson's significant other, who has already suffered far too much, but the fact that Mr. Anderson had a male SO isn't why those white boys killed him.

12 years ago @ Womanist Musings - Can You Sit Like Spide... · 0 replies · +1 points

I'm especially impressed (by which I mean "totally disbelieving") that Mary Jane is not only sitting like that, but that she's doing it in what appear to be skin-tight low-rider jeans. I'm not sure I could sit like that at all, but I'm certain I couldn't do it in those jeans.

12 years ago @ Womanist Musings - The Great Popcorn Cuss... · 0 replies · +1 points

Many see nothing wrong with it because hey, they turned out fine.

My "click" moment on the "giving kids room to speak and listening to them when they do" front came when I was in college. It was really a series of moments, but the thing they all had in common was that, when confronted by some "authority," I just got completely tongue-tied, even when said "authority" was wrong and I was right and even, in some cases, where something would get screwed up or become dangerous as a result.

I think a LOT of that had to do with how I was raised (be seen and not heard, don't rock the boat, proper young ladies never talk back, etc etc), and I realized then that I NEVER wanted a child in my care (or any person, for that matter) to think that zie couldn't say to me "hey, this is not right."

That said, I'm giggling at the mental image of Mayhem giving his dad what for. :) My own father would never have had the patience for that - I'd have wound up grounded or spanked or both. Well done!

12 years ago @ Womanist Musings - Lonerism: the Misunder... · 1 reply · +1 points

Party of One saved my life in undergrad, where I really thought there was something horribly wrong with me because I liked spending most of my evenings alone in my dorm room instead of partying. (In four years I went to a bar exactly once, and stayed for exactly eleven minutes.)

I always celebrate New Year's Eve alone. It's my favorite way to spend it, and has been ever since I discovered one *could* do such a thing (also in undergrad). :)

12 years ago @ Womanist Musings - You Think Gay Is An In... · 0 replies · +8 points

Destruction sounds like an amazing person. I'm glad we share a planet. :)

That said, I ran into similar problems a few times when I was a Girl Scout camp counselor, and I'm not sure what else to do in those situations either. Of course, I had the camp director to back me up if a parent complained (none ever did), so I didn't have to shoulder the entire burden of intervening. But I think it's reasonable to set the rules in your own space and expect visitors to abide by them. Especially when it sounds like Destruction doesn't want his friends using "gay" as an insult either.

12 years ago @ Womanist Musings - Is It Really All That ... · 1 reply · +1 points

I've never met a dog who was visibly embarrassed by a haircut (which I guess doesn't mean they can't *be* embarrassed). Though I can picture being embarrassed to walk a dog with a cut/shaved coat, especially if said dog looks silly that way. Perhaps put the unhusband in sole charge of brushing her for a few weeks and see how he feels then? Or would you all drown for good in dog hair before then?

(I'm one to talk: I'm wearing a purple t-shirt that's two shades lighter due to the white cat hair all over it, but I still haven't bothered to trim the cat even though she's leaving tumbleweeds everywhere....)

12 years ago @ Womanist Musings - Roger Ebert: Friends D... · 0 replies · +13 points

My first thought at seeing Roger Ebert's Twitter comment was, "But friends *don't* let jackasses - or anyone else - drink and drive. Because this is exactly the kind of thing that drinking and driving *causes*, and someone who would let you risk your own life and the lives of other people isn't a "friend" to you."

My sympathies are with Dunn's family and friends, as well as the loved ones of the other two people killed in the accident. But I too don't see anything wrong with pointing out that these three deaths were preventable.

12 years ago @ Womanist Musings - What Are You Reading? · 1 reply · +1 points

I'm reading almost entirely stuff I agreed to review, and I'm starting to miss the days when I could read what the hell I wanted. Though I guess I can't complain, because I got myself into this. :)

That said, I just finished a ponderous biography of Sir William Thesiger that's due out in July, and now I'm working on Money Secrets of the Amish. Srsly. If I ever get through these, I have a copy of Barbara Kingsolver's Another America/Otra America (poetry!) that I'm just dying to get started on. Also, a textbook from the 1920s for teachers called The Normal Mind, which discusses "mental hygiene." I bought it because I collect old medical texts and because I suspect I have a decidedly non-normal mind, at least from this guy's point of view. :P

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