Monthly Archives: August 2006

God help me, I have GOT to stop listening to NPR when they run their shows on legalization of emergency contraceptives. My urge to strangle this sanctimonious religious jackass is kickin’ my acid reflux into high gear. I know I should turn the dial when they announce the topic, I KNOW I should pop in […]

So this weekend was spent, as usual, in yardwork. We took out MORE trees. Sweet gum–I’ve been calling it “junk maple” because that’s what it looks like, but it’s really sweet gum–grows every-frickin’-where. It’s a native, animals eat the seeds, I respect it in its place, but its place is not in my flowerbed, mailbox, […]

I realize that I am, oh, twenty years late to the party on this one, but is Takhisis the evil dragon queen from Dragonlance with the five different colored heads a total rip-off of the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon from the eighties with the dragon villain with the five different colored heads, or am I […]

Ya know, I just don’t get Patricia A. McKillip. It’s not that it’s bad. I don’t think it is. It’s not that it’s poorly written. It isn’t. Some bits are quite lovely and lyrical and excellent. By rights, I should like these–I love Robin McKinley’s work with an undying passion, and there is a huge […]