"Real" Men Can Wear Indigo (AND Violet!)
I'm sitting in Logan Airport, which has no outlets in its international terminal, waiting to board my Virgin Atlantic flight, which has no outlets in its economy cabin, so I thought it'd be a good time...
View ArticleI'm too serious about race and gender. But especially gender.
A couple of months ago, I posted about my new dog, Ollie, who is a female but who is named after Oliver Queen. I also posted about the Lady!Ollie picture I found on the internets, and some brief...
View ArticleBest Books of the Week
Hands down my favorite pull this week was the Blackest Night: The Question tie-in. This was the book I'd been looking forward to when DC announced that they were going to use this month to resurrect...
View ArticleSomeone bring that dead horse over...
I was actually busy working yesterday, so I missed the whole Captain America #602 kerfluffle. When I finally asked someone, and she told me what it was about, I laughed out loud.Yeah, I LOLed, that's...
View ArticleIf anyone needs me, I'll be in random places.
Atlanta right now, and I'm heading to LA on Thursday for the Gallifrey One Convention (that's Doctor Who talk). There are a few comic-specific panels (including one on 70 years of Marvel Comics, with...
View ArticleWomen Don't Sell (Unless they're in bathing suits.)
At the recent Gallifrey One convention in LA, I went to this panel about transforming comics into other media. There was an interesting mix of creators there (6 men and 1 woman), and some guy who sat...
View ArticleHelp, I'm Alive.
Hi there.In an effort to get myself back into the swing of things, I will be doing a "30 Days of DC" meme, in conjunction with my friend Anika (the Fantastic Fangirl), who's doing a "30 days of Marvel"...
View Article30 Days of DC Meme. Day 8: Favorite Film
I'm cross-posting this directly from Tumblr, because I have no idea how the comments work over there, and was hoping to foster some discussion.Okay. Hear me out on this. I've written a little bit about...
View ArticleHow Scott Pilgrim Got me back to the comic shop.
I've been gone awhile. No big secret there. In fact, I haven't read a weekly-issue comic book in ages. They're sitting on my shelves, waiting to be organized and read, and I just haven't had the...
View ArticleQueer in Albion: Fable 3 Playthrough One [and a half] Review
Author's Admission of Idiocy: Uh, I figured out how to adopt without giving the orphanage money as the monarch. So that basically makes 2/3 of the following entry pointless. Leaving it up anyway,...
View ArticleGreetings, programs. TRON: Legacy Review.
I have been waiting for TRON: Legacy since I was old enough to know that movies had sequels. I've been nervously eying news about it since it was called TRON 2.0 or, worse, TR2N. I've had a google...
View ArticleLeslie Knope: My Favorite Feminist
NBC's Parks and Recreation returned recently to not nearly enough fanfare. It's one of the smartest shows on TV, and has been consistently good, after a rocky start, since the beginning of the second...
View ArticleShamim Sharif's Bookends: The World Unseen & I Can't Think Straight
Shamim Sharif is - actually, I have no idea how she identifies herself, but she has a female partner and is of Indian decent - an author who a few years ago made a couple of films starring the same...
View ArticleI Am Definitely Not Spartacus
Over the last month or so, I've been watching Starz' (Starz's?) version of Spartacus, which is streaming on Netflix. I was resistant at first. I'm not sure why there was resistance. It's set in...
View ArticleIt's PAX [East] Time!
Tomorrow is the second PaxEast convention here in Boston. I'm more excited than I was last year because I'm way more involved in the gaming world than I was before. And a lot of that is because of...
View ArticleGender and Mass Effect. Part One: Why? And Why Should You Care?
I just got back from a whirlwind weekend of gaming at the PAX East convention. The gaming there isn't just video gaming, which is nice. In fact, 90% of the gaming I did this weekend was tabletop. I...
View ArticleThe Responsibility to Educate
One of the things that happens when you write about Stuff is that people ask you questions about Stuff. About a year ago, I wrote about the portrayal of Batwoman, Kate Kane, femininity, etc. and...
View ArticleSucker Punch: A Dreamer's Nightmare
I just got back from seeing Sucker Punch. Yep, opening day by myself. I'm working on getting over the idea that the movies need to be a social event, especially since I can just come home and be...
View ArticleRiver Song and Lois Lane; Don't Call Them Cougars. They Might Hurt You.
With less than one month until the return of Doctor Who (eee!) a new trailer was released today. There's a lot of awesomeness right there, but mostly there's River Song. Because River Song is amazing....
View ArticleGoodbye, Sarah Jane.
Earlier today, right as I was popping Portal 2 into my XBox, the news broke on Twitter that Elisabeth Sladen had died. I immediately freaked out, then decided to wait for confirmation, which...
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