Ahh, grapefruit. So often maligned for their abuses in fad diets, tendency to squirt blinding-yet-tasty juice in your eye and ability to badly mess with heart and psychiatric medications. But I love it anyway. (Hey, the first recipe I posted here was a grapefruit one as well.)

The other day, g026r asked me if I thought a grapefruit meringue pie was a ( Read more... )

As I was trying to fall asleep, I started wondering about witch hunts. Okay, specifically the Salem with trials of 1692-1693. Some people have claimed that there was in fact an outbreak of ergotism behind it, explaining the claims of the "bewitched" as a result of the hallucinations and physical sensations that ergot (so related to LSD) produce ( Read more... )

Now it's no secret that I love horror movies and literature. With a deep and abiding passion. I've been spending the last few months on a glorious Clive Barker bender. I remember the grown-up feeling and glee I felt when I was finally allowed to watch scary movies with Dad, and when Mom gave me H. P. Lovecraft and Poe to read when I'd gone through ( Read more... )

A couple things have been all over the media, and, because they have to do with gender, pretty much everyone's been fucking up when reporting them. This is pissing me off ( Read more... )

I like to eat. A lot. I love to cook and bake, but for me that's pretty much all about the end result, where I take off the apron and enjoy. And I have a hell of an appetite. Those who know me irl know this especially well, like when a bunch of us are returning from a restaurant and everybody but me has a little container of leftovers. Or when I go ( Read more... )

So yeah, Naomi Wolf. I know The Beauty Myth rocked a lot of people's worlds back in the day, but it never really rocked mine. It just kind of came off as a restatement of the very obvious that there were already better pieces on, and seemed a bit condescending and reductionist. I spent a few years feeling left out of the Naomi Wolf lovefest. And ( Read more... )

It's the end of November, and that means I've been hearing Christmas music every time I leave my house for about a month already. Of course, that includes the perennially creepy "Baby, It's Cold Outside". I mean, Christmas isn't Christmas without a nice holiday date rape anthem, right? (Here's a link to the lyrics)The thing that really gets me, ( Read more... )

Oh, Toronto. My new home city, which I love for so many reasons. From the walkability, the amazing food to be found everywhere, to the people so friendly and helpful that I was actually a little unsettled for the first little while. So why is it, in the middle of a city with such an amazing Pride, and for that matter the Fetish Fair I attended ( Read more... )

Allies. The term is thrown around all over the lefty corners of the internet, as well as meatspace activism, and there an awful lot of varying perspectives on what exactly it means. Who's a good ally? Who's Doing It Wrong ( Read more... )

The idea is pretty much everywhere, from the most radical of feminists, to the most superficial ad campaigns put out by companies that also sell skin-bleaching agents in India. "Love Your Body". It's about the only thing most feminists, most mainstream people, and the Empowerment Industry seem to find common ground on. And on its face, it's a ( Read more... )