I've had a substantial post in the works for a little while now, in part taking up the gauntlet for
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As of right now, after eight years of waffling, I am back on the dried frog pills.

Wish me luck.

It's officially the close of the season; happy Twelfth Night, everyone. For your imminent Epiphany, this Magian gift: the enormously talented Cat Valente (
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No one is ever going to mistake me for a political blogger, thank Heaven, but I'll say this about the outcome of the Iowa caucuses: Coulda been worse.

Some far better commentary from round the Blogosphere:

Alas.

Shakesville.

Scalzi.

Feministe.

Making Light.

I've spent all the time between my last post and now either out of town or sick or both, and between that and the impending post-holiday blues I'm still a bit short of vitality, but nevertheless: Happy New Year, everyone. Here's hoping the best of what's passed is the worst of what's to come.

(I swear I was going to post this today even before I read
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Normally I'd just cross-post this, but since I've already posted it elseWeb in the past few weeks, I'm concerned that a third time might, like Beetlejuice, actually cause it to manifest.

Enjoy, if that's the word I'm looking for.

Okay, I am officially done slagging New Jersey now.

Garden State, you are hereby forgiven for Trenton.

As I write this it is now (for the next couple hours, anyway) ten days until Christmas, and a week until Solstice. I've just about reconciled, though, that those two words mean pretty much the same thing to me.

I am not and never have been a Christian, except maybe in the vague fluffy Unitarian sense of "what Jesus said was so nice, who cares if he ( Read more... )

Q: O great and wise Oracle, I see that there's an interesting new organization that's advocating for the legitimacy of fan-produced derivative art and seems to have some intriguing ideas. Do you think maybe there could be a discussion of it on the Internets that doesn't almost instantly spiral off into some lackwit wondering why anyone would want ( Read more... )