Saturday Write Fever is an event in San Francisco run by playwrights Megan Cohen and Stuart Bousel at the Exit Studio. I went with my favorite date last night, and […]
Fat Girl Fashion: an eShakti Review
NOTE: I wrote this in 2013. If you’re reading this in 2024, eShakti has gone down the tubes. Very sorry; do not buy. I was nineteen years old when realized […]
What we talk about when we talk about the end of the world.
I read ONE SECOND AFTER by William R. Forstchen today. It is not a great book, but it lead me to a revelation, and for this I am grateful. I […]
The Lives of the Apostates: a Review
I read Eric O. Scott’s book last night. It’s short, more novella than novel, and it didn’t take me long. I was compelled to finish it and review it as […]
The Reading List
So earlier tonight, I tweeted that there was no homework required to be my friend, but there is a reading list. It’s true, although there are some suggestions and some […]
Curse
The town where I grew up has a curse on it. It’s a story that every school kid knows and a few anthropologists have written about. Kids tell it like […]
Satire
Satire is a type of humor that holds up people’s vices or folly to witty mockery. The classic example of satire is Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal,” that solves problems […]
Preface to Gaiman, in the style of Samuel Johnson
**Our assignment was either to write a dull essay, or to emulate the style of Samuel Johnson in his dense yet ardent praise of William Shakespeare. Alone among my classmates, […]
Fox and Friends
Maybe I’m a cynic, but I just can’t get mad at Fox News anymore. They’re not real news. It’s a terrible pity that a large number of people use them […]
PantheaCon: Decompression
A good friend once loaned me a pair of boots when I realized the ones I had worn were highly inappropriate for our evening. She brought them out from under […]