Kindness, personal betterment — the usual

Lately I’ve been feeling very ambivalent about my own cruelty.* On the one hand, let’s face it, most of the entertaining stuff on the web is really mean. Or off the web. Mean is good. On the other hand, like Howard Stern (at his worst), I get all “make-nicey” the minute I realize somebody I’ve [...]

Raison d’bitching

Sorry about that last post there. Commenter “Art” was right, it was ridiculously bitchy and certainly far more dysfunctional than the thing it was criticizing. What is wrong with me?
Maybe I’m just mad at Brad Wright and Jonathan Glassner. I was thinking I’d watch a lot of Stargate this week as an alternative to various [...]

Hulu, Stage6 and comments to commenters

I haven’t been doing much with this blog lately ‘cos I’ve been busy covering a hatbox with a collage of pretty flowers — really! – so let me apologize to everyone who’s commented on ears, sluts, nerd porn, Martin Emond, etc. I’ve finally responded to you all. (Except Mox’s Gary Gygax comment. Sorry, dude, [...]

I Got No Pee-Pee

… Oh and yeah, since there’s been some confusion lately, I might as well reiterate that I’m a woman.
Yeah, that’s right — a woman who wants to look at sci-fi cartoon boobs.
Sci-fi cartoon boobs with visible areolae.
Please.
Here, I’ll prove it with my South Park Studios official avatar:

Oh, wait…

Brust Does Firefly, Brust Does Life

Actual Published Author Steven Brust has released a Firefly fanfiction novel online. Rumor has it he wrote it as an authorized tie-in, but then the publisher kiboshed it so he’s giving it away free.
On the page announcing the novel, Brust’s pal Kit O’Connell writes, “Steve has requested you email me if you find any typos, [...]

Colbert, Klingons and the Decline of Western Trekization

Colbert Report-watching Klingonists must be feeling pretty chuffed right now. As part of tonight’s “Minority Minute” honoring Next Generation’s Lt. Worf, Stephen had his audience say something in unison in Klingon. Twice!
I don’t know what they said, because I was already paging through my bookmarks looking for this TechRepublic article. Author Jay Garmon argues that [...]

What’s with the…

Is this woman wearing some sort of… of… rubber… EAR prostheses?

(Click to enlarge.)
She has to be, right? At first I thought she might have had something surgical done, because she actually seems to have the pointy ears during normal, day-to-day life (see the third pic). But then they aren’t visible in some pix, like here:

If [...]

Cartoon Shoes and the Flaws in Copyright Legislation

Man, I am SO BUMMED. A couple weeks after I wrote about wedgie shoes printed with Archie comics, I found the UR SHOE, this designer’s obvious inspiration, in the form of a pair of wedgies from the 60s printed with some Spanish-language cartoon or other. I’ve been meaning to post a link but NOOOOO! The [...]