BitchBuzz: Movies without Women

My latest column for BitchBuzz is on a pet peeve I have: Movies without Women (or the dreaded Movie with One Woman). It’s an irritating popular trend in the last few decades that seems to have arisen from the focus-group approach to movie making (AKA micromanaging per the unconsidered comments of a bunch of random…

BitchBuzz: Jingle Freakin’ Bells

My latest BitchBuzz column takes time out for a humorous holiday grumble. Of course I lie — there’s all kinds of Xmas music I like including Vince Guaraldi’s soundtrack for A Charlie Brown Christmas, Joey Ramone and yes, I just bought the new Tori CD, too. But the omnipresence of the jingle of the bells…

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween and Maith Samhain! I didn’t get cards out this year, so this will have to do. Thanks to The joey Zone for passing along this lovely Levy-Dhurmer illo.

Belated Easter

We went to Robert’s for a belated Easter celebration as he gets ready to move into a new house. Of course he filled our bellies with good grub (bacon wrapped steaks, bébé taters, yum! He’s got a pair of mourning doves nesting outside one window, and a pair of wrens nesting by the door. There’s…

Xmas Eve

Well, we’ll be off to Robert’s this afternoon (AKA land of dial-up connection, no no no!) so I likely won’t be posting tomorrow at all, so happy Christmas to all of you who celebrate it. Friday I’m off to San Francisco for MLA, so there will doubtless be lots to say, especially seeing Adrean for…

Yuletide

Thanks, TjZ, for the link to the great picture! Yuletide is here, the longest night just passed and the light beginning its journey of return. For us it’s meant more snow — it was falling long before I got up. Not that I have to be anywhere, but the more difficult it is to get…

No Krampus!

Well, this is phenomenally bad timing, but just in time for the holiday season I regret to announce that we have sold out of the Krampus chapbooks! I have had to refund Paypal payments. Will there be a second print run? Yes, if we can figure out a better way to do it. I want…