I had tried to call my latest column for BitchBuzz “Strong Men Also Cry” because it’s always good to make a Lebowski reference, but from the start, it was really all about the tubes: What is it with men and tubes? Particularly when they’re men who hold powerful offices and feel the need to wield…
Category: politics
The 11th Carnival of Feminists
Drop by the 11th Carnival of Feminists and see me there as one of the revelers writing about BitchBuzz, blogging and gender! Read all the entries and leave comments so folks know they have been heard. Thanks! Working on my syllabuses today: revising one, creating the other out of whole cloth. Now where are all…
UK Week 2: Mad Men and English Dogs (part four)
I headed over to the Globe to catch an afternoon matinee of As You Like It, Shakespeare’s light-hearted comedy, after mudlarking along the Thames for a good long while. I wrote in my journal that I could well spend the rest of my days doing that, even though my floral duster confused a bee (also…
Oh, all right then
Okay, yes, I’m usually a contrarian, but I’m so pleased to see this country shake off the last eight years of horror that I’ll give in to the widespread expressions of hope and joy, and actually believe that things might get better (tomorrow I will, however, return to carping — and there is much to…
Live Blogging MLA
Because I always need one more thing to do: I’m going to be live blogging MLA, the Modern Language Association conference. Many of you know that this is the biggest conference in the language and literature fields. It’s not only the place for papers deemed to be cutting edge, it’s also the place where the…
Vote Today!
I don’t usually focus on politics, but today all USA-ians have the opportunity to change our country and our influence on the world. It is your duty as a citizen to get out there and vote. Of course, I have definite opinions about who are the best candidates, but my haranguing you here won’t affect…
Albacon & Fall Colors
Ran out to get a hair cut yesterday and decided I needed a little color too, so voilà: Purple highlights! Thanks, Joy. She’s so good that she matched the color to the jacket I was wearing. We had a short night at Albacon — one panel for me on writing flash fiction. True to form,…
How Congress Wastes its Time
H. Res. 847: Mr. McNulty has already received a complaint from me. Sure, it’s just words with no legal effect, but rhetoric matters when it reinforces one narrowly intolerant point of view.