Liberal convention imagines a state hostile to sexuality and to speech, especially dissident sexuality and dissident speech. The state, in this view, would leap at any opportunity to restrict pornography. The utter failure of this state to do anything effective about it–with the extremely elastic obscenity standard in its hands and all of […]
Lexi was having a blast killing her catnip pouches DEAD, but of course, by the time I got the camera out, she decided she’d had enough of that, thank you very much. In hopes of tricking her into being photogenic, I retrieved the extremely special and enticing feather-string toy from its hiding place on […]
My internal monologue: “I know she hates the camera, but maybe if I pet her she won’t notice. Oh, she’s so soft, what a cutie, everyone will love this, I’ll just lean over very carefully and–”
Nope.
In other news, Pauline agrees to participate in the fiction that she is a “pet” in order to […]
Free anti-porn conference coming up in Boston in March.
Anyone want to go to Australia for the international feminist summit? Lard knows I do.
Okay, so maybe that’s an exaggeration. I’m getting somewhat better with practice. But if you can tell what this drawing is of, you get a gold star.
I read this backalong, recently found it again, and now you should read it too.
Killing Turkeys Causes Winter by Sandy Szwarc.
I got an email the other day from someone who read something I wrote in Rain and Thunder. Her question is one that I have struggled with so much and continue to struggle with, that I thought it might be worthwhile to muse in public in case other women besides us two struggle with […]
Some new-to-me blogs:
A stormy blog
Adhesively Unchallenged
Blog of Feminist Activism Against Porn
A really fantastic post on fat and health (although I find Yahoo!360 extremely annoying to navigate).
How did I miss this one?
They Thought We Were Extinct
Warning: Not for the squeamish, faint of heart, or even mildly humor-impaired (via Screaming into the Void):
StopMyAbortion
…which is how you know it isn’t one of mine.
This pretty cat climbed up the tree outside my office window, and I caught her on her way down. Isn’t she lovely? Her friend, a camera-shy white gal with calico ears and tail, waited down below, sharpening her claws on the trunk. Ah, […]
It’s time to get in the wood! Despite the rain (it seems like it’s always raining when I’m there lately) we turned two trees like this one:
Into firewood!
And I got to use the chain saw. Power tools are fun.
Plus, the moonrise:
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