Oddly, last night, one of my students asked me the other day whether I’d chosen to teach the book and movie V for Vendetta in our Media English class because I wanted to preach anarchism to the students, or for some other reason. She was surprised when I responded that believing unquestioningly in anything that has an -ism or -ian at the end is dangerous, and that mostly I’d chosen it because it seemed like an interesting book and one that had been recently adapted to film format. She said she got the impression from me that anarchism is something …

My site has a new look, in keeping with the fact I’m actually giving out my URL when I publish stories. More changes are to come, but I can finally unveil the (mostly-ripped-off) look. Now, time to get away from my computer for a bit. Things to do: add workout tracker postings to footer filter several post categories from the “main” blog page add a “front page” with a slightly different template — something slightly less bloggy for that matter, edit the non-blog page template to be a little less bloggy in the same way do up a few more …