Men Are Crazy for Women Who Are, Too Margaret Atwood wrote, in Lady Oracle, My mother’s two categories; nice men did things for you, bad men did things to you. And you hear a lot about how bad men are always being nasty to good women. Why don’t you hear those stories about how these supposedly good women gravitate to the bad men? One of my friends said to me recently, “If a woman is dating an asshole, she’s probably an asshole too… so they deserve one another.” This stuck in my head, especially after today finding out that one …
Author: gordsellar
The kids on the other side of the fence are screaming…
… but then, it’s Tuesday afternoon and they’re on the front porch of a hot church, taking a break from chanting their cathecism for the last half-hour, military-drill style. I would be screaming too.
DJ Deko-ze
During the Chuseok holidays many of my friends went to visit people they know from as long ago as high school or elementary school. I got to thinking about an old friend I met in high school, who was my best friend at that time, and whose secret email address I have lost (because of that computer death that happened not long ago). His personal email address is secret because, well… because he’s a great DJ of the sort that plays, you know, that dreadful bass-heavy blippy techno music you hear at raves… He’s also a super little guy named …
Smashing a Stupid Argument Against Gay Marriage
Gallamine.com – William Cox I was following one of the blogsnob links served up to my webpage when I came across William Cox’s page Gallamine. While looking about I came across a ludicrous little article on why banning gay marriage is just. So I posted the following comment there, responding to others comments and then to the article itself, and decided to reproduce it here because it’s long enough to warrant reposting and because I think I argue well.
Declinism and America
Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Ideas / That sinking feeling Is America on the decline? That’s the premise of the novel I am working on, but it’s not as if I came up with the idea. Here’s a fascinating article looking at the various theories alleging America is, or is not, on the decline. I agree with the final point, at least, which is: Maybe civilizations do not devolve, as theorists of decline fear, but rather evolve, as from Darwin’s tangled bank where there is no perfection, merely complexity and fluxand where there is always something growing where …
French Whining…
Jus de raisin Oops. I mean, French Wining. Ha. My friend Jean Louis’ French-language blog about wine. I think I shall practice my French reading here before I leap headfirst in the French edition of Fontaine that I bought in Thailand… Also, notice the title. Jus de raisin… it means grape juice, but there are also some possible pun meanings. They are, he tells me, unintended.
Remodeling…
I’m not sure if it’s showing up yet, because I cannot turn my internet service’s proxy server off… but anyway, soon there should be a new look to eclexys; and in addition, the page should load a LOT more easily. I was getting tired of all that trouble everyone (including me) was having when loading it. Let me know what you think of the new layout. (Which is not quite SO new… next time, I’m going to try nest the sidebars so that further down the page the full text spans most of the screen… but I need to do …
Friends…
It’s nice to have them, isn’t it? At first, you run into these people just as faces in a crowd, or lines of text that have magically appeared on your web page’s comment’s section, or a string of numbers and letters on a sheet of paper the office gives you. It’s like with anyone you meet, at first there’s just some meaningless appearance and that’s it. But friends do something magical. They think about you. They say things to you (or email you, or blog you, or just look at you in such a way as you know they are …
See your favorite North American stars sell out on Japander
Japander.com Yes. Here you can see the ads that rich American stars do in Japan to become even richer, but which are never shown in North America. The ads they wanted you never to see, all over there on Japander. Heh heh heh.
Band Practice and Curry
Here it comes. A summary of the next gig we play, our rehearsals, and the dinner after. But it’s got loads of media and clips and links and so on for the musically-curious.