Jan 25, 2022UnculturedSitting at dinner. During the Seder, observing it as an anthropologist might. What strange rituals these people have, asking questions about reclining at the table, something we could never do, being told to sit with our (my) feet on the floor, not the chair. Singing songs about goats and drinking…Culture2 min readCulture2 min read
Dec 15, 2021Member-onlyRestaurant Review for a Concept Restaurant Which Promises Everything Will Be OvercookedIt was my pleasure this week to visit Well Done, the newest endeavor in themed cuisine. Owned by the owner of All You May Eat and Raw Bar, the idea this time is captured by the restaurant’s motto, “Overcooked, just like Mom used to make.” To begin with…Food2 min readFood2 min read
Aug 2, 2021Member-onlyWhat The Devil Card Means in Tarot, or , Orthdoxy Can Suck It I have been reading Tarot…What The Devil Card Means in Tarot, or , Orthdoxy Can Suck It I have been reading Tarot Cards for a number of decades and generally find them to be a useful tool for many things. Among those many things is not “telling the future,’ “finding answers,” or…Tarot4 min readTarot4 min read
May 26, 2020Member-onlyMemories of a Super ComputerThe alarm rang, but she had been up for a longish while already. She didn’t need to be reminded that today was a big day — today was the day for which she had been born, in a very literal sense. She walked over to her alarm clock…Science Fiction11 min readScience Fiction11 min read
Apr 28, 2020Member-onlyDodecahedronby Erica Friedman Sammy came out of the lab, shoulders hunched over. “Failed again?” I asked over my shoulder from inside the clean washroom, as I ran the nanosoap over my fingers, with painstaking precision. We’d taken to dying our hands green first before washing, so we were absolutely sure…Science Fiction4 min readScience Fiction4 min read
Feb 13, 2020Member-onlyFive Things We Have Actually Learned From the Iowa Democratic Caucus1) Pigs make very poor early voters. Everyone thinks of corn and cows when they think of Iowa, but Iowa is actually the pig capital of America with almost three times as many hogs as the next most-populous pig raising state, North Carolina. Did you know that Iowans have…Politics2 min readPolitics2 min read
Feb 6, 2020Member-onlyA Letter to the Young Queer Girls in my Future Who Use Silver PensA Letter to the Young Queer Girls in the Future Who Use Silver Pens In the mid-80s, I was a young lesbian who read a lot and, naturally, was looking for books about people like myself. There weren’t many, although I found Jane Rule, Katherine V. Forrest and others’ work…3 min read3 min read
Jan 31, 2020Member-onlyThe DraftMorning starts early for us. I guess that’s for everyone, though I haven’t really ever understood why. It’s not like we’re better, fitter, smarter, or stronger when we’re sleep deprived, but I guess that’s not what they want from us anyway. And it’s no earlier for us than…3 min read3 min read
Jan 18, 2020Member-only10 Types of Comments for People Still Writing Blogs in 20201) Personal “Thank you for your blog post of January 19th, it means a lot to me that you remembered to post today. I had something to share with you, even though it is irrelevant to your post, but because I know that your every post is meant to be…3 min read3 min read
Dec 15, 2019Member-onlyWhy Anime Conventions Are Still Inviting Sexual Predators As GuestsWhen the Squeaky Stair is Silenced By a Body Pillow by Erica Friedman and J. Lynn Hunt Anime, Japanese animation, does not make it into mainstream media coverage all that often. Despite rising profits, sold-out theatrical releases and the top US comics publisher in 2017 being neither Marvel nor DC…Anime10 min readAnime10 min read
