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Erica Friedman

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Jan 25, 2022

Uncultured

Sitting 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…

Culture

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Culture

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Dec 15, 2021

Restaurant Review for a Concept Restaurant Which Promises Everything Will Be Overcooked

It 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…

Food

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Food

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Aug 2, 2021

What 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…

Tarot

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What 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…
Tarot

4 min read


May 26, 2020

Memories of a Super Computer

The 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 Fiction

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Science Fiction

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Apr 28, 2020

Dodecahedron

by 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 Fiction

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Science Fiction

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Feb 13, 2020

Five Things We Have Actually Learned From the Iowa Democratic Caucus

1) 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…

Politics

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Politics

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Feb 6, 2020

A Letter to the Young Queer Girls in my Future Who Use Silver Pens

A 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…

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Jan 31, 2020

The Draft

Morning 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…

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Jan 18, 2020

10 Types of Comments for People Still Writing Blogs in 2020

1) 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…

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Dec 15, 2019

Why Anime Conventions Are Still Inviting Sexual Predators As Guests

When 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…

Anime

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Anime

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Erica Friedman

Erica Friedman

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Speaker, Writer, Information Pro, geek marketing, LGBTQ manga tastemaker, culture junkie, essayist.

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