Posted in Feminism on February 28, 2007 | No Comments »
… is coming up! March 8, 2007, International Women’s Day, I’ll be participating in an effort to affirm women’s rights and stamp out sexism. Learn more here. Please, spread the word, and sign up here.
Posted in Random Ramblings on February 28, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Wow, I am very honoured to announce that Aspazia of Mad Melancholic Feminista has chosen me as one of her Thinking Blogger Awards this morning. I’m most pleased and flattered, since Aspazia is a philosophy professor! Thanks so much, Aspazia!
The idea is to name 5 blogs that make you think. Here are the rules [...]
Posted in Sexuality on February 27, 2007 | 3 Comments »
so, around here, there’s been some pretty rampant homophobia happening. A couple weekends ago, Cape Breton fiddler Ashley MacIsaac married his boyfriend, onstage at his ECMA performance (that’s East Coast Music Awards to you) here in Halifax. And the next day, one of the local newspapers, The Daily News, ran a story on the [...]
Posted in Random Ramblings on February 27, 2007 | 7 Comments »
…where does the snot come from? I mean, I know it comes from my sinuses, which seem like endless caverns by the way, but seriously - How is it possible that I blow my nose to the point of rattling my brain in my skull, and then 10 minutes later, I have to do it [...]
Posted in Sheer Entertainment on February 24, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Well, I haven’t had a chance to see most of the Oscar films this year, unfortunately for me. A couple years ago, my friend and I went to see all of the Oscar movies we could cram into a week (I think it was something like 8), and then had an Oscar party at her [...]
Posted in Existential Crises & Epiphanies, Kismet and Karma on February 23, 2007 | 12 Comments »
I’m sick. It’s my throat, mostly, feels like it’s closing in it’s so swollen and inflamed. My voice kind of sounds like Kathleen Turner right now - husky, breathy, about an octave deeper than normal. This is the second nasty cold I’ve had since the new year.
Yesterday, I left my job. I was laid off, [...]
Posted in Race Relations on February 22, 2007 | 2 Comments »
One of my favourite visionary leaders, Malcolm X, was assassinated on this day in 1965. Malcolm X was a hero, a truly brilliant man whose life and work is an inspiration to me. If he had lived, he would be 81 this year. Here is one of my favourite Malcolm X quotes:
“I believe that there [...]
Posted in Sheer Entertainment on February 18, 2007 | 5 Comments »
You know, I just can’t help it, I love a Woody Allen movie. I enjoy him, his movies, his scripts, everything except his real life weirdo relationship with his ex’s daughter to whom he was like a father. What a creep.
Anyway, I do like his movies, and see them when I can, and Scoop didn’t [...]
Posted in Sheer Entertainment on February 18, 2007 | 5 Comments »
I saw Garden State last week, and it’s taken me a week to pin down why I really really hated it, and why my feminist spidey senses were tingling like crazy when I watched it. As usual, Beware of Spoilers if you haven’t seen it and want to and care about it being a relative [...]
Posted in Distractions on February 16, 2007 | 4 Comments »
This is pretty much how I feel most days (from my favourite doodler, Paige Pooler of Eyes Wide Apart):
