Gender, Life Update, Musing, Personal Story, Rant

Why “You’re Beautiful” is a Terrible Pick-Up Line

This post is going to be slightly off-topic from the sort of thing I generally talk about, because this has nothing to do with books or stories or movies or anything like that at all (I suspect there are going to be more of these non-media-related posts in April because, oops, I can't actually read/watch… Continue reading Why “You’re Beautiful” is a Terrible Pick-Up Line

Life Update, Musing

Why We Need Conventions

If any of you lovely readers (can I call you readers if you mostly consist of family members who feel obligated to read whatever words I string together?) are somehow still unaware despite my mad twitter activity, this past weekend was Emerald City Comicon--the one weekend a year when Seattle nerds come together to be… Continue reading Why We Need Conventions

Life Update, Musing

Title (optional) <–because wordpress suggested it

Oh god. I am the worst blogger ever. In my defense, I have been writing two movie reviews a week, and that sort of took up my two-posts-a-week writing time. You should definitely go see what I've been up to on Flickboom. :D (Prometheus, Snow White and the Huntsman, Madagascar 3 and Earthbound are my… Continue reading Title (optional) <–because wordpress suggested it

Life Update

Ringing in the New Year

Oh, hello. That's right. I have a blog. I should probably write in it. The holidays got a bit hectic, unfortunately, which resulted in me getting lazy and not updating for two weeks. Horrors. But it is the new year now, and the new year is a time for resolutions apparently, so tradition mandates that… Continue reading Ringing in the New Year