Apparently, I’m not done with deciding my favourite stories are sexist yet. (But I am done with sharing this link to the first episode Cracked.com’s new series starring Swaim and DOB, because I for some reason find it to be unadulterated hilarity. Suggestive content, sexual themes, and bad language.) My…
Writing not-sexist stories is tough. I’m not being flippant: I’m a woman who was raised in a reasonably feminist household and who currently lives in an environment with more-feminist-than-average peers, and my first drafts nearly always make me cringe. It would be easy to explain that the stories in my…
I read Sarah Rees Brennan’s novel The Demon’s Lexicon last weekend. It was quite enjoyable (although I still don’t understand the title, but nevermind, I’m always missing details by the end of a book), and I recommend it. However, I’m bringing it up mainly because it reminded of something I’ve…
So, about strong women in fiction. And I don’t mean strong only in this sense. This past month, I had the opportunity to work with U of T’s Drama Centre on a production as a historical consultant and a co-lighting-designer. While doing one of the many tasks that fall to…
Dear Mom, Dad, and the rest of my relations: Please bookmark this page for future reference. My field overall is known as History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. I am an historian of technology. In particular, I study technologies of illusion on the Victorian London stage.
I don’t eat pork. (You probably guessed that from the title.) Not only do I not eat pork, I don’t eat other products derived from pigs, including bacon, lard, and gelatin, or any sort of food containing those items. Up until now, if you’d asked me why not, I’d shrug…
Good morning, art lovers! These are the last of my photos of my trip to Japan and Singapore. In particular, these are the photos from Singapore. Hence, the entry under the cut is likely to be photo-heavy. But before you click on it, did anyone see the episode of House…
But before I get to the pictures, I’d like to randomly link to this guy. His videos are well made, and his arguments are more respectful than some, but I’m not quite convinced. (Well, I couldn’t be “convinced”, anyway, seeing as how I already share most of his end-views –…
So can I just say that Japanese video games make SO MUCH MORE SENSE now*? *ahem* Another month, another blog entry. But don’t worry, I intend to get back to my weekly blogging regime. My tardiness has an excuse: I spent the last four weeks visiting awesome friends in Japan…
(It’s only a model…) When the Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, reached from the shining bosom of the water with the legendary sword Excalibur in her grasp, I said to myself, “Arthur, one of these days, this is going to come back to…