Rants

When I need to vent before I kick someone.

I’ve been known to bite, too.

Monday

I can’t believe I needed a nap.  Will this never end?  Four years into this job, and this year continues being horrible.  How am I ever supposed to get anywhere if all my energy is required just to get through the damn workday? I will NOT be defeated!  I will be published, I refuse to […]

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Sadly Lacking

I used to be very happy with my cable service.  But when they keep advertising DVR then make it not easy to get, when we finally get it and the box spends six hours downloading and they say give it another twelve before they’ll try to fix it… Listen, gang, I watch ONE HOUR of

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The Purpose of Anime

The Purpose of Anime

I’ve figured it out.  The purpose of anime–beyond telling great stories, wowing us with awesome characters, etc,–is to sell TVs. Think of any anime you’ve watched to the end.  Go ahead.  Now–want to throw something?  You do, don’t you? I’m told it’s a cultural thing, but I don’t believe it.  I think the anime guys

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A Challenge

While I sputtered, Bly wrote a protest for me. As a proud member of Mm.org, I understand that you are forced to set certain standards to protect the rights and sensibilities of visitors to your site, both readers and authors alike.  However, lately I feel that I am seeing a disturbing trend that singles out

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Censorship

And it goes on… A couple months ago, the site where I first posted my fanfics decided to be obnoxious.  If your story had so much as a hint of boy-lovin’ in it, the story had to be labelled yaoi or they would yank it. Seems reasonable?  Until I point out that yaoi is m/m

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WTF? Revisited. Again.

Quoting from this site: Reversing itself, the Defense Department says an espionage report it produced that warned about Canadian coins with tiny radio frequency transmitters was not true. The Defense Security Service said it never could substantiate its own published claims about the mysterious coins. It has begun an internal review to determine how the

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Yurgh

How did it get so late? I’ll tell you how. The durned internet quit for a while. Fighting that got me off track. Then there were all those things I do every day that take so much time when I do miss…like when the internet is down… Then there was (or actually before the rest

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