The Orphanage

At the behest of John Lamb, the Professor and I went to see The Orphanage tonight.  I had this theory that I would be less scared because, not understanding Spanish, I’d be concentrating more on the words on the screen than on the creepy images on the screen, but apparently this director is big on [...]

Urgent Memo

To: John Lamb, Hispanic Nashville Notebook
From: Aunt B.
Re: The Orphanage
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AAAAAAaaaaiiiiiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiaaaaaaaaaaaaa–
aayayayaaaiiaiaiia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Are you trying to kill me?

Admitting Whiteness

Bint Alshamsa has a great post about the need to decenter whiteness in feminism and I’d like to just think about it from the other side for a few minutes.  I don’t really want to take issue with what Alshamsa’s saying, because her larger point is spot on, but I do want to say a [...]

In Which I Admit a Slight Failing and a Weird Triumph

Slight Failing
The more other bloggers I read talk about politics, the less I understand.  Hitlary–I can figure that out.  Democommies.  Rethuglicans. Republicraps.  I can suss those out.  But I just read some people talking about the Cosa Nostra in terms of Congress and hell if I could tell who they meant.  Is it too much [...]

Conservatives & Liberals

I was just thinking that, in our state, it’s weird that conservatives are pushing for voters showing ID in order to reduce voter fraud and it’s liberals who are pushing for there to be some kind of printed receipt when you vote so that people have some assurance the computers have really recorded their votes [...]

Reason Number 104 Why I Love Ghosthunters

On an episode last night, the new girl was sent down to check out a creepy basement, to act as a lure for any spirits that, I guess, wanted to see a pretty girl in a creepy basement.
And she snarkily said that she was going to get a t-shirt that said “Bait.”
And then she climbed [...]