Some Thoughts on Land

–I believe that the land has a spirit, or spirits, or a soul or souls of sorts.  What I believe is that the land has luck, fortune, built up over time and passed along to the people and things on it.  You can work with the land on a physical level and work with the [...]

Google Reader has quite the sense of humor

Redneck Mother reports on a city official who doesn’t want bars in his town because they might bring TEH GAY.
Next entry in my feed: Scientist report that alcohol makes fruit flies gay.

Hey, Go Be Famous!

Or anonymously famous.  Jennifer is wondering if she can include some of our stories in a book she’s writing about women and math.  It’s publishing, so there’s no money in it (unless she completely lucks out, in which case, we can all sit around sneering about how she’d have been nothing, NOTHING without us), but [...]

Weird & Interesting

I have been weird my whole life, but in an Addams Family/Munsters way, where I go about my life feeling rather ordinary and doing the ordinary things I do, only to have people feel the need to repeatedly tell me that I’m weird.  I’m never sure what, exactly, they think is so weird about me, [...]

Gone to the Dogs

First, go over and support the Stewman, who is fighting cancer without the aid of health insurance.  Yeah, if that don’t scare the shit out of you, nothing will.
Second, Smiley got another dog!  Which he is trying to name.  I believe our efforts to help him name his first dog were roundly ignored, but we [...]

Song of America

I’ve got “Song of America” on my iPod, which I am both really enjoying and kind of frustrated with.  On the one hand, I want to be introduced to songs I’m not familiar with when I listen to something like this.  On the other hand, there are songs I just would expect to hear, no [...]