What Makes a Woman?

I go back and forth between being a gender essentialist and not.  Sometimes, I believe that men and women are pretty much the same and except for differences so inconsequential as to not matter, but blown out of proportion by ridiculous gender expectations, we are pretty much indistinguishable from one another.
Other times, I believe that [...]

Aunt B., DVM

I certainly hope you guys are printing this fine art out and hanging it on your walls.

A Place Convenient and Suitable

Look, my concerns are six hundred years old.

Damn You, Pith in the Wind, Damn You!

I don’t know.  I’ve been enjoying the shit out of Pith lately, but today Jeff Woods has gone too far!
I, too, saw this article in the City Paper and I, too, was struck by how the landscape in this picture resembles nothing of the landscape around Nashville, and I, too, was going to have something [...]

Guess that Dog

If you’re not playing “Guess that Dog” over at Say Uncle’s, I feel sorry for you.  Is there any better use of the internet?
See here and here.
I was completely wrong on the first one, but I think I’ve got a solid guess on the second. (Which is actually opposite of how I linked them, because [...]

Making a Bag from Bags

Well, this weekend, I was able to get a good jump on the first bag of bags. I think the trick is going to be putting it through a rigerous test once it’s complete, because I’m not sure about the bottom, if the seam is going to hold and I might need to modify how [...]