While they still show up as saved posts and I can toggle them off before Bloglines goes haywire again, I'd like to recommend the following good reads:
• Colleen has a terrific convention report on her weekend at ELF.
• Flea wants to know, how are you weird? Prizes are involved.
• I still regret not having had the time to review Kate's Adrenaline comedy show when she was in NYC, but she passes along a review that says pretty much what I would have written, only better.
• Sheelzebub reminds us that many of us still fall into the middle-class mindset trap of blaming indebtedness and poverty on the poor.
• Riverbend bids goodbye to many friends and lots of personal freedom. This is why it's so important to confront anyone who claims to support freedom with demands to define the word. To me, freedom isn't "having a greater choice of stuff to buy" (i.e., hyper-capitalism), it's things like knowing you're able to leave the house dressed however you want and not being set upon by religious fanatics.
• Celina at Feministing interviews the Too Hot Tamales. I was frustrated that they didn't actually answer her question, "Why do you think there are so many male chefs [compared with female chefs]?" other than with a nebulous "oh, women are too smart to go through all that work" which sounds awfully evasive.
• Bryan reports on Venezuelan chocolate (yum!) and what he sees the current role of bloggers being in politics.
• Hugo gave me the willies with a story of a colleague who "ranks" the women in his class, and why he finds it creepy. I don't think it's a power thing, I know women who "rank" guys the same way (both in their heads and, I don't doubt, in public diaries), but it is an objectification thing and has no business in a classroom, which one presumes is a setting wherein one's physical attributes shouldn't matter to the person in charge of your grades.
• I didn't know the crazy dude who shot those women at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle was a fundie Christian until I read Jesus' General.
• Terry Jones, for one, welcomes our Armaggedonist overlords.
Back to watching baseball and reading comics again! I love weekends.
• Colleen has a terrific convention report on her weekend at ELF.
• Flea wants to know, how are you weird? Prizes are involved.
• I still regret not having had the time to review Kate's Adrenaline comedy show when she was in NYC, but she passes along a review that says pretty much what I would have written, only better.
• Sheelzebub reminds us that many of us still fall into the middle-class mindset trap of blaming indebtedness and poverty on the poor.
• Riverbend bids goodbye to many friends and lots of personal freedom. This is why it's so important to confront anyone who claims to support freedom with demands to define the word. To me, freedom isn't "having a greater choice of stuff to buy" (i.e., hyper-capitalism), it's things like knowing you're able to leave the house dressed however you want and not being set upon by religious fanatics.
• Celina at Feministing interviews the Too Hot Tamales. I was frustrated that they didn't actually answer her question, "Why do you think there are so many male chefs [compared with female chefs]?" other than with a nebulous "oh, women are too smart to go through all that work" which sounds awfully evasive.
• Bryan reports on Venezuelan chocolate (yum!) and what he sees the current role of bloggers being in politics.
• Hugo gave me the willies with a story of a colleague who "ranks" the women in his class, and why he finds it creepy. I don't think it's a power thing, I know women who "rank" guys the same way (both in their heads and, I don't doubt, in public diaries), but it is an objectification thing and has no business in a classroom, which one presumes is a setting wherein one's physical attributes shouldn't matter to the person in charge of your grades.
• I didn't know the crazy dude who shot those women at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle was a fundie Christian until I read Jesus' General.
• Terry Jones, for one, welcomes our Armaggedonist overlords.
Back to watching baseball and reading comics again! I love weekends.
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