Saw these guys tonight at the Union: Big Dog Eat Child. Admittedly one of the better improv groups to hit our area, or at least compared to local improv groups. But still. Their shtick was throwing around “bitch”, The More You Know-esque shorts, old-school ghetto-Nintendo video games, and one of their songs [...]

I don’t remember the last time I was this disappointed by a movie.
I don’t think I can even finish the series now.
Throwing a psychic into the mix does not make the movie X-File-y. Why was it so disjointed? Why were they living together? All was forgiven?? And why was it [...]

WordPress 2.5 was released Saturday and I upgraded this evening. I was able to play around with the new admin interface before upgrading thanks to Chris Johnston’s WP Demo Site. The interface is much more streamlined and quite slick with plenty of whitespace and a light blue color scheme:

So far I can only [...]

Banned Books Week is September 29 through October 6. You can find an online catalogue of banned and challenged books at The Forbidden Library, either arranged by title or by author.
Or you can head over to your own public library. My city library has a display devoting several shelves to banned and challenged [...]

For my queer theory class we are reading Trumpet: A Novel (1998) by Jackie Kay. A poet, this was Kay’s first novel, based loosely upon the life of jazz musician Billy Tipton. I picked it up yesterday afternoon and began to read it. When I put it down an hour or so [...]