Category: dispatches from the loony bin

  • Website Changed! (Again!)

    So, I changed the site to make it more about me as a writer. All my acting stuff has moved to my burlesque blog, excepting the headshot/portfolio photos gallery. It will be moved over there, but I need more time and energy to devote to it than I have at the moment. From now on…

  • Mundane Monday: holy crap house showing already!

    As you may or may not know, I am moving soon – at the end of October, to be precise. I just got home from Vancouver last night to find a note on my door: “First house showing at 6:30pm on Monday, is that okay?” Well, of course it’s okay, because I may be out…

  • I am a terrorist.

    Or I would be, if I had ever had an abortion. Perhaps that’s not what Matt Emerson meant when he compared a woman’s right to choose to the events of 9/11, 2001, but that’s certainly how it read (and remember kiddies, intent is not magic). Emerson is talking specifically about abortions that remove one twin,…

  • Friday Five: five random items sitting in this writer’s room

    I’m making a departure from the norm for this Friday Five — instead of listing books I think you should read, I’m just going to list 5 random things that are in my room. Why? Because it’s Friday Five and I can list whatever the hells I want. An unopened package of Rockets, sitting on…

  • Goals, loosely outlined

    It’s no longer Wednesday, so I can’t do Whatever Wednesday. Which means I had to come up with some B.S. for Thursday. Not sure why I’m letting this get to me so much. It’s not very important. Anyway. Things I’m Gonna Do (also a song by Rasputina)  Release date for Bellica has been pushed from…

  • Whatever Wednesday: Sewing woes

    Aside from the sewing machine I showed y’all on Monday, I also have a Singer 513 Stylist at my house (the older one I bought is currently at my boyfriend’s place). I managed to get this one working yesterday and started work on my costume for this weekend. (Yes, I realize it’s cutting it close.…

  • Mundane Monday: I am a thrift store queen

    I would like to show you what I picked up today at Talize, a Value Village-like thrift store in Delta (where my boyfriend lives). Picture taken with my phone, so excuse the quality please. That is a 1952 Singer sewing machine, in working order, attached to a table. It needs a few touch ups and…

  • Stop Calling It “Chick Lit”

    Seriously, just stop. Just because a book is written with a female main character and the focus of the plot is on her life does not make it “literature that only chicks want to read, hurrr”. Just because it’s fluffy does not make it “chick lit”. Just because it appeals to women does not relegate…

  • Cloaking myself in portability and the Mystery of Moving

    I am currently moving, and the entire process — while exhausting — is definitely one of Life’s Mysteries. The definition of Mystery: an event that only those who have been initiated into it understand fully; it’s generally difficult if not impossible to describe the Mystery, which is why it’s a Mystery. There are various Mysteries…

  • Why words like “overweight” bother me.

    If you’ve been paying attention the past several years, you’ll know we have an “obesity epidemic” on our hands. Well, that’s what they like to call it. I don’t, because it makes it seem like we fat people are the disease. The way we get treated by most people, you’d think we were. I don’t…