I went to the Cleveland Museum of Art over the weekend — it was really fantastic, I highly recommend it. There were a lot of cool things on display, but one thing really caught my eye and made me think of PZ Myers. There was a special display about a jewelry artist named John Paul …
Monthly Archive: October 2010
Oct 24 2010
Pirates of the Caribbean Ride Promotes Sexual Slavery?
I want you to go read the most absurd thing I’ve ever read in my life. Here’s a brief glimpse: So why is Disneyland still asking us to laugh at an overt depiction of sexual slavery in its popular Pirates of the Caribbean ride? Disney has unparalleled power to shape young hearts and minds. If …
Oct 23 2010
I’m Excited
This is a list of my Top 10 Films. My Top 10 is not the 10 movies that I think are the best movies ever made, they are the 10 movies I would sit down and watch at any time, anywhere and love as much as the first time I saw them. They aren’t in …
Oct 22 2010
Finding 24-year-olds sexy? Not Pedophilia
I am a huge fan of the show Glee. This is not necessarily because the show is that great, a lot of the episodes fall hugely flat, the plots are occasionally nonsensical, and the characters change to suit whatever the episode is doing. But, it’s a show about loser high school kids and they sing …
Oct 22 2010
African American Freethinking
As a relatively rare woman in the humanist/atheist/freethinker etc. movement, I have an interest in the demographics of said movement. There are many, many thoughts as to why there are so few women and so few people of color and I always find it fascinating to hear the stories of difficulties coming to terms with …
Oct 21 2010
Economic Incentive
Today’s XKCD is making the rounds — it’s not only hilarious, but an incredibly devastating way to look skeptically at the world. A lot of things obviously cannot be debunked using economic incentive, but looking at who is making the money from something and how they are doing so is an interesting way to see …
Oct 20 2010
Nicholl: Congratulations Micah Ranum
One of my FSU Film School classmates, Micah Ranum, won the Nicholl Fellowship this year! I’m super happy for him. The spec is called “A Good Hunter” and the logline is: In an unforgiving wilderness, a reformed hunter tracks a vicious killer who may have kidnapped his daughter years ago. There was only one other …
Oct 19 2010
NaNoWriMo Character Brainstorm Vomit
Sometimes, when I have a hard time or am rushing through trying to establish characters in my mind in a sort of Fixed way, I do a big image search and try to set tonally what I want a character to feel like. The Anti-Hero: Physiology 1. Sex Male 2. Age 30ish 3. Height Tall Weight Thin 4. Color of …
Oct 17 2010
50 Book Challenge: 51-55
Working in an office, doing paperwork, so lots of time to listen to audiobooks. I dunno what I’m going to listen to when I’m done with Terry Pratchett. (It’s week 41) 51. The Wee Free Men – Terry Pratchett, read by Stephen Briggs This is the first of the Tiffany Aching books, which are theoretically …
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Kate Donovan
Ashley's co-blogger is a third year student at Northwestern University who runs on coffee and snark. . At some point, she'd like to make people sit on couches and tell her about their feelings, but right now she writes in different places around the internet and makes silly faces when she doesn't know what to say. She's the president of her local Secular Student Alliance affiliate, and she is on the Secular Woman speakers bureau. Opinions do not necessarily reflect those of the Secular Student Alliance
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