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Every now and then, I get an email from someone who’s starting a blog, or is considering starting a blog, and wants advice from me on how to go about it. I’m not quite sure why — my blog is moderately successful, but there are many others that are much more so. But asking advice [...]
Archive for May, 2008
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The Last Taboo: The Blowfish Blog
May 30th, 2008 
Greta Christina I have a new piece up on the Blowfish Blog. It’s on a phrase that’s commonly used when talking about unconventional or marginalized sex: “the last taboo.” The piece is titled, oddly enough, The Last Taboo, and here’s the teaser: You might have heard that homosexuality is the last taboo. Sadomasochism. Incest. Bestiality. Necrophilia. A [...]
Happy Blogday To Me… and an Exhortation to Writers About Blogging
May 30th, 2008 Greta Christina Happy blogday to me! I started blogging three years ago today. Loki H. Thor on a raft. I had no idea. What started as an attempt to publicize my writing career has turned into the centerpiece of it. It has totally taken over my life. Who knew? (You can look up that first post if [...]
The Sameness of Imagination, The Astonishingness of Reality: Thoughts on Science and Religion
May 29th, 2008 Greta Christina There’s a really interesting new piece up on Pharyngula: it’s gotten me thinking about science and religion in an interesting new way, and I wanted to link to it and talk about it a bit. It’s the piece titled A pleasant, smiling apologist is still lying to you. Now, I don’t agree with everything he [...]
What Do You Want, Anyway? An Atheist’s Mission Statement
May 25th, 2008 Greta Christina So what do I want, anyway? What do I expect to get out of all this atheist blogging? (Apart from stress reduction, I mean.) What's my ultimate goal? When it comes to religion and/or the lack thereof, what kind of world do I want to see? I think it's important for atheists to think about [...]
I Do — And Why: The Blowfish Blog
May 23rd, 2008 Greta Christina Remember about a week ago, when the California Supreme Court same-sex ruling came out? I was all a-twitter with girlish glee and didn't know what to say, but said I'd say more later? This is later. I have a new piece up on the Blowfish Blog. It's about why we want to get married — [...]
The Necessity of Humor: Battlestar Galactica
May 22nd, 2008 Greta Christina As insanely observant readers of this blog may have noticed, I’ve recently started watching “Battlestar Galactica.” (I haven’t seen any of this season yet — I’m midway through Season 2 on the DVDs, for once I’m going to watch a TV series in order — so please don’t give anything away.) I like the show [...]
What’s Your Story?
May 21st, 2008 Greta Christina So what's your story? Whenever I read about psychology or the structure of the brain and mind, this theme keeps coming up. Human beings seem to have a deeply-rooted need for narrative: a need to structure our experiences as stories. It seems to be hard-wired into the way our brains and minds work. (I remember [...]
To HTML OR Not to HTML? A Reader Poll
May 19th, 2008 Greta Christina A number of people have mentioned this in recent comments, so I wanted to take a reader poll about it and test the waters. As a number of you have noted, I don’t have HTML enabled for my comments. This means people can’t use italics, or boldface, or create their own live links, or do: [...]
“A Different Way of Knowing”: The Uses of Irrationality… and its Limitations
May 18th, 2008 Greta Christina There’s a trope I’ve noticed in debates about atheism, about skepticism, about science. And the trope goes something like this: “Logic and reason isn’t everything. Not everything in this world is rational. Not everything that we know in the world is known through logic and reason. Sometimes we have to use our intuition, and listen [...]
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