The man I grew up knowing as Dracula, Christopher Lee, is dead. Probably. I know most of you young whippersnappers probably think of him as Saruman or worse, Count Dooku, but I will tell you definitively that you are wrong, and everyone should know he was Dracula, most definitely.
Mostly, of course, he was a guy who brought some class and dignity to even the goofiest role.
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Another of my colleagues here at FtB has skidded off the smoothly paved road of life: Ashley Miller has been diagnosed with narcolepsy and lost her job. She’s set up a patreon account — you should go help her out. And don’t forget Dana, too.
Tim Hunt’s sexist remarks are really just at the simmering stage…there is so much more to piss us all off.
Latest example: Nobel prize winner Tim Hunt. It’s a real shame, too — I know his work, he’s one of the people who worked out details of the regulation of the cell cycle. Unfortunately, he’s also been revealed to be a sexist ignoramus.
He has made a few interesting remarks to the press.
Dana Hunter took a gamble and quit her job to dedicate herself to a writing career, and of course immediately got hit with small catastrophes that are screwing up her dreams, because America doesn’t believe in that social safety net stuff. She’s looking for donations, and also selling off precious stuff, so do help her get past this rough patch. You could also buy her first book on Amazon, Really Terrible Bible Stories vol. I: Genesis
I’ve been targeted by KotakuInAction, that wretched hive of gamergate villainy. My crime? I reviewed Greta Christina’s book, Bending, without declaring that she was a writer on “MY” network. It’s a silly complaint, but the funniest thing is how much the gamergaters get wrong.
I lost track of how many outright fabrications and errors there were in these comments…without even counting the fact that they spelled my name three different ways.
McKinney has a history of racial tension over swimming pools, and some of the worst enclaves of racism today are the suburbs which were populated by white flight. As we’ve been learning, the police in general are racist enforcers of the white status quo. So I am not surprised by what happened, and I believe the teenaged girl who hosted the party that her neighbors are basically racist assholes.
Celebrate the occasion, appreciate what’s going on in the deep!
Sarah Haider gives a really good talk. Here she is talking about “Islam and the Necessity of Liberal Critique”…and I agree so much with what she says.
