So while Elsa is off having fun in Seattle at Geek Girl Con, I thought I’d pause to write about geekery for a moment, or at least about a video game. I have three posts in mind on the Mass Effect trilogy, of which this is the first. WARNING: THIS SERIES OF POSTS (although not actually this particular post) WILL… Read more →
With the shutdown still looming, I woke up on 4 hours of sleep and turned on my happy music. My happy music happens to be mostly Broadway Musicals. Which resulted in me parodying a few. And here’s what you get: I Am Ashamed that Congress Is So Simple: (to the tune of “I Am Ashamed That Women Are So Simple”… Read more →
This Saturday at Geek Girl Con in Seattle, WA, editor & founder Elsa Sjunneson-Henry will be presenting a class and sitting on a panel on Saturday. I’m really excited to be attending Geek Girl Con this year because I love the idea of a con where I will feel safe. So let’s talk about what I’ll be doing! On Saturday… Read more →
As my husband and I were watching Downton Abbey last night, towards the beginning of the episode he remarked “I wonder how long they can keep this show going for. I mean, they’ll eventually have to kill off the Dowager, but they could go as far as WWII” We discussed the ways in which Downton would change. You see, Downton… Read more →
Today I played “Gone Home” the player directed investigative game by the Fullbright Company. Before I started playing, I had no idea if it would be accessible to me. I had no idea what the plot was like, if it was a horror game or something else. I knew nothing except that everyone I trust seems to fucking love it…. Read more →
So here I am, watching my new favorite Horror Crack – Sleepy Hollow. The first scene is a nightmare, it is a scary scene where Ichabod is interviewing someone in an interrogation room. Our favorite new Lieutenant enters the room, and sees that Ichabod’s eyes are clouded over. Just like mine. That is when I stop watching. I am so… Read more →
I spent the summer in Seattle, helping care for a dear friend and family member with brain cancer. At the beginning, we didn’t know what would happen. We had no idea if she would live, if she would be the same person after her radiation and chemotherapy. We just didn’t know. But what I observed, and what I thought about… Read more →
Yesterday Andrea posted about how one is responsible for ones crazy, and I want to dig into that a little more today. Owning up to our shit, and owning up to our pasts is an important part of the process of living with a mental illness. It takes time, and yes, it takes a lot of energy, but it is… Read more →
Let me open this by saying that I have been crazy as a shithouse rat for many years now. Were you to print out the mental illness portion of my medical record, you could probably handily bludgeon someone to death with it, if you were the kind of person who did that sort of thing. I’ve spent a lot of… Read more →
This August, the burlesque community lost one of its luminaries. Dixie Evans, the Marylin Monroe of burlesque passed away. On August 28th, what would have been her birthday, a group of us involved in the burlesque community gathered together for a random act of glamor. The Spirit of Dixie Evans Lives On In Me – and there’s photographic proof. But… Read more →
