BronyDoc Production Shutdown Cleared Up (Equestria Daily) I’ve never had an account on any file-sharing service, from Napster back in the day to whatever the big services are today. This is more due to my own desire to keep my own nose as clean as possible than anything else; I’ve always had a very uneasy relationship with piracy. Coming from a family of artists, all of whom have had some musical pulls over the years (including me), it’s hard to look at the piracy that’s…
Between still processing what happened in Connecticut last month, and dealing with a lot of personal questions stemming from my first forays into performance art (a story for another time and another venue), please accept my apologies for having to break the discussion of “important stuff” and do a blog on the problems with the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic game that came out this past autumn. I promise that I’ll get back to politics later (especially if conservatives decide to put us through…
Tis the season and all of that, and no blog of mine on the subject is complete without a gratuitous link to my Amazon.com wishlist and a semi-serious plead for you to buy me stuff. Now that that’s out of the way, I’ve always had an uneasy relationship with this time of year, coming from a family without any Christians that still went through the gift-giving ritual most commonly associated with Christmas in this culture. The whole gifting thing, along with the hilarious “War on Christmas”…
Beneath the Bondage, Harmful Effects (wbur.org) With 50 Shades of Grey still selling big, I don’t think I’ll be at a loss for kink-related news articles to blog about any time soon. As it is, though, this article gets to an issue that goes beyond kink, something that I’ve had to deal with in other contexts, although primarily in my advocacy of kink and sexual freedom: The difficulties some people have in separating fantasy from reality and how to best cope with that as a…
Kaitlin Nootbaar, Oklahoma High School Valedictorian, Denied Diploma For Using ‘Hell’ In Speech (Huffington Post) A few weeks ago, when Mitt Romney made his big foreign trip in support of his presidential campaign, one of the stops he made was at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Poland. On his way to his car after the visit, nearby reporters shouted questions at him, asking him if he was concerned about the numerous gaffes he’d made during the trip. For the Romney campaign, this was…