At the farmer’s market on Sunday, I noticed a sign at the Happy Boy booth: “We farm on Amah Mutsun land.” The Amah Mutsun are one of the indigenous people from this part of California. They aren’t a federally recognized … Continue reading
Nancy Jane Moore
It should not have taken me twenty years to get around to seeing Oh Brother, Where Art Thou, especially since I have always loved the music in it and, unlike what rumor and Wikipedia say about the Coen Brothers, have, … Continue reading
I’m old. I’m also healthy, happy, and enjoying life, so this is not an announcement about health issues. It’s not a declaration that I’m giving up on having goals and ambition. Hell, I’m younger than most of the leading candidates … Continue reading
I rarely see horror movies. I don’t like to be scared just for the sake of being scared and I’m not fond of watching people run from monsters and die meaningless deaths. But my favorite movie of the year by … Continue reading
I want a care robot for my old age. I don’t mean those fake animals and devices that coo at you to take your meds, like The New York Times wrote about recently. Those sound patronizing and highly annoying. What … Continue reading
Mona Eltahawy starts every talk she gives with “fuck the patriarchy.” The words are powerful, and made more so when spoken by a woman, particularly a woman of color and a Muslim. Her approach is the same when she’s writing. … Continue reading
It’s Thanksgiving here in the U.S., so despite the fact that I have a long list of things for which I am very definitely not grateful, I feel some obligation to find something for which I can be thankful. I’m … Continue reading
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away — or rather, back in the 1990s in a city on the other coast of this continent — my housemate and fellow Aikido student Natalie was shocked to discover that … Continue reading
Jane Austen wrote horror novels. Don’t get me wrong. I think Jane Austen wrote great books, ones that show us so much of the detail and truth about the lives of some women in Regency England that it feels like … Continue reading
On the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct, Charlie Jane Anders and Annalee Newitz were discussing Arthur C. Clarke’s third law, the one about any sufficiently advanced science being indistinguishable from magic. They were frustrated with the way some interpretations of … Continue reading