As many of you have probably heard, when the Moon is “Void of Course,” it’s a bad time to start a new project. Or finish an old one. Or… well, let’s face it, a Void of Course Moon is just a good excuse to slack off. In that spirit, and as a writer and an…

A team of researchers have recently determined that chimps and orangutans have personalities: individual variable traits like extroversion and neurosis and such. Of course this should come as no surprise, not only given that apes are close relatives of ours… but if you’ve ever know many cats or dogs or parrots, you already know that…

(Full disclosure: I am — all tea, no shade — a huge fan of RuPaul, squirrelfriends) “I do not impersonate females! How many women do you know who wear seven inch heels, four foot wigs, and skintight dresses?” -RuPaul Back when I was a kid, if you asked someone how many “gender identities” there were,…

Happy Star Wars Day! If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you’ve probably come to the conclusion that I am some kind of Science Fiction nerd… and you would be absolutely correct. I’ve written about Star Wars from a few different angles, from its usefulness as a metaphor to looking at the birth…

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