canon bol

ICHC.  I don't think they meant it as a means of destroying the canon.

The Postmodern Pear and other neat things

Over at Cake Wrecks, they offer up this postmodern pear.

Today, Uruguay passed some legislation allowing same-sex couples to adopt children.

If I were still in Austin (tears everywhere!), I'd be going to go see Terry Galloway read from her book Mean Little Deaf Queer. She's reading at Bookwoman and Cactus Cafe. Go see her! Check out the Austinist page about it!

I'm Somewhat Back

Here's what you have to look forward to:

1. CHAUCER EXTRAVAGANZA
2. The Lamplighter Redux
3. Hawthorne, James, Cather, Chesnutt, and Wharton
4. Some more feminist theory...

Could I have these socks right now??

They're from AshiDashi. 

beans and a break

This is quickly becoming my favorite bean recipe.

In other news, I'm going to take a short break from this blog.  It's the end of the summer and I need a few days to get it all together before I go back to school.  I appreciate those of you who have started reading regularly and I hope to have some more meaty (or tempeh-y) posts when I get back to school and start Foucaulting full time again.

Also I'm going to write a short series about biking while trans.  And I need those to marinate for awhile.

Tattooed Ladies of the TLA

The Texas Library Association is putting out a calendar of their tattoed lady librarians to benefit the TLA's disaster relief fund--a lot of money is still needed to clean up after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.



Man, I want to get a tattoo at a library conference.

Also, isn't this quilt beautiful?  I think I will make it--it is relatively easy.

From here.

This Morning

Via loltheorists.


Pie lollipops from Luxirare!!

Also, The Guardian ran an article about books about biking/cycling.

Below the Belt Raises the Question: Will you be a good parent?

Over at Below the Belt, some really great ideas were raised about parenting gender-variant kids.  It's something I think about a lot, particularly because I want to raise children.

"Raising children in this world is a battle when you start to see things from this angle. Most parents don’t realize what they’re in for until they have a gender-variant kid, because they effectively are pointed at and called on by parents, teachers, and the rest to provide an answer about how they feel about their kid’s actions on a daily basis: Oh, are you sending him to soccer practice with my boys? Does your daughter want to come over and play house with my girls? Look at him playing with all those girls – he’s going to be a heartbreaker!"

Go read the rest.