You may already be familiar with this, but here is one of my favorite (harsh) parody sites, BettyBowers.com. Betty Bowers is a Christian fundamentalist (I was going to say a caricature of a Christian fundamentalist, but I’m not so sure there’s actually any exaggeration going on) with a lot to say on a lot of [...]
Posted by Deana in Politics on August 6th, 2003 | Comments Off
My friend, anthropologist and new mother Laura Stanley sent me the following note: Jeff Russell’s Starship Dimensions – This is a site where “science fiction fans can now compare the sizes of various sci-fi spacecraft regardless of genre. All models are true to scale!” For some reason, I thought you and “your crowd” might find [...]
Posted by Deana in Uncategorized on August 4th, 2003 | 1 Comment »
From Miramax Films: The Magdalene Sisters, an unflinching and compelling emotional drama, charting several years in the young lives of four “fallen women” who were rejected by their families and abandoned to the mercies of the Catholic Church in 1960s Ireland. While women’s liberation is sweeping the globe [I wish!], these women are stripped of [...]
Posted by Deb in Film on August 2nd, 2003 | Comments Off
As you can tell, I’m going through a Pirates of the Caribbean “thing” right now. It’s like my 11 year old self has taken over. Anyway, I found a rather fun quiz that asks you a bunch of questions then finds your pirate name for you. Here’s what I found out about me: Your pirate [...]
Posted by Deana in Fun on August 2nd, 2003 | 14 Comments »
So, Larry Flynt is going to run for governor of California, is he? I find this funny because: 1. I’d LOVE to see cheap-labor conservative Issa’s face if his bid to oust Gray Davis led to Flynt coming into power…ha! ha! and 2. I’ll be far away in Michigan the day of the election, celebrating [...]
Posted by Deana in Politics on August 1st, 2003 | Comments Off