Just ran across Derailing for Dummies, a site dedicating to helping us all squash the opinions of those pesky women, people of color, queerfolk, and other people who ought to know their true place in the social heap. (Hint: bottom.)
Totally funny. It contains suggested tactics like:
If You Won’t Educate Me How Can I Learn
You Just Enjoy Being Offended
Well I Know Another Person From Your Group Who Disagrees!
Mandatory reading if you want to oppress marginalized people and perpetuate social injustice. Check it out!
Cool, some folks are saying nice things about Break the Vessel at Pseudopod.
Not much other news lately. It’s earnings season, which means I’m swamped with work and squeezing writing into the spare time.
Cat. With cat-shaped spots on its back.
Clearly this should be a LOLcat. But what’s the caption?
This is your entirely friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. I’ve updated some of the pieces-parts which drive this site. If something looks ungood, comment here and I’ll see if I can mend it.
Things are pretty good for me right now. But terrible things are happening to lots of my friends. It’s depressing.
So, my friends, tell me–what’s going right in your life? What’s making you happy? What’s really wonderful for you?
Help me restore my sense of balance in the world.
My friend Sarah has a dog named Bruno. We sometimes walk with Bruno along the nearby trail to the dog park. Every time we get to the park, Bruno is thrilled to see all the other dogs, sniff their butts, romp in the grass, and so on. Seriously, he’s the picture of total delight.
I love Bruno, but I’m more of a cat person. So I think we need a kitty park. It’d be a wonderful place filled with carpeted towers, scratching posts, and catnip mice… that all the cats could be totally unimpressed with as they curl up for their naps. There’d be a complex system of snubbing each other, incomprehensible to humans. The more money we spend on building this park, the less the cats will care.
Or even better: a fishie park. Bring your aquarium friends and dump them in the pond. Later you can scoop out the survivors and take them home.
Do I have any trained linguists reading this blog? A college degree in linguistics (or equivalent) is probably the right level. I’ve got some knowledge of the field, but I have a few questions.
Please drop me a note. Thanks.
January 31, 2010 4:10 pm | 
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