Archive for September, 2009

Arr, it be talk like a pirate day, and dem scallywags at Telltale Games be givin’ away der booty. Okay, I promise, I won’t pirate it up for an entire post. But Telltale really is ...

EA has been promoting one of their games with some pretty dubious deadly sin-themed marketing stunts. Their “lust” stunt left many of us unimpressed, but with their “greed” stunt, they gave Joystiq a chance to ...

Horror wants women to scream, but not to talk – The British Fantasy Association interviews 16 horror writers. None of them women. Overview of English grammar by Suzette Haden Elgin. 11 post series and still ...

This Youtube video made it worth my while to get out of bed this morning despite the cramps that are starting to sneak up on me, damn them. 1500 hours of moving LEGO around and ...

Via Hoyden who link to IO9′s post on the subject. When is rape not rape? When it’s a supervillain pretending to be Peter Parker and having sex with Parker’s roommate, who thinks she’s having sex ...

Nick Mamatas is always trying to get me to start some shit so he sent over this link to Kathryn Cramer’s blog*. Normally I would ignore this crazy person, but I figure many others are ...

Imagine giving birth shackled and drugged so you would forget the trauma. Mad Men reminds us yet again to thank our second-wave feminist forebears. “I want a nurturing community, a web of life, a place ...