One of the problems with relying on Los Internets for your job is that things can disappear. Granted, stuff vanishes in tangible reality as well (just look at newspapers) but when your writing exists as coding in a series of tubes, it can evaporate before you even realize.
And so your work, which once existed, [...]

Yah change! Change is good! We like change! Oh who are we kidding — it scares us more than Sandra Bullock or bugs the size of trash cans. But it was long overdue in this case — and not just because I was using a pre-Colonial version of Wordpress.
So look around, see what you [...]

Aaaand so for this week’s Horror Chick we delve into the vast and rarely original world of sci-fi horror. With a dig at Tucker Max thrown in. ‘Cause Lord knows it’s been a while since that sad scrap of humanity has been mentioned on this blog.
UPDATE: The witty and smart Lindsay Robertson has the best [...]

Alright, so admittedly I fanned the flames on purpose this time with this. But it’s important that the true bullshit vortex be ID-ed and brought to light: A small segment of society is exercising undue control over the larger conversation in our news media. And this is harming our freedom of speech, our national discourse, [...]

My love for horror movies has been well documented on this blog. And given my recent discovery that the Huffington Post is being trolled by controversy-starved production assistants at Fox News (more on that later), perhaps a move away from the political sphere is in order. So I’m gonna write about slasher flicks for the [...]

Lessons from this: The far right sure loves a) its righteous indignation, and b) its dead women. (Though Mary Jo was a staunch Democrat, who I’d like to think would have laughed ’til her sides hurt if she heard 5 minutes of this right-wing nonsense.)
Lest anyone think that right wing news sources (oxymoron?) don’t [...]

We’re comfortable with moral relativism in this country — or, at least, we love us a good “sinned and redeemed” narrative. And, for the most part, we realize that there are few lives on which we can slap a “Good” or “Evil” label and expect it to be accurate.
Which, let’s face it, is one [...]

Second Life still creeps me out a bit, in a good way. I like being a bystander to the virtual world — it’s amazing to watch the hysterical wildness (and depravity) that humans carry out when the constraints of daily reality are lifted.
But whenever SL devotees declare they’re going to break my resistance and [...]

Yup, you read that right. Check out the full story here. Since when does being a hot actress preclude you from having a single working brain cell?

I’m the world’s worst liar. I know this because people tell me so. Also because any lie I attempt winds up resulting in apologies, laughter, and me losing my balance and falling down — not necessarily in that order.
I used to think my ineptitude at deceit was due to the fact that the people [...]