2013

Doad says that his impulse-buy threshold is about $2.50.  It got free reign during the Steam fall sale, and we’ve had a chance to peruse some of the notable new […]

(This article was originally posted on Feminist Borg.) You may have seen this comic that was floating around Tumblr a few months ago.  I haven’t been able to locate the […]

Doad and I were lucky enough to see Janelle Monáe last night.  If you aren’t already listening to Janelle Monáe (Cindi Mayweather, the ArchAndroid, Electric Lady #1, Android #57821, etc), […]

So we’re five weeks in and by now we can all agree that Agents of SHIELD is okay.  It’s not really bad, per se, but it feels very, very safe, […]

As we learned last time, women can and do appreciate attractive male characters in a sexual way, a fact that is not respected by male fans or male content creators.  […]

My posts usually have boring titles, but this one ought to attract some attention.  So: Sexiness.  It’s one of the key ways that content creators attract (or pander to) a […]

Dr. Seuss is unique. The mid-20th century was a great time for picture books in general, especially rhyming books and those with minimal words; in addition to Seuss, we had […]

I’m probably not the only one who reacted to the news of Joss Whedon’s Much Ado about Nothing with “Wait, didn’t we just have a version of Much Ado?”  Then […]