sundries

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I just want to say that relieving myself of the pressure of having to do sundries every day with the mix of articles and descriptions that makes everyone happy has been really good for me. That said, I'll still do some sometimes (see!) and I'm thinking of doing a "trash day" of links once a week on Letters from Titan. Win/win?

Also on LfT: longer post about the Patty travel thing. Meanwhile, am starting to fill in About and some of the other pages. Also, wow, I can see how people get to the blog. It is.... fascinating at times. Especially the Google searches.

fortysevenbteg nails something I plan to do research on the media coverage side of if the trend continues: large-scale animal kills are probably the shark attack of 2011.

gwyd blogged this great article on claiming butch identity. Tangentally I want to add: there's no one way to be a man, a lesbian, or even butch (as perhaps evidenced by the feedback when I auditioned to play Billy Tipton a few years ago).

D&J meeting on Monday. Novel meeting on Wednesday. People who will be playing along for DW/SJA/TW watching for my chapter research in NYC, expect a scheduling email this weekend. Other people I owe email/planning to: I'm getting there. I have a nasty work backlog that won't be fully cleared until Sunday night.

The return of Fraunces Tavern. Ten years ago, and this would have been our regular bar. But that was another life (one that seems to like trading quips with me on Twitter lately).

The Bearded Dandy of Brooklyn. Make sure you catch the slide show.

Since I recently mentioned Hadley Nagel here and on LfT, I'd be remiss if I didn't link to the WSJ's coverage of the International Debutante Ball.

Drama over a scholarly paper on ESP.

Restoring imaginative play.

Tomorrow: Barn Dance.

Getting it done: just renewed my NCIS and Broad Universe memberships. Yay me.

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[dsmoen.livejournal.com]

Speaking of no one way to be butch, I remember when I had a queer roommate for a while who told me Phranc was butch. "Phranc? Really?" At that time, I only knew of her because of her EP "Goofyfoot," so I'd formed my opinion based on the cover:



But that is not the entire story, of course.

I've been butch my whole life, and I think butch is a better way of putting it than "tomboy" -- I'm not a boy, I'm not male, I'm just gender non-conforming. I work mostly among men, spent the first 17 years of my working life with only one female peer engineer. My hobbies are thought of as typically male: cameras, woodworking, fountain pens (though less so than the prior two), science fiction (less in reality than perception, though).