I want to get Boy George's Karma Cookbook. It's not available from Amazon, so I can't add it to my "camwhore wishlist" as Wil Wheaton so eloquently puts it [insert sarcasm here].

posted by Jenny Baum 2:31 PM

Read this before you eat another chip!

posted by Jenny Baum 1:52 PM

Sunday, April 27, 2003

Home from work the beautiful brunette lesbian collapses on the sofa. "Honey I'm home" she whispers into the air softly. "Did you say honey," came a voice from the bedroom. The beautiful lesbian, startled that her lover was really home from work so early, tiptoed into the bedroom. Her curly-haired mistress was waiting for her naked and licking honey-coated fingers, in a bed of rose petals. "What did you do to the bed," asked the beautiful lesbian. "This will be more fun," answered the curly lesbian. The curly lesbian beckoned to her beautiful lover with a honey-dipped finger. "Mmm.. Is this organic," asked the beautiful lesbian. "Oh yes. Oh god yes," answered the curly lesbian as the beautiful lesbian . . . .

-- an except from a letter we found while rummaging through the apartment for Jenny's lost cell phone.

posted by Kate Lyons 10:39 AM

Sunday, April 20, 2003

Commentary on a night of watching the WB: exclaimed "Is that Emily Bergl?" (fellow Grinnell alum turned star of Carrie 2) while watching the Gilmore Girls, discovered inability to say the show title "Black Sash" without calling it "backslash".

posted by Jenny Baum 9:04 PM

Saturday, April 19, 2003

I'm reading Patricia Cornwell's "Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper Case Closed", mostly because my mom recommended her Kay Scarpetta mysteries to me and because her "solution" is kind of compelling. She thinks that Jack the Ripper is this artist who hung out with Whistler. I'm only so far into the book, but she really hasn't presented anything more than circumstantial evidence. What kind of ego must this lady have? So, I was reading along when she writes (about someone other than her alleged killer), "It may be that he engaged in homosexual activity, as some books claim, but he was also involved with women. Perhaps Eddy was sexually immature and experiemented with both sexes. He would not have been the first member of a royal family to play both sides of the net." Excuse me? Has she been living under a rock? I guess when you spend all of your time in mortuaries and researching dead people you lose a little perspective on changes in sexual politics that have been happening, oh, these last twenty years or so.

posted by Jenny Baum 8:47 AM

This great graphical commentary about ALA's site redesign comes fromwww.librarystuff.net.

What was ALA thinking, to make http://cs.ala.org/@yourlibrary/ a URL for their new "@yourlibrary" campaign? Have they never tried to teach an Internet class at a library? Putting an "@" sign in a URL is insane-- it's completely confusing for all the library patrons who are still trying to understand the difference between email and the Internet. The other URL to get to the site, www.atyourlibrary.org is a little better, except that it automatically redirects to:

http://www.atyourlibrary.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Our_Association/Offices/Public_Information/Campaign_for_Americas_Libraries/Campaign_for_Americas_Libraries.htm

I won't be able to use this site in an Internet class. When you tell everyone in a class to type the URL into the address bar and then hit "Enter" or click on "go" or whatever, depending on what browser you're using, half the class lags behind. When sites redirect, they try to type the URLs they see on their classmates screens into the browser, because they're feeling left-behind. It's easier to teach an Internet class at the library using www.msn.com as an example, then the ala website.

posted by Kate Lyons 8:19 AM

Friday, April 11, 2003

First Seth Green then Amber Benson and now Iyari Limon. BTVS never gave any indication that Oz was a fluke, or that Willow didn't love him, no indications whatsoever that she's anything but bi. But suddenly, this season, it's all "Willow the Lesbian." Whatever happened to bi visibility? Not that I don't appreciate Iyari Limon, or that cute episode with the football player's love-spell-charmed jacket.

posted by Kate Lyons 11:48 PM

Tuesday, April 08, 2003

cher says she feels like she's never performed before her last show, like she's "been a librarian up til now" Cherbrarian?

posted by Jenny Baum 9:04 PM

"The wonderful thing about online services is that they are an intrinsically decentralized resource," says Tom Rielly, who has solicited the hardware and imparted the skills to get dozens of queer organizations jacked in. "Kids can challenge what adults have to say and make the news. One of the best examples of teen organizing in the last year was teens working with the Massachussets legislature to pass a law requiring gay and lesbian education in the high schools. If teen organizers are successful somewhere now, everyone's gonna hear about it. This is the most powerful tool queer youth have ever had."

Saturday, April 05, 2003

Happy Birthday David!

posted by Kate Lyons 2:05 AM

Chelsea Piers envy? My favorite day begins with Circus Sports at Crunch. We juggle, hula-hoop and swing on the trapeze. It's like that Canadian movie, When Night is Falling, with the sex scene on the trapeze, but I think I'd actually feel really scared and am way too acrophobic to actually try having sex on a trapeze. Plus, it's not like you're in there with your lover all by yourself. But I mean, if I got a trapeze at home, or something. . . Then afterwards is Vegetarian Dim Sum.

posted by Kate Lyons 2:03 AM

Tuesday, April 01, 2003

I'm reading Ethan Hawke's book "Ash Wednesday". Yes, that Ethan Hawke. It isn't half-bad, which just makes me bitter. He's an actor, a writer, he's married to Uma - what can't this man do? Plus, I hear he has a membership to Chelsea Piers.

posted by Jenny Baum 9:44 PM

What's with the celery? I found this on Rebecca Blood's site -- I need to spend more time on her site, she has tons of interesting stuff, like how to be a goth Martha Stewart. Anyway, this link had a particular resonance with me because I have had my pantyhose lose their elastic and hook around my ankles, only the effect was more geriatric than sexy.

posted by Jenny Baum 9:41 PM

I'm not the only one who is starting a new job and suffering from Mac separation anxieties. I'm not even really allowed to install anything, but I have anyway.

posted by Jenny Baum 9:30 PM