No, my parents were raised Catholic and had no desire to inflict that upon my brothers and I, so we grew up pretty dang atheist. I mean, the Adam and Eve stuff was pretty in your face, even for a 6 year old, but all that Aslan/Jesus metaphor stuff? Went straight over my head. I just thought he was a nice magical…

Oh god I forgot Michael Clarke Duncan died! I feel like my heart is breaking all over again :(

My brother recently informed me that smoking a little weed the morning after is the perfect cure for that hangover nausea. Because DUH it's sold to people with cancer to counteract chemotherapy nausea! I can't believe I never put that together myself, but I think I'll give it a whirl tomorrow morning.

Bizarre racial issues really seem to be the case with a lot of fantasy. I remember reading some lengthy series with elves and Dark Elves and all the elves were blond Arwen types and good and the Dark Elves were literally dark and also evil. I agree though that Lewis does handle it better than a lot of fantasy out…

See though, wasn't Tash basically an Islam facsimile? Or at the very least it represented non-Christian religions. And in the books Tash the religion and Tash the person were both bad and mocked by Aslan and the Narnians. The fact that being Tash was held against the guy (found righteous despite the fact he believed…

Very true. It just always bothered me as a kid that Narnia with it's white people and cute animals was always the good country and Calormen and Telmar with their darker skinned people were the bad countries. Though you're absolutely right, those rules weren't set in stone.

1. Get a real fucking job!

Thank you! And what? Sons of Adam and Daughters of Eve? He did a pretty good job with the gender stuff. Lucy was such a badass! And luckily all that Christian nonsense went right over my head as a kid.

That actually sounds like a pretty cool movie, but to gat's point, that movie was made 70 years ago! Examples do seem to be pretty dang scarce then. Also, would I be wrong to assume that probably at least some of the plot or dialogue deals with their relationships with men?

That is so fucking outrageous (in that it makes me outraged on his behalf).

Cuuute! I love reading all these stray puppy stories that have happy endings, it provides a nice counterbalance to all the sad in the article.

Er, and also aside from my computer deficiencies— that is so cute! Your dog is freaking adorable and I'm so glad there are happy stories to go along with the really sad ones regarding dumpster puppies.

Oh no! I'm braving html embedding for the first time and I might have effed it up because it didn't show on my computer. Gimme a sec...

This is Art Garfunkel, the cute little part pit puppy my brother found in a dumpster behind a 7-Eleven. He is happy and healthy now!

I don't understand people like this. Actually, they're not really people- they're giant pieces of walking shit.

I love Alton Brown! He taught me the scientific rationale behind how to make a souffle and now it all just makes sense to me! He's the best little kitchen nerd a girl could want.

Ugh. I really really hate all these services doing us a "favor" by linking with Facebook. Yes, what I really want from a streaming service is for it to tell alll my distant FB friends that I marathoned an entire season of MTV's Teen Wolf last weekend. Leave me some dignity, Netflix!

And the somehow dissembling your frozen cow into cookable pieces is pretty difficult too. The last meat delivery contained a full side of frozen un-butchered ribs. Yeah, that is sooo not going to fit in the crockpot. I believe my step-dad had to cut them down to size with a hatchet in the garage— paleo seems pretty…

Ruh roh, I guess the multiple documented tribal cultures in Africa and South America where traditional gender roles are reversed have been doing it wrong for centuries! Like the Aka, where men wear jewelry and makeup and care for the children (even simulated breastfeeding!) and cook and clean the house while the women…

You sound like an awesome parent. I loved this article and your comment, though it got me to wondering. As a kid in the mid-90's I hated girly things too. But I think that was more because I had brothers and a single dad (who while was pretty feminist, he was feminist in an old-school way that thought being…