Back in the mid-90s, I wore leggings (purchased in the women's wear section, of course) under cut-off shorts, with work socks and high-tops or police boots (I was too poor to afford DMs). It was a thing. It came, it went. This, too, shall pass...

I submit that you are NOT "entitled to your own opinion," but that you ARE "entitled to an informed opinion."

I think the Harlan Ellison™ phrase "I have no mouth and I must scream," rather poetically captures it...

there might be a minority who were DJs...but the clientele at the store didn't skew that way...the store also did a decent business in relatively obscure new releases on vinyl, particularly in Blues, RnB, Soul, and ambient/electronic/noise releases...

I don't see the number of people who prefer the sound of vinyl decreasing...I worked in a store that sold a fair amount of vinyl up until April of this year, and we were selling an INCREASING amount of vinyl on a monthly basis over what we'd sold 5, 10 or 15 years earlier.

why take Joshua's word for it? He's just a muggle...ton.

next up: Hawkeye as every Disney™ Princess...

The Princess Bride is one of my personal litmus tests for people: If you don't like it, I probably won't like you...it's that fundamental.

I was VERY distracted by the fact that the banner image, when seen all shrunk down on the main page, seems to feature Riker holding up a Hitachi Magic Wand™...

...and a few weeks after their arrival, Arthur Dent pops into existence near their settlement to find them eating nothing but fried eggs and using leaves and pebbles for currency...

things often get weird when talking about gender (or race, or class, or- etc.), don't they? :)

"Of course this land is dangerous/

coz "white" is just better... :)

ROM and Micronauts shared a writer in Bill Mantlo!

zing!

I made the qualification to avoid the suspicion that the statement was coming from a male professor or anti-feminist (the kind of person whose hackles would most likely be raised by words like "womyn," I thought).

was so with you till those last two sentences...

Good. One of the thoughts that doesn't directly come up in the article, but which is worth considering is: where do you fall on language?

it needed to be said...

From first year University "Sex and Language" class: "woman" is not a compound word of "wo" and "man" because "wo" is not a word or word part in English. The word "woman" is complete in-and-of itself.